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170. I just googled how big is the AEW roster and the first result on Google tells me there are

over 170 people on that roster. Now technically that does include the likes of

on air, talent and managers and whatnot, but even if you take away 30, 40 or 50 people to accommodate

for something like that, it is still a preposterously large roster for a TV show that can only be

represented by three hours of television a week to casual fans. It's something that has bothered

me for quite some time what we're about to talk about here and it's bothered someone who's so

talented, they wrote an entire book about AEW becoming only the rise of AEW, written by Michael

Sidwick and available on Amazon right now. We hold AEW here at what culture to a higher standard

than WWE. I'm not going to sit here and compare roster sizes with Raw or Smackdown or the whole of

WWE or anything like that because I don't think it's fair to compare the two because I think

AEW is probably generally in most areas better than WWE. Hence why when we criticise them,

it's not because they are getting worse than the company that's kind of lost its way over the

last few years. It's because we know what they are capable of achieving because of the first few

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