Paid Members Supremo Posted January 10, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted January 10, 2019 (edited) Fantastic article, @Liam O'Rourke! I wonder, since Jericho showed up to the rally looking like he'd at least had a wash and bought a new suit, will he leave the chubby brawler character in Japan and bring a more traditional version of Y2J to America? Don't get me wrong, I've enjoyed his work in Japan, but I don't think this is what people expect when they hear Chris Jericho has signed with that new wrestling company. It's mad that New Japan did that Triple Threat Match with Cody late last year rather than waste the big Kenny Omega vs. Kota Ibushi singles match, and now it's looking likely that it'll be AEW who end up doing that match instead. That could easily main event the biggest AEW show. Also, has anyone seen former UFC fighter Tom Lawlor wrestle? Is he any good. He feels like he'd be a good fit. Edited January 10, 2019 by Supremo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members wandshogun09 Posted January 10, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted January 10, 2019 Looks like if UK Kat Von D joined the Legion Of Doom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members IANdrewDiceClay Posted January 10, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted January 10, 2019 1 hour ago, Supremo said: Also, has anyone seen former UFC fighter Tom Lawlor wrestle? Is he any good. He feels like he'd be a good fit. Nothing particularly special in the ring, but his character outweighs any short comings. He's been great on MLW. He's pretty much their top star. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigJackTaylor Posted January 10, 2019 Share Posted January 10, 2019 7 hours ago, King Pitcos said: It doesn't. There are plenty of successful promotions that don't have a weekly TV show. But they're small-time. Don't get me wrong. TV is massively important. UFC have TV rights and so do the major Boxing promotions. But wrestling seem to have this fascination with this live tv soap opera concept. Why not a 1 hour or 90 min show that builds to the monthly big event. I dunno. I guess I would go more sports than entertainment if I was to start a new promotion. Be as far away from wwe as possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members gmoney Posted January 10, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted January 10, 2019 10 hours ago, Keith Houchen said: "All In" and "Double Or Nothing" are both gambling terms, so there is a consistency with them.  Although I think it'll end up not being "Triple Crown", but more "£500, on the nose, on Sad Ken" Visually impaired, little and large tag team called Big Blind/Little Blind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MPDTT Posted January 10, 2019 Author Share Posted January 10, 2019 Some interesting remarks on Kevin Kelly's Twitter today. Speculation he is off to AEW. Â Â Â Â Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Factotum Posted January 10, 2019 Share Posted January 10, 2019 Big fan of KK on commentary. I just have the horrible feeling they will bring JR in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members air_raid Posted January 10, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted January 10, 2019 1 hour ago, MPDTT said: Some interesting remarks on Kevin Kelly's Twitter today. Likening this to Turner buying out Crockett is up there with fantasy booking Goldberg v Punk for Sad Ken Has Been Shot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators PowerButchi Posted January 10, 2019 Moderators Share Posted January 10, 2019 Kevin "Bang Average" Kelly there. I can understand people getting excited about the possibility of Kenny Omega but being excited about a mid 90s 4th string WWF announcer joining is scraping the barrel a bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members garynysmon Posted January 10, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted January 10, 2019 10 minutes ago, PowerButchi said: Kevin "Bang Average" Kelly there. I can understand people getting excited about the possibility of Kenny Omega but being excited about a mid 90s 4th string WWF announcer joining is scraping the barrel a bit. I agree he's hardly worth getting excited about but I've always thought that Kevin Kelly was a pretty good announcer, solid hand shall we say. What little I've heard of him over recent years has done nothing to change that tbh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members IANdrewDiceClay Posted January 10, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted January 10, 2019 (edited) Tony (first name terms) was meant to be the announcer at All In, but he had to do his baseball on the Sunday so couldnt go. Hopefully they put him under contract. He's the best out there by a mile at the minute. Apparently, for all their crowing about health insurance and equal rights, there's going to be NO WELLNESS POLICY! I mean fucking lol! I get it, the amount of pain killers these indy guys are on, I can see why, but still. All that shite about changing the business, and they're not going to have drug testing? That's both careless and smart I suppose. All those wrestlers desperate to get on the shit will be attracted to them now. Edited January 10, 2019 by IANdrewDiceClay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigJackTaylor Posted January 10, 2019 Share Posted January 10, 2019 (edited) They should have had a UFC style press conference with all the talent sitting there and bouncing off each other. I'd have a backdrop of the logos, sponsors and the date and location of the MGM Event. I'd get Michael Buffer in to be MC for the big events as he doesn't have HBO anymore. I'd get Ryback and Big Dave in ASAP. That's a cracking world heavyweight title match to start with. Tbh I would have waited until TV was confirmed and all of the major talent was signed before doing anything. Make it look legit and important not naff and small time. Edited January 10, 2019 by BigJackTaylor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members tiger_rick Posted January 10, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted January 10, 2019 7 minutes ago, BigJackTaylor said: They should have had a UFC style press conference with all the talent sitting there and bouncing off each other. I'd have a backdrop of the logos, sponsors and the date and location of the MGM Event. I'd get Michael Buffer in to be MC for the big events as he doesn't have HBO anymore. I'd get Ryback and Big Dave in ASAP. That's a cracking world heavyweight title match to start with. Tbh I would have waited until TV was confirmed and all of the major talent was signed before doing anything. Make it look legit and important not naff and small time. It's irrelevent. The people who watched it were watching anyway. The people who liked it were liking it anyway. the people who are moaning were moaning anyway. The people who determine whether it's another solid indy or a mainstream wrestling company don't know it exists yet and won't until it has TV and starts advertising. Everything else is a tease. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TildeGuy~! Posted January 10, 2019 Share Posted January 10, 2019 15 minutes ago, BigJackTaylor said: I’d get Ryback and Big Dave in ASAP. That's a cracking world heavyweight title match to start with. You were calling it WWE lite less then 24 hours ago, now you want Ryback headlining? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Carbomb Posted January 10, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted January 10, 2019 Whilst I can understand wanting to make a more professional sports-style product, I think anyone doing so needs to be careful as to which elements they take. Press conferences and weigh-ins, for example: pressers make sense for World titles, but I really don't think weigh-ins are a good idea. You'd have to have weigh-ins for every match, and it's important to bear in mind that wrestlers "fight" much, much more frequently than boxers or MMA fighters actually fight, and wrestling events are much more frequent in general than MMA or boxing ones. Imagine having weigh-ins, even just for the main events of TV shows, every single week? Would get old really quickly. Let's assume you'd just have them for PPV - you'd have to establish early on that all other weigh-ins are behind closed doors, I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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