>>20250008
Man Russo is going to love this shit

>>20250008
>MF GOES 40 ON SUNDAY
>LOSES IN A MINUTE ON DYNAMITE
KINO KINO KINO

>>20250008
>Tony really thinks this will have people talking about AEW instead of Wrestlemania this weekend
He's lost the plot

I thought the same thing.

This legitimately might be the worst TV match of the year, i can't believe i thought this was gonna be best weekly wrestling episode of the year after the opening segment. The worst part was the roster coming out to congratulate Darby as if he saved christmas or some shit.

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>>20250008
This was actually good. The crowd was into it. Darby is hella over. A special edition of Dynamite. All goes down days before the fed has their biggest event of the year, which is shaping up to be utter garbage. Tony knew what he was doing.

>>20250051
I feel confident they did this partly to take coverage away from Mania.

>>20250008
cope and seethe

>>20250062
I fully agree and I think it's going to fail spectacularly. It'll be news for the next few days. One Smackdown promo from McAfee will get all of the same people who have been pissed about that talking about it again and then boom. AEW's moment is over and done and on to the next thing. That's not to even mention that it's fucking Wrestlemania. Of COURSE people are going to be talking about that instead. This isn't even a console war take or post. It's just common sense

>>20250008
Kek. Pissant fed, then, now, forever.

Sting being on live TV + Darby winning is a bigger moment than anything that will happen in two nights of mania. Drones are already in cope and seethe mode

>>20250062
I don't see how that would work

>>20250071
>don't worry guys pay macafee will save us
droniEs are SWEATIN lmfao

>>20250079
>droniEs are SWEATIN
Meanwhile Tony just hotshotted the title onto Darby in a squash. You're trying to say that's not sweating?

>>20250071
I agree.

>>20250076
I don't think it will either. Just the timing is so suspect.

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>>20250075
>sting is a draw

>>20250090
it's the week of wrestlemania and you are SEETHING over AEW KEK

>>20250079
Can't wait WWE's the yearly rent-free crash out during Mania weekend.

>>20250118
>it's the week of wrestlemania
Exactly. Darby just won the world title and you're still referring to this as Wrestlemania week. Thanks for proving my point

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>>20250139
cooked that faggot

>>20250139
>>20250146
>w-why are you calling it wrestlemania week
like i said, SEETHING lmao

>>20250151
I never asked why you're calling it Wrestlemania week. You just referred to it as that because it is. It's Wrestlemania week. No matter what retarded short-sighted stunts Tony tries to pull. Nothing else in wrestling matters

>>20250166
Yet you're talking about the new title change in AEW and how it will impact their event. Strange!

>>20250176
>and how it will impact their event
No I'm talking about how it won't impact Wrestlemania. Because it won't. That's kinda been my point the entire time >>20250071

>>20250166
it's wrestlemania week and everyone is talking about AEW, crazy shit huh

>>20250180
>it won't
every year WWE has a 48 hour on-air seethe over AEW on their biggest weekend of the year, I'm afraid.

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>>20250176

>>20250184
>they are talking about AEW immediately after the show ended
Congratulations? I guess that doesn't happen often but still.

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>>20250184
>and everyone is talking about AEW

>>20250193
What insecure schizo headcanon is this? Why you think everyone's thinking about you, lil bro? Get over yourself

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>>20250008
Who is even surprised at this point.
Tony wants AEW to get so bad that his Daddy forces him to cancel it because he's too much of a coward to fire all his lifelong "friends".

If you want Tony gone for good, I think I know a guy.
>Hint: "Who gave Sullivan the house key and alarm code?"

Damn this nigga is kinda retarded and definitely seething.

>>20250193
>every year WWE has a 48 hour on-air seethe over AEW
Link me to 2 hours of this. If there's so much and it's every year then surely that wouldn't be hard for you to do right?

>>20250204
>>20250211
>>20250212
the droniEs are so fucking mad tonight lmao

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so when AEW eventually folds and WWE swoops in to buy it for cheap, will these title winners also be included in the world heavyweight lineage? cuz people still use Flair's WCW win when counting the number of WWE titles he's held.

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>>20250225
>P-please let me feel relevant!!!

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>>20250212
LMAO

>>20250227
2019
>so when AEW eventually folds and
2020
>so when AEW eventually folds and
2021
>so when AEW eventually folds and
2022
>so when AEW eventually folds and
2023
>so when AEW eventually folds and
2024
>so when AEW eventually folds and
2025
>so when AEW eventually folds and
2026
>so when AEW eventually folds-ACK!

>>20250223
see u in 60 seconds

>>20250008
The crowd was into it & that’s all that matters, cope and seethe.

>>20250244
So you can't provide any proof? I accept your concession

>>20250251
>The crowd was into it & that’s all that matters
So then surely you have no complaints about Pat McAfee

>>20250266
i think pat mcafee sucks shit but that's why i dont watch e-slop

>>20250298
But the crowd reacts to him every week, and according to you that's all that matters so it must be good. Cope and seethe

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Thank you based Russo.

>>20250334
you're getting laughed at by multiple people but stay mad sis it'll get better
your McAfee slop is just a few hours away

Yep, I'm thinking it's another win for the good guys.

>>20250334
Don't bother. The AEW cult is disingenous on purpose because they have no actual arguments. They know that, in reality, like 10x the people are paying 5x the money to see WWE over AEW and that settles any realistic argument over what show people care about more but if they sit in their echo chamber and ignore reality and deflect any criticism or statement to the contrary of their beliefs, well then AEW wins. We broke them, let them be.

>>20250405
>WE T-TOTALLY OWNED YOUR LAMERS! I'M GONNA GO ENJOY MY OVERPRICED SHOW EVERYONE'S SHITTING ON! I-I MEAN, THAT EVERYONE LOVES! NO, STOP MAKING FUN OF WWE!!!! STOP IT! WE LOVE PAT MACAFAGGOT!!!!!!!!

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>>20250415
I'd rather watch Pat do a promo than Omegay the kid diddler.

>>20250008
i didn't realize how weak the coffin drop looked until this match. all of them looked lame. it would be a okay signature move but as a finisher it looks so weak.

>>20250266
If that’s what that audience reacts favorably to then oh well. Not my problem

>>20250424
based finner kid

>>20250008
How many more threads are you going to spam tryong to convice people rhis BAD ACTUALLY GRRRRRR AEW BAD etc
You're so god damn tedious & boring.

>>20250464
Welcome to /pw/. We don't do positive posting here. We only shit on everything. You'll get used to it.

>>20250424
>saying this in a promotion previously run by pedo ring manufacturer and certified head shitter vincent kennedy mcmahon
lol

Tony saw how Darby was working and realized he has like a year left before he sawdusts himself

>>20250475
I've been here since it was /asp/
You dont represent this board newfaggot

Reminder that since it's under five minutes, you cannot rate this match on Cagematch.

>>20250520
>pedo ring manufacturer
Chasyn Rance had a wrestling promotion?

>>20250436
>Not my problem
I didn't ask if it was your problem. But you're saying that since the crowd reacted well to Darby winning that's all that's needed for it to be good. So surely you'd have no problem saying the McAfee stuff is good as well because the live crowds have been reacting strongly to that as well

>>20250530
I've been since /sp/ when Seff's dick pics leaked. Sorry, that's my earliest frame of reference

>>20250534
No, Vincetty did.

>>20250464
Why are you so mad that people didn't like it?

>>20250540
>he came here for Seth's dick pic
That explains a lot

Of course a thread about AEW would result in men talking about other men's dicks

Imagine putting a money match ON FREE TV! Tony and the bucks are that retarded how does this help AEW? moreover how the fuck are people going to talk about this over wrestleMANIA

>>20251169
>imagine putting Goldberg vs. Hollywood Hogan on FREE TV!
>imagine putting Foley vs. The Rock on FREE TV!

>>20250059
when speedball showed up I turned off my tv, as is tradition

>>20251198
>Boomer's only frame of reference is 30 years ago
Shouldn't you be checking your glucose or some shit, old man?

>>20251305
>zoomer crying cause he wasn't even alive when wrestling was actually good
lol shouldn't you be taking your tranny vitamins or whatever you faggot kids do these days?

>>20250008
15-20 minute main event with title change would actually spike ratings. 3 minutes of fast-forwarding through the show to watch the squash at the end isn't going to do anything for the numbers

Tony is retarded

>>20250219
>Hint: "Who gave Sullivan the house key and alarm code?"
idk Dave Taylor?

>>20250008
i dont think russo is to blame here. tony was creatively bankrupt way before he ever spoke to russo.

>>20250051
The only people talking about Mania are going to be bitching about it

WWE is having a rough time right now so it makes sense for AEW to try and capitalize.

>>20250075
Sting wasn't a draw during his peak surfer Sting days. 67 year old Sting sure as fuck isn't a draw.

>>20250071
lol you know a take is certified moron shit if ProWresBlog co-signs it

>>20250212
>>20250223
kek 'memba when Triple Cage started uncontrollably seething without prompt on some Wrestlemania presser after someone refused to sign his mark contract?

>>20250219
Does parasocialism for WWE really fuck someone's mind this badly? Is this what no father figure besides WWE TV does to someone?

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>>20250533
Nope they actually took that off for just this match likely thinking it would get voted highly and its backfired

>>20250139
>Darby just won the world title
literal first i'm hearing about this lol. when did this happen? i'm excited for wrestlemania saturday tbdesu.

>>20250008
>We have Lex Luger beating Hulk Hogan on Nitro at home!
KWAB

>>20251748
>it's like WCW in the 90s
holy fucking based

>>20251703
No? Stop being so obsessed with this dude that you remember every single thing he said that made you seethe

>>20250008
What did I miss?

I saw the ending sequence on social media and thought it looked really awesome and kino so I decided to check the whole thing out
I can't believe that was the whole match lol what the fuck, why did they do that. It was a sick finish and it being on a weekly show is kino but it definitely needed a real match

>>20251754
>laughing at a public melty means you're obsessed with someone

pig fragility

>>20251761
MJF attempted to cheat. Darby paid him right back and kicked his ass. It's storytelling bby

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I can't believe people are missing the forest from the trees on this one. They told it to your face all night and you still didn't get it?

>>20250060
this. best moment since Mox squashed Phil

>>20251775
the piggiEs know it was kino, that's why they've been melting down non stop since it happened

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>>20250166
Too bad WWE isn't wrestling

>>20251777
trips of truth

also based fuck Phil

>>20250266
The problem with the McAfee promos is they're during Cody vs Orton which already has a built in story from those long history. But because the WWE writers don't actually watch WWE, or any wrestling, they created something wacky out of thin air. If McAfee was being used in something like an Uso match it would actually help. Cody vs Orton doesn't need help.

>>20250428
>the coffin drop would be a okay signature move but as a finisher it looks so weak
he used the coffin drop as a setup for the headlock takedown. he had been doing the scorpion dethlok and making ppl submit on most of this recent winning streak

>>20251305
the last good match on Raw was when Kevin Owens won the Universal Title

>>20251761
>can't believe that was the whole match lol what the fuck, why did they do that
it's supposed to be that MJF is all worn out and fucked up cause he just had a match with Kenny, the best wrestler in the company, a few nights before

>>20250111
attendance and ratings dropped hard after he retired to be fair

>>20251703
>>20251771
Somehow Ojama returned.

I gotta give it to dronies they really try their best to underplay cool hit that happens in AEW. It never works to deter people off the product, but man are they resilient. I hope they're at least getting paid to do it

>>20252210
>Hotshotting a belt onto a guy in a squash against a guy who just beat every top name in the company and giving him his first world title like this
If that's the "cool hit" you're referring to then you can keep it. That shit sucks. Imagine if Stone Cold won his first world title like that. Hell imagine if that's how even Mankind won it. That shit is so empty. You know who that works for? Heels. That's how a heel should win a title. Because if Darby could have MJF beat and the world title won that easily this whole time then he looks like a motherfucking moron for having it taken him 6 years to do it

>>20251851
Correlation and causation aren't the same thing. I'll be the first to tell you Sting absolutely is a draw. But I also don't see old man Sting being that big of a deciding factor in AEW's audience dropping off the way it did. There were other things that happened around that same point that Sting retired that must have driven away people as well

>>20250008
Not what happened.

>>20253479
Care to explain how that's the case when it's exactly what happened?

>>20253564
Nah.

>>20251838
That's fucking stupid. Guys have been in similar positions for years and don't get squashed like this.

>>20251771
>>20251838
It doesn't matter what the story is, shit sucked massive balls. His crowning should've been after a long feud and long match, not on a weekly show and with a squash
Lame and gay, type of shit why no one cares about aew

>>20254326
Can't blame you. I wouldn't defend that shit for free either. Concession accepted

>>20251771
typical fag Poop Dick fan can dish it out, but when everyone is shitting on Dogfucker Tony's gay booking, you're the first one to claim the exact opposite that you're doing here

>>20252714
AEW's audience has gotten very OLD, which is why Dynamite now consistently places outside of the Top 5 in the 18-49 demo when it used to consistently be Top 3. We used to get a cope 1-2 times a month to explain not being Top 3, now we get a cope 52 weeks of the year.

locked in for Mox vs Young Bussin

>>20254681
>IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN MY SCHIZO HEADCANON FANTASY BOOKING THAT'S THE ONLY RIGHT WAY TO DO IT NOW IT'S BAD AND RUINED BECAUSE THEY DIDNT DO MY IDEA WAAAAAH WAAAAAAAAAHH
that's what you sound like

>>20256091
There's probably a dozen "right ways" to have done the title change and only a few wrong ways (dark match, house show, youtube mudshow indy fed) and this idea was more or less in the middle.

To the extent the goal was to squeeze out a few headlines during WrestleMania week, sure, basically every AEW World Title change will do that. But at what cost? If AEW was planning this for months, why Portland for next week's show and not somewhere in southern California, within driving distance of WrestleMania? Exactly 0 people are going to drive up from Vegas/SoCal to see newly-crowned champ Darby, so they're not getting an attendance boost out of it.

Darby got his moment, this will live on in video packages and the eventual Darby Allin AEW Blu-Ray. Good for him. But damn they left a lot of tickets, a lot of merch sales, a lot of YouTube views and MyAEW subscriptions and publicity on the table.

>>20257396
Levelheaded take. Ultimately I think it's fair to say they pissed away the moment. Sure you get it but it just feels empty considering how much more it could have and rightly should have been

>>20257396
>>20257791
I think Tony doesn't care too much since this isn't going to be a long reign for Darby. He's obviously just keeping it warm for MJF; which I disagree with, but Tony has decided that MJF is his Flair (and Moxley his Funk) and that's it. Maybe/hopefully Darby's second win and reign will be the "real" ones.

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pov the wwe people are acting out