Tony Khan telling
@ArielHelwani
"Good luck with the unbiased journalism" while his executive EVP's name their finishing move after
@davemeltzerWON
is pretty funny.
LA Knight is over. He followed a simple formula. Copy the things that the most over wrestlers in the history of the business did, as opposed to doing the the things that
@davemeltzerWON
likes. It's a perfect case study.
AEW continues to book for the audience they already have. It will never grow. At some point their enablers will realize that. The question is when? The sooner the better if they want to grow their audience outside of the nerds they draw now.
If AEW wants to get over 1.4 million viewers this week on Dynamite, they should just make it another 2 hour media scrum, but bring in actual journalists.
If I am irrelevant, how did I unite the wrestling community? And if the wrestling community is united by someone who is irrelevant, what does that say about the wrestling community? Love to hear the answers.
Sitting Indian style across from your opponent and trading half ass slaps to the neck is not excellent professional wrestling. Anyone with common sense agrees.
Wrestlers and fans need to pull a full stop on this "fat shaming" bullshit. The wrestlers being fat shamed need to put the effort in to the gym and diet instead of playing victim. Do the fucking work and stop embarrassing this industry.
Unsafe wrestling gets "This is awesome" chants from fans until someone gets hurt. Then those same fans go on social media to bury the wrestler for being unsafe.
AEW said they're underwater because of the video game, WWE is going to make a billion dollars this year, and these dirt sheet writers want to compare the two companies because of the 18-49 demo. This is really funny stuff tbh.
At 54 years old I would be a better "worker" than 90% of the people in the business today. Why? Because I can throw a punch that looks like I can fight, and I can sell your offense so YOU don't have to slap your thigh to pretend it's real. THAT IS WORK.
Eddie Guerrero x Juventud Guerrera. If some older fans seem like tough critics today, it’s probably because this is the standard many were watching 25 years ago. 👑
Just to be clear, the
@davemeltzerWON
readers voted a guy whose primary skill is self mutilation ahead of
@WWERomanReigns
for Wrestler of the Year. Correct?
AEW and their fans are getting hit on social media for the sole and justifiable reason that if they would have won in the ratings last night they would have been insufferable. Fact.
So embarrassing to be a wrestling fan today if you have to describe to people what you are a fan of. Ratings, demos, wrestling war, star ratings. Stuff like this is for social misfits and nerds.
Tweets that age badly for $100. 18 months later he wins almost every Wrestler of the Year award and is the first guy to hold three major world titles at the same time in decades.
The best thing about the Monday Night Wars was if one product wasn't performing you would switch to the channel to the other. When AEW underperforms the dirtsheets post excuses and the fans attack people that didn't like the show.
If you are a professional wrestler and criticism from a mark with a podcast bothers you and you make it public, hardly anyone is going to be invested in your performance and career. You are just going to be a flash in the pan.
(spoken in a southern cowboy voice), "I remember back in the day when CM Punk threw a shoot punch at that Jungle Boy kid so hard that it nearly endangered the lives of everyone at Wembley."
#AEWAllOut
Roman match easily 5 stars. It delivered what the wrestling business has sorely missed for such a long time-- the suspension of disbelief. If you weren't emotionally invested in that I would suggest you are in the minority.
#ClashOfChampions2020
The only things that deserved an award for 2021 was Roman for Best Wrestler and Heyman for Best Non Wrestler. I'm not sure how you can give a "Best Of" in categories that underwhelmed so much. There are spots from the "Match Of The Year" that made it on
@aewbotches
.
In a private poll Wrestling Observer readers voted on
@NFL
awards, too. Here are the results:
Best Player: Trevor Lawrence
Best Team: Jaguars
Best Game: Jags vs Chargers (maybe got one right)
MVP: Travis Etienne
Best Owner: Shad Khan
From working with Steve Regal, I can tell you that he would not be comfortable working for management who he found out were trying to win Wrestling Observer Awards.
Epic fail from AEW this week. They had 1.2 million fans tuned in with interest in the drama, and closed out at 880 thousand.
@davemeltzerWON
followers voted TK as Booker of the Year. Draw your own conclusions.
There are already excuses being made for AEW's ratings this week before the show. Somehow TENNIS is now competition. You can't make this up. I would like to see previous data that shows TENNIS has affected the ratings of a wrestling show.
The metrics that define this generation are
@davemeltzerWON
's star ratings. The metrics that define my generation are attendance figures and tv ratings. The wrestlers of this generation need to stop arguing that they are better than we were. It's not true.
People can criticize my views on pro wrestling, but one thing I have been 100% right on is when the dirt sheets and mark podcasters put over AEW Dynamite, the ratings suck. I have proven they don't know what they are talking about. They are just marks. Evidence is irrefutable.
Mick Foley came back on Twitter to virtue signal "DEMOCRACY IS ON THE BALLOT"... when we have elections every two years after this one you will realize people like this have no clue what they are talking about.
All you fans bitching about tonight need to look in the mirror and ask yourself why you are watching WWE. You need to admit that the answer is, "So I can complain" That speaks volumes of the type of person you are. Just don't watch. Simple...and easy.
I'm being attacked by the wrestling community for pointing out the obvious fact that if you don't watch Ring of Honor you won't know anything about the show. These people are mad I don't watch Ring of Honor, and supposedly I am the one with the problem.
Robert Deniro saying "F Trump" was great. A guy pranking a senile Joe Biden into basically saying "F Himself" is horrible. Got it. You people should not be taken seriously.
Kendrick Perkins insinuated that black basketball players are superior to white players when he said that white MVP voters only voted for Jokic because he's white. He wasn't fired for that blatantly racist comment. Jokic just made him eat his words. Good for him.
The entire wrestling dirt sheet community, every single one of them, do not handle public criticism well. Pussies. Speaks volumes of the fans they draw. Losers.
Let me powerbomb you through a burning table
Now let me help you get up before you burn yourself
😂😂😂😂
It’s not the company anymore. The wrestlers themselves are brain dead
.
@IAmJericho
would not have had anything close to 30 years in the business if it was not for his list of 1004 holds promo, which was my idea. He needs to thank me on
@AEWonTNT
#ThankYouDisco
#30years
I see highlights on X from the
#AEW
ppv where the wrestlers were doing illogical and painful spots where they could injure themselves for a fan base of fat slob incels. So stupid. Read the room guys. These fans are not worth risking your health for.
This should not be a controversial take or even be up for debate - - It is not a good idea to introduce children to things that make them sexually curious 7 or 8 years before the age of consent.
Nobody knows how to "work" anymore. They would rather kill each other to get
@davemeltzerWON
to put their match over. That is a problem that needs to be put front and center. Guys are going to keep getting hurt.
If society today wasn't so engrossed in Victim Culture, everyone would be ecstatic that we are finally getting Rock v s Roman. But since Cody is the "victim" , the social media mob has to pounce with their idiotic takes. My best guess that is what we are seeing.
All you geeks in the wrestling bubble that watch 12 hours of wrestling a week and listen to the mark podcasts when you aren't watching wrestling are still going to watch Wrestlemania. The amount of new interest from people that wouldn't have is difficult for you to understand.
The WWE office and roster have no respect for Dave's star ratings. Y'all think Okada is going to go to WWE and that locker room is going to treat him like the best wrestler on the planet? You are clueless.
WWE star Liv Morgan was arrested yesterday in Sumter County, Florida after a traffic stop.
Morgan was arrested for possession of marijuana (not more than 20 grams) and posession of drugs, possibly synthetic cannabinoid.
Morgan has already bonded out.
— PWInsider