May 24, 20232 yr comment_6004814 Seems Punk is a go and Collision will be officially announced at the United Center. Man, I hope he shows up tonight because only 3 weeks to fill that place up is a not an easy task.
May 24, 20232 yr comment_6004815 27 minutes ago, Jmare007 said: Seems Punk is a go and Collision will be officially announced at the United Center. Man, I hope he shows up tonight because only 3 weeks to fill that place up is a not an easy task. Dave Meltzer tweeted that yesterday.
May 25, 20232 yr comment_6004817 2 hours ago, Jmare007 said: Seems Punk is a go and Collision will be officially announced at the United Center. Man, I hope he shows up tonight because only 3 weeks to fill that place up is a not an easy task. I mean, there is no competition tonight, since the Nuggets swept the Lakers. If they wanna grab people's eyeballs and dollars, they should have that surprise on deck. I haven't seen a single soul excited for this Four Pillar program (specially because it really should've been Darby vs MJF, if we're going that route).
May 25, 20232 yr comment_6004835 Unless they want to hold off on Punk actually appearing until Collision, I do wonder if he shows up after the main event at DON to mirror MJF doing the same to him
May 25, 20232 yr comment_6004836 2 hours ago, Stiva said: Unless they want to hold off on Punk actually appearing until Collision, I do wonder if he shows up after the main event at DON to mirror MJF doing the same to him Yup, that's the second biggest thing they could book to garner interest (make people tune in for the following Dynamite) and probably the most realistic one.
May 25, 20232 yr comment_6004837 With Omega, Page and Moxley seemingly off the table, what other Punk programs are left in AEW? A final Joe match is intriguing. Jericho. A rematch with MJF. Something with Bryan or Claudio. It'd be a great opportunity for Jay White. Miro? There's Adam Cole, Malakai Black, Keith Lee. What do you want to see from Punk?
May 25, 20232 yr comment_6004843 Gimme Punk vs Ricky. Listen, they'll go with Britt, as she must pose, or Saraya. Cursed title.
May 25, 20232 yr comment_6004847 3 hours ago, MLB said: With Omega, Page and Moxley seemingly off the table, what other Punk programs are left in AEW? A final Joe match is intriguing. Jericho. A rematch with MJF. Something with Bryan or Claudio. It'd be a great opportunity for Jay White. Miro? There's Adam Cole, Malakai Black, Keith Lee. What do you want to see from Punk? You’d think the big money program would be the obvious one if they can all bury the hatchet and work it all out between them. I kind of think Punk is coming back as a heel anyway since I can see him getting booed in a lot of places
May 25, 20232 yr comment_6004851 2 hours ago, KawadaSmile said: Gimme Punk vs Ricky. Listen, they'll go with Britt. As they should, given she is the division's biggest draw and she rules. Plus, we can finally get to the much-awaited Britt v. Jamie.
May 25, 20232 yr comment_6004852 And this is why, despite all the drama and bullshit and big baby behaviour, TK was adamant that Punk be brought back
May 25, 20232 yr comment_6004853 When you don’t have Real Draws in wrestling and you have one of the outliers, you lean on the outliers and figure it out later.
May 25, 20232 yr comment_6004858 Check the ticket sales for the next 4 shows once Punk is back and not just Chicago
May 25, 20232 yr comment_6004859 Those are the Canada shows and they don’t look really good at all regardless as far as advanced sales go (unless something has changed since the announcement.) If he gets a 25% bump or so afterwards, I’d say that’s a success.
May 25, 20232 yr comment_6004861 2 hours ago, MoS said: As they should, given she is the division's biggest draw and she rules. Plus, we can finally get to the much-awaited Britt v. Jamie. I strongly disagree with you here, bubba. She has this very bad habit of just fucking burying opponents on the mic during feuds - and she is a strong talker, don't get me wrong - and even when Hayter was champ, she never felt like the focus of the division. There's this overfixation on Britt that is not good on the short or long run. Is she better than Saraya? Yes. Would she be the better choice to drop the belt to someone like Willow? No.
May 25, 20232 yr comment_6004862 Britt isn't good in the ring or at promos (she is a good talker, which isn't the same as being a good promo), but other than that she rules I guess.
May 25, 20232 yr comment_6004864 46 minutes ago, KawadaSmile said: I strongly disagree with you here, bubba. She has this very bad habit of just fucking burying opponents on the mic during feuds - and she is a strong talker, don't get me wrong - and even when Hayter was champ, she never felt like the focus of the division. There's this overfixation on Britt that is not good on the short or long run. Is she better than Saraya? Yes. Would she be the better choice to drop the belt to someone like Willow? No. The burying opponents thing only became a thing during the Thunder Rosa feud, and that was obviously caused due to them hating each other in real life. She was not burying Shida or Nyla or Statlander when she was feuding with them. She managed to make a Big Swole feud slightly entertaining. Will forever be a fan just cuz of that. Hayter didn't feel the focus cuz of Saraya, not Britt. Tbh the best choice would be Athena, she is having a career year and deserves a chance to run with the ball
May 26, 20232 yr comment_6004873 Hayter vs Saraya is the clear choice for All In, I’d say. Sometimes shit just falls into your lap
May 26, 20232 yr comment_6004875 There was a pic going around of Sabu using his AEW paycheck to snort some coke, which honestly was great, but apparently it has been deleted and that makes me sad
May 26, 20232 yr comment_6004877 The whining about a long ROH show (really two put together) was absurd. You can watch it whenever. On paper, there were maybe 17 of the 19 matches (sorry Cole Karter and Action Andretti) I wanted to see and I'll watch them in between other things as it fits into my life over the next week. I think a lot of the whining about it had to be a Twitter thing. On Twitter, you have to stay up with the most recent thing to be part of the immediate discourse. On Twitter, you watch wrestling not necessarily because you love wrestling but because you crave being part of something immediate and live and bigger than you. You derive part of your identity from it and therefore you have to consume it as soon as possible so you don't fall behind the curve, because the curve is only going to last a few hours. ROH is made for a message board crowd by a message board poster. I kind of feel bad for people who can't find joy in a show that kicks off with Mark Briscoe vs JD Drake. Those people are definitely doing wrestling wrong.
May 26, 20232 yr comment_6004878 I've mentioned it before, but some people are fans of being fans. The fandom itself is the draw, the excitement; the actual product is incidental.
May 26, 20232 yr comment_6004882 3 hours ago, Matt D said: The whining about a long ROH show (really two put together) was absurd. You can watch it whenever. On paper, there were maybe 17 of the 19 matches (sorry Cole Karter and Action Andretti) I wanted to see and I'll watch them in between other things as it fits into my life over the next week. I think a lot of the whining about it had to be a Twitter thing. On Twitter, you have to stay up with the most recent thing to be part of the immediate discourse. On Twitter, you watch wrestling not necessarily because you love wrestling but because you crave being part of something immediate and live and bigger than you. You derive part of your identity from it and therefore you have to consume it as soon as possible so you don't fall behind the curve, because the curve is only going to last a few hours. ROH is made for a message board crowd by a message board poster. I kind of feel bad for people who can't find joy in a show that kicks off with Mark Briscoe vs JD Drake. Those people are definitely doing wrestling wrong. That reminds me that Meltzer doesn't rewatch old wrestling again. I can understand that in his position he needs to keep on top of what's current and it's a luxury he can't afford, but my fandom would have disappeared a long time if I was just watching current stuff all the time.
May 28, 20232 yr comment_6004976 How in the name of fuck they didn't tape this 2 weeks ago and show a 4 minute clip on Dynamite?!?!
May 28, 20232 yr comment_6004978 Never mind that. The AEW pre-show now has four prediction making talking heads. I watch AEW to avoid this shit!
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