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Robbie Marriage's avatar

I'm perhaps the biggest AEW critic on Earth, but I had a similar experience with their Collision program when it first started. I personally cannot watch Dynamite. It's too silly and fake feeling for me most of the time (blowing up a man's house? Seriously?), but when they began the more realistic feeling Collision program, I was hooked from the start.

That era ended. It only lasted about ten weeks, and AEW ran me (and every other fan that gave it a try when CM Punk showed up) off by deliberately and continuously giving the middle finger to us all, but it was the best weekly wrestling show I'd ever seen, and got me into the habit of watching weekly wrestling television shows again. AEW did that, and I have to thank them for it, even if I don't necessarily enjoy their current programming, and have a slight feeling that they don't even want my patronage.

So if even I (a very harsh AEW critic) have something to be grateful to them for, likely everybody in the wrestling world does. You don't have to like the product for that sentence to be true.

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The Pro Wrestling Exuberant's avatar

Great read that really gets across why AEW is special to you on a personal level and hopefully would make any lapsed AEW viewers want to give it a shot again.

For me personally, AEW revitalized my interest in pro wrestling when it came around. I never stopped watching some wrestling on some level since day 1 of discovering it, but AEW made me an immersed fan again and got to me seek out other stuff too.

The direct and vital role AEW played in the emergence of the current golden age of wrestling we're in the middle of now should not be ignored, by even the harshest critics of AEW, or future generations of fans and analysts either.

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