10 Growing Pains AEW Is Already Having

10. Pay-Per-View For Pay-Per-View's Sake

To date, AEW has produced two bonafide pay-per-views and another internet special. The excitement surrounding Double Or Nothing in May was palpable, but that seemed to drop once the fairly pedestrian Fyter Fest showed there's not as much under the hood as loyalists would lead everyone to believe.

That, put bluntly, was house show quality at best.

Fight For The Fallen was another example of how diminishing returns can happen when there's no proper build. Matches like Hangman Page vs. Kip Sabian and Kenny Omega vs. Cima were fun placeholders, albeit still placeholders. They're TV matches from a company that doesn't have weekly television to put them on yet, and that's hurting the pay-per-view side of things.

Right now, AEW pay-per-views are skippable aside from a few highlights folks can catch online or a damn good match here and there. Such truth is lost amongst genuine affection; again, fans want All Elite to do well, as they should. They should also, however, demand better.