Dog Posted June 16, 2023 Share Posted June 16, 2023 https://www.fightful.com/wrestling/kevin-kelly-nigel-mcguinness-and-jim-ross-revealed-aew-collision-broadcast-team Just rename the show "Grumpiest Old Men." 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
For Great Justice Posted June 16, 2023 Share Posted June 16, 2023 I love that. Will give the show a unique announcing vibe. JR in the Tenay role works for me if they limit him to the sit down interviews and joining commentary occasionally for big storyline matches to put those over Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreamBroken Posted June 16, 2023 Share Posted June 16, 2023 Tony announced the Collision theme will be "Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting" by Sir Elton John 5 1 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dog Posted June 16, 2023 Share Posted June 16, 2023 To hearken back to what someone said a few days ago, should just be the sounds of WCW Saturday Night's robot arms. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dolphman 3000 Posted June 16, 2023 Share Posted June 16, 2023 6 minutes ago, DreamBroken said: Tony announced the Collision theme will be "Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting" by Sir Elton John I was like 95% sure he'd just use the original Nitro theme since that's production music 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casey Posted June 16, 2023 Share Posted June 16, 2023 52 minutes ago, DreamBroken said: Tony announced the Collision theme will be "Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting" by Sir Elton John I had to Google this because I thought this was a joke. holy shit lmao 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John from Cincinnati Posted June 16, 2023 Author Share Posted June 16, 2023 56 minutes ago, DreamBroken said: Tony announced the Collision theme will be "Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting" by Sir Elton John This is so obvious but it’s also Elton as the theme for TV wrestling which rules. Love it. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elizium Posted June 16, 2023 Share Posted June 16, 2023 I love Elton John, so I see no problem with this. Give me something fun in wrestling, rather than more butt rock, nu metal, or whatever its rampage baby its rampage baby its rampage baby is supposed to be 10 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elizium Posted June 17, 2023 Share Posted June 17, 2023 Official request that Punk changes his theme from Cult of Personality to I'm Still Standing 4 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John E. Dynamite Posted June 17, 2023 Share Posted June 17, 2023 (edited) 9 minutes ago, elizium said: Official request that Punk changes his theme from Cult of Personality to I'm Still Standing That's a canny and couth answer. Another Elton John song comes to mind... Edited June 17, 2023 by John E. Dynamite 2 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarryArchieGus Posted June 17, 2023 Share Posted June 17, 2023 1 hour ago, DreamBroken said: Tony announced the Collision theme will be "Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting" by Sir Elton John Right the fuck on! Bold choice. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordi the former AEW fan Posted June 17, 2023 Share Posted June 17, 2023 (edited) I am going to have to work through this now, otherwise I am going to spend at least half of Collision thinking about it. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road was released two days before my 8th birthday. I got it as a present. It was the first LP I ever owned (and it was a double LP) (The first recording I ever owned was an 8-track tape of Madman Across the Water). Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting was my (younger) brother's favourite song on the album. I, personally, preferred Bennie and the Jets and Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding. I got the appeal of Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting but there were two lines that bothered me. The first was "A couple of the sounds that I really like/are the sound of a switchblade and a motorbike" I had just watched a documentary about 1950s teensploitation movies and there was a big focus on a scene with Brando on a motorbike brandishing a switchblade! (Insert image here later) I figured that Bernie Taupin had taken that image and made it into a lyric. The second was "I'm a juvenile product of the working class/whose best friend floats in the bottom of a glass" The second half of that line is GREAT. I remember talking with my fourth-grade friends Brian and Dave about what that meant. Dave, who had a motorcycle-riding teenaged older brother explained. Pretty cool. But the first half of that couplet! What actual delinquent would describe themself that way? The song was *obviously* not written by a teenager who went out looking for trouble on Saturday nights, but by an adult trying to appeal to that crowd (which in 1973, was significant) and to children like my brother who aspired to some day be teen delinquents. I felt like my brother was being taken in. i suppose I was a pretty precocious 8-year-old. My elder daughter was pretty precocious at 8, as well. So it tracks, I guess. Currently, I am delighted that the song has a "switchblade" reference and Jay White is fighting on the debut episode. Anyway, I had to get that out of my head now or it would have really distracted me tomorrow. (Insert YouTube video here). Edit: It also seems at least conceivable that Jericho's sparkly mauve high heeled shoes were inspired by the cover of Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. If so: Awesome reference. (Insert image here). (Turned out to be unnecessary because of the YouTube video image). Edited June 17, 2023 by Gordlow 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarryArchieGus Posted June 17, 2023 Share Posted June 17, 2023 Oh man, imagine if they'd liscened 'Bennie and the Jets' and went with a nice slow opening. 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dolphman 3000 Posted June 17, 2023 Share Posted June 17, 2023 Could Elton show up/perform at Wembley? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordi the former AEW fan Posted June 17, 2023 Share Posted June 17, 2023 27 minutes ago, John E. Dynamite said: That's a canny and couth answer. Another Elton John song comes to mind... Sorry Seems to be The Hardest Word? Someone Saved My Life Tonight? Don't Go Chopping My Face (with Kiki Dee)? Phil-edelphia Freedom? oh. right. it actually really fits! "Raising Cain, I spit in your eye" and in particular, "Stone cold sober, as a matter of fact"! 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just Adam Bay Bay Posted June 17, 2023 Share Posted June 17, 2023 38 minutes ago, Gordlow said: Sorry Seems to be The Hardest Word? Someone Saved My Life Tonight? Don't Go Chopping My Face (with Kiki Dee)? Phil-edelphia Freedom? oh. right. it actually really fits! "Raising Cain, I spit in your eye" and in particular, "Stone cold sober, as a matter of fact"! How’d you leave Candle In The Wind off the list? Or better yet Can You Feel The Love Tonight (which I’m still bummed that he didn’t play it last year when I saw him on his farewell tour). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John from Cincinnati Posted June 17, 2023 Author Share Posted June 17, 2023 Collision opening 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JLowe Posted June 17, 2023 Share Posted June 17, 2023 2 hours ago, John from Cincinnati said: This is so obvious but it’s also Elton as the theme for TV wrestling which rules. Love it. So they gonna change Punk’s music to “The Bitch is Back”? 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Natural Posted June 17, 2023 Share Posted June 17, 2023 3 hours ago, DreamBroken said: Tony announced the Collision theme will be "Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting" by Sir Elton John 21 minutes ago, John from Cincinnati said: Collision opening It's Saturday and you know what that means. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
For Great Justice Posted June 17, 2023 Share Posted June 17, 2023 I love it. Reminds me of when WM22 used “Big Time”. That ruled too. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoFistsJustFlips Posted June 17, 2023 Share Posted June 17, 2023 That is fucking AWFUL lol. Nothing says cuttig edge like using a song that's a literal FIFTY YEARS OLD. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dog Posted June 17, 2023 Share Posted June 17, 2023 I hate it. Also, not gonna make much sense when the show is preempted 20 weeks a year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordi the former AEW fan Posted June 17, 2023 Share Posted June 17, 2023 4 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dolphman 3000 Posted June 17, 2023 Share Posted June 17, 2023 53 minutes ago, For Great Justice said: I love it. Reminds me of when WM22 used “Big Time”. That ruled too. I'd like to think that came about because the WM21 theme was "Big Time" by Soundtrack Of Our Lives, and enough people must have joked "hey this isn't the Peter Gabriel song!" that Vince begrudgingly caved the following year Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dolphman 3000 Posted June 17, 2023 Share Posted June 17, 2023 44 minutes ago, NoFistsJustFlips said: That is fucking AWFUL lol. Nothing says cuttig edge like using a song that's a literal FIFTY YEARS OLD. I had to look it up, but "Great Balls of Fire" was 60 years old when WWE used it in 2017. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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