The Wrestling Thread: AEW Dynasty

A few years ago I would have jumped on tickets for this but the roster is so mediocre now I’m not all that fussed. I’m hoping AEW/ROH do shows over here this year.

AEW doing a show at Fulham is a dead cert but whether they’d do it this summer or next is the question.

Transport and hotel costs are going to be the real killer for the Wales show. Looking at prices, hotels already want £200+ per person, and that’s outside the centre.

I can why WWE has chosen Wales though, they’ve got the roof.

Wimbledon’s Centre Court would be a brilliant stadium for AEW Dynamite/Rampage but I think hell would have to freeze over before they accept a wrestling show.

KK wrote:AEW doing a show at Fulham is a dead cert but whether they’d do it this summer or next is the question.

Transport and hotel costs are going to be the real killer for the Wales show. Looking at prices, hotels already want £200+ per person, and that’s outside the centre.

I can why WWE has chosen Wales though, they’ve got the roof.

Wimbledon’s Centre Court would be a brilliant stadium for AEW Dynamite/Rampage but I think hell would have to freeze over before they accept a wrestling show.

I didn't even think when signing up for ticket alerts but hundreds of people have already booked hotels, meaning the hotels might cost more than a ticket (if you get one) at this rate

Outside of the odd Wrestlemania, I hadn't watched wrestling regularly for over 15 years, but funnily enough the last 3 weeks I've been watching AEW and kind of enjoying it (Jericho :wub:

). Think I might catch up on some WWE, as Cardiff is less than 40 miles from here, wouldn't even need to bother with a hotel. I genuinely think AEW might have more people I recognise though.

Yeah, I’m in a similar position to you (probably closer to 20 years since I have watched it), and am heartened to see a few familiar faces and hear a few familiar voices on the AEW circuit.

I've noticed AEW has much higher viewership than WWE in the UK (at least 3 times as much), yet considerably less social media and Google engagement, which maybe indicates AEW either has a much older fan base or a more casual audience over here. The majority of TV viewership comes from the ITV Hub and late night ITV1, rather than live on ITV4.

TNA at its height in the UK also featured a lot of late 90s/early 00s wrestlers.

I would imagine seeing the likes of Chris Jericho, Sting, Jim Ross, Tony Schiavone, Taz, Billy Gunn, Christian, Mark Henry, Goldust, Matt and Jeff Hardy does attract a casual viewer that's channel surfing.

WCW pulled the same 'trick' with a lot of late '80s wrestlers, which would have drawn in casual viewers in 1997/98 who watched the WWF at its height. Oh, there's Hogan, Savage, Piper, Ted DiBiase, I'll keep watching.

Classic stuff here from Dave Meltzer…

twitter.com/_pierrotlunaire/status/1512439284611047425

KK wrote:Classic stuff here from Dave Meltzer…

twitter.com/_pierrotlunaire/status/1512439284611047425

Knew what that clip was going to be before I even clicked it :lol:

WWE may be crap these days, but as a wrestling fan in the UK this has to be a no brainer. You will at worst get a Saudi style show which may actually involve a title change. I don't see them booking a stadium of that size in Europe and doing a by the numbers show. They'd literally have to just get an Austin or Taker to walk down to the ring and hit their finisher and that will be enough for the vast majority.

I’ve seen some terrible wrestling gear in my time, but Pretty Deadly’s attire is all kinds of shite!

This is more a moan about game prices rather than wrestling, but over the weekend I got the urge to play a wrestling game. Saw there was a special edition that comes with playable nWo wrestlers. Not usually one for special editions, but it looks like the only way to get the nWo stuff was that edition. It costs £104! I'm very much out of the buying games at launch thing, but with stuff like this, and sports games, they end up being outdated quite quickly.

Feel's like I life time since I've been here. Baron Zemo from like 10 years ago.

^ The community feels quite strong on the new game and some of the creations are quite impressive so I think that'll keep it alive.

CDKeys had the NWO edition for £60 so I've just grabbed it.

Some serious budget cutting going on over at tbs and TNT, so it'll be interesting to see what this means for AEW (if anything) in the future.

TNT and TBS are pausing their scripted game under new parent company Warner Bros. Discovery, which CEO David Zaslav has promised will find $3 billion in cost savings across the new company in the post-merger era, Variety has learned exclusively.

The WarnerMedia-run cable channels is no longer developing new scripted content, three sources close to the matter tell Variety. According to one insider, Warner Bros. Discovery leadership is currently evaluating the strategy for all of the so-called “TNets” — including truTV, which are run by Brett Weitz — and will have a better idea of the role each will play within the new regime moving forward.

It is unclear what will happen to TBS and TNT’s current slate of scripted programming, but for the moment, it is apparently status quo for returning series like “Snowpiercer.”

Warner Bros. Discovery did not immediately respond to request for comment Tuesday.

After ramping up their scripted programming efforts in the past decade, both TNT and TBS have significantly pared down their scripted offerings in the last few years.

At TBS, the network’s only remaining scripted shows are the comedies “The Last OG,” “Miracle Workers,” “Chad,” and “American Dad.” Of those, “The Last OG” aired its fourth season in October 2021 with no word on a fifth. “Miracle Workers” aired its third season in July 2021 with a fourth season ordered in November. “Chad” aired its first season in the summer of 2021 with a second season to debut in 2022. “American Dad,” which moved to TBS from Fox in 2014, was renewed for two more seasons in December 2021.

TNT has only two scripted shows left on its roster. Those are “Animal Kingdom,” which will end after its sixth season airing in June, and “Snowpiercer.” The latter show was renewed for a fourth season ahead of its third season premiere.

Warner Bros. Discovery reported its first-quarter earnings earlier Tuesday, which focused primarily on the Q1 results of Discovery, as the combined company did not exist until earlier this month, when the $43 billion deal was closed for Discovery to purchase WarnerMedia from AT&T. Instead, AT&T last week included WarnerMedia results in its quarterly report for the last time.

On the investor call to discovery Discovery Q1 Tuesday, CFO Gunnar Wiedenfels said WarnerMedia assets profit projection for 2022 is $500 million lower than Discovery expected, and Discovery’s better-than-expected results help offset that for WBD.

“2022 will undoubtedly be a messy year,” he said, and Warner Bros. Discovery is looking to “rectify some of the drivers behind the business-case deviations” across the company. Wiedenfels called Warner Bros. Discovery’s very recent decision to shut down the newly launched CNN+ “exhibit A” of that strategy. It’s clear now that TNT and TBS’ scripted is part of that too.

https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/tnt-tb ... 235241348/

I don't know how AEW is viewed there (sport, drama, scripted?). At ITV it's under the sports banner (and is now being included in their Sports trailers alongside international football, motorsport, darts, snooker and cycling).

Wouldn't it be ironic if history repeats itself again and the new owners of TNT/tbs just decide 'nah, we don't want wrestling any more'. Things working in AEW's favour is that it isn't owned by the network like WCW was, rates well, and is pretty damn cheap.

Clash At The Castle is the name of the UK show:

STAMFORD, Conn., April 29, 2022 – WWE revealed the name of its first major stadium event to be held in the United Kingdom in more than 30 years as WWE Clash at The Castle, emanating from Principality Stadium in Cardiff, Wales, on Saturday, September 3, 2022.

Tickets for WWE Clash at The Castle will go on sale Friday, May 20.

https://www.wwe.com/amp/article/tickets ... day-may-20

gooseberry fool name but I see why they think it would be a good name.

Anyone planning on trying to get tickets? I will be although not too bothered if I miss out.

...But it's being held in a stadium?

The set I have in my mind and the reality are no doubt going to be two completely different things.

My mind: wow, they’ve built this elaborate castle, and there’s a dragon and…

Reality: oh look, there’s a castle on a LED screen.

If the 24/7 title is still around in September maybe they’ll do a running theme throughout the night that ends in a castle.

I think they'll just show random clips of Cardiff castle during the show, like they show big Ben, tower bridge etc during the London TV shows.

Return_of_the_STAR wrote:gooseberry fool name but I see why they think it would be a good name.

Anyone planning on trying to get tickets? I will be although not too bothered if I miss out.

I've signed up :shifty:

The Wrestling Thread: AEW Dynasty

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