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StealThisSheen posted...

Just out of curiosity, what were you hoping it'd be?

Something that doesn't feel married to the standard American TV wrestling tropes. There's way too much outside bullshit for me. I don't need pre-match beatdowns or interference. Why is it that Jericho can beat Kenny Omega and Adam Page clean but he needs Jake Hager's help to beat 50-year-old Dustin Rhodes and a guy with his hands taped behind his back? Why do we have to have a ref distraction and low blow as the finish to a throwaway 8-man tag on AEW Dark? It's such lazy booking.

Then you've got the other American wrestling tropes, like the big Cody vignette that played tonight to hype up his challenge against Jericho at a PPV that's still three weeks out when Darby Allin is challenging for the title later in the show. Or like the horrendous camera that cuts every few seconds, particularly when a move lands so they hide as much of the impact as possible, or that constantly shows random crowd members who are rarely if ever even reacting.

Tony Khan was selling this product as no-frills, no-bullshit, and it just hasn't lived up to that. I spent the entire Jericho vs Allin match not caring about anything because I already knew, based on only two weeks of television, that it wasn't going to end without Hager interference. And the whole time I'm just wondering why I'm doing that instead of catching up on one of the half-dozen promotions I'm woefully behind on that don't have all this extra eye-rolling stuff attached to it.
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