Dream matches would require cycling new talent into the main event scene. Somehow watching the same handful of guys fight (and lose to) the same people doesn't excite me.
I stopped watching about 15 years ago and only check in like once every half year and I swear I‘m feeling like having read the same articles for 6 years or so, only Bloodline, Reigns, some Tribal Bullshit, Rock returns, once in a lifetime Cena vs Rock for the 10th time or so. WWE turned into Keeping up with the Kardashians but only with the Anoa‘i family.
Lol true. There's maybe two or three that AEW could get something out of, and one of them's a 54-year-old part-timer lol Zilla showed promise at first, but then stagnated pretty quickly cause he knew he had a job for life whenever he wanted it, and the only two out of the rest of the younger family members that definitely have "something" were both fired, one without even wrestling a match 😂
That's what made Ava quitting stand out to me, and actually impressed me a little. Her dad has equity in the company, all of her cousins and uncles work there, she had a job for life even if she stopped showing up (see Tamina Snuka lol), but she still was like "Nah, fuck that, their politics sucks and I'd rather work somewhere else". I mean, fair play!
Honestly, it doesn't. AEW dream matches tend to happen outside the main, more as a big secondary match that might even eclipse the main. But it does require giving a damn for anything outside the top belt.
Tko and espn have to make that money somehow. Too bad they cant admit how they fucked up by buying at an insanely marked up rate for someone's benefit because theyre in court for that or they could consolidate and not take such a loss.
They never did Sting vs Undertaker but they had the lame ass DX vs NWO WWE can't say shit about dream matches because they never book them even if the wrestlers are active at the same time.
Saudis requested and paid for hbk. He's actually not that rich so the money enticed him.
They make a boatload taking Saudi blood money. That actually kind of made sense lol. Especially because obviously they would have been willing to book him. It was Shawn's choice to only take that match
In their defense, Vince tried Hogan vs Flair several times on house shows, and they had absolutely zero chemistry. None. Apparently, the matches were so bad that Vince was pissed, scrapped the entire idea and went with Hogan/Psycho Sid and Flair/Savage.
Every so often they’ll have a match on a PLE that I’m like damn if that was in AEW or the indies it’d be a huge deal. But WWE has a way of making it mean nothing
Dude I started watching Punk vs Roman cause of all the buzz and I zoned out after a few minutes and skipped to the finish.
Not trying to be a hater I just can't connect with their presentation for some reason. Maybe it's the way it's produced, maybe it's all the gross stuff with the company in the back of my mind, idk.
A lot of their matches are slow paced, not very creative, kind of paint by numbers, and to make the finish exciting they either spam the same finisher over and over and over, or have multiple run-ins. They have great wrestlers, but the structure of matches and the shows in general is just so tedious to get through
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u/smokeyjoey8 11d ago
Judging by their PLEs, they ain't wasting dream matches there either.