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RE: people online already being like "AEW should buy ROH and make them their development!"
I don't think AEW will ever have a "developmental territory" the way WWE do, because they're happy to have talent working their shows without a firm contract, and their contracted talent working independent shows, and they don't have a "house style" that they need to teach people the way WWE does.
Why go to the effort of having a formalized developmental promotion when you already have a pipeline from a couple of good wrestling schools, and strong relationships with independent promotions, and with promotions overseas? All they really need is to have a couple of people on the books to monitor wrestlers' progress on the indies, rather than trying to get them all under one roof.
If anything, I'd rather see them foster stronger relationships with promotions overseas and do their own sort of version of the Young Lion excursions. This way wrestlers early in their career - say, Nightmare Factory trainees - that they haven't got a spot on TV for yet can go over to Japan, the UK or Mexico to gain a bit of experience.
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