10 Problems EVERY Wrestling Company Has In Common
10. The Entrance Music Pop
AEW has all but abandoned a very cool early feature of Dynamite.
Those early Elite Vs. Inner Circle brawls were so magnetic because they cast such an immersive spell; everything was so elegantly arranged to account for what the players involved had done earlier in the night, and indeed their headspace in general; MJF very gently teased turning on Cody, Hangman Page, distancing himself from the Elite, stayed on the margins.
Those melees didn't stop when the TV cameras did, and the players emerged to no entrance music because there wasn't a crowd to pop. There was a war to wage.
Regrettably, this is no longer the case. AEW is too similar to WWE in the way these angles are now framed.
This doesn't happen all the time, but it happens too often. It's a very dated '90s thing, the entrance music pop, and it worked back then because why, amid fierce competition, would you squander a single shattering of that iconic glass?
All this weird residual echo accomplishes now - especially with no crowds of significant number - is the reveal of the artifice behind the TV production, thus stretching all-important suspension of disbelief.
Jon Moxley isn't even anywhere near the sound guy, not that it's any better to imagine the wrestlers cueing them up backstage.