The "let's not take this shyt so seriously" AEW news & fukkery thread

[Cattle Mutilation]

Excerpt from Fightful story today in the Dynasty main event + Deathriders/Moxley creative

AEW internally has touted the success of the Death Riders and Moxley winning the title, citing a disconnect with online fans. AEW claims that the company's live+dvr quarters have climbed throughout the year with Moxley as champion, peaking with the Moxley vs. Cope street fight.

Told y’all it’s doing numbers but no one wanted to listed to me

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

I don't believe it's doing numbers. Let me rephrase, I believe Edge helped to a degree and I believe people are invested in Swerve winning the title, so Mox has been matched up lately with people who could draw an audience. Before that, the numbers looked all time bad. With the Young Bucks coming back, I could see the numbers getting terrible again

 

[stro]

If it's doing numbers, it's doing numbers so I guess whatever. But that doesn't mean it isn't stupid dog shyt. Historically, lots of bad shyt in wrestling is what drew the numbers but it was still bad.

 

[Tres Leches]

Excerpt from Fightful story today in the Dynasty main event + Deathriders/Moxley creative



Told y’all it’s doing numbers but no one wanted to listed to me

Mox is best for business

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

Fat Brad spent his entire day tryna bait me but still defending every cac racist out there so long as they stan the E

 

[br82186]

Fat Brad spent his entire day tryna bait me but still defending every cac racist out there so long as they stan the E

So we having stan wars in a race verification thread???


It's crazy how these n-gga's are on this "I'm blackity black and I'm black y'all" tip, but constantly come to the aid of a dude who isn't black and has a tendency to big up racists.

I'm convinced these dudes have white friends who say n-gga around them and have no issues with it.

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

Yes @br82186 they are mad over stan wars and that's why they were tryna get me out the paint but then they fell back when I agreed to the bet. Only Koala will put up his screen name, the rest are juelzing like a muthafukka now

 

[avon barksdale]

Part 2 teams I can see



Bucks,okada/death Ryders

Vs

Swerve, hangman, Kenny and hurt business

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

I just hope it's over quickly. The 'ALL IN' build needs to be free of Death Riders/Bucks on some fake Corporate Ministry shyt

 

[TheAlbionist]

I just hope it's over quickly. The 'ALL IN' build needs to be free of Death Riders/Bucks on some fake Corporate Ministry shyt

I hope Mox blew that out of that water with his "can't be bought" / don't make deals shyt.

But with Pac out, Wheeler and Claudio going to be doing some heavy lifting so who the fukk knows.

The only part of it that is clear to me at the moment is that Willow needs a plunder match against Marina as soon as she's fit. Best sub-feud of the whole thing to me

 

[julesocean]

-Acclaimed most over tag team they've ever had
-Breakup happens on Collision
-Max takes his best wrestler alive gimmick, but instead of feeding him jobbers to make him look like something in his open challenges, he just ends up being a comedy punching bag
-Bowens finally returns, on the PRESHOW (I had to find out and watch after the fact, which pissed me off), looks like a million bucks, ready to hit the ground running solo. Gets his win on Max, guess they won't do a blood feud but it's a squash on his old partner, comes off amazing for him



-Dynamite after PPV: No in-ring promo, no feud kickoff, just a quick recap of his return
-And now we are here:






Please put him into a long term feud with someone post-match. He does not need to be just wrestling and gaining traction, he already has fan support now capitalize with a good storyline.

 

[OneDeep]

-Acclaimed most over tag team they've ever had
-Breakup happens on Collision
-Max takes his best wrestler alive gimmick, but instead of feeding him jobbers to make him look like something in his open challenges, he just ends up being a comedy punching bag
-Bowens finally returns, on the PRESHOW (I had to find out and watch after the fact, which pissed me off), looks like a million bucks, ready to hit the ground running solo. Gets his win on Max, guess they won't do a blood feud but it's a squash on his old partner, comes off amazing for him



-Dynamite after PPV: No in-ring promo, no feud kickoff, just a quick recap of his return
-And now we are here:






Please put him into a long term feud with someone post-match. He does not need to be just wrestling and gaining traction, he already has fan support now capitalize with a good storyline.

Bowens already dead on arrival

 

[mannyrs13]

They did Anarchy in the arena at DON last year so def looks like that's what they planning for this year. Let's see how the Pac injury affects plans tho they do have enough guys as is plus Jack Perry if he comes back.

Not sure if Hangman ends up in the Owen finals or in the AITA match. Could be either the wild card depending on who it is or Fletcher since him and Ospreay have decent chemistry.

This also ties up Mox instead of some random title match he likely won't lose, and can be saved for All In. Issue gonna be how they'll build the rest of the card.

AITA match, Toni Storm match, maybe Cole defending the TNT title, both Owen finals. If Omega and Okada are on teams, that ties up their belts. Not sure if HS should be involved especially if it's better for them to have a title match. Same with Mercedes if she in the finals or defending her title. They may have to build up some small feuds to get the card built up past the potential 6. Hopefully they can get another women's feud going to throw on there and some lucha stuff but we shall see how things play out.

We know what the end goal for DON is, just gotta see what moves are made to get there whether from AITA match or Owen tourneys.

 

[Cattle Mutilation]

Did some data compiling on YouTube views for AEW. Compiled the top three clips for each Dynamite and Collision of 2025. 29 episodes total. Only compared to videos that showed stuff that actually aired, none of this post show comments stuff or anything else that may not have aired.

Clips involved Death Riders were #1 on 14 episodes
They were #2 on 9 episodes
They were #3 on 4 shows

Out of 87 top three clips, they accounted for 27 of them

Out of 9 videos that gained over 1 million viewers, Death Riders were involved in 8 of them.

 

[Tres Leches]

Part 2 teams I can see



Bucks,okada/death Ryders

Vs

Swerve, hangman, Kenny and hurt business

i think it will be the opps instead of hurt business