Yeah announcing Chicago is them saying Punk is going to be there. My question is if Punk is going to come back as a heel. I would assume he's going to be super over in Chicago of course, but he was public enemy #1 of AEW fans after all the shit went down.
I'm not doubting anything about Cornette here, but whoever does the thumbnails for his videos is absolutely not doing him any favors. He could be spitting the 100% God's honest truth and I would think he's a tryhard asshole just on those thumbnails.
I was thinking more in a kayfabe sense that the guy who got famous telling everyone to suck it and do blackface skits is now the voice of reason trying to get folks to not make poor decisions.
Its apples and oranges because media rights for sports (including WWE in this context) ballooned tremendously in the last decade or so since networks are desperate to overpay for the one thing that doesn't have declining viewership.
If the exact same situation with WCW happens today, there would at least be some network willing to toss money at it. If Anthem/Fight Network bought Impact, someone would have taken the plunge with WCW.
Its weird to me that the guy who was defending the honor of WWE against Logan Paul is now being booked as one of the greats worthy of the new world championship. Like we're supposed to forget about months of cackling Joker Seth?
NJPW Strong just announced a women's title, and the champion will be decided in a mini tournament with WIllow Nightingale, Momo Kohgo, Stephanie Vaquer from CMLL, and Mercedes Mone. I wonder who's going to win......
Even Bruno thought it was crazy to take the belt off him when he was drawing huge houses all over the territory. My only guess is babyface Superstar would have been full bore sports entertainer and I don't think Sr knew what to do with that.