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If wrestlers get say 40% of their income from NJPW, ROH, etc, that's roughly speaking 40% of time AEW will not be able to use them. AEW will not be able to work around it by synching tapings up to cater to everybody's individual schedule. They'll be ******* lying if they claim that. It's impossible. The Wire, The Sopranos, Game of Thrones, etc. Imagine if the major actors in those ****** off in the middle of everything to be on other shows. It's a nightmare to write around. AEW would be lesser for it.
And if they need to work around people and other fed's schedules, then they're really just another indy fed with good funding.
They'll have their core guys and their regulars, but it makes it hard to really establish anything long-term story-wise, when half the roster's availability is up in the air from month to month.
And if you're then just presenting a series of matches without story and stakes, you're really limiting your appeal to the existing wrestling fan who like or can appreciate a match for the art of it, without rhyme or reason or context, rather than "changing the game" and expanding the genre, as they claim they want to do.