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

Yes absolutely this. Sammy going through five or six cards to tell you that he managed to defend the title in whatever his latest match was/will defend against whoever is up next is not adding anything.

Ass Boys need to embrace the Ass Boys gimmick. They'll be stupidly over if they do that. Change their team song to that one Danhausen came out with.

Well Jericho is a front man, of course he's gonna like the sound of his voice.

The robbing bar stewards, that 50 cents a week feeds my family.

All joking aside it's well worth it for the three hours a week of generally great entertainment that you can watch any time.

Hook has competition

AEW have signed Nick Wayne a 16 year old who wrestled The Fallen Angel for the Defy World Title last night.

Check out some of his matches on Youtube for a 16 year old he is amazing.

I think he's got a match with Janela on YouTube. He's also facing Ospreay and Swerve soon enough.

Absolutely, consistently 3 hours of great wrestling every week.

My biggest gripe with the Fite app on my tv is that it never remembers where I stopped watching in an episode and brings me back to the beginning when I try to resume. A massive pain in the hole.

Y’know that the fact that Tony is “letting them” means they’re not real independent contractors right? If they were then he couldn’t stop them.

A Jobber on Dark

Skyler on his time in AEW:

“I did two or three matches. This was the third match. It was against Dark Order’s Stu Grayson and Evil Uno,” he said. “It’s always the weirdest things that guys get hurt on.”

“Up until that point, I wrestled for 12 years. I had over 1,200 matches. I’ve never had a serious injury. I blew out my knee doing a Ricky Morton forward roll underneath a clothesline. The bottom of my foot caught Uno in the quad, and it caused my knee to shoot out. It’s the damnedest thing trying to explain it,” John recounted.

“I tore my ACL, my MCL, and my PCL. It’s the same day that (Kris) Statlander blew out her knee, so we went and got our MRIs together at the same time. We got the news the next day. They projected that I was going to be out 8-9 months and she was going to be out for close to a year.”

“I got my surgery done in South Carolina and I was back in 7 months. I have to credit everybody at AEW, Tony, and all the EVPs because not having a contact there, they could have sat me at home and said take care of it yourself and figure out what you’re going to do, but they brought me back every week to pay me. They also allowed me to do physical therapy with their medical team there at AEW. They did that for a full 7 months during a pandemic when they didn’t really have to. I’ll always be thankful for that. It was quite an experience, that 7 or 8 months that I did at AEW.”

I'd imagine any talent injuried while working for AEW as shown by Skyler above even those on per date contract will be looked after.

A good guess if talent are working for another promotion that is not to do with an AEW deal with that promotion then the talent would have to have their own medical insurance or have that indy promotion cover it.

With AEW, it's more that AEW has first choice of dates and can block for business reasons (they're not going to give away matches they'd like to do or have their stars lose)

It's gotta be a hugely expensive part of the business for anyone that doesn't have a nailed down health insurance policy. Like, you can't not have insurance yourself and just hope that anything serious that happens, happened with a decent promotion. Even just getting hurt in a car accident would completely kill your finances forever, let along getting cancer or something. So I imagine all these men and women without official policies through the company have to go get their own - and I'd imagine as soon as you write down 'professional wrestler', your premium is gonna skyrocket.

I wonder if they do some sort of collective bargaining or something, where the company could get a good deal from a provider that the lower-cards and jobbers can sign up to and pay for themselves.