ChesterCopperpot Posted March 12 Share Posted March 12 Anthony Henry of the Workhorsemen is out with a broken jaw after an indy match with Bryan Keith last night https://twitter.com/Antnyhenry/status/1767385520718438490 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliff Hanger Posted March 12 Share Posted March 12 15 hours ago, Dolfan in NYC said: Max Caster is tweeting... I had to check and make sure whether this was the Tim Rogers from the Insert Credit podcast 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Death From Above Posted March 12 Share Posted March 12 Max Caster's been an obvious piece of shit from day 1. But Coach K loves him for some reason unlike other, not as well liked pieces of shit like Janella for whatever reason. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Go2Sleep Posted March 12 Share Posted March 12 The Acclaimed have a nice role as the NAO of AEW, but I can never see them being more than that. Entrance always pops the crowd, competent enough, but never gonna out-shine the top guys in the ring. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infinit Posted March 12 Share Posted March 12 3 hours ago, Go2Sleep said: The Acclaimed have a nice role as the NAO of AEW, but I can never see them being more than that. Entrance always pops the crowd, competent enough, but never gonna out-shine the top guys in the ring. And there is nothing wrong with that. That's a pretty great spot, and they are literally teaming with a member of the NAO lol. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarryArchieGus Posted March 12 Share Posted March 12 (edited) 4 hours ago, Go2Sleep said: The Acclaimed have a nice role as the NAO of AEW, but I can never see them being more than that. Entrance always pops the crowd, competent enough, but never gonna out-shine the top guys in the ring. In their current state I'll give you no argument, but they will Hopefully move on. When they do I know there's a few us who feel, at some point, that Anthony Bowens could potentially have something to offer as a singles. Caster too. He's greatly improved over the course of his time in AEW, and his charisma suggests it's way too early to write him off. Edited March 12 by HarryArchieGus 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted March 12 Share Posted March 12 Bowens is basically the most likable guy in the company. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted March 12 Share Posted March 12 46 minutes ago, Matt D said: Bowens is basically the most likable guy in the company. Not Chugs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Technico Support Posted March 12 Share Posted March 12 The Acclaimed could improve so much back in the regular tag division. Alas, it seems they’ve settled into 90s AJPW opener territory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AxB Posted March 12 Share Posted March 12 My fantasy booking is that The Acclaimed defend their trios titles against The Elite (Billy Gunn vs Okada!), lose and do a soft split. Caster can feud with Keith Lee or some other big guys, and work a loudmouth antagonist gimmick. Bowens can win a ton of matches and get a World title shot on PPV (against World Champ Swerve Strickland, because it would mean a lot to a lot of people to have a black World champion defend against a black challenger, and to have a gay man vying to be top dog in the company). And Billy Gunn can have a quiet few months or go back to his semi-retired manager gig that he had before the trios thing took off. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casey Posted March 13 Share Posted March 13 Ospreay retires Billy Gunn at Wembley in 2025, 8 stars 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarryArchieGus Posted March 13 Share Posted March 13 5 hours ago, Matt D said: Bowens is basically the most likable guy in the company. My vote goes to Angelico. Or Bryce Remsberg. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Green Meanie Posted March 13 Share Posted March 13 8 hours ago, HarryArchieGus said: Or Bryce Remsberg. "I hate bald people!" - Luther 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just Dave Posted March 13 Share Posted March 13 14 hours ago, odessasteps said: Not Chugs? Nope. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RazorbladeKiss87 Posted March 13 Share Posted March 13 14 hours ago, odessasteps said: Not Chugs? He's pretty high on my list of unlikeable people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted March 13 Share Posted March 13 Bowens is pretty endearing: https://www.theplayerstribune.com/posts/anthony-bowens-aew-wrestling 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace Posted March 13 Share Posted March 13 I eagerly await the eventual Bowens singles push. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Natural Posted March 13 Share Posted March 13 (edited) I'm a big Bryan Danielson and Batman fan but that doesn't stop me disliking some parts of both. Feels weird critiquing who I regard in Bryan Danielson the Greatest of All Time but If change, again whom am I to say this to Danielson but nevertheless... The running knee getting kicked out of more. Used to be a list of four give or take in WWE but it's expanded since AEW. Kazuchika Okada, Zack Sabre Jr, Jon Moxley, Eddie Kingston, Adam Page, MJF, Brody King off the top of my head. The seizure sell. The diving headbutt/shoot headbutts. Bryan Danielson is such a selfless person, an admirable trait but rarely wins the big match in AEW. Danielson's jobbed to Jon Moxley, Adam Page, MJF, Eddie Kingston, MJF. Granted the top guys but I just wish he'd win the big one. In a recent match a commentator picked up Danielson's win loss record as one of AEW's best but he's still never held a championship there. Only AEW matches of Bryan's I didn't like were one of two with Chris Jericho, Miro, Jon Moxley and Brian Cage. Edited March 13 by The Natural 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JLowe Posted March 13 Share Posted March 13 (edited) The Acclaimed are still a merch moving machine, every time they drop a new shirt you see like 5% of the audience wearing it, which is not Austin 3:16 but is respectable considering they have new shirts every 2-3 weeks right now. Once that cools, they’ll reboot. Edited March 13 by JLowe 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just Dave Posted March 13 Share Posted March 13 Yeah, getting the Acclaimed back to what they were a couple years ago would be awesome, but I don’t see any real path forward for either guy as a single. I’d love to see them in the tag team tournament, though… 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casey Posted March 13 Share Posted March 13 (edited) TK mentioned DVDVR during the panel he, Danielson and Britt Baker did at SXSW a few days ago. It was in reference to Danielson not thinking people thought he was the best wrestler in the world in 2004, and TK said this board did, because he was there. Trevor Dame assumes this is in reference to the DVD 500. Another fun tidbit from that panel was that Vince apparently asked Bryan, when he was doing creative before he left, what AEW was doing that WWE wasn’t. So Bryan went and watched something like 6-8 weeks of TV in one weekend and came back, “they’re doing a lot”. Edited March 13 by Casey 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted March 13 Share Posted March 13 TK should have told him about March Madness, but not the year Claudio won. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AxB Posted March 13 Share Posted March 13 Wouldn't it be ironic, if it turned out that watching all of those AEW shows was what made Danielson want to make the jump? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Wilson Posted March 13 Share Posted March 13 2 hours ago, The Natural said: I'm a big Bryan Danielson and Batman fan but that doesn't stop me disliking some parts of both. Feels weird critiquing who I regard in Bryan Danielson the Greatest of All Time but If change, again whom am I to say this to Danielson but nevertheless... The running knee getting kicked out of more. Used to be a list of four give or take in WWE but it's expanded since AEW. Kazuchika Okada, Zack Sabre Jr, Jon Moxley, Eddie Kingston, Adam Page, MJF, Brody King off the top of my head. The seizure sell. The diving headbutt/shoot headbutts. Bryan Danielson is such a selfless person, an admirable trait but rarely wins the big match in AEW. Danielson's jobbed to Jon Moxley, Adam Page, MJF, Eddie Kingston, MJF. Granted the top guys but I just wish he'd win the big one. In a recent match a commentator picked up Danielson's win loss record as one of AEW's best but he's still never held a championship there. Only AEW matches of Bryan's I didn't like were one of two with Chris Jericho, Miro, Jon Moxley and Brian Cage. I know you won't disagree with me here, but I really wish that Danielson would beat Ospreay. For a few reasons. Danielson needs a big win occasionally in these "dream" matches he does, even if he doesn't want to win a title he needs victories occasionally in his big matches or they just become special attractions. I also think it would set up a good story for Ospreay. What does he still need to improve? How does Callis react? Is he really as good as he thinks he is? And on top of that, it would be a surprise since most people will assume Ospreay is winning. I don't believe in a "swerve for the sake of a swerve" but a surprise win now and then is good for the show and its not something that would hurt Ospreay long term. Small added side effect, if they want to keep him out of the title picture for awhile it will give Ospreay a "L" for their rankings. I don't think it would happen, but I do think Ospreay losing would open up more booking options then him winning. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NikoBaltimore Posted March 13 Share Posted March 13 3 hours ago, The Natural said: Only AEW matches of Bryan's I didn't like were one of two with Chris Jericho, Miro, Jon Moxley and Brian Cage. I'm legit surprised there were Danielson AEW matches you didn't like. I'm not a fan of Cage so I remember that not being that interesting. As for Mox if it's the PPV match they had I remember liking that unless there was another I'm blanking on. I don't remember the others that much. Also, if we're talking dream Daneilson matches I'm still here waiting on a one-on-one match against Orange and especially Angelico. Both would be fucking fantastic and would make for incredible random matches to put on Collision. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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