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| Jurassic Bros vs Lucha Express |
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12 | 15.38% |
| Jakeico vs Sonny and Joey |
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8 | 10.26% |
| Nyla vs Tay |
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4 | 5.13% |
| Dustin vs The Mister |
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54 | 69.23% |
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oh but seriously I posted:a job guy's laying on his back. but you're not helping. why? Dave: "What promotion?"
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xbilkis posted:https://twitter.com/JohnCena/status/1304110274560040961 When did Cena turn into Chuckie T but lifts heavy?
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Sep 10, 2020 22:20
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Pylons posted:The inevitable Dark Order civil war with the goofs against the tryhards is gonna be a great angle. Would Stu and Uno split or would Uno just be the least try hard tryhard?
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Sep 11, 2020 00:08
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And Hager was always the definition of catchphrase over so it makes sense he's the on person who got his old chant. Everyone else just gets natural reactions because people are excited. Even Miro Day kind of fits into that. It has an edge to it just because all the stories were that WWE didn't want it to be over and really screwed around with Miro. But the cool relationship between AEW and its fans means that crowds just act natural. It's not the bizarre and sometimes hostile attitude WWE takes with the fanbase. I mean, it's not even just the truly awful stuff WWE has done as a company. They even include the hostile relationship in their kayfabe. They pretty much have the audience as a character called the WWE Universe and really treat them like poo poo sometimes.
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Sep 11, 2020 02:19
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I absolutely think if Punk showed up in AEW next week people would pop and love it. I also think there is an alternative universe where Punk didn't spend the last few years losing at mma, getting into a messy fight with colt, working at a wwe adjacent job, and just generally becoming more of a curmudgeon. That version of Punk would get an earth shattering reaction. Like AEW not only brought him back to wrestling but back from the dead right there in front of the audience.
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Sep 11, 2020 08:22
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ICR posted:Don’t want Punk anymore. Just hearing how well the locker room gels right now, I can’t imagine that guy fitting in. I just don’t see the fit when you’re building a new brand. Yeah, at this point I also think the chances of Punk showing up are zero to none unless there is less bad blood than I think between him and Cabana. I don't know about you but if someone told me I could work in a locker room with either Punk or Cabana I'm picking Cabana.
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Sep 11, 2020 16:58
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There are occasionally things where I feel like AEW goes too far in the other direction from WWE and the Vickie/Nyla thing is one of them. It's not bad but it could be a lot better. They shouldn't hire a bunch of writers and block every move but it also wouldn't hurt to bring in other creative experts as a resource. Someone who can help wrestler's punch up a promo they want to do. Someone who has a good sense of comedy and can help them out with planning comedy segments. Someone to tell Darby to do literally anything else with the videos he's making himself because you can't just keep doing the same thing over and over.
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Sep 11, 2020 18:06
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I'll also say I do think the first Nyla squash with Vickie as her manager was good. They had a back and forth where it was like Vicke was goading Nyla into being even more vicious and that Nyla really wanted to impress her new friend with violence. And that's a cool seed to go with, that they just bring out the worst in each other and love it. But it's not there yet.
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Sep 11, 2020 18:21
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ICR posted:I think that bad writers are bad. Yeah, and I absolutely think writers telling wrestlers what they have to do is a nightmare and flat out not wrestling. Like, what WWE puts on really doesn't fit my definition of pro-wrestling because to me it's at least partially improvisational as an art form and WWE tries to remove that whenever possible. But having other creatives that the talent can lean on if they want to? It'd probably help. edit: I also honestly agree with the post above me. AEW is in good hands and when stuff doesn't work they figure it out. My brain is just broken and going "oh but if they did this it would be even better!" is just how I engage with things I enjoy. Gumball Gumption fucked around with this message at 18:48 on Sep 11, 2020 |
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Sep 11, 2020 18:46
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Cax Wheeler and Dash Hardwood.
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Sep 11, 2020 22:09
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shiksa posted:conner o'malley could give promos that would make the ultimate warrior look intelligible. God get him in the Dark Order as just the number one lacky. BRODIE HRRRRRRRGHHHH I SUBMIT BRODIE HHRRRRRRARRARAAAARGH THAT BELT I SUBMIT BRODIE
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Sep 12, 2020 02:40
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Orange Carlisle posted:Im subscribing to the idea that Miro needed clothes badly and couldn't find clothes his size, so he asked a friend to buy him clothes and ship them because that's exactly what happened and he himself said so Over two threads! Discussion threads, Miro was wearing at least 3 pieces of the finest threads ever put on a person's body.
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Sep 13, 2020 16:49
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Lamuella posted:Going to be honest, I'm not surprised that someone who was a six year old boy in the dying days of the People's Republic of Bulgaria and had most of his education the early days of the Republic of Bulgaria might have been educated towards certain conclusions about the relative benefits of Socialism versus Capitalism, incorrect as those conclusions may be. lol yeah, I'm not defending Miro but it's the same poo poo where I'm sure his real position and beliefs are a lot more complicated and confusing than 2 words on Twitter
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Sep 13, 2020 20:02
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Edit: missed Junpei's calm down so I'm not gonna continue the argument. Just that leftist politics isn't compatible with dehumanization.
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Sep 13, 2020 21:27
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boxcarhobo posted:dantes inferno was a weird game Holy poo poo right. This thing existed. Kind of wild that someone somehow did it right with Blasphemous.
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Sep 13, 2020 23:53
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IcePhoenix posted:Eddie Kingston cutting promos on random poo poo needs to be the new standard cold open. TNT should hire Kingston to host a MST3K style show where he's just cutting a promo while The Accountant plays.
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Sep 14, 2020 17:24
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After just a handful of Eddie Kingston promos I have the words "This great sport of pro-wrestling" burned into my brain
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Sep 15, 2020 14:47
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I doubt it because it's still open air. I don't really see how the roof would impact airflow so badly that it would be more dangerous than being outside. If it was a closed dome I could see that being a problem but not with the majority of the structure being open air. I'd be more worried about the bathrooms and other enclosed spaces within the arena.
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Sep 15, 2020 23:36
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Yeah, putting Jericho and Hager together in tags looks more like a fun way to get tag team over without always fighting another tag team. Jericho can eat losses and be fine. Especially in tags where Hager gets pinned. *Cut to tomorrow and Hager winning clean*
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Sep 16, 2020 02:50
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flashy_mcflash posted:Both Dave Meltzer and Wade Keller are reporting this morning that it is, indeed, Wednesday. You know the dirt sheets lie
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Sep 16, 2020 12:51
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Marko was better on the indies when it was less that he was pretending to be a kid and more that he looked like a kid and was also a really good wrestler who could hang with people way bigger than him.
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Sep 16, 2020 20:59
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It's just kind of like he's turned into the joke that he was supposed to be making fun of. The beauty of all the weird wrestler's Joey has found is that when he gave them spots they were used to defy expectations.
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Sep 16, 2020 21:07
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If WWE was still paying good money and keeping you around to sit in catering I could see some midcard guys getting swayed by big promises. But WWE has pretty much shown their hand and they'll sign you and pay you just long enough to make sure you burned all the bridges and then drop you on your rear end. Maybe when Vince dies and HHH is in charge they can trick people again but I feel like they've shown everyone that they will gently caress you. But also wrestler's are con artists and those are the easiest people to con.
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Spiderdrake posted:Giving up the indies, your t-shirt shop, your creative freedom, your screen time, your side hustles, your entire reason for wanting to be a wrestler - that is, good wrestling - is not going to be as easy a sell for this generation as the last. Ricky Starks talked about his favorite WWE performer - Undertaker. Who is gone. The lost generation isn't going to entice anyone to work there. A lot of the cool charismatic people are mistreated or were mistreated then left. I can see a couple people maybe going, but giving up a job you love for 5 years of misery when they need to offer you WAY more than AEW/impact/njpw/indies given all the stuff above is not going to be the easy slam dunk. You're not going to get your Ricochets who line up to be shat upon by "the dream job" nearly as easily. People like MJF and Jungle Boy know their worth. That problem is going to keep growing too. Look at their ratings. A big portion of the next generation of wrestlers will not grow up seeing WWE as the dream.
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