10 Ways WWE Is Better Than AEW
3. WELCOME Exposition
Presenting for the first time an earnest attempt to suggest that NXT 2.0 is better than All Elite Wrestling.
Well, at this one specific thing anyway.
The ludicrous and pathetically horny developmental project can't find its a*se with both hands most weeks, but its inability to function properly has revealed an unexpected bonus - one dimensional caricatures are easy to understand develop a cult quality. It’s heavy handed, but on the 26th April edition of NXT, a slate of women's wrestlers were announced for the breakout tournament with cartoon personas, babyface Tony D'Angelo's stereotypical idiot goons were revealed, fully formed as Troy "Two Dimes" Donavan and Channing "Stacks" Lorenzo, and the newly-single Wes Lee went to find himself on a beach in something that liberally cribbed from every heartfelt scene in every mid-1990s romcom.
Contrast that to Toni Storm's lot in AEW following the monster pop that greeted her debut on March 30th. The match against The Bunny was a ripper...and she didn't wrestle on Dynamite or Rampage for a month. Her backstage interviews might have been interrupted by other characters, but that hardly separates her from anybody else on the roster does it?
There are many aspects of AEW's presentation where less is very obviously more. This isn't one of them. And with an example such as Storm, there's perhaps further issues at play...