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Originally Posted by Blaster86
AEW has had some awful pay-offs. Brodie Lee as the Exalted one.
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This one I can definitely agree with. It's been bad for both Brodie and DO. It's telling that Dark Order has been far more captivating since he's been injured.
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Leaving the Title on Jericho way too long.
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Disagree with this. They let brew just long enough that when Mox took it off of him, the fans exploded. This wasn't HHH reign of terror stuff. I think it was a 6 month run in total.
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What they've done with FTR.
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More specifically? I thought the FTR/Bucks match was great.
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Where they went with the whole Hangman story.
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I think this is still ongoing but I agree that they kind of neutered his heat by not letting him continue to play the alcoholic, nihilistic cowboy anymore.
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The first match between Mox and Omega.
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I honestly still haven't seen this.
I still think they've gotten more right than wrong, but there are definitely a few other notable misses in there (e.g. pretty much everything Matt Hardy has done)
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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.
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It's not even just that. Yeah, that's frustrating for sure, but it's more just how formulaic everything has become. Basically two people enter a feud and have matches and various tag matches with each other forever until no one cares when the blowoff finally happens.