05-19-2024, 11:10 AM | #15841 |
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Except for putting all 700 titles on Christian
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05-19-2024, 11:18 AM | #15842 |
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Christian should win every title on Father's Day.
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05-19-2024, 11:42 AM | #15843 |
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Do an angle where he has a relationship with Ann Carlson Khan and reveals he is TKs dad.
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05-20-2024, 07:32 AM | #15844 |
I am the cheese
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05-20-2024, 08:40 AM | #15845 |
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I just don't see any scenario where Tony Khan would want to run a wrestling company that even he cannot say is the greatest thing ever. The huge rights deal seems to be what Tony put into his business model presentation, but really doesn't care.
If he was at all caring about making a profit, he wouldn't spend hundreds of thousands on special songs or millions on broken down or flat out injured wrestlers. How many matches did he even get out of Kota Ibushi or Paul White? He does not operate AEW like he has a budget whatsoever. |
05-20-2024, 08:46 AM | #15846 |
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05-20-2024, 04:04 PM | #15847 | |
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It’s been implied AEW has a budget. He charges for ROH and PPV. Tony wants to make money back, he’s just a fucking shit businessman and wrestling mind. This is your semi-regular reminder that Tony Khan has never earned a job he has, and everything is a bought position. |
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05-20-2024, 04:06 PM | #15848 |
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Takeshita is miserable in AEW. He did an interview in it where he claimed (I’m paraphrasing) that he’s lost the joy of wrestling since being in AEW. He also thinks Americans don’t want to see Asians on TV.
TK is just a shitty booker, bro. |
05-21-2024, 10:49 AM | #15849 |
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Tony didn't even know Miro was injured and tried to book him.
Tony knows Ricky Starks is not injured, but does not book him. Tony told his employees to start referring to him as "The Alpha Male" on Twitter. Tony told the world he was scared for his life. Tony is a fucking idiot. |
05-21-2024, 12:01 PM | #15850 |
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Whoa, I must have missed this Alpha Male thing. Either that or it was just too ridiculous for my brain to process. Is it recent?
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05-21-2024, 12:06 PM | #15851 |
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Pretty recent, Jim Ross and Billy Gunn both independently of each other came up with that, not at all like somebody who pays them told them to get it out there.
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05-21-2024, 02:31 PM | #15852 |
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Gonna be honest TK referring to himself and making people refer to him as The Alpha Male is the most heel thing ive ever heard. The visual image of a 120lb soy boy calling himself the alpha male...id pay to see him get his teeth kicked in.
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05-21-2024, 02:32 PM | #15853 |
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Inadvertent or not thats fucking outstanding
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05-22-2024, 08:31 AM | #15854 |
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bonus points if his voice cracks while he's trying to make someone say it
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05-22-2024, 12:51 PM | #15855 |
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And while he's trying to make someone cry he makes himself cry and through the tears shouting "IM THE ALPHA MALE"
Stick him behind a monster and build a year to some baby steve austin type getting 5 min alone with him. Id literally spend money on that. |
05-22-2024, 02:14 PM | #15856 |
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05-22-2024, 06:05 PM | #15857 |
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Gonna be hilarious when the end game is TK facing off against his huge game changing new signee.....Andrew Tate. Winner gets to be the Alpha Male 4 lyfe.
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05-22-2024, 06:54 PM | #15858 |
It's a blood match!
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Sup guys guys I can't believe it the forums are back, but AEW IS not trending right now, let's make a WWE thread, that's the only wrestling that matters.
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05-22-2024, 10:15 PM | #15859 |
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HE TAPPED WITH BOTH HANDS SO YOU BOTH WIN WOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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05-24-2024, 05:28 PM | #15860 |
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AEW is the gift that keeps giving. It’s going to be a shame when they cancelled because they suck.
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05-26-2024, 07:55 AM | #15861 |
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Let’s play predict the drama. I actually predicted Meltzer and Alvarez overrating Danielson/Ospreay to the point of alienating fans. What’s it going to be this time?
I’m going to predict that Tony says something stupid about WBD at the press conference. |
05-27-2024, 09:41 AM | #15862 |
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Apparently MJF got an AEW tattoo. Not on his neck or anything, but still feel like he's gonna regret that one.
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05-27-2024, 11:03 AM | #15863 |
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Did they really book a heel turn with a "I am destroying our friendship bracelet"?
Tiny really books like a 12 year old. Also, remember when MJF talked about leaving for 3 years? He really flipped now to another AEW mascot??? I guess FTR Bald and Cope and Mone weren't cutting it. |
05-27-2024, 01:43 PM | #15864 |
Taller than Adam Cole
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Midcard Snare Trap is ALL ELITE!
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05-27-2024, 04:54 PM | #15865 |
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MJF is obviously a talented guy. But him coming back to AEW feels like the guy is afraid to bet on himself and would rather be in a small pond. It immediately takes my enthusiasm for his potential down several notches. We’ll see if this actually helps AEW. Sometimes it’s just depressing to see talented people wasting their careers. Kurt Angle spent too long in TNA. People wanted AJ Styles to move on.
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05-27-2024, 04:56 PM | #15866 |
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Vince has a humiliation kink. Tony has always struggled with friendship because so many would have been based around money. And it shows up time and time again in his stories.
He also has a thing for kidnapping, but he’s hidden that one. Maybe he always wanted to be kidnapped and ransomed back to Shad so he can see how much he is loved? |
05-28-2024, 05:08 AM | #15867 |
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Disappointed that MJF didn't go to WWE but the fact that he came back to AEW as a home grown talent that the company can build around for years to come is huge for them.
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05-28-2024, 08:26 AM | #15868 |
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Other than Roman Reigns, has Edge put anybody over this decade?
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05-28-2024, 10:17 AM | #15869 |
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Used to think MJF was smart, but getting AEW tattooed on himself says otherwise. Used to think, yes, drain the money mark for as much money and spotlight as you can. Right now in WWE with Roman finally having lost, there is almost like a "backlog" of champions and stories to tell. So by all means stay where you are treated as a big deal and make that money and when the time is right jump on over and be treated like a big deal for a while. If he went over right now I have a feeling he'd get lost in the shuffle pretty quick.
But anyways, all my rational and logical thinking goes out the window with him getting AEW tattooed on himself. Sounds like he's not being smart but rather has bought into the "hype" and "drank the kool-aid" |
05-28-2024, 11:18 AM | #15870 |
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YOOOOO fucking Edge broke his leg, and he STILL wouldn't call an audible to put somebody else over
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05-28-2024, 12:50 PM | #15871 | |
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It’s made me realize that the guy has been involved in some pretty mid shit outside a couple of big programs he was possibly carried through. After the Punk feud, he had some good matches and programs, sure, but the overall tone of just about everything he’s done has been off. He did the weird shoot stuff with TK around the Wardlow match. He came back and became World Champion. Then he cried about not having a family with Danielson. Then he did the flat story with “The Pillars.” Then he turned babyface and that was horrible. Now he’s back. He’s largely been boosted by an early rep, Cornette’s adulation and a confidence about himself. The maybe it’s time to judge the tree by its actual fruits? |
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05-28-2024, 12:58 PM | #15872 | |
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I don’t think TK was ever going to put Malakai Black over. He’s a CM Punk guy and has been vocal about not really wanting to be there. Is this Edge’s “fault?” I guess he could throw more weight around. You don’t want your “legends” losing all the time, but Edge has been largely boring outside of his initial WWE return. It’s not exciting or beneficial to have him in AEW outside the idea that younger guys are going to “learn” from working with him. Except that’s not a learning environment. And it makes the professors do stupid shit instead of helping the students. How useful is it for talent to learn how to get dumped with goop and roll around in barbed wire for a 50 year old guy still trying to make it happen? |
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05-28-2024, 01:00 PM | #15873 |
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At least we get another tournament. TK can show HHH how it’s done.
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05-28-2024, 01:13 PM | #15874 |
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Latest TV deal news via Puck is that Tony Khan is “disappointed” in the offer from WBD. Now Meltzer and co. have stolen it. If even Meltzer is reporting it, you know it’s not good.
It’s kind of a “no shit” kind of scenario. Why would you want AEW content on your network? I’m still thinking WBD just drop them. |
05-28-2024, 03:05 PM | #15875 |
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Edge beats Randy Orton at Wrestlemania 36, then gets injured in the rematch.
He comes back from that injury and wins the Royal Rumble, gets his win back against Orton, beats Jey Uso, then loses to Roman at Mania and the rematch. Then he fueds with and beats Rollins, beats Kevin Owens, Miz, Miz and Maryse. Wrestlemania 38 he beats AJ Styles, starts Judgement Day, gets kicked out of Judgement day, then spends the next year beating all of them, Priest, Dom, Balor, and Demon Balor at Wrestlemania 39. On his way out of WWE, he beats Grayson Waller and Sheamus. Shows up in AEW, beats Luchasaurus, a few AEW originals like Dante and Lee, takes Christian's title, becomes an AEW mascot, beats all of House of Black, breaks his leg, does no jobs. |
05-28-2024, 04:31 PM | #15876 |
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Nothing about what you’ve said is untrue. Well, I guess Edge had some losses in there. The I Quit with Balor. I think Dominik screwed them in a tag. Did Seth get a win somewhere? I can’t say that I think Edge should have lost any of those feuds though.
That being said, I don’t think any of those feuds needed to happen either. They didn’t help any of the talent in any sort of on-air way. They’re just…there. It’s so Edge can get paid and do his thing with this second career he’s having. |
05-29-2024, 10:10 AM | #15877 |
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05-29-2024, 01:56 PM | #15878 |
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Mark Henry, Arn Anderson, and Jake Hager's contracts have expired or will be by the end of the month. Probably will be some more expiries in the coming months.
Henry said he's focused on his podcasts and other media projects and didn't want to re-up with a backstage role in AEW unless he was fully committed. Arn had nothing but good things to say about the company but I suspect it's more a case of he wants to take on a similar backstage role with WWE especially if it means working with Cody again. With Hager I just think there was no real reason for AEW to keep him at this stage. They barely booked him in the last year or so and in his case it didn't feel like a case of him being a great talent getting lost in the roster overcrowding, he just simply wasn't that good and anything he did well they have others who do it better. Hager had some value in the early AEW days as a big dude with a lot of live TV wrestling experience. But at this point he's totally redundant. Going with Big Bill as Jericho's Learning Tree heater instead of working Hager back into that spot was probably the final nail in the coffin for him. |
05-29-2024, 02:00 PM | #15879 |
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Did Hager's hat get a new deal?
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05-29-2024, 02:01 PM | #15880 |
President of Freedonia
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It should've gotten a 10-year supermax contract.
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