Draws feel like a bit of a cop out though. Ok if they lead onto something afterwards (Bryan/omega, anything come from that draw yet?) but I guess we’ll have to wait and see what comes next.
What came out of it was Hangman beating Omega, and telling Danielson he's better than him because of it because he only got the draw. Then we got this match where Danielson went the distance with Page. Which suggests they are the same level, with Hangman on top when the time limit came. So now despite Hangman doing something Danielson was unable to do we should be thinking they are pretty much neck and neck. So onto the next part of the story
A few added things
1) New Japan does draws, because they also do longterm booking where storylines can last years
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Its not a new idea, its something that has been done successfully a lot of times. WWE fans arent used to it because WWE doesnt tend to do it because it doesnt play into how often and quickly they change directions. But if you're a company who is not going to chop and change week to week then its okay. Afterall Hangman himself is proof of AEW's longterm booking
He had the first match for the title, lost to Jericho. Rebuilt himself with Omega to be a tag champion, leading to eventually being the one to beat Omega for the title despite all the high profile names joining the company. And now he goes the distance was arguably the best wrestler in the world, especially now Omega has time off. So that should tell us that they are committed to telling the story over a long period of time and they arent going to decide in 2 weeks that they need to make Miro the champ because he has bigger muscles.
We got a 60 minute fantastic match on free television. The draw means we get another great match. So I think its anything but a cop out. For me a cop out would be Hangman beats Danielson in a 15 minute match with a buckshot lariat or 15 minute match then lame distraction finish. If you do that theres no reason for another match. Or interference DQ finish so theres another match involving more people.
I'd much rather see another singles match where the stakes are raised because we're part way through a story. If Hangman beat Danielson straight in 15 mins, there would have to be a different challenger which hasnt been built up, or they'd have another match which wouldnt make sense if he'd already beat him