• TagMeInSkipIGotThis@lemmy.nz
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    4 months ago

    Come now, you can’t start a statement with let’s get serious, and then proceed to “billionaire toy collector”.

    Setting aside that part of your critique; WWE’s style isn’t that much slower or safer and because of the significant increase in the number of matches I would wager it tends to average out in the long run anyway. The injury rates for both companies are pretty high. And WWE’s health screening process OK’d CM Punk getting back into the ring where he immediately got injured again so i’m sure Will would have passed it just fine.

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      4 months ago

      Come now, you can’t start a statement with let’s get serious, and then proceed to “billionaire toy collector”.

      I can, I did, and I stand by it. Several signings have stated that WWE didn’t come even close to the offer AEW made, that’s the billionaire part. I have eyes and can say since its inception AEW has hired big or semi-big names used them for a few months and they just disappear or languish somewhere else on the card, you could argue we aren’t owed an explanation when people disappear and that’s true, but even WWE knows to run an injury angle to write people off for a while. So yes, I think it’s acting like a toy collector when AEW hires and then shelves people. We don’t have to agree on it, but it’s my opinion and I stand by it.