Never watched AEW except for one episode of OSW review and didn't really like what I saw. Haven't really watched wrestling in probably 10 years and never will as long as the current hierarchy is intact.
The good stuff in AEW is really, really good. But then they always follow up a match or segment with Orange Cassidy, the Bucks, old and lame Jericho, "fights" between 98 lb Japanese school girls, etc.
If Smokey Mountain had started in the early 2000's instead of the early 90's it might have stayed in business a lot longer. Maybe even if it held on until the attitude era boom which started the year after they went out of business. The early 90's was a very bad time for all pro wrestling in the states. Even the WWF nearly went out of business.
So have 99% of all the wrestling promoters since the mid 90's. Vince killed the business that's why it has sucked for the last 20 years. WCW,ECW, TNA, ROH and many more all failed. Some of the best wrestling minds all worked for these companies at one time or another and none of them made it.
Do you have the same disdain for all the other wrestling promoters that failed?
I never said he didn't fail. I just gave some what if's that might have kept him in business. Corny is from a time when the wrestling business was still the wrestling business. Vince killed that though and it's never coming back. I don't agree with everything he says but he's right more than he's wrong on actual wrestling. I could care less about today's product. It's beyond hope. I listen to Corny to hear about the old days when Wrestling was still wrestling.
It really is, none of the territories would survive past the mid 90's. But all in all Corny had a great career in the business. He's arguably the #2 manager of all time. One of the best Wrestling historians and has a very successful podcast.
