That makes sense considering what President Biden said earlier in the year about his goal of wanting enough people vaccinated by July 4th to have things start safely moving back to normal by then.

"Normal." hahahaha

Fulham just got relegated from the English Premiership. And with that the team loses a ton of T.V revenue.

Frustrating that an "arbitrary" date is when people decide shit is okay :|

The reality is this is what we're heading to nationwide. Even the blue states are upping stadium capacity, in some cases having "full vaccinated" sections with 100% capacity.

Of course Texas will be the wild west and everyone can sit everywhere regardless of vaccine status but it was inevitable we'd get to the point of "if you're fully vaccinated and still don't feel comfortable living your life, that's your problem"

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">You say Darby’s this &amp; Darby’s that I know exactly who I am.<br><br>Do you know who you are Miro? You show up the hottest free agent just to talk about video games and be some best man. You’ve gotta be the most underwhelming Thing I’ve seen. <br><br> You ain’t taking shit away from me. <a href="https://t.co/yMR9K5TcEN">https://t.co/yMR9K5TcEN</a></p>&mdash; DARBY ALLIN (@DarbyAllin) <a href="https://twitter.com/DarbyAllin/status/1391538643282575369?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 9, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

According to Voices of Wrestling, Ricky Starks will be out of action for AEW for the next 3 months due to a fractured neck injury from his match against Hangman Page last month.



Its still going to be risky holding large scale events, both indoors and outdoors, even with precautions in place but at least the idea of July being the start date instead of what Florida and Texas did was more grounded in thinking and mass vaccination assumptions.

Florida getting hit with another spike recently because of Spring Break proved that it was a bad idea for them to fully reopen as quickly as they did but their governor doesn't care since he's a moron.

NWA is having a really interesting match take place on a future show and it involves Thunder Rosa's future in AEW.

If she loses her upcoming match against Kamile, then she won't be allowed to wrestling on any non-NWA shows for the foreseeable future.

So, whoever thought that Tay Conti Senton was a good idea should be fired. Tay alone could have broken her neck if she hit the turnbuckle too close. Not to mention what could have happened to her opponent. An opponent, I might add, that is not getting the pay package that Tay is (I think she's one of Rosa's students?)

Agreed on the senton.

Is this thing still going? It’s not even fun to rag on them anymore now that the guy that formats their show has come out and said that it’s such a shit-show. And he thinks that’s a good idea.

Where’s BigCrippyZ to tell me how much this shit matters? :p

omg.....


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You only came back because Domino's Pizza brought back The Noid. shh go back away.

AT&T and Discovery officially confirmed reports of them merging their entertainment divisions together into a new company.

AT&T is the parent company of WarnerMedia who is the parent company of TNT.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, AT&T was originally in talks for a merger deal with NBCU which would have resulted in both WWE and AEW being under the same umbrella but those talks went nowhere in the end. Right now AEW and Vice's Dark Side of the Ring series will be under the same umbrella with the potential of MLW joining them in the future based on the rumored talks they've had with Discovery.

Darby on Shark Week plz

According to PWI, next week's episode of Dynamite is going to air starting at 10:30PM EST on TNT due to NBA Playoffs coverage on the network.

In an interesting note, those in Canada will be able to watch the show 30 minutes earlier since its starting at 10PM EST on TSN 2.

In regards to the upcoming Double or Nothing Countdown special on TNT, that's currently scheduled to air starting at 7PM EST on May 29th.

Sean Ross Sapp reports FULL GEAR will be held in St. Louis

821,000 for Dynamite

Told you the spike was due to a heavily hyped gimmick show. This happens to them all the time.

According to the Observer, AEW's numbers this week got massacred on the West Coast because of the Lakers game. Last 30 minutes of the show got hit hard the worst since that's when the Lakers Play-In tournament game peaked in viewers.

For some reference, the Lakers vs. Warriors averaged around 5.6 million for their game and AEW doesn't air live on the West Coast unlike the East Coast.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">No surprise, but early indication is big NBA numbers and AEW down. All shows down in 18-49 this week significantly. Think this continues until playoffs are off cable.</p>&mdash; Dave Meltzer (@davemeltzerWON) <a href="https://twitter.com/davemeltzerWON/status/1395447285677322241?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 20, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">That's the last 30 minutes for AEW on the West Coast. <a href="https://t.co/QDkJ1CjZAR">https://t.co/QDkJ1CjZAR</a></p>&mdash; Dave Meltzer (@davemeltzerWON) <a href="https://twitter.com/davemeltzerWON/status/1395501499988418561?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 20, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

LOL he does this everytime!

"Oh oh Dynamite only got less viewers because something else was on TV" ~ Dave Meltzer

Yeah it's a little ridiculous to make constant excuses. How about blame the fact that there was nothing interesting booked for the show? I didn't watch this week and it doesn't sound like I missed anything at all.

They gotta up the ratio of must see episodes of Dynamite. It confuses me how they have Christian working programs that mean absolutely nothing and Big Show tucked away on YouTube. Get it together. There is a good amount of great talent and interesting characters but they aren't always using them in a way that is drawing me in. Part of it also is Kenny, he's very hit or miss. I don't feel like he is a major star at this point. They probably shouldn't have tucked him away in a tag team for nearly a year.

Remember when Smackdown did great ratings when it first aired on Thursdays, up against NBC's "Must See Thursday" line up when EVERYBODY watched it. Sure didn't hear a lot of excuses then.

Weekly ratings discussion is easily my least favorite thing about current wrestling fandom.

Doesn't matter if AEW or WWE are doing good numbers or bad, their fanbases always end up arguing over the numbers every week. It's so fucking boring.

Like if a show was struggling badly enough in the ratings for a prolonged amount of time where cancellation seemed possible, that might be a discussion worth having. But none of these shows are at that point so they'll just keep plugging along yet people will keep arguing or gloating or getting defensive or dick measuring over numbers. I don't get it.

trolls got to troll

The 800k area isn't "bad" for Dynamite in my opinion. It's probably above or near average. I'd just like to see them over 1 million each week. I don't care about the demos personally, it's the total viewers that gets me intrigued. Though I'm glad they do well in their demo because that's what the broadcasters care about most. Regardless if I love a particular show or not I really want AEW to be around for years and years to come.

They are doing great I’d say. Very good.

They probably would be hitting 1 million more regularly if their key demo viewers didn't fluctuate soo much. That's been the major downside to them having a younger audience than NXT who relies a lot more heavily on WWE's older main roster shows viewers that has been rock solid as the core base for them.

Until they solidify that young core, going to see these spikes keep happening in both directions and not just because of AEW having a hyped up gimmick show or something major happened outside of wrestling that week.

It’s more interesting than the boring-ass wrestling. Plus, Dynamite’s numbers sucked enough that TNT were willing to give them the big ol’ boot. Now they’re TBS’s problem. When they can’t compete with reruns of Big Bang Theory, they will be down to TruTV.

For the record, I wasnt ragging on the rating. I was ragging on Dave Meltzer's take on the rating.

Not sure how much of a difference that distinction is in the big picture, but it is the difference that made me chuckle and want to make a post.

I wonder where BigCrippyZ is at these days? I can’t wait for him to tell me how things matter in AEW. You know, like War Games and the World Title, which is just about to be contested by Adrian Neville and their version of Santino Marella.

So fucking good when you’re right after a bunch of smug cunts try to pressure you into thinking what they do. Big men would apologize.

Not a fan of Orange Cassidy, but what's wrong with PAC? He's one of the better wrestlers in AEW, both in ring and on the mic. And he's booked fairly well, although the pandemic definitely put a wrench in that.

Nothing’s wrong with him, per se. Very talented guy. Was in my top five workers a few years ago back when he first turned heel. He hasn’t been presented any better in AEW than he was in WWE though, and he’s never been put in the proper position where he can earn cache as a potential draw. He’s not exactly the act you’d think would end up in a big four PPV. He’s a TV main eventer in stature right now.

PAC looks like a star when you stand him next to Omega and Cassidy.

I have zero doubts that Pac would be a vastly more interesting World Champion than Kenny Omega. That said, I think it would be more so because Kenny has been a Flop instead of Pac being a huge draw.

All I know is that Christian isn't the champ yet so the company is on the road to failure

Christian has been booked horribly so far. I don't get it at all. He debuts with Kenny and now he's in the Casino Battle Royal and his first match was with Kazarian. Stupid.

I can't understand my own feelings on Kenny. Obviously his big matches are fun and really good but I hate his run as champion so far. My favorite thing he's done was that promo at Blood and Guts. I don't know how his star fell so far from his NJPW days to now. I've always attributed it to anime. He was like a live anime character in Japan and that is their nerd culture so the fans loved it. But here he just comes off over the top and stupid.

It's not so much that. He's just been booked really shitty co.pared to his run in Japan. I imagine he has a lot of creative control, so it's his own fault.

Christian's booking suffers from the same problems Miro had for a while after his debut. A bad mix of some really poor timing in retrospect and having to squeeze in the space for a quality feud in an already crowded scene on Dynamite.

Christian got the worse of it since his debut was too close to Big Show's AEW debut and got overshadowed by it. Plus the hype surrounding the mystery person debut ended up being way too massive for someone of Christian's star status.

The stuff with Kenny was never meant to be more than just a tease at a potential opponent for Kenny down the line and not him actually feuding for the belt right out of the gate. Had he actually feuded with Omega, the complaints of AEW being just like TNA in regards to WWE rejects being booked in prominent spots would have been even more louder and annoying online.

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For those interested in this week's episode of AEW Dark Elevation, the main event with Rocky Romero featured a special NJPW-related moment.

BF's doing the hug spot on Rocky with his face like "wtf is this oh shiiiiit!" had me dying.

1:44:40, end of match and the start of the fun.


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wonder when he will join kenny and the good bros and turn on the best friends.

I forgot about Abadon.

Also, why was Jericho so mad at WWE using zombies, isn't that exactly what Abadon is supposed to be?

lol come on xrod

Thats like comparing the undertaker to the lumberjack zombies.

No she's a lot less of a zombie and more like someone who is deranged in the head and thinks she's some sort of undead being.

Sort of like Aleister Black's previous persona of him being heavily implied to be a Satanist or occultist despite him not actually acting as one for his character. She's probably closer to Bray Wyatt's "Wyatt Family" cult leader persona in terms of twistedness and spookiness but minus the supernatural powers bit.

WWE portrayed the zombies at Mania Backlash as being actual zombies and had them acting in a stereotypical manner like the ECW Zombie back in the day. Jericho's comments were also in response to PWI claiming several within WWE said AEW's version of War Games "set the industry back 30 years."

Honestly, she just comes off as a K-mart Rosemary to me.

Yeah she's also closer to Rosemary in terms of her gimmick, especially if you took away all the supernatural stuff Rosemary has done in Impact in recent years.

The closest zombie-related thing she's done in AEW is bite people a couple of times. If that counts as being a zombie then NJPW's Yujiro Takahashi counts as one since he's always chomping on people's fingers during his matches.

i would like to know abadons story that's the bad thing about aew not having writers.

LOL it's a fair point, in fact maybe had Jericho also thought of that maybe he wouldn't have been so offended!

Her story is she wears zombie make up to hide her butter face.

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so aew will be on fri instead of tonight damn basket ball. i hope they play ads on smackdown, do it like the ads they did on impact. me and smeat will be watching alot of wrestling fri.

I don't know why, but the NBA is the one I didn't go back to after the Covid shutdown. I could do without it bumping wrestling that's for sure.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Cody says his contentious American Dream promo was workshopped and focus group-tested <a href="https://t.co/2FIXkB4dbF">https://t.co/2FIXkB4dbF</a> <a href="https://t.co/1Turm9B23t">pic.twitter.com/1Turm9B23t</a></p>&mdash; Cageside Seats (@cagesideseats) <a href="https://twitter.com/cagesideseats/status/1397730576451477504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 27, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

That's seems a real weird thing to reveal.

Jesus christ.

Imagine telling Harley Race you needed to focus test his promo before approving it to air. What the fuck.

Cody's stuff in AEW has suffered way too much from sticking out like a sore thumb based how often it ends up being over booked or over thought for storylines and feuds.

Like if the goal is to make him into the modern day version of his dad with the American Dream persona, then its been going in the wrong direction as of late. Right now his version of the American Dream persona feels a lot more like an outdated version of Hulk Hogan's pro-USA and overly patriotic part of his gimmick and way less like his father's hero of the "common man" persona.

It's really weird that he would come out and say that. Like, what's the benefit of peeling back the curtain in this case?

I'd assume he probably thought that was going to deflect a lot of the blame and online backlash he's been getting ever since delivering that stinker of a promo.

Doesn't help that most of the stuff he boasted about himself to trash Ogogo would actually fit in with Ogogo himself. Like him taking pride in having a mixed race baby when Ogogo himself comes from a mixed race ethnic family.

The only bad thing Cody has done on screen was that Dream promo. He's still one of the best. I don't understand you ungrateful fucks. Cody would whoop your ass and have a baby in the morning.

I just don't find him entertaining. Settle down fella.

I like Cody enough but his booking has gotten increasingly self-absorbed over the past year.

Which is kinda funny seeing as on one of the first Dynamite storylines was Cody attempting to distance himself from those optics by booking the "this is my one and only chance at the AEW World Title" stip.

that's the bad thing about aew there is no booking. they hires a bunch of people that can book, but they let tony mark do it all

And nobody will tell him the truth because they don't want to lose their seat on the gravy train. Meltzer legit "awarded" Tony as the best Booker in wrestling for continued backstage access and a payroll check.

3 star CAWdy is a giant bore. Turning himself into HHH.

Hahaha. Holy shit. AEW is such a fucking joke.

The only persona of his I liked was Dashing Cody Rhodes

They reveal stupid shit all the time. QT Marshall about how he doesn’t know how to format shows. TK does his stupid scrums. The Bucks talked about how Shawn Spears’ chair was gimmicked. Cody flat-out saying that Shaq was supposed to have a publicity stunt match with him and Brandi. Every Jericho tweet.

This promotion just sucks.

So real question. They have bragged forever that they don't have scripted promos.

But then what would you call a practiced/workshopped/focus group tested promo?

Seems even more offensive than WWE making wrestlers remember a few lines no?

They also bragged about having storylines for years, only for QT Marshall to come out and admit it is pieces together via text message day of.

They also bragged about treating wrestlers like real human beings and teased offering them health care.

They also teased a giant debut and gave the world Christian Cage.

They also said TBS was their home, then got booted off it like the next week.

And so on...

Dashing Cody Rhodes was tremendous. Loved those vignettes

I quite enjoyed Disfigured Cody Rhodes as well.... that one year I remember thinking he had the WM match of the night against Rey Mysterio

Yeah I agree, in fact I thought Disfigured Cody was even better than Dashing Cody.

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Oh to switch spots with that bike seat for a day.

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Eric, your days of wife swapping are over.

Got into the beta for the Elite GM game. It's EWR with graphics. There's a bunch I'm not keen on, but so far a decent sim. (Also only played for like 30 minutes.)

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Even their Wrestling Buddies are smaller than normal

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

Those are pretty cool.

when was that taking must have been her dollhouse days, she gained alot of pounds since then. i would love if she got back to that body.

Who had Sting, Hogan, and Savage ones?

Stardust may have been a terrible idea but Cody performed the hell out of it. I remember seeing a video of him crashing a Comic Con in character and he was pretty brilliant.

He was fine. Some of the things he did were needlessly hammy and didn’t really add substance to anything, but he definitely threw himself into it.

I liked Un-Dashing Cody Rhodes, but the more I reflect on it the more I realize Cody didn’t really have it. Even his best work in AEW relied on his brother and Chris Jericho to bring the emotional energy to it. Everything else since has kind of sucked.

His best role in WWE was probably in the tag team with Goldust in 2013. I have no clue why they had them drop the belts to the New Age Outlaws instead of going into a program with The Wyatt Family, The Usos or even The Real Americans at the time.

No, the stars of AEW are larger than life so that's why the buddies appear smaller to you.

I really liked his work in NJPW. Bringing a classic western style heel added more depth to an already varied roster. I think his AEW stuff has been mostly good, but I'm hoping for a heel turn, as that's where he really shines.

LOL Fair Point :rofl:

That’s a fair shout. What I saw from him in New Japan wasn’t bad, but it just didn’t “pop” to me.

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I saw that tonight their next ppv is in September? That's dumb not to have a July show...