All-Purpose News Thread Part III

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Post merger life at a public company. The company is doing its best to suck every dollar it can from the live audience while pinching pennies with employees. Corporations are the worst.
 
Apparently a Saudi PLE is worth 55 million dollars. There's only one this year and that's how much it impacts WWE finances. There's 3 next year, the Rumble being one of them. Probably one in the Spring, one in the Fall.
 


What weirdly complicated man that old fart could be at times. Gives financial support or provides security to some workers while shits on others, literally.
 
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WWE launches WCW Vault channel on Youtube:

 
I know that they have gotten rid of a couple these guys by choice but is it just me or does it feel like AEW losing A LOT of talent since WM 38?

Cody
Punk
Black
Miro
Starks
Lucha Brothers.
Eathan Page
Jade Cargill

It feels like they are bleeding talent.

WWE launches WCW Vault channel on Youtube:


Wish they put the WCW stuff on Netflix so it could all be in one place.

But assuming Netflix ever gets around to uploading the rest of the old Raw's we are eventually going to be able to rewatch the Monday night war from start to finish.
 
I know that they have gotten rid of a couple these guys by choice but is it just me or does it feel like AEW losing A LOT of talent since WM 38?

Cody
Punk
Black
Miro
Starks
Lucha Brothers.
Eathan Page
Jade Cargill

It feels like they are bleeding talent.



Wish they put the WCW stuff on Netflix so it could all be in one place.

But assuming Netflix ever gets around to uploading the rest of the old Raw's we are eventually going to be able to rewatch the Monday night war from start to finish.

I mean yes and no. It was inevitable now that AEW is what 7 years old now? (7 years already? Damn). There will be a lot of back and forth. Some of it is Khan, some of it is the wrestlers just want a change of scenery. Also in that time since Cody left they've gotten Ricochet, Edge, Lashley and Benjamin from WWE and White, Okada and Ospreay from NJPW.


Cody's white meat Late 00s John Cena act wasn't gonna work in AEW, they were already booing him, and he refused to turn heel. I wish we knew more about why he left but it seems it's cause that's exactly what he wanted to be and that works better in WWE.

Punk thing was in a league of its on. Punk is a dick but Khan botched that horribly.

Luchas and Starks, interested to hear their stories when they come out. I'm not sure if Khan pissed the Luchas off before or after they made it known they wanted to leave.
I like Starks, but I think he always had one foot out the door to follow his buddy Cody, which is why his pushed ended.

Miro was his own worst enemy, with injuries and shooting down creative ideas. And has barely been on TV.

Black and Page are the classic mid-card type guys who will flip back and forth, like previously mentioned. Same goes for Andrade and Spears. And in the case of Black and Andrade, their wives are in WWE, and were only in AEW originally because WWE released them.

Cargill, like Cody, is more made for WWE. She's all look, and still very green in the ring. Her style wasn't gonna work long term in AEW. And it's not like she wasn't booked strong there. I think she was another 'Friend of Cody' too. (So is Spears)


The problem with AEW right now, is Khan being too much of a mark, and living in the past with guys like Edge and Jericho getting too much air time. The Hurt Business has been good, but they're also old. When guys like Starks are getting passed over for dudes in their 50s, maybe that's why their leaving.

At least their starting to build guys like Takeshita and Fletcher, even Garcia can be a solid upper mid carder.
 
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