Caught me completely by surprise. Had to stop laughing otherwise I’d have woken out house up at half 2 in the morning.
I enjoy the stupid stuff when it’s done really really well and that was done really really well
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Caught me completely by surprise. Had to stop laughing otherwise I’d have woken out house up at half 2 in the morning.
I enjoy the stupid stuff when it’s done really really well and that was done really really well
SuperTimCahill
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So that Dark Order fella got knocked the hell out in the middle of the ring and nobody even checked on him for a couple of minutes? Blade just dragged him to the corner and tagged him out and the hurt guy just lay there for the rest of the match completely out of it. Not even the ref did anything. What an absolute joke of a company. They don't know what the hell they're doing, and if they don't slow down soon, someone will get seriously hurt.
Just watched a clip of this. It’s really grim. The fact that when he eventually (barely) gets to his feet they then do more moves with him getting hit in the head is awful.
Forgot to mention Eddie Kingston, who is just awesome
His and Moxley's back and forth promos on Dynamite were fantastic. The pair of them, Kingston and Mox, might be the best two promos in AEW right now
What's that all about?
I think so. Eddie strikes proper fear into me, super intense. Him and Mox is such a great feud, it's a pity they don't have full crowds
Corny is off the MJF hype train since the singing segment. I wondered at the time whether it was a calculated attempt to troll Jim and am even more convinced now
SuperTimCahill
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It certainly seems like this at times. Which is weird, making their product worse to [Poor language removed] one dude. Shows you how Corny's living rent free in their heads. If they actually listened a bit to him, they might even have built a larger following. Sadly they're too far up their own asses to realize their product is trash.
I don't know about that. I hate some of the stuff they do, despise the Bucks, can't fathom the likes of Janela and Kiss. But there's parts I come back for. I'm a moderate wrestling fan.
But they have built a hardcore base who seem to enjoy what they're doing and that's exactly who they should be gearing themselves towards, not Jim. I like most of the same stuff Cornette does, but he is admittedly old hat. If it's working, and it seems to be, then that's what they are going to do
As his booking of ROH showed, no, no they wouldn't
Fella is very good historian – really good on stuff like Dark Side of the Ring – but he's clueless with the current stuff
SuperTimCahill
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It's working for their fanbase, but they're not really building a bigger one. The hardcore fanbase will follow them no matter what. 700k to 900k viewers in a country with 330 million people isn't impressive at all. Most of the points Corny's making in his podcasts about their product is very well explained and it makes a lot of sense. People are complaining about him being a bitter old man, but I'm sure these are people who've never listened to a full review from him.
Why would the millions of people who used to watch Stone Cold 15 years ago be interested in watching Orange Cassidy? They probably still like wrestling, just not the crap we get today.
And I agree, they've got some good stuff - perhaps 20% of the segments are enjoyable. If only they did it like Impact and put all their clowns (comedy acts) into the same storyline and made the rest of the roster seem like they ment business. Khan just can't write an intriguing storyline to save his life.
When the comedy takes up 70% of the product, it feels awkward when they suddenly throw stuff like Brodie Lee's beatdown of Cody infront of us. It feels out of place, and the people who'd probably love that segment surely changed the channel after the previous segments with Sonny Kiss or The Best Friends.
SuperTimCahill
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Corny wasn't a dictator in ROH, as he explained in a recent pod. A lot of the stuff they put out, he was against.
Disagree. Thought that was the best bit of wrestling I've seen in a long time tbh. Giving the title back to Cody a few weeks later was, conversely, awful