10 Ways WWE Has Warped The Minds Of Fans
7. Tag Team Wrestlers ARE Stars
Kenny Omega is a World Tag Team Champion who has either headlined or worked the longest match on the last four AEW pay-per-views, three of which drew in excess of 100,000 buys.
He is considered less of a star than he was in New Japan Pro Wrestling because he isn't a singles World Champion. People retrieve stopwatches and time this man's matches, to see how much offence he allows his opponents, because WWE has for years - through Billionaire Ted skits, "high school gyms" rhetoric and the like - mobilised its fans to lash out at anything that threatens WWE's critical perception or financial bottom line.
This is why, for example, Johnny Gargano, last seen as a midcard heel with spaghetti on his head, doesn't also draw the same "He was a bigger star in 2018!" criticism Omega is subjected to every other week.
Omega is also considered less of a star than he was because of the division in which he wrestles, which is presented in WWE as beneath singles wrestling, or a platform to it, because Vince McMahon would rather pay one man, rather than two, main event money.
Bret Hart and Shawn Michaels became "real" stars when they left their midcard tag teams, remember.