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#4 The changing Wrestling Landscape
In the last two decades since WCW closed down, the wrestling landscape has undergone a massive overhaul.
The first half of the 2000s was mostly about the WWE dominating the entire wrestling business and the emergence of promotions like ROH, TNA, and PWG.
The 2010s was when the business started picking up to a point where independent wrestling became a legitimate alternative to the WWE.
Over the past few years, independent wrestling promotion has witnessed a sudden rise in popularity.
This rise has been due to the quality of wrestling increasing exponentially on the independent circuit where the performers aren't put in shackles and are at liberty to tell the story that they want to inside the squared circle.
Besides, lightning only strikes once and we believe that WCW shutting its shop wasn't necessarily due to the rise of the WWE but rather due to the gross mismanagement that happened backstage in the company during its last stages.
That doesn't seem to the case in AEW and we believe that the promotion is here to stay for years to come.
