FTR and Cornette were working with each other. It's helped out FTR more than their debut did.

Cornette does support AEW. In his own way. He doesn't tear down everything, and he has said he wants to to succeed. With his boys there you know he's going to come around just a bit, at least for their segments.

He sees it in a pretty logical way. It's not every day you get a billionaire taking a chance on wrestling because there is giant money in TV deals. When that billionaire's son niches the product so much that it only gets $45 million in TV rights (a pittance by TV standards), and only stands to make its money back over three years (with a bit extra), then it's going to be more off-putting to anyone else looking to get in and present the product people have really been hungry for -- something that is actually different and competitive to the WWE.

People outside wrestling aren't going to draw distinctions between good wrestling and bad wrestling. They're going to see what Vince McMahon's wrestling can do, and what "not Vince McMahon's wrestling" can do. It won't matter to them that AEW is a juiced-up PWG.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Not medically cleared to wrestle yet.<br><br>���� Don’t need a doctors note to jump off a balcony. <a href="https://t.co/gqNLIJu7TS">pic.twitter.com/gqNLIJu7TS</a></p>&mdash; DARBY ALLIN (@DarbyAllin) <a href="https://twitter.com/DarbyAllin/status/1270132326903582720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 8, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Cornette would be a challenging fucking coach. I'd probably punch him because I'm a hot head.

I’m not keen on that approach. I get changing direction/moving away from something that isn’t working but I think they need to wrap the story up in some way. The thing with Allie is just weird. You’re not dealing with fans that don’t know that Dr. Issac Yankem became Kane, you’re dealing with an audience that knows that Allie was The Bunny, and now she’s not, with no story or payoff.

I fucking hate this guy so much. He’s such a piece of shit, and it makes it hard to invest in him as a wrestler.

Just have Tully turn on Spears after putting him with a tag team that needs him as a mouth piece

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Fine. <a href="https://t.co/Iktz8cOdvd">https://t.co/Iktz8cOdvd</a></p>&mdash; Orange Cassidy (@orangecassidy) <a href="https://twitter.com/orangecassidy/status/1270790072259018755?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 10, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Lmao

Orange Cassidy sinking the kinda steady ship.

I think Cornette kinda likes Darby Allin now. At least I heard him say they were doing a good job with him. At the very least he seems to have softened his stance on him as a wrestler.

Which is weird because I usually agree with Cornette but I don’t see much at all in Darby Allin.

It's gonna be revealed that OC is the bastard son of The Natchah Boy.

From what I've seen in the ring, Darby is quite good. I hate the leggings and his Coffin Drop bullshit. But at least when he dives he means it, and he can sell. He's just such a fucking horrible piece of shit human. He was gloating about paying addicts money to put their heads into dirty toilets on Jericho's podcasts. He's just awful.

I'll put my rep on the line...mark the fucking date....we are in the golden age of Tag Team Wrestling again...fucking calling it.

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Just ordered my shirt.

Just here to leave this:rofl::rofl:

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It’s not far from the truth.

Possible new signing to AEW (and it's a good one)

JFC. Actually it is about as far from the truth as one can get. It's literally factually incorrect and untrue. Unless your backyard is a 5,500 seat amphitheater or a 67k capacity NFL stadium.

Perception is reality.

Tbf with the live audience numbers at the moment it’s all Backyard Wrestling.

When I was thinking of who or which promotion would be the first to be involved as the non-AEW challenger to Cody's TNT title in Dynamite's thread this week, never expected to actually be it.

I'm ready to crack open some ice cold Budweisers after hearingthat

YEAH

Again, the guy can work, he's a decent talker, and women find him attractive. As such, the AEW Brass will not know what to do with him.

No, it's not. It's a fucking parody of itself. When WWE is actually better than you, it's time to fucking quit. You hitched your wagon to a losing horse because you're so riddled with anti-WWE angst that you would let anyone else walk up to you and put their dick in your mouth and pretend you like the taste.

Cue "take Vince McMahon's dick out of your mouth." Dude, you're obsessed. With Vince, with WWE, with dicks, with me. Your entire fandom is based around AEW being "Not WWE." Because WWE sucks. Get it? WWE sucks. At least AEW is not WWE. You don't like AEW? You must love WWE. But WWE sucks. Stop sucking Vince McMahon's cock. WWE sucks. AEW is not WWE. WWE sucks.

At their last PPV in their opening match for a World Title shot -- a clusterfuck Ladder Match in the opening match (hmm, why does that sound familiar?) -- one of the World Title contenders stood on ladder lying on the ground and tried to fly to win the match. If that doesn't insult your intelligence, I've got a bridge to sell you.

Fucking idiot cunt. You're fucking cooked. Go home.

That's a much nicer and more succinct way of saying it.

Well, Raw and SmackDown are both still several times bigger than Dynamite, respectively.

What a fucking insecure fap. "Please love me. I'll buy you stuff." Heard about him buying Burger King for the after-parties too, haha.

He'd threaten Cody too much. Getting more and more convinced that the reason AEW is such a "buffet" is because Cody doesn't want anyone but him doing pro-wrestling, because he knows he'll be out-classed the second anyone else good is around.

Seriously, can we please talk about how cunty this is?

If Shad Khan decided to put the money down for a brand new wrestling promotion when this virus ended, it could be bigger than AEW in a few weeks. Move over Jim Ross to do commentary there. Let the AEW guys do AEW things on AEW and let the brand new promotion be handled like professional wrestling on TBS or something.

Was just thinking about this. My last hope is that AEW is just a practice to see if Tony can run something on his own. Once you get the TV rights money, you can sustain this new one and even AEW for as long as you want.

It seems insane to have two wrestling promotions, but the TV revenue must sound mighty good, and AEW hasn't really secured that crust.

calm down, Noid.

Weird guy. Weird.

The crack was more about the "women find him attractive" part of my comment than anything else. Because none of the AEW crowd is designed to draw women. The reason is that the fans for the AEW crowd have never had a positive interaction with a woman that wasn't named "Mom."

Let's be real, as much hate as John Cena received, he lasted as long as he did on top because the Mom's of the kids that were much of his fanbase found him attractive. Same deal with Roman Reigns.

If a wrestling promotion isn't finding a way to engage the female audience, be it with pushing a dude they'd find attractive or with a storyline that'd maintain thier attention (Edge/Lita/Matt is the first one to pop into my head, Mandy/Otis I guess would be another) they are doing it wrong.

Ricky Starks sucks.

He's 190 lbs. They have enough of those guys already. They need less wet noodles and more guys in the 220 range and up. Like Cage. Or Rusev.

:lol: Did someone piss in Noid's cereal again?

I like how Tony Khan went out of his way to say Hulk Hogan is banned from AEW. We finally found a former WWE guy AEW doesn't want to sign!

All AEW has shown is at best they are a blend of TNA bringing in every former WWE guy they can and Ring of Honor bringing in the biggest Indy names they can and telling us how great they are.

It's just this weird mix where they are using the Indy names to put over the former WWE guys, unless it is the executives, who then use the former WWE guys to put themselves over, unless the former WWE guys are actual stars like Jericho or Moxley.

Everything is a tongue in cheek eye wink joke, and the only one who comes across having any real passion for the brand is Cody Rhodes. Everybody else is just working the gimmick that AEW is the greatest thing ever, bragging about their contracts and freedom.

They have lost a third of their audience in one year. They had the chance to hook them, and failed miserably.

Another third are like me, they still watch because it's wrestling, and wrestling is better then pretty much anything else on tv.

Then the last third are brainwashed and think a dude riding a horse on a football field is the greatest thing of all time, and will scream it to anybody and everybody they can. These are the ones that make the above third like me embarrassed to watch the same show they do.

... Well who the hell SHOULD they be bringing in???

Better/worse than Bran Stark