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Pfft. There won't be enough titles until everyone has at least one.
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It will be a glorious day when TK can finally announce that AEW has more champions than the entire rest of the world.
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Things are looking dicey between AEW and FTR. AEW hilariously did up graphics for the Observer award winners (how’s that unbiased journalism going?). They purposely ignored FTR and Dax has had a sook about it on Twitter. He’s going to be doing a podcast on the backstage bullshit surrounding The Pinnacle. Shawn Spears commented by saying it was DOA.
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I’m almost bored of the mismanagement drama. Almost. Not quite.
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A video of Fight Forever featuring Adam Page and Bryan Danielson came out. It looks fucking horrible.
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We needed molotov cocktails, though...
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And baseball.
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The wrestlers don’t even look like themselves. Danielson has got the most weird-ass hair.
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No one here seems to be talking about the ROH tapings. This thing seems tepid as fuck. It sounds like the ROH shows are going to be 2 hrs of Rampage-esque matches.
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Nobody here was interested in ROH before Tony bought it, tracks that there’s still zero interest.
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Havent really cared since Gabe left
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It certainly doesn’t have the shine to it that it once had.
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John Laurenitus rumored to be signing with AEW...was backstage at last two shows
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That sounds very weird.
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I have a question in regards to AEW’s June PPV: How many times can a forbidden door be opened before it is no longer considered forbidden?
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Oh man if they hire Laurenitus ahahahahha
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He got uninvited to a convention for being a problem. AEW is not going to bring him in with their political stances. And the fans will also hold their faces in disbelief because the evil joke, Johnny Ace, is with their company. I’m calling bullshit on this, but if it does happen…holy shit.
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I could see WWE rehiring him. Did he do anything *worse* than Vince? But not AEW. I think this is just satire aimed at the state of the company.
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Wrestling at the Cow Palace tonight. Hits me in the old school California rasslin’ nostalgia feels.
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Danielson's hair looks like it did at one point (before AEW got their TV deal though, so maybe that's why?) in AEW. So far, it looks to be moving like it should. WWE can do their "photo-realistic" games if they want (I' invoking WWE because there aren't any other comparable games). Except they only scan about 20% or less of the game'sl roster, so it looks horrible outside of your "main attraction" stars. This looks as advertised from the start. In today's gaming, seriously, it isn't all about "the graphics" for most. <iframe width="1250" height="703" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/OTAeCs4xu44" title="AEW Fight Forever - Exclusive Official Adam Page vs Bryan Danielson Clip | IGN Fan Fest 2023" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe> |
Yeah, it's quick and snappy like a no mercy style game should be.
Although the animation on those diving moves looks a little too choppy. Buckshot looks great though. |
I remember one of the old N64 WWF games basically just had a picture of the dude’s face on his video game body. It looked weird as fuck.
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Man, I didn’t know that video was gonna switch to real footage after the entrance and for a split second I was like “WHAT THE FUCK…”
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Saw someone on Twitter bring up the idea of Mark Briscoe and FTR winning the Trios titles and now I need that to happen.
Still think the titles are stupid but if anything could give them purpose for a while, it’s that. |
You’d need FTR to appear on the show to set that up and that seems like a “no-go”.
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Game looks okay. I don't "love" the graphics, but also that's not super important to me with rasslin games. I mainly want the controls to make sense.
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Yeah, wrestling games lost me years ago when it went from “grapple and then hit a button or combination of buttons for a specific move” to “up, down, x, x, right trigger, x, y, b, left trigger, right, left, right, left, x, w, q, q, q, plug in old Duck Hunt gun and pull the trigger, y, right trigger = body slam”
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The movements look choppy as hell. Graphics aren’t the end-all, but the wrestlers don’t even look like the wrestlers. Danielson’s hair is a perfect example of that.
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Coming from a guy who hasn't regularly played video games since the Gamecube.... movements look perfectly fine and the two rasslers in that video look pretty good... Danielson's hair matches the weird-ass style he had around his AEW debut when I watched for a few months....
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Hangman’s earlobes aren’t quite to my liking.
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If this is just going straight to Game Pass and releases in the next 2 weeks it could be a really smart move. As much as I was impressed by 2K22 I can’t see 23 being a big enough jump forward to warrant dropping another £60 on. A few quid for game pass to play the AEW game might scratch that itch until 2K23 comes down in price (and some of the inevitable early bugs are patched). |
I thought the thing about it being on game pass was just fake news?
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It wouldn’t surprise me if this game ends up on the side of a milk carton.
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I heard they changed the game title to AEW Wait Forever :lol:
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Brother in Christos, I'd highly encourage you to look up some screenshots of prior WWE games. It's waaaaaaay worse than hair. When someone isn't scanned, it looks awful. Quote:
This is mostly gone. There may be a few things like RT+X, but that's as complicated as it gets anymore. I bought 2k22 on sale, it's the best release in a very long time. |
My butthole is squeaky clean, drave. What the hell.
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Stop lying liar.
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Oh wait that's the other fan isn't it?
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You guys are easy to get confused.
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As someone who has paid money to watch me poop, you should know how thorough my butt cleaning routine is. Or do you turn the stream off after the main event?
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LOL <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Don't worry he ain't watching</p>— Kevin Nash (@RealKevinNash) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealKevinNash/status/1631806790877814788?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 4, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Huge pop!!</p>— Undertaker (@undertaker) <a href="https://twitter.com/undertaker/status/1631836453918457857?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 4, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> |
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Don't worry he ain't watching</p>— Kevin Nash (@RealKevinNash) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealKevinNash/status/1631806790877814788?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 4, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Huge pop!!</p>— Undertaker (@undertaker) <a href="https://twitter.com/undertaker/status/1631836453918457857?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 4, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> |
The Revolution card looks fucking horrid.
I’d actually put Danielson over in the main event at this point. Nothing about this MJF run or the promotion is working right now. SPOILER: show |
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Don't worry he ain't watching</p>— Kevin Nash (@RealKevinNash) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealKevinNash/status/1631806790877814788?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 4, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Huge pop!!</p>— Undertaker (@undertaker) <a href="https://twitter.com/undertaker/status/1631836453918457857?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 4, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> |
Did we need that posting 3 times? :lol:
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Don't worry he ain't watching</p>— Kevin Nash (@RealKevinNash) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealKevinNash/status/1631806790877814788?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 4, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Huge pop!!</p>— Undertaker (@undertaker) <a href="https://twitter.com/undertaker/status/1631836453918457857?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 4, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> No, but here is a fourth one. |
Also, it appears as if Britt's long term manager has a new gimmick. She will now be referred to as Not Rebel, Not Reba, Not Rose, Not Rebecca, Not Rolanda, but Removed from Television.
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Don't worry he ain't watching</p>— Kevin Nash (@RealKevinNash) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealKevinNash/status/1631806790877814788?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 4, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Huge pop!!</p>— Undertaker (@undertaker) <a href="https://twitter.com/undertaker/status/1631836453918457857?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 4, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> |
Of course, shit biscuits are making reference to Nash's dead son in response to his Crack at the Uncharismatic Enigma. Not a Cult at all.
Also, someone called Taker a racist. Which is probably news to the New Day, Ron Simmons, and Godfather. Fun fact: the Godwins and Taker were the only white members of the BSK. |
Lemme guess, that image with the blood is from just a regular ol' Dynanite? Pretty "disgusted" @ AEW's usage of blood.....
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I don’t think Taker is a racist but “He has black friends!” isn’t exactly the best rebuttal. Lol
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Not entirely sure "The last hound of Justice!" should be casting stones in that space.
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">jericho is built like a 65 year old lucha libre legend named like ‘el racisto’</p>— snowboiiii (@snowboiiii) <a href="https://twitter.com/snowboiiii/status/1632549327238209538?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 6, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
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Front page says FTR resigned long term AEW deals, recent TV abscence was storyline. Good get for AEW to keep FTR.
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Punk needs to stay away man. Ignoring "the incident" that took place, his on-screen and in-ring work was fucking terrible. And I was, at one point, a fan.
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I dont want Punk near the title, but FTR and Punk vs. The Elite kinda seems like a no brainer if everyone can get through it without hurt feelings. That feels like a big if though. |
It’s a tricky one if they can’t get the parties to play nice. The sheets have WWE interested in poaching The Elite, does a Punk return to AEW seal that deal? Meanwhile, if they go anyway you’re going to need something to fill that hole and a(nother) Punk return could be the thing to do it. Feels like TK has got to try not to burn bridges in either direction.
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Yeah its a tough spot for him.
Personally if its keep the Elite or keep Punk I think keeping the Elite is a no brainer. Longer potential, better fit and legacy employees/business partners. It appears Punk and the FTR arent the package deal some thought they were unless this is all already sorted behind closed doors which I wouldnt put past them. While AEW can be hokey with the worked shoot stuff there starting to show they can pull it off. Last week FTR were 99% leaving AEW and disgruntled as hell. Feels like the IWC has been getting worked pretty well and will no doubt hate it. |
lol someone stole the TNT title out of Wardlows car.
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Good time to remind people not to leave anything in your car if you’re ever in San Francisco.
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Lol @ wwe being interested in the elite. No they aren't. Only reason they'd take them would be to shove it in Tony's face. They can't make their own rules and do flippy shit like they can elsewhere.
You might love him or not but Punk can still draw although I'm not sure what that would look like now that we've had not one but two aborted title runs and the mess after All Out. |
There was a time (pre-AEW) where I could have seen Kenny Omega being "big" in WWE (as much as anyone is, before he would just become another guy). Feel like the ship has definitely sailed on that though. If they had got their hooks into him right from Japan and "protected him from himself" he could have been the next "AJ Styles" (A "big deal fairly quick" that would main event "for a while" but then a few years later just another dude you don't really care about)
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I think WWE would be more interested in Omega than The Bucks, but they'd jump at the chance to sign all of them even if they don't have any major plans for any of them.
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I dont think anybody in WWE would approve Kenny running Steve Urkel's catchphrases, but I am sure they would let him get most of his shit in like bestbout machine and that kind of nonsense. |
The Elite are probably more valuable being a problem in AEW’s locker-room. I don’t know if I would make a competing offer. Let them leverage TNA or New Japan against AEW. WWE doesn’t want this to be a wrestler’s market. The Elite and AEW ran the potential of this situation down to the point where that’s gone.
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AEW has already scrapped the All-Atlantic Title concept. It’s now the “International Championship” because…reasons.
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It’s been levelled up. That’s the reason. Didn’t you hear Tony say that? I think he said it 3 times cos he read the tele-prompter multiple times.
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Levelling up is what happened to the TNA Global Championship, wasn’t it?
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Someone said something about The Elite having way more value than CM Punk. I keep reading that from people, but Punk’s value was not only in what he brought to the table, but creating stars. Mentoring guys. He could sit behind a commentary desk when he’s done in the ring. You get the rewatch value from his work. The Elite’s only value is whatever you place in their spotfests.
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Name a star Punk has created. Just one.
Also he would suck on commentary because he'll just brag about himself and whine about people not listening to him. And I totes want a guy mentoring people that flips out and throws everyone under the bus when someone doesn't want his help. |
I guess there is def rewatch value in his work though. As in "Hey you see how Punk botched that move there? Don't do that."
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Uhg QT and Hobbs are just the start of a new faction that is now named QTV? Another faction? Seriously?
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More factions, more belts - woooo rasslin!
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His destruction at the hands of Wardlow, even though Punk squeaked out the technical win, was the flashpoint for Wardlow getting white-hot (within the context of that company) and was the trigger for TK jumping the gun as booker and splitting him and MJF up too soon. It’s not Punk’s fault that would be the best treatment Wardlow would get in the company. On commentary, Punk knows his bread is buttered on putting over other guys. He was totally selfless during his WWE stint behind the desk (even calling a guy like Tyson Kidd “the best in the world” at one point). I don’t know where you get this idea he’d use the platform (which would be supporting him in this context) to create drama that doesn’t need to exist. If you take Punk’s side and get rid of the politicians, you don’t have those problems anyway. Punk doesn’t flip out over guys not listening to him, lol. He gets cranky when they try to sabotage PPV programs, their work drives off viewers and nothing is done about it. He flips out when they barge into his personal space looking for a fight and gives them one. AEW needs to be cleaned up. And Punk has got way more value than Kenny or The Bucks in a clean space, because they literally can’t do any of the things that Punk can, even in theory. |
"...doesn't mean that those stories weren't going to be realized."
This is AEW. TK has the book. That's exactly what it means. They were going to be forgotten and left behind until 3 years later Darby would randomly go over CM Punk in a meaningless match at the time and a bunch of marks will come running in yelling "LONG TERM STORY TELLING!!!" Wardlow was "white hot" for about 2 minutes after that. Then he was paired with Joe, then jobbed to Joe, then won the title back, then lost it to Hobbs in 3 days. Wardlow is laughable now compared to where he was going into the Punk stuff. You don't know where I would get the idea that Punk would create drama that doesn't exist? I guess that whole media scrum where Punk created a bunch of drama was all a fever dream. Punk literally spazzed about Hangman because he didn't want to take his advice. Again, where have you been? |
"Oh he was gonna"
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lol according to someone who was at Dynamite/Rampage the other night, Sammy Guevara's entrance for the Rampage main event practically emptied out the arena
Rampage usually struggles keeping people around because of how late into the night it goes, on the East coast it's not ending til 11 PM or so. So out west it'd only be, like, 8 PM. Also the arena this was held at is in the heart of a major common area so it's not even like people were leaving to beat traffic. It was just like a mass exodus of people saying "Sammy in the main event? K I'm gonna head out" |
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Sammy’s 100% got that Xpac heat going on.
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Paige and co. are now calling themselves "The Outcast", because spray painting people and calling themselves The Outsiders, oops I mean Outcasts, is totally original! Tiny is such a good booker :roll:
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lol GCW has filed to oppose AEWs trademark of "Fight Forever" for their game as GCW ran a show with the same title a couple years ago during the pandemic.
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Happy for them getting the $$$...but Tony Khan stretched even more thin booking a third show seems 'not the best'
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