Report: AEW Stars Feel "Pressure" To Work A Certain Style Of Wrestling (AEW News)
AEW talents feel pressured to work a certain style to get TV time.
While a portion of pro wrestling fans may question the wider style of AEW and how several wrestlers will wrestle a similarly structured match on the same show, certain talents reportedly feel pressured into working that way.
Speaking on Self Made Sessions, Self Made Pro said he raised that topic with people within AEW, and some of those wrestlers understand such criticism and agree with it. However, those talents feel they have to work a certain way in order to click with the AEW audience, in turn getting the talent onto TV. As Self Made Pro was told, wrestlers feel they need to "operate within a framework" to get themselves that ever-important TV time.
Of course, it's always important to find a pro wrestling style that resonates with an audience and garners the relevant reaction from a crowd, and it's likewise important to work a style that aligns with what company higher-ups - in AEW's case, Tony Khan - want from you. And it's only natural that if you're getting the right response from crowds and management, that's likely to, in theory, be rewarded with more opportunities, more television time.
Purely from your writer's point of view, though, too much of the same thing can become a little too repetitive. For example, if you've seen two table spots on a show already, what makes the third one standout? If there have been four Mexican Destroyers in previous matches, what makes it special when somebody in the main event delivers one? And if a midcard talent in the opening match has already kicked out of two or three 'finishing' moves, why is it such a big deal when one of your top stars does that in a big PPV main event?
These criticisms are certainly nothing unique to AEW, and it goes back to the age-old 'less is more' or wrestling being treated as a variety show, rather than seeing so much of the same stuff in various segments across the same show. If these Self Made Pro comments are to be believed, though, certain AEW talents agree with such criticisms but feel the only way to get regular TV time is to work within that particular "framework".