Zakk_Sabbath
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2 hours ago, tbarrie said:
As faces, I'm not sure what they're supposed to be, other than the somewhat vague description of being "a great tag team".
This might be controversial, but I enjoy FTR, and don't mean it as a knock necessarily: their babyface act is kinda the same wink-and-nudge gimmick as the Young Bucks, just aimed at viewers with a different taste in style or era. NWA kids vs. NWO kids.
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2 hours ago, ExcellenceofAirPollution said:
I just hope they acknowledge it period, it doesn't have to lead to a war between The Elite and The BCC
I personally wouldn't mind such a war (Legally Distinct 4v4 Thanksgiving Eve Survial Eliminator Tag Match anyone?) but IMO the more intriguing path would be BCC and the Elite in an uneasy, loose 'Alliance To End Bryan-mania'.
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8 hours ago, Eivion said:
Thank you for mentioning this. I thought it might just be me. I just can't help it. Every time I see the words, Hurricane Helms pops up in my head first.
I've been peppering in "WHASSUP WIT DAT?" like the old Jackie Martling inappropriate laugh drop on Howard to cope. You are my people.
(On the real, obviously, my heart goes out to anyone affected, and I'll help any posters in need any way I can)
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It's funny timing that some of us were having a convo about possible Private Party regression earlier in the week, cause I thought they both looked awesome last night (and like @AxB I was very pleasantly surprised by how long they went). Good stuff.
Also: I am highly, highly intrigued with this Deonna/Taya pairing. I know, difficult to believe that the guy with the Goodfellas avatar would mark out at hearing "This thing of ours..." over and over lol. But I love the way this was shot, same for her prior solo promos in this style - idk if it's intentional or not, but the lighting and/or filter used makes it feel like there's a little LU in the DNA, which is always welcomed.
@HarryArchieGusYou sir or madam win the damn day with that post, because at Grand Slam last week, I wasn't looking at the KhanTron much until two guys behind me were like "Why do (someone's red) pants look pink on the screen?" and it drove me insane the rest of the night!! White balance, please!!!! Love, a former video production major who got yelled at for this in 2007 by his ESPN-day-job-having professor, and was scarred for life.
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PSA: You'd have to be an idiot to fall for it, but for my conscience's sake, just passing along that someone on Twitter is currently trying to catfish me as Ricochet.
I'm gonna see how long I can keep it going, will report back if it's funny.
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1 hour ago, Sublime said:
Continuity has never been a strong point in American TV wrestling history telling. I seem to remember 20!years ago or so WWE hiring someone to track the continuity of their shows and they fired them about a month later because they found too many errors.
I'm not sure if it came to fruition or not, but I recall reading that Tony Schiavone offered to be in charge of that with AEW at some point in the last few years - so at the very least he's got stuff like that in mind. I thought the Ian hiding under the table thing on Grand Slam Collision, despite it's simplicity/goofiness, was actually a real pro move in that area
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15 minutes ago, AxB said:
Possibly Ricochet can wash the Performance Centre out of himself and regain his previous form. Possibly this is just who he is now.
I know I harp on it constantly, most recently after Britt/Mercedes at Wembley, so I apologize in advance for the repetition, but IMO this is where bringing back Dark or establishing a small, formal house show circuit would really help. Ricochet has only had four singles matches since coming in, with this being the longest by far - certainly the lighter schedule is a positive, I'm not calling for anyone to be out 300 days a year again or anything crazy, but you gotta assume that him getting another couple reps in before this one would've been helpful
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1 hour ago, Log said:
I do miss the days of there being a bunch of heel managers and sometimes they work together, but they're also all slimy dudes who'll backstab you at a moments notice.
Agreed - kinda similarly, I'm a fan of stables that have a representative in almost every division in that Horsemen sort of way, where you've got a World title caliber guy, a secondary title guy, and a tag team - so that's another big reason why I like Marina's addition to BCC (or going back half a friggin' decade now, why I was always pushing for Layla Hirsch to join Team Taz).
It's a good way to kinda give some of those women's matches stakes/repercussions outside of the division, thus (ostensibly) elevating their importance - and I think your idea works in a similar way: if Nana, whose main charge Swerve just came off a great, long, World title run, introduces a new woman as his client, she would almost immediately feel like a big deal to the audience.-
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57 minutes ago, HarryArchieGus said:
Just reading over the ROH tapings, I'd love to know thinking behind the Outrunners continuing to work Honorclub over AEWTV?
SpoilerI just heard on WOL that Sammy got hurt, so it wouldn't surprise me if they were ROH tag title bound, just to at least throw em a bone while the Bucks/PP story plays out for the main belts
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1 minute ago, EVA said:
A couple weeks ago they did the terrible WWE thing where the camera lingered on Bill making a Deep Contemplation face after Jericho said you should never trust anybody who says they’re your friend in wrestling, so that is definitley the long-term direction.
I totally get what you mean, but I actually liked it here! Not sure why, because I usually 100% agree on those types of tropes being used - honestly, and it's a simple answer, but maybe it just didn't clock as "WWE" to my brain cause I really like Bill
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39 minutes ago, Dolfan in NYC said:
Bobby Lashley has also signed with AEW. I need MVP to step aside and let Stokely manage Hurt Business 2.0.
MVP has been great in his two promos so far, but you've got me salivating at the idea of Stoke and Nana going back and forth in a similar fashion now.
Even if they don't do what you're pitching here, I want Nana to add another client in the women's division just to get to that via a Stat feud
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50 minutes ago, Log said:
I was hoping they'd avoid the tired and cheap "He's dead!" thing that Christian has been doing, but at least they kept it to just "He was better". I thought Jericho getting under Mark's skin by just saying that Jay was better would've been at least more respectful to Jay, really praising him for being great.
I actually liked Mark's restrained response. Did you notice how his voice changed? He turned off "fun" Mark and the exaggerated accent went away. That was cool.
Co-signed, I also liked the presentation of that, and I really, really liked the touch at the end where after Mark smacks Jericho, Jericho's down on the mat but he still tells Bill/Keith to stand down - like even Jericho himself knew he might've gone a bit too far.
I've made no secret about the fact I'm not digging this Learning Tree stuff, even if I do like all involved, but if I can find one positive in it, it's the little flourishes like that (or for another example, the one a couple weeks back on Collision where Jericho said 'If someone wants to be your friend, they're just using you' and Bill sideeyed him for a second).
Moving forward: I wonder if our endgame is Bill/Keith preemptively turning on Jericho before he can do anything to them. A lot of Jericho's previous stablemates have moved on, but as a story beat, it might be some nice closure to that early-era Inner Circle/JAS stuff to have a super group of Bill, Keith, and let's say Guevara, Daddy Magic, Ortiz, and Anna Jay giving Jericho his "ultimate" comeuppance (which you can then use to give Jericho a nice vacation to freshen up, and maybe even a babyface turn). Not even saying as a formal stable, but just coming together for a beatdown as a visual signifier that basically everything he's done since losing the title to Mox years ago is now coming back to haunt him
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17 minutes ago, Casey said:
You can’t count a Rampage episode when talking about the best episodes of Dynamite, sir. If that’s the case then it changes the conversation.
And like I said, a few people might remember the full card, but mostly everyone just remembers Omega/Danielson.
Heh I was cheating you got me there. But yeah, just too good for me to be objective about.
If we're disqualifying any that we're biased on from attending, then I change my pick to Winter Is Coming '20 too, I think
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17 minutes ago, Casey said:
Grand Slam 2021 is great, but let’s be honest - without looking at the Wiki page, how many people can name another match from this show besides Danielson/Omega? No one? A few, maybe? A 30 minute time limit draw doesn’t make a 2 hour show the greatest, IMO.
You're probably right in the grand (lol) scheme of things, but personally speaking I've got to respectfully disagree. You've got not only the tag Niko mentioned (which is maybe Sting's best AEW match) but a sadly forgotten Malekai Black/Cody bout which I thought was fantastic, and a really, really good Punk/Hobbs match from Rampage where they were aping a ton of spots from Bret/Diesel.
Edit: Plus the big Kingston/Mox v Suzuki/Archer main event w Homicide!
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8 hours ago, The Green Meanie said:
I can't disagree more. I absolutely love Hobbs, and Wardlow would just bring him down.
That's totally fair - really as a bigger fan of Hobbs' than Wardlow's, I can't disagree with your logic.
7 hours ago, Ace said:Wardlow just ain't it.
Its just frustrating as fuck because you're right, he really isn't - but dammit if he wasn't close for a period.
Idk if he's quite as "rehabbable" as like a Jay White or some of the others mentioned, but I feel like it's at least worth a shot given the initial investment - though it's possible i'm falling into a "sunken cost" thing here
This is going back a bit, but I think the whole "MJF plane ticket weekend" thing really took away from what should've been a much bigger, much more cathartic moment for his character.
I'm not certain about this, because obviously both guys were hurt almost immediately after, but I felt that the pairing with Adam Cole and his guys might've been a bit of an attempt to recapture some of that down the line
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2 hours ago, Stefanie Sparkleface said:
This might be the most aggressive sealioning I've ever seen.
Ok you win the day for teaching me this term lol
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17 minutes ago, StuntmanCrowley said:
I really can't wait for Hobbs to come back. Someone suggested a Wardlow/Hobbs pairing(with MVP/Lashley), but the visual of Fur Coat Hobbs with a suited Wardlow is a tag team I'd fully be about. Speaking of tag teams, just a side tangent that I'm tired of both WWE and AEW using the tag titles as angle props. It's irritiating as shit.
Co-signed to the fullest degree. Back in late '21(?) during the seemingly endless Joe/Hobbs/Wardlow feud over the TNT/ROH TV titles, I was hoping we'd eventually get those two teaming up against Joe and someone in exactly that fashion.
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12 minutes ago, Shartnado said:
If that's the case, then they must have Satnam confront Hangman for what Page did to Jarrett, get beaten by him and then attacked in a way that explains his "retirement".
This is a fantastic idea which I would be glad to see on TV, but at the same time, Hangman's been on fire lately and I'm not sure he needs it.
If I had the pencil, I'd hold off on formally retiring Satnam until Hobbs is ready to return, and have him do the honors. This gives a nice excuse to refer back to the footage from that big Jericho-verse tag where he took out Big Show on the hood of the car (which I felt they hadn't utilized enough at the time he was hurt).
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16 minutes ago, Shartnado said:
As people have already said, he's out injured and is still living up to his name and actively robbing us of Bandido vs Mortos as we speak...
I'm excited to see him mix it up with Hologram (and it's also been really nice having Komander around even if he's mainly been relegated to trios).
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On 9/28/2024 at 4:17 AM, ExcellenceofAirPollution said:
On the latest WOR Meltzer mentions that household income is up for both the AEW and WWE audiences, "way up" for WWE.
Note to self: refer to the Bloodline as "cinema" next annual review
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Late to the party, but real life got in the way a bit this week.
It was definitely a sad sight to see how scaled down it was, but I think the show itself was the best since year one (at least as a live experience). We were tired as hell by Collision, but the MxM stuff got a great reaction in the building and was a really nice way to cleanse the palette before Okada/Sammy.
On the attendance front, one big positive I noticed was that they were pushing the upcoming shows in NJ and CT hard, at one point even putting a QR code up on the KhanTron to buy tickets which I thought was brilliant. It's a good first step, at least.
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More tomorrow because 95 is a mess and I have no voice, but the verdict: still ruling the motherfucking world
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3 hours ago, Casey said:
2021: 20k+
2022: 13k+
2023: 11kThey’ll end up doing around 8k tonight with walk-up sales most likely. I’m pretty sure the Arthur Ashe experiment should be shut down after this year.
I mean, obviously you never match the first shows in a market attendance wise, but this is always the time of year I start to have some very serious questions about the sales/marketing team. I live in the area and have seen no billboards, no commercials, no radio ads, no Google ads, zip. One interview on the FAN, that's it. I'm about to leave in the next hour or so, and everyone I've mentioned it to is like "That's today?" I'm not saying they could've come close to year one, but I have no doubt they could've had a better showing if this were advertised *at all*. Yeah, it's "the market" but at the same time it's NYC, we're not talking about Casper, WY here; people would've traveled. I had a great time chatting with a guy from Germany in line one year ffs
ETA: this in no way affects my excitement level for the show btw, it just drives me nuts. I'm finally gonna see Okada!!!! Nigel/Danielson!!! Maybe!!!! Also mysteries!!!!
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AEW TV - 10/8 - 10/15/2024 - emI Can Dream About You
in ALL ELITE WRESTLING
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Ok first of all this line is tremendous, and must be highlighted - well done
But secondly, I agree - to me, it almost paradoxically feels like a holdover from the days of rankings.
Three years ago, there would've been a little blurb from Ex like, "Nyla is 9-1 in her last ten matches coming into this bout" but without mentioning the fact that like 7 of them were on Dark against an oddly pale waitress on her day off from Hogan's Beach Shack.
Now that these nuker matches have the visibility of happening on TV instead of YouTube, I think it's simply a matter of the audience being both A) more in the loop about em, and thusly B) less forgiving about em.
To a degree (and I'm not painting you with this brush at all, just speaking in generalities) I think there's also a strong argument for an "audience re-training" aspect, too. NXT is probably what I would consider WWE's C-show, but with it being officially developmental, it's a much different animal than what we grew up watching on weekends from the big 2 (which is probably more where Rampage and often-but-not-always Collision land tonally).