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Post by Jim on May 19, 2024 10:49:56 GMT
I had heard and read about the Young Bucks before AEW and they completely underwhelmed me.
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Post by Jim on May 19, 2024 11:56:04 GMT
And just to balance it, the biggest surprise to me, with someone I knew and expected nothing out of, was Sting.
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Post by krazykid18 on May 20, 2024 12:34:30 GMT
Saraya hasn't lived up to expectations at all, for starters I don't know what the expectations were for her. She had literally already retired by the time they got her. Adam Page looked destined to become a huge star and hasn't. Kenny Omega was supposed to be the face of the company and never really ramped it up to anywhere close to the level he was at in Japan. Keith Lee and Miro were brought in and for all intents and purposes were never used. They announce "signings" like Bryan Keith and they seem to somehow get LESS TV time after that than when they were doing jobs as indy guys. E.J. Nduka was signed away from MLW and never used. I thought Pentagon and Fenix would break out on the national stage like Rey Misterio, and they're just more guys in the mid-card mix. Scorpio Sky was getting pushed, then nothing. Wardlow was getting pushed, then nothing, then was getting pushed, then nothing, so they killed him because they won't get a 3rd chance. What the fuck ever happened to Wheeler Yuta? They have their 10-15 guys who they really have plans for, and a cast of thousands who just come and go from week to week as if it's your local VFW Hall and you're just waiting to see who will show up. Oooohhhhh look, my local indy brought in Jeff Cobb this week. Cool. We won't see him again for 3 years.
Sooo basically it is Tony Khan who is the biggest disappointment
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Post by Jim on May 20, 2024 13:06:06 GMT
I think so.
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Post by kargol on May 20, 2024 14:05:21 GMT
I don't get wasting the Hangman nickname on Adam Page, he looks more like John Denver than a killer.
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Post by Jim on May 20, 2024 14:53:14 GMT
I don't get wasting the Hangman nickname on Adam Page, he looks more like John Denver than a killer. The Butterfly jeans help make him a better Hangman Sseriously though he's one of the better guys that I hadn't seen before AEW. He's seemed a bit lost in the mix for a while and I'm not sure why.
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Post by Kriss on May 20, 2024 15:51:57 GMT
I don't get wasting the Hangman nickname on Adam Page, he looks more like John Denver than a killer. The Butterfly jeans help make him a better Hangman Sseriously though he's one of the better guys that I hadn't seen before AEW. He's seemed a bit lost in the mix for a while and I'm not sure why. Because he was either waiting for Kenny Omega to get back in the ring or injured himself. They had a really good story going until Omega got injured during his "belt collector" title run.
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Post by srossi on May 20, 2024 16:00:36 GMT
The Butterfly jeans help make him a better Hangman Sseriously though he's one of the better guys that I hadn't seen before AEW. He's seemed a bit lost in the mix for a while and I'm not sure why. Because he was either waiting for Kenny Omega to get back in the ring or injured himself. They had a really good story going until Omega got injured during his "belt collector" title run. It's been a really long time now. You need to be able to pivot with your top stars and keep them in the mix. It's not like there aren't tons of other name guys doing nothing as well that you can't program him with.
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Post by Superstar on May 20, 2024 16:46:18 GMT
The Butterfly jeans help make him a better Hangman Sseriously though he's one of the better guys that I hadn't seen before AEW. He's seemed a bit lost in the mix for a while and I'm not sure why. Because he was either waiting for Kenny Omega to get back in the ring or injured himself. They had a really good story going until Omega got injured during his "belt collector" title run. Is Kenny injured, or is he sick? My last word was that he was battling diverticulitis.
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Post by Kriss on May 20, 2024 16:58:38 GMT
Because he was either waiting for Kenny Omega to get back in the ring or injured himself. They had a really good story going until Omega got injured during his "belt collector" title run. Is Kenny injured, or is he sick? My last word was that he was battling diverticulitis. This was an older injury in 2021. I don't think Page has wrestled full-time since 2020 with the pandemic and his kid being born. Seems to come back for quick angles and then leave again. Which is fine. On one hand, people say that wrestling has no off-season and the guys need time off to recover, but when people are away for a while, people complain that someone isn't getting TV time. Granted, people sometimes disappear from AEW without being written out.
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Post by OneFanGang on May 20, 2024 18:37:56 GMT
Khan isn't the biggest disappointment because there was no previous assessment of his abilities in his role. It seems to me that Cody ultimately didn't create much in AEW beyond his initial goal of drawing that 10000+ audience without WWE, even though he had 2.5 years of exposure to showcase himself and his wife as the company took shape. A Rhodes pulling up the spike and departing Florida has a familiar ring to it, with almost a 40-year arc. Cody's rise within WWE will always be framed by his need for the right promotional machine, and his failures in AEW stand out more because of that inability to create it himself. His "story" is a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure genre where he just reset his path once he turned to page 68 and was summarily not renewed.
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Post by Franchise on May 20, 2024 18:43:52 GMT
Omega
I understand injuries happen but when not injured i feel like his AEW matches were him performing on cruise control waiting for his next big NJPW match.
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Post by Franchise on May 20, 2024 18:51:21 GMT
Is Kenny injured, or is he sick? My last word was that he was battling diverticulitis. This was an older injury in 2021. I don't think Page has wrestled full-time since 2020 with the pandemic and his kid being born. Seems to come back for quick angles and then leave again. Which is fine. On one hand, people say that wrestling has no off-season and the guys need time off to recover, but when people are away for a while, people complain that someone isn't getting TV time. Granted, people sometimes disappear from AEW without being written out. Wrestling doesn't need an off season it only needs management that can manage a roster of talent effectively and efficiently.
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Post by Jim on May 20, 2024 20:00:40 GMT
Khan isn't the biggest disappointment because there was no previous assessment of his abilities in his role.
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Post by Jim on May 20, 2024 20:03:42 GMT
Khan isn't the biggest disappointment because there was no previous assessment of his abilities in his role. I hoped he'd be better than he is and put on shows that I'd like much much more. I barely watch it anymore because of this. He had the money and he has the wrestlers and he could have people to run it for him. He's the main reason the show is not good, in my opinion, so he's a disappointment to me.
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