The "let's not take this shyt so seriously" AEW news & fukkery thread

[mannyrs13]

there was potential with the DR thing but they squandered it. they had hope after that first attack but then it felt like nothing was happening to make it matter. i do like the idea of Omega vs Moxley but its gonna take a miracle to have Mox keep the title until All In to have Omega win it from him then.

an issue they seem to have is wasting titles. not saying they have too much but not using them correctly. claudio is in the cc and so is DG. both are champions. that ties up those titles. look at all the time the bucks spent wasting the tag titles and okada with the continental one. there are complaints about Mariah but she has been a fighting champion since winning it. even Mercedes has stayed relevant with her title reign.

they are losing an hour of tv time but i don't think that should mean lose an hour of productivity. i seen that pic about satnam singh vs colt cabana so it seems like they have dark matches still. what they need to do is keep having matches like that for the fans in attendance and to have all the random stuff that TK loves to book. hell they can even put some stuff on youtube until the shockwave or whatever they figure out next comes around.

what they do need is champions that are gonna produce results and carry them towards the next hurdle. they going on MAX soon so that means they gotta step their game up. cuz as much as its good for them, I doubt there are hundreds of thousands of people randomly browsing MAX that will suddenly be interested in this new AEW thing thats on there. most will prolly be people like us who watch already. be like oh its on max now, let me go check how it looks on that side.

crazy idea that i had which wont hurt or help much, but the last episode of rampage is the 27th and then WE then Dynamite on Max the next wednesday. now the ppv can't work. but i wonder if they should test the stream by having that last episode of Rampage on MAX as well. its only an hour long and the ratings aren't high anyways so not like a lot of folks gonna be checking for it or impacted if anything goes wrong. but it gives them the chance to test things if need be. tho i dont know how the contract or any limitations they have may work. cuz i don't want them to pop up on wednesday talking about some technical difficulties bullshyt.

 

[MenacingMonk]

If only people would've seen it coming before TK gave the OK for Mox to run with his "big idea"

I was willing to give it a chance, but it’s just not hitting. Coming out to do the same beatdowns weekly isn’t it.

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

@mannyrs13 I think it's been a device for Darby since the beginning but if a story involves the world title and any sort of "takeover" within the company then you have to have people like Ospreay or Swerve involved or it makes no sense... I think that's why they've pivoted to involving more people

 

[AKM-95]

@mannyrs13 I think it's been a device for Darby since the beginning but if a story involves the world title and any sort of "takeover" within the company then you have to have people like Ospreay or Swerve involved or it makes no sense... I think that's why they've pivoted to involving more people

The story is definitely not hitting....but there's also a lot going on. You have a blood feud between swerve/Lashley heating up, A G1 tournament, and a hostile takeover going on at the same time.

They have too much going on right now to give anything the amount of focus needed to get something over as a main event angle

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

The story is definitely not hitting....but there's also a lot going on. You have a blood feud between swerve/Lashley heating up, A G1 tournament, and a hostile takeover going on at the same time.

They have too much going on right now to give anything the amount of focus needed to get something over as a main event angle

They did the same thing last year. The CC was really good TV but I believe around the same time they were doing that God awful "devil" angle that wasn't hittin.... I remember 'World's End' being one of the worst built PPVs of the year and that arguably started the second downward trend..

They were on a decline and then leveled out some and then immediately hit another decline with that angle

 

[StatUS]

Guess I missed the complaining about Toni in ring comeback on Rampage.

Not a big deal but why

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

Guess I missed the complaining about Toni in ring comeback on Rampage.

Not a big deal but why

I think she should have had her return match on 'Dynamite' instead. But I also don't think her wrestling a match on 'Rampage' kills her momentum or feud with Mariah May... that's an overreaction.

 

[Jmare007]

Starting out the Death Riders thing by not including all of the top stars was a weird decision because it made what was supposed to be a primary story feel small in scale. Then they started adding more people to the mix but the damage was already done.

This was supposed to highlight people like O.C. and Darby which is fine but you can't have Ospreay or Hangman or Swerve etc.. not giving a shyt

The decision to give a guy that's incredibly stale the main belt by "killing" a beloved wrestler in his hometown and trying another takeover angle in a company that failed to do such a program six months before was always a dumb move.

There was no evidence whatsoever that TK could pull off the type of booking such an angle necessitates, and some fans trying to cling hope because it is a long term angle were the AEW roster would have to "grow up" or whatever the fukk was naive at best.

I was told for weeks that Darby beating a "final boss", heel Mox was better than having a classic with Danielson. And here we are a couple of months later with nothing to show for it but the exact same hope and wishful thinking coming out of WrestleDream

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

I was told for weeks that Darby beating a "final boss", heel Mox was better than having a classic with Danielson. And here we are a couple of months later with nothing to show for

I don't think most people believed it was a "better" route... but we kinda knew that's the route they were going.

 

[Finn Baller]

The decision to give a guy that's incredibly stale the main belt by "killing" a beloved wrestler in his hometown and trying another takeover angle in a company that failed to do such a program six months before was always a dumb move.

There was no evidence whatsoever that TK could pull off the type of booking such an angle necessitates, and some fans trying to cling hope because it is a long term angle were the AEW roster would have to "grow up" or whatever the fukk was naive at best.

I was told for weeks that Darby beating a "final boss", heel Mox was better than having a classic with Danielson. And here we are a couple of months later with nothing to show for it but the exact same hope and wishful thinking coming out of WrestleDream

they should've just put the world title on Ospreay when he was at his peak but apparently he wanted to prove how "unselfish" he was, a characteristic almost 0 top guys in the business have ever prided themselves on

 

[Jmare007]

they should've just put the world title on Ospreay when he was at his peak but apparently he wanted to prove how "unselfish" he was, a characteristic almost 0 top guys in the business have ever prided themselves on

I'm not sure an Ospreay reign would've turned business around but a babyface champ running a gauntlet of heels for 10-18 months is a formula they haven't really tried yet (even when MJF turned, it was only the Joe feud that was a against a real heel) and it is true that they'll probably wont get a face with the type of reactions bruv was getting the first couple of months he had with the company.

I really thought they had something between him and Swerve after their title match. The build and the match felt like a real rivalry the fans could latch on to being born. But both went their separate ways and that was that

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

I'm not sure an Ospreay reign would've turned business around

Yea no one thing would have turned the business around. Even 'Collision' was in the gutter after a couple weeks with Punk being all over the shows. The much anticipated showdown with Samoa Joe drew a house of 2400.

When a product gets cold.. it's several steps to get it hot again

 

[Finn Baller]

I'm not sure an Ospreay reign would've turned business around but a babyface champ running a gauntlet of heels for 10-18 months is a formula they haven't really tried yet (even when MJF turned, it was only the Joe feud that was a against a real heel) and it is true that they'll probably wont get a face with the type of reactions bruv was getting the first couple of months he had with the company.

I really thought they had something between him and Swerve after their title match. The build and the match felt like a real rivalry the fans could latch on to being born. But both went their separate ways and that was that

They could flip the Death Riders shyt in an instant by having the Hurt Business knock them off and establish Lashley as THE dominant force in the company but the issue is nobody would want to boo Bobby and ultimately Omega does need to be the guy coming back to “save” the company (in more ways than one)

 

[Jmare007]

They could flip the Death Riders shyt in an instant by having the Hurt Business knock them off and establish Lashley as THE dominant force in the company but the issue is nobody would want to boo Bobby and ultimately Omega does need to be the guy coming back to “save” the company (in more ways than one)

The me, the obvious move was Darby at WrestleDream --> Lashley at Dynamite's Fight for the Fallen --> Whoever at All In. And that "whoever" gets a long reign, shyt, it probably should be Ospreay.

 

[Heelish]

they should've just put the world title on Ospreay when he was at his peak but apparently he wanted to prove how "unselfish" he was, a characteristic almost 0 top guys in the business have ever prided themselves on

Reminds me of how refused to win the title cause he wanted to scrubs over. Then when he finally got the belt, it ended up being the worst AEW title run I’ve witnessed