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JWeinCom on 13 January 2022
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BasilZero said:
JWeinCom said:

Also a fan of ups and downs. As for WWE holding people back... there's definitely some truth to that (see Karion Cross), but I think it's sometimes a case of what I'll call Snyder Syndrome. Where we always assume that the thing we didn't see would be better than what we actually got. There are some guys obviously victims of shitty booking (again Karrion Cross probably Toni Storm), but a lot of times someone will leave, appear somewhere else, and then I'm like "Oh... maybe that's why WWE didn't do that."

A good example is Moxley. He complained a lot about how the WWE scripted his promos. And, true he was given some awful stuff to say... but now that he is left to his own devices, his promos are kind of meandering and wandering. So, I get why they wanted to script him, even though their scripts blew.  


Yea, the scripts arent something to write home about but I just wish the long term plans were better.

What they did with Moxley at the end was messed up lol - the pooper scooper deal especially lmao

Yeah, I'm definitely not saying WWE was writing good stuff for him. But seeing him in AEW, I can see why they felt he needs a script. Like, I remember his promo when he was going to face Darby Allin. The theme was he wish he could talk Darby Allin out of going into the match so he didn't have to brutalize him, but Darby was like him when he was young, and the only way to make him see reason was to beat it out of him. That's a great concept. But, when he delivered it, he made his point. Then, he made it again. Then he made it a third time. And just to be safe, he circled back to make it a fourth time. So, I can see why WWE felt he needed a script in front of him to function. 

Ideally, they would say "what do you want to talk about here" and then help plan it out, but that's kind of beside the point. My point is that it's often hard to tell whether it's the booking or the wrestler. And the track record of WWE people going to AEW is mixed at best.