Not aimed at just one person, or even the online stuff, but Tony lets too much shit fly behind the scenes. The stuff online doesn't help the perception of the company or the morale backstage. The whole Punk situation would have been avoided if he had took a firmer hand with the talent and had stepped in and stopped it much earlier.

Punk should have just been fired just from the shooting comments in the press conference, never mind the fight as well. but that wouldn't have happened if Page and others had been pulled up for their backstage shit first. 

I think Punk is still a bigger deal to AEW, than a lot of the other people working there, so it makes sense to keep him happy to a point. But if he has issues, he needs to address them behind closed doors with Tony and not online. 

Now Vince is back, the WWE is much less of safety blanket for the talent, they may get hired, but they probably will be unhappy with the booking Vince gives them. The Cody outcome i'm guessing is a Vince call and not a Hunters one.

Tony should use this time as an opportunity to cull his talent and get rid of the people not happy working for him, free up his budget for the new hires which will be happening in the next few weeks/months from the WWE (i predict) 

Not saying a workforce should be living in fear, but this does come across as a lot of entitled millennials who need to understand they are being paid to do a job at the end of the day. They work for Aew and they should give their boss and coworkers basic respect and also receive it too.

The inmates built the asylum. Stands to reason they want to run it. 

It sometimes seems like the wrestlers think they are doing Tony a favour, letting him pay them, rather than the other way 'round. Either way, it's far more co-dependent and symbiotic than Vince's relationship with his own roster.

Nigel McGuinness is ALL ELITE.

Let's go

32 minutes ago, KawadaSmile said:

Nigel McGuinness is ALL ELITE.

Let's go

Nigel was in the broadcast booth for the ROH PPV this past Friday. I have mixed feelings about that. When he used to be the authority figure and colour commentator in ROH before, I always found him to be pretty terrible…high pitched and nasal sounding and not particularly good.

He definitely improved tremendously during his time in NXT and NXT-UK. He and Tom Hannifan were a great team, I thought. However, the current existing ROH broadcast team of Ian Riccobani and Caprice Coleman are very good as they are. I really don’t see the need to add a third person to the mix. Then again, he seemed to be leaning a little bit on the heel side in his commentary during the pay-per-view. That could add a new dimension I suppose.

More importantly, rumours are circulating that Nigel may actually get cleared to wrestle again at some point, and obviously, if that is the case, then that is outstanding news. He was an awesome talent and I always felt bad that his career was cut short as it was.

 

In other news, reading the news sites today it seems that Tony Khan is doubling down on the significance and importance of this big announcement tonight, so I am definitely curious as to what it will be.

Is Tony creating AEW: UK?

3 hours ago, The Thread Killer said:

In other news, reading the news sites today it seems that Tony Khan is doubling down on the significance and importance of this big announcement tonight, so I am definitely curious as to what it will be.

I assume this has to do with the first AEW UK show. I don't see what else would be that significant.

AEW Svalbard. Got to get the jump on NXT.

Well there's Jay White

2 minutes ago, ...TG said:

Well there's Jay White

Good call on his part, I think.

After everything that has happened over this week, I am very disappointed in the content of Max’s rap. The best he can come up with is taking shots at George Santos?

Fucker out here singing Louie Prima, goddamn. 

14 minutes ago, The Thread Killer said:

After everything that has happened over this week, I am very disappointed in the content of Max’s rap. The best he can come up with is taking shots at George Santos?

it's the most Brazil will ever get to be properly represented

Hook better win this match.

So the big announcement was they're coming to Wembley Stadium for All In. That's a lot of seats to fill, good luck to them. 

Damn they got Wembly Stadium. That’s awesome. 

Wembley is a big ass stadium. They will need a bomb ass build. 

Welp, I'm in London so I'm going for sure. Hopefully they do something crazy like Okada-Danielson or Punk-Omega (yeah i know)

My thought? Nigel gets cleared and they do Bryan/Nigel. 

Nigel is now insisting that he never had to forcibly retire to begin with, for whatever that's worth.

1 hour ago, KawadaSmile said:

Wembley is a big ass stadium. They will need a bomb ass build. 

I figured they were going to do a show at Fulham's stadium, but damn, go big or go home I guess. 

Missed out on Summerslam as was only just 16 and my parents couldn't get me tickets to go.  So this show is very tempting, just hope its not priced too high.   

52 minutes ago, PeteF3 said:

Nigel is now insisting that he never had to forcibly retire to begin with, for whatever that's worth.

Didn’t he shoot a documentary of his retirement tour where that was the entire point of it?

Yeah I thought the whole issue was he swiss cheesed his brain doing all those headbutt spots.

The first two episodes of AEW All Access have been pretty banal. It’s very clear who the “main characters” are — the Young Bucks Don’t Want To Talk About All Out, of course, and the Bucks (along with Sammy Guevara and Britt Baker) are portrayed as favorably as possible throughout.

Even with the hagiographic approach, though, it’s kind of amazing that Sammy can’t help but come across as a jerk in trying to squash his beef with Eddie Kingston (in the most choreographed way possible). He prefaces the conversation with a confession that he thinks this all started because Eddie had a vendetta with him - that he’s an easy target for people backstage to hate because he won the TNT title - and basically opens and closes the conversation with Eddie in a sentence that basically boils down to “yeah, so we haven’t talked in a while, we good?” Eddie says exactly what’s needed on camera - yeah, we’re good, let’s just be pros - and not much else and then the Sammy storyline just moves forward without really dwelling on why someone like Eddie might have been frustrated, assuming that was even the case. Let’s see how many episodes it takes before Sammy gets to Andrade, I guess!