I remember thinking Henry could be quite good on commentary. A shame he’s not. Sounds like his transition to AEW has not been as smooth as possible.

of the two i think henry still has potential given some time. big show is a lost cause imo. he spends too much time repeating other people or telling them what they said was funny and he's gonna steal it.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Congratulations on winning your tryout match last night, Jake Atlas! What a great <a href="https://twitter.com/AEW?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AEW</a> debut, and now <a href="https://twitter.com/kennymarquez?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@kennymarquez</a>, I’ll see you Tomorrow night in Newark at the debut of <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AEWDynamite?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AEWDynamite</a> on <a href="https://twitter.com/TBSNetwork?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TBSNetwork</a>! Safe travels, and…<br>Welcome to the team! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/JakeAtlas?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#JakeAtlas</a> is All Elite! <a href="https://t.co/b9oDuGLZWZ">pic.twitter.com/b9oDuGLZWZ</a></p>&mdash; Tony Khan (@TonyKhan) <a href="https://twitter.com/TonyKhan/status/1478460071831080967?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 4, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Nailz would then go on a podcast, and we all know how messy that would get.

I don’t know people think Big Show is funny. He might have a good sense of humor, but anytime I’ve seen him try to get a laugh on a talk show it’s always so forced.

Jake Atlas is boring as shit. I guess TK could just be talking about seeing him at catering.

i think i've heard him say, "i have jackets older than that" about someone's age on three different darks now and i hate it more every time.

When I saw his name is Kenny Marquez, I cynically thought “token diversity hire.” Then I found out he is apparently part of the LGBT+ community? Yep, it’s definitely tokenism. But as I said, that’s cynical me. Maybe I should just be happy with the representation and optimistic about it all?

Fuck TK is a weiner though.

Henry and Wight were big signings at the time, both of them obviously way past any type of prime but come with good name value.

They were brought in without very much planning or attention and have absolutely BOMBED everything they have attempted. Sure the fans have started to get into Henry's "it's time for the main event" line, but that could easily be any of the veterans that AEW already works with.


To me guys like that are just forcing you to spend money you don't have to be spending. Maybe the finances are balancing but it's hard to imagine with such a big roster and all that it entails to run a show like AEW does.

Well it seems they took an $8 million dollar loss for the year so its definitely money they don't need to be spending.

In fairness the video game costs are apparently what caused them to take an overall loss and that money has the potential to be recouped after a bit.

Basically my whole opinion on AEW is this...

It's really the only modern wrestling I enjoy.

They have too many undercard talents that I will never be interested in that should be released in favor for the looser contracts they have with indie talents, the tier that doesn't offer insurance.

They've started to accumulate too many older talents that are of no real use. I don't see a point in rolling over the contracts for Paul Wight, Tully Blanchard and Mark Henry.

Please just get rid of a lot of the first round signings like Janela, Sonny Kiss, and Kip Sabian.

I’ll be interested in seeing how many of the first round guys don’t get renewed/choose not to renew. Some guys probably don’t mind being Dark regulars with the ability to take indy bookings as long as they’re getting insurance.

In any event, I’m all aboard the Bayne Train.

i enjoyed bayne. interested in seeing more. also big on skye blue. what is she like 19, 20? crazy potential there i think.

The inter webs says Skye Blue is 25, which is older than I thought but I guess it tracks with her career starting in 2017. I’ve been impressed with what I’ve seen of her.

Also she is a QT which helps.

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Imagine being so bad your fans dress like clowns to mock you. Now imagine telling those same fans that you have a son who is far worse than you are, plus also racist and sexist :rofl:

Imagine having the audacity to go around calling someone out as a racist while belittling another persons hiring based on there name and sexuality and the opinion you form from that.

I take it you’re not familiar with tokenism.

If only the wrestling wasn’t already a clown show.

Abadon
Anthony Bowens
Diamante
Kenny Omega
Kiera Hogan
Leyla Hirsch
Mercedes Martinez
Nyla Rose
Sonny Kiss

But Jake Atlas is the one that tokenism is called out for?

it's because of the timing, you see. :|

Is Kenny Omega gay?

I don't think so.

Do we need a thread?

He's never formally come out or anything but he's made statements that would suggest he's either bi or perhaps pansexual. Been romantically linked to Ibushi and Shida as well.

they are the golden lovers ffs

obvious piss fans

He also has been rumored to be with other Japanese women.

tbf Ibushi transcends sexuality. That is a beautiful man.

I doubt it, otherwise Tony Khan would have been patting himself on the back incessantly for having a gay champion.

"I am not racist, I am a minority!" Somehow Tony Khan thinks only white people (who he loves BTW) can be racist.

I’d call many of them tokenistic signings too. Sonny Kiss and Nyla Rose definitely.

Yeah, that was really tone deaf of him.

Does anybody remember Tony khan patted his own back for booking a trans women to be their second women’s world champ? Cuz I don’t remember that all.

Gee, I wonder why... I am sure it had nothing to do with his fragile ego being hurt because she didn't want a hug from his creepy ass.

https://uproxx.com/wp-content/upload...-nyla-rose.gif

https://www.ringsidenews.com/wp-cont...y-khan-hug.png

lol that is a pretty awkwardly funny gif though

Lmaoooo Jesus Christ now I remember why I muted your sorry ass in the first place. Yes, I’m sure the reason Tony Khan didn’t pat himself on was because Nyla Rose took an awkward hug on a CLEARLY STAGED BACKSTAGE TV SEGMENT. I see I’ve missed nothing.

Article on how Cody regrets his angle with Anthony Ago and cried about it.

https://www.wrestlinginc.com/news/20...out-aew-angle/

Mute me again, nobody cares who mutes who, we just don't want posts CONSTANTLY stating who you do or do not have muted.

I too regret that angle. Didn’t anything for anyone. And it was the last of the original Cody who turned face after his match with Dustin. I’ll give it this, though. The reactions after that strap match with QT have made him infinitely more interesting. The most interesting since his dashing days.

Imagine if Cody had just stayed gone instead of fight Agogo and came back some time more recently. He'd probably get a pop, maybe idk.

Battle of the Belts which was only an hour-long, two-match card (Baker/Riho, Sammy/Cody) to begin with is apparently getting changed again on Rampage tonight due to "medical protocols". The rumor is that Cody tested positive but it's not confirmed yet. Would jive with him putting out a pro-vaccination message yesterday, though.

Battle of the Belts is a pretty big misstep all told. Only an hour but at the time people purchased tickets it wasn't made clear. I think a ton of us assumed Page-Danielson would be on that card.

Pretty obvious that the TV network dictated their desire for the show and AEW went ahead and obliged. But the fans are paying for 2 hours of Dark matches and then 2 title matches which might now only be 1.

If the Cody rumor is true, then maybe they have Page come in as the babyface he is and defend against Sammy, with the story being he's so beat up from Wednesday that Sammy has really good odds of winning?

Unless they have a really good make-up plan for the live audience, I'd be pretty bothered if I bought tickets for this show.

They didn’t have to call this Battle of the Belts. They could have given it a less leading name and this could be CM Punk vs. MJF. Or the six-man with Sting & Darby involved.

I like the idea of Page. Not really much other options. Unless they do a random tag or tbs title match.

Cody gallantly surrenders the TNT Title because of his situation. Battle of the Belts needs the TNT Champion. Sammy Guevara, Miro, Malakai Black, Andrade El Idolo, PAC and Dante Martin do battle in a Ladder Match to crown a new champion.

Either that or Sammy just loses to Malakai Black or something.

Yeah Battle of the Belts has been a pretty big misstep I would say. I think that they have promoted it very poorly with matches that are not really going to draw anybody just see it on a Saturday night that wouldn't watch it regardless.

The show being an hour long is completely ludicrous in my opinion. They should have just done a 2-hour rampage special and that's what this quarterly event should be just a 2-hour rampage. But a 1-hour show I can't even comprehend really what the people in attendance are going to experience beyond Dark tapings which are brutal.

Yeah not there best work. Maybe having JB win his first title on the show might have been the go but not a whole lot you can do with an hour.

Or failing that put Hangman vs. DB on and let them go close to an hour again.

Dustin vs. Sammy interim championship… I don’t hate it tbh.

I want Dustin to get a nice little title run. Even if it is just an interim one that doesn’t end up counting.

Give Dustin his moment and use it to turn Cody into the entitled douchebag he’ll he’s supposed to be.

Keep crying that xrod keeps owning your punk ass everyday you stupid ass AEW fanboy

Actually that would be more interesting to me than Sammy. This could perhaps be a way to properly turn Cody. Dustin takes interim champion and Cody starts to avoid Dustin and eventually tension builds and the match is booked. Cody has to get ultra violent to win and does a Hart/Austin style heel turn... Well really just a regular heel turn but I the way that Bret did.

I dunno, the last time Cody went into a match vs Dustin as a heel and got ultra violent and beat him into a bloody pulp he somehow ended up turning face right after and hugging him

Cody is cracking. Making interviews saying how this heat is hurting his feelings, he used to do no wrong now he just can't get it right. He isn't John Cena, he's gonna cave and turn.

Lol, thanks for quoting this. Damian Rey is truly a different kind. He’s entered the BigCrippyZone.

I like the idea of Dustin winning the Cody expecting Dustin to hand him the belt. But I am concerned it buries Sammy a bit.

I assumed Sammy was either winning the rematch or losing and going on some sort of redemption arc so I guess it’s down to what that particular plan is.

It could bury Sammy if it’s just a flat finish. But Dustin is smart enough to work out a way to make Sammy look great and like it was his experience that edged him out.

You could also do an angle after the match. Whoever Sammy’s next opponent is could get involved here.

I’m not much of a Sammy guy so putting that out there but my fear is he doesn’t have the mic skills to pull off the aftermath required.

Arrogantly smiling as you awkwardly flip through some signs is not enough to pull off a “I fell short, I need to be better, watch me do this” type story.

Eh, I don’t disagree (although I haven’t seen that much of him lately). But maybe this is a chance for him to grow?

That’s the dream in this situation I guess

Shouldn’t you be meal prepping your ham salad sandwiches?

wonder what this guy said to mjf to make him snap

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former tpww poster 'the mercenary' noted aew should not be praised for 'the forbidden door' because WWE did it first with smokey mountain wrestling in 1993

Don’t love Sammy. Especially babyface Sammy.

I like babyface Sammy. He’s just not doing anything interesting outside of Tay Conti.

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Just want to state a fact about AEW.

AEW fucking rocks. It's not perfect but I think by far and large it's providing the best wrestling TV show in over 20+ years.

If you don't like AEW, you are a republican.

If you don't like Cody, suck it. Cody is the biggest best baby in the buisness.

If you don't like The Young Bucks then you are a fucking nerd and have high cholesterol.

Mox is in shape. If you think Mox is fat, you know nothing about fitness.

Do you think good shape means 6% body fat, abs and ever muscle and sinew ripped and showing? Then you are gay.

Mox's bulk body is his best look ever, he's a real scary bastard who has addiction issues, why the shit should you see his abs? No. Mox does HIGH WEIGHT low rep workouts focusing on compound lifts like bench, overhead, row, deadlift and squat. He doesn't fuck around with anything else and he smokes a cigarette between sets.

Do you dislike Republicans because they dislike AEW, or do you like AEW because you dislike Republicans? :?:

Now, it's Kenny Omega's turn...

Among other things...

Someone showed disdain for Riho vs Baker, and one of the folks (who had a picture of him holding a child) was accused of Abducting and inappropriately touching said child by Kenny "I wrestled an 8 year old girl" Omega.

Deflected to Cornette's breathing when someone pointed out Marty Scurrl's issues.

Whined about being Cyberbullied in response to Tyler the Creator.

Did he say that? That's such a stupid thing to say.

Holy shit, what a fucking nut-bag. I found the Twitter thread. I didn’t know what I expected after you described it, but holy shit. That’s really not the maturity an EVP should be demonstrating. I don’t see how Tony Khan can just ignore that.

Lol, he says Cornette wheezes and is difficult to listen to? This is coming from Kenny “Phone Sex Conversation” Omega? Does he really want to go after Cornette for his verbal ability? Self-destruction.

He’s probably just mad they got outmaneuvered by Impact Wrestling.

Or that he didn’t win Sports Illustrated’s Wrestler of 2021. Seriously wouldn’t surprise me.

Just keep ‘em all off Twitter.

The guy who started all the rubbish with Twitter is an Arsenal fan so that says it all. Plus he was trying to imply that Omega was up to dodgy things with Riho when she was a kid (how I interpreted it) from the picture he posted.
So in retaliation Omega was trying to make the point that someone could see the original posters pictire of him holding a kid and take it out of context.

The guy he replied to basically called him a paedo, he hit back with the same. I'm here for the petty, you want to go after someone because your jealous of there fame dont be suprised when they swing that fame back on to you.

I just recently joined Twitter and my God, wrestling Twitter is something else lol

Was the accusation about Kenny that he was actually a paedo or that he did inappropriate things with children? Because wrestling with them is something I would call inappropriate. That shit’s gonna follow him.

Don’t think petty being met with petty when you have the public eye and all the power is a good excuse, tbh. Just block someone, move on. Saying something over the line and going on a rant about how you want to fight everyone because you’re being cyber-bullied just looks like shit.

It is the fucking worst

The guy was implying through his comments on the picture of Omega and a young Riho that there was reasonings that he is promoting her now, he said this ‘ To confirm, you do not believe that a grown man posing with a young child in this manner, who then X years later (igreater than a decade) he is still working with and promoting on Twitter after she has a wrestling match on a major US TV network, could be considered unusual?’

When you are not only a public figure for a company, but also hold a significant position within said company, you have a responsibility to be a bigger person and respond to such things more professionally.

I won't judge omega for this, because it's a sick accusation, and it's understandable that someone would "flip out" over it , but it was still the wrong response for a person of his station.

Also, Riho sucks.

She’s so little

Okay, thanks for sharing. I mean, Omega’s going to get that shit for performing physical stunts with children. Honestly, the wrestling scenes that use children probably should be investigated a bit. The UK scene got a few rocks uncovered when the whole Speaking Out thing happened, and it’s horrible.

Well said. :y:

Even better said. :y:

https://www.wrestlinginc.com/news/20...ens-wrestling/

In case nobody else wants to search for it.

AEW has the coolest management team EVER!

I think Kenny shouldn't respond to the people individually, his initial tweet expressing annoyance at hateful comments was fine itself.

I also think people should stop freaking out about everything he did in DDT in Japan. It's a company known for comedy stuff and he's not the only guy in WWE/AEW who wrestled there.


https://i.postimg.cc/Xvv5BGF4/Screen...2-20-03-PM.png

Like, Koju Takeda's whole gimmick is practically being accidentally stripped/exposed on a regular basis and I personally am very fine with that gimmick lol

https://takeda-fan.tumblr.com/archive

I think his initial tweet was fine too. He should have left it there.

DDT sucks and them doing a lot of silly shit doesn’t excuse specific silly shit. Working with a kid is just stupid. So many things that can go wrong and come back to bite you.

Emi Sakura's company in Japan, Chocopro, the matches basically take place in a setting that looks like a classroom and doesn't even have a ring.

I mean, who cares. Why do the Jim Cornettes of the world get riled up over such dumb shit.

Goldberg's son is 15 years old and no one was outraged about him being involved.

I'm not a fan of kids wrestling, I think it's dangerous, but I'm not going to wind my gears up about something that's already happened.

You cannot say you dislike trolls making mean comments AND THEN attack other people with comments like "you live in your mom's basement, you abducted a child, dont spill your bowl of cheetos" etc.

Fragile and thin skinned Kenny Omega smh

yeah I don't disagree he's not handling it super well beyond his initial tweet.

I also think people just get so worked up and hateful over really dumb shit with wrestling. Not all wrestling is SUPER SERIOUS BUSINESS. Even in the US, we had Chikara. Not every company in Japan presents wrestling the same way, not every company in Mexico presents lucha libre the same way, ya know, it is what it is. I'm not saying comedy rasslin is my preference, it's generally not, but I don't really give a shit about who was in what comedy rasslin spot and hyperventilate on it like Cornette does.

Exactly right

Funny to see how the AEW brass deal with negativity and criticism. They need to separate a bit and put up a curtain. Too much inside baseball all the time. Tony doing barstool shoot interviews about the ongoings of the company. I don't like it.

I don't nesssicarily dislike Republicans