Professional wrestling legend and the former Boss of ECW Paul Heyman who is currently playing the role of the special counsel of the current WWE Universal Champion Roman Reigns recently talked about the progress of AEW. He gave his opinion on what the promotion should focus on.
Since the formation of the promotion, it has been the biggest competitor of WWE; the promotion that has ruled the world of professional wrestling for ages, the promotion that defines professional wrestling.
Paul Heyman Discusses The Progress Of AEW
There are a lot of professional wrestling promotions in the past tried to compete with WWE but ultimately failed. One of the closest opponents of the WWE World WCW back in the 90s. WWE ultimately ended up buying their competition.
But AEW looks to be the strongest opponent of WWE that the promotion has ever faced. From the very first day the newly found that promotion has shown really high prospects. They are the only promotion that has shown the potential of surpassing the fame of WWE.
They have signed some of the biggest names of sports entertainment and their booking them really well. They are producing great shows and some of their shoes are already been compared with the classic shows like WrestleMania X-Seven.
Besides WWE is going through a terrible time period right now. In spite of facing tremendous competition from their newly founded rivals, they are not showing any signs of any kind of improvement. On the other hand, WWE is releasing all of their big names and they are not being able to fill this hiatus either. It is a perfect time for AEW to get the top spot.
Paul Heyman who is currently playing the role of the special counsel of the current WWE Universal Champion Roman Reigns recently spoke to BT Sports’ Ariel Helwani where he talked about the progress of AEW. He gave his opinion on what the promotion should focus on. He said;
“I’m not the audience, so it doesn’t… my personal opinion on their product… if I were to sit here and go, ‘My God, they’re great!’… who cares what I think?,” Heyman said. Helwani said he cares what Heyman thinks as one of the brightest minds in the business and Heyman continued, “But that’s just a personal opinion. They’re not geared towards me and if I sat there and went, ‘Oh my God, they suck, they’re horrible!’… I don’t think they should care about that either.
“It’s like when [UFC President] Dana White gave his opinion of WWE and it wasn’t flattering, and I was asked about it, and my answer was, ‘And? Who gives a fuck?’ I don’t think AEW should give a fuck what I think about them. They should care what the fans think, what their audience and what their potential audience thinks about them.
“Here’s who we have, we need to super-serve them, we need to make them continue to be loyal to us, and we need to expand that base. We need to take that person and lure them in, we need to find people who love WWE and lure them to our tribe, and we need to find people who have never seen sports entertainment/pro wrestling, combat sports, etc., etc., and lure them onto our show, for whatever reason we can justify them coming to pay to see our product. That should be their mission. What Paul Heyman thinks of them should be of no concern to them.”
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