TK wants something more than ratings chasing. Sure, he will still do that once in a while. He wants the wrestling industry to be larger.
ROH was the best American promotion of the 21st century. I’m not talking popularity, obviously. Really shitty things get really popular and then burn out quickly. Quality can last nearly twenty years. The final years were lean, don’t get me wrong. They did have syndication throughout Canada and the USA.
I can see why fans of AEW might feel a bit encumbered with ROH being temporarily amalgamated into the fabric of AEW. I don’t agree with that mindset at all but I can see others only want AEW.
So many of the people who are loudest with their disdain for ROH are also the same who rarely have anything positive about AEW to begin with.
There should at least be some here who welcome ROH because a third of the roster will split from AEW. The roster is bloated for one large promotion with only three hours of cable TV.
I used to have a lot of positive things to say about AEW. I was a big fan of the product until earlier this year and often defended it against criticism on here and elsewhere. Now, the product is absolute dog shit and warrants being regularly bashed for it's consistently terrible quality and illogical, ridiculous booking. ROH is just one of many reasons why AEW is in a complete and utter shit state.
It's breaks my heart in a way, because AEW for a good two and a half years or so felt like the saviour of professional wrestling to me and reignited my previously dying love of it. Now, I'm fast heading back to how I felt around 2018 whereby my passion for the sport as a whole is rapidly disintegrating again.
It's just an illogical, unexciting, directionless, boring clusterfuck and considering how good I thought it once was - not even that long ago - that is highly depressing. To me AEW's gone from WCW 96-98 to WCW 2000 (but worse and far more boring) in the space of about six months.