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syzpid
Aug 9, 2014
I checked and cage match has Swole in 45 AEW matches, about 5 of them were over 10 minutes and of those 2 of them were tag matches.

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MJeff
Jun 2, 2011

THE LIAR
Sounds like 44 matches too many.

CommonShore
Jun 6, 2014

A true renaissance man


Counterpoint: Joey Janella loving rules

MassRafTer
May 26, 2001

BAEST MODE!!!
The AEW roster is much much better today than it was early on but Swole, Janela and especially Marko were barely used in 2021 and 2021 was a really great year.

MJeff
Jun 2, 2011

THE LIAR
I don't miss many of the people who have left AEW but I kinda miss Janela. He had unique energy and slotted in well as a midcard guy who had credibility but could eat a loss. It's unfortunate he was simply too strong for Eddie's weak weak bones.

History Comes Inside!
Nov 20, 2004




I miss Marko Stunt

Pay the little man Tony

flashy_mcflash
Feb 7, 2011

MJeff posted:

I don't miss many of the people who have left AEW but I kinda miss Janela. He had unique energy and slotted in well as a midcard guy who had credibility but could eat a loss. It's unfortunate he was simply too strong for Eddie's weak weak bones.

He seems like the perfect guy to be a mouthpiece and occasional trios partner for some of the 80s style teams they have around like Iron Savages and The Outrunners.

Edge & Christian
May 20, 2001

Earth-1145 is truly the best!
A world of singing, magic frogs,
high adventure, no shitposters
For what it's worth the tweeter quickly amended his tweet to say he was talking about 2020, not 2021. Which makes sense since the very specific things mentioned (as opposed to 'wrestlers existing') all happened in 2020:

- Ivelisse's last TV appearance was December 2020 and her Thunder Rosa matches were in September 2020
- Matt Sydal's slippery debut was All Out 2020
- Joey Janela's final PPV appearance was the ladder match at Double or Nothing 2020

It doesn't change whether anyone should or should not enjoy any of these things, but it does sort of change things in the sense of in 2020, AEW was still (mostly) in its first year of television and dealing with lockdowns and the early days of the pandemic, and had not yet fully reaped the bounty of WWE releasing a billion people.

2021 saw AEW signing CM Punk, Bryan Danielson, Adam Cole, Kyle O'Reilly, Bobby Fish, Ethan Page, Christian Cage, Wheeler Yuta, Malakai Black, Andrade, 2point0, Daniel Garcia, Jay Lethal, Lee Moriarty, Ruby Soho, and Jamie Hayter, at least some of those coinciding with "we're back to actually touring and can afford to sign some big names" so it's not surprising that in general the overall star power/show quality improved and some of the people featured more early on were phased out.

February 2021 was also when the NJPW relationship was formalized so you started getting all of those guys coming in too.

Senerio
Oct 19, 2009

Roëmænce is ælive!
Honestly I really liked 2020 AEW quite a bit, the feud between Mr. Brodie Lee and Jon Moxley was delightful, as was all the lore that was built out of them literally having an entire arena to themselves every week for a year.

Rarity
Oct 21, 2010

~*4 LIFE*~
Broke: 2020 AEW
Woke: 2020 BTE

John Dudebro
Dec 3, 2013

Bespoke: 2020 Dark

fez_machine
Nov 27, 2004

John Dudebro posted:

Bespoke: 2020 Dark

The337th
Mar 30, 2011


it's hard to imagine what could come along and allow BTE to reach the heights it did with the week to week consistency in Daily's Place

MassRafTer
May 26, 2001

BAEST MODE!!!
Came across this guy who is calling his wood paneled basement a museum.

https://twitter.com/pwmuseum1/status/1668312913965088770

https://www.wrestlingmuseum.net/

His website looks like something that would be the Awful Link of the Day circa 2001.

https://twitter.com/AlanAlford/status/1666104295593222145

It's a pretty horny museum judging by this, his RTs and his twitter banner.

Bonk
Aug 4, 2002

Douche Baggins
Judging by the date on the bottom the website was created in 2019, which... dude, Squarespace exists.

SyntheticPolygon
Dec 20, 2013

Seams posted:

AEW in 2021 ruled lol

I miss it.

flashy_mcflash
Feb 7, 2011

Hashtag all anal ford

MassRafTer
May 26, 2001

BAEST MODE!!!
I love when he complains about people using the photos he does not own.

https://twitter.com/WrestlingIsKing/status/1668615377129971712

And then drops some incredible punctuation as always.

Hoss Corncave
Feb 13, 2012
Use loving spaces after commas and colons, man!

Also, when you say he doesn't own the photos has he literally taken them from other places or scanned them in from old magazines and claimed their his own?

It does sound somewhat like the NFTbros complaining about right click and save as.

Dawgstar
Jul 15, 2017

MassRafTer posted:

I love when he complains about people using the photos he does not own.

https://twitter.com/WrestlingIsKing/status/1668615377129971712

Ol' WIK there blocked me ages ago because I retweeted a picture and tagged a friend and my friend was all "wow, that's wild, thanks for showing me" and God as my witness WIK went 'so you thank him but not ME I'm blocking him how do you like that.'

Venomous
Nov 7, 2011





becoming the main character of wrestling Twitter because I have a bigger ego than Ethan Page

Testekill
Nov 1, 2012

I demand to be taken seriously

:aronrex:

Venomous posted:

becoming the main character of wrestling Twitter because I have a bigger ego than Ethan Page

Impossible, Ethan Page is all ego.

Hoss Corncave
Feb 13, 2012

Testekill posted:

Impossible, Ethan Page is all ego.

If this feud of his with Matt Hardy where Hardy is trying to help him see the error of his ways and it ends up with him becoming completely selfless No Ego Ethan Page it'll be worth it.

Mrenda
Mar 14, 2012

Hoss Corncave posted:

If this feud of his with Matt Hardy where Hardy is trying to help him see the error of his ways and it ends up with him becoming completely selfless No Ego Ethan Page it'll be worth it.

Ego Death Ethan Page

Seams
Feb 3, 2005

ROCK HARD
All Id Ethan Page

Sisal Two-Step
May 29, 2006

mom without jaw
dad without wife


i'm taking all the Ls now, sorry

MassRafTer posted:

Came across this guy who is calling his wood paneled basement a museum.

https://twitter.com/pwmuseum1/status/1668312913965088770

https://www.wrestlingmuseum.net/

His website looks like something that would be the Awful Link of the Day circa 2001.

https://twitter.com/AlanAlford/status/1666104295593222145

It's a pretty horny museum judging by this, his RTs and his twitter banner.

i can smell these photos

Coolness Averted
Feb 20, 2007

oh don't worry, I can't smell asparagus piss, it's in my DNA

GO HOGG WILD!
🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗
Super Ego Ethan Page is his face persona, obviously

ARMBAR A COP
Nov 24, 2007


Ethan Page pay Coconoco the $500 you owe

MassRafTer
May 26, 2001

BAEST MODE!!!
https://twitter.com/TheJoe973/status/1669008098214723584

Mr. Squishy
Mar 22, 2010

A country where you can always get richer.
Dave is the keeper of the jar of stars AND the wrestling ouija board.

Benne
Sep 2, 2011

STOP DOING HEROIN

MassRafTer posted:

I love when he complains about people using the photos he does not own.

https://twitter.com/WrestlingIsKing/status/1668615377129971712

And then drops some incredible punctuation as always.

I don't think I've ever seen that account post actual rasslin history

Gonzo McFee
Jun 19, 2010

He'd probably be more pissed about the rape.

Dawgstar
Jul 15, 2017

Benne posted:

I don't think I've ever seen that account post actual rasslin history

They don't. It's all just pictures from the Apter mags and related and going "all time best."

MassRafTer
May 26, 2001

BAEST MODE!!!
https://twitter.com/leslieleeiii/status/1669148411067506688

Seams
Feb 3, 2005

ROCK HARD
No idea what wrestling Leslie actually likes at this point (other than the NWA)

MassRafTer
May 26, 2001

BAEST MODE!!!

Seams posted:

No idea what wrestling Leslie actually likes at this point (other than the NWA)

The Snyderverse.

But I really loved that tweet coming after the super great 8 man and knowing we were going to get something wild with the main event trios.

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

MassRafTer posted:

The Snyderverse.

no shock lmao

MJeff
Jun 2, 2011

THE LIAR

Seams posted:

No idea what wrestling Leslie actually likes at this point (other than the NWA)

Getting attention.


MassRafTer posted:

The Snyderverse.


Well, at least he likes one good thing.

MassRafTer
May 26, 2001

BAEST MODE!!!
https://twitter.com/BrianRSolomon/status/1669188513349115904

And I agree, restore the Synderverse.

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Lid
Feb 18, 2005

And the mercy seat is awaiting,
And I think my head is burning,
And in a way I'm yearning,
To be done with all this measuring of proof.
An eye for an eye
And a tooth for a tooth,
And anyway I told the truth,
And I'm not afraid to die.
https://twitter.com/BrianRSolomon/status/1669174603812417537?t=3ekGUf4whQuzBDTMtsnywA&s=19
https://twitter.com/BrianRSolomon/status/1669187143829270528?t=gp2FcQy8uSCoFsMSrBakJg&s=19

He's the ace it's in the song

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