AEW Performance Review

About this episode

The hosts review the evolution of AEW and discuss the current status of its key wrestlers.

Hot on the heels of reading Keith Elliot Greenberg's This Book Is All Elite , we're giving AEW an official Awesome Truth performance review. How has the company evolved from 2019 to today? How do the so-called Four Pillars hold up in 2026? Spoiler alert: Sammy Guevara is not quite pillar-y these days. Join us as we discuss the peaks and valleys of All Elite Wrestling.

Topics covered

• AEW
• performance review
• wrestling evolution
• Four Pillars
• Sammy Guevara

Keywords

• Keith Elliot Greenberg
• This Book Is All Elite
• All Elite Wrestling

Mentioned in this episode

Products: This Book Is All Elite

Books & works: This Book Is All Elite

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