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3 hours ago, Wrestling Machine said:
Dynamite netted 672,000 viewers and a 0.23 rating in the 18-49 demographic this week, last show with lower viewership was January 2021, you have to go back to October 2021 to find an episode of Dynamite with a lower demo rating.
The downward spiral was already crystal clear, obvious, and predictable, now what do you think would be needed to revitalize AEW?
Better booking would be a good start. Better storylines that don't run so long would be nice as well. The snarky wrestling fan side of me wants to put it all at the feet of Perry and the Bucks but they may just be a symptom of the issue rather then the source.
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33 minutes ago, Matt_Black said:
What drove me nuts was the promo from Claudio complaining about Eddie. So we might be getting THAT feud again at some point. Remember at Grand Slam, and Claudio said win or lose, that was the LAST time? Turns out that was a big fat lie.
Being honest, I'd rather see Eddie/Claudio again then watch the Coattail Riding Crew in anything. It's bad enough that Okada's saddled with them.
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Well it looks like the Bucks and Perry have cost Eddie Kingston his title at the most recent NJPW show, interfering in what sounded like an amazing match between Kingston and Gabriel Kidd. An Okada/Kingston feud has promise to be sure, but with the Coattail Riding Crew involved, well that just kills my interest immediately.
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So apparently Jacob Fatu is HHH's newest signing, which likely means we can look forward to a new member of the Bloodline sometime in the near future.
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7 hours ago, Wrestling Machine said:
Wow, that Jericho vs Shibata was so stupid and embarrassing to watch. The Singapore cane shots exchange sitting in the middle of the ring, that ridiculous piñata spot, etc. Who in the blue hell booked that mess?? lol
Tony Khan one assumes, given that he's officially the booker. Wouldn't surprise me to hear that Jericho is permitted to do whatever stupid ideas he likes, simply because he's Chris Jericho.
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9 hours ago, CQI13 said:
Their event from yesterday came up on my YouTube feed (Raven and some team in a cage match, Riddle vs Thatcher, David Boy Smith Jr was on it). I always crap on TNA for their subpar presentation - the ring echoes way too much, the crowd seems like it’s just a couple hundred people, etc. The presentation of this show was not bad for it being a smaller promotion. Some of the wrestlers look terrible though, and the promos were underwhelming from some of the less known names. Didn’t watch everything, but the AJ Francis involvement, and Dario Cueto (by whatever name he uses) really stood out. The gap between them and the rest was jarring.
If it was the War Chamber match then it was Raven, Akira, Jimmy Lloyd and Jake Crist vs Cannonball, Dr. Cornwallis, Sami Callihan and Ricky Shane Page. RSP's team is called The Calling and thus Raven named his opposing team The Answer.
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6 minutes ago, Matt_Black said:
It's Chicago. If they were shown footage of CM Punk taking a bulldozer to an orphanage, their reaction would probably be, "Little brats had it coming."
Yet all Jack managed to get was mockery. I'm just sayin', if he thinks he can ride this CM Punk business to superstardom he might be in for a rude awakening.
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1 hour ago, milamber said:
Sounds to me like he was being openly mocked by the crowd, not traditionally the sign that a person is over. He lost so Shota at least, so that's good.
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Wondering why they hot shotted the Continental Title onto Okada straight away, rather then waiting for a pay per view. Also despite the NJPW Strong title, the Continental Title and ROH Title being some sort of crown they're apparently not all defended together as Kingston is still listed holding the Strong and ROH titles.
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Heard Sammy Guevara was suspended, possibly due to that botched spot in the match with Jeff Hardy. Anybody hear anything about that?
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3 minutes ago, Jaysin said:
Eddie Kingston is a better professional wrestler than the Young Bucks any day of the week and a better character, talker, and more believable.
Comparing him to death match clowns is pretty idiotic.
I agree wholeheartedly.
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2 hours ago, Big Roguey said:
Okay so removing the hyperbole, it sounds like you just don't like hardcore wrestling (although from my limited watching of AEW shows, it feels like that description doesn't quite fit every Jon Moxley match). I feel like there is an easier way of saying that than repeating buzzword phrases coined by Jim Cornette.
Especially considering the Danielson/Kingston match was an excellent match by all accounts.
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Welp, New Japan was stupid enough to have Perry go over Shota. They put Perry in the House of Torture so it looks like, beyond all reason, they're going to be giving Perry a push. 🤢
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5 hours ago, Jaysin said:
Titles already vacated and we're getting a tournament
Of course we are, it's practically the only thing Tony Khan knows how to do.
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31 minutes ago, Matt_Black said:
Here's how I would book things for the tag titles. Sting and Darby beat the Young Bucks with Darby getting the pin on one while Sting has the Scorpion Deathlock on the other to prevent him from breaking up the pin. Sting gets to retire as an undefeated tag team champion.
The next Dynamite, The Bucks demand that Darby forfeit the titles and hand them over because he doesn't have a partner anymore. Darby must find a partner before the end of the show. But who...?
Knowing TK he'd just put the tag titles up for grabs in yet another tournament.
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27 minutes ago, Eternal Phoenix said:
I have an addendum. D'Amore and Anthem were having severe creative differences. Enough that the purchase attempt was his last attempt at resolving the situation in his favor. With that offer rejected, there was only one way the story ended.
If I were Anthem I'd be worried about how loyal the TNA wrestlers are to D'Amore. Tossing him out was bad enough but if wrestlers start following him to whatever promotion he ends up working for, things could get rather dicey for TNA.
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38 minutes ago, Jaysin said:
Tony Khan should hire Scott D'Amore now that TNA made the boneheaded move to fire him. I know Scott's opinion of AEW had soured after the kind of piss poor relationship, but man, imagine what a guy that took TNA from irrelevant to a serious alternative again could do with a roster like AEW has?
He'd do amazing, provided he can keep TK or the EVPs from overruling him.
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5 minutes ago, The Blonde Bomber said:
Cody-Roman unification match summerslam
Let's hope fans still give a toss by that point.
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6 hours ago, The Blonde Bomber said:
I think it’s unlucky. Being off for ten years probably led to this too. His body has not been used to the abuse one takes as a wrestlers so he lost that protective later to prevent injuries. Could this be continuous or could this be the end? Who knows we’ll see when he inevitably comes back and feuds with McIntyre.
He wrestled some pretty intense matches in AEW too didn't he? If so that's likely not helped matters in that regard.
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19 minutes ago, Wrestling Machine said:
TF?!? Which other promotion outside WWE and AEW could have given him a multi-million dollar contract in the US? Should he have cut his paychecks and gone to the indies to make someone in the IWC happy?
And that's not just CM Punk is something applicable to any other wrestling superstar with big name value; imagine Randy Orton leaving WWE and going to MLW for a dime lol
Also his time away from the industry pretty much obliterates those "CM Punk is an egomaniac" arguments. The man stepped out of the spotlight for seven years and not a peep was heard from him the entire time. Hardly a man who can't stand being out of the spotlight huh?
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21 minutes ago, Mootinie said:
They put several people in that position on the card whilst Cody was off solving racism, slathering heat proof gel all over his back and trying to help make QT Marshall a thing. That torch had been passed around a lot of people before they finally handed it to Cody. And it wasn't really Punk's torch anyway, it was John Cena's and then it was Roman's.
I thought maybe he was referring towards the growth of alternative wrestling companies and the general pro-wrestling anti-WWE revolution in the mid 2010's. But, even then, that wasn't a revolution started by Punk. He re-signed with WWE after the pipe bomb and then laid down for Triple H, that's hardly the Che Guevara of wrestling haha. He then refused to wrestle anywhere else after walking out until he found a suitable bandwagon to jump on. What a revolutionary haha.
I thought it was a pretty crap promo all things considered.
You mean he was fired for taking time off to recover from nagging injuries, as several wrestlers have been permitted to do before and since.
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11 minutes ago, Jaysin said:
If they didn't reference it, there'd be an outcry online from people complaining about them ignoring it.
It's a lose lose situation
If you say so. I still think not referencing the debacle was the better option. Just have the guy wrestle in New Japan don't draw attention to the controversy and hope it all blows over. Agree to disagree I guess.
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7 minutes ago, Jaysin said:
It's part of the new character, the Scapegoat. The character is that he's the one being blamed for Punk's departure and drama. They're turning the ordeal into a storyline.
Not the first time it's happened, but I imagine they're trying to salvage Jungle Boy by having him work New Japan for awhile to earn his way back.
It'd be better if they didn't reference the situation at all. Just let the thing blow over while Perry hopefully learns something in New Japan.
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15 minutes ago, Jaysin said:
Brother, the bolded part is kayfabe....
That makes no sense to me, why the hell would they tell him to tear up his contract on camera? It doesn't add anything to his attack on Umino and it just makes him look petulant and childish.
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The Official WWE / NXT Discussion Thread *May Contain Spoilers*
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Of course given that history and Orton's previous accomplishments in the company, they don't really need to give him a shot at Cody's title do they? Given how many titles Orton's won they could just have him challenge and play it up as Cody's biggest challenge to date or something.