5 Reasons why AEW should bring back WCW’s Battlebowl concept

#1 Cashing in on WCW nostalgia

Nostalgia for WCW is alive and well; AEW had might as well benefit from it

AEW is not WCW. The company has already featured a style of wrestling and straightforward telling that flies in the face of many of WCW’s shortcomings, particularly from its latter years when swerves abounded, and marquee matches rarely delivered in the ring. Just the same, comparisons between AEW and WCW are inevitable.

AEW represents the closest thing to competition WWE has faced since WCW, and that’s not least of all because of a billionaire’s backing, a weekly show on TNT, and the Rhodes family having significant input on what’s going on both behind the scenes and on air.

There are plenty of mistakes WCW made that it’s important for AEW to steer clear of. However, there is also a substantial body of fans that followed WCW and didn’t come over to WWE or otherwise stick with wrestling past 2001.

If AEW can snag the attention of old WCW fans in constructive ways, like borrowing from and improving upon old gimmicks that haven’t already been over-exposed elsewhere, it could go a long way toward recapturing some of the magic from decades past.