AEW Full Gear 2024 Discussion

[LaGoosh]

41 minutes ago, Duke said:

Oh no the Strong/MJF match is going to see the return of the Devil isn't it? 

That's just the kind of exciting edge of your seat story the company needs right now.

[DavidB6937]

58 minutes ago, Tim Healys Chutney Spoon said:

Think you may be right, but I just wonder if we may see an absolute shocker of OC turning and joining Death Riders. Would absolutely shake up AEW and put a whole bunch of new storylines into the picture. Not quite Hogan levels of shock but would be interesting to see where it goes. 

Only if they've been on the drink too much.

[BomberPat]

it's good to see some of the booking ideas in here to be reminded that things can always get worse.

[LaGoosh]

The funniest thing about the Devil storyline and the MJF bidding war stuff is that this story basically tanked the ratings for Dynamite to the point that they've never recovered. I think the Devil was probably worse for AEW than CM Punk. Instead of a big fat new deal they should have let MJF fuck off to WWE in my opinion.

[Hannibal Scorch]

Over 9000 tickets sold. At least the crowd should be up for it. Hopefully.

[Devon Malcolm]

Is there still an episode of Collision?

[LaGoosh]

No.

[theringmaster]

1 hour ago, LaGoosh said:

The funniest thing about the Devil storyline and the MJF bidding war stuff is that this story basically tanked the ratings for Dynamite to the point that they've never recovered. I think the Devil was probably worse for AEW than CM Punk. Instead of a big fat new deal they should have let MJF fuck off to WWE in my opinion.

It amuses how all the anti-wwe people i know in real life talk about MJF being the only good thing in AEW, when any regular AEW watcher knows his act got pretty stale once he got the belt and he's really starting to show he has a glass ceiling.

[DavidB6937]

See I don't think he has a glass ceiling per se. Just that they've booked him terribly recently, regressed his act entirely and left him stuck in a rut. It's a real shame as there was complexity and potential there. He didn't need to be where he is now.

[LaGoosh]

1 hour ago, DavidB6937 said:

See I don't think he has a glass ceiling per se. Just that they've booked him terribly recently

I'm pretty sure MJF gets a lot of leeway to book his own stuff. I read that the Four Pillars feud they did was entirely booked by him.

[gmoney]

2 minutes ago, LaGoosh said:

I'm pretty sure MJF gets a lot of leeway to book his own stuff. I read that the Four Pillars feud they did was entirely booked by him.

Letting him book his own terrible shit is just as bad, if not possibly worse than simply booking him badly. I don't remember that Four Pillars story being much cop at all, either, though it wasn't dreadful I suppose. 

[WeeAl]

16 minutes ago, gmoney said:

Letting him book his own terrible shit is just as bad, if not possibly worse than simply booking him badly. I don't remember that Four Pillars story being much cop at all, either, though it wasn't dreadful I suppose. 

The biggest problem with the four pillars stuff was that 50% of the people involved weren't really any good.

Sammy is shit, Perry is/was still trying to find his feet and may never do so.

Then Darby Allin, the second strongest performer of the four, isn't any cop on the mic. It was a mistake of a program to begin with. 

[MachoLibre]

3 hours ago, LaGoosh said:

Instead of a big fat new deal they should have let MJF fuck off to WWE in my opinion.

That's to say there was any genuine major interest in signing him to begin with. I don't believe for a second there was. If there actually was some interest in signing him he'd almost certainly have been NXT bound as opposed to main roster, I'd imagine.

[Chili]

1 minute ago, MachoLibre said:

That's to say there was any genuine major interest in signing him to begin with. I don't believe for a second there was. If there actually was some interest in signing him he'd almost certainly have been NXT bound as opposed to main roster, I'd imagine.

Nah he'd be main roster but they have the Grayson lad and Austin Theory already doing the schtick he'd end up with, unless Miz needs another stuntman.

[LaGoosh]

7 minutes ago, MachoLibre said:

That's to say there was any genuine major interest in signing him to begin with. I don't believe for a second there was. 

I'm pretty sure they would have snapped him up.