The Thread Killer

Translation: “Nobody has signed up for our subscription service, and we can’t get a TV deal to save our lives, because Tyrus is our champion and the owner/booker is an idiot. So…YouTube is our only option.”

So I listened to the preview episode of this show and then to the first episode. Both my suspicions were pretty much confirmed. This is going to be a pretty good podcast because Dax is so passionate, and it is going to cause a kerfuffle on a regular basis, I bet.

“There comes a time where the fans are going to stop believing in you, if you always lose. Road Dogg said wins and losses don’t matter. That’s just something Vince McMahon says, that he’s regurgitating. Sorry about that, Road Dogg. But not really.”

Personally, I am hoping this leads to a gimmick where Samoa Joe systematically goes through the entire roster, one person at a time, until there are ZERO man buns left.

I was going to say…the dude gets attacked backstage with a pipe so he barely makes it to the ring, he fails to get revenge on the guy who attacked him (after betraying him) and he loses. Then he gets his hair cut off and essentially has to be rescued by a guy who weighs about half what he does. Not exactly booked strong. Not that I really care, honestly. Based on their last match I would way rather see Joe/Darby II anyhow. But I almost feel a bit bad for Wardlow.

YES! DEATH TO THE MAN-BUN!

I think Joe might be at the point in his career where fans have so much respect and appreciation for what he’s accomplished, that they are not going to fully buy into him as a heel, or commit to booing him, no matter what he says or does.

It’s not that it’s flippy shit. I expect that from the AEW Trios Division. But it’s just non stop car crash spots over and over and over again by the same two teams, week in, week out. When you don’t enforce any rules to begin with, matches with no rules as a stipulation really don’t mean anything special. It’s just desensitizing at this point. Next time there’s ladders. Whoopee, who gives a shit.

It’s going to go the full 7, because God hates me. in all seriousness, I have to believe that the most devoted, die hard, unshakable Elite/AEW fans are starting to get tired of this shit. It never ends, the same crap every week. It’s almost exhausting. I barely cared win the series started, but they have managed to make me care even less now.

Yeah Page is so damn bland.

A lot of that is definitely on Tony Khan, but I suspect Jericho should probably get a good share of the blame. Which is ironic, when you think about it. Here is a guy who couldn’t get a sniff at the Main Event scene in WCW thanks to the nWo and then had to wade through a ton of political crap before he finally broke through in WWE. I guess you could argue Jericho helped establish Kevin Owens during his last WWE run, but even then I don’t know how much of that was him helping, and how much of that was him latching on to somebody else who was popular and feeding off it. When it comes to politicking, Jericho definitely learned at the feet of the masters.

That pretty much sums it up perfectly. I am legitimately surprised at the number of fans online who can’t differentiate between a pinfall loss and “putting somebody over.” Kevin Nash lost a match to Rey Mysterio. Mick Foley put Randy Orton over.

Listen, we can’t have impressionable children hearing Pro Wrestling carny terms like “jobber.” My best friend is from Kerala, and if I ever get a chance to go there, do you think I want to be greeted by a bunch of kids calling me a jabroni or threatening to gig me?

Very true. But honestly, the sound of two cats fighting in an alley at 3:00 AM is better than that theme Koon came up with. If that’s an example of his best work, then it’s a small wonder he’s not more successful and that he doesn’t do any of the other AEW themes. He’s no Jim Johnson.

You have heard the first episode already?

Now that the William Regal podcast is done, Conrad Thomason’s music producer Matt Koon is starting a new podcast on Conrad’s Podcast Heat/Ad Free Shows Network with…Dax Harwood. Koon and Dax are apparently buddies. I used to follow Koon on Twitter for a while and he is one of the loudest voices on Twitter complaining about how FTR are being misused in AEW. He’s also very pissy about the fact that Tony Khan replaced the (terrible) custom theme that Koon had produced for FTR in AEW with the Midnight Express knockoff (which is a million times better.) Somebody on Twitter jokingly asked Cash Wheeler if he would be getting a podcast too, and Wheeler replied: “Let me think about how many bridges I am willing to burn first.” That about sums it up. This has glorious train wreck written all over it. Dax Harwood is super passionate about Pro Wrestling and appears to pretty much wear his heart on his sleeve. He has already shown in his appearance on Cornette’s podcast that he is not afraid to vent about behind the scenes drama when he is pissed. Combine that with a co-host who is not kindly disposed towards Tony Khan, Dax’s friendship with Punk, FTR’s rumoured heat with the Young Bucks, his antagonistic relationship with Meltzer and a lot of Elite fanboys online…and most significantly the fact that FTR’s contracts are up in the next 90 days or so? This could be a bit of a spectacle. Then again, it could just be him and Koon doing watch-alongs of classic Bret Hart matches. Who knows? The show debuts December 29.

Don’t know if anybody saw it in the Podcasts folder, but now that the William Regal podcast is done, Conrad Thomason’s music producer Matt Koon is starting a new podcast on Conrad’s Podcast Heat/Ad Free Shows Network with…Dax Harwood. Koon and Dax are apparently buddies. I used to follow Koon on Twitter for a while and he is one of the loudest voices on Twitter complaining about how FTR are being misused in AEW. He’s also very pissy about the fact that Tony Khan replaced the (terrible) custom theme that Koon had produced for FTR in AEW with the Midnight Express knockoff (which is a million times better.) Somebody on Twitter jokingly asked Cash Wheeler if he would be getting a podcast too, and Wheeler replied: “Let me think about how many bridges I am willing to burn first.” That about sums it up. This has glorious train wreck written all over it. Dax Harwood is super passionate about Pro Wrestling and appears to pretty much wear his heart on his sleeve. He has already shown in his appearance on Cornette’s podcast that he is not afraid to vent about behind the scenes drama when he is pissed. Combine that with a co-host who is not kindly disposed towards Tony Khan, Dax’s friendship with Punk, FTR’s rumoured Heat with the Young Bucks, his antagonistic relationship with Meltzer and a lot of Elite fanboys online…and most significantly the fact that FTR’s contracts are up in the next 90 days or so? This could be a bit of a spectacle. Then again, it could just be him and Koon doing watch-alongs of classic Bret Hart matches. Who knows? The show debuts December 29.

Dax Harwood is starting a podcast on Ad Free Shows and Conrad’s “Podcast Heat” Network. It’s called FTR, it will be cohosted by Matt Koon and it is essentially replacing Regal’s podcast which is now officially done.

I don’t know what’s worse…AJ Francis, or all the Soccer talk in this thread.

OMG thank you. It drives me nuts that Moxley gets presented as some crazy out of control death match brawler, when in fact a good portion of his basic offense looks like weak, fake shit.

Point well taken. If you were to search them on YouTube and watch some of their best promos? Yikes. A personal favourite of mine would be from when Mark and Jay were feuding with each other and Mark gets so upset he heads to the gun range…

I must have missed the day my wise old grandpappy used that expression. Anyhow, my point was not that the Briscoes have a “right” to appear on TV or anything like that. It’s more that AEW and Turner/Discovery doesn’t seem to have a consistent response to situations like this. I’d be a lot less bitchy about this whole deal if they applied their standards equally across-the-board, but they don’t. Let’s not forget Sami’s infamous “joke” about Sasha Banks either. He got what, a month suspension and had to attend sensitivity classes? Rape conviction? That’s okay, you did your time, plus you’re really famous so we’ll pretend that didn’t happen. Rape joke? Slap on the wrist. Go to sensitivity class. Bank robbery conviction? That’s okay, you did your time. By all means, come on our national TV show and carve a motherfucker up. Homophobic tweets from 12 years ago, that you sincerely apologized for? Fuck you, you’re banished. It should go without saying that obviously I have absolutely no use for the sentiment behind the original tweets by Jay Briscoe. But for me, redemption should be possible, that’s all I am saying. If AEW and Turner had extremely strict standards that they applied equally to everybody, I’d be a lot less likely to complain about this kind of thing. As has been proven several times over the past year, the Briscoes are awesome. I have been reminded of that repeatedly recently, and I think it’s a bunch of bullshit that they are not on national TV. If I have to suffer through The Best Friends then by gawd I ought to be able to watch some Briscoes matches on TV.

I was just listening to Jim Cornette’s review of FTR/Briscoes III and when he’s right, he’s right. Somebody please explain how AEW can have a convicted rapist in Mike Tyson appear on their TV show, and that’s OK. They have Nick Gage, a convicted bank robber in a featured match, during which he slices a dude up, no less. No problem! But no Briscoes. Because Jay Briscoe tweeted something awful and hateful 10 years ago. And has apologized repeatedly since then. And has never done it again. And has people advocating for him that say he has never shown any sign since then of holding the bigoted or hateful opinions that he originally tweeted. But they still can’t get on AEW TV.

Overall I would say that was an excellent episode of Dynamite. Way more good stuff than bad stuff. Any episode that highlights young talents like Jungle Boy, Hook, Starks, MJF and uh…Action Andretti (?!) is definitely going in the right direction. The Main Event was great and most importantly we got… “Scissor This, Slapnuts” as my new favourite phrase.

That Dustin Rhodes promo cracked me up. He says “Spooky Boy” and Danhausen looks confused and then points at Trent.