|
Let's not rewrite history too much, pushing Swerve and Keith Lee was cool and good and the Acclaimed were one of the most over things in the company and FTR just happened to have tons of awesome matches and one of the best trilogies of all time during this supposed insane bungle. The tag titles have pretty much always been on exactly who they should be on besides maybe right now, where you should probably just be giving Ricky a singles push.
|
#
?
Dec 8, 2023 02:59
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 24, 2024 23:08 |
|
|
MJeff posted:Let's not rewrite history too much, pushing Swerve and Keith Lee was cool and good and the Acclaimed were one of the most over things in the company and FTR just happened to have tons of awesome matches and one of the best trilogies of all time during this supposed insane bungle. Agreed except at the very start of AEW - losing to Private Party was interesting I guess but they really should have won the belts out of the gate and leaned into being jackass heels in 2019. Same as how we never got a true Omega best bout machine run and Cody not turning heel, the great AEW what ifs
|
|
#
?
Dec 8, 2023 04:27
|
|
|
Bucks losing in the first tag title tournament was a decent idea since it'd put over another team and you could do a chase. And I could see why they did Private Party even if it didn't mean anything in the long run as Private Party stalled in their growth Now SCU winning the titles feels like a major miss. Probably should of been Best Friends
|
|
#
?
Dec 8, 2023 06:03
|
|
|
if i can't rewrite history... then i'll drestroy it.
|
|
#
?
Dec 8, 2023 06:20
|
|
|
That DICK! posted:By The Way was a great album Probably the best of their second run with John Frusciante.
|
|
#
?
Dec 8, 2023 06:40
|
|
|
MJeff posted:The tag titles have pretty much always been on exactly who they should be on besides maybe right now, where you should probably just be giving Ricky a singles push. Disagree slightly, with three in particular. The current champs being obvious like you mentioned. It’s great getting Big Bill more over but Ricky has been shunted down the card massively. FTR during their belt collector story . Proud n Powerful should have had a run back when they were hot, it was a big miss at the time not to get another of their home grown teams more over.
|
|
#
?
Dec 8, 2023 09:28
|
|
|
The way Starks & Big Bill won the titles owned and entirely justifies their reign. No reason it needs to be a 6+ month reign though
|
|
#
?
Dec 8, 2023 10:30
|
|
|
the two best tag teams in aew are/were PnP and Best Friends and they did the best tag match AEW has ever done, imo if they gave trent and chuck the belts with a lot of promo time and creative input on their various feuds, they would be very big stars because just like OC they tap into a form of modern detached and cynical culture very well when they're given the chance to. Acclaimed were good, Starks and Bill are good, the rest are all some variation of smark team for smark marks and that hits the exact limit of appeal that keeps happening
|
|
#
?
Dec 8, 2023 12:40
|
|
|
i put on a random early dynamite because i was bored and i didn't see any aew before february 2022, and cody rhodes was just referred to as the mononym "cody." what the hell was that? you can't be scared of a guy who says "just 'cody'" and then has that tattoo unless you're scared of a guy stealing your catalytic converter or taking everything prescription in your medicine cabinet because he has a guy who'll buy anything Rx, even if it's for toenail fungus
|
|
#
?
Dec 8, 2023 15:06
|
|
|
you had to be tghere
|
|
#
?
Dec 8, 2023 15:07
|
|
|
Eat This Glob posted:i put on a random early dynamite because i was bored and i didn't see any aew before february 2022, and cody rhodes was just referred to as the mononym "cody." what the hell was that? you can't be scared of a guy who says "just 'cody'" and then has that tattoo unless you're scared of a guy stealing your catalytic converter or taking everything prescription in your medicine cabinet because he has a guy who'll buy anything Rx, even if it's for toenail fungus legal reasons, wwe owned the trademark to Cody Rhodes
|
|
#
?
Dec 8, 2023 15:08
|
|
|
Quantum of Phallus posted:legal reasons, wwe owned the trademark to Cody Rhodes oh. lol you can still do better than "cody" imo
|
|
#
?
Dec 8, 2023 15:20
|
|
|
Eat This Glob posted:oh. lol That’s what he was going by in the indies and new japan too.
|
|
#
?
Dec 8, 2023 15:21
|
|
|
It did give us the very funny way they were announced as Cody and (legally required pause) Brandi Rhodes
|
|
#
?
Dec 8, 2023 15:22
|
|
|
projecthalaxy posted:It did give us the very funny way they were announced as Cody and (legally required pause) Brandi Rhodes 100% the reason she got hired
|
|
#
?
Dec 8, 2023 15:34
|
|
|
Eat This Glob posted:oh. lol If Cody was dedicated to his craft he'd just have legally changed his name to Cody Rhodes. But sadly he's a hack
|
|
#
?
Dec 8, 2023 15:59
|
|
|
why not cody "wide open" roads? This is why hes back slumming in the WWE and not killing in the indys with Cardonna
|
|
#
?
Dec 8, 2023 16:39
|
|
|
projecthalaxy posted:It did give us the very funny way they were announced as Cody and (legally required pause) Brandi Rhodes CODY andbrandi RHODES
|
|
#
?
Dec 8, 2023 16:50
|
|
|
Suplex Liberace posted:why not cody "wide open" roads? This is why hes back slumming in the WWE and not killing in the indys with Cardonna Cody really should have been part of the Varsity Blonds and they should have announced him as: Cody, Cody Bo-Bo-dy Bo-na-na fanna Fo-fo-dy Fee-fi-mo-mody CODY!
|
|
#
?
Dec 8, 2023 17:44
|
|
|
Rush always does the same moves in the same order. And half of them are emotes.
|
|
#
?
Dec 8, 2023 23:43
|
|
|
So does Orange Cassidy and I mind it way more with Orange than I do with Rush. Knowledge I'm taking from this is that Orange Cassidy needs to be more like Rush.
|
|
#
?
Dec 9, 2023 00:07
|
|
|
magiccarpet posted:Rush always does the same moves in the same order. And half of them are emotes. Yeah, but it's cool when he does this because he has immense physical charisma.
|
|
#
?
Dec 9, 2023 00:10
|
|
|
magiccarpet posted:Rush always does the same moves in the same order. And half of them are emotes. so does jhon cena and hes great
|
|
#
?
Dec 9, 2023 00:37
|
|
|
magiccarpet posted:Rush always does the same moves in the same order. And half of them are emotes. I’m gonna let you in on a secret. Almost every single wrestler ever does this.
|
|
#
?
Dec 9, 2023 01:36
|
|
|
MJeff posted:So does Orange Cassidy and I mind it way more with Orange than I do with Rush. Knowledge I'm taking from this is that Orange Cassidy needs to be more like Rush. Don't we all
|
|
#
?
Dec 9, 2023 01:45
|
|
|
forkboy84 posted:If Cody was dedicated to his craft he'd just have legally changed his name to Cody Rhodes. But sadly he's a hack its unbelievable to me that he didnt do this.
|
|
#
?
Dec 9, 2023 01:46
|
|
|
magiccarpet posted:Rush always does the same moves in the same order. And half of them are emotes. one of those moves is 'just pummeling the other guy' though so its fine.
|
|
#
?
Dec 9, 2023 01:47
|
|
|
The_Rob posted:I’m gonna let you in on a secret. Almost every single wrestler ever does this. Yeah, but the magic is mixing up the order and throwing in little wrinkles and finding new ways to do old stuff and some wrestlers are definitely better at that than others. The best I've ever seen at that, shocker, is Okada. Guys has like four moves and he's always finding ways to make it seem fresh.
|
|
#
?
Dec 9, 2023 02:40
|
|
|
Dropkick Elbow Drop Rainmaker World Famous Money Clip
|
|
#
?
Dec 9, 2023 03:22
|
|
|
Just for fun. Rainmaker Tombstone Landslide (I think he started doing this in 2019?) Cobra Flowsion (I think he started doing this last year) Money Clip Dropkick Cradle Neckbreaker Flapjack Elbow Drop I seriously have a hard time thinking of anything else after that. And that's with him adding two high-impact moves in the last couple years.
|
|
#
?
Dec 9, 2023 03:26
|
|
|
Does he still do the Scooby Dooby Doo?
|
|
#
?
Dec 9, 2023 03:35
|
|
|
Okada's peak is better than anyone else in the world but for me nobody beats Kento Miyahara for sheer consistency, and he's the exact same way. He'll hit the Blackout knee 15+ times over the course of the match (to my delight each and every time) because otherwise he's only got the Big Boot, Headbutt and German Suplex
|
|
#
?
Dec 9, 2023 03:52
|
|
|
I dunno, I mean I think Bret was the first to really have the five moves of doom popularized. It was kind of like the "oh poo poo here we go" moment in his matches where he took control and you knew it was all over for the other guy, so if that person ever broke out of the sequence it was a big deal. I don't think it's a bad thing. It's communication with the audience that the end of the match is coming, and you can do a lot of things with that in keeping or breaking the expectations. But it's also a big sign that they should really pay attention now.
|
|
#
?
Dec 9, 2023 06:27
|
|
|
RUSH slander is too much, even for this hosed up thread
|
|
#
?
Dec 9, 2023 11:44
|
|
|
Quantum of Phallus posted:RUSH slander is too much, even for this hosed up thread 
|
|
#
?
Dec 9, 2023 12:29
|
|
|
todays topic: why does AEW keep chasing off its top stars?
|
|
#
?
Dec 9, 2023 13:58
|
|
|
JUNGLE BOY posted:todays topic: why does AEW keep chasing off its top stars? Why do they cut deadweight you mean? courage
|
|
#
?
Dec 9, 2023 15:58
|
|
|
Ishii has taught us you only need two moves to be awesome: a german suplex and a vertical suplex. Also good chops but idk if that really counts as a move.
|
|
#
?
Dec 9, 2023 16:10
|
|
|
i think what sucks the most and is making me less enthusiastic about wrestling as a whole is that guys like the young bucks, cody, and punk all talked a big game for years about how important an alternative to WWE is to the wrestling industry and then at the first moment it’s no longer convenient to their egos, they all go right back to being content with WWE regaining its dominance. if it was about money i would understand but that doesn’t seem to be the problem. if this company survives it will be because of guys like mox and bryan. they should be the real heroes of AEW in the history books.
|
|
#
?
Dec 9, 2023 20:37
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 24, 2024 23:08 |
|
|
Young Bucks are in WWE?
|
|
#
?
Dec 9, 2023 20:57
|
|