10 Things That Will NEVER Happen In AEW

10. Humiliating Talent Onscreen

These things that WWE do are not normal or productive.

Amid Team Taz fever, your writer fired up the ECW archives on the WWE Network over the weekend. Awesomeness bred awesomeness, literally in this case: the old nostalgic glow led one to the unreal Mike Awesome Vs. Masato Tanaka series, which ECW used to pivot away from Taz's ECW World Title reign. He was WWF-bound in September 1999. ECW needed to get somebody over, and definitively, at his expense. He was the first man eliminated from the Three Way Dance at Anarchy Rulz. He ate two finishers in as many minutes. But he wasn't buried; after leaving the ring, he stood on the entrance ramp, humbled, and gestured for Awesome and Tanaka to bring the fight. He wanted the two men to beat the f*ck out of each other to bring honour to that which he had relinquished. ECW allowed its top star, who left at a very inopportune time, to go out like a man.

It's really only WWE that humiliates its talent onscreen because there is zero worth to the practise. Particularly when those talents are going nowhere, and, in the unfathomable case of Zack Ryder in 2012, had just formed a connection with crowds.

When a certain ex-NXT talent spoiled a Dynamite segment, he wasn't brought back and set upon by some stiff f*cker on Dark. He wasn't mocked up in some self-serving skit.

Knowing that unnecessary cruelty is a pointless heel move, AEW just let him fade into view, and moved on like grown men.