Dynamite from Day One: October 2, 2019
By Kat Bourne on 14th May 2025
My AEW fandom has been spotty at best. I grew up with WWE and WCW. WWE has been the show with the easiest (legal) access for years, though they’re making it harder lately. I cut the cable cord years ago because all I was doing was DVRing Raw and Simpsons reruns that I wasn’t watching and spending way too much to do it. Hulu had the next day Raw and SmackDown. WWE Network came along and had NXT. I didn’t need to have the USA Network or the various networks SmackDown aired on at my disposal.
AEW came along and caught our interest immediately. They got that TV deal and ended up on TNT, which was very cool. Unfortunately for those of us who cut the cord and didn’t want to pay more to subscribe to Sling or YouTube TV or whatever your choice of internet cable is, we didn’t really have a way to watch it legally. You could watch it on the TNT app, sure, but only if you had cable service to log into the app with. TNT stuff didn’t go to Hulu, so once it aired, that was it.