Khan signs wrestlers the same way I order food when I'm hungry. Getting too fecking much.
He signs all these big "game-changing" names; Punk, Bryan, Cole, Christian, Andrade, Black, Lee, Jeff, Miro, Joe. Then you have the established big names already there; Jericho, Moxley, MJF, Page, Omega.
How do you use them on one TV show a week at 2 hours long? Rampage doesn't count. It's a joke, it's Sunday Night Heat/Velocity/Main Event. 1 hour long with a handful of nothing matches.
Don't even mention the Youtube shows to me. A 17 match card full of squash matches to pad rankings that don't matter.
The thing is the rankings don't even matter, you look at a show like say Forbidden Door, what did Jay White do to get an AEW title shot?
Dream match or not, fantasy booking or not, if AEW was really going to be this more sports oriented company, then that match, along with the other title matches on that card shouldn't have happened.
It was said that winning and losing would actually mean something in AEW, perhaps that was the intention, but now, honestly, when was the last time on TV, that the rankings were actually brought up, discussed or a graphic on them were shown??
Plus having the female version of WCW's Goldberg is just unbelievably boring, I am talking about the TBS Champion, Jade, I mean where is the peril, where is the intrigue in her matches???
If she is seemingly so good, and she believes in herself so much, then why is she not in the main women's title picture, what more is there for her to do with that belt??
AEW has far too many people, and taking advert breaks out, about what less than two hours a week to try to showcase them all, with proper storylines??
12 titles (I forgot about Pac's title earlier on, such is the sheer number of belts these days now!) (someone please remind me, they introduced the trios titles??????) if you were/are to/including the RoH titles (as where else are you going to showcase them, as the company doesn't have a TV show) is far too many.
Imagine having a ppv with all of them on the line, crazy, and then also booking for the Money in the Bank equivalent the casino chip, plus other non title storylines, it is just an impossibility with such limited TV time.
To get anywhere close to be able to do justice with the amount of titles alone, you would need about 4 or 5 hours a week of TV time (after advert breaks have been taken away), nevermind the whole other roster that they currently have.
They desperately need at the very least two things, 1) make Rampage their version of Smackdown, so make it longer, film it live, and put it on a different day, and not just tacked on to Dynamite.
2) Get all of the RoH stuff away from AEW TV, no matter if they don't have a TV deal yet, the Champions should not be on Dynamite or Rampage.
Only when they do have a TV deal, then the RoH Champions & other associated talent should only appear on that show.
So at the moment, that would mean no Y2J, no Joe, etc, as AEW, should be an AEW show, no muddying the waters with outside talent.
The roster is far too big as it is, to be messing about with non contracted talent, where is Miro for example, why is that random pizza bloke getting more TV time than him??
Tony seems to have far too much on his plate (Fulham, his American football team, RoH, AEW) and boy is it showing, he is spreading himself far too thin.
Where once at the start AEW was fresh, it is now unbelievably stale, repeating story after after story after story (I mean how many times is Starks having the same match, or Matt Hardy and Andrede going to fight over the rights to Private Party?? and these are but just two examples!!)....
Dark Order sad to say, very sadly indeed there is just absolutely no need for them ever since the very sad and untimely death of their leader, keeping them around now is pointless, and they are just there as basically a tribute act these days.
There doesn't seem to be a set of ideas about what AEW is, or what it stands for, and what separates it from WWE.
At the outset it was, "watch these amazing wrestlers, that you can only see in AEW, that have not been on mainstream TV before!!", but now, having seen Matt Hardy v Christian, and Y2J and Daniel Bryan, to mention but just two in WWE not too long ago really (and you can easily if you wanted to, go and watch such matches on the network), where is the difference these days between AEW and WWE.
AEW has fallen into the TNA trap of about 2010 or just before, of becoming a sad parody of itself right now, it is leaderless (as seen by the backstage stuff with Punk, and that pathetic press conference where Tony was just so nodding dog, for all of Vince's faults, and oh boy did he have a lot, he would never have just sat alongside a wrestler and been a nodding dog to them!) and there is no one there it seems to really steady the ship creatively.
Just coughing up some more cash to MJF, is not doing well from a creative standpoint.
It is lazy.
Where once AEW could say that they had the best tag team division, now that certainly isn't the case, that is a mess, it like when TNA had the best cruiserweights, and the X Division was their standout ("it isn't about weight limits, it is about no limits!!") before along came Hogan and that division died a death.
There just isn't anything really going for AEW at the moment, the initial buzz has definitely subsided, and it is now what they wanted to separate themselves from when they originally stated up.
Having a founding member in Cody leave, was a huge blow, no matter how you look at it, that was a massive sign that all was most definitely not right.
Could you imagine say Steph quitting WWE, then turning up in AEW?? No, but that is the equivalent here.
I am not saying that AEW is done for, far from it, but it seems to be in the TNA phase now, where they pushed WWE (with their attempt at a "Monday Night War" revamp or redo), but have been firmly seen off, and are seeing people want to leave, but Tony is saying no, and as such dealing with the issues from that.
It just seems that they don't know what they want to be, nor how to get there.
The next year, maybe two or three will be massive, as they could end up where Impact is right now, if they are not careful, as they are falling into the trap that WCW fell into 9f only pushing older WWE guys at the top of their shows (Mox, Y2J, Bryan, CM Punk, Paige, etc) whilst their younger ones take a backseat, and are not pushed as much.
There are a lot of questions about AEW, and a fair few need to be answered soon, otherwise they really could be in big trouble.
nothing against the guy but seriously ?