10 Ways WWE Is Better Than AEW
1. Booking Sells Out Buildings. Brands Sell Out Stadiums
Amongst many within the wrestling bubble, WWE is the heel promotion.
This is not unearned. Sacking people at the height of the pandemic, warmly snuggling up to oppressive regimes for ill-gotten finances and continuing to peddle morally questionable content as a golden era will do that for you. And those were all things from the last two years, let alone half century.
And yet, with increasingly less major marquee matches left from the past and no evident skill in producing new ones in the present, they are running more stadiums than ever. SummerSlam 2021 was a return to big crowds as the world was doing the same thing, but 2022 will mark the most venues of similar sizes they've ever ran. Royal Rumble, two nights of WrestleMania, Money In The Bank, SummerSlam and the September Cardiff supershow have and will play to 50,000+ crowds.
All because of the three letters that still somehow define wrestling more than the company that actually produce it. AEW can and will in time address this, but nothing would show their ability to quite like actually doing it.