They're going back only if Triple K gets fired....
The "let's not take this shyt so seriously" AEW news & fukkery thread
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Ain't no way people expect the HS to be jobbers in a already weakened tag division. Other than FTR and YB, no other team is as high of star power. Lucha Bros vs HS would've been a good match prolly but no other team has that type of power to be put over with no preparation. They have teams with potential that could be built up but none i see currently that are on that level yet.
I also see the argument for HS to be singles stars and champs. Of course the complaints of veteran talent taking up time and titles in the past would likely arise here by some. The possibility is there but they have enough talent in those divisions already. I mean you got guys like Ospreay and Swerve who are main event guys teaming up lately and even former champs like Samoa Joe or a guy with lots of potential in Claudio doing trios stuff, so not like Bobby and Shelton are being wasted by not being in the chase for a singles title. If it happens then cool, if not then they'll just have to continue doing their thing now and see where it goes.
I also see the argument for HS to be singles stars and champs. Of course the complaints of veteran talent taking up time and titles in the past would likely arise here by some. The possibility is there but they have enough talent in those divisions already. I mean you got guys like Ospreay and Swerve who are main event guys teaming up lately and even former champs like Samoa Joe or a guy with lots of potential in Claudio doing trios stuff, so not like Bobby and Shelton are being wasted by not being in the chase for a singles title. If it happens then cool, if not then they'll just have to continue doing their thing now and see where it goes.
Not to sidetrack this one as well but I don't know how they can replace him. As far as who would be a worthy candidate. Just like with TK and talks about him giving up the book. Of course I'm sure both of them get plenty of help. But they've both built up plenty of rapport with their staff & have knowledge of the business whether as a former wrestler or long time dedicated fan. If Hunter gets replaced could be tough for them if the new person makes lots of changes. Best one prolly HBK but we shall see if he gets a chance doing some main roster stuff first. I know Road Dogg was doing some booking lately and it wasn't met with much fanfare. So it won't be easy for any random put in by corporate to come in and have instant success.
I know I seen it in retail and I'm sure other industries have it as well. Where corporate puts in some guy as a manager with a degree cuz they think it looks good and that person doesn't know the staff too well and tries to do things different than the norm and messes up the flow of things cuz they wanna kiss ass.
TheAlbionist
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Alvarez has got to be trying to get things wrong at this point. Every time I see him lately he's so wildly away from reality that I can't believe he's made this an actual career.
He'd probably be shouting even more if they were "paying dues" losing to Top Flight and Cru every week.
The report doesn't even make sense. Shelton has taken losses since debuting.
Saysumthinfunnymike
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If The Hurt Syndicate came in and "did a bunch of jobs" then neckbeards would complain about that too 
Norrin Radd
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No idea, I don’t follow ticket sales
VegetasHairline
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Throwing two singles wrestlers in a tag team usually works. That's how we wind up with some great tag teams. Here's a few examples:
Cesaro and Sheamus
Hangman and Omega
Adam Cole and MJF
New Day
Miz and R-Truth
It's also easy to make storylines out of splitting up the team eventually.
Cesaro and Sheamus
Hangman and Omega
Adam Cole and MJF
New Day
Miz and R-Truth
It's also easy to make storylines out of splitting up the team eventually.
Saysumthinfunnymike
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Broken clocks are right twice a day. 
Cattle Mutilation
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Shelton lost to Swerve, Kyle Fletcher, Daniel Garcia, and Okada all within two months of joining. And...
he's going to be losing to Nick Wayne and Kevin Knight on Collision tonight.
Lashley hasn't lost a singles match yet, but he's only had three. You can argue that he should have beat Swerve, I'll give Alvarez that if that's something he's saying. Apparently that program was going to continue past that match with Swerve likely winning a rematch, but for whatever reason it ended with that match.
So far they haven't a faced a single tag team that should beat them. Like look at their tag opponents, who here should they have lost to?
- The Acclaimed
- Private Party
- Private Party and Mark Briscoe
- The Gunns
- The Outrunners
- The Learning Tree
- Gates of Agony
- Top Flight
- Dustin Rhodes and Sammy Guevara
- Kevin Knight, Mike Bailey, Mascara Dorada
Cattle Mutilation
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Broken clocks are right twice a day.
"They didn't put that cake in anyone's face? What a waste of a cake"
Cattle Mutilation
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Alvarez is burnt out on wrestling is my theory. He whines and bytches about everything and gets so much stuff just blatantly wrong that he either just doesn't give a fukk and/or he just has the shows on in the background most of the time.Alvarez has got to be trying to get things wrong at this point. Every time I see him lately he's so wildly away from reality that I can't believe he's made this an actual career.
He'd probably be shouting even more if they were "paying dues" losing to Top Flight and Cru every week.
Norrin Radd
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TheAlbionist
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I'm all for a long All In but I kinda need it to be over before Taylor/Serrano 3 starts. 
Saysumthinfunnymike
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Crazy 
AEW star Kenny Omega has opened up about the severity of the diverticulitis attack that sidelined him in late 2023, revealing that the situation was so dire he was told he was at risk of dying. Speaking on Wrestling Observer Radio, Omega provided a vivid, detailed account of the day he wrestled while unknowingly dealing with a life-threatening illness.
Omega recalled feeling incredibly sick before his final TV appearance in November 2023. “The memory of it’s pretty vivid still,” he began. “I told everyone beforehand. I said, ‘Hey guys like, look, I don’t know what’s wrong with me… but I really don’t feel reliable right now. I feel like I could just keel over… I look at myself in the mirror… I feel like really pale, really blue.’”
He described wrestling through the segment as a “battle of will” and a “mental struggle of, ‘don’t fall over, don’t pass out, just hang on.'” After the match, he was referred to a doctor and sent home, but received an urgent call to return to the hospital immediately.
“I remember going home, getting a call about an hour and a half later, and they said, ‘Yeah, do you mind coming back and just being prepared to stay in the hospital for quite a while?’” Omega recounted. “I said, ‘I’ll pack a bag… and I’ll head to you guys tomorrow.’… [They said] ‘No, like, you need to come now… we don’t want to, like, worry you or anything, but you could be at risk of dying.’… ‘Okay, right, roger that, closed, I’ll be right there, man.’”
The subsequent surgery and recovery were incredibly difficult. “I was actually just looking at the pictures the other day of right after the surgery, and I had lost so much weight, so much muscle was gone from my body,” he said. “They had said, ‘Hey, have no expectation… be happy with any positive improvement,’ and that actually helped to hear that… not to be too hard on myself.”
Even now, months after his return, Omega revealed the lingering physical toll that big matches take on his body. He explained that after a performance like the Anarchy in the Arena match, his recovery is extensive. “I’ll be in bed until like 5pm, 6pm for almost an entire week,” he admitted. “I just can’t, I just don’t have the energy. I can’t move. And that was the most scary part for me is again, you know, I want to be reliable. I want to be someone that you can count on, but at the same time, I don’t want to push myself beyond the breaking point.”
He detailed the specific physical issue he now deals with daily as a result of the surgery. “The big one for me is that I have these, you know, adhesions in my stomach, quite a few,” Omega shared. “And when you’re breathing heavy, when you have to use a lot of core, when you have to twist, when you have to stretch, it’s the adhesions are pulling… they’re binding to my inner organs. They’re pulling apart and it’s causing a lot of discomfort. It causes sort of like flu-like symptoms to emerge.”
This new reality has forced Omega to be more selective and aware of his own mortality in the ring, making every match count. “The ones that don’t mean anything, it’s it’s like chipping away at what’s what’s left, and there isn’t much left,” he stated. “So I want to make sure that what is left and what the meat that is on the bone still, that it’s a, it’s a good tasting meat, you know, hopefully.”
Now back in the ring, Omega is preparing for one of the biggest matches of his career, a title unification bout against his legendary rival, Kazuchika Okada. The match is scheduled for AEW’s All In: Texas PPV next Saturday, July 12.
AEW star Kenny Omega has opened up about the severity of the diverticulitis attack that sidelined him in late 2023, revealing that the situation was so dire he was told he was at risk of dying. Speaking on Wrestling Observer Radio, Omega provided a vivid, detailed account of the day he wrestled while unknowingly dealing with a life-threatening illness.
Omega recalled feeling incredibly sick before his final TV appearance in November 2023. “The memory of it’s pretty vivid still,” he began. “I told everyone beforehand. I said, ‘Hey guys like, look, I don’t know what’s wrong with me… but I really don’t feel reliable right now. I feel like I could just keel over… I look at myself in the mirror… I feel like really pale, really blue.’”
He described wrestling through the segment as a “battle of will” and a “mental struggle of, ‘don’t fall over, don’t pass out, just hang on.'” After the match, he was referred to a doctor and sent home, but received an urgent call to return to the hospital immediately.
“I remember going home, getting a call about an hour and a half later, and they said, ‘Yeah, do you mind coming back and just being prepared to stay in the hospital for quite a while?’” Omega recounted. “I said, ‘I’ll pack a bag… and I’ll head to you guys tomorrow.’… [They said] ‘No, like, you need to come now… we don’t want to, like, worry you or anything, but you could be at risk of dying.’… ‘Okay, right, roger that, closed, I’ll be right there, man.’”
The subsequent surgery and recovery were incredibly difficult. “I was actually just looking at the pictures the other day of right after the surgery, and I had lost so much weight, so much muscle was gone from my body,” he said. “They had said, ‘Hey, have no expectation… be happy with any positive improvement,’ and that actually helped to hear that… not to be too hard on myself.”
Even now, months after his return, Omega revealed the lingering physical toll that big matches take on his body. He explained that after a performance like the Anarchy in the Arena match, his recovery is extensive. “I’ll be in bed until like 5pm, 6pm for almost an entire week,” he admitted. “I just can’t, I just don’t have the energy. I can’t move. And that was the most scary part for me is again, you know, I want to be reliable. I want to be someone that you can count on, but at the same time, I don’t want to push myself beyond the breaking point.”
He detailed the specific physical issue he now deals with daily as a result of the surgery. “The big one for me is that I have these, you know, adhesions in my stomach, quite a few,” Omega shared. “And when you’re breathing heavy, when you have to use a lot of core, when you have to twist, when you have to stretch, it’s the adhesions are pulling… they’re binding to my inner organs. They’re pulling apart and it’s causing a lot of discomfort. It causes sort of like flu-like symptoms to emerge.”
This new reality has forced Omega to be more selective and aware of his own mortality in the ring, making every match count. “The ones that don’t mean anything, it’s it’s like chipping away at what’s what’s left, and there isn’t much left,” he stated. “So I want to make sure that what is left and what the meat that is on the bone still, that it’s a, it’s a good tasting meat, you know, hopefully.”
Now back in the ring, Omega is preparing for one of the biggest matches of his career, a title unification bout against his legendary rival, Kazuchika Okada. The match is scheduled for AEW’s All In: Texas PPV next Saturday, July 12.