All Elite Wrestling/ALL IN 2 - paperwork been filed, in a positive sense. :ohhh:

[trick]

By the way. I don't think this will happen - and I hope it doesn't because I think indy wrestling really needs him now more than ever - but I think AEW's biggest get would be Joey Janela (in a creative/talent role)

Agreed. Joey’s videos and promos are way better than anything they’ve done together as a unit.

 

[DaylitoJames]

I can’t shyt on the Young Bucks went from being paid $2 by TNA to starting their own promotion & having it financed by someone who has more money than Cokeboy.

Jim Cornette somewhere mad about the Young Bucks come up

 

[PlayerNinety_Nine]

Jimmy Jacobs might be a good call for creative.

He was behind Jericho and KO's partnership leading up to 'The Festival Of Friendship', which was one of the more carefully written storylines WWE has managed in a while.

We've seen photographic evidence that he's good friends with The Bucks too

 

[Reality Check]

By the way. I don't think this will happen - and I hope it doesn't because indy wrestling really needs him now more than ever - but I think AEW's biggest get would be Joey Janela (in a creative/talent role)

Given he's on the shelf for another 7 months it might work out that he could be in that position

 

[Apex]

If they sign some Japanese talent that would be dope. What direction do you guys think the promotion would go?

UFC style where it's based mainly on the in ring ability of the talent?
WWE-lite with indie style angles and NXT level presentation?
Throwback to the Monday Night Wars Crash TV style?

Hopefully they bring something new to the table.

They need storylines to be successful in North America. The UFC is a sports organization, but its success is due to great characters like Conor McGregor, Khabib Nurmagomedov, Jon Jones, etc.

 

[trick]

They need storylines to be successful in North America. The UFC is a sports organization, but its success is due to great characters like Conor McGregor, Khabib Nurmagomedov, Jon Jones, etc.

How crazy is it that the UFC understands that you need characters to create stars and wrestling promoters/wrestlers don't?

 

[NYChase718]

Why not focus on starting up first

Before you wanna start fukking with WWE from a parking lot

 

[Killah Ray]

Why not focus on starting up first

Before you wanna start fukking with WWE from a parking lot

These muhfukkas already going for the low hanging fruit...but people hate the E so much these days these lames will spin this as a win...

 

[Reality Check]

All Elite Wrestling (AEW) officially launched on a midnight episode of the Young Bucks YouTube series, “Being the Elite.” The episode ended with a timer counting down on the phones of Cody Rhodes, The Young Bucks, and Adam Page. They held their phones together to reveal the new AEW logo and the name of their next special, which will be called “Double or Nothing.”

A “Double or Nothing” rally was announced on social media after the Being the Elite episode was released on YouTube. The rally will be held at TIAA Bank Field with a special announcement from The Elite on Jan. 8. The Young Bucks, Cody, Brandi (Cody’s wife), and So Cal Uncensored (Christopher Daniels, Frankie Kazarian, Scorpio Sky) were shown in the advertisement for the rally posted on their Twitter accounts. It will be streamed, but a platform hasn’t been announced yet. Kenny Omega was not featured in the advertising for the rally nor did he take part in the Being the Elite AEW reveal at the end of the episode.

PWTorch has confirmed that several independent wrestlers have signed holding deals with AEW. These deals convert to full deals once they get the funding of a TV deal. Tony Khan, the son of the NFL Jacksonville Jaguars owner Shad Khan, is going to be running the company. He’s a big wrestling fan and has told people he was a big fan of WCW. PWTorch has confirmed that B.J. Whitmer, who recently left ROH, will be working behind the scenes at AEW. Whitmer posted several AEW related images on his Twitter earlier today.

Once the deals convert to full deals, they are very good deals for independent talent with the floor being a good six figure deal. Dave Meltzer of The Wrestling Observer has reported that Cody has signed with the promotion and The Young Bucks are expected to sign soon. I would also expect SCU and Hangman Page to sign deals in the near future as well.

Talking to PWTorch sources familiar with the TV landscape, AEW is going to need a big TV deal to sustain the contracts they are offering to talent. They don’t currently have a TV deal in place, but the group must be confident in getting one given the announcement today and the money they will be paying out to talent if a deal is landed. As far as running events without a TV deal in place yet, the common thought from sources is that AEW will run “Double or Nothing” sometime in the spring and use Being the Elite to promote it.

Sources have noted that the group is massively popular and is capable of building up to special events, but there is some skepticism as to whether or not the group can sustain a full touring schedule around 50 dates like ROH runs. The key AEW wrestlers weren’t able to boost ROH’s attendance, including after All In when ROH ran the Death Before Dishonor PPV later in September with largely the same roster of talent. ROH ended up running in front of a much smaller crowd when they left Sam’s Town, which holds around 1,000 fans, to put on an event at the much larger Orleans Arena.

Sources tell PWTorch that AEW wanted to sign Bandido, but they were outbid by ROH. WWE was also interested in signing Bandido as well. The deciding factor for Bandido to sign with ROH was that because there is no TV deal in place with AEW, ROH was able to offer him a set amount of dates at a guaranteed rate right now.

WWE, AEW, and ROH will now be competing for talent going forward and today’s announcement certain changes the landscape of wrestling in 2019. All three companies have money to spend at this time, so it’s a great time to be a free agent in wrestling.

AEW promotion announced on Being the Elite, details on contract structures being offered to independent talent, rally announced for next week in Florida -

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

I wish them luck but if Adam Page is 3rd from the top they are going to be a tough fukking sell

Hopefully they will make some signings that make some noise

 

[NYChase718]

Vince : youre the son of a football team owner...goddaammmittt i own my own league you sunuvabytch!!!!!

 

[FromStLouis]

Man, I hope they pull this off. I want WWE to be great but I've given up all hope.

Going from 7 hours to a more manageable 1 or 2 hours of quality wrestling. .

 

[MenacingMonk]

I don’t think contracts are necessary. Hopefully they let talent work outside the fed.

 

[MenacingMonk]

Also, @edmotherfukkinG smiling like a proud dad watching his favorite sons that made it.

 

[23Barrettcity]

I don’t think contracts are necessary. Hopefully they let talent work outside the fed.

You need contracts breh how do you keep another promotions from snatching talent in the middle of storylines ? Look at ROH with msg show now bam elite can’t perform on it .