Brandon Bones

Hang in there, sir.

I agree that the game engine had a lot of potential. But my criteria is a bit different since I run a sim league and rarely ever play the game. FF I thought was a strong start but it has a long way to go. Perhaps my needs are really only being met by the 2k games BECAUSE OF the annual turnaround times giving the developer years to set me up. You’d have thought they’d have examined every other wrestling game and improved upon them. That history could be the teacher. But I’m thinking budgets got in the way to build from scratch like that. So like the idea of continuing to build on existing property.

I nominate Roddy Strong. Also I would KEEP doing that to Roddy so it becomes like that running joke on Jimmy Kimmel where Matt Damon is always booked on the show but they always run out of time.

This is an issue for me myself as well. Regardless of the results. My phone remains dumb

With Toni’s entrance being red on black and white noir. I now want AEW to hire Robert Rodriguez to do a semi short film Sin City parody entrance. Luther could do the priest monologue that Marv kills.

I broke my WWE fast to say sayonara to our good buddy Goldberg. I’m a sucker for wrestling farewells. As far as the match? It was a great way for Goldberg to go out on his sword. His selling was pretty great. Not that he had to. I’m sure them aches and pains were readily apparent. But Goldberg proves once again not every epic has to be 35 minutes. Which if you think about is a pretty big contribution to the business. Gunther gets a pretty great stat on his resumé putting away such a big name.

AEW rules the fucking universe. I never smoked cigarettes in my life but I wanted one after the Outrunners came out wearing a Newports design. Then the announcers called it… by name. Which to me was mind blowing considering how the anti-smoking folks tend to react. At least in the United States anyway. I laughed all the way through the match and it was another banger. Especially, since I watched the Collision match earlier in the morning. For me Toni/Mońe stole the show. Piledrivers off the ropes are one of those moves you’d think would’ve happened more often over the years. Same with Camel Clutch/Boston Crab combos. Give that to the Outrunners. Was glad that the facility had cover from the sun. Was glad Okada went over Kenny. Okada is going toward the Main Event in the next year. Hangman has challengers. Was surprised the Jericho was missing from the show. Did that little kid with the abs fuck him off that bad? Mox sold the shit out of that finish. Kudos.

Great Scott! This Negative 1 thing is going to go all the way to him debuting as a wrestler against Preston Vance. Yeah. I’ll probably roll a tear for the years long close to life narrative and (of course) my own mortality.

I think it was Meltzer a couple of weeks ago that was trying to speculate that if AEWs recent turnaround was while Mox was champion. That maybe you keep it that way to keep things chugging along. I don’t really see much of what Mox specifically is offering as champion that has fed this turnaround. I’m not as down on the D Riders as some. But business guys that think money over everything demands they keep those Ds Riding. To me it seems like on a narrative level that the set up is for Hanger to win at the big blowoff show. At this point serving the story (in my view) is a better route to go to spend on all the investment in Mox to pass the baton and mix in Swerve and Osprey and others into the Main Event scene.

I’m am pleased. Alert the media! I heard somewhere… there are roughly another 2500 to 2700 tickets left unless they open another section. Things are looking good.

Totally works as that kind of storyline baked in “stamp of approval” that endorses Hangers title reign AND evolves Swerves character at the same time. It doesn’t mean the rivalry is over. But it’ll be different from that point forward with the threat of regression always dangling overhead.

I am persuadable.

Things could be worse. That Hogan Freestyle Whatever has a little more than 300 tickets out. So things are looking up. All kidding aside. Little did I know my thinking out loud about my reaction to looking at how the tickets sales were going would kick a hornets nest in the balls. Was I really dooming out? I’m baffled that my post was taken that way. Some of the posts here were certainly encouraging as far as having a successful outlook. Even while I guess, what I had to say wasn’t particularly respected? They can’t all be winners. I will say that over the years there has been an aspect to reporting on attendance in our little media that often times went out of its way to embarrass these companies. WWE used to get its pants pulled down on the regular as they herded what crowd they could muster to the front of the cameras. Meanwhile camera phone pics of large tarps and unlit empty seats show up in news feeds. It was meant to embarrass them. It at least made me embarrassed for them. WCCW was clueless to the point of incompetence in their day. I just recently watched a pair of those big shows after rewatching Flair vs. Kerry. It was tutorial in how not to shoot and present wrestling. It brought to mind how much respect I had for how AEW shot the second Wembley show. Sure… red seats were dotted throughout the upper deck areas and seen on camera but went largely unhighlighted enough to distract. Additionally, the week to week tallies seemed to have satisfied the critics and all with booking smaller venues. I guess that still doesn’t read for me that AEW is setting the world on fire. I love my starving artist federation. I KID FFS! I’m am really kicking myself for not going to those Boston shows. But I did go to the Manchester show. So I’m at least not a complete CM Punk level of hypocrite. *Wink* Hopefully, Drew doesn’t sue me for copyright/gimmick infringement. As far as my “esteem”? There is only one poster of “esteem”. That’s Octopus. I’m not on his level.

Phone froze. Didn’t realize this actually posted.

I guess I really fucked up. At least it’s good I’m considered esteemed. Even if I don’t know what that means.