It’s definitely either Becky or Bayley winning the women’s Rumble. I’d have Becky win so you can get the proper long build vs Rhea for Mania that feud deserves. Then have Damage CTRL cost Bayley the Rumble and she turns face, wins Elimination Chamber and faces Iyo at Mania. Jade should have most eliminations and last till like the last four.
Jade will have the Diesel spot for sure. Make her look amazing and get eliminated by someone who can work... that likely is her Mania opponent. I'm thinking that could be Bianca? That would be an amazing matchup for Mania.
Can you imagine... love the rumble event more than any other PLE. Just for the what if's and the surprises.
Night after Mania... Cody stands in the ring as world champ... Lights out... Enter MJF. The guy who made it that Cody could never win the AEW title now in WWE and has his sights set on Cody.
Right, but you also don't want to debut and then do nothing for 3 months or however long he needs to heal.
Don’t think it’s been revealed yet if MJF was going to try to do just rehab or have surgery on his labrum. I believe if it was surgery, he’d be out of action for up to 6 months.
Something about Vince grenading the Netflix/NBC deals and the merger and going down in flames just because he won't let the fuck go would be the most wrestling way for wrestling to die.
We’re at the Hilton Bayfront, like a 9 iron way from Tropicana. I’ll DM you tomorrow. Are you going to the watch party tonight?
WWE public image in the dirt Sasha, Okada, Ospreay and who knows how many more free agents (Sheamus? Drew? Finn?) no excuse for Dynamite not to be over 1M on a consistent basis again in 2024 and getting back within striking distance of WWE
My guess is Bayley wins the Rumble. They historically put somebody on the back burner before winning the Rumble. Becky wins Elimination Chamber, that show ends with her and Rhea facing off in front of that hot Australian crowd.
Have been to that hotel many times. Great location for St Pete night life. Not going tonight. My son has a football game. I did just go to the Royal Rumble store though. Omos was there. He's enormous
We went by there to pick up our passes. Left around 1:30. Spent way less money than I was planning, happy about that. Probably just missed you. Any idea why those people are sitting outside?
Even if AEW gets hot and starts seeing ratings rise back to its peak, they aren't getting within striking distance of Raw in the ratings unless WWE ratings collapse. They don't have the luck of having Monday Night Football being a year round program, and fans at large haven't really shown they care about this rampant sexual predatory behavior in the past when it comes to viewing habits. Dynamite only three times has done over 1.2 million and one of those was the debut episode. The record-low Raw number from this fall was 1.331 million. Obviously Smackdown on broadcast TV isn't going to be something AEW will be able to compete with.
back in 2021 they were neck and neck with Raw in the key demo when they were riding the momentum of signing Punk and Daniel Bryan and Adam Cole. They were also doing comparable attendance in some markets, it wasn't the massive gap you see these days. Smackdown will be on cable again soon so that's absolutely something they should aim to compete with since there will be a big dropoff in ratings for Smackdown going from Fox to USA
AEW will probably pass Raw in ratings once they move to Netflix. I don't think there's going to be a large appetite for wrestling fans to buy another platform to watch Miz wrestle some NXT jobber.
I'll be doing a zoom tomorrow afternoon. It will likely be chaos with my kids running around the house and the wife screaming at everyone in sight... Expect me to be cursed out no less that 10 times. It will be better than the wwe pre-show so tune in!