AEW - All Elite Wrestling (Spoilers for Latest Show)

Cherry_Cola · 05-09-2022 5:26am

Oh my god, the post media scrum is essential viewing. Punk in fine form **** all over the EVPs, Hangman and Colt Cabana. It's a proper shoot and he hates them all. Tony looks like he wants to curl up and die. Gonna be some week for news after this outburst.

Update: Tony said he thought an Acclaimed/Swerve and Lee rematch at Grand Slam would be great, and Swerve went off saying no and why would they do that. Tony has no control of this at all haha.

Lord TSC · 05-09-2022 9:40am

The Acclaimed vs Swerve/Lee match was absolutely phenomenal. Really loved it.

MJF return was really well constructed overall IMO. The ladder match ending was a bit weird and you could tell the crowd were a bit miffed. But as a set up to the pay off at the end of the show, I feel it worked.

im just reading about the scrum now though……yikes.

The White Wolf · 05-09-2022 10:07am

This isn't the work, you could feel the genuine venom and hatred in his voice and see it in his face. The man looks agitated as ****.

Felt sorry for Tony, Punk took a dump on him here and so did that nobody Swerve as well.

Lord TSC · 05-09-2022 10:16am

Apparently Punk and the Young Bucks got into a physical altercation after the scrum too.

Is there a funny irony here, that MJF utterly overshadowed Wardlow with his hijinks before their match, and now MJF is being utterly overshadowed himself upon his return? 😂

Officer999 · 05-09-2022 10:25am

Yeah I actually had the exact same thoughts.

MJF returning should be a huge talking point….but no one is talking about it.

TonySniff · 05-09-2022 10:36am

Imagine thinking Pepsiman was in the right, and not a complete cock.

kksaints · 05-09-2022 10:56am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119573108#Comment_119573108

I'd say that Tony will be tightening up the post event media scrums in the future. Can't have people go off on others within the organisation like Punk did, it'd just create a toxic atmosphere and would just become a WCW 99-01.

Also Punk and MJF as your next big event main event, geez you're putting a lot of trust in the hands of two very flaky individuals who've also feuded not that long ago. Seems a questionable decision although it probably will work out.

JP Liz V1 · 05-09-2022 12:08pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119573108#Comment_119573108

What started all this between Punk and the AEW EVPs?

I thought Page was liked by everyone

CastorTroy · 05-09-2022 12:50pm

That Ladder match ending gave me flashbacks to James Ellsworth handing Carmella the briefcase.

Bet Miro felt stupid being the only one to show up not wearing face paint. Have to ask how come Sting seems to escape criticism for no-selling a lot of stuff?

Mox made it through a match with only his opponent's blood on him?

J. Marston · 05-09-2022 1:22pm

I don't know how anyone could like Punk. The guy is a prick and it's stretching back years and years.

Lord TSC · 05-09-2022 1:50pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119573987#Comment_119573987

I, personally, enjoy him as an in ring performer, in terms of his style and his promos.

Hes also, very obviously, an utter nightmare of a person to deal with, behind the scenes. So yeah. It takes a massive ability to separate the character from the person playing the role (which isn’t always easy in wrestling, when that line is incredibly thin).

Basically, yeay as a wrestler. Nah as someone I’d want to actually have in my personal life 😂

Loughc · 05-09-2022 1:54pm

That media scrum. I do not see how this benefits the company having their world champion essentially sh1t all over a lot of his colleagues.

it has to be a work right? I mean like what’s the objective otherwise.

titan18 · 05-09-2022 2:01pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119574149#Comment_119574149

It's still a big issue if it's work. This is end of WCW sh1t if it is.

It's more likely a shoot imo, at which point as bad as Punk is, Tony needs to actually step down here and suspend him as you can't have that, and to me AEW is The Elite, it's not Punk.

JP Liz V1 · 05-09-2022 2:14pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119574149#Comment_119574149

Who benefits from it if a work, your champ fighting your company's evps, the focus should be MJF, AEW is generating buzz but for the wrong reasons, Tony Khan looked shocked and uncomfortable

Maybe I'm reading it all wrong and Punk the "wrestling genius" knows the business well to shift focus away from WWE

Loughc · 05-09-2022 2:18pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119574321#Comment_119574321

Yeah excellent point. I thought it may have been punks way to draw eyes back to AEW to stop WWE’s resurgence.

Pipebomb 2.0

CastorTroy · 05-09-2022 2:40pm

By also drawing away from the PPV that just happened?

MJF returned with a new faction, Jungle Boy lost to Christian after Luchasaurus turned on him and new Trios champs were crowned yet no one wants to talk about those things because of Punk.

Oh and having your entrance performed live as you enter seems a very sports entertainer thing to do.

riffmongous · 05-09-2022 3:09pm

I sure hope it was a shoot because if it's a work it's one of the worst ever, 2 massive moments completely overshadowed (Punk's win and MJF).

Anyway, I'm really surprised at the online reaction elsewhere to Luchasaurus attacking JBJP, it was pretty obvious something was going to happen and yet people are saying he did a Big Show turning back and forth the last weeks. Then there's people saying it makes Perry look stupid for trusting him... more like naive but well he's a face and that's what real babyfaces do, look at Sting for example. The whole point of the feud is to drop the whole Jungle Boy gimmick while keeping him face and it's doing a good job of it imo.

Agent Coulson · 05-09-2022 3:49pm

Looks like Malakai Black has been granted his release as well.

gerrybbadd · 05-09-2022 3:52pm

I'm convinced Punk is working with his comments in the post media scrum. There's been a lot of commentary online regards his attitude for weeks, seems to me he's leaning into that perception now. If people want to perceive him to be this massive prick, then that's how he's going to be. No better way to gain buy in here, than to weave a few "truths" into the whole diatribe (Scott Colten etc).

I think we're going to see, play out over time, the modern day take on Bret / Austin at Mania 13, with Punk & MJF taking up those roles. The seeds were set in the MJF feud, if you look back, for how Punk is acting now - he was called out on it at the time.

Pentecost · 05-09-2022 4:25pm

A lot of rumours going around of a backstage brawl between the Bucks and Punk and others which the Bucks came off the worst in. The whole thing's not good for AEW no matter whether it's a work or not. Gives the impression that things are getting out of control.

Cherry_Cola · 05-09-2022 4:36pm

If Punk is getting the best of you in a fight, that's hilarious.

Pentecost · 05-09-2022 5:11pm

The Bucks don't strike me as legit tough guys either to be fair.

Cherry_Cola · 05-09-2022 5:15pm

No definitely not but they do have a numbers advantage 😅

J. Marston · 05-09-2022 5:18pm

Seeing the angle of Khan reacting to all of it leads me to believe it's a work. If you have an employee genuinely "shooting" to the media about court cases, bank accounts and tearing into colleagues, you shut it down. Instead, he's sitting there making faces...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBAvjOYD6hs

Then again, Khan is a fúcking weirdo...

https://twitter.com/LetThemWrestle/status/1566660415538581504

The White Wolf · 05-09-2022 5:31pm

For those who watched the match, any chance Punk had his clock cleaned? He honestly sounded drunk to me in that presser.

Between Swerve's dismissive comment to Khan and Storm's burying of Rosa, Tony needs to grab them by the bollix and tell them who's in charge.

riffmongous · 05-09-2022 6:06pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119575329#Comment_119575329

I'd actually give them some credit for it, even if they came off worse. Didn't think they had it in them.

brianregan09 · 05-09-2022 6:18pm

Wow Punk what a massive prick , Khan is definitely weak as **** aswell for sitting there and letting him rubbish his roster regardless of personal stuff going on between them

Necro · 05-09-2022 6:34pm

Apparently Punk threw the first punch as well... Given how his UFC career went it doesn't seem too wise 😂😂

CastorTroy · 05-09-2022 7:41pm

Bucks were probably out of their element without ropes or anything to jump off.

Lord TSC · 05-09-2022 8:41pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119575706#Comment_119575706

Which means he needs to be suspended, based on the precedent set last week with Kingston.

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