10 Misconceptions About AEW You Probably Believe
6. It's Just Flippy Gymnastics
AEW is just fake-looking gymnastics with choreographed flippy sh*t.
You've heard the take and the take, again, is b*llocks...
...mostly.
As a writer who tends to receive AEW positively, it's still very distracting and irritating when a certain act leaps over or through the ropes, overshoots, and barely grazes their opponent, who falls down nonetheless because that's the spot and it has to go that way because that's how it was arranged.
But come the f*ck on, man. This might be the absolute worst take of all the terrible AEW takes and think of the f*cking ground that covers, Jesus Christ.
It should be near-impossible to hate AEW as a default position because the range is so vast; brawling, technical wrestling, aerial, classical North American, irreverent comedy, hoss battles, strong style, aerial-based lucha libre, virtually undiluted death match, celebrity smoke-and-mirrors, cinematic, Michinoku Pro-informed trios: there are few genres that AEW hasn't embraced in its young history.
In fact, is there a single genre or style that AEW hasn't promoted on national television or pay-per-view?
There's British rounds, and that's about it. Incredibly enough, NXT UK does that and the hordes of anti-AEW types aren't watching!