>>17818939I’ve just been sitting here buzzing for the last day. That show made me so fucking happy to be a fan of wrestling. A show like this makes having watched wrestling for the last 25 years, almost my entire life at this point, putting up with so much garbage as a fan, extended periods where the only major promotion here in the US actively made me and many others watching feel like fools for liking wrestling, and desperately wanting something suited to the tastes I ultimately developed, worth it. Pro wrestling in North America couldn’t have always been exactly like this (indeed, AEW as it exists now likely could not have worked on this scale in, say, 2009), but a show like this absolutely demonstrates that there is, and always has been, another way to do wrestling, one that takes incredible pride in being wrestling. This is EXACTLY the promotion all us 2000s and 2010s forum nerds wanted a major, big budget American promotion to be. It is quite literally a dream come true.
In a year that has given me a lot of serious personal struggles, some of which made me feel like it wasn’t worth continuing, I’m so fucking happy to be alive and aware at the same time as AEW. I have to stick around to see what this goddamn company does next. May they make more shows like this forever.
Let's see what NXT has to offer.
