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No_Name_Needed on 27 August 2022
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JWeinCom said:
No_Name_Needed said:

This is the thing that struck me, and I glad I'm not alone in seeing it. WWE is now booking and storytelling very similar to AEW, even including a higher emphasis on longer match times per show.

I can't help but find it funny how the people who crapped on AEW (on twitter, wrestling sites, and elsewhere) for this, claiming casuals don't want this in a wrestling show, are now loving it being done in the WWE. Don't get me wrong I'm not saying the WWE should not improve their product, but I always find the fanboy hypocrisy hilarious.

Regardless if this can lead to a stronger industry, something close to what we saw during the Monday Night Wars, great. Competition is good in any industry.

:-/ People jump on me if I breathe wrong in AEW's direction, but it took two posts to turn this into an AEW vs WWE thing.

I'll just speak for myself. But yeah, the booking style is more similar to AEW than Vince's booking style, which as pointed out should be expected, as that's the way HHH booked NXT. And, WWE fans (or at least the internet ones) loved H's NXT, so it shouldn't be surprising that they are praising this. 

This just feels like a strawman argument. Don't think many people really were saying everything AEW does is wrong, and I especially don't recall WWE fans reasoning for not liking WWE that there was too much wrestling. My impression is that a lot of WWE fans had been looking for that for a while. It's just that they, myself included, didn't find the way AEW built to those matches, the matches themselves, or the talent themselves to be compelling enough to watch regularly.

I could go into detail about why I like the stuff WWE is doing now and not what AEW has done (based on what I've seen which hasn't been much recently), if we want to go there. But, I really wasn't intending to start that. Was just getting excited about what WWE is doing and wanted to post about that. So, maybe better just to leave AEW out of it, and if you want to talk about what they're doing, do so separately. But, again, if you really want to go there, I can.

Dude I wasn't referring to you with my comment at all. There is a reason I said twitter, wrestling websites, and elsewhere. I never ever directed my comment at you or even attempted to do so. If we had an exchange in the past, that was the past I don't know why you need to flip out when my comment was not directed at you (not even indirectly). My comment was a general statement on peoples reaction to the WWE's current booking, not an attack on you. Just relax man, geez.