AEW - All Elite Wrestling (*Spoilers for Latest Show*)

J. Marston

Hopefully he can stay awake this time.

Loughc

Can’t say I disagree with this one bit. Good riddance CM Punk.

Lithium93_

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119811903#Comment_119811903

Hangman Page should've retained at Double Or Nothing, and the eventual ensuing **** show would've totally avoided. But it's easy to say it now with hindsight.

J. Marston

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119811903#Comment_119811903

Said it ages ago. Khan, being the pushover he is, allowed him to come in and blast his way through 3 of AEW's young guys/originals in 8 months to become world champion.

HHH's promo aged like wine.

Pentecost

The matches weren't even great either. They were fine for the most part but nothing you'd really go out of your way to watch. His initial AEW debut was a great moment. I was marking out as much as anyone else and he seemed so genuinely happy to be there but it was just a convenient truth that it was all everyone else's fault that he'd been away so long. Once the novelty wore off for him he reverted to his old, difficult self.

Riddle101

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119812467#Comment_119812467

Nah, Page's title reign had become tiresome by that point and Punk was red hot at the time. It was the right thing to do even with hindsight.

Cherry_Cola

AEW has a real problem booking champions, overall I think Miro's TNT run, Cody's mystery challenger TNT run and even the short Brody one we got were the best they've done.

Hangman is a better babyface chaser than an actual champion.

~Rebel~

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119815955#Comment_119815955

Even his chase was ultimately a bit rubbish... it was really good a few months before he got the belt, but then with his extended absence it cooled off, and when he came back they rushed it in the end. They needed to reset it a bit and start building again.

ThePott

Agree, I think people really overlook the fact that they pulled the trigger too late. I know he went away for paternity leave and that's great but they missed the moment a little. AEW have a consistent problem in general of telling a great chase story but not being able to keep their champions interesting.

~Rebel~

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119816197#Comment_119816197

Yeah, like Mox right now being totally overexposed. Him fighting every week isn't a good thing... like on Dynamite, we have this thing of the Firm giving him a beat down, and all the commentary is like "Oh no! He's never going to be 100% in time for Full Gear!"... and then he's fighting again 2 days later, and is totally fine.

Or having all these tournaments, and chip cash in things, to get a title shot etc - the weight is totally taken off them when lads are just getting a random title shot anyway. I love Penta, but there's no real reason he should've had a title shot last Wednesday. Or the Brody King, or Rush defences a while back. Like, why bust your ass to win some big tournament thing, or some ladder match, when if you hang around for five minutes you'll get a shot anyway.

ThePott

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119816281#Comment_119816281

Yeah they've thrown some of the logic out the window which is something they were good at. The rankings especially are underplayed more and more nowadays and some of recent title defenses are fairly out of nowhere.

~Rebel~

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119816411#Comment_119816411

Yeah, I went to take a look at the rankings earlier - they stopped updating them in August it seems!

https://www.allelitewrestling.com/aew-rankings

Lithium93_

Due to clocks changing here this past weekend, Dynamite airs at midnight Thursday, instead of the regular 1 in the morning.

Loughc

Surely at this stage cancelling rampage would be for the best.

Showbuzz Daily reports that this past Friday's episode of AEW Rampage on TNT was able to draw a total of 378,000 viewers, with a rating of 0.12 in the key 18-49 demographic. This is down 21.25% from last week’s 480,000 total viewers.

Last Friday night's 0.12 rating is down 7.69% from last week’s 0.13 rating. Last Friday's 0.12 rating represents 158,000 viewers in the key 18-49 demographic, which is down 7.05% from last week's 170,000 total viewers with a 0.13 rating, reports Wrestlenomics. Last Friday night's AEW Rampage episode drew the third-lowest total audience of the year so far for an episode on the normal 10PM timeslot and the second-lowest key demo rating of the year so far for an episode on the normal 10PM timeslot, which is tied with three other episodes.

~Rebel~

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119818139#Comment_119818139

World Series stealing viewers as well as bases! Seems to have been the biggest Game 1 audience in years too, so everything else is taking a hit.

As far as cancelling the show goes - it's basically a shot to nothing as content. With most episodes being taped after Dynamite, its additional production costs are pretty much nil, so whatever eyeballs it gets are a plus. I'd like them to do more with it, but as it is, against the cost of production it's doing fine.

CastorTroy

Well AEW just let everyone down this week. The biggest rematch everyone wanted to see was due to air this week but for some reason it didn't happen.

Brandon Cutler Vs Peter Avalon was meant to be on Dark this week after being advertised last week.

I guess having Fenix Vs AR Fox as the main event changed that.

Maybe Swerve and Fox will team up again at some point after their Lucha Underground days.

Lithium93_

Cue speculation

https://twitter.com/WONF4W/status/1587889448385187842

ThePott

Elite return or maybe related to the former ROH champion answering the challenge?

CastorTroy

Does it involve the lights going out?

Tony probably leaked it himself since he didn't want to be blamed this time when it's not as exciting as he claimed.

J. Marston

Adam Cole return is my guess.

Debatable whether that is "something big" though.

CastorTroy

"There IS a Khan who's co-CEO of WWE but it's not Nick Khan"

Furious-Red

Does dynamite kick of at 12 our time?

Cherry_Cola

I'm really hoping it's McGuinness as the challenger for the ROH belt.

Agent Coulson

Double J.

Cherry_Cola

You can only laugh, absolute shite.

Pentecost

I can't understand what they think he offers that they don't have already.

Agent Coulson

Lol Colt so we know Punk won’t be back now.

Lovely Trolling.

Pentecost

I can take or leave Colt but it's a bold and direct two fingers to Punk.

Agent Coulson

Shibata nice.