I know they used to be heavily sanctioned, and had the head of the sports commission down their throats a lot. They needed official time keepers, commission trained refs, etc.

I think they’ve eased up a lot. But you have to remember that back in the 40s-70s etc, wrestling was an exhibition, not a competition. So they got away with pre determined winners and such. They were essentially real life tough guys who could beat the snot out of each other if they so chose. Now they’re fancy ballet dancers

I keep forgetting this is an AEW community not a wrestling community. I wish Lemmy had a proper wrestling community

Yet he’s all they talk about lol. Cm punk is the biggest heel in aew, they won’t shut up about him

A “shoot”. Listen to yourself you dork

Whatever aew set out to be, I just see mid 90s wcw all over again, there’s a glass ceiling and you won’t get through it unless you’re liked by a certain clique. And if you ever rise and take away any of their spotlight, you’re now their enemy. Anyways, I give it another year or two before aew is down to impact levels of viewers, if they can even keep a tv contract

Lol! They’re a joke and if they’re evps who started the company (a company someone else actually started) why are they going around attacking their employees and booking themselves as top guys? That’s some Kevin Nash bullshit

There’s a big line of older wrestlers or people who know the business that have expressed that the culture at aew is “we’re already amazing so you can’t teach me shit”. Meanwhile you have 40 something years olds like the young bucks, calling themselves the new generation when they’re at retirement age

Lol aew locker room is a god damn high school. I’m sure he called out the young bucks about some of their stupid bullshit and they got offended.

That entire company is run by a handful of the wrestlers and anyone who questions them is gone soon after. Not to mention they completely reject any advice or help from the older wrestlers

Meltzer doesn’t even bother to check sources or to investigate the leads before he runs with the story, he’s a shit “journalist”.

One thing’s for sure, Meltzer didn’t even check his sources before he ran with the story, he never does.

I haven’t watched wrestling since around the time John Cena started getting big with the thug life thing. I used to love wrestling, I was at WM18. For the first time in like 20 years I started to become interested, watching Cody Rhodes clips etc, me being a big Dusty fan.

For the first time in 20 years I was interested in watching WrestleMania. I hate what I’ve seen about Roman Reigns, how he never wrestles and how he always wins by interference. So I was willing to watch it just to see Cody win it.

Now the Rock comes in, a guy who stinks of McMahon, being one of his buddies and all. And steals the spotlight from a young and talented star. I was getting sick of the Rock after all his Instagram bullshit and his shit movies, now I just want him to go away.

I dunno if this is all a work, but I’m skipping WrestleMania cause of this shit show. Not to mention the nepotism of giving his daughter a job she doesn’t deserve or is qualified for.

“walk away bitch”

Wrestling has always been a performance, but wrestling now is like going to a play and the actors stopping every 5 minutes to wink at you, remind you it’s planned, and go on a blog to talk to the audience about how it was done and how much they hate their costars.

Also what the hell is up with Joe or other heels telling the Babyface “I respect you” and shake their hands and shit? What happened to real bad guys like we used to get? Bad guys who would spit on the good guy and tell the audience they were rednecks? Aew is just a disgrace, and WWE is boring

I’m convinced that he was trying to bring Lesnar in on it, so he could maneuver it into bringing Sable in. I bet he’s still obsessed with her.

Those flat screws are likely the ones that slow the door and closer