AEW TV Megathread

[Blehschmidt]

Lashley has a million dollar body, moves well for a guy his size, works fairly well for a guy his size, but..... has all the charisma of a coconut. 

Also this "We Hurt People" repeated over and over is one of the dumbest sounding chants of all time.

Lastly, fuck MVP for that verbal exchange with Big Bill. The minute Bill turns and destroys Jericho, AEW has a huge (literally) babyface on their hands. This dude has improved his body, his work, has a great real life redemption story to tell. They should be protecting his ass at all costs. 

[El-P]

1 hour ago, Blehschmidt said:

Lashley has a million dollar body, moves well for a guy his size, works fairly well for a guy his size, but..... has all the charisma of a coconut. 

Also this "We Hurt People" repeated over and over is one of the dumbest sounding chants of all time.

Yes, yes and yes.

Lashley & Shelton both make Tim Horner look like Dusty Rhodes. They are also 50. 

The theme song is absolutely a crutch to make them seem more over than they actually are. 

The tag-team scene has never been deader. Even Private Party was much better, because they actually had these two awesome matches with the Young Bucks leading to their title win. Get the title off these two fossils, get MVP up with the program and feed Lashley to Swerve in a 10 minutes match. That's the last time I'm gonna repeat it Coach TK !

You want an AEW-cred "Hurt Syndicate" with actual great workers (and one guy who can talk his ass off too) ? Shane Taylor Promotion is right there. 

11 hours ago, sek69 said:

Mercedes and Athena is another banger on the horizon.

Fuck yes. I LOVE seeing Athena & Billie on AEW TV finally. Considering both Athena & Mercedes are entering the Owen, I could see them in the finals. Then Mercedes vs Timeless Toni at All In (it makes the most sense to have their biggest match possible at their biggest show). Athena needs a big match there too. 

The long-term booking has been really good lately, apart from a few spots (you know which ones). Love the fact a bunch of big names declare themselves for the tournament, making it important from the get-go, then they announce the brackets, then the tournament begins after Dynasty, leading to Double or Nothing, leading to All In. Booking more like NJPW is a good thing (overall).

Loving the Cole/Garcia series. Loving the FTR angle. Toni Storm is doing an awesome job with Megan Bayne. 

Also, Great thing AEW actually signed Kevin Knight. Rumors about WWE having interest in him in the wakes of him being done with NJPW had me fear AEW had not learned its lessons by putting a freelancer on TV without securing a contract (remember Dragon Lee ?). Jay White surely made him shine. 

[strobogo]

9 hours ago, C.S. said:

Your attempted Christian erasure won't be tolerated here, sir.

I'll never understand what people see in Malakai/Aleister Black.

Okay, I do understand - I see the same thing - but something is missing.

Kind of the way I felt about Bam Bam Bigelow too, but Bam Bam was a hundred times the worker and attraction Black is.

Corrected* for you.  

*not that you're wrong about Lashley either. When PWO was going nuts for him years ago, booking dream matches between him and Brock Lesnar, I was genuinely baffled why everyone here had their hands down their pants for this guy. 

Black does not have the "oh well we gotta push that guy" look and aura of Lashley come on lmao. He never did, still doesn't, and he also hasn't been pushed like that outside of his NXT run. From call up to main roster to entire AEW run, I'm hard pressed to remember much of anything he's done and it's probably less "we don't know what to do with him but we gotta do something" and more "doesn't work for me, brother" stuff.

[Tetsujin]

I would fuse The Hurt Syndicate with Shane Taylor Promotions to create The Hurt Promotions or something like that, à la Corporate Ministry but with better wrestlers and a great manager to lead them all. You could even use the stable to push Taylor as a new upcard big guy with Lashley passing him the torch or something like that.

Loving the Dynasty build up thus far. Adam Cole is not the guy I want Daniel García wasting most of his title reign with, but Danny has been carrying himself as a true star throughout their entire rivalry and it's been a pleasure to see it. Hopefully he retains at the PPV and Kyle Fletcher challenges him.

I would be invested in Swerve regaining the title, but they already showed us they're waiting for Darby so, it is what it is. At least get the Tríos titles off of the Death Riders and let FTR and Edge have some fun in the midcard for a while. For a company that likes to put everyone into a stable, it's very funny how they don't use the Tríos Championships as something to fight for for said stables. 

[sek69]

I think ol' Cope is about to get Stinged by FTR.

[The Thread Killer]

Agreed. I know they are building it up to make it look like Dax is turning on Cash, but apparently those guys agreed when they decided to team up that they would never split up.

I suppose it’s possible they have changed their minds, but I imagine it’s more probable that Dax is going to turn on Copeland and it will look like Wheeler is going to support Copeland, only to have him stick with Dax. Which makes sense because simultaneously it certainly looks like Christian might be on the verge of a betrayal and face turn of his own.

[El-P]

10 hours ago, The Thread Killer said:

it certainly looks like Christian might be on the verge of a betrayal and face turn of his own.

This is definitely the way. Copeland is gonna get it from FTR. Nick Wayne is gonna "kill his father". I hope they won't make the reunion too awkward. I also hope they won't make it a full-fledge nostalgia run a-la Hardies, because I for one don't want to be reminded of WWE of 25 years ago. One match with FTR. One match with the Young Bucks. Retirement at 52 on a high note. They can (they should) make it a big event in Canada.

[Alucard]

I think 2016 TNA was Lashley's peak and he showed his best charisma during his title runs and feuds with EC3, Eddie Edwards, etc.

With the Owen Cup deciding the All In challenger and all the top names wanting in, I'm not seeing Darby as the guy winning to beat Moxley anymore. I'd think it'd be more Ospreay or Hangman.