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6892

You’re the one who cares about “buzz”

I don’t see anyone else agonising over what generated “business”

Both of the things you mentioned were pretty low story beats.

6893

Really? The way I personally gauge that is if people who I know don’t watch wrestling or outright dislike it suddenly know what happened.

Lesnar ending Taker’s streak was one. Yesterday was another.

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6894

Undertaker losing his streak was the wrong decision but that’s my opinion. They did nothing with that shit. Brock Lesnar was a made man.

6895

Why would I want to give a fuck about that? I don’t watch WWE hoping it pulls in another couple of million viewers. I watch it hoping for a good show.

6896

Did they not? They followed that up with Lesnar being booked like a monster and winning the title, no? Didn’t he squash Cena later that year?

I always felt that Roman should have become Heyman guy after retiring Taker. I do remember at the time someone actually convincing me that him becoming Vince’s guy would work even better.

Mind you, it’s all irrelevant now because Roman has become a bonafide star in recent years.

6897

You don’t want more people into wrestling? That’s when wrestling is cool when you can chat about it with others.
It’s tough to find fellow wrestling fans nowadays.

Or are you gatekeeping? :pires2:
(mind you, I used to be like that in the past which in hindsight I regret)

6898

Brother, it’s Brock Lesnar. They didn’t need to do any of that to book him like that. When he came back was a notorious time for WWE being crap with it’s 50/50 booking. They booked themselves into holes all the time.

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6899

Gatekeeping? What the fuck are you talking about? :joy:

I suppose in the world of Twitter it’s only possible to have a couple of opinions so if you don’t care about whether more people support something it must mean you’re against new people supporting something.

WWE has millions of fans, it gains thousands upon thousands more every year. As a fan I don’t even have to think about it. If you support an indy like All Elite Cosplay I suppose it matters because it has a spoiled little boy owner who will pack his toys away if enough people don’t tell him he’s super cool.

Also, outside this thread and the 3 or 4 people I discuss wrestling with in the real world, I don’t give one solitary fuck about discussing wrestling with other people. I just want to be entertained by the product. I was entertained by this Wrestlemania, but it had several pretty bizarre issues.

For the record, the streak ended ten years ago. It doesn’t matter anymore who should have ended it or when.

6900

Who would you have had break the streak? Or would you not have ended it?

6901

I wouldn’t of ended it personally. It was pretty much the only thing that really defined the Undertaker.

Also a massive part of the draw was that it could possibly be broken. The stipulation and idea of it produced one of the best main events in history (Undertaker vs Michaels)

6902

Bray should have ended the streak. It made the perfect sense.

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6903

damien priest cashed in and it made no impact whatsoever. Guy a trash heel

Should let drew hold it was doing great mic and promo work

6904

The money in the bank is a trash concept. It’s always going to have this problem.

6905

This.

Let CM Punk kick his ass as he did, and then create a story from there.

6906

Money in the Bank has lost a lot of shine in its last 2 iterations especially. Priest is not ready to be a world champion at all. As a concept it feels like it needs to be retired.

6907

Holy shit, that completely backfired, didn’t it?

I thought it was gonna be damning but it was more or less how Punk described it and now AEW are copyright striking anyone who’s sharing footage THEY put out. :man_facepalming:
https://twitter.com/arielhelwani/status/1778250326895984962
https://twitter.com/WrestleOps/status/1778247674874982605

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6908

Whole things a mess lol.

It was never gonna change anyone’s minds, people will carry on liking/disliking Punk, people will carry on liking/disliking AEW and people will carry on throwing shots at eachother despite people on both sides probably not watching respective companies lol.

It clearly shows Punk giving a coworker a dig, but it doesn’t show anything we didn’t already know, so it does all seem pointless 8 months after the fact. If it had shown Punk kicking a kitten or doing something utterly outlandish maybe release it when it happened, but it’s pretty much as the stories suggested it was.

Tony Schiavones face and the FTR segment afterwards said it all really, just let it go and STFU about it, both sides just need to let it die, though I’m sure neither side will lol

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6909

What ended up happening is they somehow turned CM Punk into a babyface in the eyes of AEW fans as the crowd ended up chanting for him in the end.

Like, what’s the end goal here? For fans to chant “CM Punk” every time Perry and Young Bucks are out there?
FTR are now the proxy for CM Punk. Dude is in another company, what the hell? :rofl:

One of worst piece of businesses I have ever seen.

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6910

Forgot about those chants :woman_facepalming: yep, it just doesn’t make sense.
I would have thought they’d have atleast used it to bring Perry back last night too, though sure they’ll do that at the PPV, cost FTR the match and then lean into the backstage meta stuff to build the fued some more :rambo:

They’re in a really rough spot right now with a PPV coming up, they need to focus on the good stuff and focus on turning it around, don’t focus on shit from almost a year ago and certainly don’t use someone who got fired almost a year ago to promote a match lol

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6911

AEW really are WCW 2.0, aren’t they

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