The Wrestling Thread: AEW Revolution

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PostRe: The Wrestling Thread III: WWE Hell In A Cell - Sunday, WWE Network
by Return_of_the_STAR » Wed Jun 16, 2021 7:40 pm

KK wrote:It’s because the show has been temporarily bumped to Friday nights on TNT, following SmackDown on FOX. This has also had the negative impact of completely killing the ratings here in the UK too - last episode dipped to 32,000 on ITV4 (was just over 100,000 the week prior). TNT has lumbered Dynamite in a death slot.


Oh why has it moved,? I'm guessing a Sports play offs or something.

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PostRe: The Wrestling Thread III: WWE Hell In A Cell - Sunday, WWE Network
by KK » Wed Jun 16, 2021 8:09 pm

I think it’s because of the NBA. Hopefully when AEW moves to TBS next year there won’t be any more schedule changes. Doesn’t exactly bode well for AEW’s new Rampage show though, which is going to be airing for an hour every Friday night on TNT later this year (before then also moving to TBS in 2022).

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PostRe: The Wrestling Thread III: WWE Hell In A Cell - Sunday, WWE Network
by KK » Mon Jun 21, 2021 8:13 pm

There were a couple of embarrassing moments last night at Hell in a Cell. One was when Drew McIntrye went through a table off the apron and the camera crew caught the tail end of a stagehand hidden under the ring removing what was presumably a crash pad and placing the broken bits of table back in shot. Bryon Saxton on commentary blatantly noticed it.

And then there was Alexa Bliss hypnotising people during her match with Shayna Baszler. Come back Papa Shango, all is forgiven…

I was expecting Rey Mysterio and Roman Reigns but as became apparent when they showed highlights of the match on the PPV, and unbeknownst to me, it actually took place on SmackDown on Friday (having apparently been changed and announced on social media the day prior). :fp:

AEW Dynamite is on Saturday this week, as the TNT fuckery continues. Hurting the UK ratings too as it’s bouncing around all over the schedules. It was Tuesday this week on ITV4.

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PostRe: The Wrestling Thread III
by KK » Sat Jun 26, 2021 7:49 pm

I see Sasha Banks is receiving some criticism on social media for liking two anti vaccine posts on Instagram, one involving the lamestream media and an interview conducted by “treasonous” Jon Snow (yes, of Channel 4 news) and Eugenist Sir John Bell; the other about how they skipped animal trials and went straight to humans because “all animals” were dying.

Multiple right wing social media posts were using excerpts of the C4 interview out of context to imply COVID-19 vaccines cause infertility because Bell used the term “sterilisation”.

She’s also started posting Instagram stories that seem to state people need to ‘wake up to the truth’. Nice to know what some of these wrestlers get up to on their off days (reading horse gooseberry fool on Facebollocks, by the looks of it).

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PostRe: The Wrestling Thread III
by Prototype » Sat Jun 26, 2021 9:22 pm

Just yourself watching the wrestling these days, KK?

Last AEW I caught I saw a hurricanrana in a UFC-style mma match between Hager and Wardlow. :dread:

Can't even bring myself to read WWE results these days.

Perhaps it'll change when they both go back on the road.

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PostRe: The Wrestling Thread III
by KK » Sat Jun 26, 2021 9:51 pm

I’ve resorted to making the most of the £1 WWE Network offer and started watching World Championship Wrestling from 1985, leading in to the third Starrcade.

NowTV also gave me a £1 promo, so I watched You Cannot Kill David Arquette on Sky Documentaries: https://www.nowtv.com/watch/you-cannot- ... rV2vKm5kUd.

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PostRe: The Wrestling Thread III
by gaminglegend » Sun Jun 27, 2021 10:38 am

KK wrote:I’ve resorted to making the most of the £1 WWE Network offer and started watching World Championship Wrestling from 1985, leading in to the third Starrcade.

NowTV also gave me a £1 promo, so I watched You Cannot Kill David Arquette on Sky Documentaries: https://www.nowtv.com/watch/you-cannot- ... rV2vKm5kUd.


I find myself on the Network just sticking old episodes on be it Raw/Nitro/Smackdown and following the year in and out in the 90's :shifty: I rarely use the Network for the new stuff unless its original shows or interviews.

I was watching Smackdown last week actually thinking, pretty soon, the next 'generation' of talent that comes through probably won't even be huge Attitude Era fans, and unless they really love wrestling, watch the 80's stuff or before. They'll have grown up watching the celebrity GM era, thunder dome, IMPACT!/AEW formation.

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PostRe: The Wrestling Thread III
by captain red dog » Sun Jun 27, 2021 4:18 pm

Same, I mostly watch the old stuff on the network. The modern shows are just unwatchable. I think they have hit the low bar now in terms of ratings. The people watching it now are likely the extremely hardcore who have been watching for decades.

Maybe things will get better when they get on the road. But I find myself hoping every year that maybe things will get better.

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PostRe: The Wrestling Thread III
by KK » Sun Jun 27, 2021 10:49 pm

KK wrote:In regards to Blood and Guts last night...

twitter.com/ShotziWWE/status/1390124361357660163


After almost two months, Chris Jericho hasn’t forgotten that tweet…

So people laugh at that sort of stuff but there’s no reason to because this is the real deal and it can happen at any time. Best of luck to anybody in our business, and anybody that bags on somebody who’s taking a chance and putting their bodies on the line can really strawberry float off. Especially people in the business. I could say some names. There’s a couple of chicks in WWE who said some stuff and they should probably not have said that. They probably weren’t trained any better, and in 6 months they’ll probably be asking us for a job anyways and I’ll remember that, so we’ll leave it at that.

https://wrestletalk.com/news/chris-jeri ... guts-spot/

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PostRe: The Wrestling Thread III
by Corazon de Leon » Mon Jun 28, 2021 7:59 am

Jericho appears to be on the verge of becoming everything he ever railed against in WCW. Shame.

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PostRe: The Wrestling Thread III
by Zellery » Mon Jun 28, 2021 9:29 am

I mean, he's probably not wrong about her needing a job in 6 months time.

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PostRe: The Wrestling Thread III
by ITSMILNER » Mon Jun 28, 2021 10:08 am

I’ve been watching the Broken Skull Sessions and other documentaries on the Network as I also got that 3 months for £3 offer thing, the original programming is actually pretty good.

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PostRe: The Wrestling Thread III
by Fade » Mon Jun 28, 2021 11:07 am

Zellery wrote:I mean, he's probably not wrong about her needing a job in 6 months time.

Still, no need to be an insecure dick who can't have a laugh at themselves.

I've basically stopped watched WWE altogether, I haven't watched a full episode in years but I don't even check the highlights on Reddit now.

That's mostly thanks to their ridiculous mismanagement of their wrestlers, firing them without any warning, writing stories that go nowhere, it just makes you not want to get invested because there's no reward, just a spit in the face.

I don't think they realise when they screw over their employees they screw over their fans too. I know they do everything they can to take power away from the wrestlers (copyrighting their names etc) but I feel like times are changing and that's not really working anymore. It's really easy to follow a wrestler you like from company to company these days.

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PostRe: The Wrestling Thread III
by Rawrgna » Mon Jun 28, 2021 12:04 pm

I get where Jericho is coming from besides Shane who else is going to willingly take a bump off the top of a Cell these days but the biggest issue was from the production side where from the camera angle it was obvious there were air bags under the "metal" parts which takes you out of the moment from a viewers perspective

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PostRe: The Wrestling Thread III
by KK » Mon Jun 28, 2021 12:10 pm

Maybe it irks Jericho that he took one of the lamest looking falls in the history of the business, everyone laughed at it, and he still apparently injured himself in the process. In a year Jericho has physically never looked worse, and routinely been involved in surely the worst skits and matches of his entire career.

Most recently I saw him and AEW trying to recreate the Austin beer truck incident from 1999, which WWE have themselves redone less impressively but still to a much higher standard than AEW managed to pull off with a garden hose miles away from the ring. MJF and company then having to flop around and attempt to sell this gooseberry fool.

More recently on Dynamite I caught Jericho and his group nWo-ing a limo and driving a forklift into it (a repeat of an nWo Wolfpac segment from a Nitro in 1998, though in that instance they did actually manage to overturn it), when only weeks prior Jon Moxley had driven a pick-up truck into the side of a trailer and taken baseball bats to that.

I'll be glad when WWE and AEW finally get back on the road again in July and we have a better indicator of the quality of their output, because aside from the Roman Reigns and Uso storyline on SmackDown it's been truly dire. WWE's puppet gooseberry fool on RAW is so embarrassing, and I've only seen the YouTube highlights.

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PostRe: The Wrestling Thread III
by Johnny Ryall » Mon Jun 28, 2021 12:46 pm

The fall of Chris Jericho is embarrassing

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PostRe: The Wrestling Thread III
by Prototype » Mon Jun 28, 2021 1:24 pm

Jericho blocked me once for asking him to tweet me when he was eliminated from DWTS :lol:

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PostRe: The Wrestling Thread III
by Mafro » Mon Jun 28, 2021 1:25 pm

Prototype wrote:Jericho blocked me once for asking him to tweet me when he was eliminated from DWTS :lol:

I remember this :lol:

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PostRe: The Wrestling Thread III
by Corazon de Leon » Mon Jun 28, 2021 2:43 pm

Mafro wrote:
Prototype wrote:Jericho blocked me once for asking him to tweet me when he was eliminated from DWTS :lol:

I remember this :lol:


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PostRe: The Wrestling Thread III
by Prototype » Mon Jun 28, 2021 3:41 pm

Bischoff blocked me for something I said about TNA and DM'd me saying "SeeYa douch". Also blocked by Hogan but genuinely no idea what I did for that one


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