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AEW has filed a trademark for "BLOOD MOON RISING" and I announce my prediction that Bray Wyatt has signed with AEW.
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It’s Athena. Literally had a blood red moon as part of her imagery.
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uWu we promised never to speak on this Senpai uWu :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek: |
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Apparently Tony is looking to introduce more titles on top of the Trios Tags. Potentially belts for the Owen Tourney winners which is just wrong. A trophy in the style of a Slammy (as Owen is a famous 3-time Slammy winner himself) with Owen in his icon arms up pose is a must.
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The Owen tourney is easy. Winner gets the trophy and a title shot at All Out. It could be their King/Queen of the Ring.
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Samoa Joe v Punk at All Out in Chicago.
I think Toni Storm should win the women’s, so her v Rosa or preferably Deeb at All Out for the women’s title. |
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Blood Moon Rising? Fucking hell.
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People are under the impression that Blood Moon Rising isn’t for Athena, but rather for a show.
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Has there been any word on Danielson?
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They should sign a new booker and a new owner, otherwise it will never grow.
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Complaining Man Phil
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At some point Punk is going to be the only star they have left, and he’s going to take an awkward bump one day and say “fuck it” and leave.
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Plans as they stand have Page beating Punk by shenanigans and going “full heel”. Punk will then introduce the Best In The World Championship (think the FTW Championship in ECW) with the two eventually having a unification match. Tony Khan is said to be quietly “seething” as this has been in the works for a while but WWE managed to beat him to the punch with Roman Reigns doing a similar angle.
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It’s also completely made up but oh so very plausible.
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Tony Khan is such a tool he even hypes up Roman Reigns because his fanboy love cannot be contained! |
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Congratulations to former <a href="https://twitter.com/Jaguars?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Jaguars</a> DL <a href="https://twitter.com/WWERomanReigns?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@WWERomanReigns</a> on winning the <a href="https://twitter.com/WWE?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@WWE</a> World Heavyweight Championship for a 2nd time last night on Raw.</p>— Tony Khan (@TonyKhan) <a href="https://twitter.com/TonyKhan/status/676865139342086145?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 15, 2015</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> :rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:FUCKING TINY MARK KHAN :rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl: |
And here. We. Go.
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I can't remember what it was but you got me with one a few months back. I bought the whole story word for word as you concocted it.
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Keep them up. This one didn’t quite get me, but I dislike AEW enough to believe in it. It’s scary that it’s that close to reality.
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Some backstage news on AEW.
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Ah. Now I see why you stick to reposting memes from other sites. :p
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The dip in quality is pretty negligible, to be honest.
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I get it bro, you <3 CM Punk |
Prove it. Let’s see the rep sheet!
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Joking aside, I have heard that there is jealousy from Omega’s end towards Punk, and that he doesn’t like Punk giving out contrasting advice to what Omega does to the wrestlers. Young guys like Hobbs, Starks, Keith Lee and Jungle Boy are going to Punk for advice and Omega feels he’s kind of worthless right now.
Rumor has it that if it were anyone else who sank an extra $55 million into a video game, Omega wouldn’t be receiving an increase on his new contract in 2024. Since he’s done so much for Tony Khan, he’ll only be getting a $2 million per year increase. |
News on why Brian Cage got an extension:
Some thought it was to pad out an ROH roster. Apparently, before he left, Cody pitched a feud between him & Brandi and Cage & Melissa Santos. The extension was to play ball with Cody and keep him in talks. Now he’s stuck paying Cage $950k a year. He does plan to send him over to New Japan though, with Cage likely getting a Scott Norton type push, with New Japan not needing to pay the guy much at all. |
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There have been rumors about Tony Khan producing more belts than the Trios Titles. One set of belts that hasn’t been made, but will be, is if Tony Khan can get Mercedes Varnado (Sasha Banks) into AEW. He’s said to be obsessed with her and considers her the greatest female wrestler of all-time, and maybe Top 5 of anyone ever.
Varnado is said to be pretty set on making a women’s tag division important. Through TK’s contacts (he’s said to hang out with Snoop Dogg) there have been talks “as friends” to get around contract issues where they’ve discussed having MJKV and a partner establish a set of AEW Women’s World Tag Team Titles. Britt Baker & Jamie Hayter would likely be Sasha and her partner’s rival. Eventually they would like to bring in Pamela Martinez (Bayley) and Trinity Fatu (Naomi) to be tag and singles rivals of Mercedes too. He’s apparently so keen to resolve the issue of Sasha Banks & Naomi’s frozen contracts in WWE that he has offered to buy them out. Naomi has about 3 months left, which would cost him about $400k. Sasha signed a new deal in 2019, so she’s got about 2 years left, which is about $1.2 million. If WWE stop ignoring his calls, that could make it possible for them to come in as a unit. |
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CM Punk just took low-hanging fruit, used it for cheap pops and didn’t back up his push with the business metrics to justify it.
I get people not taking him seriously, feeling he’s overrated or love pointing out the hypocrisy behind his seemingly sincere statements, but in a wrestling context he was just a guy whose gimmick was “Fed bad.” That worked to the crowd. That he hasn’t evolved and can’t draw now is bigger criticism for him than the whole Summer of Punk ‘11 not holding up (which I don’t think it does outside MITB as a match) |
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Damn @ that Triple H video...
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Oh Tiny...
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He'd have a better product if he actually followed through with that philosophy. He has an opportunity with ROH to course correct somewhat by shifting AEW talent over there but he's going to have to keep the 2 brands apart for it to really work.
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Kyle O'Reilly signed with AEW for 5 years. I can't imagine how anyone would justify that.
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It’s an indictment on the state of wrestling though. And egg on Tony Khan’s face. |
AEW has not been good for wrestling in any other context than Vince McMahon’s profit margin or the top stars being solidified as such.
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Warner Bros Discovery executives are going to be at Dynamite next week, lol.
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Card for the PPV looks absolutely shithouse.
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Worked out why Jade Cargill is turning out to be the best champion in the company (other than atrocious booking). She received training from Heath Slater!
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Sorry AEW and Tony Khan I cannot buy the PPV this weekend because you didn't sell it to me. I'll still be watching and am halfway excited, just watch a wrestling PPV. I'm not happy with the way you've booked these new stars you've signed in the last year and now AEW feels like an alternative WWE brand to an extent. Can you please get some kind of TV deal for ROH so that you can take a bunch of the AEW guys that we don't need (mostly the ROH originals and NXT guys) and send them to ROH so that I can manage my enjoyment of AEW more?
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Looks like a strong card to me with my only real gripe being DMD being in the Owen final. She really doesn’t need it.
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Looking forward to the show. Every AEW PPV has been great since they started so I don’t doubt they’ll give me my money’s worth.
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I was looking through the card and I think it looks a lot better on paper than the build showed us. The one match that rubs me a bit wrong is Cole and Joe because it is a direct transfer from WWE match and that's just a bit odd. More odd than Mox and Jericho back at Revolution a few years ago, because their characters were totally different. Plus I don't have any memory of a Dean Ambrose/Jericho match in WWE.
Aside from that Tony's booked a lot of AEW originals against former WWE stars. It will be interesting to see who ends up with the rub in those situations because you have to justify spending big money on these WWE releases, you can't have them job so much and from my memory the recent signings have all taken losses. Obviously you don't want to put the AEW guys in a spot where they look to be on a lower level than WWE's rejects. There is a very large AEW original presence on the PPV and that's a good thing. For me it's just that there are a lot of solid AEW originals that just don't cut it for me and they keep them around for the future, like Scorpio Sky who signed a 5 year deal. I can't watch that guy for 5 years are you kidding me? I wish AEW had a roster cap at 60 ppl men and women and anyone else was on a per appearance or structured deal for the "length of a program". |
The "Four Pillars" as they were known (MJF/Jungle Boy/Darby/Sammy) definitely held water across AEW's first 3 years.
But AEW and the wrestling landscape as a whole 3 years in is vastly different than when they started. I think many people expected that once AEW started they would gradually make some inspired indy signings, which they did (Kingston, Starks, Hobbs, Ethan Page etc) but I don't think anybody thought they'd actually get Punk to come back, or have a Danielson available to them. Plus tons of the WWE guys, I know future endeavors has been a meme for a while but when AEW started, WWE was signing everyone under the sun....I don't think anyone expected the caliber of guys available to be what it was. So really, with this in mind I can't get behind the notion that the Four Pillars have to be a focal part of programming just because they are originals. Of the Four, MJF obviously has the highest ceiling and is the one worth keeping at the top of the card. He's outstanding and he should always be featured. Jungle Boy is also only 24 and hasn't had a singles run yet, I think this eventual feud with Christian will give him a great veteran to work with and a story to really sink his teeth into and we'll get a better sense of what he can be as a featured singles performer. I like Darby but him being 29 doesn't matter much when he's liable to be crippled any day now. He's exciting but one note, and he's absolutely dreadful on a live mic. And Sammy has shown he only works as a smarmy heel, he doesn't have the range for anything else and there are others on the roster who could do it better. I think it's time to focus on letting the roster breathe a bit. Sending some guys to ROH will help a bit but I don't think they need to feel compelled to be loyal to the pillars when they've got a small army of guys who are better options than at least 2 of them. |
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A LOT of people thought Punk would sign with the company back in 2019. It made total sense. He was doing nothing, they had money, he “hated” WWE. They approached him in an insulting way (possibly insecure talent’s prerogative to sabotage) and he tried to go back to the WWE. AEW’s fumbling of the ball at the start was not what people expected. There were a lot of possible big signings that people could foresee. Randy Orton being one of them. The talk was that almost everybody was interested in AEW. This is why the WWE buckled down on talent like Mike Kanellis with $500k per year deals. AEW provided a weak product, WWE relaxed, top talent chose to stick with Vince and WWE basically tore up those $500k per year deals. That AEW eventually ended up with a Bryan Danielson or that they eventually got a CM Punk is not that weird. It should have been the condition they had to navigate from the start. The story isn’t “golly gosh wow, AEW just has so many talented people that they can’t use a lot of their talent properly.” They mismanage themselves. Call it what it is. |
Tony Khan got asked in an interview with Sean Ross Sapp about the MJF situation. Tony danced around it with something like “sometimes wrestling thrives off on-screen characters playing off off-screen tension” and MJF quote tweeted it with:
“Fucking lol. Fuck this place man” It has since been deleted. |
Oh man, he got him so good.
The ZING of the day, even! Wrestling Twitter is the new product. |
I’ve said it before: MJF wants off the sinking ship and he’ll try and work it so Wardlow is his last match. He wants to be in the WWE by the time The Rock is making appearances around the SuperBowl/XFL relaunch next year. Because he’s not an idiot.
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Omega’s free in January too. There’s a good chance we get Cody vs. MJF and AJ vs. Omega at Mania next year.
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Would be great if Omega went to WWE just to watch Noid act like it was an amazing, genius acquisition by Vince.
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Top WBDiscovery Execs will be attending the L.A. Dynamite show at The Forum next week.
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He should at least have the decency to change his user name to xrodmucoward316
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I'd also accept xrodmucostanza316
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Edit- I got my threads mixed up :o
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It's never a chance to schmooze. It's opportunity to see who gets to stick around and who's getting throw to the curb.
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Yeah, I assumed it was because no one could make it last week to rep AEW so they’re just coming to them instead.
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So since Wardlow is meant to be "contracted" to MJF and he's free of that with a win on Sunday, I wonder if this will be followed by Wardlow "signing an AEW contract" on Wednesday which purportedly pays him more than MJF.
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It sucked that Omega had to have the surgeries that he needed. He also didn't need to stay away from the shows for 6 months if he was worried about his influence on talent being negated.
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Fucking Phil saying buyrates and ticket sales don't actually matter because he failed to keep buyrates and ticket sales up :rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:
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Hahaha, Punk made a tweet about WWE moving MITB to a smaller venue and people dragged him for it so he deleted it. Dude’s never sold out a stadium in his life, btw.
He makes it REALLY easy to dislike him with his glass houses. How are those ratings doing over in AEW? Those buildings still half-full? |
Watching Rampage... Kris Statlander rules... really hope she beats Ruby Soho... Statlander like 50x better than her and most women in AEW tbh
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fuck Ruby Soho won... bullshit,,
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crowd loudly booing Ruby Soho
big mistake having her win... |
The Bucks dressed as the Hardys with Brandon Cutler as Lita cracked my ass up
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idk why they never push Statlander, really "on another level" than every other woman, besides maybe Serena Deeb and Thunder Rosa
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I assume Britt (and Cole, ugh) are winning their tourneys and so they’d rather have Ruby take the loss than Kris. But really they should’ve just had Kris win the whole thing.
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Does seem like Kris is gonna go heel. I’d be down for Kris vs Rosa at least but she really didn’t need to be in this tourney to begin with.
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Cole can’t win, right? Come on….
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I just realized that I've run out of material for lampooning the Young Bucks. God they suck.
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I think Ruby is gonna beat Brit. If I remember when Ruby came in her first big loss right off the bat was against Brit. She'll avenge that loss and it'll be sold as long term story telling and then she'll job in a title feud and no one will remember any of this happened.
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