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1 hour ago, Snitsky's back acne said:

 People are starting to open their eyes and see that AEW is just another promotion where the wrestlers are milking the clueless money mark for all they can.

It's a shame.
 

Is that really anymore or less true than it was in 2019?

I love the idea that Jack Perry wanted a week off and the only way he could think of doing that was having real glass smashed over him. 

See, I'm quite looking forward to Punk getting shat on by 80,000 people. 

It won't happen, obviously, but I'd be hilarious if that was where Omega/Ospreay 3 happened. 

I wonder if they're going to run that main back to back. Cole turns on MJF (the only real option at this stage), and they run it with a stipulation a week later. 

Logically you'd have a number one contenders match at Wembley and have a main event for All Out set up by the end of the night.

Anyway, something I wanted to ask people who have watched more AEW than I have, is Tony Khan meant to be very careless when it comes to people's safety (in storylines)? I hadn't really thought about it after Nick Wayne and his unsigned friends got the shit beaten out of them in a gang attack but then Swerve mentioned that nobody in authority is going to do anything about it and it made me wonder if Khan's meant to be useless in "kayfabe" (urgh). 

It makes sense in the WWE because Vince obviously isn't the type to give two shits. And I wouldn't really have thought about it if they hadn't lampshaded it. I quite like the idea of a boss character who's useless and negligent rather than spiteful.

Took me 3 goes to get through this show. Nothing was bad but nothing felt particularly hot either. 

MJF/Cole has been entertaining but I also think it stands out because everything else is so cold. Oddly, I'm starting to wonder if they actually considered having Hayter close Wembley. 

I hate the AEW trope of wrestlers agreeing to a match and Khan apparently agreeing to it, adding a stipulation to it and getting the truck to put a graphic together in about 2 seconds. It's proper shite. 

We're at an odd stage where there's no obvious big singles feuds for their biggest stars heading into their biggest show ever (with the exception of Punk having a rematch with either Joe or Starks, neither of which I could give two hoots about). Jericho has spent weeks deliberating about Callis. The obvious feud would be Sammy but it isn't happening. Moxley is fucking around with the Best Friends. Omega was on the show wheeling luggage! Who knows why. Hangman is nowhere. 

I'd love to know what's gone in behind the scenes. If the rumours were right about Jericho/Sting and Omega/Danielson you can see they were genuinely looking to put two massive matches on the show. 

Feasibly, we could have probably got:

Storm/Hayter

MJF/Cole

Sting/Jericho

Danielson/Omega

12 hours ago, BomberPat said:

And "great wrestling match" is the problem. Sooner or later, the story has to translate into a match, that's what it's for. 

While I agree with everything else you said, I'm not sure I fully agree with this. I don't think having "great wrestling match" is a problem. 

To a certain extent (unless they absolutely shit the bed) the match is kinda irrelevant at this point. For the first time since perhaps the Undertaker's streak they have a storyline where the result matters. People are speculating who's going to finally beat Roman. The storyline at this point isn't for the match, it's for the result. 

I do think that the match that leads to that should be fairly short and snappy. 

I think his name probably helps him more than anything.

Seth Rollins is a shit name. 

I'm looking forward to Jungle Boy continuing his storyline of defending the FTW championship against wrestlers from defunct promotions. Jungle Boy vs. Alex Shane anyone? 

18 hours ago, Loki said:

How do you, as a live tv director, cut away from Jungle Boy using a small child as a shield?  Have they no instincts at all?

Is it against their new rules? 

Meltzer probably? Everyone in his newsletter circle as well. 

The Internet hasn't created new behaviour in that regards, it's just made it easier to find. 

It's not remotely what you're after but I don't think anyone has ever got a time limit draw over as well as EVE did at one of their She-1 tournaments. 

It involved long term bookings, proper character work and Jetta (who's genuinely overlooked) but that's kinda the problem with most draws isn't it? They book the draw and not the characters. 

59 minutes ago, Supremo said:

 

And yeah; madness that anyone looks back at that first year of AEW and considers Kenny and The Bucks doing jobs for the boys as anything other than a colossal mistake. 

 

I mean, no one actually said that so...

I don't think it's helps Punk's case that when he came into AEW he immediately went over the hot young star in the company. When AEW started Omega lost to Jericho, PAC and did a storyline where he was having a bad run. The Bucks were knocked out early in a tournament to crown the first AEW tag champs. 

Instinctively, The Elite feel like they paid dues they didn't have to. 

Sting is a must surely? I'm gonna be pissed if we don't get Sting. Even more pissed if we get Ospreay over Sting  

If its so basic how comes no one did it better?

The more interesting question is whether he'd have got as over if he did everything he was capable of. 

People having an unjustly low opinion of Jericho just counteracts his own unjustly high opinion of himself. 

To be fair, if they're swapping the matches round (I know they're not) I'd be fascinated by Omega vs. Sting. I don't think it's be any good, and they don't have enough time for Omega to heel it up enough for that match, but I also just can't imagine what that would look like. 

Perry vs. ECW at Wembley just feels odd. It makes more sense for Chicago. 

AEW as a name has always felt like if DX or NWO created their own promotion and named it after themselves, or like one of those hundred or so Japanese promotions that have broken off from bigger ones and built themselves around a faction. 

You've also got to think that it's a name they at least intended to outlive. Like, at best, they eventually retire and you're named after a group of retired wrestlers. At worse, you have a disagreement, they leave, and you're All Elite Wrestling without the Elite. 

If that's true, it's quite concerning he didn't know that there'd be thumbtacks. Surely you tell everyone in a match that there's going to be thumbtacks in it? 

It doesn't help with how sad the whole thing felt. There's this guy who was known as a crazy free spirit, who stood on a car waving fireworks around, who stood on a thumbtack and it affected his performance. 

I assume the eventual plan is to get to Omega/Ibushi and that it'll be a slow burner anyway (seems like something that'd be at least a year away). Hopefully they take it really slow with him and wait for him to be ready until they expose him in a singles match. 

Festus. 

Actually, scrap everything I said earlier, give Bray the Festus gimmick.

Sit him down backstage, give him a list of things he can't do (rambling promos, gothic, horror, dark, brooding, masks, cult leader) but give him a few weeks to pitch something else. Give his idea a go. If it works, great. If it doesn't work have a chat about how you've both tried a few times now and it's not working and if he wants to try his ideas elsewhere you'll support that decision. 

Reading the Uxbridge and South Ruislip vote as proof that they need to be more cautious about green policies like ULEZ feels like a very deliberate misreading.

The Tories winning a safe Tory seat doesn't mean that the policy will alienate the rest of the nation. Even in the local area Uxbridge is a bit of an outlier. 

I know the strategy is if you stand for nothing you'll fall for nothing, but I'm not really sure why this one result would worry you.