>>6881301They made a major mistake by debuting 6 days after Dynamite began. Had they debuted a few years earlier, they would have been more successful, but debuting the same week as AEW's debut was really poor planning as AEW got all the attention.
They didn't have a TV show and no matter how good your product is, people will not check it out if it's not on TV. Fans just don't want to be associated with non-mainstream wrestling for some reason.
They were dumb in firing Cornette, who has one of the biggest followings in the IWC. Had they kept him around, they would have had him shilling their shows for free for them each week, which would have been a big help.
The pandemic destroyed them and them taking off for an entire year was a real bad idea.
The temporary move to FITE was a bad idea as no one was going to pay for tv shows.
They also screwed up by using too many old names and not making new stars. It'd be one thing if the old names were major superstars, but people never cared that much for Nick Aldis or Trevor Murdoch and some of the others. And they just aren't making new stars. They either needed to scout smaller indies high and low for people with potential or they needed to train them on their own and they just didn't do that.
And having transexual wrestlers and non-idol women's wrestlers didn't do them any favors either.