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JWeinCom on 02 March 2022
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PAOerfulone said:

The current storyline with Wardlow is giving me a lot of flashbacks to Batista in 2004-2005.

There's a lot of similarities:
- Both are big, buff, badass dudes who go in there, wreck everyone's shit, and the crowd cheers for them despite being Heels.
- Both are part of old school styled Heel stables with an arrogant, self-righteous prick as the leader (MJF/HHH).
- Both are giving subtle, and sometimes not so subtle, jabs at the leader, causing more tension and teasing that eventual Face turn.

It's a classic storyline. Shawn Michaels and Diesel, Andre and Ted Dibiase. That's not knocking it. The classics are classics for a reason.

PAOerfulone said:

Tony Khan's big announcement tonight:

He just bought Ring of Honor...


I figured that they would at least buy the tape library.
If that rumored HBO Max deal is true, owning the library was REALLY going to be a huge lift since damn near every one on the roster, especially the top level guys like Punk, Bryan, Hangman, and Adam Cole all got their starts and made their names in Ring of Honor.
But the entire company?!? God Damn!!!

ROH was struggling and circling the drain. Even though ROH has name value, the wrestling business isn't generally an attractive one. Generally the people who get into it are people who either have a personal connection to wrestling (Vince) or are children of billionares who want a business where they can be visible for their ego (Dixie Kahn). I think the big thing in this is the tape library. They definitely don't need more talent. What they need is some kind of streaming service to bring people in, because a 50 dollar ppv model is simply not viable in a world of Netflix, where so much content is available so much cheaper. But AEW really doesn't have a back catalog to entice people, so that's where this comes in. 


I was home for the first half of dynamite, and caught the second half. I wondered for a second if I was watching a repeat as there was another battle royal for a spot in the tag team title match. Danielson vs Daniels was good, because they're very good wrestlers, but Christopher Daniels should not be booked to look on par with Danielson. Danielson is a star, Daniels is not. Danielson has great cardio. When wrestlers do after match promos they're usually breathing hard and talking slow.

It is still a bad time to have a vagina in AEW. Again, one women's segment, although at least more girls were involved. 

Dynamite is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're going to get. There's little consistency between who's involved in the show from week to week. Like, if you saw Buddy Murphy debut last week and expected some kind of follow up from that and Malakai Black trying to murder a man... nope. Jericho and Kingston got a small promo but not much. I guess if you like variety that's maybe a good thing, but the idea is kind of you want people to tune in next week to see the followup from what happened. Two weeks is a long time between seeing people or a feud. You can't build em that way.

Last edited by JWeinCom - on 02 March 2022