>history repeating itself AGAINwhy do they keep making the same mistakes instead of learning?
>>14574129they all thought money was the only thing they needed to beat WWE
>>14574129the cord arent gonna like this
>>14574129>giving creative control to carnies>overpaying for ex wwe shitters>pushing washed up boomers>negative IQ booker
>>14574136>>14574153>>14574158atleast wait for the ratings to insult uswe're gonna get 800k+ and youll look dumb as usual
>>14574183even if the rating is good what's considered good now is so far below what it used to be
>>14574183I love these posts because they always age terribly and AEWtists always pretend they never made them.
>>14574129piggie headcanon
>>14574129Vince had a great head start. He bought a stable company from his dad and had the freedom to go for broke knowing that if he failed he’d probably be able to just go back to where he started. Dixie was an idiot who had no vision, Tony’s vision is autistic, and Eric’s vision was one hot angle. Vince’s money was his own; Dixie’s was her daddy’s, Tony’s is his daddy’s, and Eric’s was Turner’s. Vince had a young Hogan and turned him into an all time earner. Eric had a declining Hogan and milked him until he ran dry. Dixie had old man Hogan. Tony has a bunch of overrated, dimeless indie geeks. And all that is to say that I still think Vince would’ve succeeded with the start the other three mentioned here had more than they did because he understood wrestling better than they did. Vince never took it more seriously than it deserved while understanding what bad television looked like. At his peak, Vince understood the wrestling fan better than anyone else ever had; impotent manbabies who enjoy cartoons and magic shows and know bad TV when they see it.
>>14574129if it was so fuckn easy they wouldnt be makin the same mistakes
>>14574129There's a temptation to sell out hard to whoever's popular at the moment because it gets eyes on your fed, but it doesn't pay off in the long-term because those guys will get old and none of your natural talent will actually be respected. AEW, for some reason, thought that paypigging everyone in Japan was different from TNA paypigging everyone from WWE. It's not. Outside talent is perfectly fine, but you need to actually build the brand and setting of your fed so that not just the wrestlers feel important, but the show itself and the events wrestlers participate in. While WWE was burying an entire generation of wrestlers in the 2000's and 2010's, they were wisely building up their brand, the nostalgia, and the prestige of various accolades. That's why they're basically immortal. Even if WWE somehow went out of business, another company would immediately buy them out and continue using the WWE-branding - AEW would literally rebrand to WWE.
TNA was good in 2005. WCW was good in 1994 before Hogan showed up. AEW has one Cody match.
I think even the biggest haters have to admit that none of them gave us as many 5 star matches as AEW.
>>14576670Unfortunately, Meltzer stars are completely worthless. 5 x 0 is still 0.
>>14576740You can't deny numbers like this.
Can /pw/ be trusted to book a better wrestling promotion? Imagine you have unlimited funds and don't want to hire ex-fed guys. What would you do?Showcase no name nobodies every week who botch? How do you *actually* build a successful wrestling company that rivals WWE with unlimited money?
>>14574129They get caught in a cycle where they need to boost ratings so they go for short term solutions because the longer term solutions would decrease ratings in the short term and they don't think they can afford that
>>14577005>they don't think they can afford thatOr they think they can afford anything, so they think it makes sense to spend a bunch of dosh upfront on some washed wrestler from another fed.
