It’s that’s classic ‘ha look how we’ve owned the hardcore fan’ said by someone at a WWE event who has paid a small fortune for it and gets about 90 mins of actual in ring action. And never at any point realising who is being laughed at.
They also don’t need super long reigns either, it’s all getting a bit WM with one title change a year. If Ospreay had the classic neck surgery, it’ll be amazing if he’s back much before All In so the draw could be his return match. Then you have Darby win at Double or Nothing or FD.
Let’s remember Seth Rollins took Rey’s eye out about 4 years, and Rey was also thrown off a building that year. Heck WWE had a ‘don’t try this at home’ message for how many years? ‘But what if kids tried this? They shouldn’t try any of it!
Shafir, I’d agree with. I’d say jury is out on Pac and Claudio, they’re seen as mid carders. Yuta is seen as a lackey, Garcia a bit but should be elevated. I’d say Garcia or Kidd make the most sense, the others don’t feel right the way they’ve been booked.
If Darby is to ever win the World Title, he has to beat MJF. You could argue MJF beats Page at Full Gear, albeit I don’t really like that story (unless there’s some big turn or something major to make it happen, like he joins up with Callis). But Darby beating MJF has history and depth.
Hhmm I’m not sure that’s evidence of AEW elevating people. The doing it would be the elevating, let’s wait for it to happen first. And then once it happens, keeping them there and not just having Mox destroy them immediately.
It would be a great opportunity for Garcia to step up but they haven’t really set it up like that. Feels like he could have been the guy to take them back to their roots and elevates him too. But he hasn’t really done much since joining.
To be fair, the next step in this should be them turning on Moxley because he keeps quitting. That’s how he lost the title, that’s what happened last night. Darby needs something big to move into (maybe Fletcher?) and Death Riders need to turn on Mox. Kids would be ideal, or Garcia to elevate.
It’s a bit of an excuse though? And I don’t think they save everything for the PPV but they feel thrown together a lot of the time. Which suggests there isn’t much of a long term plan or working backwards from the PPV. I’ll give them an out because of all the injuries…buts is a common trend.
It’s just the wider feeling that a lot of things are being thrown together with little long term thought at the moment. And with a lot of big injuries I get that, but at some point a new long term plan would be good to see.
There was a hilarious bit where Hangman and Omega reunited…then haven’t interacted since whilst both highlighting they haven’t got any friends or can trust anyone. 🤷♂️
It also gives them a huge excuse though. ‘Oh we’ve had to make so many changes with all these injuries’ I’m not sure if Ospreay, Swerve, Omega weren’t out that the doled run and him playing second fiddle to Darby/Mox wouldn’t have happened. If anything it would be more noticeable.
That would be my story. Have The Opps beat them on Dynamite, Joe choking out MVP, and he realises they need fresh blood. He stays as manager but they bring in a new younger member. Keeps them in six man tags, freshens them up, makes them more versatile, younger.
Plus there’s the hall of fame, playing in some big stadiums for one last time, the merch etc. He’s 55 next month, he’s probably got a year or two at best and AEW should be targeting younger guys for top talent (it should be a big difference compared to top of the WWE card where everyone’s over 40)
It’ll be good, they always are but nothing has me compelled. Be curious to see how it does on PPV. You’d like to hope that high standard is what sells it as it’s lacking in star power.
