Sept 21, 2024 13:04:45 GMT RT said:

If I'm Tony I cut my losses and let him walk. Stop paying the guy to sit at home. It's no secret that Miro is very well off, having invested his wrestling money in real estate. He buys cheap houses and flips them for a profit or rents them out as an income property. He has the power to disagree with creative and not do anything he doesn't want to do because he doesn't need wrestling, and he's done it time and time again with AEW (and apparently WWE before they released him).

They gave him an excellent run as TNT Champion, then he got hurt. Then he came back and seemingly refused to do anything that didn't immediately make him world champion. He's proven that he cares more about money and his reputation than actually wrestling, which is fine. Good for him. But that's not gonna fly in AEW so they might as well stop paying him.

I also want to give the guy some grace going through a divorce that I don’t believe he initiated. His entire worldview is probably different now.

One of the best Hey, EW! episodes in a while. These guys are hilarious.

AEW is still running paid social ads in the Seattle area promoting Wrestledream featuring Swerve as the AEW Champion.

Not just featuring … it’s a local promo he recorded, with the belt, promoting the event. It’s 100% only Swerve.

Is it that hard to get the hometown hero and CURRENT champion to cut a pre-tape?

Sept 23, 2024 15:05:47 GMT KJ said:

AEW is still running paid social ads in the Seattle area promoting Wrestledream featuring Swerve as the AEW Champion.

Not just featuring … it’s a local promo he recorded, with the belt, promoting the event. It’s 100% only Swerve.

Is it that hard to get the hometown hero and CURRENT champion to cut a pre-tape?

He won’t even show up on weekly television because he’s a lazy coward!

/Nigel

I hear ya. That’s pretty dumb. I would understand if it was a week or so but it’s been a month now basically? And Danielson is a WAY more popular wrestler. That’s weird.

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In other news, Kenny Omega might be returning sooner than later. After Ibushi posted they were training together and “days away” from a comeback, Omega replied to a fan on twitter saying he was in Japan to “buy clothes for work.”

His gear designer lives in Japan.

Kenny pls

I'm okay if I never see Ibushi again.

Hope Kenny is back soon, though.

@admin FrankTheTank got to walk and lose some calories with Mercedes Mone, you jelly or what?

Shane O' Mac surfacing again.

Fuck me, imagine the booking if these clowns found themselves in a circle jerk with Shane.

The Jacksons are likely playing rock, scissors, paper over who gets to butter up McMahon the same way they kept Uncle Dave happy.

I'm convinced Shane is just doing this to piss off his dad.

I'm convinced he's waiting for TK to offer him $10 million a year.

I can't wait for TK doing the Shane O'Mac dance awkwardly.

Shane O' is the best way for the Bucks and Tony to salve their wounds and stick it to CM Punk. Imagine ... the *real* Best in the World as world champion in AEW! 😂

... I'm personally for it, though. 😒

I hope everyone here that’s slammed WWE’s business practices is prepared to do the same to TK for adding injury time to Fenix’s contract.

Word today, again... WWE is wanting Malakai Black back.

Sept 27, 2024 14:45:14 GMT KJ said:

I hope everyone here that’s slammed WWE’s business practices is prepared to do the same to TK for adding injury time to Fenix’s contract.

Word is, beating up a Young Buck and/or Jungle Boy will get you a release.

I'm no saying anything Konnan hasn't already mentioned to him in private.

Think Joey Janela publicised that same thought process lol

At this rate Adam Cole is locked in for life.

They are paid on injury? That's some damn fine job security*

*so long as they came in with name value I suppose.

Cole has figured it out. Stay injured and get paid to play video games.

Luchasaurus is recovering in hospital after his wife found him unconscious at home on Friday. He had pneumonia in both lungs and had he not been found when he was he likely would have suffered severe damage to his lungs and brain.

Meltzer is speculating that the new TV deal will be announced alongside Dynamite 5 on Wednesday. Guess we wait and see.

Oct 1, 2024 0:47:03 GMT RT said:

Luchasaurus is recovering in hospital after his wife found him unconscious at home on Friday. He had pneumonia in both lungs and had he not been found when he was he likely would have suffered severe damage to his lungs and brain.

Just read that, that is scary. Glad his spouse found him before it got escalated. 

They said the recovery time is 1 month but why risk anything? Let him take it easy for rest of the year. 

I'm glad that Killswitch is OK.

SRS reporting that the TV deal announcement is coming today and that the announcement will include Dynamite and Collision simulcasting on MAX alongside cable.

Reports are the deal is for at least $150 million per year.

Oct 2, 2024 20:37:37 GMT RT said:

Reports are the deal is for at least $150 million per year.

I’ve read it as “upwards” of $150MM, but not worth quibbling.

This is bananas.

Forbes had a good article on it, even quoting Meltzer that the product is struggling to connect.

www.forbes.com/sites/alfredkonuwa/2024/10/02/aew-signs-new-tv-deal-with-wbd-faces-same-old-problems/

I don’t get it, but good for AEW.

Forbes saying the $170 mil number reported a couple weeks ago is accurate. So who really knows. All good news regardless.

Swerve has been saying in interviews that they are going to Fox too so there’s that to still wonder about. Sounding like the rumours of a new show airing on Fox to replace Smackdown are pretty accurate. Guess we will see.

Forbes says upwards of $150, but quoted the guy who said $170 a few weeks ago.

Variety says $150 too.

FOX is interesting. Curious what the PPV deal will look like.

Surely it’ll be the Fox network and not actually Fox right? How tf would they pull that off.

Medics earning their cheques tonight.

www.pwtorch.com/site/2024/10/02/sammy-guevara-one-of-two-wrestlers-taken-out-on-a-stretcher-before-dynamite-went-live-tonight/

Didn't Sammy just come back?

Oct 3, 2024 8:10:26 GMT Todd said:

Surely it’ll be the Fox network and not actually Fox right? How tf would they pull that off.

The deal with WBD is apparently cable exclusive, so AEW would be airing on the Fox network channel if it happens, not their cable channel. Unless Warner makes an exception which I can't see happening.

This is all big speculation but got traction recently when Swerve was doing interviews saying that AEW is going to Fox now that Smackdown is gone. Apparently he knows something and isn't shy about talking about it.

Oct 3, 2024 8:53:47 GMT NATH45 said:

Medics earning their cheques tonight.

www.pwtorch.com/site/2024/10/02/sammy-guevara-one-of-two-wrestlers-taken-out-on-a-stretcher-before-dynamite-went-live-tonight/

Didn't Sammy just come back?

Yeah mentioned this in the Dynamite thread. He just returned from a concussion, and now this. Kid can't catch a break and this might keep him out for a while. Multiple head injuries are no joke.

Apparently he hit a diving cutter and landed funny and knocked himself out. Just a freak accident.

At the same taping Lady Frost was in a squash match with local talent and she also got knocked out. Lady Frost hit a diving knee and connected. That one's less surprising because Lady Frost sucks. I don't know what people see in her.