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What could possibly be aggravating about that lmao

I was thinking more they made her mental health issues into her gimmick to make fun of her as a crazy chick, and ended up going off her meds to look thinner on TV because of what the office wanted her to wear every week.

It is a bit strange to me that both Punk and AJ have returned to WWE considering the circumstances of why they both left in the first place. I suppose time and money heals all wounds.

I don't think Jericho going back to WWE means anything for the perception of AEW. At all. It's not like a Kenny or even Mox leaving for WWE. I wouldn't even say it's as big perception thing as the Lucha Bros, possibly even Starks leaving, because...Jericho at some point was always going to go back to WWE for HOF and WM/Saudi pay day, and should have the last two contracts but was able to work TK into no doubt overpaying him to underdeliver and be an albatross on TV by floating he would be open to going back to WWE. I don't think it hurts AEW in any way at all to lose Jericho at this stage.

Lol at Kota Ibushi having to be the one to tell Tana that going to the top of the cage was too crazy for him to do

Just seems like Tanahashi isn't good in the office. Can't keep anyone, and not even guys going to AEW. Except the guys who just won't go away.

Yeah there was def weird shit and it felt more like a WWE show with some more spice, but not really. Not sure why Konnan was giving shout outs to The Undertaker in his AAA HOF speech, nor why Nick Khan/HHH/HBK were in the ring to start the show for the Mexican national anthem, nor why Khan/HHH had front row seats to be seen on camera not reacting for half the show until they got up and left.

I thought it was fine but now having a WWE ring with WWE ropes, WWE steps, and cast off announce tables that WWE stopped using this year was weird. Not to mention the graphics on screen were straight from the WWE production team.

Big Jim strikes again

You know, it's really fucking wild how over Hogan was in late stage WCW. From the time he comes back in the red and yellow all the way to Real Ass Terry Bollea to Bash at the Beach 2000. It's all terrible programming, objectively bad, yet he's signifcantly more over in his second face run in WCW than the first. Quite baffling really.

They already do this on Peacock and they're never going to go back to fewer ads, be it commercials during PPVs or every inch of the arena covered in logos.

He probably should take a full year off and try to heal his knees up a little and I think he got more eye surgeries after leaving NJPW this year, too.

Terrible for fans. They trained their audience for 10 years to never pay that much for PPVs again. First it was $9.99, then it was $4.99 on Peacock (and free for most Xfinity customers). And that was with all the back catalogue on Network, and then all that PLUS all the stuff on Peacock. Now, $30 a month for PPVs on ESPN, which has fucking no content besides talking heads yelling at each other. In terms of actual live sports, they split every major sport in the US with NBC/CBS/Turner and have the least of each. In terms of international, it iss just US distribution 90% of the time. Maybe it's worth ESPN streaming whatever version if you really love college football bowl games, I guess. After next year, to keep up with WWE you'll need $30 per month for ESPN, $20 a month for Netflix for Raw, however much for Youtube TV or Hulu, whichever has SD replays. That shit is going to add up real fucking fast and a whole bunch of young kids super into WWE are going to drop out because their parents can't afford all that shit plus whatever other services like Disney. 5 years of that and when the deal runs out, shareholders probably aren't going to be as thrilled when business is down as they've been unable to grow the younger audience because they priced them out. I also would not at all be surprised if it gets treated like UFC PPVs have with ESPN, where you have to pay the ESPN streaming platform price, then the UFC PPV price on top of that.

I believe it's the opposite with ADR, that they absolutely will not be using him anymore and he's out. But otherwise...I don't even know what to think about the crowds. I would think even at most casual of wrestling fan (and the prices for WWE tickets, I don't know how casual fans could afford to be the ones going to shows) would have to have some awareness of why Brock has been missing and not mentioned for 2 years, why Vince got pushed out, HHH keeps finding himself at Trump admin events and hearings. It is very confusing for me to make sense of the crowd booing the shit out of Trump on screen, while also begging HHH to spit on them, all the Hogan chants and merch, and losing their minds for Brock in the same weekend. I'm not sure it is fair to blame the whole audience for not knowing or paying attention or even caring that much about any of it. Sure is fair to blame the people at the top, though.

Cody was laughing about being asked about Vince with Bill Simmons just this week. I'm sure they changed their post show to avoid being asked questions they didn't like about Vince, Trump, and the host of terrible PR they've been doing all year. I'm sure the return of Brock would immediately get questions about Vince in a presser.