Paid Members garynysmon Posted April 9, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted April 9, 2019 Just now, King Pitcos said: What’s that got to do with AEW? Boom boom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members IANdrewDiceClay Posted April 9, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted April 9, 2019 Kenny's shagging Hikaru Shida isnt he? There doesnt seem to be anyone employed by this promotion who isnt connected in someway to the people running it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members BomberPat Posted April 10, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted April 10, 2019 9 hours ago, IANdrewDiceClay said: There doesnt seem to be anyone employed by this promotion who isnt connected in someway to the people running it. This is one of the things I'm finding amusing; there's an awful lot of "jobs for the boys" about it. More than once on Twitter I've been critical of AEW, and got replies from accounts with 0 followers, sometimes with no previous Tweets, rushing to defend them. It's just odd behaviour, if nothing else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Jazzy G Posted April 10, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted April 10, 2019 Let's see whether they can get a TV deal and start outdoing Impact Wrestling before we start thinking about the third coming of the Monday Night Wars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members BomberPat Posted April 10, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted April 10, 2019 Jim Ross has said they have a TV deal lined up - it seems inevitable, just waiting for when they can formally announce it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrodyGraham Posted April 10, 2019 Share Posted April 10, 2019 I think the plan has always been to announce the deal at Double or Nothing. I've thought that from the off and am surprised that it's not the common consensus. I'm not hanging my hat on AEW like some, but I also reckon they've thought this out a lot more than they've been given credit for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members BomberPat Posted April 10, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted April 10, 2019 4 minutes ago, BrodyGraham said: I'm not hanging my hat on AEW like some, but I also reckon they've thought this out a lot more than they've been given credit for. I think this is something we can agree on - there's clearly a business plan in place, and they seem to have realistic expectations as to what they can hope to achieve. It's not the actual AEW crew that I see talking about Vince running scared, and how they'll be signing John Cena and Randy Orton away from WWE and dominating the wrestling business, it's just a certain class of fan. The problem is that those fans tend to be louder than AEW themselves are, so I see more of that rhetoric than I see of what AEW are actually doing, and - through no fault of the AEW crew - I'm put off the whole endeavor. Take the vocal fans out of the equation and we're left with a promotion with an interesting, diverse start-up roster, and some potentially very exciting working relationships with other promotions (the link with OWE is going to be the best thing about AEW, in my opinion). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members garynysmon Posted April 10, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted April 10, 2019 (edited) I think its Dave Meltzer's cheerleading that puts me off AEW so much. Over the past few years I've come to realise that what Meltzer loves so much about modern wrestling ("Its never been better") and the obsession over workrate and 12 star matches involving blokes I've never heard of at the Tokyo Dome etc, is basically the polar opposite of what I want from my wrestling (basically 1992 WWF forever). As a result, I've kind of made my own mind up that I won't like it even before they've put on their first show, which is a bit irrational I'll admit.  Edited April 10, 2019 by garynysmon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 10, 2019 Share Posted April 10, 2019 Why do you read meltzer then if you don’t enjoy his views? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members garynysmon Posted April 10, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted April 10, 2019 2 minutes ago, Louch said: Why do you read meltzer then if you don’t enjoy his views? Seeing as he's one of only about four proper wrestling journalists who has actual contacts and actually breaks stories instead of rehashing someone else's work, you don't exactly have to subscribe to his newsletter to be aware of his output.  Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snitsky's back acne Posted April 10, 2019 Share Posted April 10, 2019 1 hour ago, garynysmon said: I think its Dave Meltzer's cheerleading that puts me off AEW so much. Over the past few years I've come to realise that what Meltzer loves so much about modern wrestling ("Its never been better") and the obsession over workrate and 12 star matches involving blokes I've never heard of at the Tokyo Dome etc, is basically the polar opposite of what I want from my wrestling (basically 1992 WWF forever). As a result, I've kind of made my own mind up that I won't like it even before they've put on their first show, which is a bit irrational I'll admit.  Agreed.... that and Conrad Thompson's presence at their press conferences. I've never really had any thoughts on Meltzer one way or the other but he recently mocked someone who said that AEW, at this point, with no TV deal announced, was essentially just a 't-shirt selling company' only to later defend The Young Bucks not being big names by going 'Yeah but they sold 400,000 t-shirts in Walmart'. It certainly seems, whether he is or not, that he is on the AEW payroll and that his supposed impartiality is actually anything but.  Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Lion_of_the_Midlands Posted April 10, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted April 10, 2019 4 hours ago, jazzygeofferz said: Let's see whether they can get a TV deal and start outdoing Impact Wrestling before we start thinking about the third coming of the Monday Night Wars. When was the 2nd Monday Night War? You can't count TNA's brief run on Monday nights. That wasn't a war, only one side was fighting, and they lost. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Carbomb Posted April 10, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted April 10, 2019 Just now, Lion_of_the_Midlands said: When was the 2nd Monday Night War? You can't count TNA's brief run on Monday nights. That wasn't a war, only one side was fighting, and they lost. Yeah, I'd have called it the Monday Night Squashes myself Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members IANdrewDiceClay Posted April 10, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted April 10, 2019 (edited) Monday Night Suicide. One side showed up for a war and they decided to kill themselves. Â Edited April 10, 2019 by IANdrewDiceClay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members air_raid Posted April 10, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted April 10, 2019 Nothing says "new kid on the block" like the Dudleys 10 years past their best vs the Nasty Boys 20 years past their best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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