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fart blood posted:Did Keith Lee really refuse to job or are goons making things up again yes
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On the Voices of Wrestling ppv reaction show they said that Keith was supposed to be at last week’s Dynamite for a backstage confrontation with Swerve but he didn’t show. They weren’t sure if it was a no-show or if he told anyone. But that is why Swerve’s promo ended with “if you bother to show up”. They said no one they talked to is entirely sure what is going on.
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CopywrightMMXI posted:On the Voices of Wrestling ppv reaction show they said that Keith was supposed to be at last week’s Dynamite for a backstage confrontation with Swerve but he didn’t show. They weren’t sure if it was a no-show or if he told anyone. But that is why Swerve’s promo ended with “if you bother to show up”. They said no one they talked to is entirely sure what is going on. I'd be pissed too if I was Swerve if that's the case. Fortunately he has a totally healthy attitude of taking professional setbacks as personal slights against him and using it to fuel his performances.
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Jan 3, 2024 12:50
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I though Swerve put a nice bow on it saying he was done with losers who never show up, if Keith ever wants a shot at him again he will have to wrestle matches and work his way up to world champion Swerve. Good promo and we know Keith will never do it so the feud is won.
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Jan 3, 2024 14:03
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CopywrightMMXI posted:On the Voices of Wrestling ppv reaction show they said that Keith was supposed to be at last week’s Dynamite for a backstage confrontation with Swerve but he didn’t show. They weren’t sure if it was a no-show or if he told anyone. But that is why Swerve’s promo ended with “if you bother to show up”. They said no one they talked to is entirely sure what is going on. They said it wasn't a no show, he told them he wouldn't be there.
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Jan 3, 2024 14:10
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SIOG was good. I won't stand for this "Keith Lee was always bad in AEW" libel.
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Jan 3, 2024 14:48
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Jobitis is a real illness please respect Keith Lee's privacy
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Jan 3, 2024 14:53
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im pretty sure the summary from what we heard from keith tweets + tony scrum is that keith was working hurt (which is stupid but extremely common) for a while, then the unspecified 'hurt' got worse at the RoH ppv, and then he wasn't sure he could wrestle but wanted to, and then he wasn't cleared by medical so yeah, the unspecified hurt was boo boo face and it got so bad by the PPV that the doctors said it wasn't safe 
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Jan 3, 2024 15:07
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Keith Lee ate too much cookout and got a monster tummy ache.
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Jan 3, 2024 15:15
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Remember when everyone was clamoring for AEW to take the tag belts off of SIOG and onto the Acclaimed? lmao
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Jan 3, 2024 15:16
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ThePariah posted:Remember when everyone was clamoring for AEW to take the tag belts off of SIOG and onto the Acclaimed? lmao If they would have done it at the pape where the crowd was 100% for the Acclaimed it would have been great. Them doing it soon after was kinda corny
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Jan 3, 2024 15:18
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yeah its really easy to say that at the time when SIOG was winding down and The Acclaimed were super hot, and now The Acclaimed are super over-exposed and SIOG never really got to finish out their feud
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Jan 3, 2024 15:18
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Malcolm Excellent posted:Keith Lee ate too much cook out and got a monster tummy ache. man I could really go for a peach milkshake right now
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Jan 3, 2024 15:24
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Tampa Bae posted:yeah its really easy to say that at the time when SIOG was winding down and The Acclaimed were super hot, and now The Acclaimed are super over-exposed and SIOG never really got to finish out their feud Over exposed? They've been on TV once in at least a month and haven't had any actual feuds since winning the trios belts. (A major problem with the trios belts)
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Jan 3, 2024 15:35
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ThePariah posted:Remember when everyone was clamoring for AEW to take the tag belts off of SIOG and onto the Acclaimed? lmao yep, i remember and it was good.
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Jan 3, 2024 15:37
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In his post show promo Swerve specifically mentioned Keith's leg. I have to wonder if they wanted to prevent a Chris Candido situation.
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Jan 3, 2024 15:39
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Dango Bango posted:Over exposed? They've been on TV once in at least a month Sounds like way too much The Acclaimed
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Erin M. Fiasco posted:In his post show promo Swerve specifically mentioned Keith's leg. I have to wonder if they wanted to prevent a Chris Candido situation. He was a bit before my fandom, may I ask what the Candido situation was and how it relates?
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Jan 3, 2024 15:43
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projecthalaxy posted:He was a bit before my fandom, may I ask what the Candido situation was and how it relates? quote:At Lockdown on April 24, 2005, Candido fractured both his tibia and fibula and dislocated his ankle during a steel cage match with Lance Hoyt against Apolo and Sonny Siaki.[17] He underwent surgery the next day to have titanium plates and screws inserted into his leg. He was at the following Impact! tapings managing The Naturals to defeat America's Most Wanted to win the NWA World Tag Team Championship.[17]
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Jan 3, 2024 15:47
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Swerve in Our Glory probably hadn't peaked, but the story to tell there was the break up and the singles push of Swerve and Acclaimed was seriously, insanely over at the time. Plus, it's a good idea to have big crowd pleasing reactions and moments on your most important episode of TV of the year, it builds the history and legacy of that show and Grand Slam is already building itself a pretty nice legacy. It was correct to do it at Grand Slam. The issue is the Acclaimed then proceeded to just do the exact same act and wrestle the exact same matches and haven't changed anything about anything in the year and a half since. When they teased doing a story that might meaningfully shake up the act's status quo, it just turned out to be leading up to putting a championship on 60 year old Billy Gunn, who, checks notes, yeah, still loving has a championship like four months later. In 2022, they were one of the hottest things in the company. In 2024, they're probably one of the worst things in the company. Wrestling's cruel.
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Jan 3, 2024 15:50
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Dang. Guess Chris Candido shouldn't have gotten jobitis.
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I would be fine taking Keith Lee and Tony Khan's word for it that the dude has been working through an injury and the injury got worse and he couldn't make get cleared, but that whole "oh, he's injured, that's why he's not on TV" "no, that is not why I'm not on TV" thing, like.....what am I supposed to take away from that? And if he was working through this injury that was in danger of keeping him from missing a huge match, I dunno, why're you doing top rope Canadian Destroyers in your match with Shane Taylor, man? I think if he was going over on Saturday, he probably would've found a way to gut it out.
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Jan 3, 2024 16:05
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I don't know how he thinks his vagueposting is helpful
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Jan 3, 2024 16:14
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starting to think that maybe wrestlers aren't the best at considering long term consequences to their actions
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i think if keith was still wrestling with whatever injury he has, in his mind that's no reason for inconsistent booking. i disagree but AEW had Kenny Omega as champ while his body was 85% broken and he had vertigo every time he laid flat on his back so i dunno the funnier answer is that he said "incorrect" because the real reason he hasn't been used much is an unrelated issue on his end, like he's building a life-sized gundam model by hand or recording an album or something
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Jan 3, 2024 16:27
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Malcolm Excellent posted:Keith Lee ate too much cookout and got a monster tummy ache. I've changed my mind, Lee is still good
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Oh yeah kenny did pretend to have diverticulitis when he and jericho were told they weren't beating starks and bill.
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The overexposure thing is a real problem for AEW, I've mentioned it before. The moment something or someone gets over, it's beaten into the loving ground over and over again. That certainly happened to The Acclaimed, where it seemed like AEW brass thought all they needed to do was show up in some city and talk about scissors and 69ing and leave, every single show, and whaddya know, they got really stale and one-dimensional. Action Andretti is gonna be doing the water bottle thing in every promo now and it's going to be so moronic.
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Jan 3, 2024 16:51
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the acclaimed are a trios team where i only want to see one of them wrestle
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Everyone being "whoa" about the water bottle thing was funny because it's just one of the current teen boy memes. Still his best work so far
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projecthalaxy posted:Oh yeah kenny did pretend to have diverticulitis when he and jericho were told they weren't beating starks and bill. We found the guy who was weeping for Shawn Michaels when he lost his smile.
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Jan 3, 2024 17:01
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I prefer the good old honest "that's not gonna work for me, brother" any day
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It's crazy The Acclaimed never really seemed motivated to evolve the act, even just a little bit. When you are super over, you can take a few chances and test where you should go next. If you have the scissor thing in your bag, you can take some swings because you know you are ending on a home run regardless. I'd get anxious performing in a long talk segment where you don't really have much material. Entrance rap, 5-8 minutes of inane chatter, scissor, and we outta here was a pretty thin routine. It quickly felt like they were constantly a week away from the "ooh this is dead" segment during the whole scissors across america tour, but they more just faded away.
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cant believe the team that made its bones off South Park catchphrases and rhyming King Kong with Ding Dong has proven so unwilling to evolve
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SIOG sucked because they kept cutting off Swerve’s excellent theme for Keith Lee’s lovely one.
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I'm fine with The Acclaimed (I'd love to see Bowens get more singles matches though) but all their matches now are building to an exceedingly mediocre Daddy rear end hot tag and as a result it feels like fans care less about the Acclaimed at this point than they do Daddy rear end. Ditch Daddy rear end and let them go back to the tag division and I'd be a lot more eager to see them.
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I have been an Acclaimed hater since I first saw them back in September 2022 and seeing people finally discussing how bad they are is almost enough to make me weep. Thank you AEW Hell thread. For the first time in a while I feel Seen
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apophenium posted:I have been an Acclaimed hater since I first saw them back in September 2022 and seeing people finally discussing how bad they are is almost enough to make me weep. I think I remember you calling out how stupid it was that they won the trios titles at Wembley and EVERYBODY got so mad at you. You were 100% right.
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Still the right choice because killing the trios titles by putting them on a fun but inconsequential team is the right choice for AEW. Less belts.
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