Just wanted to highlight the difference between AEW and WWE in terms of PPV pre-shows. WWE's version of this sucks ass, a couple of hours of useless blathering by pundits who can sometimes barely string a sentence together (Shawn Michaels, Lita, Beth Phoenix, Booker T...all talking such droning, abject bollocks). Pure crap, and it makes actually watching for the matches on the pre-show a total chore.
The lead in to Full Gear was fucking great. Wrestlers talking about their issues, laying out who they are and what they stand for, great hype videos...it just blows WWE's "efforts" out of the water. Santana and Ortiz were excellent, Moxley and Omega were both really great and it all sounded natural and not stagey...top notch stuff. They make the poor WWE talent struggling with shitty scripting look really 2nd rate. I watched the whole hour of it even though I knew I wasn't getting Full Gear that night, and it was an entertaining little show in it's own right.
AEW gives away matches on YouTube that exceed the quality of much of Raw and Smackdown every week, and I don't know if that makes AEW overly generous, or WWE look stingy.