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Scarlett and I decided to go for round 2.
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SHAD KHAN STATEMENT ON AEW, Tuesday, January 8, 2019
I am the lead investor, a supporter and a backer of All Elite Wrestling, and I anticipate great things today and into the future for AEW and everyone who has worked passionately on this week’s launch. I know AEW will be welcomed by wrestling fans here in the U.S. and throughout the world who are ready for something new and authentic. AEW will work hard to deliver on that promise. As important, I am the father – the proud father – of Tony Khan, who will serve in a leadership role at AEW during the 2019 launch and in the years ahead. Tony will assemble a great team to take AEW over the top, for the benefit of everyone who loves the wrestling industry, while continuing to serve in his current capacities with the Jaguars and Fulham. AEW will operate as an organization completely independently from my other interests. It will not deter attention or divert resources from any of my businesses, teams, projects or investments. At the same time, AEW will enjoy the same full commitment I given to everything and everyone in my life – my family and friends, my business and, in recent years, to sports, hospitality and now entertainment. TONY KHAN STATEMENT ON AEW, Tuesday, January 8, 2019 Wrestling fans are a community unlike most others. I’ve been a part of this community since I was 7 years old, and I can tell you that wresting fans see the world every day through a special lens. We see wrestling in Hollywood films and tv shows, we see elements of wrestling in the presentation of sports and in the marketing of grandiose star athletes, and we certainly see wrestling in politics. The wrestling community is a constant; its members are diverse, we are physically located on all corners of the planet, yet we are constantly connected. Recently, a new family has formed, bonded by love and respect for wresting but armed with a vision and resources that have never before been available to the wrestling community. Our objective is to connect our community closer than ever before through All Elite Wrestling, or AEW. AEW does not mean any less of a continued commitment to existing obligations and duties that I have, or my family has, to our business and sports interests. That will never be the case. What’s important is that every individual decision we make as family, whether it’s ownership or investment in a team or property, is 100 percent beneficial to those specific interests. I will always welcome that accountability and responsibility, as nothing is more important than serving our supporters and friends. AEW will launch with a roster of the top wrestlers in the world. While they’ll clash in what will be some of the most intense and fast-paced contests ever sanctioned in the squared circle, they’ll also share a common goal: to make this the true golden age, to make this the greatest time ever to be a wrestling fan. Likewise, as a business, by treating our wrestlers with respect and warmth, we also seek to make this the golden age for the performers themselves. I urge everyone who believes in what we’re doing, or wants to believe in dreams coming true, to support AEW by spreading the word and passing the wrestling bug onto someone else. My message: Get in on the ground floor with AEW today and help lead our movement to grow the wrestling community and ensure that the voices of the wrestling fans, their creative minds and their remarkable ideas, will always be heard. |
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Some are hit-and-miss, very meta to someone not on the track, let me tell ya something, BroJaw, things are looking up for wrestling as Tatanka v.s Lex Luger is being advertised for March. Don't know how, but maybe they will stand in the ring and tell everyone about 1993 |
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Neville is in Jacksonville, FL today, looks like he might sign with <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AEW?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AEW</a>.</p>— Matt Degnan (@degnan_matt) <a href="https://twitter.com/degnan_matt/status/1082723174876360705?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 8, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Neville would be a really good get
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"Treating wrestlers with respect and warmth" sounds like they're about to be employees and not independent contractors
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The prep work continues with <a href="https://twitter.com/CodyRhodes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CodyRhodes</a> overseeing the pyro test <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AEW?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AEW</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DoubleOrNothing?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#DoubleOrNothing</a> Rally <a href="https://t.co/prx2H1eeGT">pic.twitter.com/prx2H1eeGT</a></p>— All Elite Wrestling (@AEWrestling) <a href="https://twitter.com/AEWrestling/status/1082725332917149697?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 8, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Looks like the Something To Wrestle with Conrad guy is involved
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Here’s a couple debuts for you. Well, you know them. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AEW?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AEW</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/AEWrestling?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AEWrestling</a> <a href="https://t.co/IX5BE6DEjH">pic.twitter.com/IX5BE6DEjH</a></p>— Jon Alba (@JonAlba) <a href="https://twitter.com/JonAlba/status/1082733536988278786?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 8, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Probably well over 200 people in line for the <a href="https://twitter.com/AEWrestling?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AEWrestling</a> rally, which begins in about 45 minutes. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AEW?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AEW</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DoubleOrNothing?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#DoubleOrNothing</a> <a href="https://t.co/XH12o94kjR">pic.twitter.com/XH12o94kjR</a></p>— Jon Alba (@JonAlba) <a href="https://twitter.com/JonAlba/status/1082745457212907520?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 8, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> |
Cool. I like Conrad.
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They're probably announcing Starrcast 2, so yeah he'd be there
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They've started the stream on You Tube but it was pretty shitty for me. Going to find it somewhere else.
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Watch: History being made at the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AEW?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AEW</a> Double or Nothing Rally <a href="https://t.co/xVGIwK0SgV">https://t.co/xVGIwK0SgV</a></p>— All Elite Wrestling (@AEWrestling) <a href="https://twitter.com/AEWrestling/status/1082756094714294272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 8, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Iginfest is marking out
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AEW?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AEW</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DoubleOrNothing?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#DoubleOrNothing</a> Rally <a href="https://twitter.com/AEWrestling?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AEWrestling</a> first producer <a href="https://twitter.com/RealBillyGunn?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RealBillyGunn</a> <a href="https://t.co/jsRlgshjQm">pic.twitter.com/jsRlgshjQm</a></p>— All Elite Wrestling (@AEWrestling) <a href="https://twitter.com/AEWrestling/status/1082759281382961152?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 8, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> |
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">We are officially off and running at the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AEW?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AEW</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DoubleOrNothing?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#DoubleOrNothing</a> rally. <a href="https://t.co/rLofSc53Tq">pic.twitter.com/rLofSc53Tq</a></p>— Jon Alba (@JonAlba) <a href="https://twitter.com/JonAlba/status/1082759840705986560?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 8, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Double Or Nothing will be May 25th at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas
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Oriental Wrestling Entertainment will be part of AEW as well
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Cody vows that wins and losses will actually mean something in AEW instead of being pointless
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Is that the Chinese promotion someone made a thread about a while back?
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Sweet @ MJF and Joey Janela signing with AEW
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You can say I don’t understand something as much as you like. It doesn’t make it true or false. You don’t understand general human empathy. See how easy that is? I’ve been on the internet following wrestling for years and have barely heard of GWN. How many people actually have it? If you get five people here that do, I would be pretty surprised. Lol, getting a deal with AAA seems pretty foregone when all the good promotions go with CMLL. Sorry, I rephrase my question: How many PPVs did TNA run last year? Like, three? I say they’re not doing good with live attendance because I just saw a photo of about 30 people in a building with a report saying the lights go out and people were leaving. Getting a crowd of any description to pay any amount of money does not a successful live audience make. We’ll see. I never said I thought you thought Jericho was coming in last year. I just knew he wouldn’t, because even though his best friend runs it, it is toxic to star power. They might try to change that with AEW to get any attention they can, but I think it is a bad idea, because TNA fucking sucks. I know I’ll be out if TNA is in. If Kenny Omega went there, people would stop caring about him in a month. He has to know that. |
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Neville has signed with AEW...
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Has a proven track record of being very good as a booker and having a good eye for talent based on his themed shows and making stars from irrelevance in the indies. |
My expectations for aew are low but this rally has me pretty hyped.
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Chris Jericho is here...
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Live YouTube stream btw
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With Jericho jumping, you have a HUGE signal to just about anyone anywhere that this is a legit option. Whether or not that's true, it's a HUGE sign of belief in it.
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Also yet another interesting bargaining chip in getting NJPW to play ball, in tandem with Omega surprising them by going "Ehhhh... I'm good man. Gonna go play with my friends." (Presumably)
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Not terribly surprising that Jericho jumped. He didn't make a secret of how much he loved the Being the Elite shit and his cruise and doing his own thing again. Probably an easy choice for him once he was away from WWE long enough.
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Damn.... wish Jericho would go back to WWE and not looking "mad dumb"
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YOU look mad dumb.
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PAC vs Page will be a hell of a match for Double or Nothing, Jericho will draw a lot of fan attention that may not already be hooked into The Elite.
SCU, The Elite guys, Page, PAC, Jericho, and even MJF is a hell of a foundation for a company starting out, and that's just a start. Production values on the press conference were kind of shit, but it's their first solo production and it was in a parking lot in Jacksonville. |
Fuck if they can get Pentagon and Fenix as well, that’s gonna be an amazing roster. Hope they don’t go to impact
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Jericho moved the needle relatively hard for NJPW World last year, if I recall, so him being part of Double or Nothing is pretty huge.
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Jericho is just another old part timer who needs WWE more than WWE needs him.
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And MJF is a great call as well.
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What does MJF stand for
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Loving all this news I'm hearing so far.
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Pardon my ignorance but who the hell is MJF?
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Glad to see Jericho as well.
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I want to see Jericho and MJF as rivals or tag partners. They could work gold together imo.
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Maxwell Jacob Friedman and he will want you to know he is better than you |
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">WWE is turning away people from buying tickets who are wearing AEW merchandise</p>— Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful.com (@SeanRossSapp) <a href="https://twitter.com/SeanRossSapp/status/1082783738625429505?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 8, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Seems its everyone in general who attended the rally getting turned away regardless if they bought or wore AEW merch.
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OWE is a very lucha style in general, the head trainers are mostly former luchadors. Pro Rasslin hasn't ever been real popular in China so there weren't any Chinese pro wrestlers of notoriety to choose from so the billionaire who started OWE hired Luchadors to bring pro wrestling to China.
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Not impressed with Jericho going there, only because he ran his mouth patting himself on the back for YEARS about how he would never work for anybody but Vince.
Just don't brag about something like that and I would be fine with him signing there, but as it is him signing there just means he is full of shit and nothing he says means anything. |
WWE seem to be pissed off about it.
Apparently he was still listed as being part of the SmackDown roster all the way up until this morning. And he got moved to the Alumni second almost instantly after the announcement. |
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That said, it does hurt his credibility. Neville signing does nothing for me. He is just a rehash character of what he was in WWE, with the addition of WWE held me back. That is the same gimmick every new Impact wrestler had from like 2005-2014. Neville didn't move the needle as NXT champ, he didn't move the needle upon his WWE callup, and he only moved the needle as a cruiserweight because he actually had a character instead of being a spot monkey guy from the CWC. If I am being honest, if they want to do something interesting, they need to sign some people that werent already "All In". Otherwise just say off the bat its gonna be the same people and move on. |
Ehhh maybe I'm just cynical from years of WWE being lazy and even more years of Impact being absolute garbage.
Most importantly, these guys are basically all the same to me. Workrate and superkicks. I can see those guys in WWE with Ziggler and Rollins and the Usos and a few others. I am gonna want more then the "hey we are all friends and we believed in ourselves enough to make this happen and yay". |
Jericho signing is definitely a big deal for them. To me it says the top level talent are trusting Cody to do a good job. Jericho wouldn't just sign with anyone is he felt the gig would suck.
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MJF rules imho! Really good "cocky heel"
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I gotta say, I’m way on board for the teases Hangman/PAC feud. I fuckin loved what I saw out of Hangman in the G1 last year and I think he can be a star. I adored PAC’s 205 run. Could be an interesting dynamic with some killer matches.
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Oh, man. I forgot about his Spiderman cameos.
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I've been watching the AEW rally off and on. the fuq is with Neville interrupting with wrestling gear on? lol fucks sake, man.
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Damn...the pyro and fireworks for the rally probably equaled a year of WWE's.
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Don't think Wrestlemania will be coming to Jacksonville anytime soon...
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I told my wife that the Double or Nothing event is happening in Vegas and the first thing she said was “Can we go?!?”
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Oddly enough, Jericho's appearance made me think of Terry Funk; in that I would imagine he will be with AEW in a similar capacity to how Funk was in ECW - spreading knowledge, adding name rub, and putting over future stars. But that's just a guess.
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It also feeds the trolls who will now be trying to "sneak in" signs and shirts to specifically get on TV with. If they continue down this road, they will do nothing but give them more pub than they did with the "cease & desist" business over "Suck It". AEW shirts will go from being just a shirt in the crowd that fans have like actual Bullet Club shirts to a statement of anti-WWE that WWE will themselves stoke the flames for. Streisand Effect divided by self-fulfilling prophecy with a remainder of that time WWE event staff moved a row of cosplayers off camera and The Rock got them on TV anyway. |
Man that rally was cringe as all hell.
1. Jericho coming out was supposed to be a big surprise, Conrad even acting like it was unknown who it could be. Except dude came out to who own music. Who the fuck else would be coming out to Fozzy?? Lol 2. So their first show is May 25th, 4 and a half months away. Why the fuck is Neville wearing his gear already?. The match is 4 and a fucking half months away! 3. Since everybody has dual roles, does that mean Britt Baker is the official fentist? 4. Christopher Daniels is way to old to be acting "funny giddy cool" 5. Can the Khans not afford microphones that don't pick up the hard P? Sounded like garbage. 6. Can they also not afford a sound stabilizer of any kind? Went from dead silence to normal to could barely hear to trying to blow out my speakers 7. Maybe next time they should get a podium short enough that the young bucks don't look like kids at. 8. Jericho wants to change the Universe!!! They were so close to getting through the rally without going full TNA and alluding to WWE. Oh well 9. Oh no, WWE didn't let in anybody who went to the rally. All 200 of them couldn't be jackasses on WWE TV WAAAHHHHHH. |
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<script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> That last one could be an potential ominous sign for World of Sport's future considering she was one of the talents signed there and its on even shakier ground than Lucha Underground has been the past few years. |
Well WWE already got Kairi and Sharai. AEW might as well try for Iwatani before WWE gets her too.
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Newest rumor going around the net hints at AEW being very close to getting a tv deal signed and in the range of around $100 million in value.
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If nothing else, AEW will hopefully help poke a hole in WWE's "toy collecting". WWE can't sign everybody just to not use them and only push their own Vince-made stars.
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Also rumored is Impact being worried of a mass exodus occurring in March since that is when the next batch of contracts expire. Rumored to be trying to get a partnership done beforehand so they can keep some potential access to whoever leaves for AEW.
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I wouldn't put any stock on Ibushi signing a contract for anybody, especially a foreign company. He doesn't speak any English and is notorious for having constant travel nightmares whenever he goes to the US, including getting on the wrong flight and ending up on the opposite side of the country, locking himself out of the hotel, forgetting which hotel he checked in at, losing his phone and wallet, generally not having a good time. If he's going to be working for AEW it would most likely be freelance.
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This Shad and Tony Khan are really shady. They wanted to buy Wembley as well but couldn't. The year he bought Fulham, they got relegated for 5 years so this guy has got that bad luck charm attached to him
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What do you have against people wearing AEW merch or are you saying F*** WWE?
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Maybe he h8s Jericho
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I think STD is implying that trying to block AEW is going to backfire.
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