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I was all set to come in here and rant about how baffling the layout of the tag was. About 3/4 of the way through I realized they only announced two Zero Hour matches and it had to be leading to a singles. I was about to wonder aloud which agent needed to get fired for relegating the Kingston / Akyiama interaction to 90 seconds. I was quite bummed for Kingston thinking he built this match idea up in his mind for 20 years to get 90 seconds of interaction. Glad they're getting a singles today.
Athena as a heel is far more fun.
I know this is a small thing but I'm bummed they've just been using the normal set for PPVs. Seems like that's what's happening here too. The normal set is already up, so I'd assume they aren't going to deconstruct that to put up a modified original PPV one. We'll see. But that's a real bummer for me. The PPVs having actual sets was one of my favorite differences between AEW & WWE.-
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5 hours ago, Red King said:
If attendances decline further in the future for AEW TV shows, then AEW probably will switch to taping in the Dynamite Zone at some place. Saves costs. Gonna be harder to make crowds of only 1000 fans in the usual booked buildings look good on tv, if the attendance numbers get that low.
I think your exaggerating quite a bit. 3000 - 4000 is about what they're doing for TVs.
I'll go on record as saying unless something catastrophic happens, he's not doing the filming in one location thing for Dynamite. The optics of doing that are far worse than the optics of having smaller audiences. He's dead in the water if he does a reverse TNA and starts on the road and ends up in one building. Unless there's a pandemic again or they lose the WBD deal and are legit on the brink of bankruptcy because of no TV (almost impossible for a billionaire by the way) zero percent chance of that.-
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6 hours ago, elizium said:
If I'm TNT, I'd be pretty pissed if the Friday show was rebranded from AEW to ROH
I'm no so sure. There's an effective talking point in there about how WWE separated into Raw & Smackdown and both shows have an identity and a reason to watch. Yes both are WWE. But essentially the same argument could be made with WWE & NXT. USA has both. One is not named WWE. They both get viewership, and I'd argue NXT attracts more viewers than adding a C show WWE like Main Event or Superstars would.
Maybe changing AEW's B show into something different with a different roster and identity would be a good thing. Wrestling fans like different. Maybe more people would watch that than Rampage.
If you sold it correctly TV Networks would be more receptive to it than wrestling fans assume they would be I bet.-
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3 hours ago, TheVileOne said:
There's no way they can spin this as good.
Tony Khan idiotically spoiling the return of The Elite, who didn't even appear last night. I mean why not? They've got a match on the pay-per-view. Why not actually have them appear to build up the PPV match? What has been the point of this whole Delete the Elite thing?
Inconsistent booking. A lot of talents have cooled down as of late.
The Firm/MJF angle has been booked terribly, and so has the Title Eliminator tournament.
Drop interim title bullshit. No one gives a shit about interim champions. Strip Thunder Rosa of the title. Interim titles are f'n stupid and no one cares about them. Interim titles are a joke. This isn't the UFC, and interim titles are a joke there too.
Tony Khan has utterly failed as a leader of this company. He needs to get off Twitter.
Dude I think you need a Snickers, you're hangry or something lol.
I'm with you tho The Firm sucks. The concept of The Firm sucks. Like I'm on board with a paid group of mercenaries to get you the poker chip. But the execution of it was bad. The rationale for it continuing past All Out was bad. Whatever it's morphed into is reallllyyyyyy bad.
Keeping The Elite's actual return for the ppv makes sense to me. You save that first re-appearance pop for a big loud ppv audience. The visual of that makes how that's been handled worth it. But he also wanted to get the word out that they're back. A little playing both sides but this one makes sense to me.
I don't think people are as anti-interim title as you are either. I'm fine with it if it's used with the right intent. This Rosa injury / non injury / weird confusing maybe drama situation ain't it tho. But in theory not forcing a champion to vacate due to injury is fine. It also builds a unique story that WWE doesn't present. It's an alternative. Just doing what WWE does and stripping everyone might be cleaner, but sometimes different is better.-
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Those division games just hit different. That hit at the end is one of those things where no it was not a violent hit, but it was egregious. Graham had a full 3 seconds of time to recognize the play was over and still hit him. He didn't blast him or anything. But it was a QB that had clearly given himself up and an element of time passed where he had no excuse to follow through.
The NFC East going wild right now. No losing records. The best overall average win percentage through 10 games in NFL history. I believe right now at this moment in time all 4 NFC East teams are in the playoffs. That won't stand. Division games will wipe that out. But how weird is that. -
Hindsight and all that, but how in the world do you call a sneak there? Shouldn't the Bills have gone 5 wide in a shotgun formation? Sure you risk a bad snap causing a safety. Or a holding penalty causing a safety. But doing a quick 2 yard slant is infinity more likely to get you a yard or two than a QB sneak off the the 1 inch line. Fumbled snaps are a pretty common occurrence when the QB's mind is busy doing all the calculus of which gap to choose and picking out who is coming and all that.
Oh yeah The NY Giants are SEVEN and TWO baby! There's 8 games left. If they can win half of them they will almost surely be in the playoffs. Wild. Never would have guessed that. -
My guess is 6 more counting the pre show. You know they're gonna get Joe / Wardlow / Hobbs on there. Plus The Elite vs Lucha Brothers seems to me like it's going to happen. Plus the finals of the tournament. That gets you to 11. Then 3 more pre show matches.
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Re: Sarah Logan... I'm not going to go very deep on this because we don't do politics here (and for good reason). But there's two sides here. Her side (she's free to like whatever she wants to like because this is a free country right). The other side (people are free to not like her because of it because this is a free country right). Why do the people that support her right to like or not like whatever she likes, then criticize those turned off by her choices that they don't like? It's this subtle double standard thing that really annoys me. She can like whatever she wants. If you support that fact, then quit harping on people that don't like those choices. Because you're doing the same exact thing you're spending two paragraphs ranting against.
As for Survivor Series, I hope he keeps elimination matches. I think he will. I think we're done with brand vs brand stories. I think it's all going to be real actual stories. Bloodline vs Brutes is probably going to be the men's War Games. I hope we get OC vs Judgement Day in a Survivor Series Match. Since the Raw women have War Games, maybe they do a women's SD Survivor Series match too. -
I'm not a fan of colored straps for the belts at all. In theory all men's titles on black straps and women's on white straps makes sense. But the white straps wear off quick and start looking dirty. I'd just make everything on a black strap. The fans aren't as dumb as Vince treated them. They can keep track of what show they're watching without all the belts having that color belt strap.
Especially if everything gets unified permanently. Do the men's world title with a black strap and a gold WWE logo swoosh. Do the women's world title on a black strap with a white logo swoosh. Do the same with the men's and women's tag titles. Black straps with gold plates, elevate and 3D the WWE logo in front of the globe (in the rumored new tag title design) and gold / white swooshes. Make them the same designs like the world titles.
Pairity between the divisions is a good look presentation wise. Men & women's world & tag titles are the same and equal.-
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13 minutes ago, For Great Justice said:
Also not sure about the Joe turn? Like Joe rules but that seems rushed? You had a nice and easy path of Hobbs/Wardlow and Joe/Cage THEN the turn…now it’s, what, Joe/Hobbs/Wardlow in a three way? I mean that will rule but what’s the rush?
Gimmie dat Euro-Continental two falls double title rules match with those three and it's probably the match I'm looking forward to most at the PPV.
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5 hours ago, Log said:
Remember that period where every single goddamn wrestler thought they needed some stupid-ass catchphrase to shoehorn into their promos?
That sucked.
Hard disagree in the sense that even the lowest on the card dudes of the time at least had had audience participation going for them. A lot of what's missing today is getting the audience to participate in your act. There's a reason The Acclaimed are so over right now. And why everything was so over during the catch phrase period. I can understand if it got repetitive for you, but it a missing ingredient these days.
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I've been slowly working through this one. It started out pretty clunky combat-wise. But once you start leveling up you unlock a lot of the combat skills. It's not Arkham, but it's not not-Arkham if that makes any sense. The story stuff has been fun so far. But it's been a bit tedious having to advance storylines by going out and stopping random crimes to get the proper intel.
Only real complain I have to be honest is the movement when walking is wonky. There's a bit of a drift and it's not very precise. I've been stuck on stairs that I couldn't walk up because it got me stuck on the rail next to me and what-not. Minor when just exploring the city. But a bit annoying when you have to be precise and run to certain bombs and deactive them with a timer and combat happening and not being in just the right spot for the A button to work.-
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16 minutes ago, Dolphman 3000 said:
TNA ran one show a week from the same location for 5 years, and they only started running house shows around 2007. Jarrett was out of the company by 2011.
What on earth are you talking about
They ran the biggest building in Alabama for their first ever show / taped week 2. Then they wen to the Asylum for 100 weeks. Around week 75 they also added in Orlando shows for Fox Sports Net. After like weekly PPV 110 they went Orlando only. But you still had to schedule and market and do promotions with Universal Studios. Then in 2007 they started touring. You don't think that takes any knowledge or skill? That he didn't learn anything and brings nothing to the table? You think The Impact Zone just filled it's self for Matt Bentley matches? Just because they were in the same location doesn't mean there was no work to be done in a Live Event capacity.
It wasn't the same as a WWE Touring schedule. But it's the second best you're gonna get in this country in the last 21 years (not counting AEW). And I'd say that's a good get. Global Force toured minor ague baseball stadiums. Ra Ka King was his thing in India too. You're showing your lack of knowledge with that above comment.-
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I'm a little befuddled by the strong reaction to Jarrett. Don't get me wrong top of the card Jarrett is the worst. But he hasn't been in or around any world titles in 15 years. When he's in the middle of the card 9 times out of 10 he has a fun quaint character. MMA Jarrett feuding with Kurt in TNA was money. Jarrett has also had a little reinvention with the GCW Last Outlaw character. But make no mistake about it, he's on screen for a one and done story for a single PPV. He's not gonna be a full time active wrestler. No more than 3 or 4 times a year will he wrestle. He's at most gonna have the Sting on screen presentation.
But primarily he's there to be an office worker. And as such, I think it's a great move. He worked for WWE in a Live Event capacity for about a year and a half total. He worked in a Live Event capacity for TNA for 15 years. He's not there to book. He's there to help grow, brand, and execute as an office worker helping chart the Live Events. And maybe he also kicks in as a coach or agent. And again, he's a great choice for that. He has 15+ years relating to the new generation of X-Division style workers in TNA. He's old school but at the same time not anti new school.
He's a great pick up. People really gotta get over the TNA narratives. TNA died a long time ago.-
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So PPV Six Man Tag maybe? Jarrett, Cole Karter, & Jay Lethal vs Sting, Darby and.... Danhausen? lol Just lean ALL THE WAY IN on being the weirdest place ever please and thank you.
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Shibata, Jeff Jarrett, Lamar Jackson, Rick Ross, & Colt Cabana. TK just throwing names in a bender with a bunch of coke lol.
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10 hours ago, HarryArchieGus said:
It wasn't a question of whether NotFlips or any particular poster would make the fantasy roster move, but rather if Tony Khan, who seemed to enjoy working with Punk, is considering moving his still contracted star over to his ROH 'brand'.
Not even one second of consideration (from TK). Punk wouldn't accept a "demotion" (from TK).
Plus (TK woud) have to go through the trouble of moving Cabana back to AEW again. That part would be hilarious to me. But nah, not even a slight chance of it being a consideration (for TK).
Better? That clear it up a bit? Lol my answer was predicting what I think went through TK's head, not what I would do.
Me, I'd try and find a way to get everyone on the same page and knock off the petty shit. Keep Punk in AEW if he'd make a public (and more importantly private and remorseful) apology. It's a bummer that when his year back started it was all about being happy he's back and being pumped to work with all the young new talent. And a year in it turned to such venom and negativity. I don't think that's the kind of punctuation he meant to add on to his career. But I digress.
But no, I don't think Tony Khan spent even one second considering moving the biggest star AEW has ever had over to their sister promotion that is decidedly not as popular or mainstream. No one on ROH's payroll should be making what Punk makes. -
15 hours ago, Wee Bey said:
Yikes. I had thought Joey Marella died in 1993 so I was blown away at that jab and had to look it up. No way he had the balls to knock Gorilla's dead son. But he passed in July of 1994, so likely was said before his passing. I hope so at least.
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4 hours ago, HarryArchieGus said:
I wonder if there's been any thought internally of moving 'CM' to the ROH brand?
Not even one second of consideration. Punk wouldn't accept a "demotion".
Plus you'd have to go through the trouble of moving Cabana back to AEW again. That part would be hilarious to me. But nah, not even a slight chance of it being a consideration.-
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6 hours ago, Dog said:
To reiterate the point, Khan clarified later on they only meant BIG names that would actually draw people in when advertised. Very few people fit that bill, and right or wrong, Cole does.
Ah yes, like how CM Punk was advertised way ahead of his debut? Whoopsies lol. He was like 8 or 10 months after Sting.
Keep in mind new people now run the channels. The people who decreed that don't work there anymore. New head of programing and network execs since that decree was reported. So they don't necessarily have that to stick to anymore. -
20 hours ago, Craig H said:
They stated on Rampage it's a former world champ.
Think that was a slip of the tongue I think. They went out of their way to include other champions in Jericho's challenge last week. Why waste the air time to do that unless it had a purpose? It's going to be a former champion that wasn't World Champion. Excalibur just slipped up when he was racing through the lineup.
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22 hours ago, Ziggy said:
Maybe they could move the Elimination Chamber match to Survivor Series with War Games which is more of a faction warfare type deal and have the Chamber for singles guys.
Yes. Let's throw throw HIAC up there too and really test these arena ceiling weight capacities lol.
Jokes aside, that's a logistical impossibility to suspend the War Games cage & Elimination Chamber at the same time. They could construct the War Games cage on the spot I guess like the old blue bar cage, but then my next question would be why? Gimmick overkill. Let it breathe. We don't need WWE's version of TNA Lockdown where there's 8 different cage gimmicks on the same show. -
6-2 at the bye week is wayyyyy better than anyone could have expected for The Giants. And this team is not even a particularly talented team. Just very well coached. But when you have a few too many mistake ain't no way this team can dig out. Richie James with two sloppy fumbles on punts sealed the deal. But man where did this Geno come from? Spends almost a decade being a backup and now all of a sudden he's like better than half the QBs in the league?
Stupid sexy NFC East and their stupid sexy teams. No losing teams in The NFC East as of right now. 6-2 is good enough for..... third place.... for The Giants? Annoying.-
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I'm gonna go out on a limb and say Muta is in this year's Rumble. Perfect surprise kind of appearance. Triple H already did the 'get one in before it's too late' thing with Liger in NXT. Muta retires at the end of February. If they want a Great Muta WWE appearance it's the literal last chance. And I think this news makes it even more likely. Nak goes over in NOAH. Muta shows up and eliminates him from The Rumble to a big pop.
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RING OF HONOR in 2022... in AEW
in ALL ELITE WRESTLING
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Murr vs Garcia, book it.