04-14-2023, 09:35 PM | #13641 |
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Wtf?! Is it really that long? If there were rumors of WWE being interested, I bet they were fed to get TK to panic and make that move.
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04-14-2023, 09:43 PM | #13642 |
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04-14-2023, 10:57 PM | #13643 |
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Brian Cage is not worth that investment.
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04-15-2023, 05:50 AM | #13644 | |
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You can look at how 3-time Booker of the Year Tony Khan has guys go weeks/months between TV appearances and understandably think it’s poor management but consider this: who are WWE top stars? Roman, Brock, Cena, Logan Paul. What do they have in common? They’re all talents that aren’t there week-to-week, they’re special attractions. TK is making Miro an attraction to eclipse them all! |
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04-15-2023, 10:44 AM | #13645 |
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Yeah TK only wanted Miro to job to Hangman when he came back because he is a master of long term storytelling. It would have all made sense after he returned again after another year long hiatus.
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04-15-2023, 11:25 AM | #13646 |
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Miro, another guy Tiny resigned to a multiyear deal and who has had 4 matches in the last going on 2 years. Totally making the best of that financial commitment
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04-15-2023, 12:25 PM | #13647 |
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04-15-2023, 02:05 PM | #13648 |
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04-15-2023, 05:40 PM | #13649 |
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LolAEW
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04-15-2023, 06:06 PM | #13650 |
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04-15-2023, 06:41 PM | #13651 |
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The latest bullshit from the dirt sheets is that Punk is returning in June for 2hr Collisions.
It would be funny if Punk gets better ratings on a Saturday than The Elite get on a Wednesday. |
04-15-2023, 07:02 PM | #13652 |
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The go home Dynamite for Forbidden Door 2 is in Chicago. How convenient. I'm sure there will be a huge announcement.
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04-15-2023, 07:05 PM | #13653 |
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There’s a huge announcement every week.
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04-15-2023, 08:51 PM | #13654 |
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Debuts do not get the rating bump anymore.
Special Edition Dynamites do not get the ratings bump anymore. HUGE announcement ratings bumps lost their last gasp with a fucking reality show. We are now at the point where a wrestler needs to die that Tiny can then exploit to get a ratings pop. That is where we are now, and lets hope Shad will finally draw the line and tell Tiny NO, he will not fund murder for ratings. |
04-15-2023, 10:14 PM | #13655 |
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Wrestlers die a lot so thatll probably work out
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04-15-2023, 11:52 PM | #13656 |
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Pre sale wait list of 50k for the England show, sounds promising. Wonder what pricing will be like.
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04-16-2023, 01:24 AM | #13657 |
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Even Dave responded, guess Tiny's check was late this week
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04-16-2023, 01:47 AM | #13658 |
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They know how presale works right? 100% will be sold the second the gate is open
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04-16-2023, 09:35 AM | #13659 |
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They’re probably en route to sell about 53k right now. It will probably be more by the day.
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04-16-2023, 06:48 PM | #13660 |
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That’s a lot.
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04-16-2023, 06:58 PM | #13661 |
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Imagine the rant about THE BOTZ we'll get if they don't sell that many now.
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04-16-2023, 07:12 PM | #13662 |
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Well, who knows how hot the ticket actually is versus how hot it is perceived to be by scalpers, etc. Selling the tickets initially and filling up the building aren’t exactly synonymous.
Clash at the Castle had about 59k people queued up for the presale. They ended up with 64k in the building, or about 5% over what the presale was. |
04-16-2023, 07:13 PM | #13663 |
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I think the risk AEW needs to try and mitigate is putting on a show that doesn’t exactly encourage repeat business. I think there’s a good chance of backstage backlash at talent positioning too. TK needs to sort his house out and make sure that he can run Wembley again, not just the once with the low-hanging fruit of London being ripe for a stadium show.
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04-17-2023, 12:55 AM | #13664 |
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04-17-2023, 01:09 AM | #13665 |
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Hayter and PAC are the only AEW Brits that need to be on the Wembley card. But you know they're gonna book Saraya in a match there even if she's undeserving.
I do actually like Kip Sabian well enough as an undercard act but if they randomly start pushing him out of the blue just so he can have an International Title match it'll be really transparent. If they do a pre-show battle royal and want to throw him in then whatever, but not a regular match. From the partner promotions, Ospreay's the only non-AEW Brit I think would make sense to book, particularly if it's against Omega. Everyone would be fine with that I reckon. Even a guy like ZSJ who I love, Bryan vs. ZSJ feels like a great Forbidden Door match, going out of your way to save it for Wembley would feel kinda forced. |
04-17-2023, 04:53 PM | #13666 |
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Kinda funny that AEW is gonna run a TV show in the same timeslot as WWE PPVs. I can just hear the crying if WWE does the same to them.
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04-17-2023, 05:02 PM | #13667 |
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Remember when Kenny Omega got pissed that WWE was evil enough to air an Evolve show on the WWE Network the same night AEW had a "for charity" Fighter Fest show? Not a WWE show, an Evolve show that was already booked, but WWE was hurting the wrestling business by airing an Indy show. Classic AEW
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04-17-2023, 05:47 PM | #13668 |
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04-18-2023, 08:43 AM | #13669 |
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Don't get why Punk and The Elite need to work separately from each other as is being rumored. I've had fist fights with people I shared a drink with almost right after. Motherfuckers need to get over it.
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04-18-2023, 08:43 AM | #13670 |
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And nobody needs to apologize. Just fucking work together and make money. Christ.
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04-18-2023, 03:50 PM | #13671 |
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They’re a bunch of fucking pussies. And the root of the problem. The Elite are always going to get in between AEW and success.
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04-19-2023, 11:24 AM | #13672 | |
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04-19-2023, 11:30 AM | #13673 |
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This whole Punk/FTR v Elite drama is maybe the only time I'd want Vince to be in charge just because he'd probably make everyone involved eat shit or find a way to have them sit at home not getting paid until they did what he wanted.
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04-19-2023, 11:36 AM | #13674 |
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I just can’t bring myself to care about this Elite/Punk stuff. Any tension dissolves the moment you put them in the ring. They don’t have the style to deliver on personal issues.
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04-19-2023, 11:46 AM | #13675 |
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The Elite are clearly still butthurt about Punk and don't want to work a program with him because they have no direct financial incentive to do so. Even if it's "best for business", the only person who could make any actual money from this is Tony Khan. Such is the drawback with giving people guaranteed deals in an industry filled with bruised egos.
And before anyone says "well that's easy then, tell them if they don't do it they're fired for insubordination"...yeah that sounds easy from afar but it's almost certainly way more complicated. Much like how people said Punk could hold "hostile work environment" over Khan's head, The Elite would just do the same thing. "How can you say we're fired for cause because we didn't want to work with someone who assaulted us?" Very easy to see how this could turn into yet another legal quagmire. And so that's why Khan is pretty much over a barrel here. He did this to himself. |
04-19-2023, 12:02 PM | #13676 |
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Dax Harwood has announced that he is shutting his podcast down, saying he felt it was doing more harm than good. He claims there was no pressure from AEW or Tony Khan to end it.
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04-19-2023, 01:53 PM | #13677 |
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The fact he felt the need to say TK didn't shut it down is proof that he did.
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04-19-2023, 02:53 PM | #13678 |
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Had he said nothing, everyone would've blown him up on Twitter asking if TK put him up to it lol
Even if TK really wasn't involved, there's been too much bullshit going around for people to not just assume it was him anyway |
04-19-2023, 03:02 PM | #13679 |
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Yeah. The fact that he needed to say it is more an indictment on the predictability of IWC blowhards who are always desperate to create their own scuttlebutt and treat it as fact to fit the narrative they want pushed.
Thank God we don’t have any of those people here at TPWW… |
04-19-2023, 04:48 PM | #13680 | |
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