WWE: Despite a Perceived Feud, They Need AEW to Succeed.

If you ask any big AEW fans, it’s already the next big thing. The tension the new kid on the block and the long titan of the professional wrestling biz is fan created. Much like the divide for DC and Marvel fanatics, fans who feel the need to put the two against each other want their favorite to be the king of the castle. But when it all boils down to it, the two need each other and are closer related than the diehards want to admit.

First, AEW has some of the better former talent from the WWE. Some of the former talent was both headliner talent and up-and-comers both who were scored by the direction of the company and how the talent was to be utilized. That’s the funny thing about wrestling, if you can reel enough of a fan base in, the next big thing is on the horizon.

Even though there are plenty of naysayers how AEW will never catch up to what the WWE is now there’s not much to base that off. Yes, World Wrestling Entertainment has all the budget and production value that years of dedication and fan base has built, they seem leap years ahead of the start up group. But if you rewind the clock back to 1993, and the first ever episode of Monday Night Raw looks awfully familiar to the product AEW is putting out today.

Back then, the WWE had the likes of all the talent in the world. The world that Hulk Hogan and Andre the Giant built was evolving into something major. There also was the up-and-comers who needed to make a push for themselves as well. Back in the early days WWE on television looked like their shows were being taped in abandoned movie theaters and Monday Night Raw would soon become a hit. Their young talent was making a name for themselves too.

Going back to the early days of Raw, longtime fans will remember the young career of the 1-2-3 Kid, who would go on to become WWE legend X-Pac. At the time, Sean Waltman was no better off than the current class of young AEW talent. There were plenty of big names in the then WWF that could put these young guys over and bringing in talent from the WWE will do the AEW brand some good.

Long has the WWE reigned over the profession wrestling world, but that doesn’t mean there’s not room for more. People quickly forget where the WWE came from. WrestleMania built the brand, but Monday Night Raw pushed a broader reach. Right now, AEW is mimicking the early days of Raw but it will be good to push WWE back to their A-game. Despite the fans choosing sides, the rush of smaller brands is great for the industry.

WWE Raw wasn’t built in a day, and their main competitor WCW pushed them to be the best show in the wrestling biz, so if history repeats itself, fan will have to muster the strength to swallow both brands.