Making it a Grand Slam threepeat this year. Personally I'm excited for it. Have had a blast each of the last two years. Don't see any reason to expect otherwise.

Attendance-wise I absolutely am expecting it'll be another drop from last year.

The drop from 2021 to 2022 was hardly surprising. 2021 benefited from a lot of things. First time in the building and in NYC. Viewed as one of, if not their biggest event ever at the time it was announced. Also right "after" COVID/getting back on the road so for lots of people it was their first big public gathering in a year and a half or longer, so there was lots of energy. Plus by the time the show actually arrived it was in what was generally considered to be AEW's high point so even their late-added sections went quickly.

None of these things were the case in 2022, plus the product was generally considered one of their bleakest periods. Then add in a price increase and yeah. Grossed more than 2021 but clearly a drop in numbers.

This year the prices are up again and while I think there's a lot more optimism around AEW from their fans than this time a year ago and I'm sure they'll try to pack both Dynamite and Rampage with PPV-level matches, I do think the show will suffer from another round of price increases + being right after a double PPV + lots of people feeling burnt out last year from how long of a night it was (didn't end til 12:30 AM, lots of people had to leave to catch trains)

They ARE selling $25 seats along the entire upper deck and in Arthur Ashe these are hardly nosebleeds, it's not a huge venue and it's a really nice view everywhere. $25 is the kind of price where you could go, have a good time, leave before the longass show is done and not feel ripped off. But my best guess is they'll still see another attendance dip (while again beating 2022's grossing number)

Allegedly, the anonymous bully may have been Emi "three schools, zero rings" Sakura.

If so, I wonder if that’s just her nature being a pimp in Japan or whether it’s a sense of entitlement Omega gave her?

Tiny Khan announced signing new deals with Omega, Page, and the Bucks. If he gave Rush $2 million a year, how much do you think the Elite got?

Oh and he also resigned EVP contracts with Kenny and the Bucks, so they still have that over Phil

These rumored All In matches are something else. Bucks vs FTR is good if it happens....but then we have RVD jobbing to Jungle Boy and Jeff Jarrett vs some dude from ICW named Grado.

I had no idea who Grado is, but apparently he's from Insane Championship Wrestling. Dude looks like the bastard love child of Eddie Kingston and Chad Gable with the muscle definition of an adolescent Adam Cole.

I love it. Grado! Love RVD too.

Just gonna repost this for no reason at all... :shifty:

Lol, that sounds ridiculous. Surely they can’t even be that stupid?

The Lufisto thing is really interesting. Definitely not a Cult down there in Jacksonville...

seems they are gonna pull the trigger on RVD vs Jungle Jobber on Dynamite instead. Dunno if it leads to a rematch or some other ECW alum showing up to face him at the PPV.

But man if they actually have Jarrett vs dollar store Kyle Rittenhouse on the card....that's just laughable to me.

Please say Grado will come out to his Prayer Madonna theme.

Would HAVE to. Be bonkers to book him and not have the Like A Prayer.

...and LuFisto has deleted her socials. Never seen THIS before out of AEW's fanbase... :shifty:

I read someone say Tony Khan must have mandated everyone to speak out on this specifically, and the visual of him frantically calling everyone made me laugh.

Their reasoning was that no one spoke out when Thunder Rosa and Taya were getting shit and this time it was because Britt is Tony's favorite or something like that.

I like how Tiny sent out an email to all the females, and nobody thought to tell them to stagger their replies and not all Tweet at the same time lol

You’d think re-signing The Elite would imply that the hatchet will be buried and they’ve agreed to cooperate and do the best things for business moving forward. You’d think.

I have decided I want OC to hold his title for 1 day longer than Romans reign ends up being... Book it Tony!!!

I am excited for the UK show, should be quite the environment with that size crowd. FTR vs. the Bucks will be worth the price alone I imagine.

I suspect Jericho may be headed for a face run on the back of the JAS stuff and I dont mind it at all. Maybe his last run? Or at least first retirement. Face Jericho losing to MJF in a title vs. Career match could be a hot start to 2024.

There are folks thinking Orange is gonna be the one to defeat MJF. I made that joke before...

I love OC, but that wouldn't be a good move. I'm all for Darby taking the belt off of MJF after Sting fails at it maybe in a career vs. Title match.

Or a surprise change when MJF takes someone lightly like a Penta on Dynamite.

Edge to AEW rumoured to be a thing. I'm not really an Edge guy but he would certainly lend some name value to AEW events.

MJF vs. Edge could be entertaining and put MJF over some more.

They should hire him and job him out to Christian to finally cement the fact that Christian is the better one.

Christian to WWE > Edge to AEW

If he calls himself Adam Cage and then we get Adam Cage & Christian Cage vs. Adam Page & Ethan Page, that’s a win though.

Adam vs. CM Punk could be quality. A fight over Dax’s soul and who satisfied Lita & Beth Phoenix more.

LOL why would he retire just to take a job at another wrestling company?

I’d think it unlikely too, but Tony Khan has deep pockets and is sorta desperate. If Edge doesn’t care where he works, he could take the money and fuck about. He’d be more novel in a different environment and it’s not like his WWE presence is hot rn.

Not an impossible signing for AEW.

True, Edge could probably get Tiny to give him $3 million a year easy. Mark Henry is making $1.5 million to literally say "and now it is time for the main event" on Rampage once a week lol. $1.5 million for Mark Henry to say one sentence to a viewing audience of 350,000 people, so Tiny is clearly good with his Father's money. :shifty:

HOLY SHIT TINY IS SUCH A FUCKING MARK!!!!

:rofl::lol::D:rofl::lol:

I can think of 4 Sting runs that were better. Including the post Blade Runners, pre face turn run in UWF.

It's much more difficult to think of a worse run in his career.

You could make an argument that the WWE run was worse. Maybe later stages WCW are tied?

Maybe even more if Tony can get him for Wembley and use that as a “landmark moment.”

Uses for Edge:

* Match against Christian — maybe winning the TNT Title his first night in?

* Match with Christian against…fuck it, anyone, who cares?

* Cash Wheeler replacement since Edge and FTR are friends. Cute way to get into Punk vs. Edge.

No his WWE run was not worse. He only had 4 matches before he was injured and wasn't allowed to compete any more, but 3 of those matches were pretty high profile. He teamed with Cena against Rollins/Show, he had a big match at WM against Triple H, and he had a title match on PPV against Seth Rollins. The only match that is kinda meh is the one against Big Show on either RAW or SD, I forget which.

His AEW run is getting nostalgia pops to try and get Darby more over by proxy. That's it, that's the whole thing.

Has he even had a singles match in AEW?

His TNA run was worse

The AEW run is pretty inoffensive. Like most over the hill workers in the japan he hangs out on the apron and gets some young guy he's paired with over. Its easy work. TNA he was actively damaging his image and having memorably bad matches.

I hardly ever watched TNA so I don't know enough about that run to comment. I've seen bits of it here and there, but not enough to judge. That said, unless it was just some kind of one off or something, it seems he's reverting to his TNA Joker Sting persona in AEW now.

This one thing is better than anything Sting has done in AEW

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Edge should come to AEW and start a faction with Adam Cole and Hangman and call it The Adams Family.