10 Things AEW Needs To Stop Doing IMMEDIATELY

9. Title Eliminator Matches

Bryan DAnielson
AEW

WWE rightfully gets lambasted whenever it opts to use Championship Contender's contests, and AEW likewise deserves the same response to the company's Title Eliminator efforts.

In these AEW matches, someone has to defeat a champion in order to earn a shot at the title held by said champ.

This isn't a hard concept to understand, but it's a concept that's flawed on so many levels. If a talent wins a Title Eliminator and then goes on to win that championship, it means the now-former-champ has been beaten twice. If that talent wins a Title Eliminator but then comes up short in their title match, that means that the champion loses some shine due to having been beaten in a non-title contest.

Of course, the other side of this is that certain Title Eliminator competitors are never going to realistically be the one to dethrone the champion in question, which then brings a sense of predictability to proceedings. For example, did anyone really think that the Bunny would defeat Jamie Hayter in a Title Eliminator and earn herself a shot at the AEW Women's Champion? No, no they didn't.

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