AEW has always wanted professional wrestling to feel a little more like a real sport. But what would happen if they took that idea even further?
This week on Pro Wrestling Forever, Professor Degree and Blade Daily look at AEW's sports-like presentation and ask what the company could borrow from baseball, football and other sports to create deeper history, traditions and lore.
Remember AEW's win-loss records and rankings? Those were only the beginning.
What about career records and all-time statistical leaders? Baseball fans know the legends who lead in home runs, hits, strikeouts and wins because those numbers turn history into mythology. Could professional wrestling do the same?
The fellas brainstorm the statistics AEW could actually track: career victories, championship wins, successful title defenses, tournament records, winning streaks, main-event appearances, submission victories and more.
Imagine an AEW World Champion entering a match one defense away from an all-time record. Or a wrestler entering the Continental Classic with the most tournament victories in company history. Suddenly, matches from five or ten years ago aren't just old results — they're part of an ongoing record book.
And statistics are only one piece of the conversation.
Professor Degree and Blade explore the traditions, milestones, presentation choices and historical touchstones AEW could establish today to give future generations of fans their own wrestling mythology.
Because wrestling history isn't just remembering what happened.
It's giving fans a reason to argue about it forever.
Pro Wrestling Forever is a celebration of wrestling history, fandom and all the wonderfully weird details that make professional wrestling worth obsessing over.
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