Let it go, let it go!
By Scott Keith on 27 November 2024
What benefit is there to Tony keeping all this talent who don't want to be there? If he doesn't want to use Ricky Starks, why pick up his option this year and sideline him? Same with Fenix, and other wrestlers he holding hostage like Miro and Danhausen. And why is a large majority of aew fans that cried about WWE doing the same thing ok with it? You had AEW fans tweeting the crown prince about Ali being held hostage, and the FreeAli hastag. They vilified Vince for not letting Miro and FTR go when they asked to be released. Now alot of the same fans are saying “well they signed a contract they should honor it”. And spreading fake news being fed to them by dirtsheets to make talent look bad, like Ricky was hurt or Miro is difficult to work with. Which there has been zero proof of.
Tony should be using this as an opportunity to cut the excess fat weighing AEW down. But instead they have basically become 2018 WWE. A bloated roster with horrible creative, miserable talent, and an ice cold product. Watching FTR get their backs shaved and Roman getting fed dog food doesn't seem so bad after watching two back to back takeover angles bore me to death. Now Tony has escalated things worse by pulling all contracted wrestlers from their GCW bookings because Effy dissed Tony and his dad. Tony has proven time and time again he is too soft for this business.
I would argue the worst thing to ever happen to AEW was signing Danielson, Cole, and Punk. It gave Tony an artificial boost and he got cocky, thinking they were really a serious competitor to WWE. And just like with WCW and TNA, all it did was make WWE step their game up, and now AEW is closer to TNA than WWE as a competitor. The last couple years has really changed Tony, and the way he is treating talent just like Vince did seems like the opposite reason of why he started the company in the first place. Thoughts?
And you think TONY'S the one who's on coke after writing this email?