Tickets have stalled for Wembley. Dave is reporting 62k paid. Obviously their biggest gate ever, but you’d hope so given it’s in a bloody stadium lol.

Predictions for All In card:

* MJF vs. Adam Page for the AEW World Title

* Kenny Omega vs. Will Ospreay for the IWGP US Title

* Chris Jericho & Sammy Guevara vs. Sting & Darby Allin

* Britt Baker vs. Jamie Hayter

* CM Punk does not wrestle on the show, but does appear to give Page a GTS at the end of it as the previously announced All Out challenger in Chicago. Punk will act like he’s not going to be at the show and like he doesn’t give a crap about the UK or headlining a stadium, but will show up as a surprise.

I nominate xrod to make the first ever AEW Saturday Night Collision thread next month.

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Video game officially confirmed for June 29th release.

SICKKKKKK

Wheeler Yuta is Claudio's partner? What, is Chris Hero not available? (Seriously, KoW vs Lucha Brothers would be sick.)

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Gotta say, it doesn't feel like the greatest sign that they finally have a release date after all this time and it's just Kenny talking over a few generic clips with no signs of new features, new wrestlers, or really anything. It borderline felt somber. Like "ok we're finally forcing this game out the door, here you go"

That said the achievement list leaked already and they have 6 weeks to hype the game properly.

Feel like they don't need to hype it.

There's gonna be three camps irregardless.

The AEW die-hards who will go out and buy it no matter what.

The indifferent, who will wait for gameplay reviews and then decide based on that. No amount of marketing will get them to buy, only reviews from trusted sources.

Then the opposite WWE die-hards (or just anti-AEW die-hards) who will refuse to buy the game ever, even if it gets good reviews.

AEW have booked Daily's Place as a backup plan for Collision's debut, which would seem to point to the rumors that AEW and Punk might've had a late disagreement holding the deal up.

The venue will be announced Wednesday so basically, United Center means AEW and Punk have sorted their shit out, Daily's Place means they haven't.

Punk has the opportunity here to royally fuck over AEW if he wants to. Just tell them he agrees to return, leading to them going forward with the United Center, and then no-show.

I don't think he'd do that though. Even if he was petty enough to fuck over AEW, I don't think he'd want to fuck over thousands of ticket-paying Chicagoans and basically turn himself permanent heel on his own hometown crowd.

Its almost like continually relying on an injury prone malcontent who has already burned them multiple times ISN'T a sound business decision :p

I get wanting Punk, I really do, but if you're at the point of having to plan for whole entire backup venues you gotta ask yourself is it worth it

If that announcement trailer is the last we see of the game before release, then it's all but guaranteed to be a mess. When a developer has a product that they're proud of, they promote it as much as possible, all the way up to the day of release, with various trailers detailing the all features.

These video game takes from everyone are so funny. Hahaha.

Potentially gets a bump as the card comes together. If not, that’s a good number, it might be where they top out though. They’d have to come with a killer card to beat that on their 2nd attempt.

Yeah, as big a Punk fan as I am, I’d be hard passing at this point if I were in Tony’s position.

Collision without Punk is toast. AEW without Punk is in bad shape. The Elite don’t care about pissing in their own well if it means they don’t get upstaged and shown up.

You bring in Punk. You let him cut the promo he needs to cut about the Salieris in the back and give Collision a fighting chance, because you need those 5 hrs of television to get the money to keep you profitable.

According to Dave, Collision has been struggling to sell tickets. This is going to hurt them if they don’t get it right.

My prediction: Tony is smart enough to realize that he needs Punk for this, and people close to Punk will talk him into doing the show despite The Elite’s attempts to fuck with him. But who knows when the next torpedo goes off in their own ship?

Bud, I would really like for it to be good, but it's hard to have faith when the developers themselves don't even have enough faith to properly market and promote their title.

One of the head developers jumped ship. THQ basically came out and apologized for the game ahead of time. Omega has no clue what he is doing and it has been a nightmare for people needing to take direction from him. An expensive, blind nightmare.

The books about this company are going to be amazing.

Fucking lol at that reveal, by the way.

How’re tickets for Double or Nothing?

I haven’t found a recent article about them, but going onto the site and having a quick glance makes them look like they’re around 75% full to me.

AEW: Double or Nothing
SUN MAY 28, 2023 – 4:00 PM
T-Mobile Arena, Las Vegas NV

Available Tickets => 2,913
Current Setup => 9,872
Tickets Distributed => 6,959

This. It’s not like I’ve given up all hope on the game, for all we know it’ll be very No Mercy reminiscent and fun as shit. But I can’t justify a day one, $70 purchase based on what has been shown so far.

They’ve got 6 weeks to promote this thing. If they do a half-assed job with that it’s a damning sign.

On the bbrightside it's coming out for pc. So even if its pretty bad modders might be able to make something of it.

Provided its not a complete dumpster fire.

Some new stories coming out:

AEW's sent legal notice to CM Phil, threatening him with legal action for something FINALLY.
Collision being on Saturdays is going to limit AEW wrestlers from making money at Conventions, and they are upset.
AEW having such trouble selling tickets for Double or Nothing, they are running 4 tickets for $40 deals, which is essentially buy 1 get 3 free, which in their arrogance they mocked in the past.

Also, not new news, but they still haven't announced a Billion Dollar Tv/Streaming deal, which the Cultists said was going to happen 5 days ago, so there is that.

AEW is a fucking shitshow.

Have faith in Kenny…

I wonder if create a wrestler will be any good. Haven’t bought a wrestling game in a good long while. Definitely interested in this.

The CM Punk legal action stuff is so interesting, because what it implies is that CM Punk is really important to the company moving forward. If it were a case of him simply being a headache and them being better off without him — why not do better off without him?

I wonder if the performance of Collision is somehow vital to AEW’s future? For example: What if TK needs a major, major rights fee increase in order to justify his expenses and keep TV partners interested in them as a growing commodity? Collision could have been a gambit to encourage WBD to pay them the money they need by generating more profitable content for WBD. If Collision is DOA, then it’s possible that AEW doesn’t command the leverage needed to secure a long-term TV deal that allows TK to continue throwing the money around to keep AEW situated.

I’m very curious to see how this plays out and what TV deal ends up being announced (if any).

Until Shad Khan decides AEW needs to make "X" amount of net dollars, AEW doesnt need a lucrative rights deal.

The only reason the amount of the rights deal would matter before that time, is to feed into the delusional narrative that AEW is overtaking WWE.

Unless it’s a case of a TV partner not wanting to go into business for 4 or 5 years with a promotion they know is going to be losing money.

THIS!

Also, seriously... if Collison absolutely needs a STAR (which I do not think it does; it just needs a solid direction, continuation and build to something greater that can lead to a PAYOFF on PPV and increased ratings) ... The Khan's can afford ANYONE on the free market. They can make it happen, they DO NOT NEED just CM Punk to do it!

The Khan's have enough money to book Goldberg versus Stacy Keibler vs Duane Gillberg VS Great Muta vs Rob Van Dam vs Bob Backlund vs Bret Hart vs Jushin Liger in a TikTok Twitch ONLY FANS bra and panties match for the Golden Barbie Doll House Championship with the winner taking on Nick Gage in a bloody Deathmatch afterwards followed by a Hulk Hogan fingerpoke of DOOM followed by Judy Bagwell on a Pole match against Bill "Captain Kirk" Shatner on a Starship Enterprise match with guest interferences by Jean-Luc Picard, The Borg, Gandolf, John Snow, Cersei Lannister, a Dragon, Rocky Balboa, Jack from the Titanic, Homer SImpson, Darth Vader, the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and Kevin McAllister.

They already have 10 plus under-utilized wrestlers on the payroll capable of carrying a new show. It drives me insane they NEED someone ELSE because they literally cannot book the ones they currently HAVE!

None of those names, outside of Goldberg, has a chance of drawing.

SRS says the legal papers were documents to protect AEW from CM Punk disparaging them when he returns. Boring.

LOL, so the ONE thing CM Punk is good at, shoots, is now legally restricted??? "Happy to be Here" Punk is even worse than malcontent Punk. :rofl: