There seems to be a fundamental misunderstanding on this sub about the using of WWE wrestlers in AEW. Bringing people in because they were in WWE isn’t LOLTNA. It isn’t turning into TNA and it isn’t negative at all. It’s all about the actual booking.

The end result is still the same ... The Day-One AEW signees that helped build the company and were supposed to be getting shots/wins/programs now get bumped to jobber or Dark status.

It doesnt matter how the debuts left WWE or even if they came from WWE at all, it matters that their exposure elsewhere necessitates they will leapfrog Lucha Bros, Private Party, PAC, QT, Darby, Best Friends, Jurassic Express, Sonny Kiss, etc. etc.

It's already looking pretty crowded with fresh debuts - Brodie Lee, FTR, Cage, Matt Hardy, Lance Archer

... throw in a couple more like Zack Ryder and Rusev .... and you DO get what you had in TNA ... someone elses midcard clogging up your main event.

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