Gentlemen's Wrestling Podcast #139: What is next for Will Ospreay and AEW's main event picture?

And if you are a guy on the roster or a woman on the roster, like you can, you can kind of improve at a steady rate and have value, but immediately find yourself in a much more competitive situation because so much talent gets acquired.

And when talent comes in, they naturally feel hotter.

So they kind of like have this momentum.

And then all of a sudden there's booking plans are changed because, Oh, we got to put the title on this guy because he became available.

And does change the, it becomes so difficult.

I was, I was thinking about this today, um, because unfortunately the news about, uh, Andy Williams, the butcher, uh, passing away.

And I think, you know, when he first got signed to AW, they had a very, uh, you know, Spartan roster in terms of established talent.

They needed, you know, tag team wrestling support and they wanted to get some tag teams in there and they brought in the butcher and the blade and they were a, a rock solid, uh, you know, mid-card tag team that could lose.

But as AEW went on, more and more people became signed.

You sign these people for money, you feel like you've got to push them.

And a team like Butch and the Blade, who were important, become expendable.

And that's just kind of what happens.

And I don't think it's really anyone's fault, but it is what happens to people's careers.

And I think that's true for a lot of people in AEW.

If you have a wrestler in AEW who you feel like has not reached their potential in AEW, it's probably because there's a bunch of different reasons.

But one of the main reasons is that there's just a bunch of talent got signed and became a lot more competitive to get over.

like they thought that jack perry and sammy guevara were going to be top main event stars for them and future world champions and all that kind of stuff and what happened they signed a bunch of other people that were way better than them and then you know like okay 2019 sammy guevara could yeah maybe he could be one day aw champion a few years later you're signing will osprey and you're like uh you know obviously we're not gonna push sammy guevara instead of will osprey and like that's just what happens in aw and i think you you raise a good point about terms like when these you know like when Hangman gets the belt for the first time and all this stuff kind of changes fast.

And it's, I think, an under-discussed aspect of the company and kind of how people's careers shake out because AEW has been so aggressive in acquiring talent.

And in that time, it wasn't just, like, the talent landscape that changed.

Like, politically, the whole company changed, you know, in a very short period of time.

Like, the whole company changed politically.

Well, the company

changed because of the talent.

The political climate changed because the talent changed, too.

Yeah, exactly.