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  1. Ah yes a soft brand split. Truly the alternative to the other guys Explain to me how & why we need AEW to copy every WWE trope there is. Separate developmental brand. Brand split on the "main roster" that doesn't have clear and distinct lines to make it special when people do cross over. 80s WWE ropes. WWE staging. WWE guard rails. When do the LED posts & aprons debut? I liked AEW better when they were different than WWE. I don't like that they are trying to be exactly like them. Grow the fuck up and just steer clear of your fellow employees you don't want to interact with. We don't need another company with split brands. For fuck's sake.
  2. I've seen multiple people complaining about Silas squash. How? Why? So I saw one person say that should have been an unknown jobber, not an established guy. No. Hobbs gains more from being a minor somebody vs beating a total no one. For instance would a freshly turned heel in the late 80s gain more by beating a jobber in quick fashion or beating Tito Santana, form IC Champion just as quick. I also saw someone else say it was very WWE like to have him lose in his hometown. Well, no it wasn't. Because Silas doesn't work for AEW. He's not on the roster. Milwaukee is the only town they use him in. So it's the only time there's a spot available for him. And yes WWE's trope of killing guys dead in their hometown sucks, AEW doesn't really do that. They mostly present their roster as world beaters in their home towns. Which is the correct way to book. But nothing effect can be done 100% of the time or it loses it's effect. Also Silas Young is... not good enough to be on this roster at this point in his career. His options are never get on TV the rest of his career, or accept a job spot like this that gets him on TV again gets him paid and helps give back to the business. Everything about Hobbs squashing him makes total sense. Well except QTV existing and being out there while it was happening.
  3. Did you eat paint chips as a kid lol? The stories are Adam Cole vs Jericho & Swerve vs Keith Lee. Cole is not turning heel on Keith Lee nor joining the Mogul group. I have nothing to apologize for. That was Jericho's best singles match in a long time. Not sure how you can say a 300lb+ guy pulling out a moonsault equates to being immobile. But I have fed the troll too many time as is so I say good day to you sir.
  4. Yeah I've been pretty down on the last little bit of AEW but tonight was great. Lots of good shit. The Buddy/OC match. The Darby/Swerve match. I thought that was Jericho's best match in forever. Sting's promo was great. Wardlow got the Austin destroy a car spot. Hardy's return was a fun moment. The Elite / BCC stuff is clicking. Seems like momentum is building, Punk could be on his way back, FTR are here to stay. Still hate those fucking ropes tho.
  5. Uh excuse me? Tha fuck? How has no one called this out yet? Keith Lee is far from immobile. Dude's not even top 3 most immobile Swerve has been connected to in AEW this year. Snitch or whatever his name was, Bordeaux, & now Toa Liona. Boo this man.
  6. Yesssss Fool's Paradise is finally coming out. I first heard about this one in late 2019 when it was originally called El Tonto. I never thought it would release. He shot the majority of the movie in 2019 and ran into some trouble with the original plot. He got some advice on tweaking it and did a bunch of reshoots in 2021. I thought it was in production hell and would never release. Might have to go see it in the theater just because I love Charlie Day so much.
  7. Hard agree here. MJF thrives on feeling out where the line is and purposely going 3 steps past it. WWE is not going to allow that. I get that he is a WWE style character in a lot of ways. But his current character and promos would NOT fit within WWE guidelines. And without the leeway of getting to color wayyyyyyy outside of the lines, I just don't think his character would be anything that stands out. Just a mean rich kid. His act would go from special to just another guy fairly quick with the WWE handcuffs on. He's very good on the mic and very good in the ring. So he could still become a major star there. But not as is. They'd be making changes. And dialing things way back. And that doesn't scream recipe for success to me.
  8. Not quoting you to pick on you or this thought, but it's a good jumping off point for something I see getting question quite a bit. So I don't think Endeavor has any thoughts one way or another about any of WWE's business. Now they'll make some overhead calls. Some restructuring of the top of the flow chart stuff. But WWE is going to continue to be run by WWE. Endeavor's not going to have any say on house shows. Or who gets used how. They are the parent company. WWE is still WWE. And it's going to be ran by mostly the same people who have been running it for awhile now. Vince, Nick, & Triple H call the shots. Endeavor isn't going to step in and say no more house shows. No one that works for Endeavor has any idea how any of this business works. Just as UFC continued being ran essentially the same by Dana & crew, WWE is essentially going to be ran entirely the same. It's just a different set of stock market numbers now. Endeavor isn't going to really have a stance on anything. That's why they merged with WWE and didn't outright purchase them. WWE people are still there and still calling alllllllll the shots. WWE is incredibly profitable. The last thing Endeavor wants to do is tinker with shit and fuck up the formula.
  9. Briscoes on the tag title side plates is fucking awesome. Posing, and doing a Doomsday to Dax.
  10. Someone alert Charlie Day & Danny Devito. The Gruesome Twosome are Charlie & Frank. GTFO with that trademark theft. Always Sunny for life yo.
  11. I agree that it's over blown a bit, but it is certainly a real thing I believe. No matter how much Vince liked certain performers or they flourished under him, I can assure you NO ONE is happy the constant re-writes are back. No one is happy the stories that change on a whim are back. Triple H & crew not having this gigantic leap in difference from Vince Raws is kind of a mis-nomer. On screen may have been pretty similar. But the way the talent & writing crew especially were treated under Vince sucks. No matter how much he pushed you. As a worker you lay out a match then find out 10 minutes before the show goes live you're no longer working the same person and you gotta scrap it all because now you're working someone else and you only have 20 minutes to call the new match? That is infuriating. You think the writers who were allowed to go home at 5PM & have a life beyond WWE in the Triple H led way are going to be happy they are now back to being on call at all times and expected to answer 2am calls to answer Vinces's questions are happy? Behind the scenes is probably even worse off than is being reported. They just know there's no real course of action Vince is now The Number Two Exec in a 21 billion dollar company. He's worth $3 billion dollars. He as bulletproof bulletproof gets.But even if he likes you is SUCKS a million times worse to work under him.
  12. How many people that have been brought back are fucking kicking themselves today? Bronson Reed had a solid thing going with a New Japan push. Vince is back and he's certainly going to fade into a Main Event guy. Karion Cross better have had the foresight to write a no gladiator helmet clause into his deal. Regal is certainly not going to be Vince's Head of Talent Development. Vince says he's just going to be the overview guy and not get into the weeds. The overview guy doesn't get on the headsets. The overview guy doesn't order re-writes. Triple H's WWE was a mirage. And anyone who jumped at the chance to go back had better have not burned any bridges to do so. And since the Raw thread was closed I'm gonna throw some thoughts in here about that. There were a lot of poster getting mad at people watching the show that don't normally watch having opinions. The Raw after Wrestlemania has traditionally been (up until the past 4 or 5 years) been the most exciting episode of the year. That is the perfect jumping back on point to see if you enjoy the vibe. Getting mad that people who have tuned out have thoughts when they tune in is silly. They had 2.3 million viewers. And what trended on Twitter? Worst Raw ever. They decided a few years back they don't want fly in smart mark crowds dictating who is allowed to get over, so they stopped the call ups and surprise returns. It's now a normal episode of Raw. And a whole bunch of people that aren't aware of that feel let down. I'm not even someone who was mad at Roman winning at WM. But that episode was the best follow up they could give us? A full on bait & switch of a match most people were probably intrigued to see. And a whole lot of absolutely nothing of note happening. Sorry but there's literally no reason to praise that episode or snap at people who didn't enjoy it. WWE TV is mostly a content churn. And the post WM Raw used to be an exception to that. Not anymore. The sooner we all accept that's not the case anymore, the sooner we'll be better off.
  13. Sorry for back to back posts here but this one is extra funny to me lol. "I want wrestling to be more like the 80s!" *Does modern day Horsemen with lots of fuck finishes to save Flair.* "No not like THAT!" Don't mean for that to suggest that you said that specifically, just seems like a lot of the same sentiment I'm seeing here. The Bloodline is just The Horsemen. That's literally all this is. They even call Solo The Enforcer. They have the generational tag team. They just replaced the boozing and parting with family pride & heritage. I think we all have to dial back our personal opinions and realize that's all they are, opinions. Not facts. There's been 39 Wrestlemanias. By my count there's been 26ish babyface wins to end the show with the happy ending. Just because the ratio is 70% that doesn't mean it HAS TO end that way every single time. And frankly if it does, the event loses it's impact (narrative speaking, financially they are set probably forever regardless).
  14. I'm still catching up but waned to comment on this thought. I would tend to age with you. Except Sami started being with The Bloodline in what, May? Within 9 months he went from comedy jobber who got beat in a literal mouse trap to The Jackass Guy to the most over babyface in foreverrrr having one of the most memorable matches in a decade. I believe in Heyman and his storytelling. No one right now looks like much of anything. But Heyman can make anyone credible given enough time. And if lightning strikes just right he can create mega stars over night. Who knows maybe Montez Ford all of suden gets a deep rich story with The Bloodline that gets him just as over as Sami was. And unrelated to the comment above... imagine how silly all this bickering about 'is Jey going to be the one to beat him' / 'who is ready to beat him now' will look in 4 more years... when Roman is still the champion. I think people really have to start getting their minds around the possibility they have cemented that they wanted him to beat Bruno's record. I keep beating on this horse. But this is literally the most likely chance of this happening in 40 years. It's something people have to start treating as totally possible.
  15. You're a garbage person for suggesting that. The TV bad guy is mean and making my TV show not so fun, I hope people beat him up. Go back to Reddit or Twitter with that shit man.
  16. I love Roman going over. I've thought this for a bit now, but I think the plan is for Roman to break Bruno's record. WWE prints money no matter who is positioned where. You make a legitimate monster mega star in Reigns doing something no one else has ever done. And you make a legitimate mega star with whoever beats him. I mean I could be wrong. But who is left? Cody & Sami were both INCREDIBLY over and could have been fitting caps to this run. No one else on the horizon is in their league. So it's the only thing that makes sense to me. Feel for Shane. I tore my ACL on a top rope backflip. It's very similar to what happened to Shane. Landed flat footed but slightly hunched forward on the leapfrog and the ligament just popped. He tried to post off the hurt leg to get out and with no ACL the bone slid forward and gave out. I don't think Shane should be an onscreen performer at this point but man I hate to see anyone have to go through the hell that is ACL reconstruction. It fucking sucks. Night 1 was better but Bianca vs Asuka, Cody v Roman, & IC triple Threat were all bangers.
  17. The fuck is this shit? Am I misunderstanding some hyperbole or are you actually asking for fans to physically attack a performer because you don't like the writing the company is giving him? What a garbage post.
  18. First the good. Everything. All of it. That was a damn good show. Even the match I liked the least (Cena vs Theory) was still good. And some of it was downright fucking stellar. Rey vs Dom, Rhea vs Charolette, The Main Event. The bad. The bullshit sell out sponsorship shit went too far. You have Rey & Dom, the culmination of a almost a yera long story with very adult tones and a realism to it you don't often get from WWE. And these two guys have to settle their blood feud in a neon zone of kid's cereal bullshit. I complained in a Dynamite thread about the ropes being distracting to me and taking me out of the presentation. This was that x500000000. I get you gotta make your money. But the trons being neon purple EVERYWHERE is too god damn much. I also don't know how a kid's cereal company would be cool with a delinquent petulant child being released from prison and accosting his sister and mother taking an ass whopping from his father. Screams great product placement to me
  19. No, don't back track. Doing one good deed doesn't make you a good person when you're publicly popping off at the mouth like the racist uncle of a generation gone by. Saying transphobic things like that negates good deeds. At heart he's a hateful garbage person and I would suggest his good deed was probably done as a way to over compensate for knowing deep down he's a garbage person. If you think standing up for the equal ethical treatment of everyone is "morally superiority bs" then maybe this is a you problem and not a him problem. You shouldn't let one good deed of someone cloud your judgement. Bad people can do good deeds all day long. It doesn't erase nor exonerate them if they then go and do a shitty thing. And make no mistake about it this was a SHITTY thing.
  20. Yeah I agree with you there. The storytelling wasn't there. At the very least if you're dead set on him working Joe as the lead in, have him have both belts with him and leave them set up in the center as he walks out. As a visual tribute to Jay and a passing on of the lineage thing. Anything other than him just leaving with one belt and no real segue into the next segment he's supposed to have a had a large part in creating (story wise). Ultimately I think the sheer volume of content that he's producing is causing TK to lose the little details that used to be there and make things make a little more sense. Gonna be even worse with another in ring show on the way. For all the great things about AEW / ROH, I am not at all a fan of the WWE-ifying of their identity. Multiple brands. Too many hours of product to follow. Too many titles. Turning into quantity over quality. I mean hindsight and all, but to me the real emotion fueled way to book Mark was to let him go on the most epic tag title run of all time. He does promo after promo about how he loves his brother and this is the last time they will ever hold tag titles together. How he's not ready to let that part of his life go and how he can't let go of Jay. Not without a fight. Then you send him on the most epic 2 on 1 run of all time. He defends the tag titles alone. Against all of The Briscoe's classic rivals. Have him beat SCU. Have him beat The Bucks. Have him beat The Kingdom. Just let that shit be the thing legends are made of. When the time is right someone eventually beats him. And you have (hopefully) created the hottest star in the company and he is ripe to get a world title run. But that's just where my creative juices go to.
  21. I am so bummed about Dante's injury. It was almost as bad as Sid. A very talented young man may have just lost his career and his quality of life going forward. My thoughts go out to him. AEW / ROH need to do something about the chaos of their ladder match structures. This is second time there has been catastrophic injury in one. The other being Fenix snapping his arm on an apron chokeslam. The agents need to find a way to reign in the chaos and bring a little more safety to the dangerous spots. I understand the booking in hindsight. Think when Angle worked Benoit at the 2003 Royal Rumble. That loss is what catapulted him into his run to the title next year. With that in mind a stand out performance loss for Mark can make sense, if that's where they're going. Doubly so if they keep filling the heat balloon with Claudio. Giving some bad finishes in service to an ultimate great finish is definitely acceptable. But I am not at all confident that is where it's heading. And if not just baffling to have two giant heel finishes like that. Even more baffling is whatever that ending was. Shibata giving no shits and wanting nothing to do with a run in. Kingston kind of just swearing for the sake of it. Just odd and in no way did it reinflate the crowd to send them home in an okay mood. Heel endings are necessary. But sometimes it's better to end with the heat than try to send the crowd home happy and miss the mark. To end on a positive note I do like the simplistic title designs they've introduced. Just gotta get new TV & Six Man belts made. The titles all being silver is a nice touch for the number two company under the TK Umbrella.
  22. The set is dope this year. Really like how it's incorporated the theme instead of just being the normal screens with extra lighting. Up there with the best looking / most creative of all the Wrestlemania sets.
  23. Ahh so those stupid ropes are here to say. Ugh hope they grow on me.
  24. You shut your dirty mouth lol. We don't need him to show up for a third time. He was also banned for slut shaming Britt Baker / demanding Sammy & Tay publicly apologize for hiding their relationship from him at an autograph signing / trying to fight posters under his first incarnation. The NFL is fixed was his second account gimmick but he was also saying more gross women's wrestling stuff. Don't you make that monkey paw curl damn you.
  25. The red white & blue fit 80s WWE. It fit their brand and identity. And it fit the time. 80s WCW didn't have a singular identiy. Thir scheme seemed to change a bunch. Idk I have always seen AEW's production as the spiritual successor to early Nitro. Regular rails. Black ropes that don't steal your attention visually. But the new bright logo filled rail lining. The new colored rope scheme. It's not what I associate with AEW. I had always associated them letting the wrestling stand out vs the gaudy bright colors and shiny shit everywhere and the excessive branding. Times are a changing. And I'm just one person. But this one person probably won't be paying as much attention going forward if it's going to be WWE-lite visually. I chalk up being okay with it in the 80s to TVs not being HD. Now the contrast is jacked up so much and everything is hyper lit and hyper bright. That color scheme seriously clashed with me watching the action.
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