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blunt
Jul 7, 2005

Honestly everything went to poo poo when they got rid of the tunnels.

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blunt
Jul 7, 2005

projecthalaxy posted:



I'm gonna injeeect... a lethal dose... of skits!

I guess technically it's all Danielson's fault

blunt
Jul 7, 2005

NienNunb posted:

“Hardcore AEW Fans Who Never Engaged With 2000s/2010s Indie Wrestling” was a type of person I didn’t think existed a year or so ago but have come to realize somehow makes up the majority of the fanbase. Bizarre!

The thing that AEW had from the outset was production value. I never gave a poo poo about ROH or TNA or whoever because they all looked and sounded* like poo poo. It's a TV show first.

*Yeah AEW's audio is bad sometimes but you know what I mean.

I think the fact that I view it as a TV show might be one of the reasons I've become so burned out on it the past few months. 2 hours a week plus a cheeky rampage if I felt like it and a pape every quarter was the perfect amount of engagement for me. 5 hours a week and a pape every month ... It's too much!

blunt
Jul 7, 2005

JUNGLE BOY posted:

Anyone who celebrated Cody leaving was celebrating the beginning of the end for AEW. Personally it brings me no pleasure that AEW is dying, but it is.

I watched my favorite company die when I was a kid so I’m prepared this time. I just hope The Invasion angle is better this time around.

blunt
Jul 7, 2005

Sisal Two-Step posted:

The American Dragon

I think he already said he doesn't want that life when he's done wrestling [full time] next year?

The answer should have been Cody, maybe it still will be!

blunt
Jul 7, 2005

fart blood posted:

Did anyone ever confirm what his “personal issue” was that caused him to leave AEW?

I imagine it’s Tony because whenever he praises AEW he talks up Omega and the Bucks and Hangman but he never mentions Tony.

https://i.imgur.com/RWASVLx.mp4

blunt fucked around with this message at 18:43 on Nov 27, 2023

blunt
Jul 7, 2005

That DICK! posted:

warned yall bout the acclaimed. warned. y. all. there you were hooting and hollering and whooping daddy rear end, daddy rear end, scissor me daddy rear end scissor me that's the billy gunn from the road doggs, i was shaking my head and saying this is not the way. well since that fateful day everything has gone wrong and all is lost. but hey. at least your scissors are timbered

Would have been fine if it stopped when HOB retired Billy

blunt
Jul 7, 2005

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

blunt
Jul 7, 2005

fawning deference posted:

Lol Wardlow is gonna be another useless musclebound stooge in a dork heel faction

Probably for the best, it seems like that's his limit

blunt
Jul 7, 2005

Numero6 posted:

Tony Khan should become a wrestler.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1PhH8Q1PeE

blunt
Jul 7, 2005

Dan Lambert hostile takeover of the Don Callis Family when?

blunt
Jul 7, 2005

Brian Danielson should win the AEW world title before he switches to being a part time special attraction.

He doesn't need the title at all but Tony is crazy for not taking the opportunity to add maybe the best wrestler who ever lived to his title lineage.

blunt
Jul 7, 2005

Peanut President posted:

they should've given colt cabana cm punk's spot

They tried that but then he almost killed himself with a pair of socks

blunt
Jul 7, 2005

Can't wait for Jungle Boy to show up tonight and hit Sting with his new finisher

https://twitter.com/freshlyhooked/status/1764311859849555977

blunt
Jul 7, 2005

What on earth is the new intro song?! It contains no fuses and very little booms.

blunt
Jul 7, 2005

NienNunb posted:

Here’s how Sting could still appear at Wrestlemania

blunt
Jul 7, 2005

If WBD really had a stake in AEW they would have shut it down by now for the tax writeoff.

blunt
Jul 7, 2005

Quantum of Phallus posted:

I’ll start: let’s discuss what’s going on with the trios division

Sadly like a lot of things last year the trios division died when it got sucked into MJF's orbit. It's such an easy fix though - put the titles on top flight + andretti and make trios the rampage/party division.

blunt
Jul 7, 2005

Dango Bango posted:

AEW trios division should what the Cruiserweight division was for WCW.

I get the new normal of putting big matches like Shibata/Ospreay first while the crowd is hot. Here's the thing for TV though - none of the casual fans you're trying to keep from the lead-in A) have any idea who these guys are and B) understand pro wrestling enough to get why their stuff is so cool.

It's something that's occurred to me when thinking of the best way to introduce my girlfriend to it. The stuff that makes me mark out the most - like the entire Takeshita/Ospreay match - subverts expectation. You need context for that stuff to blow your mind.

Lead TV with fun party matches and build the card towards the main event(s) to lead the viewer through it.

There was a period during Daily's-place pandemic era where most dynamites lead off with some 6/8/10/12-man combination of the bucks/elite/dark order/inner circle/jurassic express/lucha bros/best friends and it was awesome every time.

blunt
Jul 7, 2005

GenghisTron posted:

why are people mad about these releases besides dasha lmao

no one gave a poo poo about 90% of these people before today.

Tony wasn't supposed to be like the other billionaires

blunt
Jul 7, 2005

Tato posted:

Tony executes NN, only keeps the camera on the execution for 1.3 seconds before quickly cutting to the back for an exclusive interview with Matt Hardy

Tony tries to execute NN via electric chair, sparklers go off.

blunt
Jul 7, 2005

Thoughts & prayers for Schiavone

https://twitter.com/imdariusaur/status/1778253155400376819

blunt
Jul 7, 2005

blunt
Jul 7, 2005

Jade chat reminds me that I miss Smart Mark Sterling. Has he been banished to the internet promotion?

blunt
Jul 7, 2005

JUNGLE BOY posted:

https://x.com/WhiteBoyGroove/status/1782828550699262324

read a story that is unfair to AEW? email the reporter

email your friends and family stating why you are an AEW fan

blunt
Jul 7, 2005

MJeff posted:

Subtweet? What the gently caress?

here you go gramps

blunt
Jul 7, 2005

Shinjobi posted:

I won't because he never will.


Never.

It's insane that Tony could add Danielson's name to the title lineage and somehow has been talked out of it.

blunt
Jul 7, 2005

Cody told us there were no secondary titles in AEW literally two weeks before leaving because he couldn't have the important one

blunt
Jul 7, 2005

Team AEW has zero day-one AEW wrestlers?

blunt
Jul 7, 2005

MJeff posted:

What day one AEW wrestlers should be on the team?

MJF, Hangman, PAC, OC, Lucha Bros, Mox, Jericho, Sammy, Wardlow, just put somebody on there who showed up before the pandemic.

To be fair a lot of my beef with it is that FTR loving suuuuck.

Eat My Fuc posted:

team AEW are the heels, team EVP saved us from CM Punk and beat the poo poo out of Tony Khan, babyface acts

This checks out

Pylons posted:

Why do you guys think this is some huge gotcha when it's comprised of people from WWE and the indies who went "oh this place is dope" as if that's not a good thing.

Because having all late-comers defend AEW against those dastardly EVPs is the opposite of restoring the feeling

blunt fucked around with this message at 16:09 on May 9, 2024

blunt
Jul 7, 2005

Don't care, book better

blunt
Jul 7, 2005

MJeff posted:

Watch better.

Mox isn't on Hiatus, Wardlow appeared on AEW before OC, Sammy isn't suspended.

blunt
Jul 7, 2005

Sandman from ECW posted:

:wrong:

OC was in the original Casino Battle Royale on Double or Nothing ‘19

He was eliminated by Tommy Dreamer

Replace Eddie Kingston with Tommy Dreamer

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blunt
Jul 7, 2005

Shard posted:

I'm going to enjoy aew for as long as it exists. If some stupid backroom deals makes it go away. At least I got to enjoy wrestling again. But I would also love it if we got to a place where we weren't talking about how it was going to die every week. That would be nice

but this is the hell thread

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