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#16321 |
President of Freedonia
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I actually enjoyed the Arena Mexico Dyno a lot more than most Dynos, well, pretty much all year. The crowd was hot all night which helped. I do enjoy the big Lucha multi man tags so that was fun. Arena Mexico Mistico is another beast entirely.
For the rest of the year I feel like I’m mostly in the “browse through DVR, watch a match or two if they sound interesting and call it a day” Same with WWE as well. My desire to commit a couple of hours at a time every week just isn’t there anymore. |
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#16322 |
President of Freedonia
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I will say that for me it’s not totally an indictment on the state of either company. I just have a lot more shit going on in my life than I did a few years ago. Even up through a few years ago I had nothing but time to watch pretty much everything.
Getting married next month, tons of household projects going on, work’s getting super busy. There’s only so many leisure hours per night, we’ve got a litany of shows we’re trying to watch through, I watch baseball when the Mets don’t piss me off, there’s video games coming out I’m looking forward to etc. Just not enough time to go around for me to not just skim. Wouldn’t even matter if this was 2021 AEW or mid-2000s WWE or any other time where I was just super locked in. Even if I shifted wrestling up in the priority list there’s still a lot more I’m into now than before. Such is life. |
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#16323 | |
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The lies don’t help AEW. They don’t change the books or the reality of poor business. They exist solely to fool marks. |
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#16324 |
President of Freedonia
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Brody King wearing an Abolish ICE shirt has made its way to Fox News and MAGA Twitter, and they are very angry about it. He’s also selling shirts on his website for which the profits will go to the families of the abducted.
That’s kickass. Gonna go buy one. |
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#16325 |
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Definitely no chance of that having any negative consequences on the company.
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#16326 |
President of Freedonia
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Couldn’t care less. Condemning a modern day Gestapo happening on American soil is more important than a wrestling promotion.
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#16327 |
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I’m not going to discuss this further with you, since AEW is a wrestling promotion. Barely, but it is. I guess the important thing is you think this helps.
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#16328 |
I am the cheese
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It helps nothing to the power of a billion. My carny ass would sell the fuck out of that shirt though. And id sell kick em all out shirts too. Whatever moves.
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#16329 |
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Brody King accidentally comes out wearing the wrong shirt one week, has to scurry to the back and swap it back. No one notices he’s gone.
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#16330 |
CodeBot Engaged...WOAAHH!
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So Sasha Banks starts dating a jobber, and suddenly he is getting main event matches with Samoa Joe, Will Hobbs, Swerve, and Adam Page?
Good to know Tony is booking his toys based on dating habits of his other toys! |
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#16331 |
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The push is based on the timing and athletic prowess Tony saw after placing cameras in their bedroom.
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#16332 |
3 Dicks Out For Trips
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#16333 |
( ._.)
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I imagine she makes him stand 4 feet away while she does herself.
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#16334 |
( ._.)
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Pic for joke reference
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#16335 |
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#16336 |
CodeBot Engaged...WOAAHH!
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#16337 |
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Come on, there was clearly a beast in there. And you also had Mortos.
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#16338 |
President of Freedonia
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I've loved Mortos since AAA and was stoked he was getting a run in TNA and later AEW so more people could see him.
Hilarious that it took this for him to get a push though. |
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#16339 |
President of Freedonia
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Also I love that since Mercedes is big enough for TMZ or other outlets to cover her relationship, the caption and image combos making it appear she's dating a literal bull are hilarious.
He's probably handsome as hell under there. Wouldn't be too surprised if a day comes where he eventually unmasks and just carries the mask to the ring as a prop or something. |
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#16340 |
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Are Mortos and Black Taurus the same guy? If so, I think I’ve seen exactly one MLW match. I read he looks like Roman Reigns. I cannot confirm as I don’t have Tony’s camera setup, so I haven’t been peering into Sasha’s bedroom.
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#16341 |
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Britt Baker wants out of AEW bad. The sickos defended her when it seemed like she was a bully in the early days. Now she is sick of being in that toxic environment and she’s suddenly been revealed to be a horrible person and a bad wrestler. Like clockwork.
AEW has been an interesting experiment. It highlights how you can take athletes/entertainers, throw a whole bunch of money at them and still make them miserable. |
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#16342 |
CodeBot Engaged...WOAAHH!
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Tony Khan learning most of the people he thought were his friends were really just after his daddy's money, and after they got enough, it is no longer worth having to pretend to like his weird ass.
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#16343 |
Feeling Oof-y
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I’ve never gotten the talk about TK being nice. He’s clearly demonstrated a lot of cowardly, dishonest, rich kid bully behaviors. |
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#16345 |
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Ha, I just realized that ESPN in Australia is streamed through the Disney+ app. So people instead of no one watching it because it’s on ESPN, now no one is watching it just because it sucks.
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#16346 |
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The All In card looks rubbish by the way. The Casino Gauntlet is in Reverse Battle Royal territory of bad. You can lose the match without being in it. They’re doing two of them because they haven’t built up proper programs. Athena will win the women’s. MJF will win the men’s, unless Darby Allin plays spoiler. I haven’t even been following closely. For matches so built around “chance,” they shouldn’t be that predictable.
They’re wasting The Hurt Syndicate on Kevin Knight & Mike Bailey, who have already slipped into a tag team because there’s nothing for either of them. Remember when Dave tried to compare Shelton coming in to Sean Morley in TNA? Shelton is one of the best actual workers in the entire company. Will Ospreay & Swerve Strickland are fluffing about with the Young Bucks. The stip is that if The Bucks lose, they will no longer be EVPs. I guess they are going to make The Bucks being half-way out the company official? Cool? The match will suck too. The corpse of Adam Cole mirrors the decline of All In ticket sales. He’s fallen from the main event of Wembley to putting over Kyle Fletcher in Dallas. The irony of this show being in WCCW territory is amazing. Omega and Okada are going to try and recapture their overhyped rivalry from 7-8 years ago. It wasn’t that good then, it’s going to suck now. The women’s stuff isn’t even worth talking about. Mercedes and Toni Storm have two of the worst gimmicks in wrestling. The main event isn’t even worth talking about. I’m not even sure Mox is dropping the belt, which would be hilarious. Hangman isn’t the guy. They’re doing a garbage match to make everything mean even less. |
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#16347 |
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I think that's all that ever needs to be said. Goodbye
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#16348 |
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Lol, MJF is the latest in the troupe of people to embarrassingly misrepresent what AEW is. He’s trying to act like Tony Khan only wants the people who really want to be there. Notice how no one talks about the money anymore? Willow Nightingale, Alex Windsor, MJF — they just really want to wrestle in AEW and see the world, yeah?
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#16349 |
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I actually really like how they arrived at the stakes in the Bucks/Swerve/Ospreay match.
Swerve/Ospreay can't challenge for the AEW World Title for a year if they lose. The Bucks would have incentive here because they not only want to keep their executive titles but also because they've established they've got a working deal with Mox and are trying to make his life easier. But from the standpoint of trying to get the audience to buy in, it's also a believable enough stip. If it were "Ospreay and Swerve will be fired if they lose" nobody is buying that. The result of the match wouldn't be in question. These stakes are realistic enough where you could actually see it go either way. |
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#16350 |
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I'd actually reckon the odds are very high now that the Bucks win.
Swerve and Ospreay have been around the AEW World Title scene for a year or more, taking them out of it for a year would cycle some new opponents in for Hangman without there being immediate calls to go back to the Hangman/Swerve well. But the other thing is you're heavily implying what fans can expect at the next All In. Omega/Okada only officially got booked like a month ago but as far back as December when they first met face to face they made sure to have them do a face off with the All In sign conveniently behind them. 6-7 months in advance when tickets were about to go on sale they were basically telling fans they would be getting that match at that show. Similar thing here. Ospreay and Swerve can't go for the title again until conveniently All In 2026. You're basically telling UK ticket buyers that the hometown boy is going to win the title at Wembley next year. The expectation is set without even having to officially book a match. |
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#16351 |
CodeBot Engaged...WOAAHH!
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The stipulation should be whoever wins gets to replace Tony Khan, otherwise it makes no difference whatsoever.
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#16352 |
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At the All In press conference Tony Khan said he hasn’t spoken to Britt Baker about leaving AEW. Now, TK is a liar, but if that were the case, that’s a really shitty thing to cop to. She clearly wants out and you’d rather talk to the dirt sheets than someone signed and wanting out?
He’s such a weasel lol. |
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#16353 |
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No joke: AEW is creating another championship at All In.
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#16354 |
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#16355 |
quesque fuck?
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AEW the best
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#16356 |
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#16357 |
CodeBot Engaged...WOAAHH!
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Tony Khan got so scared by Goldberg he moved his PPV's start time to mid afternoon
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#16358 |
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Now he’s going to get crushed by the might of Yoshiki Inamura!!!
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#16359 |
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Dave Meltzer actually claimed that Dynamite gets more viewers than Raw.
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#16360 |
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Sounds like a post for the ratings thread.
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