Actually introducing canon number based power levels to wrestling is a fucking awful idea and aew isn't going to last a...

God damn it, that's not what I said at all. MLB doesn't produce MLB power rankings. The commentators for televised games don't bang on about some explicit power rankings. They'll talk about a team's record in recent games, or sabermetrical things, but that's it. And that's only because baseball lends itself to shit like that. What stats, besides recent win/loss trend, are wrestling announcers going to bring up? How many suplexes per match a particular wrestler throws? Only the most autismal of idiots could possibly give a shit, and they make for a very poor target audience.

The ONLY cases where it would be acceptable for pro wrestling to have rankings/stats/etc on screen, EVER, is either when some wrestler is on a fat undefeated streak, and you want to count up x-0 Win/Loss every week, or for some round robin style tournament with a definite beginning and end, where wrestlers get something like 2 points for winning, 0 for losing, and 1 for a no contest during "group play" matches before the knockout stage. Otherwise, fuck off with your tryhard gimmick horseshit.

Clam down. We're saying the same fucking thing. The only added benefit with wrestling is that you can produce those "analysis shows" in house as part of the post show or internet shorts that are thinly veiled "previously on" spots. Also, smaller stuff like match length can be prudent, especially with the way they book Okada, and it's become part of his gimmick. It's more a part of color commentary than anything else.