re: Dark Side Of the Ring: The The Plane Ride From Hell

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Good decision. People who prefer AEW over WWE are like people who say they prefer Triple A baseball over The Show. Triple A is filled with guys who will never be good enough to make it to The Show, guys who were there and proved they didn’t have the staying power, or guys who had it for awhile but they are way past their prime and just want to collect a paycheck.

That’s by far my favorite insult from the Indy boys. “How dare you like the most popular and best sports entertainment company on earth?” “Real wrestling is done exclusively by tiny white guys with the occasional Asian or Mexican sprinkled in!”. “Yes I have showered this month, why do you ask?”

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This is a horrible take. Lets totally ignore WWE's declining television ratings and attendance figures year over year. The only thing keeping them afloat is brand recognition, TV deals, and Saudi blood money.

Just look at how much of WWE's audience is comprised of people over the age of 50

I would even argue that WWE isn't even a wrestling company any longer. Really, they haven't been a wrestling company since the early 80s, but it's more true today than ever. They bring in and push talent just by virtue of the fact that they are big strong muscle men despite their being green as grass in the ring and having no personality whatsoever at the expense of actual wrestling talent.

They train all their talent in the exact same way to wrestle the same generic WWE style. All the wrestlers sound exactly the same because they're all reading the same scripts written by the same people.

They fill their company with business executives and writers who have no clue about the wrestling business and wear it almost like a badge of honor. Many of their writers probably couldn't even name half the wrestlers on the roster.

Purely as an entertainment product, WWE is more popular than AEW same as the NFL blows away both properties, but AEW is a wrestling product. Maybe as a result AEW will never overtake WWE in total viewership, but if I am a wrestling fan, I am watching AEW. If I am a wrestler, working for AEW seems a hell of a lot more fun than working for WWE.

As an AEW talent, I'm free to get myself over. I don't have my promos written for me that I have to read off a script. I can also go wrestle anywhere I want. Want to go to Japan? Sure. Mexico? Sure. Impact Wrestling? Sure. Can't do that in WWE.