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Post by Kriss on Dec 31, 2022 16:42:26 GMT
Jim Ross wasn't on commentary on Rampage last night because he was given the week off to watch some university cheese bowl football of some such nonsense. Paul Wight was great as replacement, and he's been improving on Elevation over the last year to the point that he's be great as a permanent voice in the booth. Unfortunately, grumpy JR will be back next week.
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Post by srossi on Dec 31, 2022 17:53:32 GMT
Jim Ross wasn't on commentary on Rampage last night because he was given the week off to watch some university cheese bowl football of some such nonsense. Paul Wight was great as replacement, and he's been improving on Elevation over the last year to the point that he's be great as a permanent voice in the booth. Unfortunately, grumpy JR will be back next week. To me Wight was just there. He wasn’t good or bad. But with ROH not getting real TV anytime soon, it’s time to just put Ian Riccaboni on Rampage. gea Too good a play-by-play man to have under contract and not have anything for him to do regularly.
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Post by Kriss on Jan 2, 2023 17:09:00 GMT
The line about Jarrett's wife seems to have awoken Karen Jarrett and from the Twitter sparring going on, it looks like Karen will be involved in this angle. [sarcasm] Yay! [/sarcasm] The rap on Jarrett was incredible and they went places I didn’t think TK would approve. I really wish that the “stealing Kurt Angle’s wife” line was just a vicious jab and not the introduction of Karen to AEW though. Karen Jarrett going on quite the Twitter meltdown today, threatening to dish all the dirt on Kurt Angle. Accused Kurt Angle of cheating with Kelly Kelly and Dawn Marie. I think this all over someone saying she cheated on Angle with Jeff Jarrett. I had to look it up, but Deann Siden was a woman who was stalking Angle. Don't drink and Tweet, people. Attachments:
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Post by srossi on Jan 2, 2023 17:14:52 GMT
The rap on Jarrett was incredible and they went places I didn’t think TK would approve. I really wish that the “stealing Kurt Angle’s wife” line was just a vicious jab and not the introduction of Karen to AEW though. Karen Jarrett going on quite the Twitter meltdown today, threatening to dish all the dirt on Kurt Angle. Accused Kurt Angle of cheating with Kelly Kelly and Dawn Marie. I think this all over someone saying she cheated on Angle with Jeff Jarrett. I had to look it up, but Deann Siden was a woman who was stalking Angle. Don't drink and Tweet, people. Angle sure upgraded if he hooked up with Kelly Kelly and Dawn Marie. Karen sure has the right name though, I’ll say that.
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Post by srossi on Jan 4, 2023 2:09:43 GMT
Pro Wrestling Tees announced their top AEW sellers in 2022 and #1 is probably a surprise. Danhausen sold more merch than anyone else, with CM Punk coming in 2nd and MJF 3rd. Rounding out the top 10 were The Acclaimed, Jon Moxley, Malakai Black, Young Bucks, FTR, Sting, and Kenny Omega.
Among non-AEW wrestlers, the top 3 here were Ric Flair, Scott Hall (presumably his death gave him a big pump), and Bret Hart. Johnny Gargano, who was allowed to sell shirts there for the few months he was not under WWE contract, came in an impressive 4th, and Hana Kimura, who killed herself in 2020 and proceeds are going to suicide prevention programs, rounded out the top 5. Randy Savage, Jay White, Mick Foley, Steve Austin, and Roddy Piper were 6-10.
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Post by srossi on Jan 4, 2023 2:27:25 GMT
Karen Jarrett going on quite the Twitter meltdown today, threatening to dish all the dirt on Kurt Angle. Accused Kurt Angle of cheating with Kelly Kelly and Dawn Marie. I think this all over someone saying she cheated on Angle with Jeff Jarrett. I had to look it up, but Deann Siden was a woman who was stalking Angle. Don't drink and Tweet, people. Angle sure upgraded if he hooked up with Kelly Kelly and Dawn Marie. Karen sure has the right name though, I’ll say that. I didn’t even read all of this, but here are Jeff’s comments on this from his podcast: "The whole, that I'm stealing Kurt Angle's wife, that is kind of a generation removed. I want to kind of set the record straight here, and this is completely with all due respect. I've kept my mouth shut for 10 or 12 years for two reasons, Kyra Angle and Kody Angle. They're old enough now. They know the absolute truth, but me stealing Kurt's wife is the furthest thing from the truth." "The fact of the matter is when we hired Kurt Angle, and I say we, me and Dixie Carter, because she's a part of this story, they (Kurt and Karen), were legally separated. They weren't living under the same roof. Enough is enough. We're 13 years removed from this and I'm sure Kurt is, I would assume, he's sick and tired of it because he tweeted and tried to get in AEW business and he tweeted and that's why I said I wanted to address this. He tweeted, and when you got to use my name to get heat after 12 years, Kurt Angle, if you think I need your name to get heat after 12 years, you're delusional Kurt." "I am sick and tired of my wife having to go through this pain. I'm literally sick of it. Conrad, you know the names. I'm not gonna say the names. I respect that. The past is the past. Look, there's a lot of disasters, marriages, it happens all the time. But for Max Caster to pour gasoline on my wife, I'm done with that. I am so done with that, and I'm not done because everybody's gonna say, 'Well wait a minute. Y'all work the storyline and this and that.' Yeah, here's the real situation. Yeah, I got sent home and the whole world, including Max Caster thinks, oh, yeah, you got sent home because of that whole disaster and Bubba the Love Sponge or whatever it was. No, the fact of the matter is Dixie Carter, for the third time, pulled a power play. She tried the first one during my wife's illness. The second one was about 12 months later. The third one was during this, and I gave her the rope to hang me. She went to her father and said, 'Oh, we can't have this.' She didn't give two shits about Kurt Angle. She wanted to powerplay to run the tale. Oh, yeah, and you know what, that's exactly what happened, and in 24 months, she put the company in a financial death spiral, so her power player put, essentially out of the business. Vince Russo's absolutely a part of this. Vince's whole plan was to go along with it. He knew damn well. He knew damn well the Kurt and Karen situation. He knew absolutely all of it. He sat on the sidelines just like Kurt was. We're just gonna let Jeff sit home. Guess what? Jeff's just trying to put his life back together? No, but let him sit home because Vince Russo's plan was, I'll get Jeff out and I can write the show by myself. Little did she know, Dixie Carter, and I was at the original lunch, hired Hulk Hogan. So then Vince Russo had to had to answer to Hulk, then Eric, Bruce was a part of that equation. The running joke for six months in 2010 was, 'Well Russo tried his power play along with Dixie, but look what happened to him now.'" "I'm sick of it, Conrad. I'm absolutely sick of the BS of my wife, I am defending my wife. I'm absolutely sick of all the crap. Max Caster, you crossed the line. Pal, you have no idea of the can of worms you've opened? None. A receipt is coming Wednesday. I assure you that." "You want to talk about Global Force gold? You don't know what in the hell you're talking about. You saying I hadn't been relevant since 2004? Really, Max? I guess I've been in two Hall of Fames since then. I guess I started a company and got it up where it was making six, eight, ten million a year, it was making over 50 million gross, and you're saying I'm irrelevant?" "You're damn right I'm 55. What 55 year old can get hired? I look better than you today at 55 than you'll ever look in your life. I damn sure work better, but that ain't saying much. I'm gonna get to the fraud you are in a minute. But you want to talk about me being relevant. Global Force Gold, hey, I've made a lot of screw ups. It was a marketing initiative and I got paid well for a startup company. Maybe the aesthetics, maybe the presentation sucked, not maybe, they did. But you want to take potshots, a young punk like you Max? Are you out of your freakin mind? I mean, you think doing the tweets and doing the posts and doing the wraps and all that b.s., Max, I assure you pal, you have no idea what you've done. None. So now I've cleared up all that."
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Post by Kriss on Jan 4, 2023 9:13:20 GMT
This is all just the worst. On the one side, I hope it's all a work, because the behind the scenes bullshit from AEW is just exhausting. On the other side, I hope it's not a work, because I'm not interested in seeing this shitty story on TV with Karen and Kurt and Vince Russo and Dixie fucking Carter. And Jeff is just being a prick in that speech. Maybe people think that Jeff stole Kurt's wife because that's the story that played out on TNA television, including both kids appearing in the skits. And Jeff long deserves a receipt for Global Force Gold because it was a complete scam.
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Post by Kriss on Jan 4, 2023 11:25:38 GMT
I'm watching WrestleKingdom, and Kenny Omega and Will Ospreay just had an absolutely astounding match. I know that it's partly due to Omega's long-term angle, plus his injury and the suspension, but it's such a shame and almost criminal that he hasn't had one of these classics in AEW yet. They need to build him an all-time singles feud coming out of the last trios match next week.
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Post by cookie on Jan 4, 2023 13:40:03 GMT
I'm watching WrestleKingdom, and Kenny Omega and Will Ospreay just had an absolutely astounding match. I know that it's partly due to Omega's long-term angle, plus his injury and the suspension, but it's such a shame and almost criminal that he hasn't had one of these classics in AEW yet. They need to build him an all-time singles feud coming out of the last trios match next week. I’m really looking forward to watching this match. It’s definitely weird that Omega hasn’t had multiple classics in AEW yet. Long term storytelling is all well and good, but by looking at the last year in AEW sometimes they just need to pull the damn trigger and go for it instead of trying to let things build for years, because due to injuries or other unforeseen circumstances the payoff may never happen.
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Post by srossi on Jan 4, 2023 13:43:30 GMT
I'm watching WrestleKingdom, and Kenny Omega and Will Ospreay just had an absolutely astounding match. I know that it's partly due to Omega's long-term angle, plus his injury and the suspension, but it's such a shame and almost criminal that he hasn't had one of these classics in AEW yet. They need to build him an all-time singles feud coming out of the last trios match next week. It definitely reads like a work, and it sounds like TK got conned again into letting Jarrett work his own angle and this is what he came up with. A fucking TNA rehash that no one even cared about at the time, much less now. I can’t think of anything good that can come out of this. Even if they get Angle for a couple of shots, the last thing he needs is to job to Baron Corbin and then come back in a feud with Jarrett and his ex-wife concluding a decades-old TNA feud. Just awful. Jarrett is a master carny and probably more than TK can handle.
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Post by bpickering on Jan 5, 2023 1:44:09 GMT
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Post by srossi on Jan 5, 2023 3:26:48 GMT
As announced tonight on Dynamite, Dustin Rhodes’ mother Sandra died today. She was married to Dusty from 1975-1985. Cody has a different mother so despite some Internet comments to contrary, AEW was not slighting him by only extending condolences to Dustin.
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Post by Kriss on Jan 5, 2023 7:02:39 GMT
I thought that was an excellent show last night that flew by. The new look of the show wasn't revolutionary, but the new stage looks nice without the Cody entrance, and it seemed like we could see and hear the crowd better (no need for the What? chants though, Seattle losers), but that could just be the arena. If they hadn't hyped this as "brand new Dynamite" I probably wouldn't have even noticed. The gauntlet to get to MJF has been done before, but no one can complain about getting a different Bryan Danielson match every week. They made the right call to give us the mystery partner before next week if it's not going to be Mercedes Moné and they added a nice little bit of tension with Shida.
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Post by cookie on Jan 5, 2023 13:15:50 GMT
I do think the new set looked nice, you’re right they didn’t do anything new here but I do like the color scheme.
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Post by OneFanGang on Jan 5, 2023 18:10:31 GMT
The presentation of Saraya has to be setting her character in-place to be reviled over the long haul, and not by merely the AEW faithful who already view her as an outsider on the Hall/Nash level. Saraya even has a hair flip on promos that would have Diesel jealous, and I don't even know if it's deliberately crafted to draw heat.
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