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Stall_19 posted:https://twitter.com/WONF4W/status/1720182054694912177 Thanks, I hate it
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Bryan getting worked up at them not showing MJF actually picking the Acclaimed to go with is definitely proof of things going over his head. The Acclaimed gave MJF their conditions for teaming and handed him the bag with the clothes. MJF said there was still one group left on his list and the Acclaimed left. Then the camera pans to Jarrett and his guys pretty much doing "One of us..." leading to MJF looking very unsure of this and then down at the bag of clothes and then back at Jarrett. It wasn't exactly hard to see that Max was deciding that the Acclaimed was the better option.
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Counter argument: Wrestling is primarily for folks who can't follow the story in a loony tune and AEW should book accordingly
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quote:There will be a one week period, the issue that would normally be out on 12/15 and dated 12/18, where there will be no Observer Newsletter due to a vacation I am taking that week. Going forward I would expect issues 51 weeks a year as I would like to do one vacation annually. loving bull poo poo. Dave's gone soft. Unsubscribinb
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he went on the Jericho cruise and became patient 0 for Covid
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Daves a wrestling machine but hes taken some small vacations, some that didn't even include wrestling at all.
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Yeah Dave took vacations but worked through them cause you can't stop Dave from talking wrestling
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praying for a december newsletter that buries his loved ones poor vacation choices
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He wanted to go to Disneyland but well, uh, you know, plans change
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I love that one Observer he wrote on the plane to Japan, the Story of Dave Meltzer. Genuinely nice.
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Every year, someone major will die the week he takes a vacation.
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doos posted:He should go to the beach. NOW!!!!!!
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There was a streak of, like, four WOLs that Bryan missed over the span of three months in 2022 where Earth-shattering news happened. Dave Meltzer probably fears that if he takes a week off, Vince McMahon will die of autoerotic asphyxiation or something like that.
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Edward Mass posted:Dave Meltzer probably fears that if he takes a week off, Vince McMahon will die of autoerotic asphyxiation or something like that. Dave: Hey Bryan, I'm on vacation, did the wrestling world suffer any great loss while I've been gone. Bryan: No.
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Jerusalem posted:Dave: Hey Bryan, I'm on vacation, did the wrestling world suffer any great loss while I've been gone. Edited for Bryan-speak
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Shard posted:How did Bryan and Dave first partner up? Dave was a reader of Bryan's Figure Four Weekly newsletter and thought he was very funny and invited him to be his co-host when Wrestling Observer Live launched on eYada (an early internet only radio station) in the 1990s
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fart blood posted:Why are Bryan Alvarez and Dave Meltzer baffled so much by the booking of the ROH six man match on Dynamite? I didn’t watch the show because I no longer have cable but I read the results on the observer site and it looks very straightforward because Swerve and Hangman have a feud. I don’t get what was hard to follow here. 1) Why the match did not get announced until a couple of hours before the show aired 2) Why the follow-up to Swerve's home invasion and Hangman running out of the arena in a panic last week was "well, here's the Hangman ready to have a match!" 3) Why Hangman was wrestling a crew of people allied with the home invaders like it was just a regular rear end match and not a blood feud 4) How Hangman got so distracted by the mere sight of Nana like "ohhhhh, yeah! I just remembered that I want to kill the manager of the guys I'm wrestling!" And to a larger extent, what went on for the Elite to reunite, win these belts, not really do anything with them, lose them back to Mogul Embassy, and immediately start a Young Bucks heel turn/Elite break-up. Bryan definitely completely misses some things once in awhile, but I also feel like people either listen to short clips or have something relayed secondhand so "I am baffled at why they would do this" gets turned into "I am baffled, what happened, who are these wrestlers, where am I???" Even the MJF teaming with the Acclaimed thing, his complaint was Last week: MJF happily agrees to team with Samoa Joe, shakes on it, says he would rather light himself on fire than team with the Acclaimed, he'll never team with the Acclaimed This week: MJF decides maybe he's not going to team with Samoa Joe after all because __________, reiterates again that he definitely, definitely, definitely will not pick the Acclaimed, and then picks the Acclaimed. The obvious thing Dynamite was telling you is "he had to team with the Acclaimed, there were no other options" except... it was also showing you that there WERE other options and Max voluntarily rejected most of them?
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Hell, him being deadset against the Acclaimed to the point that the Kingdom are his only alternative seemed like the obvious ending.
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Shard posted:How did Bryan and Dave first partner up? They tell the story after the first question in the London Q&A. Bryan had a hotline and after it went down he faxed Dave and asked to work for his hotline. Dave started his show in 1998 and did one episode talking alone and immediately realized that he needed a co-host and called Bryan to help him. They didn't really know each other at that point.
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yea ok posted:The VoW hall of fame audio this year is really good. Too Many Johns
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Gaz-L posted:Hell, him being deadset against the Acclaimed to the point that the Kingdom are his only alternative seemed like the obvious ending. I was expecting to see mjf run through all the stables, either being turned down or turning them down House of black just stares him down, planet Jarrett was perfect, callis family gives him the douchechills, best friends just stare and then walk away... If they are gonna do an all show story, do it. I wanted to see another Samoa Joe and max encounter. It would have been fun seeing the butcher and the blade and kip try to offer and be turned down, or a lance archer moment of showing up and saying only if he gets a title shot, only for max to make some joke about how he already has a guy like that
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Kennel posted:They tell the story after the first question in the London Q&A. I'm actually curious about a bit of Davelore and this seems the best place to ask. I know F4W and WON used to be independent (competitors?) and now it's one thing but how exactly did that merger look? Like was it presented as a 50 50 merger, did Dave just put F4W on the letterhead when Bryan started doing the hotline, or some secret third thing? Was there a ritual combat is my question really.
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yea ok posted:The VoW hall of fame audio this year is really good. Definitely! I started listening to the non-wrestler category one with Sepervive but then I had to go to work. Previous ones have all been great so I'm looking forward to hearing the rest of this episode.
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duckdealer posted:Definitely! Just finished that one up earlier, and it's really good. 2.5 hours of Semp audio, good?? That's right.
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projecthalaxy posted:I'm actually curious about a bit of Davelore and this seems the best place to ask. I know F4W and WON used to be independent (competitors?) and now it's one thing but how exactly did that merger look? Like was it presented as a 50 50 merger, did Dave just put F4W on the letterhead when Bryan started doing the hotline, or some secret third thing? Was there a ritual combat is my question really. In 2008 they basically just closed the old wrestler observer website, moved the WOL and WOR archive to f4w, and started running the digital version of the observer on f4w for the first time. Before then the observer was only available by print or email.
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