Fucking ridiculous system, a veteran overseeing discipline in the locker room. When has anyone ever heard of that in wrestling? :shifty:

l'm gonna go with this:

After running off Cody and Punk, there is a certain group going after their next target: Bryan Danielson.

The next question is, if they're successful, who is next: Copeland, Christian, or Jericho?

There’s a difference between there being a vet telling the kids to pull their heads in and a wrestler being delegated the role to hand out fines because the boss is gutless.

I think The Elite are going to be on their best behavior so Dave doesn’t have to report that they’re the problem. This might be why they’re taking some time off.

The next guy to cop heat is going to be the one who tries to help the younger guys. It’s a culture against learning. You’re supposed to just “know” how to get over yourself. If you need help, it’s not really you (in their minds).

Danielson will get more than stooge heat if he starts tapping people on the shoulder and makes attending seminars mandatory.

It is funny to think the guy who has broken his arm and face this year, who was already forced to retire once, is the guy who also apparently is supposed to reel talents in from overdoing it :rofl:

Meanwhile Tony is gorilla every week acting like Joaquin Phoenix from Gladiator.

Why is Bryan wrestling? Doesn’t he have a match with Okada scheduled for the Tokyo Dome?

I mean sure, thats basically what the IWC is now just make shit up and then quote it back as gospel later. I half expect you will be cited as sources somewhere within the next 48 hours.

I mean it's pretty obvious the Bucks are a couple of peckerwood jackoffs.

So we'll know who they mean when the "many people are saying" lines drop

Surprisingly Edge vs Christian didn't draw.

Solid $5 million of Shad's money well spent :rofl:

Wow. So apparently Stephen P. New is/was the lawyer for CM Punk and Ace Steel at some point during all that drama. He’s a Jim Cornette sponsor. He also represented the independent talent that got “Yeet” jammed up recently. Surreal.

Lol, so putting Bryan Danielson in the role of lockerroom cop has predictably backfired. Samoa Joe made a tweet about snitching and Saraya tweeted that she doesn’t give a fuck and no one is going to tell her what to do with her social media. :lol:

It's all a work.

:shifty:

:lol: Man. This company.

MJF needs to get out. Joe would be a nice edition if he can stay healthy.

Everyone with potential wants out at this point.

I REALLY hope MJF’s contract being up is a shoot and he jumps to WWE. Tony has had belts on guys leaving before.

At some point, it’d be interesting if a bunch of people left, banded together and did their own thing. Tony pays them enough that there’s actually a pretty solid base there.

It’ll be interesting to see who AEW actually manages to get signed out of the recently released WWE talent and who chooses to go elsewhere to keep themselves available.

Crazy scenario: WBD props up Dynamite and Rampage because they have enough tangled up in AEW. Collision is offered to FOX for dirt cheap with the goal being to use network television to widen their scope.

Maybe The Rock could finance it?

Apparently they almost signed Trent Seven, which would have been an absolute GAME CHANGER!

It is just too bad they lost out to TNA for his services. Guess wrestlers are starting to recognize that Shad's money isn't enough to put up with Tiny :rofl:

Yeah, wrestlers have to have the score figured out by now.

Meltzer seems to be under the impression that CM Punk has had an effect on how the Raw TV rights negotiations are going. The implication seems to be that WBD is looking more likely.

Wow. The whole CM Punk thing exposed Meltzer. Be interesting in WBD get Raw and what happens to AEW.

What’s the WBD fascination with Punk? Sound like fucking marks to me!!!

They probably want their wrestling to make as much money as possible.

David Zaslav has probably had conversations with all these people and knows Punk is the one who knew his shit there.

I am not even going to lie, if CM Punk plays a part in Raw going to TNT or TBS and replacing AEW, that would be the biggest fuck you to a former company in the history of Wrestling.

Hogan could have testified at the steroid trial that Vince McMahon personally held him down and shot him up with Steroids, and sent Vince to jail for a few years, and Phil getting WBD to bail on AEW for WWE would STILL be the top spot.

Tiny Khan might actually put a hit on Phil.

Well a hit wouldn't be hard would it. Just get that one UFC dude who made Phyllis look like the IRL bitch he is.


How long till someone says mean words and makes him run home crying again? I say sometime after he wins the rumble, but before Mania.

I just wonder what happens when he wins the Rumble, picks Rollins, then they decide to open Night 1 with that match and book a women's match as the main event. Phil will be unpleased :rofl:

I dunno, seems like the problems that exist in AEW aren’t going to be a factor in modern WWE. Punk put up with so much trying to prop up AEW. He’s really not the bad guy in that story.

I am curious to see how vicious WWE gets during this rights fees negotiations. Didn’t they just settle with MLW? I’m not sure if they get as ruthless as I imagine is possible and essentially lock AEW out of finding any sort of sizeable deal by tying up ALL the major suitors with some sort of content.

AEW also serve a purpose as useful idiots. Do you want them totally gone? It may be the smarter business strategy to let them remain somewhat of a present so they can continue to serve as a cautionary tale about what exists “over there.”

It's not going to happen. He knows the ultimate "Fuck you" is to help WWE out in whatever way possible. He knows that by getting AEW out of business he would win.

Imagine a world where AEW goes out of business, the Bucks get sent down to NXT as a way to sharpen their skills to the WWE mold, but CM Punk is running things down there. The Bucks would be jobbing left and right but guess what, either do your jobs or here is your walking papers.

Phyllis's ego is not a uniquely AEW issue. If he's smart, he'll put it all in a book after he's done.

His ego will not allow him to do that, though.

Like Triple H and Shawn Michaels, Punk’s ego has switched into being invested in the product he’s a part of. Putting on a kick-ass show is where these guys get off now. That was the issue in AEW. Punk still has friends there and I doubt he really wants to work with the saboteurs again.

The two wrestling books the world will gobble up: Vince McMahon and CM Punk.

Mere days after Mark Briscoe got upset about FOX using "Dem Boyz" in a wrestling tweet, AEW does this:https://i.imgur.com/xyjiAIs.jpg
Fucking amateur hour over there fellas.

That is rough, is that Twitter run by Matt Buck's wife?

That’s just…wow.

Tough fucking week for Mark Briscoe. Maybe he can use it as leverage to gtfo?