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  1. On 3/22/2024 at 7:57 PM, GuerrillaMonsoon said:

    Classic Foley. Puts himself over for carrying Gordy to a good match, then just buries the guy for how much he'd lost a step in the ring, and tells a bunch of stories about him taking drugs from strangers on an airplane. "But I'm always going to be grateful for the kindness he showed me..."

     

    Do you just have a dislike of Mick Foley? Or a dislike of Elsalvajeloc? Because what you've been posting kind of comes off as someone with an axe to grind and really shoe-horning that opinion into a situation that doesn't fit. Mick complimented how kind he was. And that somehow crosses a line? Or is what crossed a line him complimenting a man for something that happened in the 80s while also talking bad of something that happened 10 years later in the 90s? I kind of can't follow what the gripe even is here.

    Terry Gordy was a great worker before the OD. Terry Gordy was not a great worker after the OD. A man putting over how kind someone was and then saying a negative thing he did like EIGHT years later doesn't make him fake or phony of passive aggressive. To me, it shows a man that hates that the narrative is so negative about Gordy. And that he wanted to balance it by talking about something nice he did. You may have some legitimate Foley issues you've heard or seen before. But this wasn't one.

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  2. That looks like a movie I will enjoy. That looks like a John Wick movie. It's violent and it's action packed. It's just not a Crow movie. I equate a Crow movie with a certain ambience. A real dark and cinematic vibe to the cinematography. It's not bright. It's dark. It's wet. It's a rain drenched limited pallet visual. It's goth. This doesn't have any of that. I get that updates for new generations need changes that add to the mythos. But the gothic dark almost black and white nature of the original is the vibe that audiences flocked to and basically THE identity of The Crow.

    This looks like a well done fun action flick. But it doesn't feel like it fits in The Crow mythos at all. The dialed back face paint. The tattoos. The soundcloud rapper vibe of Eric Draven's look. They were aiming for Ledger Joker. They got Leto Joker. I expect Skarsgard to elevate it beyond the output we got from Leto. This will be well done. It will probably even be good. But this doesn't feel like The Crow. Ledger still felt like Joker... even if he was a new take on him.

    Brandon Lee's appearance was almost ghost like. A methodical gothic ghost out for vengeance against the baddest the streets had to offer. This just looks like a mad Twitch streamer sticking it to corporate America.

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  3. What a weird move. For The Jaguars, not The Patriots. We knew Mac Jones wasn't the guy. So not surprising The Patriots are moving on. But for The Jags to bring in someone who sure seemed like he threw a lot of hissy fits to be your backup, just odd. But good, I forever hate Doug Pederson and wish him nothing but bad luck professionally.

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  4. It's going to take awhile to get used to logos all over the mat in wrestling like it is in MMA. I know occasionally we've had corner sponsorships in WCW & AEW. And WWE had the Cruiserweight logo in the corners for a bit there. But big obnoxious unavoidable logos for products right in the center is jarring. I know it's not worth the breath to complain about because there's nothing that can be done about it. It's been the UFC standard for awhile and it's going to be a standard for WWE going forward too. I do find it less obnoxious than Cinnamon Toast Crunch logos and mascots all over the video screen when there was a hate filled father vs son blow off match happening tho.

    I liked the end promo a lot. Heel Rock has really added some life to everything going on. Think it's pretty clear Rock & Reigns win night 1. Then a miscommunication spot between Rock & Roman leads to Cody's win. Setting up those two working, either at Summer Slam or Mania next year. In a way tho that will be a disservice to Cody who should win the big one all on his own.

  5. I like the look of the new graphics and set. It feels distinctive in a way a bunch of screens and lasers didn't.

    Show had a real energy. Things were happening. And that's one thing AEW has been missing. I thought the opening was good. I thought the close was good. I thought the top of the hour segment was good. If we could get TK to switch the formula up and sometimes throw in some shorter matches / a squash or two AEW would be cooking.

    ALL IN looking like Okada vs Omega, and maybe Ospreay vs Swerve for the title. Add a Nigel vs Bryan match, Mercedes vs Jamie Hayter for the title, & like Pac vs Samoa Joe & you have a KILLER show.

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  6. The weird route we took to get here makes sense to me now. Rock is beloved. How do we get him booed by the audience that view him as an all time legend? You have it appear like there's some backstage BS of him pulling shit ti steal the match from someone WWE fans genuinely love. Because heels doing kayfabe heel things don't make crowds turn on you anymore.

    It worked. Heel Rock is back. Something fresh that we haven't seen in years. Now you setup the tag to main night 1. You have Cody win on Night 2. On Raw you have Roman attack Rock and kick him out of The Bloodline. And you set their Mania match up a year out.

    Definitely not a straight line to get from A to B but it makes sense now. I've been big on thinking Roman is breaking the Bruno record. But you will burn the town to the ground so to speak if Cody loses again. If they go through with it I expect a Cody win. They wouldn't dare risk it would they?

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  7. I'm very anxious to see how free agency shakes out for The Giants. Upgrades are needed in a lot of areas and the draft can't fix them all.

    Losing Barkley is bad. Losing McKinney is bad. Being stuck with Danny Limes is bad. The number 6 pick is a bit outside of that guaranteed franchise QB pick slot. But maybe a franchise WR (which has been needed in NY for awhile now).

    I also do NOT want Russel Wilson popping his head in the door trying to get on the roster for a vet minimum contract. Will just cause more drama than it will fix.

    Also also, not sold on the new D coordinator. This could be a very bad year in New York.

  8. There's no perfect answer. Just gotta pick one and stick with it. Doctor at ringside? Cool. Ref has the final say? Cool. Just get a protocol, make sure everyone knows it, and the rules apply to everyone no matter what. If the ref can't handle it, they shouldn't be a ref. I know it was said they're not doctors. But a bare minimum of paramedic or first responder training given to your refs would be the smartest investment a company could make. Send them all through some classes so they have some skills to spot, first respond, etc. If an emergency arises they are in the perfect position to help quickly.

    I mean the Sid leg break spot was brutal in WCW. But what made it even worse is no one did a fucking thing for him. Everyone stands around not knowing what to do. Waiting for the mystery man reveal. Letting a dude pin him. What, like 4-5 minutes passes before a single hand is lifted to help him? That was 25 years ago. And it a lot of respects nothing has changed. And it should have by now.

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  9. Sting had the perfect send off. And this is why I will never understand the tribalism of shiting on AEW existing (vice versa for any AEW tribalism that shit on WWE existing). Sting did so much for the wrestling business. He's a legitimate icon. And without AEW existing this amazing moment never materializes. WWE discarded him with a quickness after his injury. This moment never exists in this timeline without AEW. And that's not a shot at WWE. WWE does great moments for a ton of legends that deserve them as well. The more national wrestling that can give these guys their flowers like this the better.

    I'm so happy for Sting. His entire run was pretty much perfect. There were only maybe 2-3 times the whole run where he didn't look at the top of his game. And this match especially, he never looked bad. He was never put into a position where we were sad for him or it was hard to watch. Everyone got to have the same feel good emotions he had. His cinematic debut match was in my opinion the best one of them all. He had a fun match against FTR. The coffin match at Webley was fucking dope. The six man tag with Punk was great. The six man tag at the first Forbidden Door was great. This was great.

    What a feel good way to cap off a career. The presentation of the pre match video and his kids being previous versions of him. Just *chef's kiss*. I love when wrestling is done well.

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  10. I haven't played a Smackdown / 2K game in forever. So this may be a dumb take. But I do play Madden Ultimate Team every year. It's basically the only mode I play in Madden. And I get everyone poo - pooing micro transactions. But if its anything like MUT, you don't have to spend money right? Like I didn't even buy Madden this year. Got it free with Gamepass a few weeks back. Built up a 91 rated team already without spending a single cent.

    Is that possible in this? Or is this full on the only way to actually play the mode and have fun with it is spending money? Can't you just get good at the game and grind it out and use in game currency to buy the stuff? I'm not at all interested in buying this, tho I am curious about the answer after seeing everyone post about it.

  11. You have a leader going from drawing you 250 at your PPV & TV tapings to 1400. From 1,000 PPV buys to 29,000. I don't care if the tv format is stale (and it may be you might be 100% right, I haven't watched recently to have an opinion for or against), regardless you don't send away the guy who was getting you real results like that.

    Especially when the guy you're replacing him with has ZERO wrestling knowledge. It's Jim Herd all over again. Will TNA have better ideas than The Ding Dongs going forward? Doubt it.

  12. It's being reported that the reason is Damore was constantly butting heads with the CEO because he wanted an increase in the budget to go after bigger stars and continue the growth.

    If that's true straight up Fuck TNA. That man literally dragged your corpse out of the grave with his vision. He grew TNA back into being a talked about relevant brand for the first time since Anthem bought it.

    The Man just drew the biggest gate and biggest buy rate in a decade. His vision was working you cheap fucks. Now they put in a stooge 2020s Jim Herd. And they will fall all the way back into that grave.

    At least lolTNA will be a thing again.

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  13. 11 hours ago, Craig H said:

    Anyway, can someone ask HHH what inning of the story are we in at this point?

    This is inning 5 of 9. Did you guys mistake that reference for something else? This is the 5th year of the 9 years overall he'll be champion to break Bruno's record. Even if that's not the actual plan, that's what the wink wink reference to which inning they were in was about. Because that was a Heyman line during a presser a few years back.

    I'm of two minds with that whole thing. I get where they are going here. But again that's under the assumption that the destination is still so far away. But it really is kicking sand in the face of the fans. You have a clear number one face. With a clear goal the fans want to see happen. And you just never give it to them. In the days when attendance mattered and ratings and buys mattered that would kill a company. But we're in the days where rights fees & Saudi money are all that matters.

     

    6 hours ago, dogwelder said:

    It's all a swerve.  Cody's going to face Ilja or Trick for the NXT title at WM.

    That would actually make more story sense than what we got. I'm gonna take everything from you. But I'm going to start at literal zero and work my way up to you. So not a single soul can say I didn't earn it. Then work his way up through all the titles and boom. But no the current story is I want this so bad, and I won the chance to do it now, but nah dawg. Here's Rocky.

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  14. Beating Cody would get him just as close. I didn't phrase that well. It's just not a lot of people have bought in to my theory about that being the idea of this reign, beating Bruno. Just saying beating Rock will get less backlash than beating Cody again. So keeps him on the track without a huge fan uproar that might get them to pull the trigger on derailing it.

  15. I don't think it will tho. The crowd tonight didn't like it when Cody was talking about the other title. But they were still chanting this is awesome for the stare down. I get that a *Philly* crowd let alone a super smart mark Mania Philly crowd could hijack real quick. But then I remember all the people wanting to hijack have pretty much left. Plus this is what people wanted since Roman started this Bloodline thing. I know it's a repeat of Rock taking Punk's spot, and people love Cody legit universally over with all the different fan segments. But still. This is a cool match. And I don't think it's gonna get shit on all like that. I know I could be wrong. But it's just kind of a hunch.

  16. If memory serves me right he had a torn triceps and tried to lie and trick everyone and get through the medicals so once he was signed he could "get hurt" and get the surgery paid for because he couldn't afford it. They rejected him due to the needing surgery. The hep was discovered later while working for TNA as Desmond Wolfe.

  17. 21 minutes ago, Log said:

    Don’t get me wrong. Rock/Roman is absolutely the match they should be doing while they can still do it. It’s just that, if you knew that was the match, why even do this stuff with Cody? 

    I think it's pretty clearly, now in hindsight, a switch because of the Punk injury. They had Roman v Cody and Set v Punk penciled in while kind of kicking the can down the road with The Rock. That's why Cody was emphatically pointing at Roman after winning. And they were just going to try and get The Rock to boost a different show. But now no Punk all of a sudden a big marquee double feature turned into a one match show. (I mean that in promotion only, there's gonna be a bunch of good stuff booked).

    Feel like I'm the only one on board with this switch. I think it makes Mania more interesting. Plus it avoids how big of a tantrum people were gonna throw when Cody lost again. Now Cody gets a Mania main event crowning World Title win. Roman gets closer to Bruno and The Rocky gets to put over his family in his last match ever. It's a win-win-win thing all around.

    I think the kayfabe explanation got botched. Probably because Cody is legit hurt by all this and had trouble getting the story out. But he wants to take everything from Roman. So he's pressing the killswitch that will nuke The Bloodline. The infighting is gonna split up the group. Roman's gonna lose his crew, his family, and then World Champion will swoop in and take the last thing left, The WWE Title. In theory at least. I still think the penciled in idea is Roman breaking the Bruno reign. May of 2028 someone can finally beat him.

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  18. Two things I like about the rankings:

    1. It finally gives us a kayfabe in Canon hierarchy for the men's singles titles. TNT is #2. International #3. Continental #4. Case closed.

    2. The Young Bucks aren't ranked in the tag division. So should be a fun little segment once Sting & Darby win the tag belts where they run a Gauntlet Match with jobber teams to get 7 or 8 quick wins and ranks themselves #1.

     

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  19. Starting to see it be reported multiple places that Punk stuffered a significant injury (thought to be a torn triceps) but not confirmed yet. And that he will address his injury tonight in Raw.

    Not happy to be right but was pretty apprent while watching.

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  20. 11 hours ago, Casey said:

    I wish I could say I’m surprised that people are wishing or betting on Punk being injured, but it’s also the same ones that mention Punk for some reason in a thread about Vince McMahon being a sexual predator. Just fucking weird.

    I' don't think you were referring to me here here just in case you were I want to add I don't want Punk to be hurt. I hope I'm wrong. Despite all the shit he stirred up I still generally want the guy to walk away feeling fulfilled and like he has closure on the wrestling career when he finishes up. I just noticed right away him messing with the right triceps after the Futureshock. Same as I noticed him messing with his arm after the dive to Mox when he got hurt in that one.

  21. 13 minutes ago, Lawful Metal said:

    Did Punk injure his arm on the Drew Mac Future Shock? I was hoping he’d win and be too hurt to go to mania.

    I’m on Team Chaos

    I got a crisp fiver saying yes he did. Immediately had a panic huddle with the refs. Favored it the whole match. Clutching it on the floor. I'd chalk up him looking poor in the match to being hurt, but more so than tearing the triceps again he was probably mentally drained knowing instantly it was hurt and all the work and fallout that is in front of him.

    I thought Jordynn Grace looked better than all the rest of the women in that match. Her shit looked solid, she didn't botch anything or look lost. She looked like a star. Might be a double edge sword for TNA, because WWE is gonna want her now. The women's Rumble had an uncommon amount of whiffs and deer in the headlight stuff. And she really stood out.

    Cody winning makes zero sense because they've muddied the waters with that Rock challenge. Especially if they don't plan on giving him the win. Kinda confused but we'll see how it plays out.

  22. I feel like there was a honeymoon period where lots of people bought tickets to AEW shows because they want something other than one major national company. But that honeymoon period has come and gone. There are a few problems with why AEW is drawing low houses. And it's not a one stop answer to fixing it. But the things they need to address are:


    Routing.
    The routing and the decisions of how many shows a city gets in a year are all out of whack. Chicago gets like 12 TVs / PPVs a year. It's too much. You also have this run of running really close to each other. Pittsburgh / Cleveland / Buffalo / Erie is basically all one market. If the area is starved enough, you can get fans from all of those cities into a TV. But AEW ran Collision in Cleveland in September. Two months later Collision in Pittsburgh. Two WEEKS after that Collision in Erie. Most fans who went to Collision in Pittsburgh isn't going to drive into Erie for Collision. But had there not been anything in Pittsburgh all year, they may have. Rinse & repeat for multiple different markets.

    Marketing & Promotion.
    Waiting until the week of a show to buy up billboards is already too late. The average fan has a job. And most jobs require at least two weeks notice to take a day off. If you're not going hard on promotion & marketing to get the word out AT LEAST two month in advance you're shooting yourself in the foot. A billboard can grab the attention of lapsed fans or people that don't follow week by week but still would attend a show if they know about it. But if you only see the billboard or local media two days out, it's probably too late for you to find a way to go.

    Booking.
    I don't mean this in the sense of oh AEW has terrible booking. I mean this in the sense that the way AEW TV is structured you get 6 matches. Maybe 7 on Collision. Regardless, you can't be certain of who you're getting until a week out. If you're a huge Bryan Danielson fan, you have no idea if your guy is going to be on the episode in your area when the tickets go on sale. Whereas if you're a big Cody Rhodes fan, you know he's going to be on Raw (barring an angle that keeps him off). I feel like that generates a lot of apathy. And explains why PPVs (which generally get almost all of the major stars on) are selling better than TVs.


    There are certainly other factors. Like not really having anyone super hot right now that moves tickets. But the above 3 are the ones hurting them the most. Along with over saturation of shows. Attendances went over a cliff once Collision was added. As much as I love AEW I just don't think they have grown a big enough fan base to sustain 112 live TV & PPV events in a year. When it was 56 they were a lot healthier. I just hope there are people on the inside providing constructive criticism like this. You have to be self aware enough to accept the boat has holes in it, or else your boat goes down.

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