All Elite Wrestling Thread (It's Wednesday...you know what that means.)

[Ocelot]

Just watched Double or Nothing and I gave the cage match and Storm/Deeb a hundred billion stars and anarchy in the arena a hundred billion stars.

I hope this is the beginning of AEW's comeback.

[Bandit]

If CM Punk didn't like real glass I wonder what he'd have said about real fire?

[Dr. Zoidberg]

[Bandit]

I'm not surprised. That looked brutal. He's lucky it wasn't as bad as Sid's leg.

[Ocelot]

He came down HARD on that leg too. I speak from experience when I say tibia fractures are some of the most painful fractures you have and they take, by far, the longest to heal. Can't be rushed either.

[Bandit]

Arn's contract wasn't renewed. They put him with Wardlow for like 2 seconds, but really he hadn't done anything since Cody left. Which is a shame because Arn is one of the best talkers ever and could have helped out people who can't talk. He'll probably be back in WWE because they probably got over the Alicia Fox thing and HHH likes him. Maybe if Cody feuds with Bloodline again he can do some good segments going back and forth with Paul Heyman.

[Ocelot]

I can kinda understand why they've let go who they have been, but it's still a bummer.

[Big Boss Man]

Jake Hager's contract also expired, I'm assuming others are up soon too. They do need to trim the roster, the injured list is quite extensive too with Eddie Kingston, Cope, Britt I think still injured, Kenny, not sure about Hangman's status think it's just time off, Jamie Hayter, not sure on Ricky Starks status either & others. When even with 3 shows TV time is limited.

They need a guy like Arn to teach some of the wrestlers how to talk as that's a lost art really, unless they're a MJF who's very much a student of Flair/Piper & he's definitely a guy they couldn't afford to lose. He works better as a heel too, just needs a good angle to get into & bring the ratings back up.

Jack Perry should be the Pillman type Loose Cannon too, his mic work has improved a lot since he first started cutting promos in AEW. Having other guys go New Japan would do good for them too I think.

[Dr. Zoidberg]

Apparently Saraya isn't happy that her match with Mariah May was pushed back to next week and tweeted and then deleted something minor that might have been about it.

[Bandit]

[Big Boss Man]

Update on the WBD/AEW negotiations, Dave saying they're considerably more than the $110m per year which is being estimated

https://www.f4wonline.com/news/aew/upda ... r-figures/

[Dr. Zoidberg]

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[Ocelot]

Mariah May is leaning into this role of the psycho obsessed lesbian fan of the psycho sex-obsessed delusional champion and I am FUCKING HERE FOR IT

[Bandit]

[Bandit]

The best part of Dynamite was the Mark Briscoe promo

[Ocelot]

You can't fucking script that brilliance. Best promo ever.

[Bandit]

This is kinda cool. 2019 AEW matches set to lofi instrumentals. The picture looks like the same quality I used to watch ECW and Shotgun Saturday Night on a UHF antenna.

[Big Boss Man]

That reminded me, I watched one of the Rumbles years ago recorded on LP on SP, I can't remember if it played properly or which year I think it was Giant Gonzalez debut maybe, so 93 ?