Things AEW needs:
1.) More Queer Talent: You hired Nyla Rose and Sonny Kiss, which is dope af. But Sonny is shuffled away on AEW Dark, so what are we doing? EFFY. Jamie Senegal. Candy Lee. There, there's three names for you just to start--you can get more. Mercedes should've been on the roster for sure.
2.) More People of Color: Not enough credit is given to Proud and Powerful and Private Party, but then lately they've been kinda pushed into the background. Even now when we talk about signings, we're looking for: The Revival, Brodie Lee, Matt Hardy, and an already signed Lance Archer. Five more straight white dudes. And I mean, I want 'em all at the company--they're all dope as fuck. But also, there's got to be a few other lucha libre wrestlers you could get, maybe a black guy who can do singles wrestling, and so on.
3.) More Women: Cody asked should they add a women's tag title or a midcard title first. The correct answer is a women's tag title, but they need a division first. They've got 10 full time women. They've got like, nearly 50 men. It's not out of line to say they need to at least double the number of women working there full time. Like, I love Bea and Jamie and Yuka but...they're rarely ever there. Stop telling me "NXT got them all", 'cause that's not even accurate.
3.) More Titles: Cody was right, but we still need more titles. People like the stripped down amount of titles AEW has, but that shit ain't realistic. Real spots have a billion titles. Minimum they need 2, but they could do 3 or 4 titles even. Women's tag, a midcard, a trios title, and a women's midcard title. These are contingent on building up the company, but still.
4.) A Tournament: These just spice things up. I'd love to see something along the lines of the 5 Star Grand Prix. It's like a mini G1, where instead of 9 wrestlers in two blocks for 30 minutes per match, it's 7 wrestlers in two blocks for 15 minutes per match. To keep a Western audience's attention, I'd say 5 wrestlers in two blocks for 15 minutes per match. There's something about getting to see the ups, the downs of a round robin tournament.
5.) A Second Show To Make All This Stuff Work: All the stuff I mentioned requires the one thing AEW doesn't have. Their shows are densely packed--you can cut maybe a segment here or there but mostly they're optimizing a show that's already hitting everything every week. I was thinking they didn't need more than Dark + AEW, but I was wrong. The only real question is do people want to watch two shows, because they could certainly have enough talent and content to make it work.
