[CaptainCrunch]

From a historical standpoint, I was looking at the monday night wars ratings.

And at its height WWE and WCW were throwing out 6.6 ratings at each other. The last week of Nitro was a 2.6 and people were marvelling at how bad it was. Now Smackdown is throwing out 1.7's to 1.2's and its a slaughter. and AEW has gone from 1 to .6.

Its insane what the Monday Night wars did for the Wrestling business, will we ever see two companies hammer out 4's or 5's or 6's? I doubt it.

I remember reading death of WCW, and they talked about the week that Raw finally passed Nitro on April 13th after a year on top Nitro lost to Raw 4.6 to 4.2 and I remember that they talked about it in the book that Easy E had seen things starting to go bad, but the shock of finally losing to Raw made Bischoff hit the roof.

For AEW I really thought when they were hitting near a million people that it would represent their core audience, and it would be hard to lose those fans and then they could start trying new things to gain the WWE fringe fans.

Instead it feels like AEW's fan base had a I tried it, but its not keeping my attention vibe.

Whether its that they're too reliant on the older fans and not really creating new main event stars. Whether the booking is just too erratic and they're not building good feuds. They're bleeding fans that were with them from day one.

In a couple of Wrestling books I've read the owners talked about wrestling being cyclic, and owners blamed their woes on the uncontrollable cycles, when the truth was that they didn't do anything to keep the product fresh.

AEW has some good wrestling and wrestlers, they really do, but honestly even if someone says "I watch AEW for the wrestling" story lines, good booking and long term feuds keep the fans coming back, and bring in new fans.

AEW it feels like has fallen into the WCW pattern. Hot Shot booking, dropped storylines, giving things away too quickly. A older main event pictures that's really erratic.

Its not just Tony, but I do believe that he really needs to bring in someone that's a experienced booker and head of creative. they need new ideas.

Wrestling needs AEW to succeed, that competition needs to be there for the fans not for the companies.