TAFKA Jonny Vegas

I don't think WWE care who goes to AEW and to be honest I don't think they have to. I think they've realised that WWE as a brand will sell out shows all over the world no matter who's on the card. Very few people have or will move one way or the other between AEW and WWE and be a significant "needle mover". Look at the star power of TNA in it's peak, they never even came close to laying a glove on WWE - yet they're still the closest to having done so in nearly 3 decades now. Realistically even if Roman, Brock, Orton, or all 3 at once went to AEW, it wouldn't make any significant difference to either company's numbers, other than wage bills. So if they have the choice of paying a Will Ospreay big money to "jump ship" or just sign some random guy and put them into NXT and see how they do, they'll do that.

I don't watch AEW weekly and barely keep track of going's on with them to be honest. I took my son last year when they were here and I felt like it really dragged in but seeing as he wanted to go again, it is on our door step and tickets were 50% off I took him again. I thought it was a really good. It didn't seem to drag in anywhere near like it did last year. Every segment seemed worthwhile for the build towards the PPV and the matches were enjoyable. I probably wouldn't have bothered watching the PPV on Sunday but as a very casual, lapsed fan the show gave me enough interest in multiple matches that I am now actually looking forward to it. At the bottom of it all, that's the job done isn't it. I've became really bored with WWE, at best I would have watched the 10 minute highlights on YouTube for RAW and SD and then the PPV's however now I'm reduced to just reading results of PPV's on wikipedia or my son telling me about it. I watched Summerslam with him and thought it was shite. I just felt this all seemed really fresh, fun and entertaining. Potentially it's just as it was all relatively fresh for me but I also felt it was really easy to tune into what was going on and what had went on. They do however have far too many champions. It was genuinely hard to keep track of and many of them seem to have very similar names as well where I'm also not entirely sure which ones are presented as more or less prestigious than the others. Edge looks awful. He reminded me a lot of when I was about 19 and was playing football at a decent level still. One of the coaches was an ex pro but in his early 50's and every Saturday night he would turn up for the post match night out dressed in the same style as me and the other young lads. You could tell he thought that we all looked upto him and thought he was one of the lads but the reality is we all just felt a bit sorry for him and his desperate attempt to try and cling onto his youthful exploits.