10 Genius Ways Tony Khan Can Get The AEW Magic Back
7. Get The F Out
As in, get the Fed out of his booking impulses.
WWE isn't an inherently terrible company that automatically produces dire content, but AEW should steer away from any trope or narrative foible synonymous with it because their fanbase wants an alternative. All too often this year, Tony Khan appears to have forgotten why his company was formed and exists.
Without doing absolutely everything differently to Paul Levesque, Khan should ask himself a simple and important question, one that would encourage the discipline he sometimes lacks, every time he works on a TV format sheet:
Is this something my fans would bury WWE for doing?
If the answer is 'Yes', then scrap it - and be uncompromising about it.
No wildly over-celebrated wins via distraction roll-up, as Bandido had the bad fortune of doing against Rush recently.
No wrestlers booking their own matches; a wrestler issuing a challenge that Khan as a money-making promoter would obviously sanction, yes, but nothing that suggests the wrestler has match-making powers (Christian Cage, Saraya).
Minimise carny, weightless means of "protecting" wrestlers. Certain prelim acts don't need to take a hammer to the face just to drive the Death Triangle angle forward. People, not being goldfish, will remember the latest iteration of the PAC Vs. Orange Cassidy feud since it ran from September to October.
And, most importantly of all...