AxB Posted February 13, 2022 Share Posted February 13, 2022 If they’re going to sign Wrestlers under the age of 18, they should probably get Billie Starkz under a deal ASAP too. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casey Posted February 13, 2022 Share Posted February 13, 2022 6 hours ago, AxB said: If they’re going to sign Wrestlers under the age of 18, they should probably get Billie Starkz under a deal ASAP too. Yes please. We already have a few BBB affiliated guys and gals, might as well get the crown jewel baybeeeee. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoneWolf&Subs Posted February 13, 2022 Share Posted February 13, 2022 (edited) I wonder what the plan for Nick Wayne is to start. I know what I’d do. At Revolution, book him in a debut hot trios match opener for the Buy-In. Team Taz(Starks, Hobbs, & Hook) Vs. Martin, Moriarty, & Nick Wayne. Or, they could put him in the ladder match. Edited February 13, 2022 by LoneWolf&Subs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Natural Posted February 14, 2022 Author Share Posted February 14, 2022 Fuck, that's an injury everyone dreads. Get well soon, Megan Bayne 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infinit Posted February 14, 2022 Share Posted February 14, 2022 Posted in the pics/gifs thread, but thought it should be here too... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig H Posted February 14, 2022 Share Posted February 14, 2022 12 hours ago, The Natural said: Fuck, that's an injury everyone dreads. Get well soon, Megan Bayne NOOOOOOOOOOO. I wanted her to start doing stuff on the main roster stat. I can't believe that someone with her presentation and ability wasn't already in WWE in on the main AEW shows. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Natural Posted February 14, 2022 Author Share Posted February 14, 2022 27 minutes ago, Craig H said: NOOOOOOOOOOO. I wanted her to start doing stuff on the main roster stat. I can't believe that someone with her presentation and ability wasn't already in WWE in on the main AEW shows. In full agreement, my friend. This sucks. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shartnado Posted February 14, 2022 Share Posted February 14, 2022 14 hours ago, The Natural said: Fuck, that's an injury everyone dreads. Get well soon, Megan Bayne Speaking of knee injuries, is there any info yet on how badly Jake Atlas was hurt in his match against Adam Cole a while back? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenalysis Posted February 14, 2022 Share Posted February 14, 2022 Atlas said nothing too bad I think, it looked a lot worse than it was? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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kafkonia Posted February 15, 2022 Share Posted February 15, 2022 I could see them go either way on the Hobbs/Martin qualifying match, but the thought of Martin facing Keith Lee in that ladder match is giving me palpitations. On an unrelated note, who's saying "We've only just begun" in the ads they're running? It sounds eerily like HBK. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shartnado Posted February 15, 2022 Share Posted February 15, 2022 (edited) Watching the Thanksgiving Dynamite and while there are plenty of amazing things to see here, it cannot be stated enough that damn I wish there was another way aside from constant needling of one's backside to age as frigging gracefully as Billy Gunn. He looks way better here than in any of his WWE comebacks since 2014. Also, the wonderful leathery tone of his skin is a work of art! Also, after the tag match in question, Sting walked to the ramp and Austin charged at him like a bullet, then Darby intercepted him like a missile out of nowhere, leaving Austin knocked the F out! The way he just kept lying down lifeless while Sting and Allin continued towards the ring was simply amazing! Edited February 15, 2022 by Shartnado Austin KO Supreme 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted February 15, 2022 Share Posted February 15, 2022 One sec - cleaning stuff up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted February 15, 2022 Share Posted February 15, 2022 All Cody and Brandi leaving talk has been moved 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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matt925 Posted February 15, 2022 Share Posted February 15, 2022 5 minutes ago, Blue Dragon said: That’s interesting. So the second Saturday special is being taped? First one was only an hour, second one isn’t even live? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JLowe Posted February 15, 2022 Share Posted February 15, 2022 One thing about the way AEW is booked right now is that Cody and Brandi can both pretty much disappear from TV right now and not disrupt any significant storylines. ATT has already moved on to Sammy, Brandi vs. Van Zant was going to be an asswhipping anyway and came out of nowhere so maybe they can actually find an over face to feud with. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Faulconer Posted February 15, 2022 Share Posted February 15, 2022 I almost regret following American TV wrestling closely again. After almost twenty years following Japan, Mexico and the US indies I thought I would fight the pandemic blues by watching a big televised wrestling promotion again. WWE just hurts my eyes and assaults my ears. It also lacks anything approaching a soul. AEW isn’t perfect but in the summer of 2020 it scratched a wrestling itch for something current. The fans on other forums are just as annoying as the wrestling war fans twentysomething years ago. It isn’t even where the promotions are based. The whole starfucking mainstream aspirational seekers just suck all the details and nuance out of the room. Everything always boils down to that. Every thread that doesn’t start with it gets quickly overrun with it. I really should only read threads here and PWO…again. Following ROH had the very same us vs them mentality. If it isn’t between fans of different promotions it’s the “wrestling” fans vs these anti-smart fan dweebs. They are like people who follow conspiracy theories like they are informative or at least the only information these people get. The anti-smart is fucking paranoid like a Joe Rogan guest. The journalists are the enemy. Too many quote the worst things Cornette says. They should maybe quote some historical info he can still ramble semi-intelligently about. Sorry for the rant but the last day or so I am tempted to just ignore everything on TV and revisit the lucha and puro I have forgotten about in my collection. I guess I should do that soon before we have no more DVD drives left in the house. I don’t think the current scenes in Mexico and Japan are that interesting during the pandemic. That is partly why AEW was fun for me. These are their best days. It takes less concentration to watch televised American wrestling. I normally don’t mind the different language commentary on lucha and puro. My mind can drift if something onscreen isn’t holding my attention. There is no Taz and Excalibur to fill in the gaps. Michinoku Pro announcers must be doing the same thing during the endless Yone Genjin or Tsubo Genjin vs Jinsei Shinzaki or Wellington Wilkins Jr series. It wasn’t a four way feud or even a tag team feud. It was like three different rivalries that at one time could eat up fifteen minutes every tape. Shinzaki’s reputation would likely be much better overall if he didn’t fight the Genjin so many times. Oops, I guess I just kept on talk in’. Sorry about that. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zakk_Sabbath Posted February 16, 2022 Share Posted February 16, 2022 I think it's a lot of the younger crowd that's the most vocal, just really trying to recreate the late '90s because they weren't born yet for it. Take that and add it with the fact that nuanced discourse has been dead and buried in general over the last decade, especially online, and I think that's the recipe for what you're describing @Ryan Faulconer 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John E. Dynamite Posted February 16, 2022 Share Posted February 16, 2022 (edited) I think it's because old-timey message boards exist to generate discussion and the new mediums for discussing *anything* are designed to reduce posters to approval/dopamine-seeking content engines who can't get banned. Edited February 16, 2022 by John E. Dynamite 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordi the former AEW fan Posted February 16, 2022 Share Posted February 16, 2022 2 hours ago, Ryan Faulconer said: I am tempted to just ignore everything on TV and revisit the lucha and puro I have forgotten about in my collection. Do it. Hell, take a week or two off from watching wrestling entirely. I think one of the reasons I still love pro wrestling after all of these years is that I take breaks every now and again. I take breaks from watching current wrestling. I take breaks from watching any wrestling at all. I take breaks from reading and posting about wrestling. Same reason, I think, that I still love going to the gym in my mid-50s, 40 years after I started training. I'm never afraid to take a week off if I feel burned out. Sure, you'll miss out on some good matches or and/or some good discussion... but there will always be more. It's an endless fountain. My take is that a hobby should never feel like a chore. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A_K Posted February 16, 2022 Share Posted February 16, 2022 (edited) 10 hours ago, JLowe said: One thing about the way AEW is booked right now is that Cody and Brandi can both pretty much disappear from TV right now and not disrupt any significant storylines. ATT has already moved on to Sammy, Brandi vs. Van Zant was going to be an asswhipping anyway and came out of nowhere so maybe they can actually find an over face to feud with. Put Van Zant in there with Red Velvet to start. Give her some submission move sets. Slow build her vs Jade towards end of year. Let Brit own the other belt and have parallel program. That’s the money angle. Edited February 16, 2022 by A_K 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dog Posted February 16, 2022 Share Posted February 16, 2022 A point about Cody, but it's actually about Tony. Maybe he could have caved and given Cody the money he wanted, or gone to Warner asking for help, but he didn't. Despite his propensity for twitterbombs, I think that's fairly mature. ESPECIALLY since it's Cody. He showed that even if you're an EVP, even if you're woven into the fabric of Turner broadcasting, even if the "perception" of you leaving might be bad -- no one's gonna hold the company over a barrel. Maybe when other people's contracts come up, they won't be as quick as they might have been to call Tony's bluff. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jimbo_Tsuruta Posted February 16, 2022 Share Posted February 16, 2022 @Ryan Faulconer Gordlow's suggestion of taking a break is a good idea. I got back into wrestling at the time of the Greatest Wrestler Ever poll over on PWO in 2015, watched intensely till 2017 then have been taking breaks ever since. A chunk of AEW here, a dollop of Mid-South there and a load of things on the side of my rasslin plate keep me happy, that way I don't feel like I'm ploughing through Dynamite or Smackdown with gritted teeth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just Dave Posted February 16, 2022 Share Posted February 16, 2022 Twittiesphere is abuzz with the rumor that tafka Buddy Murphy is headed to AEW. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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