1. La consolidación de AEW como alternativa durante la crisis.
Muchos aficionados coinciden en que la pandemia, a pesar de los desafíos, permitió a AEW estabilizarse y demostrar su capacidad de supervivencia apenas meses después de su debut televisivo.
- I will die on this hill the pandemic happening when it did helped aew stabilize during what would have been a very volatile period for them otherwise.
- I dont think aew gets enough credit for surviving through the pandemic which began 6 months after the first dynamite.
- It was rough but they course corrected quickly and 2020 aew was must watch tv. They had the best wrestling show on tv hands down.
2. El wrestling como refugio para la salud mental.
Para una gran parte de la audiencia, las transmisiones semanales sin público se convirtieron en un pilar fundamental para sobrellevar el aislamiento y la depresión durante el confinamiento.
- Aew during the pandemic was a huge corner stone for me. From something as simple as knowing what day if the week it was, to having a fantastic circle on twitter to shoot the shit with whilst it was on.
- It helped me during the pandemic when i was suffering from depression. Aew gave me comfort and a fun escape.
- Omg i started watching aew right before the pandemic and i always say it was one of the best mental health choices ive ever made.
3. Innovación creativa y el auge de las luchas cinemáticas.
La ausencia de arenas llenas obligó a las empresas a experimentar con formatos pregrabados y escenarios no convencionales, creando momentos que hoy se consideran de culto.
- The cinematic matches of the pandemic were what got it rolling. Some wrestling fans who dont watch anything else assumed they were on par with big budget action movies.
- While i get the circumstances behind the change, i think that when wwe had those lockdown shows early pandemic, they did some really creative matches. The firefly funhouse mania match between cena and bray was an incredible standout.
- Stadium stampede was this breath of fresh air just plain joy i needed in my wrestling fandom during the pandemic.
4. Críticas a las políticas laborales y despidos masivos.
El documento refleja un fuerte descontento hacia WWE por la liberación de talentos durante la crisis sanitaria, contrastándolo con la política de retención de otras empresas.
- I stopped watching wwe actively in 2020 when they started firing people during the pandemic in order to save money and literally the only thing i miss about it is the royal rumble.
- I love the pandemic era aew, it honestly made me respect tk so much for not doing mass firings like wwe did.
- My personal breaking point was after they hired in mass, wrestlers, just to keep them from aew just to release them when the pandemic hit knowing they couldnt get work.
5. La atmósfera única de Daily's Place y el Thunderdome.
La estética de la "era de la pandemia", con luchadores en ringside haciendo de público y el uso de tecnología para simular audiencias, es recordada como un periodo surrealista pero distintivo.
- The pandemic era of wrestling seems like a whole damn fever dream. From the empty arenas of wwe, to lower card workers not actively wrestling that show being the audience in aew, the thunderdome, the dalys place residency.
- I loved the environment they created with the other talent at ringside.
- Those weekly shows at dalys place were a lot of peoples saving grace during the pandemic thats why im so forgiving of moxs stuff now.
6. Figuras clave que sostuvieron la industria.
Ciertos luchadores son destacados por los fanáticos como los "héroes" que cargaron con el peso de las empresas cuando el mundo se detuvo.
- Jon moxley puts aew on his back whenever asked. He did it during pandemic. He did it during the phil phiasco. He did it when everybody was writing off aew.
- The otc turned heel during the pandemic era and established his tribal chief character, which took his popularity to a whole new level.
- Bayley was key to the much maligned pandemic era, and has been a stable performer for them for many years.