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yea ok posted:i'm pretty invested in a lot of wrestlers in aew. i have what scientists call "object permanence", so when a wrestler is downcycled, i don't suddenly forget everything that happened beforehand yeah, but imagine how cool it would be if someone is doing cool stuff and getting over, you could be like "hell yeah can't wait to tune in next week to see what they're doing", instead of them potentially just vanishing for a while. Outside of PPVs, I've just stopped watching AEW because of how frustrating and inconsistent the booking is. NienNunb posted:Stokely, Claudio, and my baby boy Kyle are very good Stokely is cool but outside of leading a lovely faction that just quietly dissolved and chasing Statlander around, he hasn't done anything.
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# ? Mar 18, 2024 03:14 |
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# ? Jun 8, 2024 09:36 |
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3 or 4 WWE people have acted really loving weird and were or are waiting or angling to go back to WWE asap. the rest are in good spots, better spots than they were, or about the same but not particularly good wrestlers
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# ? Mar 18, 2024 03:20 |
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I can't believe Stokely has been killed by being on TV and on commentary more weeks than not, being ROH GM, and running a story with two of the most popular women on the roster. If only he was still with Brutus loving Creed. Edit: Also calling Stokely a WWE guy is so funny. Erin M. Fiasco fucked around with this message at 03:26 on Mar 18, 2024 |
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Fish Of Doom posted:Outside of PPVs, I've just stopped watching AEW because of how frustrating and inconsistent the booking is. Wrestling exists to be watched and to be followed week to week. It's no wonder you're missing things if you aren't actually watching and drawing your own conclusions.
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# ? Mar 18, 2024 03:25 |
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Complaining about a wrestling show you don't like and don't watch is a time honored tradition going back as long as the internet has existed.
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# ? Mar 18, 2024 03:31 |
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Erin M. Fiasco posted:I can't believe Stokely has been killed by being on TV and on commentary more weeks than not, being ROH GM, and running a story with two of the most popular women on the roster. If only he was still with Brutus loving Creed. RoH doesn't exist. They made it up to sell you expensive sunglasses. I think "Stokely is underutilized for his level of talent" is a fair complaint tbh. The Statlander/Willow thing has been in quicksand for weeks and is at the end of the day, a midcard storyline, although with Mone involved maybe it'll be more than that.
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# ? Mar 18, 2024 03:34 |
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Seems like we need to bring back the AEW Asylum thread
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# ? Mar 18, 2024 03:34 |
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In fairness, most of Stokely's dead ends in AEW have just been bad luck. The Firm was supposed to be in a program with MJF and CM Punk, Punk specifically wanted to work with Stokely. But that all fell apart and The Firm started feuding with the loving Hardys, good lord, that sucked. Then I think he managed Jade Cargill for a bit and that went absolutely nowhere because everything Jade did in AEW was a pointless black hole except for her first match and her last two matches. And now he's in this Statlander storyline which.....I dunno. Whatever. Statlander as a heel might be something? But it still feels like he'd be better off attached to some main event heel.
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# ? Mar 18, 2024 03:40 |
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stokely is funny on twitter but i've never been too impressed with him as a character. sorry to stokely. your tweets are still funny!
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# ? Mar 18, 2024 03:41 |
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I liked the one where he paid Tanahashi 75 dollars to break MJF's legs.
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# ? Mar 18, 2024 03:44 |
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MJeff posted:RoH doesn't exist. They made it up to sell you expensive sunglasses. That's what I'm hoping for. If Mone turns, it could be good to have him added to her act. I do think that he could do more - like, he should be over the shows at least as much as Callis was back when Callis was constantly on commentary because literally every time he's on TV he's either doing something extremely funny or extremely interesting, but I'm a fan of his interactions with both Willow and Stat. Something should have advanced after the chain spot though. I also do agree with yea ok in that he's very funny on Twitter in ways that don't always translate to a TV character but I don't think it's impossible to translate because he's very good.
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# ? Mar 18, 2024 03:48 |
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stokely doesnt get enough mic time
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# ? Mar 18, 2024 03:50 |
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Erin M. Fiasco posted:That's what I'm hoping for. If Mone turns, it could be good to have him added to her act. I do think that he could do more - like, he should be over the shows at least as much as Callis was back when Callis was constantly on commentary because literally every time he's on TV he's either doing something extremely funny or extremely interesting, but I'm a fan of his interactions with both Willow and Stat. Something should have advanced after the chain spot though. his freak out when stat asked him to be civil with willow was rly funny
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# ? Mar 18, 2024 03:50 |
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Mercedes is in that weird spot where she has a ton of charisma but isn't the best actual talker, so when the babyface shine wears off a bit, pairing Stokely with her would probably be good.
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# ? Mar 18, 2024 03:54 |
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Too much fake hate lately. MJeff having to carry the torch for the earnest true haters who know what they're talking about. Ruby Soho as an example of Tony down cycling people is crazy because she's on TV right now. And in one of the most WWE rear end stories. But hey, tiny con can't use people and can't tell stories
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Gumball Gumption posted:Too much fake hate lately. MJeff having to carry the torch for the earnest true haters who know what they're talking about. Ruby Soho as an example of Tony down cycling people is crazy because she's on TV right now. And in one of the most WWE rear end stories. But hey, tiny con can't use people and can't tell stories It really is extremely bad.
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# ? Mar 18, 2024 04:03 |
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Jokely Goaway
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# ? Mar 18, 2024 04:07 |
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yea ok posted:stokely is funny on twitter but i've never been too impressed with him as a character. sorry to stokely. your tweets are still funny! that’s like 5 or 6 guys in aew
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# ? Mar 18, 2024 04:53 |
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Gumball Gumption posted:Too much fake hate lately. MJeff having to carry the torch for the earnest true haters who know what they're talking about. Ruby Soho as an example of Tony down cycling people is crazy because she's on TV right now. And in one of the most WWE rear end stories. But hey, tiny con can't use people and can't tell stories fish of doom doesnt watch aew they just skim recaps and pretend to know what they are talking about
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# ? Mar 18, 2024 05:26 |
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Fish Of Doom posted:It's honestly kind of wild. Other than Swerve, Toni Storm, Danielson, and Joe, everyone who came over from WWE during that 2021-22 period has been just killed. Ruby is on the show all the time
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# ? Mar 18, 2024 05:33 |
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Doing terrible content
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# ? Mar 18, 2024 05:35 |
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I prefer her doing WWE on rampage to mjf doing it on dynamite
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# ? Mar 18, 2024 05:38 |
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ty to shannon sharpe man for providing your own closed captioning
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# ? Mar 18, 2024 05:40 |
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If Ruby needs to leave for them to abandon ship on/get rid of Saraya (and her brother now I guess lmao), then packeth thy bags
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# ? Mar 18, 2024 07:24 |
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Cavauro posted:ty to shannon sharpe man for providing your own closed captioning
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# ? Mar 18, 2024 08:02 |
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Oh Ruby's been great. 6 months in the slow build to getting fingered by Angelo Parker
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# ? Mar 18, 2024 09:38 |
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Ruby sucks. Can’t promo. Can’t wrestle. Send her packing
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# ? Mar 18, 2024 10:53 |
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I liked the Ruby And Angelo Want To gently caress story, it was harmless goofery when it was on Rampage, but extremely cringe on Dynamite. But now that we're bringing in Saraya's lovely family and not even the good wrestlers in Saraya 's lovely family uhhh yeah dunno about that bruv.
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# ? Mar 18, 2024 12:54 |
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Saraya bout your drat brother
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keithy george posted:Oh Ruby's been great. 6 months in the slow build to getting fingered by Angelo Parker this is cinema!
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# ? Mar 18, 2024 13:40 |
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MJeff posted:I liked the Ruby And Angelo Want To gently caress story, it was harmless goofery when it was on Rampage, but extremely cringe on Dynamite. But now that we're bringing in Saraya's lovely family and not even the good wrestlers in Saraya 's lovely family uhhh yeah dunno about that bruv. Seems like a lot of tv time, rampage or not, for a bunch of people who never loving wrestle.
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# ? Mar 18, 2024 15:20 |
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Is it? It's like 45 seconds a week.
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# ? Mar 18, 2024 15:22 |
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Looking into it, Ruby has had three matches this year. For the previous few years going back to about 2019 she averaged between 30-40 matches a year. Her last match was in February. Now, I'll always be a fan of hers because I saw her last match on the indies, but dedicating a few seconds a week to a silly, if meandering storyline doesn't seem so bad to me, when most people aren't exactly enamoured with her wrestling and this has a bit of entertainment value. I don't even hate bringing in Saraya's brother to the angle because it's ultimately pretty low stakes and a bit of fun that I'm not paying too much attention to. It's like, I dunno, she could wrestle more (and the soft 2.0 split is also a bit weird) but then when she wrestles people complain because she isn't entertaining for a lot of people so Though it's weird that the match between Ang and Zack Knight got bumped off the card, right? Am I imagining that it was announced and then changed on the show, or was it never official? Saraya's brother was a pretty bad (funny) promo. "OIM NOT GONNA WRESTLE YEH, IM GONNA FIGHT YEH. BUT NOT HERE. IN CANADA. THE QUEEN"
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# ? Mar 18, 2024 15:33 |
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WWE fans complaining about 45 seconds every 3 shows going to a romance angle where no one wrestles 🤣🤣🤣
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# ? Mar 18, 2024 15:44 |
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The Ruby stuff has been worth it for the sheer derangement of Harley.
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# ? Mar 18, 2024 15:56 |
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never watch it but rampage sounds wild these days
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# ? Mar 18, 2024 16:02 |
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Fish Of Doom posted:It's honestly kind of wild. Other than Swerve, Toni Storm, Danielson, and Joe, everyone who came over from WWE during that 2021-22 period has been just killed. Stokley being a silly manager man on ROH and AEW *is* his spot, i'm not sure he was ever expected to be anything but an excellent midcard heel manager?
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# ? Mar 18, 2024 16:07 |
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Quantum of Phallus posted:Saraya bout your drat brother Replace both Knights with James Storm.
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# ? Mar 18, 2024 16:09 |
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flashy_mcflash posted:The Ruby stuff has been worth it for the sheer derangement of Harley. yea
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# ? Mar 18, 2024 16:18 |
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# ? Jun 8, 2024 09:36 |
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listen. you're not going to want to bother reading this. but I've never seen Harley before
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