Why Wrestling Fans Stopped Watching AEW
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- čas přidán 21. 05. 2024
- I came across a video that spoke to me not too long ago by AssembleWrestling titled "Why I almost STOPPED watching AEW FOREVER!"
Today we're going to start a yap session about Why I Also Stopped Watching AEW Weekly, where it began, and Where I think some improvements can be made to better the promotion in the future!
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hey that's me! lol this video popped up on my feed. Good commentary sooplex nice to meet you, thanks for crediting. Good commentary
YEAH!
Hell yeah man! Keep up the great work can't wait to see your wrestling based channel grow!
Ring of honor need shut down
Yea he’s athletic . But nothing cool about him .
@@omariondenegall why because you said so
The fact this is 50 minutes long💀
Dang sopped is the next Dave meltzer
Experimenting with longer form videos bruv
@@SooplexI appreciate it, I personally love longer videos because I always have something to play in the background
A mix is always best. Get ya paper soop
I have it set 1.5 speed
I’ve always been a Cody Rhodes guy . He’s the one that brought me to the table. He’s the one that introduced me to everything else outside of Wwe so I will never turn my back on him no matter what.
They didn't appreciate him and aew and now in wwe he,s having the best run of his career
I got into aew because I saw a clip of John moxley debut on Instagram
I added this to my watch radar. While I have been down on the product of AEW, I haven't stopped. But I'm still interested in hearing people's well-reasoned opinions that counter my own. So while I'm waiting for a killer feature to come back to the product, I'm all for the discourse. Friendly, right?🙂
The main reasons for me why i haven't been in tune as much is the pacing of the show and the random booking just to get everyone on tv
I watch because of the commentary team 🗿
Lol I wish they'd get "everyone on TV" no, it's just orange Cassidy and chums constantly. Where's Miro? Where's all the cool guys? They ain't doing shit and certainly aren't on TV.
@@anthonysoto2923 Miro's injured right now. But yeah I want the younger guys to appear
Right, because you need a little backstage skit where Penta steps on Buddy Matthews' shoe and says " you're gonna pay for that tonight... In the ring" like they came to television without a full card booked. That's how you do it, right?
What are you talking about there was plenty more to the attitude era than Austin and Vince. Bro you trippin
Cough The Rock
Cough DX
"Does anyone watch Rampage 🤨" killed me. Glad I aint the only one💀
It's still on???
Ngl I forgot about rampage
I had barely watched any wrestling outside of WWE so AEW was my first experience with a lot of the wrestlers. I had heard of people like Kenny Omega and the Young Bucks but, I had never seen any of there matches. It was very overwhelming at first and it took me a while to get to know the wrestlers I was hooked instantly as I had never seen anything like it.
I had seen an episode of Impact when I was just looking through channels, but I was instantly turned away when Hulk Hogan was on the show.
PG WWE is not wrestling tho lol
@@TyBot-ed5kothis reply is cap you dont know what Hogan is doing when you are a kid in 2010 lol
@@chentz2d552keep giving bad takes
@@chentz2d552 aew insert generic wrestler here vs insert generic wrestler here rinse repeat is boring
I loved Aew in 2019-2020. Then it fall off. Now, i found out how Aew is doing by Jim Cornette.
Jim is a liberal mark for PG WWE, he is so biased lol
@@chentz2d552that is such a garbage take 😂 you must not actually listen to him
@@chentz2d552lol he will the first to tell you if the product is crap this is why WWE fans is way more objective than AEW fans because WWE fans is so used to having a crap product that they will first one to tell you that its crap lol
@@JGrath029 why should anyone listen to his garbage
@@chentz2d552 facts
Despite Punk said that brand split doesn't work, Collision with CM Punk was good because it felt like a separate show with talents that didn't get any screen time on Dynamite and Rampage. After CM Punk left, they ruined it as if it's like an extended Rampage. It even didn't take long after that for the stupid Elite to even show up on it.
Exactly once punk left the whole idea of the collision show disappeared
Collision felt like a whole different company, like a breath of fresh air. Nowadays it's so bland and boring, the vibe is gone and it's basically rampage 2.0.
Yea they actually held and gained viewers throughout the show, when punk was in charge of it .
I liked Collision way better after punk left
I never liked Punk tho so I’m glad he’s gone lol
@@diegolovato2691 wrong
That's funny cause I felt the same about WWE, AEW always been easier for me to catch on Wednesdays. I can bearly catch WWE on mondays or fridays.
Also Ring of Honor should've stayed a separate promotion
Hell yea glad you found Assemble🤘
His channel is underrated 💯
For me, Belt Collector Kenny was my "cant miss" era. But yeah, as someone who has been here since day 1, i get people being turned off by AEW. That backstage stuff bled out into the product, and it's just kinda dirty.
WWE has improved significantly, and i can't fault people not wanting to watch 14 hours of semi-nude combat every week, plus 2 different events for 4-6 hours on the weekend.
I miss that excitement I used to have during year one. I'M hoping that Forbidden Door will reinvigorate that for me next month. The Long Island crowd is always a blast.
The only thing PG WWE has improved on is the over blown commercialism within the company, other than that, PG WWE is still not wrestling.
Hopefully they get mjf back by the summer
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This dude coping hard 😂
My wife and I watched AEW together, even went to Full Gear 2021. But as 2022 went on we became less interested, and WWE started to improve. Our daughter was around 9 at that time and started paying more attention to the shows and obviously gravitated towards WWE. We all prefer to watch and talk WWE and she knows AEW is a thing but doesn't care about it. The best example is she saw Jade matches in AEW but didn't actually get hyped until she went to WWE and teamed up with her hero Bianca. I stopped watching news videos and tried to be less involved in that IWC sphere. I get more enjoyment watching her dance to Jey Usos intros and Bianca matches than reading who might join Bloodline when I can just watch it unfold. But Kenny Omega as the heel AEW champion alongside Young Bucks was great stuff. Gave me vibes of when I found them in Bullet Club back in 2016. It felt like the best translation of what made them popular in Japan but on national US TV. Shame they can't get back to that late 2021 peak
@@chentz2d552 everyone is watching and praising wwe because it's on fire right now nobody is in those dimly lit aew arenas because it's trash it's really as simple as that. Just because you're rooting for aew doesn't make it less sh*tty
Assemble is a great channel. Found it pretty early and its pretty good!
It's practically illegal that Sooplex doesn't have 100,000 subscribers yet! Go share his channel he needs to hit that 100 k before 2025 guys!
You are an excellent host, keep up the good work!
When Aew started, i didn’t see the press conference, and my first experience for AEW was the first dynamite. And i was 12. i heard about New japan, but didn’t know alot about it, but i was familiar with TNA and Lucha underground, so watching and seeing all these guys that i knew and some of my favorites of all time i was invested. Now is a different story
Ive just watched its not as tough of an adjustment from short form to longer form.
For reaction content, I'd recommend letting the og video build first, to add context and their perspective, then interject with yours. This is because the sudden pauses were somewhat distracting, which after sometimes after a single second passes. A good approach was seen with your '"100 wrong things in AEW" Reaction'.
In terms of the content, I'm glad you highlighted a video & creator I haven't checked. I agreed nearly unanimously with both people's points; product stretching thin, ROH redundancy, talent bloating, etc. Ive been quite similarly down/burnt out on the whole industry after WWE Backlash & AEW Dynasty (but from taking in the IWC negativity for a while), so I'm slowly tryna getting more positive & critical content now.
I really like the content bro (bruv just ain't gonna happen for me) I hope you keep producing it and I'll be looking for new shit from you more often.
When they took Dark and Elevation off of youtube, I lapsed.
I came back to watching wrestling because of AEW so I had no idea about New Japan/Lucha Underground/ROH etc. The experience of watching early AEW was magical. That's when I started to catch up and became a wrestling nerd. Good times!
Same for me. Now I've skipped certain episodes of Dynamite. I went to Dynamite live at Daileys place during the pandemic when Cody had Black hair one time. I was at Revolution 2022. Now....the last ppv I attended live was Royal Rumble this year.
I've watched every Dynamite episode since I first started watching it and watched 3 live events until Punk got fired. I completely stopped watching AEW after.
@@richardcollinsphotography1288 The Royal Rumble was a snooze fest lol
@@chentz2d552 I agree.
Ayeeee shoutout to Assemble!!💯💯
I remember specifically around 2017 my cousin had asked if I had heard of Kenny Omega before. Having only watched WWE since 2011 at the time, I was curious. He showed me his match vs Naito in the G1 finals in 2017, & I thought I had just witnessed the best match I had ever seen.
That feeling of finding more wrestling outside of WWE was mind blowing, & AEW starting gave me a surge of energy & excitement on pro-wrestling that I felt was dropping around 2019.
21:24 I'm a wrestling fan from South Africa and to us, WWE was the only wrestling we ever watched and we never really watched any other promotion as it was not available at the time. My first exposure to a different wrestling company was back in 2016 when I watched TNA (I was 12 at the time so I didn't know it was in a bad position management-wise😅) and it felt different and exciting. Fast forward to 2021 and TNT Africa began airing Dynamite and it was cool to see former WWE guys like Mox, Jericho, Miro and new stars like Darby, Ricky, Orange Cassidy and others. Around that time, I nearly stopped watching WWE altogether because of how hot AEW was in 2021 and how bad the creative was in WWE. Sometimes I wish there was more wrestling to watch here in SA rather than WWE being the be all end all of professional wrestling
Same here in Ghana...started watching AEW this year and it was a nice change from the usual
I fell off of AEW around Brawl Out. During the summer that year I noticed that i was reacting more negative to Dynamite. Then the incident happened and i decided to take a break. The week i came back was when the Elite decided to reenact everything in a match, so that turned me off even more.
Solomonster says the first double or nothing was also his favorite wrestling show
Assemble is awesome started following him when I needed ideas on tag team entrances for 2k, and his opinions in wrestling are always fair
i really appreciate ur honest commentary 🫶✨🤍🤍🤍
I watch Rampage weekly. I would get home late sometime and I will tune in. In fact, I been enjoying the Collision and Rampage 3 hour block more than RAW due to having a falling out with RAW in the past. It helps too if your Sports teams are in the postseason (Knicks and Rangers).
How's Rampage been? It's always been hard for me to get into because
1. The lead in from Smackdown Fatigue.
2. They never run important matches or blow off feuds on the show. So it never is worth watching.
But what's the perception from a fan?😊
@@Sooplex It been on and off lately. I would get into the matches that involves from other promotions like CMLL and the Indys. For example, I enjoy the Rocky Romaro and Místico match. As a kid, I would did not understand Spanish that well yet, but those CMLL matches was fast pace and close, and Rampage have rekindle those memories. I like Rampage but if I want to attract the casual audience, I would add matches that relates to the fued, but keep the fast pace and/or intensity sprinkle some promos especially outside, and show some love to what going on the Indies in hope making professional wrestling grows.
Swerve's Reign feels like it means nothing. He's presentation didnt change and he feels the same, with a belt. The belt did nothing for him, and he did the belt nothing.
There was more buzz about Mox winning the IWGP than Swerve and i feel like its because everyone knows "bruv" is gonna win it at wembley.
He hasn't had one main event match and has almost wrestled every week since. Will Osprey just captured a title now the next PPV we get Swerve and Osprey SMH poor Swerve he even got $ Mayweather and he get booked with Osprey. You can't tell me he's not going to win look what the CEO did to Willow and she was at her best. Criminal 😢
I loved AEW in the beginning, but now it's really become embarrassing right now.
And PG WWE is any better with so many commercials and that WOKE women's revolution? lol
Its his opinion just like this is yours why are you so upset about his opinion?@chentz2d552
He’s a hurt fan boy
@@chentz2d552 woman wrestling came up because talented women were given an opportunity that they deserved. Aew is woke with sonny kiss Nyla eww and Cody solving racism
@@mikemadsen7926 Sonny Kiss hasn't been with the company in over a year, and Nyla barely even gets any TV time anyway
Sooplex and assemble in the same vid is dope asf 2 of my favorites in the iwc
Thought you said they were cooking with the Tony Khan getting attacked angle?
One angle can’t save a sinking ship. They have bigger issues.
@@jamiek9780 no they dont
@@davidcoombsbestmegadethalb9780 congratulations you just made a fool of yourself
Sooplex 🤝🏾 assemble crossover! The fans need it 😂
I went to the second dynamite in Boston what a time to be alive
comcast on demand took me back! That's how I used to catch up on wrestling when I'd be home from school over the summer. WAY before WWE Network lol
40:46 This is where I'll give WWE the leg up in this one, because NXT is still entirely optional. You don't need it to understand the Bloodline, or Gable vs Sami, or to know who Bron, Ilja, and Melo are. It's just additional wrestling with its own rabbit hole of stories to go down. In AEW, it feels like I have to watch all 3 shows to keep up but then there's just a bunch of random matches and no substantial story that I can't get a summary of from social media somewhere.
Transformative content 🔥🔥🔥
What is killing this business is that all other Pro Wrestling promotions are sub standard, and we only have one promotion to review and rave about, and no matter how good it currently is in the World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), every podcast giving reviews on the same product kills the industry as a whole.
It's having McDonald's as the only restaurant in a city. Pretty soon it will be stale going there, and people will make their own food (aka watch Pro Wrestling indy promotions).
I was PROTO-AEW, just like you. I got religiously into ROH & NJPW circa 2013 when AJ Styles left TNA. I keppt watching those products all the way through until the birth of AEW. I have tbh, this trajectory AEW is going rn is not what I expected back in 2019.
I watched DoN this year and that was all I needed… it feels very all over the place.
Haven't watched but one issue for them and crowds is ticket prices. Their first big time coming to VA they had a show and a normal ticket for a eh spot was like $70 to $80. Which was insane to me.
Three days before the ppv?? Spot on timing. Legentil activities
Last time I watched a full episode of anything AEW was last year’s AEW grand slam when MJF fought Samoa Joe
Feel like a huge part of it is that when AEW started WWE wasn't doing that good. Heck it was to where NXT aka in a way their developmental was the best brand in WWE then once Triple H took control of creative creative WWE WWE in general slowly improved. That and Brawl Out showed a huge downside with TK as the sole boss
AEW were actually great back in 2019 because they focused on long term storylines. Such as rise of hangman and his 2 year journey to be world champion. Feud between britt baker and thunder rosa, rise of MJF and Wardlow, Punk/MJF. Inner circle were awesome. Nowadays, they just don't care about long term stories anymore.
HHH is doing a terrible job, I mean, he gave the WOKE women's belt to flat chest Becky Lynch lol
Yeah the only reason AEW did better in that time was because a old man was running it and AEW was new
@@marquiswolf2766 the same old man that created WWE you mean wouldn't exist without him that old man you mean
I try to watch AEW, and I just can't get into it. The only wrestlers that captured my attention were MJF and Kenny Omega. But once they were off tv, I could no longer watch. Now when I have it on, it's mainly background noise.
In a perfect world Dynamite aired on Tuesdays, Collison aired on Thursday, with RAW airing Mondays, NXT airing Wednesdays and SmackDown airing Fridays and TK hired a real booker
and Chris Jericho was retired to commentary replacing 1 senile man with another
His name is Matt, how is you don't watch his channel or know who he is.
AEW in 2021 was something special🔥They're not gonna go under, but they'll never be as hot as they were then, and it's a damn shame
They had that momentum in early-mid ‘22 as well
TNA > AEW fact
MLW > AEW fact
Anytime I think of AEW the TNA Hogan theme plays in my head 💀
To me the main reason is a good protion of aew fans were people who were sick of Vince wwe and when he left they came back to wwe
8:48 TNA is the reason i started watching other companies. I was at my cousins crib and flipping thru their channels and saw AJ Styles vs Christopher Daniels, 2006.
Anyone else noticed how there was a viewership dip after MJF announced that he had to undergo surgery?
Me personally as a wwe fan from small so 2011 I was about 5 or smn I only watch aew for wwe stars and I only like MJF so that’s all I got to say about it you know I don’t really know anyone in the aew roster I known britt baker but that’s about it
I think it's a combination of Punk and Sting leaving with Bucks coming back and the three big signings (Ossprey, Okada, Mone) Have really done nothing.
The problem is lack of true over babyfaces. AEW is just notorious for killing babyfaces. The night Adam Page won the title, they instantly overshadowed it by debuting Adam Cole and Bryan Danielson. MJF gets the turn, and they overshadowed him by returning Punk. Swerve gets the title, and they instantly overshadowed it with the Assault on Tony Khan.
We need a hero that we can get behind and stick with. We need someone with some balls to stand up for the company and what's right. Edge is about to retire again soon, we need heroes.
Give me that, and I'm back to watching.
I like AEW, and I honestly wished we had a third option as well.
I'm honestly a little bit burnt out on wrestling in general at the moment. AEW just isn't offering anything interesting right now, I enjoy TNA and WWE but don't watch it as much but still manage to check it out where I can but yeah kinda just a little burnt out
2019-2022 AEW was can’t miss. I took road trips to go to shows in Chicago, went to Full Gear 2021, spent money on shirts and merch and was the biggest fan of the product. But the last 2 years, the product, and Tony Kahn, has really just soured on me. I still keep up to date with what’s going on. But with Dynamite lacking-rampage and collision being glorified episodes of WCW Thunder….i just do not care if I miss any weekly shows from AEW
Hell, i even checked it out last night, and i had to shut that sh*t off because the fans being so quiet was a real mood killer.
Still watching every episode so haha 😂😂
Went on aew youtube yesterday i couldnt find 5 clips in the last several months i wantrd to watch
Yess I’m glad I’m not the only one aew hasn’t been the same since the brawl out and after all in now after the backstage footage was the last draw
My favorite part of this video is where he says no one watched NXT when he had it playing on a laptop and aew was being played on the big screen TV
"what was the guys name?" Samoa Joe was not the name I expected to hear after that for some reason 😭
I starting watching from the beginning after WrestleDream I stopped religiously watching.. I catch a Dynamite sometimes or watch the recaps of the PPVs but I'm in that boat of waitng for AEW to actually get interesting again. WWE is were its at right now.
I stopped watching but not even because the product is bad or anything, it's actually ok. But it's just too much wrestling to watch and I rather do other things. I've caught up recently with it and I actually think they are getting better. There is some interesting stuff happening.
Assemble is great I watch basically only you and him and jim cornette for wrestling
Ngl I saw the thumbnail and thought this was gonna be a wrestlingsins video
It's a niche product for a niche audience. The fans who watch wrestling for banger matches are in the minority. If Tony just realised that he and aew fans will be a lot happier.
It’s never been more obvious that Tony Khan bought ROH strictly for the video library
Tony Khan is the reason why i dont watch AEW anymore, he doesnt know how to book things, he even fired his biggest star just for the sake of the young bucks and jobber jack perry.. i mean what... And Dave Meltzer giving free 5 stars to some of their matches that will soon be forgotten about and reports misinformation about the cm punk brawl.. AEW needs a new booker but Tony's ego cant do it cause he wanted those sweet sweet booker of the year by the wrestling observer that is irrelevant. We didnt say we wanted AEW to die, because they did it to themselves, and all of it was Tony wanted to be friends with everyone and doesnt want to be a boss, book random matches with no substance, and have inmates running the asylum with all the backstage fights they have in the later years...
It's good to have another place to go but when that place treats you worse what's the point. I want someone who is competent to buy AEW from TK.
My interest in AEW waned when I realized they weren't going to do the elite vs punk angle. However my interest was first decreased after the Brawl , and they decided to skirt around issue instead of adressing it.
I'm not one of the people who hate TK, I'm really not. I don't dislike his booking style, he has his faults but so does everyone. He has booked some really great stuff. BUT, he needs to pass the pen over to someone else, at least partially. If they do a brand split (which they TOTALLY should) he can book one show, someone else can book another, someone else can book ROH. It's not because I hate him, he's just overstretched. That's probably a big part of why it's become stale. Even Vince worked with writers, Tony doesn't.
2022 for me i even went too one of there dynamite shows in NOLA straight snoozefest i don't know how aew can get back on track but they better think of something fast
It got bad because they kept signing former wrestlers from different promotions instead of focusing on their own talent.
Plus you get those huge signings to do nothing with them later on
The Exceptions are edge Moné danielson & Mox
Signings such as Claudio, black, PAC, Keith Lee & Adam Cole could benefit a lot more but they are not utilized.
Plus the summer of 2022 into 2023 was the Mandela effect into AEW being lackluster
I love AEW and I’m going to keep watching AEW Dynamite Weekly but they need a spark soon or it’s all over
This Is My Opinion Tho
"Claudio, black, PAC, Keith Lee & Adam Cole" tell me you don´t watch AEW without telling me you don´t watch it. Keith Lee & Adam Cole are hurt (Adam cole is still in one of the bigger feuds in AEW with MJF) , Pac is a part timer since the start of the company , Claudio was already 2 times world champion and is with the BCC and Black is still one of the most dangerous people they have in the roster (hell the whole house of black is a monster stable) but right "they are not utilized"
@@luxTenebris1 Claudio is 2x ROH champion (never won a title in AEW) Keith Lee Has been injured idk how long then came back was supposed to be in a small feud with Swerve then got injured again(I love Keith too but come on). PAC At least they are doing something now but putting him back in the trios title hunt is not the move for a threat like him IMO. Black should’ve been champion after his first year with AEW
YES he won the trios titles but black as TNT or International hell even continental champion would be great. The world title would look good with him along with HOB being a monster faction imo. At least they gave us a Dream match between Black & Edge. Lastly Adam Cole Caused that injury to himself then the feud between him & MJF was put on hold for 4 months and the Undisputed kingdom was supposed to be running roughshod over the roster. MJF just returned so we’ll see what happens next week when he returns to dynamite.
@@IceyGeeMedia only thing i read here is "I don´t like it" not an "they are underutilized" that´s a big difference. Claudio started in ROH and is best known for his time in ROH (with Hero) which means that beeing ROH WORLD CHAMPION is more important than beeing AEW champion and everything else i read is "They need to be Champion" fuck nobody needs to be champion to be in a great spot. Yeah the bling bling (title ) looks good but in the end it´s useless, becouse the real thing is how great the story you tell (in ring or outside of it) is and in that case all of them are used extremly good (okay maybe except Keith, but that guy is 90% of his run injured and the other 10% was an extremly cool tag with Swerve)
So Britt’s not injured she said in a post months ago that they dont have anything for her to do I kinda think Jamie is in the same boat I fully don’t believe she still injured anymore also it’s pretty because I think we found out about TNA in the same year lol
Also I think they should get rid of either Rampage or Collision and replace it with ROH
Dave Meltzer and Tony Khan turn me off to the product
I was weening off of it over time, starting from the Dark Order 2019 end. It really began to escalate with Stadium Stampede and Dinner Debonair, which made me turn on Jericho. The point of no return was Brawl Out.
Tony Khan overplayed his hand and the IWC, plus the talent has done no favors.
AEW fans went from “YOURE ALL E-DRONES! YOU DONT KNOW REAL WRESTLING” to “Let’s just all enjoy pro wrestling guys 👉👈” real quick.
“Just enjoy wrestling” has gotta be the laziest thing I hear when someone makes an excuse for people not tuning into AEW. So we are suppose to excuse a bad product just so we can keep an alternative? Nah nah. AEW doesn’t even look to get the kind of money WWE got for that Netflix deal. They may get a little increase for the possible new deal but not what Tony thinks it’ll get. WBD ain’t gonna give them the money they would’ve given the NBA had they extended their deal (most likely NBA is going back to NBC)
I would say my interest for AEW starting falling when orange Cassidy became the undertaker and never lost a match,when he was the first international champion, around the time cm punk left. It started exposing the young bucks for being lame. And with Cassidy, it’s like if we can’t beat the guy that’s not even trying then who are we?
It was when Punk, Cole, and Danielson debuted. And it was nothing about them specifically (besides maybe punk) rather what was going on around those 3 guys with the company altogether. It really felt as if things were different from the first couple of years. I still keep up with aew & enjoy it but the recent stuff hasn’t been as hooking as it was when it started. I think it’s the cast of characters. When it first showed it was fresh new talent, then by mid 2022 it was ex WWE and NXT talent I really didn’t want on tv
"What is Jake Hager doing now?"
Sitting at home, looking for new employment.
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50 minutes long is crazy
And I haven't even started watching 💀
I haven't stopped watching AEW. They're gonna get 150,00 ppvs tomorrow. I think they'll be fine 😆
They have people there to do stuff with. I just don’t get why they don’t. Jay white is literally such a top guy that it’s boggles me they haven’t give him a bigger storyline besides the mjf feud, which even then wasn’t too long. Also, where the hell is juice?
Anothe reason why
Aew create matches that gives 5 star but if you look back at them many years from now you will only remember their matches was 5 star while in WWE you will never forget the story you are watching.
WWE storylines is like watching a great movie while AEW is watching a great wrestling but I often myself rewatching those great movies and the wrestling action was just the icing. (The closest thing AEW ever did the WWE path was Punk vs MJF feud and Hangman vs Omega build up)
PG WWE is not wrestling tho lol
The first wave of AEW fans only latched on because WWE was in the shitter and was only waiting for WWE to get hot again and then left once it did.
All the other shit they say is basically strawman arguments, bad faith takes, and burn out. I'm not speaking on tribalism because this ain't the video for that.
As for Sooplex, he's consistent. He stopped watching Nooj because he didn't like it anymore and I rarely hear him talk about Stardom. So he stands on biz.
It is weird for me. I liked AEW ppvs in 2019 but didn’t find dynamite great. I started liking dynamite in Covid times. The Jacksonville backdrop vibes were cooler than Raw SD. My peak goodwill towards AEW was during the tribute show to Brodie Lee. Loved the first Winter is Coming show, Jericho cruise show. The explosion match was a trip up but they recovered quite nicely and led to CM punk and Dbry debuts. I loved Hangman Page character in his drunk sad days and watch him win the World title was fulfilling. MJF as heel champion against CM Punk was interesting but everything else was getting boring. ROH and too many titles made it all confusing. And other than few moments here and there I lost interest completely post brawl out. Just following few news highlights or a great match or promo here and there.
For me i think it was less conditioning to want an overarching story and more so i got burnt out on wrestling with little to no story. Aew sometimes felt like wrestling for wrestling's sake rather than wrestling as its been for years with these personalities that make you want to watch and confrontations that you want the ending to. I think my ultimate stop for aew was the devil tbh cause it felt so obvious but not really and adter cole got hurt it just felt like it really didn't matter
I don't want to be called a mark, so I don't watch AEW because of shame.
I feel like major things that have turned me off a little are:
1 - The production issues especially in major spots like the Kingston/Mox exploxion
2 - The roster size conpared to how much tv time they have available... Every time a Ricky Starks or a Pac or a Miro get hot they disappear for months!
3 - The honeymoon period being over .. Once guys started jumping ship the other way like Cody and later Punk Jade and Andrade it felt like that was around the period eceryone felt the need to shit on any mistake made by AEW
4 The Story telling has fallen off... That Hangman redemption angle was one of the best in wrestling history... They have a nack for doing a decent chace but SUCK at booking a face top champ!
My decline started when they turned MJF babyface. The stuff with Adam Cole was fun for a little bit, but then i realized they just turned the most pompous asshole heel into a babyface during his world title run? That didn’t make any sense to me. And i think they really dropped the ball not doing an MJF/Eddie Kingston feud during that reign. The promos between them would've been amazing
Honestly another reason why I stopped wrestling AEW and New Japan, simply I found other promotions to watch instead
I feel that AEW is at their best when they stick to what made them great in the first place, FRESH FACES IN THE SPOTLIGHT. Character storylines get lost in the shuffle of a dozen different stables, no long-term term dedication to storylines, and an overreliance on established talent.
The biggest problem with AEW is inconsistency. I mean that in their stars. I say in their here, next thing you know their gone. Whether it be to injury or visa issues. It makes it hard to keep momentum that way.
Everyone is critical of WWEs style of wreslting but the majority of their stars are available more consistently than AEW. They wrestle safe, and that, helps business.
I feel like AEW should stop Rampage and make Collision the ROH show (I.e. ROH Collision) and move it to Thursdays and not making us pay for it. It would really make ROH and AEW more watchable for me personally.