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Originally Posted by Blaster86
It's hard to describe where AEW is right now. What I feel like it is, is a program that is appealing to the people who already like it but doing nothing to get people who don't already watch it to get into it.
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Great description of it and a reason why they're not really moving new numbers, there's also the issue with major live events where they're not selling tickets like they did before.
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Originally Posted by Blaster86
They've moved away from that hard hitting, treat it like a real sport style to a more cartoonish program all the while keeping the same hints of 2000 WCW booking that put me off in the first place. Hardcore AEW fans are still fans and really into it but I feel like they're not doing much to retain or gain people who don't fall into that category? Khan needs to find a filter. Get people to help him book. Don't try and do it all himself, because it isn't working anymore (if you ever thought it did). He needs to stop worrying about social media and get back to what got them over when they first started up. Less BTE style tripe and more Old NWA style. Oh, and for ####'s sake stop blading.
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This is a direct problem of people like Omega and the Bucks as EVP's and Tony. AEW doesn't have an identity. Omega in one of his promo's talks about having all these wrestlers with different styles, and it leads to a lot of lack of chemistry issues and even injuries. WWE and AEW have done a lousy job in the last few years of identifying what they are.
ROH was probably the best at it.
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Originally Posted by Blaster86
Yeah, and a roster purge is where you start on fixing the booking. Get rid of the cancers that are people who don't want to be there and the people who are just head cases in the back. Andrade, Miro, Black and Murphy want out? Let them go. Don't do the WWE thing where you just hold miserable guys because you don't want the other organisation to have them. Sammy, the Bucks, Punk, Page and Omega keep causing issues in the back? Let them go. No one wants to deal with that sort of #### at work.
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Miro always complained in WWE that they were telling him what to do and filtering him. And when the Filter came off he made bizarre choices and weird promo's and got over like a wet fart. Andrade has been really underused, but at the same time, he's nothing more then what he was in WWE a decent midcarder. Murphy btw is a fantastic worker, unbelievably good in the ring when you let him go, he's just never had the charisma to sell his gimmck.
I go back to the simplest rule that wrestling companies ignore. If you wrestle you can't be a booker or an executive. Its he Ole Anderson/Dusty Rhodes rule. PAge started this whole thing, Punk threw gas on it, The Bucks acted like idiots and threw more gas on it.