“You can’t be half a gangster, Nucky.” -Jimmy Darmody
Tony Khan’s misguided and aggressive comments towards the AEW fanbase is the inevitable result of AEW’s scattered ice cream flavors direction.
I tried to warn you.
I identified the shift around March. I was told I was insane, I was told I was overreacting, I was told I was seeing things that weren’t there. I was told the problem was me.
Nobody even bothers to deny anymore that AEW barely resembles the rebellious challenger brand it used to be after months of awful and painfully unfunny Brochacho pretapes, Wheelchair Roddy’s screeching, stuffed giraffes, people watching backstage monitors at absurd angles, WWE-style distraction finishes in which heels are paralyzed by entrance music, Kangaroo Kicks, and other assorted WWE-style camp and production ticks. It all peaked with this past weekend’s Full Gear, with the show-long overbooked, uncreative, illogical, and derivative MJF storyline and the utterly putrid and embarrassing Timeless Toni vs Hikaru Shida match.
Make no mistake, this is no longer the brash alternative that smashed thrones and provided something different in the marketplace. I don’t know who could possibly still need to hear this, but AEW is no longer a wrestling promotion. AEW is now firmly and squarely the sports entertainment it used to mock.
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