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Originally Posted by Blaster86
I'll be honest, I am with you and I don't think we are far off from what makes wrestling popular. Bigger than life characters and realistic action. Like, everyone knows it's fake but at least give us the ability to believe. A guy who just took a major beat down getting up to immediately do a corkscrew back flip plancha into five guys who just stand there and watch, blatantly catch him and gently roll back just isn't entertaining.
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My biggest issue with AEW is the blatant set ups for these big spots that make no sense.
Sammy climbs up to the stage and hits Isiah in the stomach twice, and then Isiah just stands there trying to get his footing while Sammy sets up and does the crazy signal to his head.
The move looked cool, but especially on the re-watch it loses it's impact when it set up in such an unrealistic way.
Same thing with the Sting set up. Hardy is dragging Sting to the stadium...but then just kind of walks away from him and lets him jump onto his partner from the stage. I don't even recall if Sting even punched Hardy, I think Hardy just walked away.
The big tag team matches and multi-man spots tend to be really bad for this in AEW, and I think it does hurt when attracting more casuals.