AEW Discussion for 5/29: FANS

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WHO WAS MOST OVER This poll is closed.
ORANGE	57	34.34%
MIRO	32	19.28%
HANGMAN	30	18.07%
INNER CIRCLE	14	8.43%
BRITT BAKER	22	13.25%
CODY	6	3.61%
DARBY	5	3.01%
Total:	166 votes

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Pylons: Mar 16, 2009

Alaois posted:

also am i the only person who noticed Paul Wight has a card entry for the Casino Battle Royale

He's the commentator but they could absolutely do the "commentator jumps up from the desk and gets in the rumble" spot.

# ¿ May 29, 2021 06:52

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# ¿ May 13, 2024 23:10

Pylons: Mar 16, 2009

MJeff posted:

That's such a corny, WWE thing that I hope they don't do it, but I wouldn't cry about Wight being the giant for Christian to slay en route to winning and I wouldn't even terribly mind him winning and getting a shot at Omega. It'd be a fun match and do a decent number.

If I was booking it I'd have someone else "slay" Paul Wight. Doesn't necessarily have to be the winner, just someone that gets a lot of credibility from it, like Hobbs.

# ¿ May 29, 2021 07:34

Pylons: Mar 16, 2009

https://twitter.com/riho_gtmv/status/1398527484614823936

Riho says her "base of operations" has moved to the US. So I guess she's over here full time now?

# ¿ May 29, 2021 07:41

Pylons: Mar 16, 2009

Lid posted:

So Thunder Rosa was going along with the racist commentary?

https://mobile.twitter.com/ReneusMeister/status/1398507498261430272

This is just an own goal all around

The consensus seems to be that Dasha was laughing kind of awkwardly/nervously because she didn't expect that (since he was just asked to do the translating) and Rosa is the one who was getting pissed off and defending Shida.

# ¿ May 29, 2021 08:26

Pylons: Mar 16, 2009

I can't get over how good Kenny opening the envelope only for the shredded pieces of the contract to just.. scatter to the wind is. Sometimes the weather at Daily's ruins segments, sometimes it makes them.

# ¿ May 29, 2021 18:00

Pylons: Mar 16, 2009

https://twitter.com/mookieghana/status/1398687373043679234

# ¿ May 29, 2021 18:12

Pylons: Mar 16, 2009

https://twitter.com/ringsidec/status/1398716621695373314?s=21

# ¿ May 29, 2021 20:07

Pylons: Mar 16, 2009

smikey posted:

but England was the one transporting and selling slaves to the colonies

They'd stopped doing that by like, the start of the 1800s.

# ¿ May 29, 2021 20:15

Pylons: Mar 16, 2009

https://twitter.com/RingsideC/status/1398719818413584387

IT'S STIIIIIING

# ¿ May 29, 2021 20:19

Pylons: Mar 16, 2009

Lead Pipe Cinch posted:

Has anyone seen a breakdown of any specific differences between Unmatched and Unrivaled action figure lines?

The only thing I've seen is that they want to alternate between Unmatched and Unrivaled lines each month. Unmatched might have some more experimental stuff too (like the Cody LJN figure)

# ¿ May 29, 2021 20:26

Pylons: Mar 16, 2009

https://twitter.com/AllEliteCody/status/1398721146997121027

Holy poo poo if they do a Best Friends 4 pack

# ¿ May 29, 2021 20:30

Pylons: Mar 16, 2009

Oh god it sounds like Paul joined their DnD session.

# ¿ May 29, 2021 20:46

Pylons: Mar 16, 2009

Coaaab posted:

I wonder if omega's gonna be tempted to replicate roman's wrestlemania finish

I think they'll do it and OC will be on the bottom of it and kick out.

# ¿ May 29, 2021 23:27

Pylons: Mar 16, 2009

Countdown show is on TNT right now. Pretty good so far, I'm loving the Young Bucks in this segment.

# ¿ May 30, 2021 00:47

Pylons: Mar 16, 2009

Artelier posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leX8cvhy3js

First time watching one of these long recaps, it's quite fun! The interview segments are really entertaining and/or endearing

AEW always does a wonderful job with these.

# ¿ May 30, 2021 01:45

Pylons: Mar 16, 2009

https://streamable.com/wo3pke This is more chilling than I've ever heard Kenny sound. AEW's video production continues to be on point.

# ¿ May 30, 2021 03:44

Pylons: Mar 16, 2009

https://twitter.com/ibushi_kota/status/1398870140377174018

# ¿ May 30, 2021 06:22

Pylons: Mar 16, 2009

Maigius posted:

Is anyone else having severe issues with B/R live this time? It tries to place the order, says I need to update my credit card info after sort of processing it, I update it, and then the checkout button will only display a loading circle. This is on Chrome, with UBlock Origins turned off. There is also no way to update credit card info without having some form of subscription, either.
It's not yet available for purchase on the Fire app, so I can't circumvent it from by having it charged to the card on my Amazon account. It's really frustrating, as I have actually programmed a better checkout process.

Yeah, I think I had to buy it on my tablet.

# ¿ May 30, 2021 07:27

Pylons: Mar 16, 2009

https://twitter.com/Fightful/status/1399031605918781444

# ¿ May 30, 2021 17:01

Pylons: Mar 16, 2009

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPLubv6lY64 New Max Caster just dropped

# ¿ May 30, 2021 17:05

Pylons: Mar 16, 2009

Jackie D posted:

https://twitter.com/AEWonTNT/status/1399039194912067584?s=19

Am I misreading this or is the title match opening the show?

Bold move to make The Jackyl the new AEW World champion.

# ¿ May 30, 2021 17:31

Pylons: Mar 16, 2009

Lamuella posted:

So you know how there was talk about whether Miro would attack Jake during the match?

https://twitter.com/AEW/status/1399100169153662976?s=19

Wow yet again someone asks for AEW to do something only for them to have already done it!

# ¿ May 30, 2021 21:37

Pylons: Mar 16, 2009

sticklefifer posted:

I'm now picturing a scenario where 2 or 3 guys accidentally hardway during the pretape, and have to meticulously blade backstage to match their wounds in the footage so they can finish in front of the live crowd without breaking consistency.

Nah they just have to get dunked in a pool to wash the blood off.

# ¿ May 30, 2021 23:01

Pylons: Mar 16, 2009

At first I thought they might do MJF vs. Eddie but now I think they'll do Mox vs. Eddie (with neither really being heels) for Eddie's first world title run.

# ¿ May 31, 2021 05:31

Pylons: Mar 16, 2009

MJeff posted:

So, here's a thought.

I thought that the title shot in the casino battle royale would be for Fyter Fest or maybe the big Miami show in July. But it's in two weeks, so it'll be in Daly's Place.

Y'think there's any chance the original winner was supposed to be Christian and they called an audible?

It was for Fyter Fest last year but the two title shots from Revolution were relatively soon after that show, I imagine Fenix and PAC vs. Bucks would've been sooner had PAC not hosed up his ankle.

# ¿ May 31, 2021 05:53

Pylons: Mar 16, 2009

Drakkel posted:

A stellar show on almost every level, but I have one problem: the story of Britt Baker winning the title.

They created a scenario where literally everyone was hoping and cheering for the babyface to lose, and that everyone should want the bad guy to win because "She's earned it!" which is just....a really weird story to tell in a wrestling show? It's kinda lowkey insulting to Shida that they've basically made her losing the title a foregone conclusion for like a year and did absolutely nothing to make anybody root for her. Thus, the hero's journey ends with a miserable failure while the first full crowd at a wrestling show in nearly 2 years celebrates the villain who cheated to beat her and she'll probably just fade away to Dark/Elevation land cause Baker's the only woman in the company that matters (until Brandi comes back of course)

Which gets into my other problem; who could possibly challenge Baker at this point? She's beaten Shida, she has victories over Thunder Rosa, and nobody else in the company has been pushed to even remotely her level. Nobody else has any sort of character or storyline beyond "is a good wrestler" or "isn't appearing on the show this week." The only other woman whose being built strong recently is Jade who is also a heel so that's kinda moot.

Frankly I'm convinced at this point it's just gonna be another year-long run where the champion shows up twice a month to squash someone while the rest of the division gets relegated to 3 minute Dark matches with no character building or storylines. Except this time the belt is on the one woman the company will allow to speak ever, so maybe she'll get more screentime than Shida but that's probably about it.

She's lost to Rosa though. Besides her there's tons of challengers for Britt - Statlander, Velvet, Riho, Jade, pull a favor from TJPW and bring back Yuka, see if you can bring VENY over, Tay Conti,

# ¿ May 31, 2021 05:55

Pylons: Mar 16, 2009

https://twitter.com/JonAlba/status/1399228120625029120 lmao Gedo said gently caress 'em

# ¿ May 31, 2021 06:05

Pylons: Mar 16, 2009

Ganso Bomb posted:

This is my favorite and always makes me laugh.

Also, Frankie appearing like he was shot out of a loving cannon to take out Karl Anderson ruled so hard.

Yeah I was gonna say, I'm super excited for Frankie's Elite Hunter gimmick.

# ¿ May 31, 2021 06:32

Pylons: Mar 16, 2009

Le Saboteur posted:

Shida carried that title and thus her division throughout the entire pandemic. Her reign ended with Britt quickly exiting with the title and not even a lingering camera shot on Shida after her loss to get a little crowd acknowledgment.

I can only guess they had to rush everything at the end there for time but not only did Britt not really get to celebrate a career defining win, the camera forgot Shida even existed after she tapped. It felt insulting.

Who gives a gently caress about the camera, the crowd were chanting "Thank you Shida"

# ¿ May 31, 2021 07:02

Pylons: Mar 16, 2009

One nice thing about a Sunday PPV is Elevation is tomorrow.

# ¿ May 31, 2021 07:43

Pylons: Mar 16, 2009

fez_machine posted:

The only reason I'm gunshy about Cody winning matches is that it's often against underdeveloped talent in terms of crowd heat.

I'm absolutely convinced that Shawn Spears wouldn't be considered a jobber if he'd won that first match between the two. The chairman gimmick absolutely has legs as we saw tonight.

A more protracted feud, given the nuclear heat before their match, would have allowed Spears to survive getting beat in the second meeting. Instead he was buried about as deep as Warhorse was.

I think they got really shy about putting over Spears like that after the absolutely horrific chairshot but maybe not.

# ¿ May 31, 2021 08:05

Pylons: Mar 16, 2009

Yeah, the story to me felt like Eddie was the weak link in the team and the Bucks don't have a weak link.

# ¿ May 31, 2021 17:34

Pylons: Mar 16, 2009

Mr. Squishy posted:

4 more Elevation matches: https://twitter.com/AEW/status/1399399018770448384

They all look good apart from the Acclaimed match, and I only say that because I don't know who the brothers Tate are.

They're Dalton Castle's boys, IIRC.

# ¿ May 31, 2021 18:11

Pylons: Mar 16, 2009

beggar posted:

Formally speaking he's Mr. Freakbeast

And hairy!

# ¿ May 31, 2021 18:23

Pylons: Mar 16, 2009

I really loved the booking for Hangman this PPV cycle. Advanced the story for both him and Cage well, leaned on AEW's rankings (which I still absolutely love), and he's so loving over.

# ¿ May 31, 2021 19:12

Pylons: Mar 16, 2009

https://twitter.com/davemeltzerWON/status/1399450465402638338

# ¿ May 31, 2021 20:42

Pylons: Mar 16, 2009

Eddie literally couldn't stop smiling during his and Mox's entrance. It loving ruled.

# ¿ May 31, 2021 21:23

Pylons: Mar 16, 2009

https://twitter.com/TheLionelGreen/status/1399470129839177729

# ¿ May 31, 2021 22:01

Pylons: Mar 16, 2009

Hangman is gonna be a hot dad.

# ¿ Jun 1, 2021 00:13

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# ¿ May 13, 2024 23:10

Pylons: Mar 16, 2009

Once things open back up I'd actually like to see a belt comparable to the SWA belt from STARDOM where it can only be defended against someone of a different nationality/country

# ¿ Jun 1, 2021 02:49

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