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I don't think I've ever heard a reaction like that from an AEW crowd like I did when Athena hit Aubrey. If you want to get someone over as a heel in AEW, that's how you do it. I just wish it was for someone organically getting over as a heel, and not someone who had been Ruby Soho'd and now they're scrambling to salvage what they can.
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Has Aubrey ever taken a ref bump in AEW before?
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"Ucey In The Sky With Diamonds". We don't deserve Sami Zayn.
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I think the fans would not buy into that. They want to cheer Hayter, not Britt, and turning Saraya on top of that so soon would be salt on the wound. I predict that Britt loses, Hayter wins, and then they run it like when Evolution turned on Randy Orton.
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Another one- it seems like there are a lot of companies where the gimmick is "Just like ____, but with less money and pop". CILL, WINNOW, etc.
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On 11/7/2022 at 5:52 PM, The Swanton825 said:
They're not invading EWA, it's just a special wrestling operation! For some reason my brain immediately went to thinking of an all-female sister promotion called Russian Girl Power Wrestling where the only change is that the bear has lipstick.
I personally think a Russian female wrestling company should be called Night Witch Wrestling, after the famed WWII aviators.
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... None of that main event made any sense.
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To AEW's credit, they've at least acknowledged on air the somewhat ridiculousness of it, especially when it comes to FTR.
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43 minutes ago, Mootinie said:
AEW chose to market itself as having a sports-style wrestling product. They said wins and losses would matter. They had a ranking system that was supposed to be taken seriously. They put up their wrestler's win and loss records during their entrances. I'm simply treating their wrestlers as I'm supposed to. When a dude's last match on the show was in June and he lost to Orange Cassidy from a body slam, why am I supposed to believe he can lay out the World Champion with a single boot to the chops? 😂
Page's 2022 record is 10-4, with an overall of 32-10. And the only wins that matter in this current storyline are the ones in the tournament.
And besides, if he wins, his most likely opponent will be MJF, who really throws a huge wrench into the "wins and losses matter" angle. -
On 11/4/2022 at 5:34 PM, Blackman said:
I'm not a fan of QAW as I cannot really imagine what the hell it's supposed to be. AAA used to be the "small WWE". I rarely played it but it's a clear vision.
In 2020? Small AEW. Lots of flippy stuff? Check. Focus on tag teams and stables? Check. Has faces and heels but doesn't enforce it? Check.
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There were chants of "We Want Sami" in Saudi Arabia. What a time to be alive.
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12 minutes ago, Mootinie said:
Randomly pushing wrestlers like Ethan Page that were jobbers just months ago.
You mean like when Jinder Mahal became WWE Champion?
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Say what you will about JJ, but he absolutely knows the business side of the business.
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It should also be noted that Jarrett is very well regarded by those in the business concerning the development of talent. If they have him working as a producer or agent for, say, Dark, that would be a huge boon to them.
Overall, not the strongest episode of Dynamite, but enjoyable enough.
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If you think that's great, you should see him reacting to Sami suggesting they eat at Waffle House.
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I missed approximately the first hour of Smackdown, tuning in just in time for the... ugh... Ronda Rousey segment. However, thanks to social media, I did get to see the highlights of the Bloodline segment. And MY GOD, seeing Jey and Roman finally lose it was GLORIOUS. And while some might think "Oh, no, they broke kayfabe", I think this adds a needed bit of depth and emotion. When the turn finally comes, it will be all the more heartwrenching a betrayal.
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Not crazy about Jade/ Shafir 2 next week. Their first match was passable, but neither one is interesting enough on their own to really merit a rematch. This will almost be entirely carried by the Nyla storyline, who deserves an Emmy or something for actually making something involving Cargill interesting.
And while I admit to being critical of Cargill, at least she's not Rousey.-
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You know, when you're on a different network than usual, a surprise return might be the kind of thing you'd want to advertise a little bit ahead of time.
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50 minutes ago, Makhai said:
NXT was better than most people claim. The Gargano era was literally the best wrestling produced in North America since the 1970s from a quality perspective. From Takeover: Philly to Takeover: Portland the quality of each of those events was off the charts. Between them and what NJPW was doing pre-pandemic it was unbelievable stuff.
If we're resetting to that, on a primetime TV timeslot, with the full WWE production barrel behind it. And no body dysmorphic, rapey NYer around to body block it.
That's the dream.
When McMahon started to meddle with it during the pandemic it declined by a lot. But let's not whitewash what was NXT, even the Dusty era was dramatically better than the WWE. Bayley and Sasha still live off the fumes of that Ironman match. When they close their eyes at night they probably see that little Hugger mark crying.
Give me that back, all day.
No. I tried watching it back before they put it against AEW. I remember when they had the Christmas special on USA and it was... fine. I mentioned that it didn't strike me as something that would draw in new viewers, and some NXT fans said, "It's not SUPPOSED to be enjoyable to new fans!" Odd flex, but okay.
Flash forward a year. I had a free trial subscription to the WWE Network, which I had redeemed to watch the Evolution PPV. So, I decided to give NXT another shot. It was bad. The "highlight" was The Street Profits vs. The Mighty... over a plastic cup.
The rest of it was very much like what Triple H is doing now. People will show up, and there will be little to no exposition or explanation as to why we should care about Dexter Lumis or whoever the heck the guys with Zelina Vega are.
NXT, and the current WWE product as a whole, is matches that are adequately wrestled, but absolutely little is given in the way of getting fans emotionally invested. The only story I really care about is Sami and the Bloodline, and HHH is just picking up what Vince started. -
The problem with resetting with how things were in NXT? NXT was never as good as some people like to claim.
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Forgive the thread bumpage, but I had to share- I'm currently playing a game with this mod, and Black Diamond and Jewel Diamond reconciled, and that made me happy. To steal one from Simon Miller of WhatCulture Wrestling, it gave me a warm feeling in my tum-tum.
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Anyone have any ideas for Coco Malloy and Lucy Stone-McFly? CWA poached Izzy (along with FIVE other wrestlers, totally wrecking my QAW main event scene, tag team scene AND nascent trios division in about a week), but those two have good chemistry, so that's... something.
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Yeah, let's try the gimmick that didn't get over the first time.
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See, I was expecting a surprise return. I was not expecting that surprise return. And... meh.
The All Elite Wrestling Discussion Thread
in The Dog Pound
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Well, that and she's the most beloved referee. Whenever other refs get knocked out, the crowd immediately starts chanting "AUBREY".