Why Vince McMahon Doesn't Fear AEW (But SHOULD)

Change impacts everybody differently.

Have you ever worked anywhere that underwent significant changes? Has your experience changed drastically due to your favourite colleagues moving on, or familiar processes or routines suddenly being switched up, or your workstation being switched around by cynically nimble bosses that like to keep you guessing?

If you read any of that with a shiver or a shudder, the chances are you're pretty change averse, and by the way, that's okay. There are corporate training courses to deal with the above and other potential difficulties that can spring from stressful work-related change. But it's a big thing, and it happens.

And mainstream North American wrestling, the discourse around it and the way everybody consumes it has changed. WWE lifers - and your writer is one, but that doesn't translate to blindly enjoying half of the sh*t the show serves up - seem to be struggling the most with this. Many perhaps weren't around for the last wrestling war in the 1990s, or were so tribal and glad to see WCW in the mud that they never imagined they'd have to set phasers to thick as pig-sh*t ever again.

Those that feel like they exist solely on the WWE side of a wrestling turf war in 2021 need - if they’re able - to take the quickest of breaths and try and understand exactly why it is that so many other wrestling fans are indifferent or to (or completely detached from) the product they’re slavishly devoted to. Vince McMahon doesn't want any of this, and that should be reason enough to do it.

No matter how bad those fans think the post-2019 changes have been, taking this approach is the only way to force through some good ones.

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