Do you still prefer WWE to AEW?

I feel like AEW is the mid 80s WWF and mid 90s WCW, Tony just keeps doing everything right by wrestling fans, wrestlers and their families and it works! Much like 1980s stars made in the territories went to WWF in the mid 80s and WWF stars went to WCW in the mid 90s, wrestlers are going to AEW because they know it is the best for them.


Vince's brain growth was probably stunted when he was a child when his father left him, he will always think and act like a child, he is an almost 80 year old who still acts like a child. He doesn't care about you or any of his talent. He's the kid in the sandbox who doesn't want to play with anyone else. Anything outside of wrestling he touches fails and yet he seems to hate "wrestling." He is probably resentful his father was in the "wrestling" business and tries to do anything he can to distance himself from it.

I believe AEW will be successful for a long time, not because Tony is the owner but because fans and wrestlers are desperate for a company with an owner that actually loves wrestling. I truly believe AEW is the Home Depot to WWE's Hechinger! And Hechinger went out of business.

Yes.

if you want to say all wrestling is literally sport based entertainment, then congratulations for stating the obvious

if you want to discuss wwe’s intentionally marketed concept of sports entertainment, and how they’ve tried to void wrestling - from terminology to presentation - then that’s a different conversation.

wwe’s ‘sports entertainment’ is certainly a bastardization of pro wrestling, while aew is a return to a pro wrestling presentation.

If you don't know who to vote for between AEW and WWE than you ain't b...........

I watch Raw basically every week. I've been watching WWF sine the early mid 80's. I want Raw to be great like it used to be. Some day it might be. The way things have been going for seemingly so long now though those chances seem less and less.

I don't watch Smackdown. I found that when they do the "draft" it's like bringing a bunch of new people to Raw and actually does freshen things up because a lot of times I have no idea who the people are or what gimmick they've been running. I love when Sheamus has the bar brawler gear on during Raw. Someone pointed out that he'd been wearing that on Smackdown. I had no idea. That was new to me even though it was apparently old. Not watching Smackdown allows for that "newness." At the same time I've also been told if I'm only going to watch one show, it should be Smackdown. 

AEW has become my wrestling company. I know I'm going to get what I want far more often than not. It's not even close at this point.

WWE is action adventure

I haven't watched any WWE since 25th May 2019. I haven't missed a single AEW PPV or an episode of Dynamite or Rampage. In fact, I get excited on Wednesdays and Fridays like I did when I was a child looking forward to WWF.

WWE means nothing to me now. I don't even think about it.

WWE IMO has more matches now than it did during the Attitude Era. People look back at stuff like DX invading Nitro and call it one of the greatest moments in wrestling history but realistically it had nothing to do with wrestling lol.

Wrestling is the battle between good and evil where people settle their differences in the ring. You can't have a match without a story behind it. Wrestling doesn't work like that. 

*sigh* why did this turn into that debate lol. It's also very simple. WWE wants to distance itself from being called pro wrestling and even acknowledging the word wrestling. They prefer sports entertainment. This isn't a mystery, they're very open about it.

Likewise, basically every other company embraces the term pro wrestling, and wants to distance themselves from the idea of being called sports entertainment. They're also all generally very open about this.

Anyone is welcome to sit here spinning their tires trying to label one with the other label, but it's very clear what the companies own perceptions are, and they're not the same thing. Neither of them want to be called the other thing, and want to differentiate themselves from the other type of product.