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So it seems like no one cares, but AEW is doing a December 30 PPV called “Worlds End.” I don’t know which worlds are ending, but they’re putting it in the Nassau Colosseum. Isn’t that an infamously cold place for wrestling events? And they’re taking it to New York in winter around Christmas and New Year? Does this seem like a bad idea to anyone else?
Or is the hope that there will just be so many people local for Christmas that they can toss a net and half-fill the place? |
They have been consistently running 10,000 seat arenas and only making about half the seats available, and most time they are only selling 3000-4000 of those tickets.
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Tony needs to start paying people to go to AEW shows and pretend the product is cool.
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Sorry — he needs to pay *more* people to go to AEW shows.
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The roster is big enough already
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Good point. Plus it’s not like a lot of them wouldn’t blend right in.
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Daniel Bryan orbital bone injury - legit?
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Seems he’s going to require surgery.
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I am going to say work based on the diagnosis.
Danielson got a broken orbital bone from an Orange Punch from a 150 pound guy, out the rest of the year. Undertaker got a broken orbital bone from a 500+ pound guy landing on his face, just wore a opera mask and missed no time. |
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It’s probably a number of things — age, severity, awareness. You just don’t want to see anymore careless injuries. People seem to be blaming Okada. I dunno if it should just be one of those “shit happens” things, but the company does put a lot of people in the line of fire because TK doesn’t really know what he’s doing.
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This company can't catch a break. I've completely stopped watching AEW but its sad to read about their continued issues/decline.
On the plus side - WWE is better than it has been in years. Smackdown is must watch TV (although I do fast forward many of the matches). |
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Most of AEW’s issues are self-imposed. It’s hard to feel sorry for them.
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Don't feel sorry for them as agreed it's their own doing (how do you fire your top star in favour of ones that don't draw?). More sad considering how much potential it had. Oh well :)
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AEW as a concept had potential, but the execution has always wasted it.
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Dave shared a quote from AEW talent about how the creative process in AEW has changed. They don’t find out as many things ahead of time anymore, and often it’s day of a show or the day before. It’s beginning to feel a lot like WWE.
Jerry Lynn then confirmed it was the case, but it’s done because they don’t want any of these precious plans being leaked. Which would make sense if that was ever the issue with AEW creative. |
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Looks like Bryan may have a legit injury, but when it actually happened was before the angle on tv. |
He probably got an injury in both. Then got injured drinking his morning coffee.
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Also, so fucking ridiculous they put Orange Cassidy in the Danielson/Okada program. You know what a program about who the best wrestler is? A dude who actively mocks pro-wrestling as fake. You have a comedy wrestler and then expect there to be drama in the “high impact” of the stuff you want to sell as real. This is objectively bad storytelling.
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They should add Oklahoma to The BCC and Vince Russo to Chaos. Would totally fit. They were fake wrestlers and one even held the World Title.
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Holy shit, Tony Khan is going to make an “important announcement” on Dynamite this week.
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Nice! Can't wait to read all about it!
I saw on the main page that MJF vs Omega didn't draw (although faced stiff competition). What do they have left? |
I hope his announcement is that Shad fired him
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This is the one guys. I can feel it in my soul. This is the announcement that will change everything.
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it's only big, not huge this time.
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Who could have guess exploding your payroll to sign a bunch of ex WWE guys would lead to a decrease in viewership amongst a fanbase that hates WWE. Remember Tiny saying he learned from WCW's mistakes, but then is still making all the exact same mistakes? That is all ok though, TINY HAS A HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT TONIGHT!!!!!! #dynamite #tonightonwednesday #wedneadaynightdynamite #tbsdynamite #tonight
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I’m sure absolutely none of them were cut loose with the intention of them being Trojan horses either.
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I'm not normally a fan of the belt being stolen thing unless its fairly quickly resolved but I am enjoying this angle with BC Gold and MJF. Lots of layers with the devil stuff although the reveal will make or break that, Jay White looks good with the belt and the BC gold revolving around holding it leaves them looking like good dastardly heels.
I would have happily never seen the Gunns again pre BC gold, when they joined I cringed but its working now. Not sure who should get the praise for that but someone should. |
How come Tiny's YUUUUUUUUGE announcement couldnt get a million viewers? Or 900,000 viewers? Or even 850,000 viewers????? Poor Tiny Khan :'(
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No pity spike.
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I think people are down on what AEW has become because they were so high on what AEW originally set out to be. They were the company that said "We want to change the world". Now they're the company that says "This is just how wrestling is now". They conformed, and that sucks.</p>— Gran Akuma (@__AKUMA) <a href="https://twitter.com/__AKUMA/status/1720302327549112503?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 3, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
this feels spot on I still enjoy more about AEW than I don't. the wrestling is still very much to my tastes and I know that part will give me my fix for the time being. but this is easily the most "WWE" its ever felt the anti-AEW crowd were always getting on the "wrassling journalists" acting like TK was paying them off for not being critical enough of AEW. well they are now. even Meltzer and Alvarez. they're not saying it sucks or whatever but a lot of what made the company feel special to its fans is getting increasingly homogenized and it's gradually feeling more like just another wrestling company |
It was like that from the start. They dropped “change the world” thing very quickly when it was apparent that it wouldn’t change much of anything. It doesn’t help that they lied about things, but the chief problem is that it is bad.
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Who’d have thought signing 200+ talents and having to pump out 5 hours of TV a week would lead to a downturn in quality?
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I can say one thing about AEW, even with all the embarrassments and money lost, Tiny Khan has made lots of fun friends!!!!!
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Somehow I doubt many of them are picking up the phone if Tony isn’t paying them.
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