Nobody on the internet talks about it, but more people watch it internationally. It’s just how that goes. They’re blocking out the middle-man.

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Cap coming to do cowboy shit (they should have edited him holding a beer)

All AEW is is a meme.

People enjoy memes.

FTR vs SCU (Kazarian, Daniels)....hell the fuck yes!

Good memes.

That will be an excellent match. So would FTR vs. any SCU combination. I hope this leads to the SCU heel turn.

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">If you can’t handle me at my “Drunk, holding a fish, dancing peoples faces off” phase then you don’t deserve me at my “sunglasses, sipping on OJ, and chilling real hard” phase <a href="https://twitter.com/orangecassidy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@orangecassidy</a> <a href="https://t.co/92Ve9NjNIU">pic.twitter.com/92Ve9NjNIU</a></p>&mdash; DJStrongStyle (@DJstrongstyle) <a href="https://twitter.com/DJstrongstyle/status/1115788402895544321?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 10, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Thought of the day:

All Elite Wrestling should rename itself "All I'll Eat Wrestling" and turn it into a competitive eating and wrestling hybrid.

Between rounds of wrestling they have to eat an entire four course meal from soup to cheeseboard.

Is “cheeseboard” the fourth course of a meal wherever you’re from???

Sounds alright.

A cheeseboard usually gets put out after dessert or sometimes instead of it. I have no idea where the custom came from, France probably.

I don't think she'd fit in AEW, either.

For one thing, she isn't Britt Baker. For another, she one of the Executive Vice President in charge's personal fetishes.

Also, she's charismatic, can work, and has a personality. They'd be completely lost.

AEW Dark. lol, I own that same leaf blower Joey brought in.

Who needs a leaf blower?

Where can I get a synthesizer rake? want.

Looking forward to tonight. The matches on paper sound excellent. Even a family member who is gung ho on WWE is skipping NXT, which is very strange.

Bought an MJF shirt and a DC worst town shirt with the new 20% off sale that started today. I'm accumulating AEW shirts

Wait a few months and get them for pennies on the dollar

I dont think that's going to happen since they're partnered with PWT and the shirts are printed on demand

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">And with that win on <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AEWDark?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AEWDark</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/ScorpioSky?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ScorpioSky</a> joins an exclusive club in gaining his 20th AEW win. <br><br>These are the three winningest wrestlers in AEW. <a href="https://t.co/jayVjsmdxm">pic.twitter.com/jayVjsmdxm</a></p>&mdash; Will ✊�� (@WilliamRBR) <a href="https://twitter.com/WilliamRBR/status/1278110726641475584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 30, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Sky being #3 is a bit surprising but also makes sense since AEW has viewed him as a potential breakout star since he's worked the most out of everyone in SCU and has been treated pretty well overall.

Him getting his singles record padded makes me think they're priming him for a big push soon

While I do like AEW quite a bit I and truly enjoy the show much more than RAW/SD, it zooms by and is easy to watch...I do think Tony Khan needs to hire ONE writer from TV to help him w / story beats and show structure.

AEW does jump around a lot. I appreciate them always trying to stay fresh...but I do think Tony needs someone to help him have better follow thru...

Ex:
Why did it take until this week for Jungle Express to win a big tag match
When was Darby's last big victory
When was Sammy's last big victory
Where is Abaddon
Where is Ricky Starks
What happened to Scorpio Sky, he's disappeared post Jericho feud


etc...

AEW is just as bad as WWE when it comes to not making sense.

They have too many workers for one weekly two hour show.

At least in regards to Starks and Sky, Starks wrestled on this week's episode of Dark while Sky has been mostly hanging around in Dark in recently weeks.

When they were running those series of vignettes on Sky a while ago, it did feel like they had some big plans for him but whatever it was got delayed because of the coronavirus or some other reason.

If the outside stuff involving Darby ends up tanking his chances of taking the TNT belt off of Cody, Sky would be a very good replacement since they've been slowly building up his profile on Dark in recent weeks.

AEW doesn't really need the type of writer WWE chews up on a regular basis since the stuff they are doing is pretty basic story-wise but wouldn't hurt at all to get like a managing editor on board to tighten up their creative work. Some of WWE's greatest success during the Attitude Era wasn't from writing but via the use of storyboards to keep everything in check.

I like that storyboard idea/managing editor a lot

Some of them are even good. It's their fault they're overloaded, and the last thing they need is more content. That's such a WWE problem.

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lol I'm definitely buying this

Hahaha brilliant

Wasn't available yesterday and I'm pissed lol

Seems AEW might not be traveling outside of Daily's Place until possibly this October at the earliest.

Cancelled two more shows this year due to the coronavirus leaving just 6 left on their schedule this year for non-Daily's Place shows.

I knew it was only a matter of time before someone did this

bwahahahahahahahahahaha



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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">WWE Files Late Renewal Trademark On 'Cody Rhodes,' Trademark For 'The Man' Abandoned <a href="https://t.co/MCm3DJyTpb">https://t.co/MCm3DJyTpb</a></p>&mdash; Fightful Wrestling (@FightfulWrestle) <a href="https://twitter.com/FightfulWrestle/status/1278827304978796548?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 2, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

I would like to congratulate AEW on a near 800% increase in viewers from this time last year.

More like 650%

Or are you counting DVR viewers lol

It's going to be funny when we can congratulate them on breaking even with their audience prior to getting TV.

I had someone try to count illegal streamers in order to defend AEW's popularity the other day.

Archer should have won the TNT title tournament. Cody's storylines are already great and don't need to be enhanced with a title.

Meanwhile, Archer would have made a huge impact, coming in and beating the golden boy for the title. And it would have given him a built in storyline as a monster that the faces have to beat to get the title and reach the next level.

Instead Archer feels like he's just another guy on the roster.

Would have just given more ammo to those online who have been howling for months about AEW being nothing more than just a new TNA in the sense of giving every cast-away or "reject" a major push right out of the gate.

Even Cody winning gave more ammo to those who think he's just another Triple H when that's barely true. If anything he's closer to WCW era Jeff Jarret in terms of him punching too much over his actual star power and the rest of the Elite not matching it.

Ideally Archer shouldn't have been in the tournament to begin with and instead use those weeks to build up his profile more so he becomes the first major challenger to Cody's reign.

Cody's problem is less that he won but more of his shtick has been exposed a lot from the lack of crowds since his stuff is way more character and drama based than the rest of the Elite. Same for Orange Cassidy being a lot more effective when there are crowds around than without.

I don't understand the purpose of a TNT Title at all. The whole thing with Cody losing his right to challenge was an obvious set-up to him eventually going after the AEW Title itself. Now he's got an unnecessary mid-card title win and loss to his name by the time he does it.

So what?

Going by recent interviews, its basically AEW paying homage to the classic NWA and WCW TV title with the idea of it being more like WWE's IC belt from back in the day in terms of status. Not something strictly for the mid-card but on paper would have enough prestige to act as a stepping stone title.

Cody being the first champ and only current singles member of the Elite is meant to build up that initial prestige.

I just wanted to put in writing that at this time I am not definitely purchasing All Out 2020. I will have to be sold. I blindly bought all of AEW's PPV's and let one fact be known, I've never regretted it. But, AEW isn't getting any less (leg) slap happy and I'm not down with Tony's presence on social media and trying to obviously "win" people over with his wrestling markdom. I really need to get of Twitter probably. AEW/WWE war is toxic and constant and also what is with the female wrestling STANS (I hate how this term is so widely used) and their devout passion that goes back to the whorey days of Lita and Trish to a complete obsession with Sasha or Bailey or Io ... god let's not even get into the Joshi fans.

I really miss looking into the audience and seeing excited children reacting like they are having the time of their life or laughing because the show is ridiculous and they know they can flip off this big bad rassler and nothing will happen to them. Or that old couple that is dressed the same as they would if they went out to dinner at a decent local restaurant. I want to see a woman there with a group of her friends that think the wrestler is hot but also love the action....

I hate markdom.

So tired of tools all wearing black shirts with EXPLOSIVE logo's, shaggy hair, and beards. I am tired of hearing wrestling fans chant their stupid chants too. The only thing that needs to be chanted is THE NAME OF THE WRESTLER, ASSHOLE, AND USA. Anything else can fuck off.

Yeah tbh I'm kind of "over" wrestling right now. Not that I've watched new stuff for years. But even doing my nostalgia deep-dives has lost its luster as of late.

Sadly, what I've seen of AEW hasn't done much to change that. I still think it has plenty of promise with some great talents. I just wish they moved away from the Indy-riffic trash.

I really love going into the past. I am so into everything I can get my hands on that is a good quality. I really love watching the footage saved from the International Ampitheatre in Chicago. It's magical. I want to find some high quality episodes of the the Australian World Championship Wrestling by Jim Barnett because it is a historic promotion but ultimately I know it didn't really "matter" in the big picture as a promotion so I never really have got into it.

I can totally understand why not everyone is into AEW. I love the vast majority of what they put out, definitely see room to improve certain areas but most of what they've done has clicked for me and I've enjoyed it. Dynamite flies by for me most weeks.

To each their own. For me, AEW and NJPW's return in the last few weeks have been more than enough to scratch my wrestling itch. Plus the occasional NXT though I really haven't been big on the pandemic shows.

Love old stuff but I wish there was new wrestling that there was anything close to as exciting. Wrestling shouldn’t just be great in retrospect. If all you have is the classics, there’s a problem.

I agree with this. I really don't get it. I mean I roll my eyes when Triple H will be doing an interview and say stuff like "we're not trying to compete with AEW" despite very obvious business decisions to the contrary. But again, it's a business. If I had the ability to move my show live to take market share away from a competitor, I would do it 10 times out of 10. It's a no-brainer.

But you read the comments from WWE and AEW fans on Twitter when the ratings come out every week and they all just sound like petulant children. Why can't we be happy that there are two wrestling shows on Wednesday night? If you have a preference that's great but what real value is there in actively rooting for one side to fail?

Totally get if somebody doesn't like anything in modern wrestling and doesn't feel the desire to watch it anymore. It's unfortunate, but I get it.

What I don't get is people who'd rather the business fold entirely than accept that people enjoy watching something they don't like anymore.

Was into AEW for a bit mainly because of Jericho, but stopped watching like a week or so before he lost the title.... I had already fallen behind and had been resorting to pretty much fast forwarding through anything that wasn't Jericho....

But not even Jericho is enough to get me to keep watching rassling these days....

I still record RAW/Smackdown/AEW every week, but pretty much delete them right away..... should probably just cancel my auto-recordings.....

I find segments of AEW to watch but it’s mostly because of nostalgia. (Jake Roberts actually made me give a fuck about Lance Archer finally.) NOTHING WWE does interests me. Probably because they’ve used up their “second chances” and AEW hasn’t.

But I also like the fact that AEW seems to understand who to push where. Like... Darby Allin is everyone on the internet’s favorite. So he gets his moments to shine on the TV show and in the mid card. But they aren’t pushing him as a LEGIT main eventer. They’re pushing guys who seem like they can actually kick my ass as the main event guys. That’s something no other companies have figured out over the past 20 years (including WWE). 150 lb indy darlings as the focus of your show is fucking poison.

I think the reasonable people that retain goodwill towards this promotion have that view: WWE have done their dash, AEW hasn’t. They’ve got more patience than me. I’ve seen so much bad wrestling, I don’t need any more.

But, um, do you know who is currently in a blood feud with Chris Jericho? He’s a 5’10, 161lbs indy darling, whose whole gimmick is that wrestling is bullshit and you shouldn’t try at the start. When he started getting shit in on Jericho, people actually tuned out of Jericho segments. A closing segment where he Superman Punched Jericho, and Jericho bumped himself (I say that, because it didn’t look like a reasonable transfer of kinetic energy at all) through a table got beat by NXT by an alleged 300k viewers. It did 165% of AEW’s audience.

They absolutely do the shit you say is poison. And it is poison. You just haven’t come across it yet, haha.

LETHAL DOSE OF POOOIIISSSOON

Excellent post. It’s the environment that wrestling has cultivated though. WWE ran off a lot of fans, now all that are left are the hardcore fans. And AEW wants to coddle them than even try to get back people who had the sense/ability to leave.

You’re not going to get that back unless promotions start to put on actually good content. Pro-wrestling shit, and not sports entertainment. That euphemism has actually become a legitimate genre because the WWE introduced their tropes and they’re so internalized that even those who say “Pfft, WWE — we’re better than that” copy.

It’s the TNA argument to me. “How can people actually want a wrestling company to die?” Because while it keeps a certain amount of talent employed (debatable if they get paid), it keeps talent worth a shit in a dungeon, and pollutes the wrestling scene with bad content. If you think of wrestling as a “franchise,” it’s harder to relaunch a franchise if it’s putting out turgid content every year, year after year. Sometimes you need to scorch a forest to grow new trees.

I’m at the stage where I’m apathetic to AEW. Fuck them, I don’t care if they go away. The cunts were happy insulting my intelligence and taking the best opportunity in pro-wrestling in over two decades and wiping their jizz dicks all over it. The schadenfreude of their failure would be real. But I still love wrestling and want something good to come along. That’s why I get a stiffy at the idea of The Rock starting a company, or AEW’s disrespect of Punk making him say “hold my Pepsi.”

Wrestling is bad. People just want it to be good. The tension comes because the people who claim it is good are standing in the way of that goal. But AEW are successfully running them off, so ha. Then we’ll just be left with Vince again. Yay!

Meltzer and Alvarez have not helped. Have they started criticizing AEW yet? Went to give Alvarez a listen and had to quit when he tried to paint NXT as WCW, whereas AEW actually has people teleporting and is a promotion where the egos have creative control.

I get why it’s important to them that AEW succeeds. As fans and business owners, they force themselves to watch WWE. That’s hell. After sitting on a cactus for 20 years, sticking your dick in a vise must feel nice. They’ve also got nerd subscribers to cater to. And AEW is a promotion kind of based on their “educational principles.” This is the son of a billionaire who has read every Observer and The Death of WCW. You can’t easily call him incompetent without pissing on your own electric fence.

But that colors opinion. There isn’t proper wrestling criticism out there in a large sense. Meltzer and Alvarez won’t call this one over for their good guys until Tony Khan is walking the streets like Orange Cassidy, and that affects online opinion. WWE = bad, AEW = good.

Yes. They've done it several times already.

Most recent was Alvarez feeling AEW has been starting to overthink their booking for shows to the point its been hurting more than helping them.

If you want something more of the level of Cornette, PWInsider was that during the early months of the AEW vs. NXT war where almost everything AEW was doing was getting picked apart and NXT's issues were mostly ignored. That pretty much changed after a few months when the effect of WWE becoming more hands-on and the changes made to NXT started to become more of a detriment to the brand.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Duly noted. Fun facts: I saw you on a house show in Champaign on Super Bowl Sunday 13.5 years ago with Domino and Cherry (and Deuce). Also, New Jack was really really nice to me when I was a 13 year old kid visiting Philadelphia. My dad loved New Jack.</p>&mdash; Tony Khan (@TonyKhan) <a href="https://twitter.com/TonyKhan/status/1280253238500044802?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 6, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

If they had any goddamn decency they would give New Jack a spot to come out and stab up or push off new talent that doesn't "appease" the hostile AEW crowd. Like a new murderous version of 911. When I wrote "push off" you get it right? Like he pushes them off something thats tall.

Nah, let's get into it. Cause it's a fucking problem. Used to be that Joshi fans were just people who discovered classic AJW, and thought it was cool. It didn't really matter that they were women, although it was admittedly novel to see such great women's wrestling. The draw was the quality of the content. AJW from early 80's to late 90's is fantastic.

But then Japanese idol culture took over Joshi, and it's spawned an army of creepy man baby fans who actually use japanese phrases like "kawaii" in day to day speech as if that's normal. There's still a lot of great Joshi wrestlers out there, but the scene has absolutely suffered because of the culture shift. Less focus on athletic ability, and more focus on looks and marketability has led to lots of shitty wrestlers getting pushes when in the past, they would have been kicked out of the training group on week one.

I imagine it's a similar mentality from the Sasha and Bailey worshippers, as you put it. Admittedly, I batted hard for them early on, during the nxt days, but that was because of how good the matches were, and because it gave me hope that we might see the same AJW level quality in women's wrestling as a whole in the US. That didn't pan out, obviously.

All that said, I get why fans would get really attached to Io, because she's REALLY good in the ring. Sasha too, when she's not trying to break her own neck. But there are absolutely people who take it to far.

I'm speaking about westernjoshi fans, but Japanese Joshi fans aren't any different really. The young girls that used to make the fanbase in Japan all grew up and now make up the majority of New Japan's fanbase. That's why Stardom got such backlash for having a match at Wrestle Kingdom. Fans want to oogle Tanahashi's pecks, not watch women's wrestling, with an aesthetic that appeals directly to male incels.

Nah, Alvarez and Meltzer are not it, I'm afraid. They will call something "bad" when it is atrocious, but they will largely go out of their way to bash NXT and avoid talking shit about AEW. Alvarez was *confused* as to why AEW got beaten by NXT, when it is clear as day. He just didn't want to say "Orange Cassidy isn't going to work." Because he's worked with him and gone on the record as saying he's brilliant and what have you.

Is it an entirely new thing? "Celebrities" have had their toxic fans/stalkers/obsessives for a long, long time. I do wonder if it's just that the more adjusted and measured fans have been run the fuck off. Now all you've got are the gate-keepers. At least when something has a general appeal, they disappear into a crowd.

I'm sure there were always a few creepy weirdos about, but they exploded in number when the industry started marketing itself in a way that directly appealed to those types of people.

I have no doubt that companies have played into this. Joshi is absolutely nauseatingly...fucking creepy. I've been going on a bit of a kick of AJW recently, and it's great shit. They're actually trying to have matches and stuff. That Emi Sakura seems like a Japanese ringmaster leading her sexualized performing lionesses to the ring. She gives off this Japanese Moolah vibe.

AEW and WWE have both catered way too hard to that online contingent. It's a strategy that was mocked hard even 10 years ago. What was the saying? "About 5% of wrestling fans are on the internet." Oddly enough, I don't think that statistic has changed, but the internet has just gotten louder and more influential, while the audience has just gotten smaller and smaller (including the online one).

There was a match I posted here a while back between Dump Matsumoto vs Chigusa Nagayo that only had about 3 bumps in it, but the whole thing was great because of the story they told, the heat behind it, and crowd's insanity.

There are still Joshi promotions out there that skew more towards AJW's style. Namely promotions that are run by AJW veterans or Women who were trained by AJW Veterans. Meiko Satamura's Sendai Girls promotion is one of them.

I might check them out. I think I saw a Meiko Satomura match from the Mae Young Classic and was impressed.

I would like to see them bring Satomura in as a one-off challenger to Asuka. While you've got these joshi who can do shit, run their matches and see if it takes off, or at least adds a temporary flavor to things. Asuka vs. Kairi Sane, Asuka vs. Meiko Satomura, Asuka vs. Io Shirai -- all three could be solid matches that would spark smark interest and would get you through three months.

Eh, whatever.

Meiko, even at her age, is still one of the best in the world. Because she hits hard and her offense is believable.

That Physicality is what had been missing in women's wrestling in the states. It's no coincidence that the best women's matches in WWE are from women like Asuka and Charlotte, who aren't afraid to lay that shit in.

Meiko’s great and would be a valuable add to anyone who brings her in. She’s got a lot of knowledge she can pass on as well.

Supposedly WWE wanted her as a trainer for the rumored NXT Japan. Had she signed she might’ve been the last WCW holdout!

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My only exposure to joshi fans was on that Stardom episode of the Wrestlers on Viceland. But it seemed like all weirdos.

Jericho is in his post-title run, pre-Tyson? stage. I’m not an Orange Cassidy fan but it just seems like something to keep him busy. If he jobs, that’s a whole other problem. I don’t look at the feud as the rise of Orange Cassidy as a legit main eventer though. Darby Allin challenged for the world title, too. It was a TV main event. It was fine. The guys they’ve seemed to push as serious contenders have been Cody, Moxley, Brodie, Hager, Archer and Cage. They lean toward old school heavyweights/personalities more than WWE does nowadays. The work rate indy darlings aren’t pushed as the headliners.

Watched AEWDark for the first time. Not sure it's the show for me tbh - some thoughts:

• Enjoyed seeing Brian Pillman Jr - lots of potential
  
• Would like to see Serpentico wrestle Darby, Jungle and Starks
  
• Why isn't Scorpio on Dynamite more
  
• Best I've seen from Brandon Cutler so far
  
• Not sure why Michael Takazawa is employed
  
• Tazz/Excalibur work well together on commentary

I agree - great idea


<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">.<a href="https://twitter.com/AEWrestling?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AEWrestling</a> should make a Cruiserweight division and call it AEC, All Elite Cruiserweights. They have so many guys that can fill that division. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AEW?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AEW</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/TonyKhan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TonyKhan</a></p>&mdash; Matt Degnan (@degnan_matt) <a href="https://twitter.com/degnan_matt/status/1280677015293759488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 8, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

The Viceland episode exposed how creepy and weird a lot of the Japanese fan base is, and how the company profits off it at the detriment to their talent. That was a really good episode.

Dark has been very hit-or-miss ever since they started empty arena shows. Been a lot more like old WWF shows in terms of leaning heavily towards squash and jobber matches for quality and less of what it was prior. Mix of them catching up on lost time for records purposes and providing a reliable paycheck to more people during these coronavirus times.

In regards to Takazawa, he apparently helps out a lot with backstage work and as a go-to guy for the company's Japanese talent. They just use him on-screen whenever they want to freshen things up for a jobber or a comedy match.

I love how Brandon Cutler has this really intense, ominous entrance theme, despite being an enhancement talent.

:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:

He’s in the main event of various TV segments and he’s about to main event FyterFest, which was one of their BS Live specials. He’s getting a push and Jericho is doing his best to put him over. It’s fucking obscene and it’s fucking them in the ratings.

Archer was never a main eventer. Harper is already done and has the worst gimmick of all-time. Cage will be done too. Hager is not a main eventer. The story is Jericho and Cassidy.

I think Scorpio Sky is on dark strictly to pad his singles record before they push him on the main show.

It's one of my favorite wrestling names ever.

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They have anyone that isnt a cruiser weight?

I know that was rhetorical, but let's actually take a look.

Cruiserweights:

* Adam Page
* Alex Reynolds
* Angelico
* Anthony Ogogo
* The Blade
* Brandon Cutler
* Chuck Taylor
* Cima
* Cody
* Darby Allin
* Evil Uno
* Frankie Kazarian
* Isiah Kassidy
* Jack Evans
* Jimmy Havoc
* Joey Janela
* John Silver
* Jungle Boy
* Kenny Omega
* Kip Sabian
* Marko Stunt
* Marq Quen
* Matt Jackson
* Michael Nakazawa
* MJF
* Nick Jackson
* Orange Cassidy
* Ortiz
* Pac
* Pentagon, Jr.
* Peter Avalon
* Rey Fenix
* Ricky Starks
* Sammy Guevara
* Santana
* Scorpio Sky
* Sonny Kiss
* Stu Grayson
* Trent

Not a cruiserweight:

* Austin Gunn
* Billy
* Brian Cage
* Brodie Lee
* The Butcher
* Cash Wheeler
* Chris Jericho
* Christopher Daniels (I don't believe this)
* Colt Cabana
* Dax Harwood
* Dustin Rhodes
* Jake Hager
* Jon Moxley
* Lance Archer
* Luchasaurus
* Matt Hardy
* Preston Vance
* QT Marshall
* Shawn Spears
* Wardlow

Man, their roster is shit, hahaha.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">WE are a growing company! Less than a year on tv! Every single week, we learn &amp; mature. The more we learn, the better we become. And the talent work SO hard every week for the fans. Also, we have the �� <a href="https://twitter.com/IAmJericho?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@IAmJericho</a>. I can’t wait until we can officially call AEW our home.</p>&mdash; Dax FTR (@DaxHarwood) <a href="https://twitter.com/DaxHarwood/status/1281339899652734981?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 9, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Lol, is that a tongue-in-cheek Seth Rollins-style tweet, or is Dax being serious? Because if so, fuck these bootlickers. I am so done with this "just happy to be here" attitude. They've been there a few weeks, how would they know shit about the culture yet? Yuck.

Also, Jericho is proving himself to be a wash-up with a vod bod.

Shame on them for liking their new workplace environment more than the last one!!


SHAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMMEEEEEEEEE.

I'd wager that you don't have to be in a non-WWE locker room for more than one night before you realize how different the environment is.

You could probably use that as any job with shit management.

Which Khan touched Noid and where?

Brodie lee has the “worst gimmick of all time”... there was once a turkey that got a hyped debut.

Yeah, even Deonna Purrazzo recently mentioned in an interview that Impact's locker room instantly felt more receptive and cheerful to be in than the WWE/NXT locker room she had been a part of for almost 2 years.

Lol WTF is this WE shit? They have been there like 2 weeks :rofl:

That's not the problem. The problem is they are shilling so hard for a place they just got to. Everybody knows it's bullshit because it's the same thing they have all been saying since day one. It is company speak rhetoric, no different than Vince McMahon making his wrestlers say they are sports entertainers.

Why do you think Tony Khan spazzes out whenever anybody questions anything about that company?

Why do you think their biggest star says the exact same thing about ratings and demos as the spaz son of a Billionaire?

Their entire blueprint is just say it's all the best and if you disagree fuck you you don't understand anything?

It's Impact Wrestling with WAY more hype and less actual stars.

Their biggest success is that they have brainwashed a few hundred thousand fans into actually buying into all of it as the greatest thing ever with the same overcocky sarcastic responses to any perceived slight.

God forbid somebody thinks it's funny FTR are already shilling when they just got there, better make cool reply to show them!

I know, I'll say "shame shammmmmme, Nick Jackson himself would think I'm awesome and give a high five for that!"

Everything has to be a pissing contest when it comes to AEW and its annoying and exhausting.

Wait until the money dries up and you start hearing the shoot interviews about how chaotic it was and no one was in charge and they fucking hated the cliques and the politics.

Brodie Lee and The Dark Order have actually been pushed as a main event level stable. It would be tight if The Gobbledy Gooker worked Hogan for the WWF Title.

I’m not a huge fan of Brodie’s gimmick either, but it’s a far cry from the gobbledy gooker. And there’s never been anything silly about his work in the ring.

The Colt Cabana stuff has me intrigued. Nice to see more from him than his usual comedy shtick.

Oh so not worst gimmick of all time? But the worst gimmick of all time to fight for a world title? Can you just clarify that’s your position before I go find a more ridiculous guy who fought for a title.

I mean as a place holder the great khali was world champion in recent memory... gimmick “I’m a tall indian man”

Shut the fuck up -- what the fuck makes you think you're entitled to such qualifiers. "Please explain your hyperbole, young man." Go fuck yourself.

Khali actually means something in India. Brodie Lee has exposed all the potential people thought he had as absolute bullshit. Being a "tall Indian man" is much less offensive than AWFUL Vince McMahon parody.

And yes, how something is pushed does affect how fucking offensive it is. Can anyone name a worse faction than The Dark Order?

Also fucking cute how AEW discussion has turned into just how close to the fucking bottom it is.

Ah yes, because a whopping two people troll AEW threads attacking it constantly

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Fight For The Fallen is my favorite AEW show because we raise money each year for the Jacksonville community! Wednesday on <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AEWDynamite?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AEWDynamite</a>!<br>- <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AEW?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AEW</a> Title <a href="https://twitter.com/JonMoxley?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JonMoxley</a> v. FTW Champ Brian Cage w/ Taz<br>-TNT Title <a href="https://twitter.com/CodyRhodes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CodyRhodes</a> v. <a href="https://twitter.com/SonnyKissXO?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SonnyKissXO</a><br>-The Elite v. Jurassic Express<br>-Lucha Bros v. FTR <a href="https://t.co/qaDSKEMGKU">pic.twitter.com/qaDSKEMGKU</a></p>&mdash; Tony Khan (@TonyKhan) <a href="https://twitter.com/TonyKhan/status/1281731338719166464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 10, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>