How THIS Was AEW’s First Major Mistake
Go back to what you know, take everything REAL slow...
It has been a legendarily awful week for professional wrestling.
Never has the thought of this seemed so appealing, but if you happened to have been living under a rock lately, you may have missed news that Linda McMahon pushed through a company-funded Florida super PAC to keep their shows going live, Jerry Lawler celebrated the risking of his life commentating on Raw by inserting some racism into it, AEW elected to proceed with Double Or Nothing as an empty arena $50 pay-per-view, and WWE fired or furloughed over 50 staff and talent ahead of a investor's call next week where they'll project yet more record figures and the odd $500,000,000 in reserve.
In a time for the world where almost every major live attendance industry and enterprise has ground to an alarming and worrying halt, North American pro wrestling declared itself essential and pushed forth in spite of the worst optics this side of Stephanie McMahon's dismemberment joke less than two months after Crown Jewel 2018.
"The show must go on" has been the message from the beginning, but it feels more like a b*llocking at this than a statement of misguided bravery at this point. Less "sit back and relax" and more "sit there and watch the f*cking telly", Triple H's warm welcome to that first SmackDown of this era has morphed into the message every exhausted parent is relaying to their children at the witching and twitching hour when everybody has just about had enough, thanks very much.
This has been most glaring - and depressing - on Wednesday Nights.
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