Kizzle
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I do enjoy AEW tho. They do alot of stuff i like. Their matches while lacking in psychology are FUN. MJF is the best young talent in the game right now.I really can’t think of any examples of this. Could you provide some?
AEW definitely has some smaller midcard feuds, but I consider that a good things and something that WWE is sorely lacking.
They built to that break up for nearly a year focused mostly on the Jack/Christian aspect, but yes, Jack had been the one eating the pins.
Also, prior to Christian managing them, they had achieved nothing of significance. With him, they won gold. Makes sense that Luch would listen to Christian.
They’ve also been selling the fact that Christian is a manipulator.
Why can’t he lose any time soon? I agree the Garcia ROH title win is a little ways off, but right now they’re building dissension by having Guevara take the spot as Jericho’s right hand man and getting a spot in the title match.
They’re even giving Sammy the same matches Garcia had with Danielson.
They’ll probably have Garcia go through Guevara before he gets to Jericho.
Death Triangle formed about two and a half years ago when PAC was feuding with Orange Cassidy and the Best Friends.
To each their own regarding match style, but the three are widely considered to be some of the top in-ring workers in the world.
The Lucha Bros sometimes lose me in their tag matches, but PAC is just all-around great with not only the moves, but the psychology as well.
His matches with OC for the All-Atlantic Title were great for me.
Again, to each their own regarding match styles, but OC is another guy that’s widely respected for his in-ring work.
He’s also not me of the most character driven wrestlers around right now. He just completed a multi-year journey of chasing gold and coming up short just to finally win the big one against a long-time rival.
I think open challenges are a good way to keep a guy active and over while you build to their next real feud.
Ultimately, I don’t think AEW is geared toward you. A lot of their in-ring styles don’t seem to match your taste.
Still, I think you’re underselling their story telling, and I think that’s because you’re a casual fan (your words).
If you’re not watching every week, you’re going to miss some of the long-term storytelling they do.
Many of the stories being sold had subtle seeds planted months ago, and they slowly grew it to the feud we see now. Some of them are surface level, sure, those are the midcard/smaller feuds like WarJoe against The Embassy or The Acclaimed against The Varsity Athletes.
Quite frankly, pro wrestling is a very subjective form of entertainment. AEW provides much more of what I’m looking for than WWE, but I still watch WWE because they have some entertaining stuff, too.
Sami Zayn is the most over guy in wrestling right now, and I watch every week just to see what he does next. I’m also a big Rollins guy.
They’ve rebuilt some characters in a great way recently (Gunther, Sheamus, KO), but they still have the tendency to ignore everything that isn’t the main event. Nothing else is really going on outside of Bloodline/Brutes and Bayley/Bianca (which shouldn’t even still be going since Bayley keeps losing clean).
Just the stories don’t really hit me as good as good WWE stories do. In WWE there’s usually a reason for every feud and things move in a logical manner. You could see a feud start on AEW on August 1st for example and that feud not have a decent profession until months later.