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I feel they're really going down the road of bad American wrestling tropes by introducing too many titles to heat their business. They have enough titles. Most of them aren't even really pushed or focused on. They don't need yet another title

How in the name of fuck is Bayley not on Wrestlemania? She basically carried the promotion last year during those absolutely brutal empty arena Performance Center shows

This is very fair and makes complete sense. Dynamite's booking has honestly gone down several notches in the last few months. Maybe Coach Tony K needs to realise that he cannot run an NFL team, an EPL team and a wrestling promotion at the same time.

I clearly started a trend

Everyone is calm, man. No one is taking it personally. I agree that a lot of things don't make sense, and that MJF and Darby have breakout potential

If all the examples this dude gave are "Russo-era crash TV" then basically every single wrestling show in the last 40 years is Russo-era crash TV. Just a meaningless comparison

Oh yeah Vince Russo, famously known for wanting women to do frogsplashes and treating them like legit athletes.

Being behind the times and being old often overlap, but it's the inflexibility that makes you behind the times, not the age.

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Calling Dynamite crash TV is certainly a take. We criticise Dynamite all the time but calling it this is nonsensical imo. I also have zero idea how anyone can look at the Dynamite roster and think Miro is the breakout star for any reason apart from "he has big muscles." I get a feature of getting old is thinking everyone is a bum and super-uncool, but it's probably also a sign that the times have passed you by.

This has been happening in wrestling forever. It's actually pretty standard

Do we have a lot of serious Heenan promos on tape? I know he was supposedly very sinister and serious in his earlier days, but I don't know if we have existing footage of it

Looked it up and yeah, quarter 3 was a Page/Sky video, a Red Velvelt interview leading to a beatdown by Jade, and a Mox promo and the jobber match. The match honestly went way longer than it needed to, including through a commercial break, so it makes sense that viewers would tune out by the droves. Not sure why none of them came back though.

I meant the full QT heel turn. Yes it did lose a ton of viewers, but the next quarter lost even more viewers, so I was thinking more about that quarter and absentmindedly typed the QT thing lol. I am honestly not sure what happened. Clearly I was wrong about Christian's segment doing poorly in the ratings, but then something happened that just turned off like 200,000 viewers, most of whom didn't come back until the final quarter

Quarter 2 was the QT thing. Quarter 5 was the Omega match. I do not remember what the 3rd quarter had, but clearly, for whatever reason, there was a drastic decline in viewership in the 3rd quarter, which declined even more in the 5th and 7th quarters. If the street fight main event had not brought back viewers, Dynamite might very well have lost to NXT

If the star quarter is not getting any viewer to watch the show after the first quarter is done, then I am not sure that's a positive for Christian's signing

Maybe taking the title from Mox was a mistake

AEW has always had a weak lead-in. The terrible rating shouldn't be explained away using that

Legitimately awful ratings this week. It's becoming a pattern. I think it's clear now that the AEW-Impact partnership that was supposed to change the face of wrestling or whatever hasn't really worked out. Impact's numbers are down lower than they were before this angle started, and AEW's ratings are declining pretty steeply. There's no focus, no direction, and the Good Brothers are just not interesting, and should never have been pushed this hard.

There was the thing a few months back where SRS reported that Ivelisse and Rosa threw shoot strikes at each other during their match on AEW, which apparently was not exactly true. Not sure about the particular details though

I have no idea what I meant, but I was drinking yesterday night, so that should explain it

Wait, this makes me look like a complete idiot, but where is Diana? Apart from the Bella twins, I see only Davey's daughter with his son, so clearly poor her (Davey's daughter) doesn't deserve all of this rage that ppl have earmarked this for her dad?!?!?! EDIT: Wow, DBS Jr. responded to this. So clearly something even more shameful happened to the Harts that we cannot even think of, right? Hopefully the 2021 version affects all of us without making things different and difficult for various groups, specifically those of them who just wanted 2020 to be really successful!!!!

I love AEW but the redditors who post shit like this are just plain dumb, sorry This is just as stupid and terrible as all the reddit posts explaining the LORE OF THE FIEND

Statlander and Cassidy have SOO much potential as an oddball on-screen pair