AEW changed up its look recently, and it seems that there’s also been a subtle change to the company’s philosophy for putting Dynamite and Rampage together. 2023 has so far seen fewer wrestlers get time to speak. On average, the wrestlers that have been given promo time have been the company’s better actors. Has this resulted in a better product? You tell me. I’m just here to rate the acting, baby. What follows are acting rankings for All Elite Wrestling. I rewatched the last two weeks of AEW...

Acting is hard. Professional actors — that is, people for whom their entire job is pretending — often do not pretend entirely convincingly. In Gangs of New York, Daniel Day Lewis outacts DiCaprio who outacts Cameron Diaz, and the whole thing suffers for it, and all three of these people are hugely successful, top-of-their-game-type actors. But there are levels. So too in pro wrestling, where the actors are not only pretending to be wrestlers but also pretending to have wrestling matches. Few...