>>7970932It's the booking that sucks. Everything else is just excuses.
Occam razor everything and ask yourself: what is pro wrestling? Its very "essence" is entertainment and captivating the viewer.
How does it captivate the viewer? In short term it does that by blood, by debuts, by crazy on-a-pole-matches etc. But sooner or later that won't hold. You'd want to see a train wreck sure. But after seeing the 100th train wreck you'd be bored by that point.
So what timelessly captivates the viewer? Stories and booking. A perfect example is Star Wars. All the old Star Wars flicks are timeless, captivating and captured an audience for decades. Then Disney totally ruined it all within a decade. They only saw the marketability and not what truly captured Star Wars.
AEW will be shit and will probably die because the stories and booking simply doesn't make sense or is boring much like Star Wars and Rings Of Power. If you have a theatre act where you'll swallow a sword while being on a unicycle, you'd get ticket sales, alot of ticket sales. But it'll just sell once. People won't come a second time to view it. If you however compose a story called A Midsummer Nights Dream, you'll captivate people. Your ticket sales may not be good at first. But sooner or later you'll get a loyal audience. People who see it will think "wtf did I just see?" and want to see it again, want to analyze the shit out of it.
If TK took his own product and company seriously and had a genuine affection toward his dream much like Walt Disney, AEW would've been a whole different beast.
