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Swerve vs Kyle 17 22.97%
Anna vs Mina 7 9.46%
Casino Match 45 60.81%
Mox vs Hobbs 5 6.76%
Total: 74 votes
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shiksa
Nov 9, 2009

i went to one of these wrestling shows and it was... honestly? frickin boring. i wanna see ricky! i want to see his gold chains and respect for the ftw lifestyle

Gumball Gumption posted:

Someone's jealous their pets don't bring in an income

honestly, this motherfucker is so lazy i tell him to get a job all the drat time

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Eat My Fuc
May 29, 2007

Shard posted:

Is he actually correct? Without him there would be no aew? I remember reading that without Jericho vs Omega there is no AEW and without Omega and the Bucks there is no AEW. But let's say Cody decides not to go to aew, does that mean aew doesn't exist?

Cody financed the majority of All In and booked the show. Without any of the Elite it doesn’t happen,

Jericho, whose learning tree is like the Evil Dead one, is as much a liar as Hogan and a vastly stupid person who says all sorts of self aggrandizing horseshit, he’s not essential all information that he was comes from Jericho.

graph
Nov 22, 2006

aaag peanuts

:3:

post hole digger
Mar 21, 2011

it does seem plausible that jericho was a helpful factor in getting the tv deal done to me.

Shard
Jul 30, 2005

graph posted:

https://x.com/wallflowerperry/status/1785079680770392570

i didnt watch the whole thing but skipped around to the end and the way the whole room got SILENT for the second and a half while bryd was in the air for the tiger driver :allears:

I love when you see something so sick in wrestling and you have to stand up and put your hands on your head.

Pylons
Mar 16, 2009

Eat My Fuc posted:

Cody financed the majority of All In and booked the show. Without any of the Elite it doesn’t happen,

Jericho, whose learning tree is like the Evil Dead one, is as much a liar as Hogan and a vastly stupid person who says all sorts of self aggrandizing horseshit, he’s not essential all information that he was comes from Jericho.

That's entirely untrue. If Jericho doesn't go to NJPW and do Kenny vs. Jericho, Tony doesn't realize there's a market for wrestling outside of WWE. That, and WB looking at getting wrestling from WWE before getting outbid by Fox, are largely what led to AEW, though All In didn't hurt.

graph
Nov 22, 2006

aaag peanuts

Shard posted:

I love when you see something so sick in wrestling and you have to stand up and put your hands on your head.

me, during the entirety of hanger/swerve 3

also they all get real close to the screen as the match goes on :3:

JUNGLE BOY
Sep 23, 2019

i think most people involved in the creation of aew admit that if any one of them wasn’t there it probably wouldn’t have come together

Gumball Gumption
Jan 7, 2012

Shard posted:

Is he actually correct? Without him there would be no aew? I remember reading that without Jericho vs Omega there is no AEW and without Omega and the Bucks there is no AEW. But let's say Cody decides not to go to aew, does that mean aew doesn't exist?

He is correct. All In was important to creating AEW, he had a lot of roles early on and set a lot of the tone of what AEW was in those early days. He was carrying some of the biggest feuds year one.

Eat My Fuc posted:

Cody financed the majority of All In and booked the show. Without any of the Elite it doesn’t happen,

Jericho, whose learning tree is like the Evil Dead one, is as much a liar as Hogan and a vastly stupid person who says all sorts of self aggrandizing horseshit, he’s not essential all information that he was comes from Jericho.

He was also necessary for AEW but he does suck his own dick about it because his biggest contributions are working some Japan dates and being the first mainstream name. Which was necessary and without it AEW wouldn't exist but is on a very different level from the EVPs.

Majinfoose
Jul 26, 2007

HOLY SHIT
This vegan brisket is bussin


Cody being a whiny loser, after a very mild dig at hugging his bosses (who are all very awful people)?

Must be a day that ends in Y.

Usually when the WWE mentions AEW in media, it's to deflect from their awful company.

Gumball Gumption
Jan 7, 2012

JUNGLE BOY posted:

i think most people involved in the creation of aew admit that if any one of them wasn’t there it probably wouldn’t have come together

Yeah, it's this. You could discredit any of them by making the argument it's really all Tony's money and whenever he decided he wanted to make a promotion he could so their contributions are superfluous but eh, we're talking about AEW as it exists and they were all necessary for that and had an impact that you could visibly see in the really product.

shiksa
Nov 9, 2009

i went to one of these wrestling shows and it was... honestly? frickin boring. i wanna see ricky! i want to see his gold chains and respect for the ftw lifestyle

Eat My Fuc posted:

Cody financed the majority of All In and booked the show. Without any of the Elite it doesn’t happen,

Jericho, whose learning tree is like the Evil Dead one, is as much a liar as Hogan and a vastly stupid person who says all sorts of self aggrandizing horseshit, he’s not essential all information that he was comes from Jericho.

emf genuine question, were you watching wrestling at the time? because jericho was a huge star coming off one of the biggest storylines in his career and him deciding to leave wwe and try and find another way genuinely was a landmark shift in wrestling. and him joining aew gave it immediate legitimacy because he was a bonafide main event top guy anywhere in the world who was saying that this is a real deal place.

sure, he's aew's hollywood hogan, he really is, he's a guy who can be a bridge from the older era, in whatever show you watched, to whats on tv today. he's a total dumbass personally and his aew career has had ebbs and tides (i think he's on a fun new path, personally) but jericho joining aew immediately gave it more legitimacy than if it was "cody rhodes, some new japan guys, and a bunch of indie wrestlers have a new show". and then mox came around and ho lee poo poo what a debut. i remember where i was bc i wasnt watching live unfortunately, on a bach party trip w friends and someone else on it was a wrestling fan and told me when i was a bar and we just both got hype at each other about it lol.

Tato
Jun 19, 2001

DIRECTIVE 236: Promote pro-social values
Cody getting stressed out over the falling WWE ratings with no end in sight, knows his title reign is already doomed. The belt will be back on Roman before they are on Netflix/cancelled from Fox. Sad to see.

Miching Mallecho
May 24, 2010

:yeshaha:
I like going back to the bucks book after sometime away because it reminds me that Tony is such a dork :yayclod:

BigBicepTony posted:



“It’s gotta be three letters, like WCW or WWE,” said Tony, who was a massive WCW fan back in the day. “My first idea is to call it World’s Best Wrestling. WBW!”

Edit: also if we're going to credit anyone with being pivotal with starting AEW,it's Matt Jackson and Dana, they talked to Tony first

Miching Mallecho fucked around with this message at 18:55 on Apr 30, 2024

graph
Nov 22, 2006

aaag peanuts
https://x.com/youngbucks/status/1785044262725501111

shiksa
Nov 9, 2009

i went to one of these wrestling shows and it was... honestly? frickin boring. i wanna see ricky! i want to see his gold chains and respect for the ftw lifestyle

Miching Mallecho posted:

I like going back to the bucks book after sometime away because it reminds me that Tony is such a dork :yayclod:

Edit: also if we're going to credit anyone with being pivotal with starting AEW,it's Matt Jackson and Dana, they talked to Tony first

WBW is from the "tony khan: herb abrahms 2.0"-verse stuff

thank god they had a quick synonym for "best" to point at lol

A Fancy Hat
Nov 18, 2016

Always remember that the former President was dumber than the dumbest person you've ever met by a wide margin

The most important person in the formation of AEW is you, the viewer.

post hole digger
Mar 21, 2011

scott hall voice dubya bee dubya

Gumball Gumption
Jan 7, 2012

Who But W.B. Wason

shiksa
Nov 9, 2009

i went to one of these wrestling shows and it was... honestly? frickin boring. i wanna see ricky! i want to see his gold chains and respect for the ftw lifestyle

Gumball Gumption posted:

Who Betta Than W.B. Wason

Shard
Jul 30, 2005

A Fancy Hat posted:

The most important person in the formation of AEW are the friends we made along the way.

The Notorious ZSB
Apr 19, 2004

I SAID WE'RE NOT GONNA BE FUCKING SUCK THIS YEAR!!!


That is not ominous at all noooo.....

graph
Nov 22, 2006

aaag peanuts

The Notorious ZSB posted:

That is not ominous at all noooo.....

who is going to run things while tony is stuck in jacksonville !!

Seams
Feb 3, 2005

ROCK HARD
Commissioner Kenneth

Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

we vibin'
we slidin'
we breathin'
we dyin'

Bryan Danielson

Popy
Feb 19, 2008

Omega doesn't watch the product and still thinks hes a member of the elite

Fart Radio
Sep 7, 2010

@Therock hey man check it... You ever kill a man or no? Hit me up. ;)
kenny is one of the last people i would expect as a face GM but if he needs something to do while he's hurt, that's fine. it's also weird to give the babyface more power than the heels in a scenario like this

Tweak
Jul 28, 2003

or dont whatever








If Kenny was the GM, who should be the Undertaker to his Teddy Long?

wandler20
Nov 13, 2002

How many Championships?
My guess is they're going to cut to the back with a beaten Kenny laying on the ground and the Bucks are gonna walk by and be "very concerned" about what happened and we won't see Kenny for many months as he gets surgery or heals up.

Hopefully not tho and it's better news on the Kenny front and this kicks off a long feud.

post hole digger
Mar 21, 2011

Tweak posted:

If Kenny was the GM, who should be the Undertaker to his Teddy Long?

Joe

Shard
Jul 30, 2005

wandler20 posted:

My guess is they're going to cut to the back with a beaten Kenny laying on the ground and the Bucks are gonna walk by and be "very concerned" about what happened and we won't see Kenny for many months as he gets surgery or heals up.

Hopefully not tho and it's better news on the Kenny front and this kicks off a long feud.

this is a funny thing that happens in our predictions of aew. Decades of watching wwe and tna lead us to always predict a boring or lame way something will happen and then AEW doesn't do that. Like with the tape and we said they were going to show some other kind of footage and it would not be the best version of what it could be.

I'm not saying your guess is bad just that it reminded me of this pattern I've noticed over the last 5 years.

wandler20
Nov 13, 2002

How many Championships?

Shard posted:

this is a funny thing that happens in our predictions of aew. Decades of watching wwe and tna lead us to always predict a boring or lame way something will happen and then AEW doesn't do that. Like with the tape and we said they were going to show some other kind of footage and it would not be the best version of what it could be.

I'm not saying your guess is bad just that it reminded me of this pattern I've noticed over the last 5 years.

Ha, you're right now that you point it out. I hope it doesn't happen for the reasons you mention but man, I can't help but come back to that scenario, and I haven't watched WWE in like 8 years! Then. Now. Forever.

post hole digger
Mar 21, 2011

wandler20 posted:

My guess is they're going to cut to the back with a beaten Kenny laying on the ground and the Bucks are gonna walk by and be "very concerned" about what happened and we won't see Kenny for many months as he gets surgery or heals up.

Hopefully not tho and it's better news on the Kenny front and this kicks off a long feud.

idk, the way theyve been hyping up his apperance, i think he is definitely going to give an in-ring promo

Ganso Bomb
Oct 24, 2005

turn it all around

He’s gonna be in ring and about to get slaughtered by The Bucks before the Motor City Machine Guns save the day, bayyyy beeee

a dumb moron
Mar 19, 2024

augh

…WHO has ever said anything downplaying his contributions?? AEW mentions him as a cofounder by name any time origins are mentioned.

Alpha Kenny Juan
Apr 11, 2007

Tweak posted:

If Kenny was the GM, who should be the Undertaker to his Teddy Long?

A returning Marko Stunt

Erin M. Fiasco
Mar 21, 2013

Nothing's better than postin' in the morning!



Ganso Bomb posted:

He’s gonna be in ring and about to get slaughtered by The Bucks before the Motor City Machine Guns save the day, bayyyy beeee

omg please I would freak

Malikov
Jan 25, 2015
Cody is Savage levels of paranoid.

apophenium
Apr 14, 2009

Cry 'Mayhem!' and let slip the dogs of Wardlow.
I'm stoked for Wednesday :)

Especially since it means I won't have to see the name Harvey Weinstein all the dang time

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Elephant Ambush
Nov 13, 2012

...We sholde spenden more time together. What sayest thou?
Nap Ghost

Shard posted:

this is a funny thing that happens in our predictions of aew. Decades of watching wwe and tna lead us to always predict a boring or lame way something will happen and then AEW doesn't do that. Like with the tape and we said they were going to show some other kind of footage and it would not be the best version of what it could be.

I'm not saying your guess is bad just that it reminded me of this pattern I've noticed over the last 5 years.

Holy moly is this true. I have a cousin who's one of my closest friends and we watch Stardom almost religiously. Whenever we talk about fantasy booking scenarios we always catch ourselves coming up with ideas that are based on 4 decades of watching Western wrestling and that the vast majority of Japanese promotions would never ever ever do

And I'm not talking about late stage WCW Russo bullshit, just simple things like surprise heel turns or people defecting from their units over irreconcilable differences or people changing their main gimmick that are pretty rare outside America

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