Whatever one may think of professional wrestling, it’s inarguable that the biggest, most successful, and most storied game in town is World Wrestling Entertainment.
WWE has largely accomplished this after its raunchy ’90s era by slowly pivoting to more family-friendly content. Another major change? WWE has largely abandoned its more political storytelling.
(For example, one of the most infamous WWE villains during the height of the Gulf War was Sgt. Slaughter — an American patriot/GI Joe character-turned-villainous Iraqi sympathizer.)
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All Elite Wrestling, arguably the second biggest wrestling company on the planet — certainly in North America — is still a relative neophyte in this industry, having only launched in 2019.
It has tried to differentiate itself from WWE by being a much more violent spectacle
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