10 Times WWE Ripped Off AEW
6. Pyro
WWE actually had pyro decades before AEW even existed, duh!"
Congratulations on not getting it.
WWE abandoned pyro on its television broadcasts in 2017 as the richest wrestling company in recorded history decided to cut costs and, in doing so, remove the spectacle from the occasion. This was a damning symbolic gesture, as much as anything else: with no immediate competition forcing the company to actually try, they simply didn't, holding your investment in near total contempt.
Moreover, according to WWE Producer Road Dogg, you wouldn't care, anyway. Gotten to on Twitter, Road Dogg, who has a very skewed viewpoint on what matters at the best of times, claimed that neither pyro nor custom sets were "necessary" to the experience, and that it would soon be the norm and "no one will care".
Translated: You will accept our dulled primary colour lighting, and you will f*cking like it.
The rise of AEW altered WWE's perspective, and this is what enough people don't think about. What if it didn't exist? How little would WWE actually care now?
Before the promised pyro and spectacle ahead of the launch of AEW Dynamite, those brazen Stamford f*cks tactically waited 48 hours to bring pyro back. Oh, you didn't know?
Pyro very much was necessary to the experience, after all!