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1 hour ago, John from Cincinnati said:
Just remember to give a wide berth to anyone who brings their pet to work.
I’m goin hard in the paint. Bill Watts jr. No pets or family backstage, no top rope moves, no masks unless you have horns, no managers with gloves on, National anthem before every match, harden the ring where everywhere feels like the apron, no more glasses backstage, and no more long hair on boys. I’ll be the best Director of Food and Beverage they’ve ever had.
@Kang, will you be my Deputy of Soft Serve Ice Cream? I don’t have many I trust with this responsibility.
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If they need to hire someone I put my hat in the ring for an EVP gig.
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Black Taurus in AEW just makes sense
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All hail President Tanahashi!
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Even with the injuries, what a fantastic year Danielson has had! The MJF IronMan feud that involved a build up with tv matches against Rush, Bandido, Thatcher, and Takeshita. An Anarchy in the Arena. The Okada match where he broke his arm and still submitted him with his legs. The Ricky Stark matches. The Sabre Jr epic. The short TNT title contender ship match against Swerve and then the match with Christian. And now the current Continental Classic. I haven’t seen the recent ROH match but it sounds good. Good stuff!
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1 hour ago, Sparkleface said:
No. It's possible to be both non-binary and a woman, as it's not an either/or thing. Gender isn't necessarily a hard-coded thing so if they feel that "girl" represents them, but she/her pronouns don't, that's just who they are.
I am Octopus and Man.
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1 hour ago, JLowe said:
It’s wild that they signed Jade and then realized that AEW had basically worked miracles with her matches and that she’s almost totally raw.
Very Heyman-esque in working towards a workers strength. You could still tell she was green but for most of it the title run came across very special.
I think her working in the PC for a while is really going to do her wonders.Cody is an interesting case. His first year or so in AEW he was arguably the face of the company. To me, the start of the company felt more like Dusty’s Revenge and I knew very little about Tony Khan. Eventually, a few character and story missteps it felt like the only option would be a heel turn (maybe they would have done that eventually if he stayed, despite what was being said).
Punk was a wild situation that was very mishandled and maybe unavoidable (of course there is no way to know that). I’m excited he’s back in wrestling.
The three of them are going to make a lot of money in WWE with a much more established merchandise machine. Cody and Punk came at perfect timing to give an already great story longer legs when there was an arguably potential to get stale.
Next wrestlers move up an hopefully can fill those voids. Julia Hart? The Danielson semi-retirement run? MJF melodrama? Kingston Kawadaing? Idk, maybe something can hit and get the train moving. There’s stuff I don’t care for and there’s stuff that I’m having a blast with. Wrestling is wrestling and hopefully can still be wrestling.
1 minute ago, NoFistsJustFlips said:I'm currently having a discussion about the belts in this thread and neither side of the issue is doing snark or push back. So that disputes that any criticism of issues is automatically returned with snark. I don't even think the most diehard AEW fans would deny a lot of what you're saying about ticket sales and pure facts like that. I think the vibe your posts have given off in the recent past in just this thread (not everywhere, not always, just this conversation) isn't so much a conversation as it is a confrontation.
You have a lot of valid points. 3k people in 10k seat buildings looks bad no matter what company does it as an example. But the way you present it is more that it's an undisputed fact that your side of the argument is the only rational side. I think we all feel like that sometimes but that's not entirely true for any of us.
Like I agree AEW looks bad losing Jade & Cody. They were day 1 homegrown kind of AEW projects. Cody was the whole identity of the company in a lot of ways. And he went from a meh presentation in AEW to a star in WWE. Jade has a huge upside and bright future. They were patient and treated her like a big deal ad she lefgt without really giving anything back. Punk tho I think that's debatable. I have already stated my way to handle it in TK's shoes is get them in a room and fix it. TK rode the fence too long and tried to keep everyone happy. But I don't think AEW looks bad here, I think Punk does. Gigantic hypocrite. But the way you receive that shouldn't be that I'm challenging you with push back or snark.
That's all. The old JR saying about McMahon. Remember go in and converse with the old man, not confront.It’s not new. That style of posting was present in the previous WrestleMania thread when he was openly misquoting people so he could be overly confrontational. Many times previously of bad faith posts when people disagree with him and claims the other side is being [insert dismissal here]
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There were many times @DEAN said AEW RULES or RULES THE WORD. But my favorite was when he’d say RULES THE MOTHER FUCKING WORKD. I did some digging and I think this was the first time that combination of words was combined by him:
I feel he would have loooooved the Classic. I didn’t know him personally outside of some friendly messages. But I really miss his posts and the Caps lettering as if he was shouting things like GREAT!
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1 hour ago, Casey said:
Do you really think they’re gonna absorb the ROH title into this Triple Crown and not have it be the main title for that brand, though? It’s still effectively the ROH World title.
I think they’re tripling it. I’m just not sure if it’s three Rings or three Honors. I will say Ring of HHH might bring back too many Reign of Terror flashbacks for me. He is hot right now after pointing at a lot of cool developmental Indy talent, though.
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I guess a WWE Universe equivalent might be NXT + NXT UK + King of the Ring? Just rebranding, All-Atlantic -> International. Very silly and I wouldn’t do it but the people involved that will likely win it will hopefully give them more tv time and something for me to sink my teeth into as a viewer.
If it’s just a cute moment and nothing more happens then I’ll be sad.
All in all, if we get Swervy blood mouth action like we equally want, I’m happy.
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Just now, Casey said:
I looked at the All-Atlantic/International and TNT titles as the equivalent to the IC and Euro titles from back in the day.
This would be like putting some of the top WWE guys in a round robin tournament for the NXT title or something. It only elevates the title, IMO. Why would Okada care about wrestling for the NJPW Openweight title and the ROH title when he can waltz into AEW and get a World title match tomorrow?
But, I mean, I’m always open to Swerve bleeding into more people’s mouths so sign me up, I guess?
But it’s not the ROH Title. It’s that times three (or maybe 2.5…or maybe 1.5)
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12 minutes ago, Casey said:
Like I’ve said previously though, I really don’t care about the outcome of this tournament because that Triple Crown title is beneath most of these guys that are in the lead. Let’s be honest: it’s the ROH World title, a soon to be defunct New Japan title and a brand new title. Who cares.
I do agree with you, but I will admit that I thought the All-Atlantic belt was dumb and it lead to some good stuff.
Maybe Danielson wins and they wiggle it to have the Wrestle Kingdom Okada match be for that belt. Or Eddie wins and Akiyama, Kawada, Kobashi, and Taue come out and they all hug. Of Swerve wins and bleeds in more people’s mouths. It’s all up hill, baby!!!-
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Thanks KANG!
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Is there a good podcast that reviews or talks about Collision? I noticed WrestleTalk and Denise Salcedo didn’t do the past two weeks or so.
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The Classic is my favorite thing in wrestling right now. Absolutely riveting stuff. Plus, the MJF shenanigans has Samoa Joe doing promos. Pretty cool stuff.
—-Get we’ll soon Omega!
Who replaces Omega in the Golden Jets bits? Luther? Ethan Page? Evil Uno?
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And the story mode is dumb
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Mo’ Yen, Mo’ Problems.
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When Jungle Boy returns he should come out to Cult of Personality
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13 hours ago, AxB said:
I can screen share it on the Discord (or the other Discord) before Collision if you want.
Hey, appreciate it man. I ended up getting caught up with some stuff so missed Collision too.
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Damn it, I thought Garcia vs Danielson was gonna be on Collision
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If we get Brood Copeland maybe we’ll see Swerve’s blood drank again.
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1 hour ago, Casey said:
People on Reddit that were there claimed they saw him blading around his eye.
Which, I mean… dude. Come on.
Not enough eye cutting in wrestling if you ask me
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As long as it leads to Curt watches 2010’s Big Japan or something, I’m all in favor of improving health.
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1 hour ago, odessasteps said:
Danielson goes from Gandalf the Grey to Gandalf the White?
Bryan Danielson to Daniel Bryanson
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AEW - DECEMBER 2023
in ALL ELITE WRESTLING
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American made unless you have a hand written note from your doctor.
As long as you’re holding the tag rope, you can pin legally.
@Kang, you’ve been promoted to my Deputy Chief of Soft Serve Ice Cream and Car Starting. Congrats, you start today.
My tentacles are as fast as those Dragon Gate sprinters. Too bad I outlawed running.