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Originally Posted by Lord Gertner of TPWW (Post 5433496)

lol "the Buzz". They've been doing the same numbers for over a year

They had a lot of buzz that one time the NBA gave them a lead in, it was overwhelming bad buzz, but it did happen lol.

And no, Smackdown is the best wrestling show of the week.

A few weeks ago on one of Cornette’s podcasts, Brian Last made a good comparison explaining why he prefers AEW to NXT. Neither one is very good but NXT is the crazy person who is just sitting in the middle of a padded room, staring at the floor, whispering to himself and rocking back and forth while AEW is the one running around, shouting insane things and throwing shit on the walls. Neither is sane but the latter is certainly more fun to watch and less likely to just lull you to sleep.

Wight's debut was more of a shock than Christian Cage's

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Originally Posted by Slik (Post 5433383)

You're right, it's not TNA. If it were TNA all the older talent would be in a stable together and have all the titles. Instead, AEW tends to use older talent as managers or pair them with a younger guy or stable of younger guys. It's an easy and smart way to help get newer talent over, which they have done really well with.

The buzz for AEW is because it produces the best wrestling show overall each week. Dynamite tends to fly by and is mostly chill. Unlike WWE, there isn't any robotic commentary and over-scripted promos that come across as inhuman. Anything can almost happen on Dynamite, you never know what to expect.

You’re not going to get any defence of WWE out of me, it’s woeful. I just think that AEW isn’t changing anything. You can talk about the managers and what way they are using people, but Sting went over a guy in his twenties last night and he is 61 years old.

Christian and Big Show will be in the ring in no time and winning matches too. There aren’t any standards. Jericho just wouldn’t be allowed on WWE TV looking like he does. That mistake last night was another example. Jon Moxley said he got away from WWE to get away from doing hokey shit, and last night he had his friend lie on his face as sparklers went off.

TNA had excellent matches too and they had a far better roster with far better wrestlers on it that AEW do.

People are welcome to enjoy what they enjoy, but they have to be open to the suggestion that, for the majority, this still isn’t what wrestling should be. The buzz is from hardcore fans that like it better than the trash WWE serves up on a regular basis.

if you need to mention WWF to defend or lambast AEW your argument sucks. just wanted to throw that out there

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Originally Posted by Destor (Post 5433518)

if you need to mention WWF to defend or lambast AEW your argument sucks. just wanted to throw that out there

Good thing I didn’t NEED to then :D

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Originally Posted by Mike the Metal Ed (Post 5428976)

...AEW just signed The Big Show.

https://i.imgur.com/0hSBg1p.png

I’m not sure if I understand the logic on this myself. Paul Wight is nearing 50 and won’t be able to work full-time. He also doesn’t have the star power of a Bill Goldberg, Undertaker, or Lesnar where he can have random “one off” matches to draw in fans. Will be interesting to know what dollar amount and term AEW signed him to.