How AEW Collision Will SOLVE Wrestling's Biggest Problem
AEW Collision will give Tony Khan the perfect opportunity to rectify THIS huge problem.
With AEW seemingly to expand its TV presence with the launch of AEW Collision next month, such an expansion brings with it an opportunity for growth, for change, and for offering a potential solution to certain problems within Tony Khan's promotion.
Of course, Collision is expected to usher in the return of CM Punk, which in itself would give AEW a major shot of star power. Yes, the Second City Saint is forever an opinion-splitting figure, but even the Punk haters cannot argue that the Chicagoan is a true main event act who brings more eyes to whatever he's involved in.
For AEW, if Punk does indeed make his return - a return that once looked like an impossibility - on Collision's premiere, the hope will be that the Voice of the Voiceless' presence will have the same sort of impact it had for his company debut on Rampage's famed First Dance offering; a debut that set record ratings for AEW's secondary show.
As well as facilitating the return of CM Punk, though, AEW Collision also has the potential to deal with one of All Elite Wrestling's other lingering issues. With that in mind, then, here's how this upcoming new Saturday show can help to solve AEW's biggest problem.
6. How Did We Get Here?
Upon launching in 2019, All Elite Wrestling obviously had to deal with the fact that the majority of the industry's true top tier players were contracted to other promotions.
Sure, this meant that mainstream star power was largely lacking once you took Chris Jericho and possibly the Elite out of the equation, but the silver lining of this was that AEW could shine a spotlight on the stars of tomorrow who had yet to be given a real chance by a WWE, a NJPW, or even an IMPACT Wrestling.
As such, Tony Khan and his crew scoured the independent and international scenes to sign up talents who had the potential to step up from relatively unknown indy darlings to become mainstays on a globally broadcast wrestling product. Names such as MJF and Darby Allin had mild experience of TV wrestling due to their time with a promotion like MLW, but so many of the initial AEW roster had zero experience of working in such an environment.
The point being, it was very much a 'learning on the job' time during the early days of AEW for so many of the grapplers contracted to Khan's company. Likewise, there was understandably a level of 'learning on the job' for TK himself, as reflected by how many talents were being signed by AEW in an almost trial and error type of experiment.