8 Problems Nobody Wants To Admit About AEW

5. Dives Bomb

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Again, this isn’t just a case of an old man shouting at the clouds, for dives to the outside can be a purposeful, logical element of a wrestling match. The problem is, when each and every single match features at least one over-the-top-rope dive, those dives kind of lose their importance.

Regardless of what move is being discussed, if everybody is doing the same big spot time and time again, what makes that spot special anymore?

If you go back and rewatch every AEW Dynamite to date, every AEW PPV to date, it’s hard to even find a collective handful of matches that don’t feature some variation of a suicide dive. And this isn’t just something that AEW should be singled out for, for the majority of wrestling promotions these days find themselves in the exact same sticky situation.

An exhilarating, acrobatic dive over the top ropes used to be a show-stealer of a move that would have an audience in awe of what they’ve seen. Now, it’s just a case of ‘meh’ as such moves are bastardised more and more with each passing overusing of them.

Right, back to shouting at those clouds…

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