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Originally Posted by rubecube
I meant to respond to this but forgot, but you basically made the point I was trying to make but you did a better job writing it. I don't have an issue with dusty finishes and shenanigans during the weekly shows if it leads to pay off down the line at the big shows. I would say AEW is knocking their "blowoff" matches out of the park for the most part. No one is ever going to bat 1.000, but I've yet to feel let down by an AEW PPV.
All that is to say, they've built up enough good credit with me that I'm willing to see where all of the latest nonsense is going before passing judgement. The reason I'm not willing to extend WWE the same is because they've blown all of that goodwill with their awful booking (e.g. Goldberg going over the fiend, various god-awful PPV finishes, etc.).
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AEW has had some awful pay-offs. Brodie Lee as the Exalted one. Leaving the Title on Jericho way too long. What they've done with FTR. Where they went with the whole Hangman story. The first match between Mox and Omega. Their build ups have been good though. I was legit excited for all these stories until they got to the end.
Still better than the WWE's "#### everything up for two years at a time and stumble into a Daniel Bryan/Kofi Kingston/Jericho and Owens type story that catches fire and gets everyone interested despite WWE still trying to #### it up behind the scenes."
Edit- That last one I listed, they actually did manage to meddle enough to #### it up. Jericho has cited it as a big part of why he took the AEW offer.