10 Major Unanswered Questions About AEW
7. The Pay-Per-View Schedule
All Elite Wrestling's pay-per-view schedule in 2019 has been problematic for a promotion without regular television. Double Or Nothing and All Out were promoted, heavily, as destination events for the brand. Supported by Starrcast conventions in the host cities, AEW managed to ape WWE's Big Four mentality with two of their very first shows, and will aim for that again when they run Full Gear in November.
The mere establishing of an A-Show resulted in Fyter Fest and Fight For The Fallen becoming default B-level events, but both were unhelpful interruptions in what should have been a cleaner summer schedule. Longer than necessary (and in the case of the latter, a production catastrophe) the events only served to dilute all the buzz the organisation had rather than enhance the journey to All Out and the organisation's television debut.
Will the group succumb to this between January and May's Double Or Nothing 2020 equivalent? Less is more - not least with 52 two hour shows to fill too - but when has North American wrestling ever adhered to this principle?