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AEW kicking Ric Flair to the curb
AEW kicking Ric Flair to the curb
Megan Bayne will be the giant monster role for AEW. They’ve had her on excursion in Stardom and her visa apparently expires this month so she could be in AEW pretty soon.A lot of what's been said, I can agree with. Picking other things I'll say...
- AEW needs to refresh the women's division. BADLY! Emu Sakura loses all her matches, comes back a couple weeks later and challenges both champions over the course of a month. WHY? (Joe Budden voice) Raid some indies, fukk over TNA and NWA, get a joshi that has pressence and can work an American audience, get Kamille Brickhouse, Sawyer Rex, SOMEBODY to fill the giant monster role. Because as much as we love looking at booty, the division should be bigger than Storm, Ruby, Willow, Anna, Sky, Julia and Stat.
- Get Rampage a better timeslot. You may have a 2 hour block for Dynamite, but that just means you have about an hour and a half of content. Rampage could supplement that time but starting the show at 10pm eastern is dumb as fukk. 88/100 times it's skippable or doesn't move stories forward. AEW need to pick if ppvs are on Sunday or Saturday because Rampage needs to be an improved version Sunday Night Heat to give the roster space to breathe and time for lower card wrestlers to get some shine and develop. Because "AEW Trios Matches" the show needs to die.
- Less matches having 2-4 minutes dedicated to trading chops and elbows. It happens EVERY. OTHER. MATCH. Mox, Rush, Bryan, Eddie, Pentagon, etc.
- Focus on building divisions around these titles. Christian is the TNT Champion but nothing about his feud with Darby or Adam has anything to do with the belt. Take away the belt and the feud still exists. On the other side with the IT Title, Orange was just having matches till the wheels fell off. I got no problem with him being a wrestling champion. But it was still just random matches that had OC in them. Where's the drama? There's no drama in asking if OC is gonna lose to Butcher, Sydal, Romero or Archer. Yeah, he's gonna win those matches. Then you move to the Mox situation and things fall apart due to a real injury and now everything is just.....meh. I know you can't predict injuries but that was months ago and the IT Title still hasn't recovered. It's a is symptom of a bigger problem in AEW. No structure in the ranks.
- Tony Khan letting someone else book the shows. He can't remain focused.
- Jungle Boy being fired for being the biggest fukk up in AEW. "...cry me a river" will forever be his "...that'll put butts in the seats" moment. Only Jack is nowhere near the legend Schiavone is and he pushed the hottest wrestling product OUT of the company. Just cut your losses on him.
I may have a few smaller ones later.
+1 rep for the username and gif combo
A lot of what's been said, I can agree with. Picking other things I'll say...
- AEW needs to refresh the women's division. BADLY! Emu Sakura loses all her matches, comes back a couple weeks later and challenges both champions over the course of a month. WHY? (Joe Budden voice) Raid some indies, fukk over TNA and NWA, get a joshi that has pressence and can work an American audience, get Kamille Brickhouse, Sawyer Rex, SOMEBODY to fill the giant monster role. Because as much as we love looking at booty, the division should be bigger than Storm, Ruby, Willow, Anna, Sky, Julia and Stat.
- Get Rampage a better timeslot. You may have a 2 hour block for Dynamite, but that just means you have about an hour and a half of content. Rampage could supplement that time but starting the show at 10pm eastern is dumb as fukk. 88/100 times it's skippable or doesn't move stories forward. AEW need to pick if ppvs are on Sunday or Saturday because Rampage needs to be an improved version Sunday Night Heat to give the roster space to breathe and time for lower card wrestlers to get some shine and develop. Because "AEW Trios Matches" the show needs to die.
- Less matches having 2-4 minutes dedicated to trading chops and elbows. It happens EVERY. OTHER. MATCH. Mox, Rush, Bryan, Eddie, Pentagon, etc.
- Focus on building divisions around these titles. Christian is the TNT Champion but nothing about his feud with Darby or Adam has anything to do with the belt. Take away the belt and the feud still exists. On the other side with the IT Title, Orange was just having matches till the wheels fell off. I got no problem with him being a wrestling champion. But it was still just random matches that had OC in them. Where's the drama? There's no drama in asking if OC is gonna lose to Butcher, Sydal, Romero or Archer. Yeah, he's gonna win those matches. Then you move to the Mox situation and things fall apart due to a real injury and now everything is just.....meh. I know you can't predict injuries but that was months ago and the IT Title still hasn't recovered. It's a is symptom of a bigger problem in AEW. No structure in the ranks.
- Tony Khan letting someone else book the shows. He can't remain focused.
- Jungle Boy being fired for being the biggest fukk up in AEW. "...cry me a river" will forever be his "...that'll put butts in the seats" moment. Only Jack is nowhere near the legend Schiavone is and he pushed the hottest wrestling product OUT of the company. Just cut your losses on him.
I may have a few smaller ones later.
Even if he booked them all well the fans at large aren’t going to care.Yeah raiding women from other companies won’t mean shyt when TK still can’t book them properly
Even if he booked them all well the fans at large aren’t going to care.
Toni Storm stuff getting praise even from AEW critics. Julia Hart’s stuff is very well liked. And what quarters lose chunks of viewers every time? Yet the quarter hours featuring them hemorrhage viewers.
Athena and Billie Starkz stuff in ROH (which is mostly watched by AEW fans, I’d assume) is a very well told and logically booked story that’s been going on for months and and will main event Final Battle. But it’s by far the worst selling ROH PPV of the TK era.
People say they want it better booked but when they get well booked stuff they don’t support it.