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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Best overall wrestler: Kenny Omega (I'm not really into his style but right now he is the top dog)
Best overall tag-team: FTR and its not close
Best overall draw: CM Punk until they release him.
Best up-and-comer  aniel Garcia
Most overrated: Moxley
Most overused: Sammy Guevara and Tay Conti (And that hurts because I was big proponent of Tay in NXT and early AEW.
Most underrated: Rey Fenix
Most underused: Jay Lethal |
Not sure I agree about CM Punk being the top draw.
Did they really draw any better than they had prior? From a PPV buy perspective not really.
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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
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.
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I'm not sure the lack of identity is because of that - early days AEW had an identity with those three at the top.
AEW lost its identity by bringing in too many WWE retreads and by bringing in too many titles and almost doing too much overlap with NJPW and Impact.
Interestingly I think TNA had similar issues but never really reached the heights AEW did prior to bringing into much ex WCW/WWE talent.
In terms of guys who weren't AEW originals (Mox, Pac, etc) I might look at keeping Bryan, Cesaro, Andrade and Cole as ex WWE talent because they fit the bill of what AEW wanted to be initially long term but Miro, Keith Lee (impressive but not sure I like him in AEW), CM Punk (poison), Matt Hardy, Malakai Black (great but doesn't fit AEW style IMO).
To me AEW needs to focus on the quality of the wrestling - that is when they are at their best.