The WWE/AEW Age Divide - What It Actually Means
What a difference a decade currently makes.
Diversity is everything and both WWE and AEW have an abundance of talents of different ages and experience, but look closest to those in the seats of power. Vince McMahon, Paul Heyman and Bruce Prichard booked much of the stuff Tony Khan and The Elite might have enjoyed 20 years ago, but that mixed with all their divergent pro wrestling inspirations has informed AEW's most obvious realisation - what fits now is just a contemporary version of what always did.
McMahon was a bit of an a*sehole to call them his roster millennials with such disdain in his infamous 2014 podcast interview with Steve Austin, not least because he's the reason for them putting up with so much sh*t. They grew up watching the worst excesses of his character (a character he tried to kill multiple times because he knew it was passé), and are now left to work for a man that's lost somewhere between reality and that warped fantasy.
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