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The AEW diehards can cope all day about this past Dynamite's ratings debacle, but all the cope in the world doesn't take away from the fact that year-to-year viewership is down over 40% and they struggle to fill house shows. Ever since Punk left (and really, he seemed to be cooling off before he finally left) interest in their product has slowly and steadily fallen. Can they recover?... Sure, but they desperately need an actual booker as opposed to what Tony is... a matchmaker. Anyone can pit Guy A vs Guy B, but there also needs to be a reason to want to watch it besides "work rate" and dangerous, risky highspots. These guys aren't really trying to beat the shit out of each other (and kayfabe is dead), so you need "heat" to allow people to suspend disbelief and enjoy it as if they really were trying to kill each other.

I'd be truly surprised if AEW gets a new TV deal much beyond, dollars wise, the one they already have.
 
I think lowkey one if the worst stipulation matches of all time is the "corner touching" variant of the strap match like you have two guts tied together after presumably a massive blood feud and instead of beating the fuck out of each other you just have them playing fucking red light green light?
 
Kaizer Ghidorah said:
I think lowkey one if the worst stipulation matches of all time is the "corner touching" variant of the strap match like you have two guts tied together after presumably a massive blood feud and instead of beating the fuck out of each other you just have them playing fucking red light green light?
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JBL vs Eddie Guerrero was the best version of that match stipulation, tbh.
 
A lot of "classic" gimmick stipulations kinda suck in terms of building a suspenseful match finish. I might be in the minority, but the Last Man Standing stipulation blows unless it's both of them down for the final count and only one of them stands up. Besides that, what are you doing? A high spot and then you sit around while the Count from Sesame Street counts to ten?

Then there's the Texas Death Match stipulation variant where you have to score a pinfall, and then a LMS style ten count. Get out of here with that nonsense. Cool name for a match stipulation but I've never seen it pulled off.
 
Kaizer Ghidorah said:
Eddie lost hist world title on a fucking technicality hiw is that not the worst shit ever?
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How is the slimy heel only squeaking out a win on a technicality because he's not good enough to beat the baby a bad thing? That's rasslin 101. Makes you hate the heel even more and makes you wanna see the baby get his run back even more than if he lost it legitimately. Especially when the heel, by rasslin standards, is a big nasty bruiser who should be more than capable enough of beating the much smaller baby fair and square.
 
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