07-01-2021, 09:47 PM | #5121 |
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All the smart and cool posters knew exactly what I meant (due to clearly using the word "rating"), interesting 🤔
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07-01-2021, 09:49 PM | #5122 |
Triple A
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Wow, AEW creeping up on WWF Raw in the ratings also! "The Cold War" is heating up . . .
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07-01-2021, 10:11 PM | #5123 |
Trickster Demon
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Smeat returning with new entrance music and a cape
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07-01-2021, 10:16 PM | #5124 |
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Xrod and Noid are the Legion of Doom.
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07-01-2021, 10:22 PM | #5125 |
You know that’s right
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Does that make you Rocco?
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07-01-2021, 11:01 PM | #5126 |
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I'm definitely Paul Ellering
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07-01-2021, 11:09 PM | #5127 |
You know that’s right
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Fun fact: after retiring from wrestling and failing to get the Authors of Pain over, Paul Ellering became a dog sled racer and competed in Iditarod.
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07-01-2021, 11:30 PM | #5128 |
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Lol I remember reading that
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07-01-2021, 11:51 PM | #5129 |
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AEW is garbage. TNA was hitting millions of viewers every week and they clawed their way and earned their spot on tv instead of having everything handed to them. Remember the weekly ppvs and the Fox Sports Net days. Of course their ratings tanked as well as soon as they got rid of Russo.
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07-02-2021, 12:46 AM | #5130 |
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AEW wish it had TNA's ratings
Vince Russo > Tony Khan |
07-02-2021, 05:15 AM | #5131 | |||
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I mean. He never does it. His response to anybody is always something like “that’s probably because [Observer factoid].” End thought. He can’t build on that. Firstly, xrod is right. Triple A was trolling by calling the demo the rating, which is bullshit. Their rating is probably a 0.1 or some shit. Wouldn’t surprise me if it was 1/10 of TNA’s. Also, I have brought up why the demos, as Meltzer lays them out, are fucking meaningless. You have to actually be a wrestling mark to subscribe to such shit. It’s a hangover from a period of time before advertisers cared about way more nuanced and specific metrics. Nielsen barely talk about the alleged “key demo.” You know why? Because 18-49 covers SO many people, of all different walks of life, with all different financial circumstances. It’s archaic to throw everyone in a box just because they fall into some random age bracket. Women are now more prized than men. How does AEW do in that metric? Meltzer doesn’t talk about that, either because he doesn’t get the nuanced break-downs to actually talk about what these numbers might mean to advertisers in any serious sense, or because he doesn’t care to, because why ruin a good narrative when you have peons like Smeat to echo it? If that demo mattered so much, why did it get its ass booted out of its time slot for hockey? Why did it get its ass shoved right off TNT? It’s because the people who watch AEW are largely the people who watch it. Sports like hockey will attract more unique viewers over time. Viewers that are more valuable than those within AEW’s “key” demo. But don’t let common sense get in the way of the wrestling mark’s gospel. Quote:
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07-02-2021, 05:16 AM | #5132 |
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07-02-2021, 09:55 AM | #5133 |
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The sad part is TNA could have hit way better ratings if they would have actually gave Russo FULL creative control. Unfortunately he had to deal with Jeff Jarrett and Dutch Mantel and then later on Bischoff and Hogan.
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07-02-2021, 01:16 PM | #5134 |
It's a blood match!
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I'm not too hot on Hangman and Omega headlining the next PPV. But I am not hot on Omega at all right now. I am hoping the booking for Hangman is super interesting leading up, and with the fresh crowds that could help a lot. Hangman is ready to be the man for sure and Kenny needs a long rest and recovery from what I've read about his physical state. I think Hangman has a lot of great opponents for a long and successful title reign.
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07-02-2021, 01:29 PM | #5135 |
In His hands...
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I like the aew company. They are close to amc, and I like the stock.
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07-02-2021, 03:16 PM | #5136 |
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I just think Hangman vs. Omega is the logical way to get Hangman his big title win.
All Out is the same event where he suffered his two biggest losses - losing his AEW Title match in 2019 and losing the tag titles at 2020. The former set him off into a drinking gimmick and played into his decision to move into tag competition, the latter ended up causing him to fall out with The Elite after 4 years with them between the Bullet Club and Elite days. Befriends the Dark Order, but can't bring himself to join full stop. Seems to have an underlying fear that if he comes up short in a big match again, more friends will ditch him. Has to now go through his former tag partner at the same event where he's dealt with his biggest failings. It'll be good, and I think the Chicago crowd are gonna be shit hot for Hangman so I hope they strike while the iron is hot. And yeah Kenny's been working hurt for months and while I'm sure it's tough to convince someone to take time off when they're finally gonna be getting back to performing in front of non-socially distant crowds, it'd be good for him to take a few months to clean up his nagging injuries and he can come back either tail end of 2021 or kick off 2022 with a big return. |
07-02-2021, 03:32 PM | #5137 |
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AEW have made the same mistake as WWE and have assumed that the belt makes the man and not vice versa. He’s been booked into obscurity. They think they can flip the magical switch and just microwave someone. This is Dolph Ziggler winning the WWE Title out of nowhere. Except Page is not Ziggler good.
Omega vs. Page, if it happens, is going to be a pretty easy match to upstage. It’ll feel like such a forced and fake moment. And that’s if it happens. People are clinging to it happening because they got the idea early on and they can’t face the fact this company can’t book. MJF was predicted by many to be the third champion in this company. Now look at him. Page was the babyface rising star. Now look at him. But they’re cradling that idea. |
07-02-2021, 03:36 PM | #5138 |
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07-02-2021, 03:44 PM | #5139 | |
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07-02-2021, 03:48 PM | #5140 |
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You made the statement that AEW have made the same mistake as WWE based on something they’ve literally never done but you expect them to do.
They HAVE made the mistake WWE has made based on a future example you’ve created in your head. That “If that’s the plan...” was a pretty vital part to leave out originally. |
07-02-2021, 03:48 PM | #5141 |
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Either the plan is to try and make Page, which makes the 8 months completely irrelevant. Or they’re cutting bait because they can’t tell a story right. Take your pick.
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07-02-2021, 03:53 PM | #5142 | |
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07-02-2021, 03:55 PM | #5143 |
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Could be the latter. Let’s talk about it when it happens in real life.
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07-02-2021, 04:01 PM | #5144 | |
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I’m not doing it for the sake of it. I’m doing it to prove the same point I’ve been trying to make to you (and Xrod before we became best friends) Even when you can just be right about saying “AEW is shit” and explaining why, you do a disservice to yourself when you do stuff like that. |
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07-02-2021, 04:08 PM | #5145 |
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For all their faults, AEW has only put the title on their top stars at the time. To try to shit on them for doing that dumb WWE thing where they put the title on a midcarder to try to get him over when they’ve literally not done it once is a bad fucking case to make. You twist things in a weird way to shit on AEW when you don’t need to.
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07-02-2021, 04:25 PM | #5146 |
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In other news, Cassie and Jessie (formerly The IIconics) hosted Renee's podcast where they interviewed Tay Conti and Anna Jay and teased having a tag match someday.
You had to assume the IIconics were AEW bound with Cassie being married to Spears, but with Impact being the promotion with the women's tag scene you never know for sure. Anyway, they're pretty bad in the ring but also have considerably more personality than anyone in the women's division not named Britt Baker. They could be foils for someone like Shida who will eventually cane the shit out of them. |
07-02-2021, 04:26 PM | #5147 |
President of Freedonia
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IIconics vs. TayJay would likely be a bad match despite Tay's best efforts, but it would also make my peen happy.
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07-02-2021, 04:29 PM | #5148 | ||
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On one hand, he main evented a lot of PPVs and they told you he was this amazing wrestler; on the other they did expect putting the belt on him to signify some sort of radical change in him being this next level guy. Never mind he did cheat to win the belt too, so he’s not exactly supposed to be seen on the level of a Moxley. Am I wrong about any of that? |
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07-02-2021, 04:35 PM | #5149 |
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People who like AEW are the same sheep who voted for Biden. Brainwashed easily by the media aka Dave Meltzer. It's sad really. Same ROH bots from the 2000's just a new era of fans killing the business.
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07-02-2021, 04:36 PM | #5150 | |
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07-02-2021, 04:51 PM | #5152 |
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07-02-2021, 04:57 PM | #5153 |
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(Probably not because AEW sucks. Doesn’t hurt to speculate though!)
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07-02-2021, 05:22 PM | #5154 |
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lol @ Noid getting mad that #1-wwf-fan is not going in lockstep with his AEW hatred
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07-02-2021, 05:24 PM | #5155 |
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Having only seen the quoted posts it also seems like he's decided that if Hangman doesn't win the belt, they fucked up the plans and if he wins, it means they also fucked up.
So they've already lost no matter what they do. Cool. Always nice to see good faith discussions. |
07-02-2021, 06:25 PM | #5156 | |
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You chose a reading, stuck to it, and call it calling someone out. Let me rephrase my obvious point: If AEW intends Adam Page to be the top guy in AEW, they sure have a shitty fucking way of going about it. Quote:
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You can try and mock me as a poster all you want. At least I actually put thought into my views and try to actually explain them instead of trying to dismiss someone for having an opinion at all because I don’t like it. Explain to me why this “push” of Adam Page is good. How is this going to make him a bigger star than he was at the outset of this promotion? |
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07-02-2021, 06:49 PM | #5158 |
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And before you say it, #fan, I did mean “have” in the past tense, because they have made that mistake if that’s the root they’ve decided to go down. The event doesn’t need to actually occur for the wheels to have been poorly set in motion. If you take back your horrible ex, you don’t need to wait until shit hits the fan for that to be called a mistake.
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07-02-2021, 06:50 PM | #5159 |
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Point is: AEW fucking sucks and doesn’t know how to book.
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07-02-2021, 06:53 PM | #5160 |
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I can’t believe they’re doing Christian vs. Matt Hardy as a main event feud in 2021. And that’s not because of Christian. I can’t believe I WISH a guy was in WWE.
Actually, the same goes for The Revival. It’s about a wash for how well they’ve been used at this point between the two shows. But if they were put back with Orton for a feud against, say, Matt Riddle, Jeff Hardy & Cedric Alexander, it could actually lend itself to some pretty cool stuff. You can literally pull better stuff out of your ass than what AEW puts on with alleged effort. |