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disaster pastor posted:Hasn't there been like one DQ finish in all of AEW history? They're not going to cheap out on Ruby's first singles match. there's been one DQ and it was the first fall in an ironman match so it wasn't even a finish
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why is everyone so worried about hayter taking a loss? this isn't wwe, a loss doesn't mean she's being buried. she'll bounce back.
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Yeah exactly. I also think it's hilarious that some of y'all are already discussing Hayter breaking from Britt.
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IGgy IGsen posted:Yeah exactly. WWE brain, storylines must be paid off in 3 weeks or they're a failure
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quote:Tony Khan at the post media scrum talked up the one person in the world the truly, truly hates japanese women wrestlers and says no foreign women can ever draw in the united states: Jim Cornette. Asian-american man Tony Khan is racist against asians.
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quote:Austin, Foley, and the like never got out of wrestling. Wrestling fans love them but even at its peak, the most you got from a non-wrestling fan was "Oh, that is the guy who gives people middle fingers and is on that MTV show? And beat his wife?" for Austin and "he seems nice. Was he on a nickelodeon thing?" for Foley. Like, I suspect the Bellas are more popular among the general public than Austin ever was.
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Jordan7hm posted:They turned MJF on Cody very quickly They turned MJF on Cody because he's such a natural and fantastic heel that even trying to pretend he's a babyface wasn't going to work out for much longer. Meanwhile both Britt and Jamie are entirely in sync as rear end in a top hat cool heels.
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Pylons posted:Asian-american man Tony Khan is racist against asians. I agree though, give your money to Ice Ribbon & SEAdLINNNG
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feel like more people total saw Austin on Nash Bridges in 1999 than ever watched Total Divas, but I do like the conceit that the man on the street mostly knows about him because he beat his wife
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Pylons posted:Asian-american man Tony Khan is racist against asians. Did some quick back of a napkin calculations, and turns out that the AEW women's title has been held by a Japanese lady for approximately 60% of the time that it has been in existence. So Tony better shape up his racism, dude seems p bad at it. E: Apologies, hosed up my math. Turns out it's actually about 70% Cerebral Bore fucked around with this message at 17:47 on Sep 8, 2021 |
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I know it's probably been brought up a zillion times itt but I really don't understand the WWE weirdos. This isn't the same as console wars where most people can't afford to buy every console so they buy what their friends buy and then poo poo talk other consoles because of dumbass consumerist tribalism. Everyone can watch all the WWE and AEW content every week if they have the time and they can also watch content from other promotions if they have the extra time. This poo poo makes no sense to me. Even when I was a complete moron college grad 20 years ago my friends and I would have Monday night watch parties and flip channels between Raw and Nitro and then watch ECW we taped off TV and just had a good time without choosing a promotion to defend for no reason.
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What they really need to do is keep teasing a rift between Jamie and Britt but have them always get past it and stay together. Just piss off every idiot fan wanting to telegraph a breakup. Then when people least expect it have one of them turn.
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Elephant Ambush posted:What they really need to do is keep teasing a rift between Jamie and Britt but have them always get past it and stay together. Just piss off every idiot fan wanting to telegraph a breakup. Then when people least expect it have one of them turn. I think it'll eventually make more sense for Britt to turn on Jamie once Jamie gets more confident and doesn't want to be treated like a sidekick anymore. Again, assuming they ever break them up which they absolutely don't need to do.
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i hope they never turn and remain friends forever through thick and thin
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Elephant Ambush posted:I know it's probably been brought up a zillion times itt but I really don't understand the WWE weirdos. This isn't the same as console wars where most people can't afford to buy every console so they buy what their friends buy and then poo poo talk other consoles because of dumbass consumerist tribalism. Everyone can watch all the WWE and AEW content every week if they have the time and they can also watch content from other promotions if they have the extra time. This poo poo makes no sense to me. Even when I was a complete moron college grad 20 years ago my friends and I would have Monday night watch parties and flip channels between Raw and Nitro and then watch ECW we taped off TV and just had a good time without choosing a promotion to defend for no reason. When I was a kid in the 1980s, I watched whatever wrestling I could. WWF, NWA, AWA, WCCW, Mid-South/UWF, etc. As I got older I developed specific tastes and I started favoring some promotions over others, but I never had "brand loyalty" where I'd only watch one over the other and that was it. If I quit watching a promotion, it was because their characters/gimmicks weren't to my taste (or, since it's the 1980s we're talking about here, because they eventually folded up), not because "it's not [whatever] brand of wrestling". E: as opposed to nowadays, where I'm actively rooting for WWE to fail, and have been long before AEW was even a thing 
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STONE COLD 64 posted:i hope they never turn and remain friends forever through thick and thin I would love this so much, I just don’t expect it
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Elephant Ambush posted:I know it's probably been brought up a zillion times itt but I really don't understand the WWE weirdos. This isn't the same as console wars where most people can't afford to buy every console so they buy what their friends buy and then poo poo talk other consoles because of dumbass consumerist tribalism. Everyone can watch all the WWE and AEW content every week if they have the time and they can also watch content from other promotions if they have the extra time. This poo poo makes no sense to me. Even when I was a complete moron college grad 20 years ago my friends and I would have Monday night watch parties and flip channels between Raw and Nitro and then watch ECW we taped off TV and just had a good time without choosing a promotion to defend for no reason. I read somewhere that for a truly toxic fan culture to form then the fanbase must be aware on some level that the object of their fandom is actually bad on some level. If the thing you like is legit good then you can just argue against criticism, but if you know it's true and what you like is so garbage that you can't just embrace the badness then your options are p much to stop being a fan or get super mad and start denying reality. The WWE fanbase seem to mostly have chosen option two and three, and by now it's been winnowed down to the most bitter hard core.
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'Someone in AEW should be the Sting who gets betrayed by all his friends' I say before immediately realising that's Cody
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Cerebral Bore posted:I read somewhere that for a truly toxic fan culture to form then the fanbase must be aware on some level that the object of their fandom is actually bad on some level. If the thing you like is legit good then you can just argue against criticism, but if you know it's true and what you like is so garbage that you can't just embrace the badness then your options are p much to stop being a fan or get super mad and start denying reality.
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I just loving love braaaaaaaaaaaaaands
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keithy george posted:The last ten years of mancave culture has to have entrenched brand loyalty. You can’t just switch over to AEW when you’ve paid to releather the winged eagle belt your wife got you for christmas and have it mounted on the wall above your entire Hasbro figure collection. Guess it stings extra hard when you've been telling yourself that The Brand is the best thing that could possibly exist even after they feed you poo poo sandwich after poo poo sandwich and then all of a sudden all those other people over there at Other Brand are clearly having a great time.
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TK opens up the floor at his latest media scrum, a fan pulls down his glasses and asks 'Mr. Khan, did you realise that All In was performed away from the ROH banner?'. His tawdry secret shame revealed Tony falls to the floor as he screams 'I'M MELTING! I'M MELTING!'
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Ganso Bomb posted:Probably not any time soon, but it seems like Hayter's character is that she's there to get paid and beat people up for Britt while Britt and Reba seem to try and want her to become a friend/mindless minion. For instance, not being on board doing the DMD hand sign thing. It kind of feels like on the past couple of shows, she's become less serious and is starting to gel more with them but I could still see them pulling the trigger of Hayter not wanting to deal with the bullshit anymore and breaking away. Again, not anytime soon but they're definitely planting little seeds here and there for possible future stuff if they want to go that way. She’s been in the company for 5 minutes and been on screen all of what, 4 times. That’s a lot of analysis for basically no time at all.
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This whole exchange: https://twitter.com/thenightmaker1/status/1435653145481388035?s=20 https://twitter.com/TheOfficialROW/status/1435677775311028228?s=20 https://twitter.com/thenightmaker1/status/1435678220645502984?s=20 Nightmaker got owned. Like, did he think Booker only trains people for his own promotion? You know, like NXT?
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History Comes Inside! posted:She’s been in the company for 5 minutes and been on screen all of what, 4 times. That’s a lot of analysis for basically no time at all. I know, it's fun when a company does some subtle things in the background and some not-so-subtle things with character work so you can care about the people on the show.
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Weird hill to die on, but at least he's dead.
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AEW is now completely undone. Pack it in, let's go home.
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Davros1 posted:This whole exchange:
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STONE COLD 64 posted:its primary function is as a school and its actually had a pretty impressive output as most wrestling schools do For comparison Bully Ray's best ever student was Leva Bates.
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Bad opinions about women, bad opinions about wrestling. https://twitter.com/Stuttsy/status/1435763805468954627
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One or two matches isn't a feud. Also I kinda wish AEW feuds/programs were longer but I also don't necessarily want the WWE thing where feuds last 6 months.
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the thing with aew feuds is that a lot of feuds aren't really Done and they'll come back in the future if needed b/c it's all "these characters specifically don't like each other." you don't need to have four or five matches between the same two people to underline that
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Yeah, a lot of AEW feuds take an organic path. The wrestlers cross paths because they're on their own journeys for titles or to back up friends or whatever. Something like the HFO/Best Friends feud is actually kind of weird and stands out in AEW. Its just two sides constantly battling with no clear goal in mind. The more common and natural path is that like two teams clash in the division and then they clash again in title contention and then they really hate each other so they have a grudge match. And the fun part of that is not only does it flow better and you don't get burnt out on a by the numbers feud but a couple of weeks or months down the line they clash again because of a tournament or battle royal or backing someone up or whatever. So not only did you never get sick of it, but it keeps being fun.
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