15 Misconceptions About AEW You Probably Believe

7. “There Are Too Many Botches”

There are plenty of botches in AEW. This is a byproduct of a bold, risky style premised on exciting back-and-forth matches. The intricate sequences and intense pace are ambitious. This sort of thing is bound to happen.

This is reframed by bad faith actors as proof that AEW is populated by poor and reckless wrestlers and governed by a moron who does not care about their safety. This simply isn’t the case.

Here’s the thing: if you exclusively keep up with AEW by following anti-AEW accounts on Twitter, you are going to see the worst of AEW and nothing else. It’s a laughably transparent game - or at least, it would be amusing, if some legitimately deranged folks didn’t buy it at face value. These accounts aren’t named @AFairAssessmentOfAEW. These people openly brand themselves as @TinyConIsEvil.

There’s an embarrassing botch on every single episode of WWE television. Multiply that by at least 10 on Tuesday nights. This is another industry-wide problem, and it isn’t going away. AEW only ran house shows for a brief period before the launch of Collision. At the rate WWE is going, the revenue stream might dry out completely within a few short years.

The muscle memory flow state that a wrestler locks into by working constantly is becoming disrupted. There’s a more worrying trend in play here. Under present conditions, the prospect of a true new generation wrestling genius emerging is very dim.

But it’s Tony Khan’s fault alone, and not something the entire United States scene needs to reckon with.