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AEW - All Elite Wrestling (*Spoilers for Latest Show*)

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    #7472
    Cherry_Cola
    Registered Users Posts: 2,921 ✭✭✭Cherry_Cola


    Stunt comes across as a whiney little bitch too on some of Sammy's vlogs, he's thrown a fair few childish tantrums on there.


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    #7473
    Agent Coulson
    Registered Users Posts: 60,281 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    Yes please.

    https://twitter.com/RealBrittBaker/status/1400264525644025856?s=20


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    #7474
    Headshot
    Registered Users Posts: 53,836 ✭✭✭✭Headshot


    Anybody else love AEW Dark just for commentary?

    Tazz and Excalibur always make me laugh

    Also Jungle boy is so over at the moment


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    #7475
    Monokne
    Registered Users Posts: 3,929 ✭✭✭Monokne


    Headshot wrote: »
    Anybody else love AEW Dark just for commentary?

    Tazz and Excalibur always make me laugh

    Also Jungle boy is so over at the moment

    I do not watch Dark but it is so lovely watching AEW and listening to commentators communicate to the audience and with each other like, you know, actual human beings speak.


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    #7476
    Shiminay
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 28,633 Mod ✭✭✭✭Shiminay


    Headshot wrote: »
    Anybody else love AEW Dark just for commentary?

    Tazz and Excalibur always make me laugh

    Headshot Jones over here! They're right on the cusp of needing to reign the nonsense in and remember that they're supposed to be calling matches, but sometimes it's gold. They were relentless with each other in this week's episode.


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    #7477
    CastorTroy
    Registered Users Posts: 28,793 ✭✭✭✭CastorTroy


    I do like how Tazz will just randomly start singing Jungle Boy's theme during his matches


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    #7478
    Loughc
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 24,727 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    Monokne wrote: »
    I do not watch Dark but it is so lovely watching AEW and listening to commentators communicate to the audience and with each other like, you know, actual human beings speak.

    I just wished they would push some corporate tag line every 2 minutes and shoehorn it into a conversation that sounds forced.

    “It’s jungle time Corey” or “here comes the unhinged John Moxley”

    Also every time the undercard is performing they should always be asking “where’s Kenny Omega”


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    #7479
    CastorTroy
    Registered Users Posts: 28,793 ✭✭✭✭CastorTroy


    Why is no one watching backstage while standing at strange angles to the tv?


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    #7480
    grames_bond
    Registered Users Posts: 9,820 ✭✭✭grames_bond


    Loughc wrote: »
    I just wished they would push some corporate tag line every 2 minutes and shoehorn it into a conversation that sounds forced.

    “It’s jungle time Corey” or “here comes the unhinged John Moxley”

    Also every time the undercard is performing they should always be asking “where’s Kenny Omega”

    *Jake Hager enters*

    JR: "it's HOSS time"


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    #7481
    ThePott
    Registered Users Posts: 3,046 ✭✭✭ThePott


    Thank God Britt Baker isn't in WWE, could you imagine.
    "THE DOCTOR IS IN!"
    "THE DOCTOR WILL SEE YOU NOW"

    The possiblities are endless.
    The closest thing AEW have to cringe in that department is, "It's STIIIIIIIING!", kinda run it's course tbh.


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    #7482
    riffmongous
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,625 Mod ✭✭✭✭riffmongous


    Cherry_Cola wrote: »

    Regarding Dark tonight, I'm front row next to the entrance on the stage - Colt chats to me during the DO entrance and Jack Evans screams at me to cut my hair - a chant I turned against him when he loses. Hopefully they captured it well!

    Just watching Dark now, I can't believe they robbed you of the TH2 entrance, I'd be raging


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    #7483
    2ndcoming
    Registered Users Posts: 3,569 ✭✭✭2ndcoming


    ThePott wrote: »
    Thank God Britt Baker isn't in WWE, could you imagine.
    "THE DOCTOR IS IN!"
    "THE DOCTOR WILL SEE YOU NOW"

    The possiblities are endless.
    The closest thing AEW have to cringe in that department is, "It's STIIIIIIIING!", kinda run it's course tbh.

    I kinda like that it's Schiavone marking out exactly like he used to in 96/97. Wouldn't work if it was anyone else.


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    #7484
    Crooked Jack
    Registered Users Posts: 5,678 ✭✭✭Crooked Jack


    Headshot wrote: »
    Anybody else love AEW Dark just for commentary?

    Tazz and Excalibur always make me laugh

    Also Jungle boy is so over at the moment

    I dont watch it regularly but I do enjoy it when I tune in.

    Apparently with Rampage being launched Dark is going back to being a much stricter 60 or 90 minute show, which is much more likely to have me tuning in. One of the reasons I dont watch is because they release the card and it's like 15 matches :pac:


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    #7485
    Omackeral
    Registered Users Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    TH2 should join the Hardy Family Office.


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    #7486
    Crooked Jack
    Registered Users Posts: 5,678 ✭✭✭Crooked Jack


    Omackeral wrote: »
    TH2 should join the Hardy Family Office.

    They're great wrestlers, they badly need a gimmick rebrand though.


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    #7487
    TimesArrow
    Registered Users Posts: 773 ✭✭✭TimesArrow


    I only just saw that promo TK cut on Nick Khan re NJPW. What the hell was that? Pretty cringe worthy to be honest


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    #7488
    ThePott
    Registered Users Posts: 3,046 ✭✭✭ThePott


    2ndcoming wrote: »
    I kinda like that it's Schiavone marking out exactly like he used to in 96/97. Wouldn't work if it was anyone else.
    I understand that but when he does it every week it doesn't work for me. When he returned it was an amazing moment but every week it feels forced now imo.


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    #7489
    Lithium93_
    Registered Users Posts: 48,990 ✭✭✭✭Lithium93_


    Andradé El Idolo


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    #7490
    Agent Coulson
    Registered Users Posts: 60,281 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    Well now that's another huge get for All Elite.


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    #7491
    Agent Coulson
    Registered Users Posts: 60,281 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    With the WWE releases I was thinking I'd love to see Darby Allin vs Tommy End.


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    #7492
    Agent Coulson
    Registered Users Posts: 60,281 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    Zicky in the crowd.


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    #7493
    Agent Coulson
    Registered Users Posts: 60,281 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    This cracked me up

    https://twitter.com/eviluno/status/1401006596059275267?s=21


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    #7494
    Lord TSC
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 42,402 Mod ✭✭✭✭Lord TSC


    Thought that was a massive wheel spinner of a show. Mostly missable filler. Some good promos, and love Andrade’s debut. But 90% of the show seemed to be stating the feuds from the PPV were continuing.

    I understand that there is top slot shenanigans though causing issues for them. That the main event started at 11:45pm on a Friday night, hence when it was the bull rope match. So I can give it a pass for now.


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    #7495
    Chuck Noland
    Registered Users Posts: 1,908 ✭✭✭Chuck Noland


    Chuck Noland wrote: »
    Really starting to get a whiff of TNA from AEW.

    AEW Official : So you worked for WWE?
    Talent : Yes I worked there for………
    AEW : YOUR HIRED!!

    It’s getting laughable now.


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    #7496
    Lord TSC
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 42,402 Mod ✭✭✭✭Lord TSC


    Chuck Noland wrote: »
    It’s getting laughable now.

    At the end of the day, WWE had a bloated roster, stuffed full of people they were utterly wasting. It’s inevitable that means there’s a tonne of talent that AEW can absolutely utilise to a better degree. If they turn their nose up at everyone WWE releases, They’d literally have no one to choose from to bolster their roster.

    Andrade, Miro, (inevitably Black) are guys who were or can be absolute superstars, but WWE dropped the ball on. Young guys with A tonne of potential. It would be stupid to turn your nose up at that level of talent just cause WWE had them.

    What put me off impact was how they turned themselves into a place where said rejects utterly destroyed their home grown guys on a shocking regular basis. With AEW, they use the guys to bolster their own talent. Christian putting over Jungle boy, Sting putting over Darby.

    Its a different overall philosophy.


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    #7497
    RollieFingers
    Registered Users Posts: 2,635 ✭✭✭RollieFingers


    I always laugh when this shockingly bad take comes up :D I mean Andrade is literally one of the best wrestlers in the world they'd have been mad not to sign him. Not to mention all those ex superstars like Omega, Page, Bucks, Baker, Kingston, Cage, Darby, JB, MJF, Cassidy, Sammy, Fenix, Penta etc. giving off that WWE whiff.

    The take actually gets worse when you think that the WWE championship match at the most recent Wrestlemania was literally a rerun of a TNA world championship match from five years previously. So I'm assuming there's a bang of TNA off WWE too.


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    #7498
    Headshot
    Registered Users Posts: 53,836 ✭✭✭✭Headshot


    Hot Damn, it's so ****ing good to see Andrade in AEW

    Can you believe this I was only thinking yesterday what the hell is he up to since leaving WWE....

    My mouth is already drooling with the thought of the matches he could be in. This roster is turning into something epic tbh.

    I'm a bit surprised there was no music to his entrance thou, they're probably still working on it


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    #7499
    LineOfBeauty
    Registered Users Posts: 2,211 ✭✭✭LineOfBeauty


    Chuck Noland wrote: »
    It’s getting laughable now.

    It's so laughable that every wrestling promotion ever has signed wrestlers who have ever worked for a company that wasn't them. Every territory was the same. NJPW and AJPW are just JWA ripoffs. Current WWE is TNA. AEW is TNA. NOAH is AJPW. ect. Ect.


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    #7500
    Lord TSC
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 42,402 Mod ✭✭✭✭Lord TSC


    Headshot wrote: »
    I'm a bit surprised there was no music to his entrance thou, they're probably still working on it

    There was a post on Reddit which said that Kingston gave an interview a while back, asking him why when he debuted, he didn’t come out to entrance music. And his response was basically that “why would I have music all geared up? I wasn’t being unveiled as a new signing by the brass but nearly an invader.”.

    It’s nearly more grounded that someone like Andrade, giving off a vibe of walking out in his own volition, might not have a massive big entrance planned out with the top brass yet.


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    #7501
    The White Wolf
    Registered Users Posts: 5,129 ✭✭✭The White Wolf


    Chuck Noland wrote: »
    It’s getting laughable now.

    It's a different situation to TNA hoovering every wrestler let go by WWE that were either past their best or were a never was.

    You could question the signings of Christian, Henry, Big Show and others of that ilk, but we know exactly what they are there for.

    You can't blame AEW for signing the guys that they have that are there to compete. For the most part I've think they've been reasonably restrained.


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