MVP of West Hollywd
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What you consider good, the casual fan might not. AEW has it's core fanbase, and is struggling to attract anything more
Put it this way. I'm not an MMA fan. My favorite MMA match is when Holly Holm *Danielson voice* kicked Ronda Rousey's f***ing head in. I looked up on google what the best UFC match of 2015 was and the article said a fight between welterweights Robbie Lawler and Rory Macdonald. I don't know who those guys are, but if I watched it at the time, I probably wouldn't have enjoyed it as much as the Rousey match. I liked that much because it had a star, a major upset (like -1000 odds) is fun, and I loved the storyline that Rousey's arrogance brought her down thinking she could box with a specialist in that area. My 2nd favorite MMA match is when Lesnar got destroyed by Velasquez.
When AEW does a technically perfect match like Ospraey vs Takeshita it's like Lawler vs Macdonald to some of the wrestling fans. To make me feel like I did after watching Rousey vs Holm you need people that feel like stars, that feel built up enough that when they lose it's surprising, etc. Those are the type of people who can make the person who orders 1 AEW PPV a year interested or catches Dynamite cause they were flipping channels. It's weird because it feels like wrestling is something you're either hardcore about or are a "you know it's fake, right?" thing but I think there are a lot of casual fans. AEW is just not as good at appealing to them. The 30 minute Meltzer jerk off matches just make the already hardcore fans happy and give it good reviews on the internet.
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