>>18287070Everyone knows it was All Out 2022.
It's not that WWE won. It's that AEW killed itself through all their bad management decisions. Sure WWE got red hot during a period with Roman and Cody but this lasted a small period. That should've been it. Everything would've gone back to normal but it didn't. And that's because the mortal damage was already done to AEW.
Brawl Out was basically Punk saying that everything the haters and anti-AEW sai about the company, was true. That it was a mudlaw show with no direction, that let anyone leak shit to any dirtsheet, that kept real life beef play along without doing anything about it, that the EVPs had absolute no power outside of backstage politics, which they used to benefit who they wanted to benefit. It was a whole shitshow. Before Brawl Out, the image of AEW was untouchable. It was the dream of the smark fanbase. And ad ream for any wrestler to go to work to. After that I believe many wrestlers realized that place was absolutely nothing like their image suggested it was. People like Miro, Black, or Andrade found out first hand. After that, and the following All In backstage incident + showing of footage (which is legit top 5 worst decisions a promoter made ever in history), there was no going back. The honeymoon period was over, and wasn't gonna comeback.
The failure of Okada/COPE/Mercedes/Assplay wasn't their fault at all. It's just that the image of the company is impossible to clean. The idea that more big stars like Vaquer or PENTA decided WWE was the place for their future, speaks volumes on how things haven't changed at all over there. It's gonna take a long while before they can erase the damage of what Brawl Out did. I doubt they can even do it with Tony still in charge. Because the guy don't wanna change his ways. He still sees this as a WWE 2K GM Mode simulation. And that's a problem. A big problem.
