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So let's talk about AEW cause it hasn't gotten much talk in here lately.

I think I'm starting to fall into the Scarlet/Iceman camp of being a bit disillusioned with it. The booking is starting to fall into a lot of the common WWE tropes. The most glaring one is I notice we're getting more and more people randomly popping up in matches, distraction finishes basically. I hate distraction finishes. Joey Janela vs MJF was just a gross affair with Kip Sabian and that girl showing up to make out and do nothing else but make Janela hesitate, but it's been happening more and more often lately.

Now on what may be the more nitpicky end to some, we've got Moxley vs PAC for the number one contendership, with Moxley wrestling the match with literally one eye and still being the winner-- this is WWE main event babyface style tripe at its worst. I realize Moxley vs Jericho is the real money match here and that you don't wanna run heel vs heel on a PPV nor do you wanna turn PAC or Jericho, but PAC vs Jericho to take place, for whatever reason you can make up, before the next PPV as Dynamite filler? I see this being a really good way to kill a couple more weeks between the PPV, and you can always put Moxley back into the picture closer to when the PPV takes place when his eye has healed up-- you don't hurt him at all by saying he can't beat PAC when he's wrestling with one eye. You do however hurt PAC who at one point was at a level where he could credibly wrestle Moxley to a draw. You also remove a potential interesting contender for Moxley's title (assuming he beats Jericho, which he probably should) by putting PAC so clearly beneath him.

Now I realize the story is that PAC was put off is game due to the ship hurting his flying, but I just don't like it-- to be sure I'm not buying PAC as a main event type guy any time soon, and you need more than Jericho and Moxley at your top rung.

I dunno it's just a bit worrying to me. I was really hoping we'd be getting an alternate product throughout. WWE with slightly more competent storylines and better matches isn't really what I was hoping for. A more dynamic product that really uses the whole record thing to change up how feud structuring works is what I was hoping for, and it doesn't really seem to be doing that as we settle more and more into what the card positions are. Did it seem less that way at first because the card hierarchy hadn't settled in yet, or is it just getting lazy as time goes on? I'm not sure.

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