10 Things AEW Stopped Doing That We Really Want To See Again
5. Announcing EVERY Dynamite Match In Advance
You know what's still just lovely, but was even better in early 2020, as wild possibilities collided into one another in a brand-new promotion that barely relied on rematches? Or gifted you rematches that you were actually desperate to see?
The penultimate quarter hour run-down of next week's card.
You didn't expect to see those wrestlers work that match yet, wrestlers who used to work for those promotions share the same ring, those two storylines overlap so seamlessly. It was a dream factory.
As a "vibe," the cult favourite seg was even more stirring; the full run-down created a potent strain of anticipation and deepened the idea that AEW was a sports league that promoted fixtures instead of very obvious post-match angle alerts. At present, AEW lures fans in with approximately four prior match announcements. Then, if you don't scroll Twitter hours before the show, they blindside you with a Matt Hardy singles or something of distinctly Dark: Elevation quality in the first minute of the broadcast. Filler, to put it another way. The magic is wearing a bit thin when it really shouldn't be.
AEW's roster hasn't even begun to interact with itself to its full potential, which leads us to...