[Dave Meltzer via WOR] People within AEW frustrated at Tony Khan’s decision to air the CM Punk/Jack Perry footage. Many feel like the company just has to move on.
[Dave Meltzer via WOR] People within AEW frustrated at Tony Khan’s decision to air the CM Punk/Jack Perry footage. Many feel like the company just has to move on.
Source: WON, Common Sense.
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This was honestly my last straw with AEW. I had felt for awhile that the variety early AEW had (Young Bucks indie, Lucha bros Lucha Libre, Omega DDT/NJPW influence, Mox's hardcore, Jericho/Cody's WWE influence) was done with a single unified vision, with everyone putting ego's aside to make something bigger then the sum of it's parts. An AEW roster that was so respectful that Brodie Lee's illness was never leaked to the press.
I honestly can't say that the reactionary AEW has me gripped like the early AEW that was interested in long form storytelling. And one with a roster so divided you can feel dissension within the roster. I don't want backstage drama to be the basis of ongoing storytelling, that's not an interesting story. I want to see the show working like a well oiled machine. It honestly makes me uncomfortable watching AEW as it is currently.
I thought AEW purpose was to change the wrestling industry not succumb to it.
I think a big problem is objective value over culture fit.
Punk may have been a big name and high value, but I remember wondering back then if it was worth derailing Hangman' story over a nostalgia act (I wasn't into wrestling back when Punk was a big deal) instead of focussing on the emotional core of the main event scene and properly using the momentum behind him.
The reality is that some people have too much of an ego to be good team players and should not be picked up even if they're big names.
I work at a company where our hiring philosophy is absolutely geared towards culture fit over performance, and it has worked for us tremendously, and we just develop software, trust isn't all that important yet we have it in spades. Meanwhile in a business where people risk death or injury regularly they seem to go with skill over fit most of the time. Baffling really, especially in the age of social media where a modicum of skill and some savvy can carry anyone to great heights.
I mean one of the breakout stars of Joshi of late is a girl whose gimmick is being rude and having a big head, everything is possible.