I remember everyone shitting on the Cesaro vs Sheamus best of seven series but I thought it was awesome. They did a good job of giving every match a differebt story, and because of the people invilved it was hard hitting and believable.

Still pissed they just made them a tag team instead of an actual resolution.

And thats another thing. The Bar is the worst booked tag team of all time. They should have been world beaters but they came of as just another tag team amidst all these smaller guys.

House show I went to years ago, the coolest thing was The Bar's entrance

Lance Storm recently talked about why Tag Team wrestling is pretty much dead. Once wrestling started booking weekly attraction bouts instead of squash matches the draw of the tag team dwindled. Cesaro and Sheamus never stood a chance to "do something" as a tag team. The only team that matters to WWE is The New Day, and they've probably tried to break them up in the writers room a hundred times.

I thought Sheamus and Cesaro had this heavy-hitting Holy Demon Army vibe to them (only not as good, obviously). But they won and lost so many times — it never felt like they were truly together as a team. Weren’t they together for about as long as Edge & Christian?

Sheamus is the somewhat rare type of guy in WWE that actually managed to get better the longer his career went but simply never managed to shake off the damage caused by that idiotic 18 seconds match against Bryan.

Orton is another one but what really drags him down is his supposed lack of motivation and caring most of the time for his feuds and ring work and less about WWE's booking of him.

WWE planning a draft soon

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October would make the most sense since that was when the last Draft happened.

Would also fit with the whole "season premiere week" thing they boasted about when SD moved to FOX last year.

According to PWI, WWE's newest plan to combat AEW and fix NXT's ratings issues is to simply hire more writers for their NXT brand.

They recently hired 2-3 new writers specifically for that brand but don't think they let go or demoted any of the ones that had been working for the brand.

Ever since moving to USA Network, think they had been using somewhere around 4-5 writers with Road Dogg and HBK among those in NXT Creative. Before it used to be just 1 writer with a couple of NXT agents helping out with ideas.

:roll:

Or they just hired new writers because that's something they're basically constantly doing and they cycle people in and out and like the appearances of being a machine that churns out people for the production side of things? NXT hiring new lighting people is not some grand conspiracy to battle AEW -- it could just be them getting new lighting people/providing new training opportunities for Full Sail. Writers are the same deal.

It's possible that with Vince obviously getting closer and closer to moving away, they want to have more writers in because a lot of the NXT crew will be more involved in the main roster stuff, or possibly different ventures altogether. But that doesn't put AEW at the center of the narrative.

Also, lol at "ratings issues." They basically have the same viewership as AEW. Does it have a ratings issue? If they wanted to drastically increase NXT, they'd put big stars there more frequently and take it off the WWE Network so that people don't watch it the next day so readily. At least block it in the United States. NXT are fighting this "battle" with an arm tied behind their back at all times.

But sure, let's pretend that Vince McMahon is stressing out because AEW has a slightly higher demo and is a distant, distant #3 with hours six and seven throughout the wrestling week, and all he could think of was to hire some writers.

Vince McMahon's dealings with Saudi Arabia are just a desperation deal because he wants the expendable cash to be able to buy the Pacific Ocean to stop Chris Jericho from doing his vanity cruise there, people.

The WWE gives a shit about money. That's what all their business dealings are about. The only interest the WWE ever had in AEW was if it were going to pose a risk to their future dealings when it comes to TV rights fees. Then the TV show dropped, AEW chased away about half the live viewers interested in it and they got super-excited about a $45 million per year deal that has them locked in for years and years. Vince is fucking laughing. Raw and SmackDown are so far ahead in terms of viewership, demos, international penetration and basically everything, and AEW so keen to box themselves into what was basically coverage for their production costs, that Vince McMahon basically has carte blanche to do whatever he wants.

NXT was successful in doing what it was put on the USA Network to do. Monetize developmental and prevent another company for gaining weight to be able to fuck with TV rights deal negotiations in a few years time. You don't have to love the WWE to accept that. I fucking hate it, because I want something different and something good. But AEW ain't it. Vince's "Eye for an Eye" shit is staring you right in the face and winking.

That's what PWI reported was the reason when they asked more about the hirings.

WWE wanted to do some shakeups in NXT's Creative to improve both its ratings and creative direction since what they are doing now isn't creating any real lasting benefits for the brand.

I get why WWE made the switch, but I kinda wish NXT was one hour instead of two.

Smeat: Reports rumors while citing sources... doesn't say it's the 100% truth

Noid: :rant: :rant: :'( :'( :'(

And that’s obviously bullshit. You could have discerned that before you posted it.

One hour shows actually leave you wanting more sometimes.

NXT was already on Wednesdays. Getting on USA gives them a chance to make more money and make developmental profitable. Also marginalizes what AEW can achieve, which protects their larger slice of the market. There’s obviously a business strategy behind it. It’s common sense and not as exciting as “WWE fears AEW” though.

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I find it funny since CJ does 10x less things than most of the e-thots do.

they banned impact for a week for what rvd did, twitch is strict on wrestling.

so what hapened at the good bros ppv was it any good?

NXT was always on at 8:00pm. They got an extra hour because USA paid for it.

Why doesn't anybody seem to remember AEW getting a trademark for Tuesday Night Dynamite before they even had a TV deal?

AEW's original plan was for Tuesdays, in the wake of Smackdown moving to Fridays.

AEW spinning the big bad WWE trying to hurt us with NXT is utter bullshit.

If they went by their trademark, and THEN NXT moved to Tuesdays, they could say that. As it is, they scheduled their show at the same time NXT had been running for years, then got pissed NXT got a better TV deal than they did.

AEW's entire foundation is a work to garner sympathy against those meanies trying to hurt and hold them back.

It is the overall gimmick of the company, it is the gimmick of their champion, it is the gimmick of at least 5 other wrestlers, it is the gimmick of their producers, managers, ring announcers, and commentators. It is the gimmick they present in the show, in interviews, tweets, podcasts, and every other aspect of their lives.

They all think they are SOOOOO much better than WWE believed them to be because WWE doesn't understand anything.

Other than Cody, have any of them proved WWE wrong?
Spears got a Mohawk and zero personality.
Brodie Lee mocks Vince McMahon but nothing about him is must see. The Bucks even admitted he was like their 4th choice.
FTR is exactly the same, except now their tag opponents actually do way more flips, so their "no flips just fists" makes more sense.
Ryder is just himself without his woo woo gimmick, which was the only interesting thing about him.
Moxley is exactly the same, everything he does is goofy shit. I see zero difference from Dean Ambrose other than his name and attire. He has more gimmick matches, but that doesn't change his character.

AEW got incredibly lucky that Jericho wanted to be a part of the company. His on screen character has been amazing, but off screen he is every bit as whiney as anybody while promoting the big bad WWE agenda.

The entire company is in business because of the narrative "WWE BAD, AEW GOOD...but also look at all the WWE guys we have, but that doesn't mean we are Impact 2.0, so watch us and stick it to WWE, we are cool and hip and "wink wink" look how much fun we have, you can be in on the "wink wink" too, yay BE ELITE".

I swear wrestling has the dumbest fans....

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Of course Brie had a boy �� I feel like Nikki never gets something special cause Brie always ruins it</p>&mdash; �� Ti �� (@rivers_sweetie) <a href="https://twitter.com/rivers_sweetie/status/1290002286379491328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 2, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

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Just how all out they went with Fandango's entrance....

Apparently the Hand of AJ Styles from WrestleMania's Boneyard match made an appearance during the show.

Haven't actually watched it yet but supposedly it was a pretty enjoyable comedy style wrestling show based on the reactions around the net.

If they took AEW seriously, they wouldn’t do shit like Eye for an Eye. They went live and to two hours because nuts if some amateur hour promotion is going to get all the TV rights fees. WWE had trialed NXT on USA before. This just sped up the process.

Also, wrestling fans will watch anything, so this was a good way to slice into that audience. Now AEW fans get excited about 800k viewers.

Homeboy will be just fine.

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Yeah, he can talk to Moxley and Spears about how cool it is that their wives are still at that big bad place making the majority of their household incomes :rofl::rofl::rofl: SOOOOOOOO ELITE!

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Macho Man is still the gold standard for best elbow drop in wrestling but Kairi Sane is a very close second with how sweet almost all of her elbow drops looked.

Only knock against Sane is she didn't get to showcase her great elbow drops more often on the main roster because of how much WWE botched handling her.

Man, Kari Sane's elbows are soooooooooooo good. Hard to compare her and Macho Man's because they feel like completely different variations.

Managed to catch the second half off GCW's show today and it was pretty entertaining.

Based on the stuff I saw, it was a lot more slow paced and less hardcore/deathmatch in terms of action compared to last week's set of crazy shows but still was a nice show to sit back and chill while watching.

Was the most interested in watching Kylie Rae's match since I figured it would have been on the second half of the show but that ended up being very early instead. Her current gimmick and style of wrestling is almost the complete opposite of what GCW typically offers.

Prefer how heavy Randy Savage comes off the top rope. Looks devastating.

Yeah, I would certainly agree Savage's were the best, just a thing of beauty.

I would also agree Kairi's is the next best thing. Just her downward trajectory looks so different, it makes it look more devastating once she lands it.

I'll never be able to pick between macho's and Kairi's.

Not sure what CM Punk or HBK are even doing on this list.

I vote Macho because Kairi is a woman and men are better than women. Scientific fact.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I will says this, WWE may not know how to make new fans anymore, but they know how to make a shit-ton of $$$. The amount that WWE is making per fan is insane. At some point the loss of popularity will catch up, but it's clearly not anytime soon. <a href="https://twitter.com/WrestlingInc?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@WrestlingInc</a></p>&mdash; Raj Giri (@RajGiri_303) <a href="https://twitter.com/RajGiri_303/status/1290079551972753408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 3, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

This is wrestling all over. They've chased away people with taste and now you only have the most dedicated fan raising the average per head.

I somehow doubt that regarding their positions but...ok?

If Spears is getting paid as much as even the most lowly WWE talent seems to get these days, then it's too much money.

I want to feel bad for Spears. On one hand, the dude clearly has passion for what he does. He's been doing it for about 20 years now. And he looks good and isn't bad at it, per se. But he took a giant stab leaving the WWE to try and prove that he's got top guy potential because he let the NXT bubble get in his head. Now he's kind of been exposed as a dude with a definite ceiling, an overinflated sense of worth and doesn't get to see his smoking hot girlfriend who is around a lot of better paid and more talented guys all the time.

But the dude has also had way too much luck already, so it's probably the universe balancing itself out for him.