5 Ways AEW Has Changed Professional Wrestling For The Better

5. Long-Term Storytelling

Any form of story-based entertainment is richer for the more care and consideration that those with the pen give to the stories that the performers are telling.

With that said, how many reports have we seen of WWE scripts being torn up the day of the show? How many storylines have been dropped out of nowhere due to creative or fan disinterest? You can pluck a plethora of them straight from the top of your head – Otis and Mandy, RAW Underground, Retribution, the SmackDown Hacker, Sami’s conspiracy.

By repeatedly dropping storylines and filling the shows with rematches to produce ‘content’, the WWE product has never felt staler. This is where AEW has excelled. Over a two-year period, they have taken Hangman Page from being vocally rejected by the crowd to being their most beloved hero. That’s just one example.

Moxley’s feud and ultimate friendship with Eddie Kingston has been a brilliant piece of storytelling. Britt Baker's ascent from rejected babyface to beloved heel was superb. MJF vs. Jericho was a year in the making. These storylines have real depth and pull the investment from the wrestling crowd who want to see an actual story being told.

Not Big E vs. Apollo Crews six weeks running.