Pretty Ricky Starks Says To Save The "Pillar" Talk For The Mayo Midgets; He's Better Than That.

[dh86]

The whole issue with the 4 pillars nonsense is that it's not organic. Rarely in wrestling do things go well when you vocally tell the audience that you should be cheering for somebody or forcing a storyline. The idea of the four pillars shouldn't have left the writing room, and should've been something that is behind the scenes. This would've been like if Paul Heyman kept on telling the audience "this is the "Smackdown 6" and they're the most important part of the show". In wrestling you just don't do that because the audience doesn't buy it and the audience doesn't like being told what to cheer or believe in.

Anyways, they need to scrap the 4 pillar nonsense because none of those guys except MJF has done anything of value since they were anointed the four pillars. I think the other 3 guys have been left behind by talent that joined the company or guys that developed like Starks and Wardlow.

I think it was patterned after the 4 horsewomen which worked like a charm for WWE, but those women were actually doing something new. I think the pillars match was addressing what many of AEW detractors was saying about long term story telling. They set something up they can go back to in 2-5-10 years when they actually are top guys in their prime. They tried

 

[KFBF]

One of it's table legs is undersized.

All four of em are. It's a coffee table.

They set something up they can go back to in 2-5-10 years when they actually are top guys in their prime.

Is your opinion that they're not actually top guys but they've just been placed in that role?

 

[Starboy52]

It feels like Tony slotted them boys in that “these guys are the future” role because they all happened to be young and affiliated with legends in the business. But what have they done themselves to warrant that label so early? shyt, Sammy has gotten WORSE and is virtually back where he started as Jericho’s Youngboy and Jungleboy is still doing the “He doesn’t have an edge and wants to do things the right way” but he was doing a year ago.

 

[White City Black]

On one hand, I get the label with those guys because they’re young, they’ve been with AEW since its incarnation, and if things goes well over time, they’re considered an integral part of that company’s future

Thing with Starks is, aside from carrying over from NWA so he wasn’t a Day 1, he already seems like he should have “next” in some capacity, moreso than any of them other dudes (aside from MJF).

I agree he should get that TNT belt soon, and honestly he should keep it for a while. Dead that ol’ hot potato shyt. And Tony’s better off fattening that new contract of Ricky’s before Haitch even starts putting out them “feelers”

 

[Hey_zeus]

If we really finna talk about it, Luke wasn't a good actor, he was just beloved by tween girls at the time so it floated him long enough to then become a nostalgia crush to the 30-somethings still watching CW shows in the years before he passed.


Dylan from 90210 was just Shawn from Boy Meets World for the previous generation. Same type of character - same bland actor type playing them.

Doesn't surprise me Jack can't act. What surprises me is his impossibly monotone delivery. Even when he's yelling he's toneless. It's... if Jack was black I'd be calling for a Guru from Gangstarr gimmick. But... if Jack was black, he wouldn't be on TV. If Jack was black we'd accept that he's not even better than Lee Moriarty as a total package. But he's not black. So he's a 'pillar'.

No wonder this company so shaky. One of it's table legs is

 

[Rollie Forbes]

It feels like Tony slotted them boys in that “these guys are the future” role because they all happened to be young and affiliated with legends in the business. But what have they done themselves to warrant that label so early? shyt, Sammy has gotten WORSE and is virtually back where he started as Jericho’s Youngboy and Jungleboy is still doing the “He doesn’t have an edge and wants to do things the right way” but he was doing a year ago.

I think that Tony named the guys who he identified the most with (pasty white, small framed guys, with a lack of social graces) to be his pillars. MJF just so happened to be the outspoken spirit animal that Tony could live vicariously through.
In some ways, Tony reminds me of that Marvel Comics writer who said that muscular superheroes intimidated him because he wasn't built like them.

 

[NYChase718]

The 4 pillars- darby sammy mjf jungle boy

VS

the class of 2002 - lesnar batista orton cena

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

Its like this. I appreciate what Khan tried to do and continues to do...and that's push young talent. But here's the thing, the "young talent" is laughable and non-relatable to the average viewer...even the most hardcore of wrestling fans. Hence, why they put the shyt as a runner-up to the main event, despite it being a double main event .

The issue with the "four pillars" was the fact that the only one that stood out is MehJF.

• Darby is mid card champ for life
• Jungle Boy is mid AF
• Sammy will never make it pass the mid cards..dude is a miserable-washed flippy dude with a prickish nature

MEANWHILE: you have Starks (whose in a league of his own), Hobbs, Cage (IDGAF, Cage should be in the main title picture), and WardGOAT (Whose forever in the WOAT feuds after MJF).

Khan's vision for the main card picture to have folks that indie brehs of the past would go nuts for, but the common person wants larger than life wrestlers. Wrestlers with aura about themselves. Not somebody that I would give a bunch of games to trade for a NGage.

 

[Cattle Mutilation]

Its like this. I appreciate what Khan tried to do and continues to do...and that's push young talent. But here's the thing, the "young talent" is laughable and non-relatable to the average viewer...even the most hardcore of wrestling fans. Hence, why they put the shyt as a runner-up to the main event, despite it being a double main event .

The issue with the "four pillars" was the fact that the only one that stood out is MehJF.

• Darby is mid card champ for life
• Jungle Boy is mid AF
• Sammy will never make it pass the mid cards..dude is a miserable-washed flippy dude with a prickish nature

MEANWHILE: you have Starks (whose in a league of his own), Hobbs, Cage (IDGAF, Cage should be in the main title picture), and WardGOAT (Whose forever in the WOAT feuds after MJF).

Khan's vision for the main card picture to have folks that indie brehs of the past would go nuts for, but the common person wants larger than life wrestlers. Wrestlers with aura about themselves. Not somebody that I would give a bunch of games to trade for a NGage.

Cage?? Man is flippy Ryback with a shytty haircut

 

[Rollie Forbes]

 

[Playaz Eyez]

Jungle Boy is NOT a pillar lmao, he’d be getting pinned in under 3 minutes by Van Hammer on WCW Worldwide if this was 98/99

 

[PharaohAtem]

Keep Cage out of the pillars until he stops trying to be a flippy guy

 

[Hey_zeus]

They should form a stable at some point. Got to hold off the non pillars coming for their spots.

 

[Cattle Mutilation]

Keep Cage out of the pillars until he stops trying to be a flippy guy AEW

 

[Heelish]

Cage?? Man is flippy Ryback with a shytty haircut

shyt I thought he meant Christian Cage