Is AWU already the best wrestling promotion ever? I mean, I would say so, but I'm just one man. Look, it's far from perfect. Dynamite, even at its seminal peak, is too rushed and formulaic as a TV show. It's also, and this is deeply unfortunate, given the early sports-oriented messaging, a little bit too silly and trivial. The various crimes, the wacky angles that invariably use pathetic, fake props, the consistent

failure of the self-indulgent commentary team to be believably self-serious or various

emotion-driven angles, AW does sometimes feel like it isn't proper, if that's the word.

AW can also be accused of living down to its reputation as a company that exists solely to

put on the quote-unquote best matches.

You'd be a bad faith operator to accuse AW of not telling stories, but there are relentless

all-star eight-man tags, overused plunder, collision in general, it's pure critical acclaim

doping at times. Now, you could easily argue that New Japan Pro Wrestling embarked on a single

classic era, the 2011-2019 resurgence and US expansion.

There was superior to and has outlasted AW's entire existence to this point, and that's without

factoring in the promotions massively popular 90s heyday.

If using objective commercial measurements, obviously WWE is the best literal promotion,

ECW was far more creative and influential.

Jim Crockett promotions almost perfected the trifector of great pro wrestling, matches, angles,

and promos, and its best stuff was so believable and soulful that it withstands times test

better than any promotion of yore. If you think about what makes a great promotion across

every category, though, well, A.W might still have peaked

higher than any other competitor. I'm Scott from Whatculture.com, and these are 12 times

AW was better than literally everything. Number 12, the Kenny Omega versus Hangman Page storyline.

Traditional pro wrestling heat barely exists, which is less than ideal. The mainstream US scene

is still modeled to chase an unrecoverable

emotion. I mean, when was the last time you earnestly felt moved by the conduct of a heel

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