Does AEW LOWER the Value of Their TALENT?

[@LIVEinClownWorld]

Al Snow bringing us the wisdom!

[@MrKajjaGG]

CM Punk was the biggest star in AEW by a massive distance. The company didnt know how to handle having legitimate names coexist with indy dorks. Now dynamite is going back and forth with nxt without him 😂

[@mastrorj68]

The biggest impact CM punk made was his return and literally that was it. After that nobody really cared. And that's not CM punk's fault That's not on him That's on AEW because he's been nothing but impactful since returning to WWE. Aew is where lost WWE talent goes. It was where talent was going when it made sense to go there because Vince McMahon was suffocating the company to the point where AEW was a legit option. But now that Vince is gone and it happened very quickly, AEW is kind of useless and worthless. I don't even think you can call it cutting your teeth in the business at AEW. I think that's where you go to have a stagnant career but get paid to be stagnant and get paid a good amount of money

[@MrKajjaGG]

@mastrorj68 How are those Rampage/collision ratings doing?

[@mastrorj68]

@@MrKajjaGG terrible... Rampage viewership avg in November was 211,000. Saturday night’s episode of EW Collision episode averaged 349,000 viewers - the largest audience total for the show in over a month. In the 18-49 demo, Collision drew a 0.09 rating, which is the same as last week but one of the lower rated shows since September.

[@lesliefarlow5734]

WWE makes you a star but AEW makes you rich

[@Hunkzilla]

Wardlow had potential to be a crossover star and Tony dropped the ball. The guy is goodlooking enough to women ,and he has the physique and aura to appeal to teens and boys as well.

[@constablekennedy7705]

PAUSE

[@lk29392]

Yep agree about Wardlow. Although I will say not sure if he had the ability as talker/promo but everything else was primed to thrust him into their top face after the MJF feud. But no..

[@vonVile]

AEW turns superstars into nobodies and nobodies into never wases.

[@russellcampbell3500]

The worst there is the worst the was and the worst there ever will be.

[@freedom2084]

AEW has increased their wrestlers bank accounts

[@truthhurts131]

That called overpayed

[@capndanpool]

The answer is no the talent does it just fine on their own

[@Mr.Majestic77]

Currently, the biggest stars in AEW is: [1] MJF [2] Bobby Lashley [3] Shelton Benjamin [4] Swerve Strickland [5] Adam Copeland [6] Samoa Joe [7] Jon Moxley [8] Will Ospreay [9] Adam "Hangman" Page [10] Will "Powerhouse" Hobbs.

[@australisborealispolaris477]

And half of them are ex-WWE stars, some of which fizzled out at WWE after a while or were let go from WWE... the best of the best... Edge WAS great all around, but the dude needs to retire (along with Christian, Jericho and Paul Wight).

[@Mr.Majestic77]

@australisborealispolaris477 as ide from the older and established talent at AEW (to include and ROH), younger talent with a huge upside are: [1] MJF [2] *Swerve Strickland [3] Will "Powerhouse" Hobbs [4-5] Marshall & Ross Von Erich [6] Hook [7] Jay White [8] Will Ospreay [9] Kyle Fletcher [10] Nick Wayne [11] Scorpio Sky [12] Brian Cage [13] Josh Woods [14-15] Isaih Kassidy & Marq Quen [16-17] Anthony Bowens & Max Caster [18] Sammy Guevara [19-20] Bishop Kaun & Toa Liona [21-22] Malakai Black & Buddy Matthews (*) Ex-WWE talent.

[@australisborealispolaris477]

@@Mr.Majestic77 I agree with you, those wrestlers have a lot of potential, AEW needs to prop up future talent and do away with the has-beens and WWE rejects. They must go all-in with the new.

[@russellcampbell3500]

​​@@Mr.Majestic77Malakai black and Buddy and Brian Cage are ex WWE also

[@stang93ful]

AND THEY’D ALL BE TEN TIMES BIGGER STARS IF THEY WERE IN WWE! IT IS JUST SIMPLE TRUTH.

[@cartycartoons5594]

Is that a Sega Genesis on al snow's shelf? Based!

[@devicebackup664]

You got very good eye sight

[@standardofexcellence]

As long as it's not sega Saturn or the stuff they did before that

[@SilverBullet77]

I don’t think its the talent. AEW is to cheap when it comes to presentation. Titantron technology. Entrance themes. It’s kind of preschooled.

[@antfrancis9941]

What's this crap with THE SAME pre-recorded MJF sitting in a room mulling over the matches taking place with a smirk on his face & a glass of vino in his hand? This is what their top star is doing? How long is this gonna go on for? & what will the big payoff be (if there any at all or it'll just fall flat like the rest)

[@robertocrodriguez4359]

Imagine thinkin aew is the reason mercedes mone isn't good.... imagine

[@maklame3318]

exactly

[@XRingcutter]

Tanks their value and raises their contract demands. Lose, lose, deal imo!

[@Hunkzilla]

Yes ,AEW is truly like 10 Randy Savage vs Ricky Steamboat matches taking place every night and that can be exhausting to watch.

[@jjalkman1999]

Except Savage/Steamboat had story and psychology. AEW is 10 acrobatic circus shows a night.

[@NJTRAF]

Yes, is the short answer… let’s be honest here, for a SHORT amount of time, peaking in the back end of 2021 to the end of 2022, quite a lot of guys’ value either held its way from WWE or Rose, sometimes a lot, sometimes a little. But from kind of the “Brawl Out” incident of 2022 onwards people started to lose their value. Go back to how hot some people were at that time and look at it now, MJF, Moxley, Omega, Danielson, Jericho etc. it wasn’t long after “Brawl Out” that they started to decline in popularity. Some people, like Swerve, have gotten popular after that, but for the most part that was the beginning of the end for a lot of talent in AEW

[@bolivwx]

I only half agree with Al Snow here. Wrestling is about stars. But you don't need WWE to make you one. Half lacing himself into pessimism isn't doing anybody good. It would help the entire industry out, if WWE and Triple H would knock it off with the paying people and spreading them propaganda against AEW. Cornette, Bischoff.. pathetic.

[@maklame3318]

well they are paid very well. you cant have your cake and eat it too. also most of these wrestlers are just getting exposed in aew rather then aew exposing them

[@standardofexcellence]

I'm eating some cake right now and watching this too

[@analiysanchez9949]

They’re making more money in AEW then wwe would or will ever pay them so why should Moxley, edge,Monet, etc give af?

[@Hunkzilla]

Look at Britt Baker ruthlessly burying Serena Deeb on live tv . SHe has clearly checked out mentally and is now in it for the money.

[@NJTRAF]

Why? Because that’s an “I’m alright, fuck you” attitude that kills the business. They’re making a fortune, but if they don’t care about raising attendances, selling tickets, moving merch and growing the viewing figures, social media engagement etc. then sooner or later they’re gonna lose their TV deal and be relegated to KZbin. Tony Khan won’t keep supporting it financially when that happens, so they should be trying to grow AEW in every metric so that it makes more money as a company and when they all retire, there’s a healthy company for the next generation to work in

[@analiysanchez9949]

@ I agree with you but I was responding to the video by saying they make more money in AEW so why should they care about going back to wwe

[@kpimkpim349]

A case can be made that WWE has tanked Logan Paul's value as well. all of wrestling is dead

[@detmorales9151]

Very true on that the talents that got let go also got devalued by WWE so what is the point 🤔 oh it's for ex WWE guys to crap on AEW and get a paycheck from WWE 💯

[@MrKajjaGG]

sounds like cope tbh. it's this delusional rhetoric that has gotten AEW into the hole they're in. Honestly can't believe people like you still exist, blaming Cornette for everything wrong with your life. It's sad.​@@detmorales9151

[@kpimkpim349]

@detmorales9151 Yeah, it's annoying. They're not wrong the everyone's stock as dropped joining aew but same with wwe. Jade Cargils stock dropped, Shinsuke's stock has dropped, Kairi Sane's stock dropped, CM punks now an after thought that's barely on TV. Cody's is on the decline after being the only recent success story. The anti AEW stuff gets lame and predictable after a while because fundamentally, WWE and AEW are making the same mistakes, but WWE has a high hill to fall from. Al says wwe knows how to make you look like a star but that was his time. Today they can barely present the universal champ Cody better than Al, a mid carder, was presented

[@BrendanFinnagin]

Bro what are you on about??

[@antfrancis9941]

True, but guess what? Tony Khan will pay him triple for 3 months work, taking on orange cassidy, Darby Allin & the big feature will ospreay.

[@standardofexcellence]

Reminds me of mcdickie wrestling game wrestling revolution Wwe is one of the feds and you may or may not have creative control but will be pretty fulfilled While there is a fed called Hollywood who pays you a bunch and stuff but you aren't gonna be happy sooner than later

[@Mr.Majestic77]

Al Snow is putting way too much stock into the current state of the WWE and marking out of that promotion, like he's working on a WWE I.D. contract. The WWE and AEW are two sides of the same coin. Did the WWE make Al Snow a start His gimmick was playing with a toy head or was apart of a watered-downvversion of Midnight Rockers. He was treated with way more respect during his time in ECW and TNA Wrestling.

[@lk29392]

Swerve is the only one that left the WWE world and got a lot better in AEW.

[@pulsarstargrave256]

WrestleMania 3 isn't a good example of the point Al is trying to make. Yes, it was a great match but the feud between Savage and Steamboat was white hot and it developed for weeks on national television on Saturday Night's Main Event!

[@ChiefMichaelPatterson]

DDP WAS FIRST WCW STAR

[@MichellePasewark]

Aew is toxic for talents working there due to complete incompedence of the management. Tonys pre paid hobby for a rich kids fantasy is his talents income. But both are so different on reality scale that tony lacks understanding 🙄 he fails he will not have same outcome that talent would and thats scarey all by its self.😮

[@kingofhuecomundo9394]

You one crazy WWE mark 💯 you do not know what goes on on a wrestling company behind closed doors stop it!!! You are just going along on what paid ex WWE talents are saying

[@mikesanders2500]

Al Snow sounds like he chain smokes 80 cigs a day

[@Bunbunfunfun]

The CM Punk screw up was the beggining of the downfall. AEW makes so many great talents look weak. I agree with Al on this one hundred percent. It even seems as soon as someone gets over they get dropped or booked into oblivion. Wardlow,Starks,and even MJF have been weirdly at there most popular getting booked into different directions that go nowhere. So many other midcards guys too numeous to name here as well. Mid carders sometimes go up the card but not in AEW. I am a big fan of alot of the roster but just cant watch the tv shows.

[@kingofhuecomundo9394]

It's because Punk wasn't allowed to be locker room bleeder like you wanted and HHH promised him that he would make him like a room leader of WWE and give him his WrestleMania moment that he's been wanting for over 12 years 😆 just proves that Punk was bought and worth

[@kreed82]

Lol moxley is the only one that has been helped by his time at aew. He's always a main player and getting the belt.

[@kingofhuecomundo9394]

Of course al snow is going to be talking like this he's getting that WWE Money he is a sellout to the wrestling community 💯

[@RedShogun13]

I have been saying it for a few years now. AEW is a graveyard for star power and potential. In almost every feasible situation if someone goes over there they are devalued.

[@R194st]

Wwe is garbage

[@R194st]

@666dewscented1 just like your mother

[@Hunkzilla]

True,but AEW is far worse

[@BrendanFinnagin]

It’s good hearing from an actual wrestler and not a butthurt fake fighting “writer” who’s mad people want anything to do with him 😂🤦

[@razorramon7573]

@BrendenFinnagin Could you please just shut the hell up?! 🤦‍♂️

[@kingofhuecomundo9394]

Naw Al snow getting the WWE money stop being a fkn mentality ill WWE mark 💯 Russo is the one talking facts

[@kingofhuecomundo9394]

snow is getting WWE money 💯 his opinions do not count or matter

[@BrendanFinnagin]

@ and you know this how???

[@kingofhuecomundo9394]

@@BrendanFinnagin he still under contract

[@Itsahappening]

Comparing the ‘platform’ of a 73 year old company to a 5 year old company is rich.

[@JICNV123]

TNA did a way better job than AEW even before 5 years of existence. They had way less money and didn't start with a TV deal.

[@Hunkzilla]

That is a lame excuse. Khan is a millionaire and has enough money to make AEW rival WWE in every aspect. The problem is that AEW is not a real business and everybody from Tony to the wrestlers themselves have quite a awful work ethic and they dont really put any effort in how they present themselves and the product. Only Moxley,Toni ,Mercedes and Mariah have a work ethic . Everybody else is content with their spots and wont bother improving how they present themselves.

[@angeloroberts2335]

@@JICNV123 TNA started where WCW left off bringing in Sting,Nash and Scott Steiner and Booker T eventually than names like Kurt Angle,Hardy,RVD all came in. AEW started as some American B league version of NJPW. They wanted that type of fanbase so it's showing now.

[@DownfallDarkness]

LOL. Dean Ambrose was dogsh__ compared to Jon Moxley's resume, throughout the indies (DGUSA, FIP, CZW, etc.) into AEW. Y'all are sounding like a bunch of WWE shills; I disagree with this take strongly. Christian Cage is a great example. His value has only INCREASED since departing WWE for AEW, and it's obvious; you guys don't bring him up! WWE is not the be-all/end-all. Never has been, never will be. Pro wrestling has a HEARTBEAT outside of Conglomerate CT. AEW continues to prove that, on a weekly basis.

[@detmorales9151]

Well Eric Bischoff and Al snow are ex WWE guys and still staying loyal for a paycheck 👹 bunch of SELL OUTS it's sad to see how grown men getting paid to lie

[@MrKajjaGG]

Moxley went 6 months straight bleeding every week and still couldn't draw flies to shit.

[@OhhSooSicc]

Having Independent success (indi-rific, matches) vs actually being a mainstream wrestling star aren’t the same ! that’s what they are talking about… story lines and characters are what make stars not only 5 star matches .. that just means they have good matches no substance nothing for a popular audience to sink their teeth into! but people who are AEW diehards seem to have a narrow thought about the business side of wrestling ..

[@vonVile]

AEW having 1 questionable win vs 200+ loses isn't something to brag about.

[@VAANET]

And he beat Danielson for the belt instead of hangman to do what? Beef with OC? BCC is CORNY 😂😂😂