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I would think the E crowd would have enjoyed last night’s show more than normal. The only blood was from a hard way bump by Darby. Only the tag title match had any real cartoony violence.
Take-Okada was great. swerve-Bandido was amazing once it warmed up. Darby and Max have great chemistry. I didn’t care for the Stampede match as there were just too many people.
I think it was probably a top five or ten AEW PPW.
Take-Okada was great. swerve-Bandido was amazing once it warmed up. Darby and Max have great chemistry. I didn’t care for the Stampede match as there were just too many people.
I think it was probably a top five or ten AEW PPW.
NY has a blood rule right? Didn’t ky have one for a while?
Yeah it kept Kentucky from being able to host wrestling for a long time, because there was a fear of color happening during the matches.
No kidding? Had no idea. I remember going to Rupp back in the day for Raw and Nitro and all that. Speaking of Nitro, is that dude still around?
No he’s banned and rightfully so.
waste of space on the forum. Did nothing but try to fight everyone. He came at me and I reported it. He hasn’t been back since. I don’t regret for a single second.
I can’t say for sure that my reporting put him out, but I know a lot of people were sick of his drama.
Good. I’m pretty sure I put him on ignore so I wasn’t sure if that was it or not. Thank God. A couple more I wish would get out of here too.
Why can't you just accept AEW is putting on a high quality product while WWE is serving you slop on a weekly basis? Maybe try jumping ship so you can see what a high quality wrestling product is.
He is spiraling out because his beloved WWE is putting out soulless AI slop on the regular and he can't handle that AEW is on fire.
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I really don’t care about the WWE vs AEW stuff. I like AEW. That’s it. I like my wrestling. I don’t have disdain or care what WWE is doing.
Look, I don’t watch AEW at all but did see results. Trying to say Edge doesn’t put over talent because he and Christian beat FTR is pretty damn stupid. Those two have been around a long time. At least be fair even if you don’t like Edge.
Who has Edge put over in AEW?
At least Christian has eaten some pins?
Who has Lashley put over in AEW?
At least Shelton has eaten some pins?
It’s a known fact AEW has talent that won’t job or only will job to certain people…
That's the hard truth of it. I have a ton of issues with AEW and I'm not a weekly viewer of either company, or TNA or NWA or anything.
BUT...the alternative is that WWE rules the industry and is basically a monopoly. Hell, they're close to that currently. And that...no hyperbole...would signify the death of pro wrestling. At least AEW is able to capture those old feelings from time to time. It reminds me of the good times: it reminds me of early Ring of Honor, of the Attitude Era, of the old Nitro's stacked with random cruiserweight matches, of old territory-style brawls. And yeah, I don't go for the FMW-esque death match stuff or the indy-grade comedy but there's something for all tastes.
Meanwhile WWE's presentation is essentially unwatchable imo. Annoying constant camera cuts, cringy zoom-ins on facials/bad acting, Michael Cole, horrendous celebrity involvement, Michael Cole, constant reference to atrocious corporate buzz words like "the WWE Universe" and "Superstars", Seth Rollins being in every other segment, Michael Cole, every event looking and feeling the exact same, and lastly, Michael Cole. Even when there is a good match, it is brought down by the awful presentation.
Like sure AEW has some duds but they're at least trying to put on a wrestling show. WWE is just shoveling out content or as Dragon put it, slop. Just my 2 cents
If I'm not mistaken I believe that was due to an early IWA Mid-South show
Thinking about it, I probably enjoy about 85% of the AEW stuff, and I enjoy about 40% of the WWE stuff. That's why I make sure I record or watch all the AEW tv, and catch WWE when I can.
I don't do TNA or ROH either.
I don't do TNA or ROH either.
I forgot ROH was still around. I'm guessing it has an incredibly low audience since they went online-only. Honestly, I'm not really sure why it still exists.
But their roster ain't that bad. They got some dudes.
I know they have Bandido and Athena, who are both pretty great. I'm not sure what else is there, though.
Take an episode of AEW Collision...remove any semblance of coherent storyline and then have it be nonstop wrestling matches that tell almost no story. It feels like exhibition after exhibition. They have pretty decent PPVs though. ROH weekly is a chore.
AEW Dark and ROH are virtually indistinguishable. Dark became ROH you could say, when TK bought Ring of Honor.
Well that sounds pretty pointless. I'll pass.
That being said, if it gives people an avenue to make good $$ and not have to be a part of the TKO system, I'm all for it.
And it looks like, based on their website, that Cary Silkin is still involved. That's great. Cary is good people. He deserves so much more credit for keeping ROH afloat after the Rob Feinstein fiasco.
I’m a little late, but I thought DoN was a great show and don’t have any complaints.
Their in-ring is truly miles ahead of WWE. I get WWE prefers a safer more vanilla style, but it makes the matches all feel the same.
I have been critical of AEW’s weekly TV quite often and don’t enjoy hardcore wrestling and “flippy s—t” as much as the booker does, but that company always comes through on PPV.
I turned on Raw briefly last night and got so frustrated by the never-ending sea of advertising that I changed over to watch a 40-point NBA beatdown instead. TKO has completely ruined WWE for me and I have been watching WWF/E since at least 1987.
Their in-ring is truly miles ahead of WWE. I get WWE prefers a safer more vanilla style, but it makes the matches all feel the same.
I have been critical of AEW’s weekly TV quite often and don’t enjoy hardcore wrestling and “flippy s—t” as much as the booker does, but that company always comes through on PPV.
I turned on Raw briefly last night and got so frustrated by the never-ending sea of advertising that I changed over to watch a 40-point NBA beatdown instead. TKO has completely ruined WWE for me and I have been watching WWF/E since at least 1987.
Yeah it's just...boring. The idea that there are people that actually watch all of Raw and SmackDown each week is mind-blowing to me.
It's a wrestling company that is now ran by people that don't particularly like wrestling. Listen to their execs talk about it. It's just another revenue stream to them. There's little incentive for them to improve the product because most of their income is from huge media rights deals. WWE is exhibit A of enshittification.
They just don't get it. They took Saturday Night's Main Event, which was a pretty big deal, like a Clash of the Champions type, PPV-quality TV special. And they reduced it to just...another show. Everything feels skippable and nothing feels special.
It's up to the guys like HHH and Michaels to be stewards for the business, to explain its ins and outs to the TKO guys that have no wrestling background. And they are failing miserably. But they don't care because they got theirs. Should've expected nothing different from the guys behind the Curtain Call.
My contention is that they have trained their fans to not really like wrestling. They like WWE, not wrestling.
"AEW's PPV's are too long. AEW doesn't tell any stories, etc."
They literally complain about having too much wrestling on a show.
So the WWE fans are buying what management is selling, for some reason.