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Originally Posted by PJo336
So is AEW any good? I haven’t had cable in years but I’m in a hotel and there were like 30 ads for it. Making it look decently entertaining as well
It's alright. It has some positive things and some negative ones and what you're into/sick of wrestling wise will determine if you like it.
The positives for me:
- Tag team action is given a lot of feature. They aren't just random pairings having matches for the sake of killing time like WWE and they have more than two teams actively doing things at once.
- Stables are a thing similar to NJPW. In WWE you might have a stable but it's usually just one stable at a time running amok for a storyline and limited to 3-4 people. In AEW, stables are more just like a group of people that work together. There's the Inner Circle, the Elite, and the Dark Order and they can have a lot of members.
The negatives for me:
- They are banking on 90s nostalgia. The champion is 50 year old Chris Jericho. JR and Schiavone are the announcers and they are pretty yikes. JR, much like his time doing NJPW, doesn't even learn peoples names for the show. He repeatedly called one person the wrong thing all match and spent another section repeatedly asking who was in the ring because he didn't know who they were. Their production looks like late 90s WCW. It's a big turn off for me because I've been over the "remember when wrestling was popular!?" nostalgia stuff for a long time and I've been over the "super old guy that you remember from the 90s is champion" even longer. Jericho worked at midcard champion and henchman to the actual champion but he just doesn't do it for me as THE GUY. Especially when you watch the matches and he's slow, out of shape, and gassed.
- The roster is thin and a significant section of it shouldn't be on weekly tv. The last title match was Jericho vs Jungle Boy, which lets you know how thin the roster is. They finished the match with Cody and are eventually going to go to pac/ambrose/omega but they have nothing believable after that. Their episode a couple weeks ago got a lot of focus on this as the guys doing a beat down angle just looked horrible with their punches making shane o mac look like iron mike.
- Their booking is pretty rough. Metlzer referred to it as "00s wcw esque" a few weeks ago.
My suggestion: find a stream one night and just watch it and see what you think.