>>7196624He has, in as much of a way as Dave explain anything. He mimbked something about reactions and if he liked it and something else.
He has very specific, vague but specific, criteria for his awards and hall of Fame. You need to have been pushed to win lots of main event matches on shows that had good attendance and the crowd cheered. Nothing about being a talent or innovative or anything, just if you were pushed and the company was doing well at the time. He has gone on record demanding that if a show draws it is the main event that drew. So Jericho and HHH were the draw, not Hogan vs Rock. Hangman vs Adam Cole in the most heatless angle in AEW history drew, not Punk vs MJF - which was what he specifically was talking about.
He has explained that crowd reaction plays a part and when he can't hear it he imagines how the crowd would react.
The truth is that he bases it on what people told him is good (because he will often explain that a match was incredible and in the same sentence say he never saw it), also if it follows a pattern and is the same as something else. You can easily tell the meltzer star dudes do the same template match constantly and he likes it because he had autism. Also guys who just always have the same match every time are his favourites, so the bucks, okada and ishii. He loves bushiroad era new Japan because there isn't much going on and every show is the same. He hated the previous era of new Japan because stuff actually happened and he barely covered it at all until Devitt went to nxt.
