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Since GWE season is starting and we are beginning to think about the beginning, how comfortable would you be with the idea of Bryan as the GOAT? I really feel he is a contender for number one for me

Her initial face run didn't work, she has just improved in the ring and her in-ring style is very heelish, and I think they feel she has more mileage as a heel before she turns face. Plus, their current champ Shida is a face and I think they feel a future heel champ would therefore have more fresh faces as challengers.

Another theory for losing female viewers put forward by Joe Lanza on his show review for Voices of Wrestling, based on ratings and quarters data, is that Kenny Omega might be an anti-draw with young women. Like, he might actively drive away that demographic

She needed to be interviewed and allowed to gloat because otherwise the fans would have turned her face and they don't want that. Interviewing the loser to allow them to get their heat back is standard wrestling procedure, isn't it?

I don't watch the TV, so are all three in this main event program heels?

I don't think juice is the problem, because AEW has always had juice. But overusing it and overusing the violent hardcore spots, often for no reason but for gratuitous violence and shock value, will drive away women viewers at a bigger rate than it gains older men. I think the big secret to regaining the women viewers is to simply push the young good-looking talented wrestlers that they have. The newest WON showed that Darby is an undeniable draw and Darby-Silver was a massive success. Simply having hot storylines and matches involving young exciting talent beats gimmick matches for the heck of it and all the weapons and hardcore stuff.

Who is putting words in the mouth now

20 years ago on this day, WCW died Final image ever of WCW would appear shortly

Also, I really wanted to share this earlier lol

You don't really have any locus standi to accuse others of being rude when most of your posts about this have been calling most people who post here (and on Reddit) toxic, essentially stupid. Using rasslin' as a pejorative was perhaps droll and on-point 35 years ago, but now it's just tired and cliché

I imagine Kingston will in the future make for a very good transitional babyface champ between two heels

It made the Bella twins stars, absolutely, but from what I recall, it never led to any overlap or increase in viewership for WWE shows. I really doubt this show would lead to any new fan checking out AEW.

Not reality TV, but it's sub-genre where rich people talk about how difficult their rich lives are. I am not saying the world will crap on it or give a shit about it, I am just saying I can totally understand why wrestling fans who know Cody and Brandi might not like the show

If I had a penny for every time I have seen him sell his knee and gone "Fuck, he might legit be injured", I would be able to buy WWE from Vince

I hated that Sting spot. He keeps stealing Darby's spotlight and imagine anyone cheering for Sting over the Dark Order. That aside though, this was a tremendous match. Match of the night

The way Darby both delivers and sells offence..just the way he moves, I have never seen anyone do it like that. He's awesome

I am glad the men and women seem to be mixing again, For the longest time it has felt that the women are away on their own little Amazon island

Legit question: where would you rank Kingston amongst the greatest promos of all-time? Cuz I am certain I have heard them all and I think he legit might be the greatest ever

It also seems really inappropriate and tone-deaf at a time we are suffering from a worldwide pandemic that has plunged millions into poverty

Why can't they give Jade a manager. She did some stuff with Vickie on Dark, right

As bad as the Cody-QT stuff was, Rey Fenix is amazing and the greatest palate-cleanser cleanser in wrestling history

Do you remember just how hot he was when the promotion started? Rewatching the very first segment of the first Dynamite, I get goosebumps. Now here he is cosplaying Bruno Sammartino against a Larry Z who isn't a protege but a teacher to whom showing this magnanimity is frankly insulting.

Lol at the fans chanting Cody's Friend at QT. Live fans are sorely needed in wrestling

I cringed so hard when he said Crankie Frankie