AEW Title Tuesday was a slog to get through, and I was watching it mostly commercial free. I did enjoy Cassidy vs Pac though, I could watch those two wrestle forever. I never really liked Darby Allen. I thought the only thing cool about him was being Sting's sidekick, but this crazy, unhinged, arsonist version of him is kind of fun. The Samoa Joe/Hangman segment to start the show was pretty good. Samoa Joe has legit main eventer energy and is a good opponent for Hangman. Overall, NXT was the better watch this week. Frankly, even with its many flaws WWE puts out a better product than AEW. The only time AEW is worth talking about is when they have a pay per view. WWE is better week to week, especially NXT.
AEW is such a mixed bag for me because they have a lot of people I just don't care about. FTR, Kyle Fletcher, Brodie King, Eddie Kingston (fat, slob), Toni Storm (stupid jobber gimmick that shouldn't be the top woman in the division), Don Callis (The poor man's Paul Heyman), Kris Statlander (about as bland and boring as you can be), random luchadors no one gives a fuck about because they are not Fenyx, Penta, or someone with Mysterio for a last name, Mercedes Mone (whose stock has dropped dramatically since leaving WWE), Megan Bayne, Kyle O'Reilly, Adam Cole, Thekla, Julia Hart (her and Brodie are nothing without Malakai and the House of Black gimmick), Sky Blue, 90% of the women's division (I don't care what anyone says AEW's women's division is in the gutter right now and has almost no stars), Roderick Strong, Jon Moxley (please retire) and every member of the Death Riders not named Pac...
Channel changing trash.
On the other hand though we also have Hangman Page, Samoa Joe, Harley Cameron, Pac, Orange Cassidy, Kazuchika Okada, Konosuke Takeshita, Tomohiro Ishi, Katsuyori Shibata, Will Ospreay, Crazy arsonist Darby Allen, Jungle Boy, Mark Brisco, Kenny Omega, The Young Bucks, Swerve Strickland, Willow Nightingale, Christian, Sammy Guevara, Dustin Rhodes (the better of the two brothers), The Hurt Syndicate, MJF, Britt Baker (assuming we ever see her again), Hikaru Shida, Adam Copeland...
Must see stars.
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If AEW trimmed half of the roster their product would be amazing.