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WWE would’ve turned Kenny into “just another guy” so fast it’d make his head spin. He made the right call.
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Also fuck yeah Aja Kong
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Best case, he would get AJ Styles push Worst case, he would get Kenta's push Most likely though, he gets a Finn/Shinsuke push, without an amazing year+ run in NXT first where we could enjoy him, which would be even more disappointing. |
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MJF impressed me more here than he has in other stuff. He’s not bad, per se, it’s just very by the motions. I thought he felt very “organic” tonight. He’s going to be great and in that “next generation” of main talent with Hangman Page (who also reminded me of Matthew McConnaughey, Slik). Honestly, I thought the promos were so much better than WWE. Kylie was a little overexcited and “inside,” but I appreciate the fucking humanity. PAC was tremendous. Michael Nee has more charisma than most of the WWE roster.
Fuck yeah to Aja Kong. Alex Marvez sounds so much better than any WWE announcer not named Nigel McGuinness. Nothing groundbreaking here, but you also can’t set that precedent. I want to see all the matches they announced/teased. It did its job. |
Now Kota can get his revenge!!
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I was kind of underwhelmed by Best Friends, to be honest, but I like the way they were kind of a red herring for the “real” tag team. I feel like Best Friends are mid-card.
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one of my personal favorites got signed, The fabulous fierce and gay , Sonny Kiss <3
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Good press show. I was entertained. Brandi was very ... indie. She should cut that shit out.
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These rallies have WCW Mall of America feel to them, especially this one. Seems they found the loophole around the LU contracts with a AAA agreement. Like the matches they've confirmed so far.
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Literally every member of the roster so far is the same.
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It just looks like its gonna be a bunch of crusierweights having the same matches. But whatever, I hope it succeeds. More ways for wrestlers to earn a living.
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Jericho and Omega aren't cruisers, nor is Cody tho
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I think they won't have a lot of promos on their actual show, I think they'll take a page from New Japan in that aspect and be more action-oriented.
Double Or Nothing will really be our first chance to judge their production quality and so forth. If they can cut out WWE's god-awful shakey cam/zoom nonsense that will be a big plus right out of the gate. Same for over-reliance on using the hard-cam-side setup. I miss that about WCW, WCW looked and felt different than WWF/E and they didn't stick to that monotonous hard-cam-side. |
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Cody said in an interview they might come up with a star system to rank athletes and matches but he didn't elaborate
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That's probably a bad idea. Those things never go well and are usually abandoned after a month or two never to be talked about again. Even if it is sport oriented ranking systems don't generally work in pro wrestling.
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Some stuff from a recent interview Omega had with the Observer Radio show.
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At this point, being roughly 2 months out of the G1 Supercard show at MSG during 'Mania weekend, they hopefully have some sort of agreement/partnership in place with New Japan and/or Ring of Honor in the works so that most of the AEW roster will be able to compete.
I think a lot of ticket buyers were under the impression that they would be seeing Kenny Omega, the Young Bucks, Cody, Hangman Page etc. at the show. As of right now Okada, Tanahashi, and Naito are the only confirmed names. My concerned level has gone up slightly, but I'm still going. |
Cody’s already said that he’s taking Mania weekend off for the first time in his career. I wouldn’t expect any of the AEW guys there.
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AEW really kicked NJPW and ROH in the kneecap.
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I finally got the chance to watch the Double or Nothing party. Good vibes....no idea why they had it around a pool, though....that was probably heated. I guess they have to work with what MGM gives 'em for space.
They seemed to work around their mic problems alright. It's not like they have Kevin Dunn's minions in trailers working around the clock. Despite skipping here and there, I'm still as excited as Creature would be to see 10 million viewers for Impact Wrestling. |
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Cody confirms that Double or Nothing will be priced cheaper than the 'E.
I think that's a trend they should continue for as long as they can, will help get people in seats. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">That’s a great question! We did it for All In so perhaps we could...<br><br>Proud to say that the rule remains. The boys and I scaled/priced the show below market average just like we did in Chicago. <a href="https://t.co/E1S51SLnBA">https://t.co/E1S51SLnBA</a></p>— Cody Rhodes (@CodyRhodes) <a href="https://twitter.com/CodyRhodes/status/1094368634422677508?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 9, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> |
According to the Observer, NJPW's big plan for ROH's G1 Supercard show was going to be Omega vs Okada for the IWGP belt had Omega not left NJPW for AEW.
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No 'hard cam on the side' setup, it will be filmed differently than WWE. Fingers crossed for no shakey cam!
<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> Sat, May 25th<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SeatingChart?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SeatingChart</a><br>Tickets on Sale this Wed, Feb 13th - <a href="https://t.co/BVyw1bPbla">https://t.co/BVyw1bPbla</a> <a href="https://t.co/IwxsfcRBKU">pic.twitter.com/IwxsfcRBKU</a></p>— All Elite Wrestling (@AEWrestling) <a href="https://twitter.com/AEWrestling/status/1094812697374453761?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 11, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> |
I dunno, section 13 appears to be blacked out. I'd think that's where the cameras are.
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yeah u r right, damn
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Section 13 is where production will need space for cameras and equipment.</p>— All Elite Wrestling (@AEWrestling) <a href="https://twitter.com/AEWrestling/status/1094821748724432898?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 11, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> |
I hope I’m able to score tickets.
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Tonight at <a href="https://twitter.com/BizarroLucha?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BizarroLucha</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/The_MJF?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@The_MJF</a> proposed to <a href="https://twitter.com/b000giebear?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@b000giebear</a>!!! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LuchaVerse?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#LuchaVerse</a> <a href="https://t.co/YkrDIHaYXV">pic.twitter.com/YkrDIHaYXV</a></p>— The Golden Ticket (@JasonFNSaint) <a href="https://twitter.com/JasonFNSaint/status/1094764101589450752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 11, 2019</a></blockquote>
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AAAAAAAAAAnd it's sold out
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Out of PreSale Tix or everything?
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They had over 12,000 presale codes handed out and no one can get a single ticket now
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Looks like the regular sale is still on and they didn't release all the seats to the presale maybe?
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