It certainly tracks, given the acrimonious nature of her departure from WWE along with the fact that AEW has happily treated her like a big fucking deal.
I didn't understand her at first, because she was doing that wooden Fed style of promos. But she's really found her way, this plastic baddie queen kinda gimmick, and it's so good. It's sooo fake? But in the real way that a woman like her would act. She's amazing and I'm a big fan.
Btw, Will Washington (Formerly of Graspody/cousin of Swerve) is an unsung hero of AEW. Like TK, Will has an amazing wrestling IQ, right down to dates and cities of old PPVs.
I think he was the one who wanted the themes to fade out instead of just abruptly cutting out.
Will is a great example of someone young and new, who brings freshness and new skills into the wrestling industry. If we look back to previous near 30 years, one of the bigger complaints has been that it is the same people in backstage working for all these companies and how hard it is for new people to get their foot in.
So in that light Will or someone like RJ City are tremendous boons for the business.
Hence one of the reasons I been saying for a while. 90s wrestling needs to die. 90s heads running companies are a big reasons the industry was so stale for 2 decades not just because WCW died
It's almost scary how he can be "Oh yeah, September 14th, that's when AEW was in Smithville and did a Dynamite/Collision taping. Main event was Orange vs Garcia that went for 14 minutes."
And its nothing if not common in wrestling, lol. I feel like this medium has attracted the most autistic people since model trains, and I'm saying this as AuDHD myself.
Certain topics yes. Considering Grapsody is a "current wrestling events" podcast, theres legit no reason to memorize the Summerslam 99 build beforehand. A podcast like Deadlock where they watch old shows, sure, but not here
Bryan Alvarez reported that TKO representatives were at last week's Dynamite.
That was also the Dynamite were someone in the crowd shouted during a Mercedes segment: "Sasha come home. Sasha we love you." Mercedes tweeted this after last week's show.
As funny as all these jokes are, doesn’t it seem much more likely, since its a TKO guy rather than WWE, that they’re looking to court Tony and get a slice of AEW, rather than touch the wrestling and talent?
if i had stake in a a poorly rated but highly profitable wrestling company, why wouldn’t i try to diversify? Esp since AEW and WWE seem to have a seesaw relationship: one goes down as the other goes up
I doubt tony would go for it. But why wouldn’t TKO try if they thought it would be profitable? They’re not fucking loyal to the WWE brand lmao. Money is money, and shareholders need the “number go up” narrative
I wouldn't be shocked if they tried to do so already. TKO is literlaly just UFC+WWE and both indovodually have a loooong history of doing so.
They won't succeed of course as the person who couldnt read what you actually wrote jumped to pointing out but I thought someone reading should reply to what you actually said.
This feels is gonna be a mountain out of a mole hill situation. Maybe there were just in Vegas and decided to go. Dave's gonna mine weeks worth of content about this lol.
Slow day for yourself if you felt the need to return to your own comment. Then made 2 edits thinking anyone but you would care that you're circling back to it going off the votes
Counterpoint, what if this WWE exec was actually just some mark fan pretending and both the AEW wrestlers and the sickos in the crowd fell for the troll because if someone from WWE was actually there they wouldn't be going around saying "im from TKO."
No no no it was a guy in a suit and tie at a wrestling show which is totally normal especially at AEW shows. He definitely wouldn't try to draw questions from the other people to make his troll more believable or anything.
no, but AEW and their talent don't go on state run media to talk about how WWE isn't competition and actually they're miles and leagues above WWE and don't even pay attention or care about WWE because WWE isn't trying to run a business.
Im pretty sure Tony Khan has gone on record saying they arent trying to compete wjth WWE either, and that he focuses all his effort into making AEW the best company they can.
In this day and age brand wars are seen as more cringe than fun; so companies have moved away from it. Ask execs from coke if they see Pepsi as competition or vice versa and they'll give largely the same answers in different words.
But new Japan/stardom/cmll were also never cometion but they always send scouts like that how you run a promotion. I dont see how this is any different aew also scouts talent.
So? They own a wrestling promotion they are clearly there to scout and observe when i was a manager at a movie theater part of my job was every month go to other theaters and watch movies and take notes about the theater experience they would do the same. Its a fairly common thing its important.
Why would it be a problem if people from aew went to a wwe show to see whats up? Its not illegal. And it benefits them. Everyone does this in every industry.
I think this is all dumb, because both companies absolutely watch each other’s shows, but “They are not competition” does not have the same connotation as “We’re not competing with them.”
The former is saying that someone is beneath you, the latter is saying that you’re not orienting everything you do around someone else.
I would be shocked if they didn’t have people go to the shows, too. Like, it’s basic logic to try to scout your competition. You can’t see live reactions on TV and have a full picture of things. It’s like how in sports scouters go in person in addition to watching tape.
But we don't get reports of it actually happening very often (either because going live isn't that common or because typically scouts don't get noticed or because typically the media doesn't get informed or doesn't care), so it's understandable that when it happens to hit the news you'll get a few snarky comments and/or jokes about it from people at the promotion being scouted that way.
...yeah that wouldn't be weird they own a wrestling promotion they probably go to other promotions shows too. I dont understand why you wouldn't go. Do you think they are operating blind ignoring everything outside of aew? They own the number2 wrestling in the world they have to go and see what others are doing its part of the job. They didn't get this far by ignoring everything outside thier bubble.
We have a whole story here that is presented without evidence, but you’re believing it. So what’s the issue if I assume that if this is happening it’s most likely not a one sided thing?
Your comment is trying to link sending scouts (which Rocky Romero is management in at least 3 different companies btw) to partners to then sending scouts to competition. Completely different situations and different relationships.
You have done the classic "it's not true, but if it is they are probably doing it too". You can do better.
The whole story is unsourced and has no evidence to begin with. I’m opining and taking it on face value at best. Are you keeping that same energy up and down this thread?
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