MrKothoga Posted January 6, 2022 Share Posted January 6, 2022 (edited) Let the fantasy booking extravaganza begin... again! We could really need another manchild with access to unlimited money by now. Also, the lights out gimmick associated with Malakai Black at the moment without people debuting is pretty ballsy considering all the possible people the fanbase could expect to pop out of the darkness. Some kind of recipe for dissapoinment. Edited January 6, 2022 by MrKothoga 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig H Posted January 6, 2022 Share Posted January 6, 2022 AEW already is packed full of dudes who are good to great on the mic. Having Joe would probably be the all time best company in terms of mic work. Sadly, Joe looks about 100 lbs. too heavy and seems to be injury prone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zendragon Posted January 6, 2022 Share Posted January 6, 2022 I stand by my accertion that one of these streaming services need to do what Lucha Underground did build a set in a warehouse or soundstage and tape some one hour episodes. Doesn't need to be a full on touring promotion. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoneWolf&Subs Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 22 minutes ago, MrKothoga said: Also, the lights out gimmick associated with Malakai Black at the moment without people debuting is pretty ballsy considering all the possible people the fanbase could expect to pop out of the darkness. Some kind of recipe for dissapoinment. I’m so disappointed that gimmick is now just Black’s. Lights out should’ve always been exclusive to debuts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AxB Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 44 minutes ago, MrKothoga said: We could really need another manchild with access to unlimited money by now. Didn't Freddie PRinze Jr say he and Macauley Culkin were going to start a promotion together soon? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jrag Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 Punk/Joe 4 let’s gooooooooo 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 13 minutes ago, L_W_P said: MJF/FTR vs Punk/Wardlow/"Mystery Partner" Batista? 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Faulconer Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 I am pretty neutral on Gabe overall. I probably made that post about Gabe before I even finished the article. l ran all the way here to ask about his relevance and attitude in 2022. He did have a quick temper years ago when I was picking up every ROH show from 2007-2011. 2008 was his last year in ROH but I started watching DGUSA (first ten shows) and Evolve (vol.1-5 + all 2015) so I did see how his wrestling tastes have changed since early ROH. 2014-2016 were such strong Indy years. Then WWE became so evil that they permanently damaged both the US and UK Indy scenes. Evolve had already been plucked by WWE and eventually Gabe just threw the baby out with bath water. Evolve gets sold to WWE and Gabe takes some job that is easier than booking Indy wrestling shows. How in blue hell did Evolve/DGUSA have service that was nothing at all like ROH’s prompt delivery and customer service? Didn’t Gabe’s new boss employ a lot of the same people who also previously worked with Gabe in ROH. He now had a smaller and less popular product to sell. If the 2015-2016 Evolve didn’t have a who’s who of the very best non-ROH Indy talent I would have complained louder online about just the slowest service and delivery for wrestling DVDs until AEW was formed. ROH would be a week at most to ship and another few days to deliver. Evolve was usually a month or more while AEW was over two months the first time and a minimum month for all foreign orders to be FILLED, shipping took even longer. Thankfully they were much faster this year. The sting of lazy ass service is mellowed by the quality of PPVs being so consistent ly high…excluding All Out 2020 of course. Now that Samoa Joe is finally available AEW doesn’t need him. Biff Busick would be a quality signing. Cameron Grimes’ future is apparently to the moooon in NXT. Trevor Lee as a normal sized person in AEW would always be in title contention in AEW. His career ceiling in NXT likely doesn’t even clear his head. It is just that low. Has anyone seen Lee’s former partner Andrew Everett in recent months/years. He is one of the few talents who miraculously wasn’t scooped up in AEW’s scorched earth campaign against against good Indy groups. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JLowe Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 Finally watched this week’s Elevation and it was a very enjoyable 45 or so minutes. Lethal-Hollywood was the highlight but all the matches were fun and had moments. All of the women competitors were solid and both Rossi and Risk are really excellent JTTDarkStars heels. Skye “she spells her name wrong” Blue needs to chill with the incredibly obvious thigh slaps. There really needs to be a tag team tournament, and Silver and Reynolds need to be in it for a couple of rounds. The big guy in that match, Mike Orlando, showed some potential too, was easily as good as Luchasaurus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zakk_Sabbath Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 2 hours ago, Matt D said: Batista? Dude, you joke, but I'd be way into a couple of Big Dave one-offs. Just keep them short like that Goldberg/Brock WM match a few years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jiji Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 18 minutes ago, Zakk_Sabbath said: Dude, you joke, but I'd be way into a couple of Big Dave one-offs. Just keep them short like that Goldberg/Brock WM match a few years ago. I would be down for a bull fight hoss division with a 5 or 10 minute time limit. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 FANTASY BOOKING ON Joe beats the shit out of HOOK and gives him his first loss. HOOK does the respect handshake, then Tazmissions him into unconsciousness FANTASY BOOKING OFF 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarryArchieGus Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 (edited) 5 hours ago, LoneWolf&Subs said: I’m so disappointed that gimmick is now just Black’s. Lights out should’ve always been exclusive to debuts. AEW's use of the 'lights out' has been dodgy since the beginning. It started with the Dark Order debut. Clearly, or at least we/they learned, an ineffective way to debut two unknowns. AEW does a lot of things very well, but 'lights out' has not been one of them. I've enjoyed Black's use of it - save for the past couple weeks and the needless 'magic'. His debut was, unless I'm forgetting, the best use of 'lights out' - only slightly ruined by Excalibur's awful 'Wait, that's not Tommy End' over-sharing call. Everyone makes mistakes. What's the all time best lights out moment? The ones that come to mind for me are 'Taz-Sabu finally squaring off' at the November to Remember 96 (is that right?) or the nuclear explosion that was Jerry Lawler debuting at the ECW Arena. The lesser stakes Cornette ECW debut was pretty rad too. Edited January 7, 2022 by HarryArchieGus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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zendragon Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 7 hours ago, Zakk_Sabbath said: Dude, you joke, but I'd be way into a couple of Big Dave one-offs. Just keep them short like that Goldberg/Brock WM match a few years ago. I still want a John Huber Bigg Rigg Invitation tournement of all hosses 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 An interesting little note from the new WON Quote Marko Stunt hasn’t been on the show for a while. It was even more notable when Luchasaurus & Jungle Boy won the tag titles and he wasn’t brought in. He is still under contract and being paid and AEW is trying to be different from WWE is not releasing people who are under contract unless it’s for disciplinary reasons. But there will be people not renewed when their deals come up if they aren’t being used. This isn’t to say he’s one of them, but his never being used while his group just won the titles says something I would have to assume that anyone who asks for their release will be granted it 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandon Bones Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 I was under the impression that Marko had a shot on one of the prime time talent shows (The Voice?). It’s inevitable that some people aren’t going to make the cut. But it’ll be interesting to see if AEW can NOT come across as the heartless corporate bastards that the E does. Good fucking luck with that. Someone always gets burned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 1 hour ago, Brandon Bones said: I was under the impression that Marko had a shot on one of the prime time talent shows (The Voice?). Yeah - it is the Voice but all it was so far was that he got a callback to audition for the tryout. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EVA Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 He was MIA from AEW TV long before the Voice thing came up. I thought it was notable that he was not booked to be part of the Jurassic/Elite feud, despite working some Dark matches during that same timeframe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig H Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 1 minute ago, EVA said: He was MIA from AEW TV long before the Voice thing came up. I thought it was notable that he was not booked to be part of the Jurassic/Elite feud, despite working some Dark matches during that same timeframe. In addition, Sammy's vlog changed the opening to remove Marko from it entirely and Marko has been completely absent. Even when Marko wasn't being used before, he would still be backstage and still be Sammy's roommate or travel buddy along with Fuego. They don't even mention Marko's name now. Not even a, "hope you're doing well" comment or anything. It has made me wonder if Marko rubbed some people the wrong way or Marko got dragged into whatever shit his brother was involved in. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 (edited) Re: Marko. I think they just know I'm watching now and they want to keep me around? Edited January 7, 2022 by Matt D 2 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Natural Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 9 minutes ago, Matt D said: Re: Marko. I think they just know I'm watching now and they want to keep me around? Yeah, I wanted Minoru Suzuki to stretch the annoying little shit out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JLowe Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 9 hours ago, HarryArchieGus said: AEW's use of the 'lights out' has been dodgy since the beginning. It started with the Dark Order debut. Clearly, or at least we/they learned, an ineffective way to debut two unknowns. AEW does a lot of things very well, but 'lights out' has not been one of them. I've enjoyed Black's use of it - save for the past couple weeks and the needless 'magic'. His debut was, unless I'm forgetting, the best use of 'lights out' - only slightly ruined by Excalibur's awful 'Wait, that's not Tommy End' over-sharing call. Everyone makes mistakes. What's the all time best lights out moment? The ones that come to mind for me are 'Taz-Sabu finally squaring off' at the November to Remember 96 (is that right?) or the nuclear explosion that was Jerry Lawler debuting at the ECW Arena. The lesser stakes Cornette ECW debut was pretty rad too. Wasn't the first appearance of Sting after Hulk Hogan went NWO a lights out moment, followed by the cameras finally finding him in the rafters? To me, it's a spot that's been done to death and I don't even like it as an entrance for Black. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JLowe Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 17 minutes ago, Matt D said: Re: Marko. I think they just know I'm watching now and they want to keep me around? I try not to get hung up on size but I think -1 is bigger than Stunt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoneWolf&Subs Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 10 minutes ago, JLowe said: Wasn't the first appearance of Sting after Hulk Hogan went NWO a lights out moment, followed by the cameras finally finding him in the rafters? To me, it's a spot that's been done to death and I don't even like it as an entrance for Black. Maybe around Starrcade 97’ with the vulture, but early Crow Sting stuff had zero lights out. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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