I prefer AEW as one off shows, they are just too samey to watch regularly for me. WWE has more appeal from one week to the next.
I tought the KO/Orton piledriver thing was fine because everyone involved including the commentary sold it really well and made it feel like a big deal. I think the spot moves in AEW would also be fine if they just lent into this aspect a bit more. Rather than have no real difference in terms of impact from someone backflip piledriving an opponent through a table, and someone being slapped in the face.
I feel like some of the matches in AEW get silly because the wrestlers don't know what to do to make it stand out from the other crazy stuff that happens multiple times a match, and as a result anything that isn't just standard/normal for an AEW match invariably crosses the border into stupid. Where as in WWE a lot of the matches are completely forgettable and give you no reason to have watched them at all, and then the PPV matches are often just wrestlers kicking out of each other's finishers. Or we had two years of the exact same Roman Reigns match over and over.
It seems to become cool to favour one thing or the other but its not 1999 anymore. You can easily watch all of the wrestling so there's no reason to be tribal at all, unless you personally profit from a particular brand. AEW is the first credible alternative to WWE since the Monday night wars really (I know there was TNA for a while but it was short lived and almost exclusively shite). Its better that its there even if only because its forced WWE to improve. Any idea of AEW being a direct/cedible competitor died when they didnt capitalise on having Punk, and even then it was a very long shot. WWE can literally have movie stars headline their PPVs. AEW have people who you might have heard of BECAUSE they were in WWE once.
I tought the KO/Orton piledriver thing was fine because everyone involved including the commentary sold it really well and made it feel like a big deal. I think the spot moves in AEW would also be fine if they just lent into this aspect a bit more. Rather than have no real difference in terms of impact from someone backflip piledriving an opponent through a table, and someone being slapped in the face.
I feel like some of the matches in AEW get silly because the wrestlers don't know what to do to make it stand out from the other crazy stuff that happens multiple times a match, and as a result anything that isn't just standard/normal for an AEW match invariably crosses the border into stupid. Where as in WWE a lot of the matches are completely forgettable and give you no reason to have watched them at all, and then the PPV matches are often just wrestlers kicking out of each other's finishers. Or we had two years of the exact same Roman Reigns match over and over.
It seems to become cool to favour one thing or the other but its not 1999 anymore. You can easily watch all of the wrestling so there's no reason to be tribal at all, unless you personally profit from a particular brand. AEW is the first credible alternative to WWE since the Monday night wars really (I know there was TNA for a while but it was short lived and almost exclusively shite). Its better that its there even if only because its forced WWE to improve. Any idea of AEW being a direct/cedible competitor died when they didnt capitalise on having Punk, and even then it was a very long shot. WWE can literally have movie stars headline their PPVs. AEW have people who you might have heard of BECAUSE they were in WWE once.