When AEW began its journey six years ago, it showed a lot of promises by signing some of the biggest legends and top stars of the independent promotion. They were showcasing excellent matches and segments, finally, it was looking like that the mighty WWE was going to get a tough competition again.
With time, the promotion grew stronger with more big names like CM Punk joining in. When WWE started adjusting their budget by releasing stars during the covid-19 pandemic, Tony Khan; the owner of AEW signed almost all of them. On the other hand, WWE fans were frustrated with the repetitive product of WWE and a large of fans were also looking for a change.
Rob Van Dam Discusses This Wrestling Legend’s Attempt to Capture the AEW World Title
Despite showing promises at first, AEW slowly started to decline. One of the biggest reason behind this issue is relying on legends, better say older wrestlers on the main event and upper mid card segment rather younger talents. One of the new name that is merging towards the main event scene of the promotion is WWE Hall of Famer Jeff Jarrett.
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Another WWE Hall of Famer Rob van Dam recently talked about Jarrett pursuing for the AEW World title on his "1 of a Kind" podcast. Here is what the former WWE World Champion has to say about it; "Shout out to Jeff Jarrett," said RVD. "That's awesome dude, he's — what is he like 58? Said Rob Van Dam
Rob Van Dam and Jeff Jarrett worked together in various wrestling promotion
“I met him in '90 when I was 19, when I was in USWA, and I just thought of him as already being older, established, I thought of him as being a veteran even though he probably wasn't, but just because he had the — him and Robert Fuller had the Tag Team Championships. They were the big babyfaces everyone night, his daddy, his dad was the promoter, and so he had that number one babyface push kind of position, and because of that, I just thought of him as like already being a veteran and s**t."
Jarrett, 57, is not the first legend who is featuring on the main event scene of AEW. Previously, older wrestlers like Chris Jericho and Christian Cage has also done it. Adam Copeland who is more famous under the ring name Edge is also being pushed as a top star of AEW. To compete with a promotion like WWE, AEW has to focus more on younger wrestlers.
Credit "1 of a Kind"
H/T to Wrestling Inc. for the transcription.
