SovietShooter

I'd argue that there is a difference between having an outdated "machine" (a typewriter, landline, pager, etc) and physical media. When you buy a piece of media (vinyl, cassette, CD, DVD, etc) you have access to that media always. You pay for a De La Soul album, you can listen to De La Soul whenever you want. In the streaming era, you dont own a copy of anything; everything is a "rental", essentially. If a record company or streaming service decides they don't want to make that De La album available, then I have no legal way to listen to it. The social contract was always that if you pay for it, it is yours. Now people are paying for streaming services, and don't actually own anything. Younger folks that have grown up where all they know is streaming don't have the issue with this that older folks do. It isn't about the actual physical item, it is about having access to the media that you paid for.

Well, me thinks a shift of the Trios titles over to the fast & flippy guys my be the inverse.

I'm holding out some hope that recent developments are pointing to a change in that front. Murder Machines just squashed the shit out of Top Flight, and it sure seems like the Hurt Syndicate LLC is going to have their way with Private Party. Not sure of Brody & Buddy are staying together as a team or not, but those teams mixing it up with FTR, a returning Young Bucks, Gates of Agony, MXM and the Outrunners could be pretty damn interesting. Not even taking into account teams like Claudio/Yuta, Cage/Wayne, etc.

My takeaway from that match was that theyre setting up a Hobbs vs Big Bill program. Which, yeah, would have more heat if Hobbs had the belt.

So, saw this on Reddit... Thirty Year Old Independent Promotion Sold To kinda echo what I posted in the comments there, I wrestled, trained, and worked in the office for that promotion from 2000-2006 when they were part of the NWA. I headlined three of their anniversary shows, and held their Heavyweight championship twice. For a few years I ran their training school too. Brian Anthony was a good guy when I knew him back then... he was actually slated to win the NWA World Championship at one point, but Ogawa no-showed the match. He was trained by Dominic DeNucci. He worked as a PT and a strength coach at a pretty high level, and I believe did competitive body building. His brother, Paul Atlas, is a respected veteran in the area that trained a lot of guys. Jim Miller is a pretty divisive figure. He was a cheap son of a bitch, but he kept the doors open to a promotion where folks could to train and work on a regular basis for years. He was the president of the NWA at the time when they started working with TNA and Zero One. At one point I was pretty much his right hand man and he treated me like a son, but when I left the company (in a professional and adult like manner) he flipped the fuck out and burned any kind of friendship or professional relationship going forward. He eventually acquired a pretty damn nice building in downtown McKeesport that he actually spent money renovating into an arena and tv venue, but he was never willing to put any money into the product to draw. He wanted to make money from the boys first, and from ticket buying fans second. If Miller is selling all the assets -including the building - to Anthony, this could be a really big deal. If it is just selling the rights to use the PWX name... Eh, who cares?

To play devil's advocate... there are plenty of other people that also deserve a shot. Why pick up a guy synonymous with another company, when you could just give a shot to a fresh face with no brand recognition?

I get the thought process behind this, but if you watch sports, announcers - especially former players - show their bias all the time. And when they have active players in the studio for a pregame show or something, they're expected to be biased for their team. So from that perspective, I have no issues with wrestlers showing personality and taking sides. What bothers me is when they put the focus on themselves, instead of the action in the ring and/or the active wrestlers being expected to draw money. In AEW, I think Taz and Callis do a great job of calling the action while working their gimmick. I love Nigel, but I can see why some think he goes too far, especially with the Danielson schtick. Menard doesn't do anything offensive... I think he just needs more reps than anything else. Riccaboni is great, and I love him and Coleman together. I'd love to see Coleman get more of a chance than bringing in anyone else. I've never been a huge JR guy, especially Attitude Era "Good ol' JR", and I think he makes everything he calls in AEW actively worse. Ex and Schiavone are great.

IMHO, I think the biggest impact that Max will have is that people that had to watch via a VPN method or illegal stream (or not watch at all) will be able to watch via Max. The real tale of the tape I feel will be how many new subscribers Max picks up. If 100K people sign up for Max, that is $1Mish per month, depending on the tier.

I've pondered on this today... What is the point of Mox's title reign? If they're doing the NWO/Hogan angle, where the babyface "ace" upends him for the title... it would be Darby or OC, right? But Mox has already kinda vanquished OC, and Darby is gone for a good long while now... so either this is going to go on for quite awhile, or that was never the plan. Did they give the belt to old reliable Mox, so that he could "make" a younger guy? If that was the case, they aren't going to have a better opportunity than what they had last night with Hobbs. I'm just not buying the payoff to all this really is to do Mox/Copeland with a Christian cash in, it is just too obvious, and telegraphing it the way they are is only making the build colder and colder. I just don't know what their endgame is... sometimes that can be good, but not in this case. The top of the card just feels directionless. I think the problem is that TK is always talking-the-talk about being "for the sickos", but it sure doesn't seem like he is walking-the-walk. I think the sickos ultimately would get off on Brody, Ospreay, Okada, Omega, Swerve and a couple other guys in the main events, even if they aren't winning. The reaction Hobbs got in Mox's hometown is proof.

I think that this promo went waaaaay to long. If Jarrett had just kinda cut MJF off after the first insult and went-8 Mile with the "What are you going to say to me that I haven't heard 1000 times", MJF could've just jumped to the Owen thing - none of that other stuff was needed. Personally, I'm excited about a Jarrett/MJF feud & match. This promo was a failure though

That's the long term booking again... Christian has to put the contract inside a clipboard, because Mox has the belt inside a briefcase. We can't have both guys carrying around briefcases.

I knew there was a snowballs chance in hell that Hobbs would win there, so I wasn't surprised when Mox went over in his hometown. But man, I have no interest in Cope as a main event babyface in a program with Mox. Holy shit, if the "long term plan" is for Cope to beat Mox so that Christian can cash in and beat Cope, then TK truly has tunnel vision and has no pivot skills. Is there no one in his ear telling him this isn't working, or does he just not fucking care? For someone so enamored with gambling and poker, you would think TK would understand going with the hot hand...

"Long Train Runnin'" fucking slaps.

That is a fair and valid criticism. But that wasn't one of DJM's bullet points.

You're shitting on them for announcing a match in which the scenario that you say you would like to see, actually could happen. Why don't you wait to see how it shakes out first to start saying what they should've done?