Hasn't helped that Wish.com Bloodline are wank yet get most of the screen time.
Hasn't helped that Wish.com Bloodline are wank yet get most of the screen time.
The segment to announce Drew vs. Punk in Hell in a Cell was good. Made the gimmick seem important again after years of throwaway matches in the cell.
Originally Posted by phonics
Don't worry, you can get your own bracelet!
Edit: RIP, they've taken it down as the CREATOR OF THE OG BRACELET bitched on Twitter as she wasn't informed/paid.
Did Phonics manage to get one before they pulled it?
I'm Team phonics on this one.
Both these guys are great. All they need is a mic. Dogs and bracelets aren't it.
No Ladder match with the bracelet above the ring was a missed opportunity.
Clearly you've never had a friendship bracelet made for you.
Imagine what it must mean to have your dog AND your wifes' name on it. Then imagine an angry Scotsman took that from you and then fed it to you.
Just finished watching RAW.
Really liked the Reed interference during the main event. Just a shame it was all ruined by having Jey Uso win.
I presume he’s going to finally win a title unless he’s getting put on smackdown
I actually didn't mind him when he broke away from The Bloodline.
Then he started with the whole "YEET" shit.
Bryan Danielson vs. Nigel McGuinness
AEW might make a fan out of me yet.
Rejoice Phonics!
Watching the first match. Where did Fatu go when Roman appeared? He seemed to climb down the cage and I thought he'd head off Roman outside but he was just gone until he came and pulled Solo out.
So weird.
I see HHH was back out. Hates the spotlight that guy.
Ricky
When you say things like this about a man like Paul 'Triple H' Levesque who sends people out on camera to talk about the Paul Levesque Era, you're out of line.
I am a known Bret Hart not liker but when he turned up and didn’t go into business for himself he dropped in my estimation.
What was he doing?
I'm a twit
He showed up in Calgary and everyone clapped.
Lame. If it was AEW, Christian would have issued a challenge to Owen for acasketcoffin match.
I'm a twit
There are videos circulating of Jericho in CMLL and it’s genuinely depressing that 1) he doesn’t realise he’s past it and 2) Khan isn’t strong enough to tell him the games over.
Bronson Reed v Braun Stowman
So much more of that please, that was fucking brilliant.
I want to know what phonics thought of it.
There's no way he can't like that.
Reed using a man from the crowd as a projectile, now that's wrestling.
It's quite sad to see where he's got to. From being able to make pretty much whatever he wanted to work, work, to being called a tree? I guess its the only real downside of Tony not cutting peoples contracts. Still, he could just tell him to stay at home. The one the other week with some pennies being dropped onto his Bentley was such cringe.
I also see he's wasted no time in giving everyone what they want in Ospreay v Rick O'Shea.
Jericho is Jericho at this point but the CMLL thing is insane. He lost a 2 out of 3 falls match (2-1) but AEW showed the fall he won and claimed he won the match? Now if it was Jericho doing this to play up his gimmick then fair enough, but AEW the promotion is peddling it as if it were real. Vince used to lie all the time but his fans were mainly casual/naive so he got away with it, whereas all the AEW fans live on the internet so they all know Jericho actually lost. What do you even gain out of trying to claim you won a random match in Mexico anyway?
EDIT: I've just seen he lost a 20 minute match to Orange fucking Cassidy last night, so the answer is they gained nothing.
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Lucha Bros have put Penta paper and signed with the WWE.
Can't wait to see LWO's ranks grow larger.
Yeet? I guess.
Haven't watched RAW yet because the TNT Sports recording went MASSIVLEY out of sync and the audio was miles ahead of the pictures during the Zayn/Kaiser match.
They also ruined the shark cage reveal by putting up the graphic early.
I have seen the news about the IC title and fuck me, how could they?
The crowd was into it, I guess.
Fuck the crowd and fuck "Yeet".
Yeah I don't get it either but these Yanks seem to come unglued for it. I guess it's a case of striking while the iron is hot. He can't sustain this popularity for long given his lack of actual wrestling skills, and Breakker can get his heat back within a week.
Apparently Vince was pushing Netflix hard to sell him his documentary, so he could kill it.
It's in danger of being really good I suspect.
There's this too:
Oh and Braun/Bronson is still absolutely incredible.
I never want it to end.
I've watched two episodes of the Vince McMahon thing and so far it's more a history of the company with all the classic bollocks (would the 800lb Andre do business in front of 93000 brother) but a few juicy parts are Hulk Hogan openly admitting to snitching on Jesse Ventura's union plan and Vince McMahon saying he didn't rape the referee but even if he did the statute of limitations had run out. Episode closes with a note that the statute was waived recently and McMahon settled with her for millions.
Hoping there's a lot more of him saying one thing and it being instantly shown up
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It’ll get better towards the end when they get to the stuff they filmed after he was outed.
It says that didn't get anything more out of him after that point but fingers crossed there's footage of Cena and the lads squirming in their chairs or Bret Hart laughing his head off.
I'd forgot about the clip Hulk Hogan promoting the first Wrestlemania by dropping a TV host and splitting his head open, I'd pay good money to see someone smack Jimmy Fallon about a bit.
I loved the shit eating grin delivery of I WISH I COULD TELL YOU THE REAL STORIES as it flashed up the new stories of his debauchery.
There’s a bit where Dave Meltzer is talking about Hulk Hogan and he says that Vince (and therefore WWE) are the best at making huge stars, and it doesn’t necessarily involve good wrestling matches. That basically sums up why WWE is popular and AEW isn’t, right there.
I'm a twit
Gotta appreciate Hogan keeping kayfabe by saying he only found out he was winning at WM3 when Andre didn’t kick out.
I reckon I’d enjoy Tony Atlas doing anything.
I'm a twit
Yeah to me, AEW has the better in-ring stuff and it's not really too close. However for some reason the production just feels off. Problem is for most of your audience these days, Sports Entertainment will trump top in-ring graps. Whether this can change in future remains to be seen.
WWE just isn’t really interested in that side of things. If they wanted to be the best in ring wrestling company they would be and it wouldn’t be close. But then they’d be absolutely nowhere near where they currently are
Yep.
Remember the Angle vs. Lesnar 60 Minute Iron Man match on Smackdown in 2003? Basically hundreds of thousands of viewers tuned out during the match, then OVER ONE MILLION came flooding back for the last stretch. WWE audiences have been conditioned forever to not pay attention to the in-ring product until it gets to the point that matters (basically all Attitude Era matches were under five minutes to prevent viewers going to the other channel). Good wrestling is great for the enthusiast but it never draws a penny in a vacuum.
This is it for me. I tried to watch AEW when Jake first turned up because I thought that was somewhat interesting and I lasted about 10 minutes. It felt dark and dingy and like it was being filmed in a gym.
Which they also wouldn't be able to fill out.
Drew
Finally watched RAW.
Why is the ref not doing his job and counting? Why is he checking on the crowd when there are about 18 members of "security" checking on them?
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