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Old 02-26-2023, 03:13 AM   #13178
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Originally Posted by Evil Vito View Post
Yeah pretty much all of these people are "spinning wheels" by this point in various stages. Especially Hook.

Hook is admittedly still green but I can't see how he's never going to stop being green if they don't ween him off of one-sided, heavily choreographed matches. Booking-wise it seems AEW are very scared that fans will stop caring about him the second he loses a match. And so he's still on squash duty.

I think they're in a similar boat with Jade. Her win streak is really tarnished when you consider how it's booked. Her only fully easy wins are against non-contract Dark talent. Her first loss is probably still be saved for Kris Stat but again, does it even matter if Jade's consistently shown she needs interference to beat anyone remotely important?

They took a good guiding principle with the "wins and losses matter" stuff and then ended up at a very weird destination with it where they've booked themselves into a corner with undefeated streaks.
That's a consequence of not actually making with any sort of actual card hierarchy or building any other talent to see him square off against. Though I'm primarily talking about Hook, it applies to Jade as well. They're either pounding an endless parade of jobbers and clowns or they would immediately jump to who would be considered main event... with absolutely no road to climb up there. There is no true middle card, ironically making them stuck in the middle card. This would be like if in WCW, you had someone getting weekly wins on WorldWide, but then the "serious" talent on Nitro and such only consisted of guys like Sting or Goldberg or Scott Steiner. There's no Fit Finlays or Dean Malenkos or Filthy Animals to go up against to help climb the card... it's either Roadblock or Macho Man. You can't just jump from "Lightning Foot" Jerry Flynn to DDP and expect to be taken seriously.

Most of AEW's roster consists of nothing but pre-"Purple Rain" Prince Ieukeas and Blitzkreigs.
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