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

[Cattle Mutilation]

Tony Khan might as well lean all the way into it. They've already used needles, barbed wire boards, plate glass, and legos; it's time Tony goes full IWA Mid-South and gives us piranhas!
Side note, I bought an FMW DVD because it had a piranha match included, and the guy who fell in the tank killed a bunch of the fish when he landed on them.

This isn't the same match (I guess the FMW match was scrubbed from the net), but yes, piranha matches are a real thing:

Back after ECW died and I kept trying to restore the feeling I bought a Japanese death match best of compilation DVD knowing jack shyt about Japanese wrestling and it was probably just a bunch of FMW stuff. Surely got rid of it not long after that since I stopped watching wrestling entirely for years. I wish I still had the DVD now because like 20 years later I’d probably know all about everything on that DVD.

 

[Rollie Forbes]

Back after ECW died and I kept trying to restore the feeling I bought a Japanese death match best of compilation DVD knowing jack shyt about Japanese wrestling and it was probably just a bunch of FMW stuff. Surely got rid of it not long after that since I stopped watching wrestling entirely for years. I wish I still had the DVD now because like 20 years later I’d probably know all about everything on that DVD.

I used to love FMW, but it kind of fell off for me when most of their best gaijin signed to American companies & left Japan. Once Mike Awesome, Horace Boulder, those guys came back to America, it was a wrap.

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

NGL, if Dub were to get rid of the "Elite" logo, the funk of "Elite", go full FMW, I would be a instant fan and not wear deodorant

My thing is don't p*ssy foot with the blood lust. Embrace it. The wrestlers don't give a damn, those that do can fukk off, and just create a outlaw promotion with a good budget. Hell Strong BJ is washed, GCW is mid AF, CZW is basically NXT from AliExpress, XPW is not cutting the forehead, and Mid south is no where to be found.

Just rebuild the strategy and go full Onita with the shyt. That way we can at least expect matches like the Swerve/Page one as just another Sunday

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

I don't think syringe matches are a real thing or even using a real syringe and if spots like that happen it prolly be at a ppv.

The syringe spot was 30 seconds of a 30 minute brawl and we've seen it in other promotions, I was surprised to see people questioning it

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

Fightful with some more info on WBD/AEW. Not much new, but found this tidbit interesting

I'll wait to see this from a better source, Puck is really plugged in, the wrestling sites typically aren't

 

[Cattle Mutilation]

NGL, if Dub were to get rid of the "Elite" logo, the funk of "Elite", go full FMW, I would be a instant fan and not wear deodorant

My thing is don't p*ssy foot with the blood lust. Embrace it. The wrestlers don't give a damn, those that do can fukk off, and just create a outlaw promotion with a good budget. Hell Strong BJ is washed, GCW is mid AF, CZW is basically NXT from AliExpress, XPW is not cutting the forehead, and Mid south is no where to be found.

Just rebuild the strategy and go full Onita with the shyt. That way we can at least expect matches like the Swerve/Page one as just another Sunday

NXT from AliExpress

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

NXT from AliExpress

Breh, I tried watch CZW last year and it was like watching the saddest fukking thing possible. Like a few people (possibly crew and family members), struggle matches, and poor Rich Swann trying to make the most of these dire times.

I went to funerals with more excitement

 

[Rollie Forbes]

NGL, if Dub were to get rid of the "Elite" logo, the funk of "Elite", go full FMW, I would be a instant fan and not wear deodorant

My thing is don't p*ssy foot with the blood lust. Embrace it. The wrestlers don't give a damn, those that do can fukk off, and just create a outlaw promotion with a good budget. Hell Strong BJ is washed, GCW is mid AF, CZW is basically NXT from AliExpress, XPW is not cutting the forehead, and Mid south is no where to be found.

Just rebuild the strategy and go full Onita with the shyt. That way we can at least expect matches like the Swerve/Page one as just another Sunday

Big facts! If AEW is going to focus more on garbage wrestling, I wish they'd lean all the way into it. It feels like they only go 3/4 of the way with the violence, and it seems goofy as a result.

A couple examples for clarity:

One thing I HATE is that they all bleed from the same spot on their foreheads. It's cute, but they should mix it up. No real fighter bleeds the same way, from the same spot, in every fight. I'd rather see some bloody arms & torsos (S/O Mick Foley, Sabu, Hayabusa, Axel Rotten, and Megumi Kudo). Everybody having the same tiny cut on their hairlines is kind of stale.

I also don't want to see any more legos, hockey pucks, or toys. I get it, they get a laugh, but comedy doesn't belong in death matches. Leatherface & Mad Man Pondo wouldn't do that silly stuff. They tried to have New Jack do comedy in TNA, and it was lame.

Also, if Tony Khan is going to book for the "sickos", then book for the "sickos"!

Put some titties on tv! Let somebody throw little Jungle Boy into the crowd like Bam Bam Bigelow did to Spike Dudley. Let somebody get their finger chopped off like XPW dude. Let Moxley, MJF, Brian Cage, and Excalibur all take turns saying the n-word in Bed-Stuy. The next time somebody uses a syringe, let them fill it with Miss Kenny's blood sample first. Film Darby Allin walking into a west Texas Trump rally while wearing his Daisy Dukes and pink fur coat. That's the good shyt! What Tony Khan is giving us is just for the wannabe sickos.

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

Big facts! If AEW is going to focus more on garbage wrestling, I wish they'd lean all the way into it. It feels like they only go 3/4 of the way with the violence, and it seems goofy as a result.

A couple examples for clarity:

One thing I HATE is that they all bleed from the same spot on their foreheads. It's cute, but they should mix it up. No real fighter bleeds the same way, from the same spot, in every fight. I'd rather see some bloody arms & torsos (S/O Mick Foley, Sabu, Hayabusa, Axel Rotten, and Megumi Kudo). Everybody having the same tiny cut on their hairlines is kind of stale.

I also don't want to see any more legos, hockey pucks, or toys. I get it, they get a laugh, but comedy doesn't belong in death matches. Leatherface & Mad Man Pondo wouldn't do that silly stuff. They tried to have New Jack do comedy in TNA, and it was lame.

Also, if Tony Khan is going to book for the "sickos", then book for the "sickos"!

Put some titties on tv! Let somebody throw little Jungle Boy into the crowd like Bam Bam Bigelow did to Spike Dudley. Let somebody get their finger chopped off like XPW dude. Let Moxley, MJF, Brian Cage, and Excalibur all take turns saying the n-word in Bed-Stuy. The next time somebody uses a syringe, let them fill it with Miss Kenny's blood sample first. Film Darby Allin walking into a west Texas Trump rally while wearing his Daisy Dukes and pink fur coat. That's the good shyt! What Tony Khan is giving us is just for the wannabe sickos.

They don't hear ya doe. Like dude has two damn promotions, just put the catch can, puro steez stuff on NuROH and go full bonkers with the main promotion. Hell, if the Warner deal is a bust, just go MASK OFF with the next network or digital platform. I'm tired of this whole catering for the Cornette base, but at the same time pull foolishness with some demonic blood soaked match. Screw Cornette and go full diabolic. I want to see REAL GLASS, explosions, women wrestlers on their best Combat Toyoda steez, and Moxley finally get decapitated since he desires to die for the business.

MAKE ME GO BACK TO MY SICKO WAYS DUB

 

[Rollie Forbes]

They don't hear ya doe. Like dude has two damn promotions, just put the catch can, puro steez stuff on NuROH and go full bonkers with the main promotion. Hell, if the Warner deal is a bust, just go MASK OFF with the next network or digital platform. I'm tired of this whole catering for the Cornette base, but at the same time pull foolishness with some demonic blood soaked match. Screw Cornette and go full diabolic. I want to see REAL GLASS, explosions, women wrestlers on their best Combat Toyoda steez, and Moxley finally get decapitated since he desires to die for the business.

MAKE ME GO BACK TO MY SICKO WAYS DUB

Her barbed wire death match with Megumi Kudo was way more violent & way more believable than anything Moxley, Adam Page, Swerve, or any of those guys have done in their "hardcore" matches. Kudo & Toyoda didn't just do "look guys, I'm hardcore" spots, they had a fight. A violent, realistic fight that left Onita crying real tears.
If Tony Khan's guys can learn to have fights & not just do spots, then we'll finally get sicko mode.

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

Her barbed wire death match with Megumi Kudo was way more violent & way more believable than anything Moxley, Adam Page, Swerve, or any of those guys have done in their "hardcore" matches. Kudo & Toyoda didn't just do "look guys, I'm hardcore" spots, they had a fight. A violent, realistic fight that left Okada crying real tears.
If Tony Khan's guys can learn to have fights & not just do spots, then we'll finally get sicko mode.

Whats crazy about that match was the husband in the crowd (forgot which one) was emotional as hell, and even Onita hit the

 

[Rollie Forbes]

Whats crazy about that match was the husband in the crowd (forgot which one) was emotional as hell, and even Onita hit the

That real sports feel.

 

[mannyrs13]

 

[Rollie Forbes]

Way past due. I remember that post ppv press conference when Wardlow was the TNT champ & Powerhoushe Hobbs crashed his interview.
Hobbs was about to grab the title belt from the table, and Tony Khan muttered "please don't touch that". It was easier to hear live, but it's around the 1:10 mark. You'll have to listen closely, and you'll hear Tony. -->



Hobbs hasn't been near the TNT title since.

 

[Rollie Forbes]

The belt is currently held by ASÉ Wrestling's Sugar Dunkerton (FKA Pineapple Pete during the Daily's Place days). Prior to that, the DMV's very own AfroPunk Trish Adora held the belt and dominated everyrbody who challenged her. She's a killer, somebody needs to tell Tony Khan.