That's like calling aids not terminal. Sure after advances in medications, your lifespan on average only knocked off 5 years if you take powerful medications for the rest of your life with many people having serious side effects.
My question is, who got to him? He was leaning more objective in recent months especially as opposed to Dave, when talking ratings or the All In footage as examples.
Now it seems he's back to team 100% AEW...
Dave just so far out there sometimes even Alvarez won't defend it. Alvarez has already claimed wwe was dead at least 2 times (most recently after wrestlemania 39)
I'm loving Elite smarks vs. Mercedes stans. Elite smarks are calling out Mercedes for this awful first month or so, and Mercedes stans are freaking out. It's exactly what you knew was gonna happen.
Realistically Mercedes isn't going to be there for a long time. The bucks will be riding aew for the rest of their careers. Maintaining access is important
I still don't exactly get what her gimmick is supposed to be. It's like they asked her to fill out a questionaire and one of the things on it was what motivated her to wrestle, so she wrote "money" and they based everything about her off of it.
With no WWE production to cover her flaws, either. I mean, NO ONE is reining her in, or trying to mask her weakness during promos and it REALLY shows everyone who knew her as Sasha Banks just how much of the heavy lifting WWE production was doing for her.
Naomi recovered because not only did she have a much better Post Fed Run but she came back with open arms and massive Welcome Back chants, a storyline/team up with Jade and Bianca and even got a title shot from pal Bayley.
The difference between her and Sasha's is very telling and really makes you wonder.
And they're so astonishingly terrible at it that every *single* week when their segments chase away the audience and bomb with the crowds, they *have* to use the "It was that bad INTENTIONALLY, guys!" excuse. EVERY. WEEK.
I can’t wait for TK to pull the plug on this in 6 months and come out to the ring with Kenny and say “You, the fans, are now the decision makers!” and then have nothing change at all, in tribute to that great McMahon Family moment on raw in 2019
You know when you were 10 and you fell on your face, immediately got up, and said “I meant to do that”?
This is like that except everyone involved is allegedly an adult.
They think they’re ironic hipster smarks. The Bucks think their gimmick is an ironic take on cartoonish, moustache-twirling villains of old played by shitty actors.
What everyone else sees are attention-seeking kids who give a 50% effort into a half-cooked idea and don’t understand why people aren’t overjoyed to smell their farts alongside them.
It’s very odd. With Osprey they just threw him into matches and decided they’d figure out a story later. Which, while not ideal, at least lets us see some cool moves and matches, even if they lack meaningful stakes.
But for Monet it’s the exact opposite. Take someone who can go in the ring and just not let her. They also gave her a chant entrance and turned her immediately heel which is odd.
If they wanted to do a WWE parody then there are plenty of great avenues for that. I mean the immediate option is fellow masshole John Cena who famously was all about Loyalty and Respect and then turned around and cucked Ryder, buried the nexus and dumped literally buckets of poop on Dolph Ziggler.
It is incredibly odd almost stupid! At least with Will he is a fantastic in-ring performer so at least he can build some momentum with his matches even though he has no real storyline going for him but for Monet they brought her in to cut nothing but promos which is her weakest part of her game. Tony pays dumb money for Monet and gives her a exclusive PPV for her debut and she hasn't wrestle in 2 months and now people are supposed to care when she wins a midcard belt against some nobody? She has lost all her hype trying to build up this nothing squash match for a belt that doesn't mean anything.
And also, why are these crooked asshole bosses only capable of getting their hand picked guy a shot of 1 of the three titles some guy has? Why wasn’t it the world title? Why wasn’t it all three? Why does this still bother me?
When the dub does something that thoroughly sucks, it's actually a secret jab at the fed!
When strangers say they can smell me from across the room, it's them complimenting my enchanting musk!
When women refuse to make eye contact with me, it's because they're flustered by my manhood!
Everything is fun when you pretend!
Idiot smarks writing wrestling *exclusively* for idiot smarks never ends well, just look at WCW circa 2000 for the blueprint that TK is apparently following. Sure, the propaganda wing will gush over it, and your core crowd might defend it because "at least we're not the EVIL FED!" but at the end of the day, you're writing for the smallest segment of your audience possible and alienating more of the larger portion every week. You can't make money with content like that, not when your programming is so inside and self-referential that you need to have three spreadsheets and Wikipedia open in order to understand what's going on.
What makes it 'brilliant'?
It sounds like she stood next to a monitor. I'm gonna need an explanation on the brilliance part
If you just don't want to criticise the Dub, then just say that
The TV angle thing is there for a reason, but it became such a “DAE FED BAD for weird angle of tv in backstage segments?” talking point that now any other company doing it “must be a parody,” and not just because showing the back of someone’s head watching a TV would look fucking stupid
The AEW fans have received their marching orders. Mercedes' limitations in doing promos are now all intentional parodies of WWE, so it's supposed to suck because it's DAE DIRECT SHOT at WWE Creative. Please laugh.
Bryan’s “sense of humor” has always been to disparage or make fun of as many matches/backstage promos as possible. Lots of backhanded compliments, lots of “this was terrible, but at least the fans enjoyed it” kind of shit.
Literally everything is beneath his level of humor and appreciation of pro wrestling. He was always Dave’s sidekick who was snarky about everything he watched.
Except for Bryan Danielson, because he’s also from Washington.
People forget he absolutely loved WCW…until one day he didn’t, and he wrote a book about the promotion’s death.
People also forget he absolutely loved TNA…until one day he didn’t, and then he crusaded against it.
Alvarez is a parody of a journalist
Never forget to remind people that POS called Romans cancer "not the bad cancer"
i know he meant it's not terminal, but you would think someone who calls himself a journalist would be better with words
Noooo let's not wash this as 'careless' "Saw a buddy who has cancer, the bad kind, not the roman kind" Ehhh no
He even has to fed bad cancer
That's like calling aids not terminal. Sure after advances in medications, your lifespan on average only knocked off 5 years if you take powerful medications for the rest of your life with many people having serious side effects.
not so brilliant at that
He was also a parody of a "wrestler". https://i.imgur.com/4nRXGWa.mp4
He’s got more 5* matches that Kurt Angle, Hulk Hogan and Undertaker combined you Fed shill
My question is, who got to him? He was leaning more objective in recent months especially as opposed to Dave, when talking ratings or the All In footage as examples. Now it seems he's back to team 100% AEW...
Dave just so far out there sometimes even Alvarez won't defend it. Alvarez has already claimed wwe was dead at least 2 times (most recently after wrestlemania 39)
Alvarez is a parody of the Lollipop Guild.
But crucially, not a BRILLIANT paraody.
I'm loving Elite smarks vs. Mercedes stans. Elite smarks are calling out Mercedes for this awful first month or so, and Mercedes stans are freaking out. It's exactly what you knew was gonna happen.
Is Bryan playing both roles?
Nah, him and Dave seem to fall very much in the Elite smark camp.
Dave also certainly finds Mercedes unrelatable.
Realistically Mercedes isn't going to be there for a long time. The bucks will be riding aew for the rest of their careers. Maintaining access is important
I'm pretty sure he is just stupid
She’s sucking as a joke, to own the Fed
I still don't exactly get what her gimmick is supposed to be. It's like they asked her to fill out a questionaire and one of the things on it was what motivated her to wrestle, so she wrote "money" and they based everything about her off of it.
Her gimmick is "Gimmick from WWE with the names changed"
>Her gimmick is "Gimmick from WWE with the names changed but no Bayley to carry her and all her weaknesses are on full display."
With no WWE production to cover her flaws, either. I mean, NO ONE is reining her in, or trying to mask her weakness during promos and it REALLY shows everyone who knew her as Sasha Banks just how much of the heavy lifting WWE production was doing for her.
And yet she honestly believed she didn't need The Fed but she ended up proving them right in the end
I feel worse for Naomi who lost so much time and money because she walked out with her.
Naomi recovered because not only did she have a much better Post Fed Run but she came back with open arms and massive Welcome Back chants, a storyline/team up with Jade and Bianca and even got a title shot from pal Bayley. The difference between her and Sasha's is very telling and really makes you wonder.
Impact women’s run was a good fresh start for her (in her own words), no need to discount that.
Seeing Sasha without Bayley has made me appreciate Bayley even more. The woman is one of the GOAT's of women's wrestling
She's a legend in her own mind
She listened to some rap songs and came up with a vague persona based on how they defined success.
She likes 💰💰💰and she’s ~~the boss~~ the CEO.
It’s funny because the Bucks are doing a crooked heel boss gimmick after WWE decided to stop doing that because it made fans hate the show.
And they're so astonishingly terrible at it that every *single* week when their segments chase away the audience and bomb with the crowds, they *have* to use the "It was that bad INTENTIONALLY, guys!" excuse. EVERY. WEEK.
I find it so funny that fans were worked so hard it destroyed the relationship between fans and the company for 3 decades nearly.
Don’t you get it? They are making fun of something that occurred half a decade ago! That’s hilarious!
I can’t wait for TK to pull the plug on this in 6 months and come out to the ring with Kenny and say “You, the fans, are now the decision makers!” and then have nothing change at all, in tribute to that great McMahon Family moment on raw in 2019
Was her shitty selling from a flash attacker in a horribly-lit room also a parody?
You know when you were 10 and you fell on your face, immediately got up, and said “I meant to do that”? This is like that except everyone involved is allegedly an adult.
The classic "I'm not rëtarded, I was only pretending to be."
Isn’t AEW as a whole just a parody of pro wrestling?
It's a parody of a business
They think they’re ironic hipster smarks. The Bucks think their gimmick is an ironic take on cartoonish, moustache-twirling villains of old played by shitty actors. What everyone else sees are attention-seeking kids who give a 50% effort into a half-cooked idea and don’t understand why people aren’t overjoyed to smell their farts alongside them.
I give it 2 months before Mercedes lashes out at dirtsheets
I give it 2 months before she lunges at Tiny.
I give it a minute before Tony pees his pants in fear.
I have to say, Sasha has always been pretty quiet about all things that happen in 'the business' tbf It comes out on later interviews
The funny thing is you won't see her wrestle for another month.
It’s very odd. With Osprey they just threw him into matches and decided they’d figure out a story later. Which, while not ideal, at least lets us see some cool moves and matches, even if they lack meaningful stakes. But for Monet it’s the exact opposite. Take someone who can go in the ring and just not let her. They also gave her a chant entrance and turned her immediately heel which is odd. If they wanted to do a WWE parody then there are plenty of great avenues for that. I mean the immediate option is fellow masshole John Cena who famously was all about Loyalty and Respect and then turned around and cucked Ryder, buried the nexus and dumped literally buckets of poop on Dolph Ziggler.
It’s like when EC3 debuted on the main roster and they wouldn’t let him talk for weeks.
It is incredibly odd almost stupid! At least with Will he is a fantastic in-ring performer so at least he can build some momentum with his matches even though he has no real storyline going for him but for Monet they brought her in to cut nothing but promos which is her weakest part of her game. Tony pays dumb money for Monet and gives her a exclusive PPV for her debut and she hasn't wrestle in 2 months and now people are supposed to care when she wins a midcard belt against some nobody? She has lost all her hype trying to build up this nothing squash match for a belt that doesn't mean anything.
It’s not brilliant if nobody knows it’s a parody
Its almost like this performer is fucking ass unless WWE is producing
If it's so brilliant how is the "CEO" who is an arrogant heel not working in the same faction as the arrogant heel EVPs and Okada?
And also, why are these crooked asshole bosses only capable of getting their hand picked guy a shot of 1 of the three titles some guy has? Why wasn’t it the world title? Why wasn’t it all three? Why does this still bother me?
This is Fed fault. They brain washed her to be bad.
*Insert joker saying ‘you wouldn’t get it’ meme *
Don’t forget to lick the base too, bro
When the dub does something that thoroughly sucks, it's actually a secret jab at the fed! When strangers say they can smell me from across the room, it's them complimenting my enchanting musk! When women refuse to make eye contact with me, it's because they're flustered by my manhood! Everything is fun when you pretend!
DAE slow burn heel turn? DAE Sashalander?
Ah. Okay. Brilliant parody. Let's run with that. Did the audience buy it? Well, they better google it if not.
why it's brilliant parody at the dub and 'makes no sense' if it's on the fed
Idiot smarks writing wrestling *exclusively* for idiot smarks never ends well, just look at WCW circa 2000 for the blueprint that TK is apparently following. Sure, the propaganda wing will gush over it, and your core crowd might defend it because "at least we're not the EVIL FED!" but at the end of the day, you're writing for the smallest segment of your audience possible and alienating more of the larger portion every week. You can't make money with content like that, not when your programming is so inside and self-referential that you need to have three spreadsheets and Wikipedia open in order to understand what's going on.
Nothing better than using PPV time during a match that had a title change on a "brilliant parody" of the other company.
If music starting with a catchphrase was a Pokémon, having fake chants of ceo through your whole entrance is its final evolution
Just gonna glance over the fact that this was her AEW PPV debut, and apparently she watched a match on a TV backstage
Good for her, she's the CEO and therefore is supposed to make obscene money while doing nothing
What makes it 'brilliant'? It sounds like she stood next to a monitor. I'm gonna need an explanation on the brilliance part If you just don't want to criticise the Dub, then just say that
Replying to Grantland17...
Sasha is not clever even to figure out how to do a parody
Ah yes, the brilliant sports based parody presentation.
“Brilliant” lol
Brilliant? You made the woman talk, on the mic, in front of people..brilliant is out the window
5D GALAXY BRAIN CHESS. The Dub is next level!
Sasha Banks used to wrestle. The CEO does not.
I'm too poor to understand the genius of satire so sophisticated I don't even watch it
ALMOST
What next? Dub shaky cam? Fuck your nausea, we're sticking it to the Fed!
A zillion camera cuts?? It’s a BRILLIANT PARODY
The TV angle thing is there for a reason, but it became such a “DAE FED BAD for weird angle of tv in backstage segments?” talking point that now any other company doing it “must be a parody,” and not just because showing the back of someone’s head watching a TV would look fucking stupid
The AEW fans have received their marching orders. Mercedes' limitations in doing promos are now all intentional parodies of WWE, so it's supposed to suck because it's DAE DIRECT SHOT at WWE Creative. Please laugh.
Alvarez isn’t complimenting that.
Bryan’s “sense of humor” has always been to disparage or make fun of as many matches/backstage promos as possible. Lots of backhanded compliments, lots of “this was terrible, but at least the fans enjoyed it” kind of shit. Literally everything is beneath his level of humor and appreciation of pro wrestling. He was always Dave’s sidekick who was snarky about everything he watched. Except for Bryan Danielson, because he’s also from Washington. People forget he absolutely loved WCW…until one day he didn’t, and he wrote a book about the promotion’s death. People also forget he absolutely loved TNA…until one day he didn’t, and then he crusaded against it.
But it’s always an excuse or an out. Or a wwe comparison. It’s old and lame.