Re: The Wrestling Thread III: AEW Double or Nothing to air across ITV4 & ITV Box Office
Posted: Mon May 13, 2019 8:06 pm
by KK
Really have made these shows bigger than WrestleMania in terms of big name matches with the geriatrics...just without the build and in front of a gooseberry fool crowd (well, I’m sure the real crowd are fine, but for TV all you see is The House surrounding ringside on their sofas not giving a gooseberry fool).
Oh, and at a gooseberry fool time.
Re: The Wrestling Thread III: AEW Double or Nothing to air across ITV4 & ITV Box Office
Posted: Tue May 14, 2019 11:19 am
by Mafro
The 80 minute Game of Thrones finale is on during Money in the Bank so it’ll be interesting to see how that PPV does.
Re: The Wrestling Thread III: AEW Double or Nothing to air across ITV4 & ITV Box Office
Posted: Wed May 15, 2019 1:21 pm
by KK
twitter.com/tntdrama/status/1128632147248668673
And the obligatory Nitro fire.
Re: The Wrestling Thread III: AEW announce partnership with TNT
Posted: Wed May 15, 2019 4:35 pm
by captain red dog
Nice call back too. Shots fired!
Re: The Wrestling Thread III: AEW announce partnership with TNT
Posted: Wed May 15, 2019 5:12 pm
by KK
"We're back in the wrestling business" a knowing nod to Ted Turner ringing up Vince McMahon and telling him "Hey Vince, I'm in the rasslin' business!"
If only to be a fly on the wall of WWE this morning...
A glorious day.
Re: The Wrestling Thread III: AEW announce partnership with TNT
Posted: Wed May 15, 2019 6:02 pm
by captain red dog
It's great for the industry. AEW haven't really put a foot wrong yet. Looking forward to seeing what their schedule is. They really don't need to be any more than 2 hours a week maximum and I'd say an hour a week will be fine initially.
Re: The Wrestling Thread III: AEW announce partnership with TNT
Posted: Wed May 15, 2019 6:03 pm
by Floex
As a nostalgia bump
But who in their right mind wants to be compared to the dumpster fire brand that is WCW these days
Re: The Wrestling Thread III: AEW announce partnership with TNT
Posted: Wed May 15, 2019 6:19 pm
by Mafro
2 hours would be perfect given the size of the roster.
Re: The Wrestling Thread III: AEW announce partnership with TNT
Posted: Wed May 15, 2019 10:14 pm
by KK
The Kabuki Warriors.
Re: The Wrestling Thread III: AEW Double or Nothing to air across ITV4 & ITV Box Office
Posted: Thu May 16, 2019 12:52 am
by Dangerblade
Mafro wrote:Best of the Super JRs starts tomorrow at 9AM
SHO has been the MVP so far, easily the best 2 matches with Shingo and Dragon Lee.
Also I realise he's in the twilight of his career and I've never seen him in his prime but Taguchi is just...garbage to me
Re: The Wrestling Thread III: AEW announce partnership with TNT
Posted: Thu May 16, 2019 7:49 am
by coldspice
Sho/Shingo is in my top 5 for the year so far, loved it.
Re: The Wrestling Thread III: AEW announce partnership with TNT
Posted: Thu May 16, 2019 12:54 pm
by Mafro
Sounds like WWE rights are moving to BT.
Re: The Wrestling Thread III: AEW announce partnership with TNT
Posted: Thu May 16, 2019 1:10 pm
by Return_of_the_STAR
Mafro wrote:Sounds like WWE rights are moving to BT.
Wow just wow. That would surely hurt wwe significantly.
Re: The Wrestling Thread III: AEW announce partnership with TNT
Posted: Thu May 16, 2019 3:41 pm
by captain red dog
Floex wrote:As a nostalgia bump
But who in their right mind wants to be compared to the dumpster fire brand that is WCW these days
Well I think WCW in its dying days was still a better program that Raw and Smackdown is presently. I don't think we really appreciate just how poor the current product is. It's worse than Nitro in my opinion as at least stuff happened on Nitro. The last memorable thing I can remember on Raw was the Festival of Friendship and I just googled it and that was back in 2017. It feels like nothing of note has happened since then. I've kept up to date with Raw based on YouTube clips alone for the last 2 years and nothing at all has really captured my attention.
