AEW / WWE thread - real fighting over fake fighting

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  1. Shawn Hunter

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    More likely to have a title change? It’s title vs. title. Unless they do some bullshit DQ finish which they rarely ever do, someone is walking out of that match with two belts.

    But no, the AEW Championship match should main event an AEW mini PLE.
     
  2. pearl

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    Both of you SHUT YOUR FILTHY WHORE MOUTHS!
     
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  3. Shawn Hunter

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    No need to waste debuting Jade on NXT TV when you can debut her in front of several hundred thousands more viewers on Raw or over a million more viewers on Smackdown.

    If you’re paying her a premium for a new signee, then you give her the premium treatment, not the developmental treatment. You can still put her down in the PC for training but you put her on the Raw or Smackdown rosters.

    If you don’t want to her to get exposed in the ring early on, you put her in programs with veteran talent on TV and let her do the house show circuit.

    But to be fair she looked better in her match with Stat, but Stat’s match with Britt was good too. So that may have been more of a Stat carrying the matches thing than Jade improving a ton in her time off.
     
  4. Bankz

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    There is very little difference in the NXT and AEW numbers. I would imagine both those shows are being viewed by the most hard core of wrestling fans. I don't think her debuting in Iowa (or insert small town WWE frequents) is going to garner her a reaction if she is on RAW or Smackdown even though more eyeballs are on those products. Sure people will pop big in the major cities but I don't think she's well known enough to be on RAW or Smackdown unless you put her in the biggest of spots. This isn't Cody returning to WWE where he grew up and understood how to work the hard cam and how to work the WWE style he grew up in. Jade is green in ring and green when it comes to TV production.

    Either way I'm very curious how she is positioned on the brand they put her on.
     
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  5. Shiggityshwo

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    they're 100% making her Zeus's daughter
     
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  6. ZeroPointZero

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    They are doing Monday Night Football on ABC all season long thanks to the strike so those record lows will stay put for months
     
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  7. Shawn Hunter

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    She really is enjoying her goth phase





     
  8. Shawn Hunter

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    This is one hell of a main event for an indie

     
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  9. Bankz

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    They should debut Jade when right in the middle of this!!!
     
  10. Shawn Hunter

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  11. Shawn Hunter

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    Do you know if they’ll be taken off ABC if the strikes end soon enough to put the normal Monday night content on ABC before MNF ends?
     
  12. Shawn Hunter

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  13. Shawn Hunter

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    Looks like two MNF games again next week

     
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  14. zeberdee

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    does addition of ABC really make that much of a difference? also wouldn't NFL on ESPN and a non-football option like the Bachelor or something on ABC make things worse for WWE?

    and the two games thing has been set. this week, next week and then another week in December have two games.
     
  15. Nostradumass

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    Yeah it seems like people who have cable and who want to watch MNF will do so on either ESPN or ABC, and people who don't will watch it on ABC, but if you don't then you're not watching WWE on cable anyway, so the whole move to ABC seems irrelevant to WWE. It's purely about giving the OTA network content that it is lacking due to the strike.
     
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  16. zeberdee

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    yea, if it was Smackdown on Mondays this whole thing would make more sense to me.
     
  17. Shawn Hunter

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    Well it gave WWE Raw its worst rating ever so :idk:
     
  18. snowfx2

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    Mainly because of Aaron Rodgers. MNF won’t touch that number the remainder of the season.
     
  19. Shawn Hunter

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    What is the norm? 4 hours before the show starts seems like a lot to me.

     
  20. Hank Scorpio

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    Pretty sure call time is 4 or 5pm
     
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  21. Nostradumass

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    Is that a recent picture of Matt Riddle? Has he always looked like that, with the torso of a heavyweight and the arms of a middleweight?
     
  22. Shawn Hunter

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    No because that’s far too many clothes for what he wear now
     
  23. Shawn Hunter

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    Brogan Finlay is the only one I’ve heard of so far. Yes relative of Fit Finlay

     
  24. Shawn Hunter

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    Madi Wrenkowski! I hope they give her a shot. Though I don’t see her ever amounting to much in the main roster.

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  25. Shawn Hunter

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  26. Dan Kendra

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    Richard Holiday was in MJF’s group in MLW. I think he had cancer or something. I watched it when they first started out and had Bruce and Cornette involved.

    The other guy in their group Hammerstone would probably be someone both companies are interested in when he’s available.
     
  27. Shawn Hunter

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    Here's more info on the names

     
  28. GrizzliesDrew

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    “The sherpa is taking his pack off…that’s Luchasaurus!!!!!!!!!! He is tossing Darby down from base camp!”
     
  29. Shawn Hunter

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    Add another to the list
     
  30. Shawn Hunter

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  31. Shawn Hunter

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  32. ZeroPointZero

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    ha they've added a wrestling grid to crossovergrid dot com

    nailed it, naturally Screenshot 2023-09-18 at 8.06.31 PM.png
     
  33. Nostradumass

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    I have no memory of Hogan and HBK tagging, but i assume it was in the runup to their infamous Summerslam match
     
  34. jrmy

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    Would it have been when Shawn returned before the Triple H feud and he was doing nWo stuff briefly
     
  35. ZeroPointZero

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    no he was right, Shawn turned on Hogan after they tagged to set up their match at Summerslam 05 where Shawn did the comedic overselling
     
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  36. snowfx2

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    Why have Gable lose clean to Bronson Reed?
     
  37. Nostradumass

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    That was 18 years ago, geez louise.

    18 years before that, Hogan was taking on Andre the Giant at WMIII
     
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  38. Baron

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    I have zero clue who any of these people are that SRS keeps posting

     
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  39. Shawn Hunter

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  40. Shiggityshwo

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    we need more powerslams in general these days somebody get the word out
     
  41. UncleJesse

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    Nah, I need to see more flippy stuff that take 35 seconds to set up.
     
  42. UncleJesse

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    Thread has been too peaceful the last couple of days.
     
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  43. jrmy

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    All I want is knife edge chops, powerslams, and spinebusters

    If you do anything else you're just a try-hard
     
  44. Nostradumass

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    A well-executed Spinebuster is maybe my favorite move ever.
     
  45. Tiffin

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    Throw in a DDT (not the floppy shit Mox's finish has turned into) and I'm in.
     
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  46. Hank Scorpio

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    Remember when the DDT was one of the most feared finishers in wrestling? :ohgosh:
     
  47. zeberdee

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    finally getting around to watching The Rock from Friday.

    my lord, biggest pop since...?
     
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  48. Baron

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    Speaking of finishers:

     
  49. Hank Scorpio

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    Completely agree. That should be a match ender or a broken up near fall in a tag match.
     
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  50. Nostradumass

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    Every move gets watered down over time. Even the stunner is now a transitional move.

    The Irish whip was originally used as a finisher by Danno O'Mahony, who won the world's title with it in the 30s.

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