10 Outcomes If HUGE Wrestling Complaints Were Answered
3. AEW Isn't Pushing The Elite Hard Enough
The complaint:
AEW opted to build around Chris Jericho and Jon Moxley in year one, not the Elite, drawing criticism: this was supposed to be a brand new alternative venture, not WWE, only with better booking. Come on, Tony! Where's this "Kenny Omega" guy I keep hearing about and was going to bury regardless?
The outcome if it were answered:
The exact f*cking opposite, since so much of the criticism directed towards AEW is in bad faith. You can almost read the takes now: putting over young talent?
That doesn't work for the Cleaner, brother!
Analysed beyond the mutant swamp, some of the takes were very reasonable valid: All In felt newer and more different to Dynamite. This was meant to be the point, was it not? But AEW had to be insidious about things, strategically: Chris Jericho greeted intrigued fans at the door, and opened it to reveal Darby Allin. One had to exist to get the other over; looking at Google analytics, as compared to online conversations and (pre-March) audience reactions, Hangman Page is far more of a long-term prospect than the acclaim would suggest. If that All Out 2019 main event ends differently, so, perhaps, does AEW's TV deal. That isn't hyperbole: the Demogod's excellent and productive AEW Title reign in no small part compelled TNT to pay a rights fee for Dynamite.
Looking at this post-lockdown world - Kenny Omega recently revealed that all-important advertising revenue had at one point dropped by 40%, with the world in panic - AEW's decision to build and not push the Elite was a savvy one even before one considers the long-term creative vision.