10 Ways WWE Is Better Than AEW
8. Stages & Aesthetics
Annoying in that's easy to address, AEW have surprisingly kept it lowkey when it comes to the staging of their major events.
This didn't feel like it was going to be the case when the company first launched. Identifying almost everything WWE didn't do well and doing it better seemed to be the modus operandi, and early shows in Daily's Place, on the Jericho Cruise, and Las Vegas (Double Or Nothing's motif offered the group one of their first iconic visuals) seemed to suggest they'd go big on separating themselves from the bland HD screens that came to define WWE's aesthetic.
It hasn't materialised though.
Pay-Per-Views, Dynamites and Rampages are rarely physically distinguishable from one another save for occasional details on the canvas or low-lit corners of the buildings, and AEW's early penchant for lighting up the crowd has been replaced by a single-colour wash on almost all the audience.
WWE, even when it's almost nothing else, is still unmistakably WWE in ostentatious effort and execution.