10 Ways AEW Has Listened To Its Audience

2. Allowing Tag Team Wrestling To Be A Main Event Draw

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Granted, with the Young Bucks serving as Executive Vice Presidents in the company, hope was high that tag team wrestling would be spotlighted in a major way in AEW. Thankfully, that has indeed proven to be the case.

Not just the AEW audience, but a good portion of wrestling fans, period, have been calling for tag team wrestling to be positioned as a main event draw once more. Teams like the Road Warriors, the Rock 'n' Roll Express, the Midnight Express, the Steiner Brothers, Demolition, Harlem Heat, the Wild Samoans, the Hart Foundation and so, so many more have brought plenty of asses to seats and had people paying money to see them.

In a landscape dominated by WWE for so many years, Vince McMahon's sports entertainment behemoth has long since viewed tag team wrestling as an afterthought. Tag team wrestling is there merely to kill some time or to be utilised to propel a new singles star come the inevitable break-up.

Wrestling fans have been demanding to see tag team acts in main event spots, and AEW has gone out of its way to make sure that that is exactly what fans have been given. When done right, tag team wrestling can be the absolute best form of wrestling on the planet - and AEW is most certainly doing it right!

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