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Originally Posted by Ol Dirty Dastard
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This shit is wicked annoying though. We’ll really still leaning on them being a new company? You look at that poster and see a bunch of names in wrestling that have been around for basically the entire 21st century. Also, “nobody” thought they would make it 6 months? You had them claiming they would “change the world.” Dave Meltzer has always championed them as the “winners,” whatever happens. Fanboys talking about how they’re going to kick WWE’s ass. Hell, most critics have said that the Khans have enough money to keep even a disaster running for as long as they want. A very liberal use of the word “shattered” too.
It’s this whole changing of history. As I said earlier, unless your claim is that the business is healthier — or that AEW could possibly challenge WWE head-to-head — then this “achievement” is basically trivia. I put achievement in quotation marks because everyone knows they struck a starved market with a stunt show. It’s sold largely because it’s wrestling in Wembley Stadium. Does anyone doubt that WWF or WCW could have hit something there that did better? Of course not. But wrestling is so hollow right now that doing this to basically put spin on how effective your company isn’t becomes a prerogative and everyone loses their minds exaggerating its significance.