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Dawgstar posted:Is 'move the needle' the current fedpill speak? when cm punk joined aew, fed fans were constantly saying he wasn’t moving the needle and it culminated in roman getting a shirt that said the needle mover on it of course, when cm punk left aew, fed fans pivoted to he was a needle mover and good all along
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Eat My Fuc posted:People here said Edge was washed even though his matches were on par with his work in AEW which is good to great. The Mania 3 way, and his pandemic work was great. He did a lot of cool poo poo, and I hate Edge, the brood call back, great match with Sheamus, his hell in a cell with Balor. good stuff Edge vs. AJ is the worst match I've ever seen in my life by virtue of actively trying to be bad and frustrating and succeeding at that. Dire stuff.
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JUNGLE BOY posted:when cm punk joined aew, fed fans were constantly saying he wasn’t moving the needle and it culminated in roman getting a shirt that said the needle mover on it And then The Bunny beat Roman head to head in ratings
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The Jase Regal Memorial Bad Takes Thread: No, establish tag teams
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Elephant Ambush posted:The Jase Regal Memorial Bad Takes Thread: No, establish tag teams Profile makes it even funnier
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I LOVE "Overbooked with dream matches every week" as though giving away cool matches people like to watch is a bad thing. lol
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Erin M. Fiasco posted:I LOVE "Overbooked with dream matches every week" as though giving away cool matches people like to watch is a bad thing. lol yeah they hate it, and I am enjoying living in my dream of crazy matches on free tv all the time. I will never go back to watching a show where every match is below 5 minutes and the total wrestling of a 2 hour show is less than half an hour. Where the best wrestle is all I want.
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They remember WCW giving away PPV matches on free TV, and when they see an Ospreay match on TV, they think AEW is doing the same mistake instead of, you know, him just being that good.
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it’s such a dumb argument because aew makes way more off the tv deal than ppv, so it is important to do big things on weekly tv. and it isn’t like their ppv conversion rate isn’t extremely impressive. they’re getting like 20% of their dynamite audience in ppv buys which is very very good
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JUNGLE BOY posted:it’s such a dumb argument because aew makes way more off the tv deal than ppv, so it is important to do big things on weekly tv. im sorry aew is wcw 2 and tna 3 and your arguments are invalid
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TinTower posted:They remember WCW giving away PPV matches on free TV, and when they see an Ospreay match on TV, they think AEW is doing the same mistake instead of, you know, him just being that good. They conveniently ignore the fact that WCW "giving away a ppv main event match for free on TV" always meant "DQ or no contest or some sort of gently caress finish", except for like 2 or 3 times AEW just doesn't do that
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At the risk of raising the ire of the "2000 WCW ruled actually" here are some main events from 2000 Nitro: January 3: Crowbar & David Flair d. Kevin Nash & Scott Steiner for the vacant WCW tag titles (3m40s) after interference from Terry Funk, Arn Anderson, and various security guards January 10: Bret Hart & Kevin Nash go to a no contest after Arn Anderson, Sid Vicious, Terry Funk, a steel cage getting lowered, a lead pipe and a branding iron are introduced January 17: DDP d. Buff Bagwell (7m19s) after Bagwell accidentally/'accidentally' hits/'hits' Kimberly Page at ringside and is distracted/'distracted' by it January 24: Sid Vicious d. Kevin Nash for the vacant WCW heavyweight championship (6m20s) after Jeff Jarrett runs in and Sid steals his guitar to hit Nash January 31: Jeff Jarrett & The Harrises d. Sid Vicious & Terry Funk in a handicap match (7m39s) after Flair attacks Funk and Jarrett uses a guitar on Sid February 7: Sid Vicious d. Scott Hall in a WCW title match (3m37s) after Jeff Jarrett interferes on Hall's behalf, then turns on Hall when Hall actually tries to win the title, because Jarrett wants it February 14: Jeff Jarrett d. Sid Vicious in a WCW title match (5m05s) after the Harrisses attack Sid and Jarrett hits him with a guitar February 21: Hulk Hogan n/c The Total Package (9m26s) after the match devolves into a chair/belt assisted double team beatdown February 28: Sid Vicious d. Tank Abbott in a WCW title match (3m57s) in the first clean finish in a Nitro main event of 2000 March 6: Jeff Jarrett & The Wall d. Sid Vicious & Vampiro (4m30s) after Jarrett hits Sid with a guitar March 13: Team Package d. Hulk Hogan & Curt Hennig by DQ (8m59s) after Hogan takes the weight belt from Flair and tries to use it on Team Package, but the ref calls for the DQ March 20: Hulk Hogan & Sid Vicious d. Jeff Jarrett & Scott Steiner (5m30) after Sid turns on Hogan, chokeslams him, and pins his own partner March 27: The Wall d. Hulk Hogan by DQ (4m38s) after Vampiro runs out and attacks The Wall April 3: Nitro is not aired in favor of a BEST OF NITRO special preparing everyone for the big revamp April 10: Diamond Dallas Page d. Sting (3m42s) after Vampiro attacks Sting April 17: Scott Steiner d. Jeff Jarrett by DQ (3m27s) after Booker T attacks Steiner April 24: Sting n/c Vampiro in a First Blood match (1m35s) after the New Blood dump a bunch of blood on Sting and half a dozen guys come out to beat up Sting May 1: Mike Awesome d. Hulk Hogan (7m13s) after Bill Kidman and eventually four other people interfere on Awesome's behalf May 8: Jeff Jarrett d. Sting in a WCW title match (5m35s) after Vampiro cuts open the mat, drags Sting down to the smoky underbelly of the ring, then dumps him out covered in blood for Jarrett to pin May 15: Ric Flair d. Jeff Jarrett to win the WCW title (6m19s) in the second clean finish of the year May 22: Jeff Jarrett d. Kevin Nash to win the vacant WCW title (4m39s) after Vince Russo beats down the referee with a baseball bat, declares himself the referee, attempted blood dropping, Scott Steiner being handcuffed to the ring, and a guitar shot May 29: Jeff Jarrett d. Ric Flair in a WCW title match (7m44s) after Russo once again assaults the referee and replaces him, and David Flair turns on Ric to allow Jarrett to use the guitar June 5: Kevin Nash n/c the New Blood in a gauntlet match where Nash eliminated five New Blood members in about two minutes simply by hitting finishers on them and not pinning them, but then everyone attacks him at once and Goldberg helps him clear the ring 2 v. 12. June 12: Kevin Nash n/c Goldberg (5m16s) after Russo takes Kevin Nash's young nephew hostage and the ensuing melee involves all of the New Blood, Scott Steiner, and several police officers who eventually pummel Steiner into submission with nightsticks I could go on, but the obvious parallels to Dynamite should be obvious
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Elephant Ambush posted:They conveniently ignore the fact that WCW "giving away a ppv main event match for free on TV" always meant "DQ or no contest or some sort of gently caress finish", except for like 2 or 3 times The context for that has changed a ton, too. Back then, PPV was a much larger chunk of a company's overall revenue, these days, TV rights fees are a way bigger one, so it makes sense to put big matches on TV. Even accounting for that, though, the dream matches that AEW puts on TV are ones that AEW isn't going to get around to doing as big PPV main events any time soon. If they ever do Ospreay vs. Claudio as a title match, it'll be several months, maybe years from now, and having done it last night won't be a big problem to the hype for it. When WCW was giving away PPV main events on TV, it was matches that could've or should've main evented the PPV for that month.
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Until Cool Hand Ang films himself in the Japanese Suicide Forest I think we can safely say they're not ripping him off.
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El Generico posted:The context for that has changed a ton, too. Back then, PPV was a much larger chunk of a company's overall revenue, these days, TV rights fees are a way bigger one, so it makes sense to put big matches on TV. "remember how dope their match on a random dynamite was? imagine what it'll be like on a PPV!" seems like it'd help sell things, even
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https://twitter.com/PWPNation/status/1781007768423469072 https://twitter.com/MeltzerSaidWhat/status/1781009276149866931 How do you fall for bait this obvious when it's waving you in the face. TinTower fucked around with this message at 19:31 on Apr 18, 2024 |
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Everyone knows that the only people who have ever made fun of someone are AEW fans https://x.com/JobberNationTV/status/1781012411925041222 
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why cultivate real enemies when the ones in your head will do just fine
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Feels like it was just two weeks ago that people were fantasy booking Sheamus to the Blackpool Combat Club and now this. Shameful.
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Fat Sheamus rules, the fatter the better imo
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super macho dude posted:Fat Sheamus rules, the fatter the better imo Slotted into the Punk spot for storylines now that Punk is injured again
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Guillermus posted:https://twitter.com/salmons_jr/status/1780711341600501823?t=disDIaaqJahS36EWOL8ZcQ&s=19 I like how men are “guys” and women are “females”
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a dumb moron posted:I like how men are “guys” and women are “females” 
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I'll say the quiet part out loud...
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These are simply biotruths, whether each and every one of you like it or not
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Hoes, in fact, mad. https://twitter.com/ebischoff/status/1781056162697216419
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Lead Pipe Cinch posted:Sheameful.
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Edge & Christian posted:At the risk of raising the ire of the "2000 WCW ruled actually" here are some main events from 2000 Nitro: Jesus loving Christ there is probably less wrestling in these 6 months than a single AEW main event
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https://twitter.com/D0NStevensAEW/status/1781072295580066258 not sure what is more deranged. a don stevens truther account larping as a wrestler, or being a wrestler who has a don stevens truther account.
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Ringo Roadagain posted:https://twitter.com/D0NStevensAEW/status/1781072295580066258 lost respect for dax after he chose to click a button on a website rather than read more of the toxic stuff i intended to send to him
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I'm sorry is this actually a twitter account where a guy pretends to be an another guy whose an indie wrestler whose whole gimmick is making GBS threads on AEW?
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Drakkel posted:I'm sorry is this actually a twitter account where a guy pretends to be an another guy whose an indie wrestler whose whole gimmick is making GBS threads on AEW? if you say "you were never a wrestler" to them you'll be blocked inside 30 seconds day or night
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Drakkel posted:I'm sorry is this actually a twitter account where a guy pretends to be an another guy whose an indie wrestler whose whole gimmick is making GBS threads on AEW? He tried to call out AEW recently and claimed he had worked dark a bunch of times and Captain Sean Dean who handles booking that stuff said he has no idea who he is or what he’s talking about. He still pretends he’s a wrestler though.
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Nice to see that the wrestling takes on Threads are as dumb as the wrestling takes on Twitter
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He enjoys man-on-man simulated violence but when you add a women into the mix it spells disaster at Sacrifice
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Powerbombing your significant other through the dining room table because it looked cool on tv
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