GloryHole Stalker
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- Joined
- Dec 29, 2017
I've said this before here, but the first few years of AEW were "OK" at best. They seemed like a fed with promise if they properly built up some stars and shaved off the indie excess. Maybe, several years down the road, they could compete as a viable alternative to the WWE. Then TK started to sign every WWE castoff he could, and he blew what little momentum they had. For those pining for the "good old days" of AEW, when they were in their "prime"?... AEW never had a prime in the traditional sense. If they fold tomorrow, anyone with sense, arguing in good faith, would acknowledge that AEW was a never was... not even a "has been" because they weren't around long enough, and never had enough of a genuine impact on the wrestling scene (beyond a money mark owner throwing around absurd contracts to people that didn't deserve it) to reach the "has been" level, let alone actually compete with the WWE.They've followed the WCW arc but without the major success arc really. Their biggest years were what, 2019 and 2021-2022? And even then it wasn't like 1996-1998 era WCW where it was at the top of the world over WWE except for maybe all of the ex-WWE wrestlers coming in that they don't use well or bury their original talent but even in AEW that was also filled with indie guys who are never going to amount to shit.
But, because of TK's deep pockets (via his daddy) AEW will lurch ahead for as long as the money holds out, likely to continually diminishing returns.