Wrestling - Part 3



It's hard to fathom all the excitement over AEW. There is nothing whatsoever to suggest it will be anything other than a calamitous fail.
Yeah, the usual suspects will suggest otherwise but wrestling is f***ing finished. It's done for. The real fan base has long since gone and wontbe returning sadly.
You know, I remember saying on here years ago how the WWE was finished, how Cena and Reigns and New Day and all these other emasculated jokes had turned pro wrestling into a niche product populated by nerds who shout This Is Awesome! a hundred and fifty times a show. But as usual, the try hards wouldn't listen when the ratings were falling off a cliff. And still the excuses came.
I hope one day pro wrestling gets back to what made it great. Story telling. Drama. Larger than life characters. Characters you could f***ing relate to. But i don't hold out hope.
So enjoy AEW. Enjoy the million and one kick outs. The endless flippedy flop matches that carry no suspense, the cheap shot promos at WWE that will soon become tired and stale, the absence of long drawn out story lines over throwaway meaningless matches. The nonsensical booking that contradicts itself every 2 weeks. Enjoy NXT 2.0, TNA 2.0 and remember how they turned out.
 
moshpit said:
It's hard to fathom all the excitement over AEW. There is nothing whatsoever to suggest it will be anything other than a calamitous fail.
Yeah, the usual suspects will suggest otherwise but wrestling is f***ing finished. It's done for. The real fan base has long since gone and wontbe returning sadly.
You know, I remember saying on here years ago how the WWE was finished, how Cena and Reigns and New Day and all these other emasculated jokes had turned pro wrestling into a niche product populated by nerds who shout This Is Awesome! a hundred and fifty times a show. But as usual, the try hards wouldn't listen when the ratings were falling off a cliff. And still the excuses came.
I hope one day pro wrestling gets back to what made it great. Story telling. Drama. Larger than life characters. Characters you could f***ing relate to. But i don't hold out hope.
So enjoy AEW. Enjoy the million and one kick outs. The endless flippedy flop matches that carry no suspense, the cheap shot promos at WWE that will soon become tired and stale, the absence of long drawn out story lines over throwaway meaningless matches. The nonsensical booking that contradicts itself every 2 weeks. Enjoy NXT 2.0, TNA 2.0 and remember how they turned out.
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:lol: Cheers mate, you enjoy Vince booking the WWE into oblivion. I think the demand for AEW and Double or Nothing proves that there are a lot of wrestling fans out there that still love it but are completely sick of the shite WWE are putting out, there is massive demand for an alternative product. Not sure how you can say wrestling is finished when not too long ago ROH/NJPW sold out MSG and AEW have sold out a 13,000 arena in four minutes in a notoriously difficult city to draw in. Wrestling outside of WWE is more alive than ever.
 
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moshpit said:
It's hard to fathom all the excitement over AEW. There is nothing whatsoever to suggest it will be anything other than a calamitous fail.
Yeah, the usual suspects will suggest otherwise but wrestling is f***ing finished. It's done for. The real fan base has long since gone and wontbe returning sadly.
You know, I remember saying on here years ago how the WWE was finished, how Cena and Reigns and New Day and all these other emasculated jokes had turned pro wrestling into a niche product populated by nerds who shout This Is Awesome! a hundred and fifty times a show. But as usual, the try hards wouldn't listen when the ratings were falling off a cliff. And still the excuses came.
I hope one day pro wrestling gets back to what made it great. Story telling. Drama. Larger than life characters. Characters you could f***ing relate to. But i don't hold out hope.
So enjoy AEW. Enjoy the million and one kick outs. The endless flippedy flop matches that carry no suspense, the cheap shot promos at WWE that will soon become tired and stale, the absence of long drawn out story lines over throwaway meaningless matches. The nonsensical booking that contradicts itself every 2 weeks. Enjoy NXT 2.0, TNA 2.0 and remember how they turned out.
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I read this in Jim Cornette's voice.

Great to see a PPV on a Saturday night; hope all their events do that.
 
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Reptilia said:
:lol: Cheers mate, you enjoy Vince booking the WWE into oblivion. I think the demand for AEW and Double or Nothing proves that there are a lot of wrestling fans out there that still love it but are completely sick of the shite WWE are putting out, there is massive demand for an alternative product. Not sure how you can say wrestling is finished when not too long ago ROH/NJPW sold out MSG and AEW have sold out a 13,000 arena in four minutes in a notoriously difficult city to draw in. Wrestling outside of WWE is more alive than ever.
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More alive than ever? Really? Talk about complete ignoring reality :lol:
The WWE is dead. Pro wrestling is dead mate. It's shrank from mainstream to niche within a generation because it lost all sense of what had made it great. I've loved it for as long as i can remember but it is sank to a depth i never thought possible. I really hope AEW changes things but I've seen nothing to suggest they're still heading down the same path as Vince. The path that led to millions switching the channel over for good.
 
moshpit said:
More alive than ever? Really? Talk about complete ignoring reality :lol:
The WWE is dead. Pro wrestling is dead mate. It's shrank from mainstream to niche within a generation because it lost all sense of what had made it great. I've loved it for as long as i can remember but it is sank to a depth i never thought possible. I really hope AEW changes things but I've seen nothing to suggest they're still heading down the same path as Vince. The path that led to millions switching the channel over for good.
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The WWE is not the be all and end all of wrestling.
 
Reptilia said:
The WWE is not the be all and end all of wrestling.
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I never suggested it was and it certainly hasn't been for a very long time. But sadly the direction it has gone in has permeated throughout the entire industry.
The probelm is twofold now in that half the wrestlers (and i use that term loosely) are marks themselves and are disconnected totally from all that made the industry as great as it once was.
 
Regardless if AEW is overhyped or not, the industry needs this in order to develop.

WWE needs more professional organisations as much as they need the Indie organisations.

Imagine a football league with only 1 billionaire team and a bunch of semi-pro teams - Ligue 1 basically :D It's rather dull.
 
Predictions for tonight:

-Chris Jericho vs. Kenny Omega - Everyone is saying Omega but I think Jericho wins, takes them to 1 win each and sets up a rubber match. Also continues the storyline of Jericho taking all the credit for AEW.

-Cody Rhodes vs. Dustin Rhodes - Cody

-AAA World Tag Team championship: The Young Bucks (c) vs. The Lucha Bros - Penta and Fenix

-Britt Baker vs. Nyla Rose vs. Kylie Rae - Britt Baker



-SoCal Uncensored (Christopher Daniels, Frankie Kazarian, and Scorpio Sky) vs. Strong Hearts (Cima, T-Hawk, and El Lindaman) - Strong Hearts

-Aja Kong, Yuka Sakazaki, and Emi Sakura vs. Hikaru Shida, Riho Abe, and Ryo Mizunami - Kong and co

-Best Friends (Chuck Taylor and Trent Baretta) vs. Jack Evans and Angelico - Best Friends

BUY-IN PRE-SHOW

-21-man Casino Battle Royal: Billy Gunn, MJF, Joey Janela, Shawn Spears (Tye Dillinger), Glacier, Brian Pillman Jr., Jimmy Havoc, Sonny Kiss, Brandon Cutler, Ace Romero, Sunny Daze, Dustin Thomas, Michael Nakazawa, Jungle Boy, Isiah Kassidy, Marq Quen, Luchasaurus, and four TBA entrants - Jon Moxley, Page or MJF.

-Kip Sabian vs. Sammy Guevara - Sabian

I genuinely think Punk is turning up as well.
 
Predictions for tonight:

-Chris Jericho vs. Kenny Omega - Omega wins, staredown with the battle royale winner

-Cody Rhodes vs. Dustin Rhodes - Dustin Rhodes, Cody beats down after

-AAA World Tag Team championship: The Young Bucks (c) vs. The Lucha Bros - Penta and Fenix

-Britt Baker vs. Nyla Rose vs. Kylie Rae - Nyla Rose

-SoCal Uncensored (Christopher Daniels, Frankie Kazarian, and Scorpio Sky) vs. Strong Hearts (Cima, T-Hawk, and El Lindaman) - Strong Hearts

-Aja Kong, Yuka Sakazaki, and Emi Sakura vs. Hikaru Shida, Riho Abe, and Ryo Mizunami - Kong and co

-Best Friends (Chuck Taylor and Trent Baretta) vs. Jack Evans and Angelico - Best Friends

BUY-IN PRE-SHOW

-21-man Casino Battle Royal: Billy Gunn, MJF, Joey Janela, Shawn Spears (Tye Dillinger), Glacier, Brian Pillman Jr., Jimmy Havoc, Sonny Kiss, Brandon Cutler, Ace Romero, Sunny Daze, Dustin Thomas, Michael Nakazawa, Jungle Boy, Isiah Kassidy, Marq Quen, Luchasaurus, and four TBA entrants - it's going to be someone unannounced, for which case, rather than say Punk or Moxley, though I think both could show, I'm going to go with a totally random call and say Kazuchika Okada which will be the first signal to AEW and NJPW working together

-Kip Sabian vs. Sammy Guevara - Guevara
 
S.S.R.. said:
I read this in Jim Cornette's voice.

Great to see a PPV on a Saturday night; hope all their events do that.
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A triple with cheese,
Double mayo, extra onions mother fucker

Just been directed to this thread after starting an AEW thread, sorry.

Didn’t even know this existed!

I went to wrestle mania 35 few weeks ago, was mega.

JR commentary is making this. Who’s the other guy with him who sounds like King,.?
 
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