#If mjf actually leaves aew for wwe; aew is gonna be absolutely fucked

[milesworld96]

YALL…..WE GOT NEWS☹️

#HELP PLEASE SAY THAT ITS JUST A BREAK HE’S TAKING #AND ITS JUST TO PUSH THE STORY AB THE BIDDING WAR AND HE’S ACTUALLY STAYING IN AEW #PLEASE SAY THAT THIS IS NOT HIM BASICALLY SAYING BYE #This is Cody all over again isnt it😭😭 #If mjf actually leaves aew for wwe; aew is gonna be absolutely fucked #they’ve been losing their top stars left and right either by injury or exiting the company #I fear for aew #still watching it tho if he does leave #Hope this is just to make ppl worried and not an actual thing #mjf #maxwell jacob friedman #wwe #aew #the bidding war of 2024 #SCARED FOR MY LIFE RN!!!! #dawg if he’s still out by the time the royal rumble comes around I may actually die #I HOPE nothing happens and he’s just on a long break #can you tell I’m worried?

[dalekofchaos]

Hangman Adam Page deserves better as AEW World Champion

The journey of Hangman beating Kenny and being crowned as champion. His reign has been unfortunately underwhelming.

He had great matches with Bryan Danielson, but his presence as champion is constantly been kept on a midcard level and when he does has championship matches, it’s on the first match of the card.

Let’s compare that to the former Champions. Chris Jericho, Jon Moxley and Kenny Omega all led AEW from the front. Whether they were instigating wild angles, cutting fire promos or mucking about in skits with The Young Bucks, they all had prominent, featured roles that denoted them as the biggest of deals.

Page’s reign is in danger of being defined by the champion complaining he doesn’t get to defend the title enough. The Danielson feud was focused mostly on “The American Dragon” leaving Dark Order members for dead. Now “The Hangman” is treading water with Lance Archer in a mini-feud that feels terribly midcard.

Compare the Adam Page and Archer segments to the prominence given to Roman Reigns who main events or opens every single episode of SmackDown. If Roman misses a week that’s a news story!

More importance is being placed on the guys looking to challenge for the title than on the champion himself. Not to mention guys like Cody Rhodes, Chris Jericho and Jon Moxley who aren’t even in the title picture.

Kicking off a show with a highly-anticipated World Championship match on free TV is as ridiculous as it sounds. Especially when there's no other major match or segment planned for the main event. Viewers won't have much of a reason to keep watching the show, especially if the big matches are followed by a Dan Lambert or Matt Hardy segment. Remember, when CM Punk was in his historic reign as WWE Champion, he barely main evented PPVs and Cena vs Johnny Ace was treated with more importance. We were all outraged by that, so why aren’t we outraged when Adam never main events a PPV or a single episode of Dynamite?

AEW needs to rethink its card placement for pay-per-view matches. It doesn't make sense for all the highly-anticipated matches to take place towards the end of the show. It has to be spread out throughout the show to keep the crowd lively and awake.

Why did you make Adam Page your World Champion if you constantly treat him an afterthought as champion and put DAN LAMBERT AND BRANDI FUCKING RHODES IN A MORE IMPORTANT LIGHT THAN YOUR ACTUAL WORLD CHAMPION???

 Hangman deserves better than this shit. Treat him with importance. Treat your world champion LIKE THE WORLD CHAMPION OF YOUR FUCKING COMPANY! Like all you’re telling the audience by featuring other top guys more prominently than your world champion is that “wow why aren’t Bryan Danielson, MJF, Cm Punk or Moxley champion?” Like you are dangerously close to presenting Adam as just a transitional champion and he deserves so much better.

Here are simple ways to better feature Adam Page

Have him open Dynamite week after week and cut big babyface champion promos

Let him wrestle every week in the main event whether it’s in singles or tag team

Any kind of segments with the Dark Order on a weekly basis. Like you’re telling me you can’t have Adam hyping up Anna Jay or John Silver?

Build conflict and gear towards a feud with Adam Cole. Like we are gonna get it eventually, but why is Adam dicking around with Lance Archer and why is Adam Cole messing around with Orange Cassidy when it’s clear the two Adams have history and you could actually build to a feud instead of pointless matches that mean nothing?

Have Adam Page save CM Punk from the near murder from Wardlow and MJF(why did all the babyface women come to separate Brandi and Paige VanZant, but absolutely no one came to the aid of CM Punk?) Like having Adam saving Punk from a beatdown would would also tease a feud with MJF and maybe showing Punk’s desire for the belt down the line

Hangman and Mox have a segment. Doesn’t have to be the week that Moxley did come back, but a week or two later, Hangman and Mox have a mutual sign of respect or something. Like I know Jon’s problems were real and Adam’s were just kayfabe, but it would work to just have a moment or two to have it look like these two guys respect one another

Have Hangman and Cody do a segment. Cody congratulates Hangman on winning the belt and getting past his demons, Hangman is worried about Cody and feels like he’s going down a dark path similar to what he went through and this could actually build to a slowburn feud between Adam and Cody

Actually treat your world champion like a world champion

Tony Khan is doing a good job of building up several strong title contenders at the same time, and it’s not like CM Punk, MJF and Adam Cole don’t deserve to be featured, but when your top champion feels like a secondary concern it’s less than ideal.

#AEW #Hangman Adam Page #Adam Page #Bryan Danielson #Kenny Omega #Adam Cole #CM Punk #MJF #Jon Moxley #Cody Rhodes

[buttdawg]

All Out 2020 Predictions

Just gonna run down the card here, because I keep forgetting what’s on this show, and it is stacked.    

Side note: Looking this up on Wikipedia made me sad, because the article points out that the show was originally planned for a whole other venue before the pandemic started.  I had gotten so used to every AEW show being held in Jacksonville, that I had forgotten the good old days, when they could run every show in Chicago.

Casino Battle Royale, winner gets a shot at the AEW title

I thought they gave up on this stip when they did the Casino Ladder Match at Double-or-Nothing.   Here’s a dumb thought: Ditch the casino nonsense.   The last two casino battle royals were kind of dumb, because they sent out five guys at a time, and then the 21st guy got to come out last by himself.   The problem I had was that I had no idea who half the participants were, and sending them out in fives made it that much harder to keep track.  

Anyway, this time around it’s easier to just list them by faction.    We have

Eddie Kingston’s group (Eddie, Butcher, Blade, Pentagon Jr., and Rey Fenix)

Team Taz (Absolute Ricky Starks and DA MACHEEN Brian Cage, who is also the FTW World’s Heavyweight Champion of the World, Excalibur)

Gunn Club (Billy Gunn and Austin Gunn)

The Inner Circle (Jake Hager, Santana and Ortiz)

Best Friends (Chuck Taylor and Trent)

Lance Archer

Darby Allin

Wait that’s only 16 guys.   You know, it’s been a long time since I learned the rules to Blackjack, but I think that’s about where you want to stand pat.    If you take another card, you’re much more likely to go over 21.    Anyway, I hope Warhorse ends up in this match somehow.   I guess I’ll pick Eddie Kingson to win, since he’s got the most guys helping him.  

No, wait, fuck all of that shit.   Lance Archer wins everything.    Call this Casino Battle Royale a George R. R. Martin novel, because Everybody Fucking Dies.

The Dark Order (Brodie Lee, Evil Uno, Stu Grayson, Colt Cabana) vs. Scorpio Sky, Matt Cardona, Dustin Rhodes, & QT Marshall.  

This is like the Dark Order vs. the Dark Order Revenge Squad, trying to make Brodie pay for beating the shit out of Cody.   I saw a video package for this on Dynamite yesterday, and it was fucking stupid, because they wanted me to believe that the good guy team are “four badasses”, even though one of them is QT Marshall for crying out loud.   They do this horseshit all the time, where a group of babyfaces try to gang up on the Dark Order, but it never works because the faces never bring enough guys.   There’s like eight or nine dudes in the Dark Order, so unless your team has ten or eleven, you’re gonna get your asses kicked.    Brodie killed Cody like he was nothing, so why am I supposed to believe Dustin has a chance in hell?  

The last time Scorpio Sky was on one of these anti-DO posse teams, it was with Colt Cabana and his partners in SCU.    Well, Colt ended up switching sides, and apparently Chris Daniels and Kazarian aren’t even booked, so that tells me what I need to know.     Dark Order wins.  

Britt Baker vs. Swole in a Tooth and Nail Match.

I don’t know if “Tooth and Nail” is an actual stipulation, or if they’re just calling it that for promotional purposes.  I wish they’d spell out the rules to these things instead of just calling out the names of matches like catchphrases.   Swole would look pretty dumb if she loses this, so I’m picking her to win.  

Matt Hardy vs. Sammy Guevara  in a “Broken Rules” Match.

Wikipedia says this is a Last Man Standing match, so maybe they should have just called it that?  I mean, less than a month ago Matt claimed that he was ditching all his characters for the duration of the pandemic, and now he’s right back to chanting “Delete!” like nothing changed.   I heard a lot about Matt’s cinematic universe run in Impact, but so far I’m not overly impressed with his run in AEW.   He just makes a bunch of callbacks to stuff he did in WWE, Impact, and ROH like I’m supposed to know or give a shit about that time he was a douchebag.     If Matt loses, he’s supposed to leave AEW, but I’m pretty sure this is a trick, and he’ll just come back as “Leviticus” and pretend to be a robot from outer space.   I don’t think I care who wins.

Jurassic Express vs. The Young Bucks.

Why are these guys fighting?    I feel like they already did on TV?    I’m gonna pull for JE to win this one.    I think the Bucks might be my favorite act in AEW, but I mostly enjoy seeing them get the shit beat out of them.    Yeah, kill the Young Bucks.   

Chris Jericho vs. Orange Cassidy in a Mimosa Mayhem Match.

You can win Mimosa Mayhem by pinfall, submission, or dumping your opponent into a big tank of mimosa.    I guess this is a way for OC to win their feud without actually pinning Jericho twice?    Alternately, the loser can get pinned, only to dump the winner in the tank to get a moral victory.    I’ll go with Orange to win.  

AEW Tag Team Championship: Kenny Omega/Hangman vs. FTR

Now that they finally kicked Hangman out of the Elite, and FTR has finally stopped pretending not to be heels, and now that Kenny Omega finally seems to give a shit about his tag team, I think this program could finally lead to something cool.    I sort of want FTR to win, just to move the Hangman/Omega angle onto the next stage.     If the tag titles are the only thing keeping that team together than we need to see what happens without them.  

Also, I want FTR to defend the titles against Santana and Ortiz.    Yeah, no offense to Omega and Hangman, but fuck this Elite Drama Bullshit, gimme FTR vs. PnP.

AEW Women’s Championship: Hikaru Shida vs. Thunder Rosa.

Fuck yeah, this is the real main event right here.    Thunder Rosa kicks ass, and now she can show her stuff without the nonsensical soap opera booking found in the NWA women’s division.   The last time I saw Thunder Rosa in NWA, Melina had inexplicably declared that she had a title match against Rosa, but when the match actually happened, Melina just rolled out of the ring and took a countout.    Seeing Eddie Kingston, Ricky Starks, and Thunder Rosa has opened my eyes to a lot of problems in NWA.

Anyway, here’s the AEW storyline for Thunder Rosa: Shida wanted competition, and Thunder Rosa showed up to kick her ass and take her belt.   I suspect Shida’s going to win, because Rosa’s NWA title isn’t on the line, but I’m rooting for Thunder Rosa to become the double champ.  

AEW Men’s Championship: Jon Moxley vs. MJF.

I want Moxley to win, although I’m not 100% sure this isn’t MJF’s time.   It feels too soon, but I didn’t think Moxley would win the title from Jericho back in February either.   Also, if Moxley loses the title, it might make it easier for AEW and NJPW to open the Forbidden Door long enough for him to defend the IWGP U.S. title against KENTA.    Is that worth putting the world title on MJF?   Probably not, but it’s fun to think about.  

I don’t understand this feud at all, because MJF has been “campaigning” for a world title shot, even though he’s the #1 contender and he’s undefeated, so I’m pretty sure he could just request the match and he’s all set.    MJF has also successfully lobbied to have Moxley’s finisher banned from their match, but what if Mox uses it anyway?   They’d just disqualify him and he’d retain the title, right?    Or maybe the ref would just stand there and let him do it anyway, because that seems to be how AEW referees do things.   

I really don’t get why MJF wanted the Paradigm Shift banned.   He got hit with one like two weeks ago, and he acted like it half-crippled him, but then he revealed it didn’t hurt him that badly, so why does he care if he takes another one?  MJF also seems to have this thing going on where he pretends to be this high-road-taking “pure wrestler”, who can out-finesse Moxley’s brawling style, but we’ve seen MJF just go apeshit and use hardcore tactics himself.  

This is kind of an aside, but I find it funny when Jim Cornette acts surprised when people accuse him of playing a character on his podcasts.   He’ll be like “No, no, you don’t understand, I really hate Vince Russo and Kenny Omega and I want them both dead for not respecting kayfabe!”    The thing is, wrestlers like MJF and FTR are out here repeating a lot of Cornette’s talking points on TV, specifically to get heel heat.   They praise themselves for being workhorses who stick to the fundamentals, but they’re hypocrites who use gamesmanship and trickery to get ahead.    So people hear Cornette blowing a gasket about Joey Janela and they just assume he’s being some sort of cartoonish supervillain character to sell his merch, because the alternative is too absurd to contemplate.    It’d be like MJF assuring people that he really does bloody people up with his diamond ring in real life, just like he does on TV.   

Anyway, I’ll stick with Moxley, but if MJF wins, I’ll be more intrigued than disappointed...

#aew #aew dynamite #aew all out