WWE Just Exposed AEW's Most Embarrassing Flaw

This isn't another comparison piece. Not strictly anyway. We're a long way removed from facile debates about the two organisations at this point. AEW's been around long enough to be judged entirely fairly and WWE's constant quest to not be a wrestling show renders most likes-for-likes irrelevant anyway.

So the upcoming praise doesn't misrepresent the show, it's important to note that NXT 2.0 still has more holes than five golf courses.

It's absurdly stupid but typically charmlessly so. AEW's Gunn Club are thick idiots that get caught out by their own stupidity, but Brooks Jensen and Josh Briggs are absolutely brain dead and not just because one of them's jacked his cack into an early grave. Orange Cassidy's aloofness masks his smarts and strategy working through All Elite Wrestling's rankings. Wendy Choo's eye-cover masks her eyes, so she can literally go back to sleep. Her strategy now only amounts to joke shop props getting thrown in heel's faces.

And speaking of heels and faces, NXT 2.0 is always all over the shop because the value system is so broken. There are rule-proving exceptions, but AEW seemingly tries to read as many rooms as possible when it comes to sectioning of the goodies and baddies and what exactly they say to make their point. Dan Lambert's aggro wailing has to generate boos otherwise you're vindicating the archaic caterwauling of a c*nt from Twitter, and they've thankfully now corrected to such an extent that Dax Harwood's gotten "fight like an eight year old girl" over as maybe the promo line of the year. Jon Moxley is the best babyface in wrestling because his flaws are on show and part of the same man that carries the world on his shoulders into battle once a week. On 2.0, top babyface Bron Breakker is a college jock bully at his core but by the rules of this universe, he's the g*ddamn future leader of this g*ddamn biznezz, pal. WWE's sinfully boring make-him-sell-for-eight-minutes match structure is regularly abused to try and build sympathy in the contests themselves. Katana Chance and Kayden Carter were infuriating when asked to force fun out of attending music festivals, then scripted as reductive tosspots asking for a title match in what scanned as a heel turn that eventually just...wasn't.

But. But but but, these two women are the exception to the rule in the division at present. Behind the cliches, caricatures and puerile cack talk, something quite remarkable has happened.

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