The State of AEW | The Extreme Life of Matt Hardy
What is in store for the future of AEW? In this week's episode of The Extreme Life of Matt Hardy, Matt and Jon have a deep discussion about the current state of Tony Khan's promotion. What is its role in wrestling? Is it in a slump, or on a rise?
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Matt is on point on the negative aspects of the Tribalism fan base mindset.
@Billy2-pg3zj
Ай бұрын
Wwe is one third wrestling two thirds talking and advertising. Quote cornette.
@heihvyegs
Ай бұрын
It’s not the fan base… AEW fuelled and created it from the start, even now with comments Tony makes on TV
Matt Hardy gives an excellent and respectful insight on AEW.
Matt Hardy Firstly thank you for bringing happiness in the form of entertainment over the years. You deserve your flowers. I think if the projected line up consist of Alexa Bliss Eric Rowan, Braun Strowman, Willow (Jeff Hardy) Broken Matt the opportunities would be endless. I hope this is still a possibility even though you aren’t in a rush to sign. You can slowly be introduced as the 5 in the 6 with Jeff being last. Trust Triple H! In Paul we Trust!
All I want is a broken birthday song on my next cameo reassuring me that you won't delete me.
I agree. Those 90s tag belts are the best.
My first time watching the podcast, the title lured me in.
It's good to see you're out of the Tony Klown Witness Protection Program
Love broken Matt. I think your broken brilliance is Wonderful!!!!❤❤
"AEW MAKES PRO WRESTLING BETTER" ❤
17:43 I could see Rhea in Hollywood one day. Such a freaking badass!
Digging the Visitors tee
The V t shirt. Love it
Awesome job Matt with the podcast.
Matt Hardy welcome back to TNA ,very awesome and epic return
Doing great matt
Every new company goes through a honeymoon stage and its absolutely normal for a new company to go in another direction. I understand the low attendance but just remember in 2017 - 2019 WWE had the same thing with low attendance. And to see the twitter or X users constantly saying that 'AEW are going out of business', I have to agree with Matt Hardy. You are seriously NOT helping constantly talking down on AEW saying they are going out of business, which is ABSOLUTELY not the case. How do the haters feel if ONLY WWE was the only major wrestling promotion available, I would say Wrestling would not be hot right now. We needed AEW. My opinion is I don't like the wrestling in WWE but I will not complain about WWE either. AEW had to change somehow. I am extremely grateful for AEW. 😎👍💯
broken big money matt hardy!
How long is left on Jeff’s contract?
Enjoy your rest, Matt - well deserved!
I can’t believe AEW even offered him a new deal at this point.
8:25 the dark order
Broken matt hardy is one of my all time favorite characters
Bray was my favorite. I was not digging Uncle Howdy. They needed to introduce him like Cow Boy Curtis style but in the Fire Fly Fun House. Idk.
This is gonna be an interesting one, especially because Matt doesn’t work there right now.
If they wanted to do back to back debuts, they should have made them a faction. Call it the Japanese Invasion because that's where you know them from. Have them be dominant. Then have an AEW faction of originals that fight against them.
I FIND IT HILLARIOUS THAT PEOPLE ACTUALLY GET ON HERE to watch the chat and shit talk on Matt. You want to shit on him, yet you are still here tuning in. He's still got your attention huh?...lol😂 talk about butthurt. I hope no matter what you choose you and your family are happy Matt. I'll continue to support you and jeff like i have since I was a kid.
@CASSIUSMALONE189
Ай бұрын
Put this effort into school next time
@mileyandaubrivlog5769
Ай бұрын
I mean, he's a curiosity at the moment, sure.
I like AEW,TNA,ROH,MLW,NWA,AAA,NJPW,WWE
I can slap a tornado and I can dry up a sea
It's a right state
fuck yeah!
Jeff needs to talk with you. I guess he is waiting ng for his contraçt to come to an end.
I'm looking forward to a new Wyatt family tribute. Personally .. i think it would be cool to use Bray's objects and through them each of the members are possessed in a way by the spirit of bray just as in real life the tribute is to honor the spirit of Bray. With that .... Matt could get the lantern, Bo the fedora, Eric the mask of Brodie lee, Alexa the Heal/Hurt gloves, someone else the Uncle Howdy mask, and finally and what I really, REALLY want ... for Braun Strowman to become a Real monster as the mask of "The Fiend" beckons him. Be the fiend, Braun. BE the fiend. ... let him in!
First time viewer, no shade but is Matt recording from his daughter's room? If he is massive props for not having a background littered with wrestling memorabilia just to boost his bonafides.
Yeeeeeeaaaaassssss let’s get broken again!
Broken Matt returns to take the TNT title off Adam Copeland.
@matthardybrand I want to see Jeff bring Willow in the WWE
1:17:17 AMEN! Issue is, the haters hate bcuz deep down, theyre insecure about themselves, & they feel like hating on something, makes them feel better about themselves. But thats foolish, literally!! Just low level thinkers trying to look cool, but look dumb tho tbh.
Whoa buddy this guy is glazin 😂😂😂 Matt is correct they need to appeal to more casual audiences which could mean making stories longer and more digestible. It's clear what they are doing is not working. My issue is the stories besides the main story isn't interesting. Wwe struggles with this as well to me but they are now improving. Characters we also want to see more of like will hobbs get stuck in a nothing tag team and get no story.
TK books great matches just not for episodic television. In that regard he should just book ppv 's. Get a team for episodic television bookers and writers and say I want this card for the next ppv, start building a story to it.
AEW will boom back soon , they are in a transition period right now , they’ll be around for years to come
Delete Delete Delete 😅. Matt did you see the video came out of the CM Punk fight? 😂😂😂 Khan said he feared for his life. Wrestling fans are done with Tony. He wasn't even there!!! It was a push!!! 😅🤣😭Delete Delete Delete ❌🤷🏻💯 Delete Tony Khan!!!! I seen harder pushes outside a club 😅😅😅 Feared for his life 😅 🧬 Had to make a public announcement he was in such danger.
You want your championship to look timeless, WWE went the opposite. I like the direction with the World (raw) titles. SD needs to go further
Really enjoyed Matt’s honesty and candor during this show. Would have liked to hear more from him. Unfortunately this felt more like the Jon Alba show featuring Matt Hardy.
Sup Matt and Job? it’s always cool to get another professional perspective….
All friends wrestling
He yhought you and jeff were .
i don’t think wwe is gonna use you guys the right way tho :( i wanted heel hardy’s 🙏🙏
@marskingdoms
Ай бұрын
Heel Hardys we didn't got in AEW
There are tons of matches booked regularly that are not related to stories or set up in anyway. It’s not great. And that isn’t a “bad faith” argument. It’s an opinion.
@therealdanwt
Ай бұрын
Plus too many random wrestlers from Japanese and Mexican companies. You already have an overly bloated roster, feature them better! In addition, wrestlers suddenly appear for a month and disappear for months. It's very difficult to be invested on all the start stop pushing and poor storylines. Jon alba is so spot on on his points.
The State of Bias Marks Downhill. Vince McMahon state has been downhill but no body cared for all these decades.
I'm tired of people putting the state of the industry on the fans. Thats your boss' job not ours. If your product sucks, I'm not watching for the salvation of the industry.
Matt and Jeff belongs in WWE that's where they supposed to be at!!!!!!!
@Baby_Face412
Ай бұрын
Stop crying 😊
I desperately want AEW to improve & thrive, but only conduct of the staff (including TK) & the fanbase are doing a LOT of damage. When a couple of marquee female roster members are liking suicide prompt tweets dogpiling on another indie wrestler for her not-positive experience with the company, the fans are routinely wishing death on wrestlers who look/act their ages (including Matt & his brother) solely cuz of their ages/not being "originals", and the owner is encouraging this weird "everyone is persecuting us" mindset on social media instead of making the shows or themselves better, it's hard to imagine them being capable of self-reflection enough to realize mistakes exist, let alone fix them. I got back into wrestling because of AEW, because they had to be good if they were chosen to honor my all-time favorite wrestler; yet, it feels like they're devoting themselves to being as unprofessional as possible off-screen & not trying until there's a PPV. It's gone from a breath of fresh air to absolutely depressing.
Matt got a raw deal in AEW.. I loved Money Matt Hardy & Private Party & that run. It should've been bigger. & Matt shouldve gotten a bigger push, even if he ran a stable. Its like, when Jeff came in & he got in trouble, all plans were scrapped for em.. We're all getting tired of FTR & the tag team scene is stale, yet they had the Hardyz just chilling on the sidelines, when they should've bn World Tag Champs, if nothing else, to have it in the history books & lineage of AEW tag titles..love Matt & his motivation & refusing to just quietly go away. Man knows how to work & work fans, & a shame he wasn't bigger since he left TNA, when he was 1 of the biggest wrestlers 8 years ago.
@dallascowboysnumber1fan
Ай бұрын
Matt Hardy needs to go back to WWE
@2trill4life1
Ай бұрын
Jeff Hardy issues set back the plans AEW had obviously. They were featured before he got back in trouble.
@TheFlamingPike
Ай бұрын
@@2trill4life1 Yeah Jeff's arrest pretty much fucked it all up. Afterwards, Tony didn't seem to trust Jeff for anything serious and Matt kinda got dragged along in the process. Plus before that Matt got a bad concussion in 2020 at All Out. Too bad because in a perfect scenario they could've had a couple of belts around their waist maybe. Something like Sting did. In retrospect Matt did what he could with the abilities that he had at his age and backstage he did his best to get his brother to focus on work instead of doing shenanigans which is commendable, but it wasn't good for his career. I think Matt should really think about his own future right now because he's at the stage where wrestlers go broke and go on shows to be ridiculed due to their aging physique and reduced abilities.
@2trill4life1
Ай бұрын
@@TheFlamingPike I respect what both Hardys' have done in the ring their entire careers. Jeff past caught up to him again and yeah I couldn't trust him ever again based on his history
@2trill4life1
Ай бұрын
@@TheFlamingPike Matt has go Sting 2.0 . Wrestle limited days and focus more on a character presence
Matt pls come back to wwe with Jeff and be inducted into the hall of fame. So you can be in every game going forward.
I don't think it's wanting to see AEW go out of business. It's more like they started out strong and it's tapered off. It's also kind of annoying to hear Tony Khan almost in a zombie state plugging AEW when we know it's not what it was a couple of years ago. Should it be better? Yes, it should be, but I think airing the backstage footage and the shot at Triple H on live TV was a pretty bad look. We don't want to watch a woman scorn.
@melasn9836
Ай бұрын
That's it exactly! I soured on AEW because they seemed to be doubling down on their mistakes instead of fixing them, largely because people online didn't think of them as mistakes. That's my biggest problem with AEW - TK & a too-large chunk of the roster are terminally online and care only about pleasing that audience, which is always gonna be significantly smaller than the general wrestling audience. And because that audience also defines themselves solely by whatever they're a fan of, they've learned how to use them as a weapon/barrier against any kind of criticism. Basically, they came out feeling like a true competitor and now feel like a sulky fan clique online.
@ajhenderson6023
Ай бұрын
@@melasn9836 I mean, it would have a different positive representation if they were pulling pre attitude era WCW numbers which they're not even close to.
Aew doesn't respect what Matt Hardy gave for that company. We watched him almost ☠️ trying to lift that company and when Hardy gets 100% does he get a title run? Does he get to headline Ppvs for all he gave? No. We gonna leave bro in the midcard facing nobodies. 💯😤 Dustin Rhodes and Matt Hardy should both be in Wwe.
@lilosi445
Ай бұрын
Tbf, Matt can barely move.
@IntoxicatedGhost1
Ай бұрын
No different than wwe where he got fired because of the whole edge and lita deal.
@knowledgeuntamed9177
Ай бұрын
@@IntoxicatedGhost1 Mannnnn, Wwe had a Happy birthday Lita post last week and I told em to delete that b**** 🤣😭💯
@knowledgeuntamed9177
Ай бұрын
@@lilosi445 Stiff lower back. Needs to lay on his stomach and kick his feet to stretch it out
Give them their flowers, matt 😏
Weather talk to kick off is not professional. Rid yourself of elevator talk.
I want one of those V visitor shirts now.
Goodness Albas excuses are annoying. You can compare ratings during the pandemic to now considering both TNA and WWE have better ratings now than during the pandemic Edit: it’s also weird to hear them criticize people for making fun of AEWs attendance directly after Alba talks about “a bit with Sean Ross sapp” in 2019 where they made fun of WWE having to tarp sections. The cognitive disconnect is something else.
AEW should cancel Rampage and Collision effective immediately..The product is watered down. Make one show the mothership instead.
Its En Vogue to hate on AEW, & now sooo many podcasts have stolen JCEs gimmick of bn a hater, bcuz unfortunately, negativity gets more clicks, which means more money! Look at Bischoff or Al Snow, they either straight up stole JCE gimmick, or didnt get a job there, hes obviously shitting on AEW every chance he gets. Look at Bubba Ray, hates on AEW, gets a ref gig at WM. Its just that the haters online can't form an independent opinion to save their lives, they just copy & paste their negative opinions tbh.. & any comeback they have when you call em out, is to call me or others a mark. Soo original! Put technically, by definition, it makes them the Punk or WWE marks hahahaha...but they dont see the irony of it bcuz again low level thinkers. Aew is great! TK needs to add an actual booker, tho, bcuz Homie is burnt out! That's the issue. He's run thin & exhausted & needs a vacation, haha
@daisusaikoro
Ай бұрын
Agree with the whole negativity thing though no need to send it back. No need to call people low level thinkers. Perhaps it is just a blind spot that even brilliant people can fall to. Unsure what makes you bring up Punk.
@melasn9836
Ай бұрын
@@daisusaikoro Punk is the go-to excuse for every misstep AEW makes with the online fanbase. And frankly, 90% of the negativity I see is from AEW die-hards going after anyone who likes other promotions (even alongside AEW) and/or doesn't have encyclopedic knowledge of AEW & NJPW history, so whenever they bellyache about "negativity", it feels more like they're saying "stop criticizing the thing I like".
they have cody ,cm punk, jade but they blew it
@Rocket1377
Ай бұрын
Cody ruined his own character in AEW by refusing to listen to the fans (who wanted him to turn heel) and refusing to wrestle for the AEW world title. He hit his own self imposed ceiling there. Jade is still very green and overrated. She turned down AEW, not the other way around. She wanted a bigger stage to perform on, and WWE is the bigger company. It's simply the move that she wanted, so AEW did nothing wrong there. Punk got fired, and deservedly so. AEW bent over backwards to make him happy, even built a show around Punk and let him decide which talent worked on that night. It's 2024, and choking a co-worker who is half his age is unacceptable in this day and age. He is a disgrace, and not the locker room leader he thinks he is.
AEW has cooled off because Vince is gone from WWE Creative and WWE has become #1 again and is the place to work. And, I'm an AEW fan
@dallascowboysnumber1fan
Ай бұрын
AEW has nothing on WCW,he'll AEW isn't even as good as the old TNA 2006 to 2015
@kurtisbased183
Ай бұрын
@@dallascowboysnumber1fan theyre cold as ice
Aye bruh you was part of spreading the lie to fans lol I know you was getting paid but you helped We still have no clue why Jeff left WWE during his great run he recieved 😂
V
Broken Matt is the only way to go. Matt Hardy is just almost completely Broken. He has to sell himself, but he should just stick to tag team wrestling with his broken character and let someone else carry him.
Jon tries so hard to get a gotchya moment regarding AEW... Matt is better than that...
You can't take anything Matt says seriously about AEW because he won't acknowledge that the Bucks have played a huge role in what's gone wrong there.
"Tony Khan is unapologetically himself every single time he speaks"- Jon Alba........ A less truthful sentence has never been uttered in the history of the world.
@stevenweathers2989
Ай бұрын
Lol, maybe he means he’s so strange, there’s no way he could be faking it.
Low key two of the most creative minds in the industry aren't signed anywhere. Someone needs Matt and Bully writing creative
I would like to hear more Matt Hardy buy Conrad take me right off the video. Sorry. Love Matt, can't stand Conrad.
How's your relationship with Lita's ex and your former co worker cm punk 😉
Lol dude gonna bury them cause they ain't meeting his terms 😂 Matt with all love you move slow af
@IntoxicatedGhost1
Ай бұрын
He didn't bury them at all. The complainants he have said is what others have said . People are allowed to have fair criticism. Not sure why you're taking it so personal
@IntoxicatedGhost1
Ай бұрын
@Clarkconnorsfanand yet his opinion seems to have upset you. Why are you even here? To have a cry over some fair criticism
@ericsmith3936
Ай бұрын
@@IntoxicatedGhost1 Any and all criticism is "bad faith" to these incels. When 90% of people are saying AEW isn't as hot as it used to be, maybe they should take notes instead of constantly playing the victim. I used to watch them weekly, own merch, went to a live event and I can't stand it now. They need to do a better job consistently telling stories and building up stars long term, free agents will still take time to build up too. Tony could easily put the belt on Danielson, his biggest draw, for a few months whole he tries to seriously figure out how to improve. Throwing money at the problem and signing every free agent isn't the solution.
@lilosi445
Ай бұрын
@ericsmith3936 🤨 maybe Danielson doesn't want the belt?
Caring about audience and TV numbers is probably the worst aspect of the modern wrestling fan. Just like what you like!
Aew is going to be ok Tony's got something brewing.
Go to WWE. You and Jeff belong and to retire together at WWE.
Matt's about to cook😂
@nancydemusz9745
Ай бұрын
Free agent . I don't 💬think you are going to want to be free too long.
Please be yourself.. make up your mind man.
It's funny to me that AEW started out as this progressive open minded company to counter the toxic culture in WWE and give fans a non-toxic alternative, but now WWE has been cleansed of it's toxicity and AEW has become toxic AF.
@antx8563
Ай бұрын
Nah the fans are more toxic than the actual company now. They literally hate on anything that’s not WWE especially AEW because obviously they are the biggest threat
@christopheraaron8299
Ай бұрын
@@antx8563 Tony’s behavior proves that wrong. He doesn’t have the testicular fortitude to take control of the roster and be an actual fking boss.
@melasn9836
Ай бұрын
They've become the Tumblr of wrestling - desperate to look progressive & open but actually a bunch of hair trigger assholes who can't handle conflict and make excuses for their own missteps instead of acknowledging them & learning. And like Tumblr users, they've effectively atrophied in this state of perpetual 10th grader-ness.
@melasn9836
Ай бұрын
@@antx8563I've never seen swarms of WWE fans online dogpile indie talents and tell them to kill themselves like I've seen from AEW fans (who were, in turn, having these threats liked by people on the roster). But I've seen it happen more than once with AEW.
Ty ony just wants his new toys on . So screw him
@Rocket1377
Ай бұрын
He wants stars that connect with the younger fans. The Hardys are way past their prime. Matt is nearly 50 years old, and simply cannot physically do the stuff that made him a star anymore. They should be transitioning into backstage roles.
AI hologram bray wyatt? gad damn give it to me.
He soesent know how to do anything.
So ... Rating are important when they beat NXT, because of the pandemic ..... But after, it doesn't matter? Okay .... Definitely meltzer 2.0 now. Smh.
Delete delete delete
aew is a hot mess
@renmojito6796
Ай бұрын
@Clarkconnorsfana lot of delusional ppl are the reason its a hot mess. Not willing to accept reality and take criticism
@gamerboy2014
Ай бұрын
@Clarkconnorsfan jesus... maybe take some of that energy and spend it into loving yourself instead of spreading hate
@lexruthless8263
Ай бұрын
Ratings down. Ticket sales down. What a clown show.
@ericsmith3936
Ай бұрын
BAD FAITH 🤓
@LordSesshomaru69
Ай бұрын
This is a joke lol
Tony knan sucks. Sorry.
I gotta be honest, Brays creativity is overrated. Everything he did was taken from movies, Tv, graphic novels, and a heaping dose of Waylon Mercy. It def took some creativity to adapt it all to wrestling, but especially after his death ppl are acting like he created it all from scratch. Taylor has said in interviews that he took it all from movies and other media, and the Hawaiian shirts are straight from Waylon Mercy, along with the cadence of his speech and leaning into the southern accent. I’m not saying he’s not creative, I’m just saying let’s calm down with how creative he was.
Matts biggest mistake was going to aew in 2020... it really was, they took matt and hardys and made them a low level talent
@Rocket1377
Ай бұрын
They were already being treated like jobbers by WWE.
The Punk footage did show Punk try to throw a suckerpunch & proved he lied , but Punk Stans are oblivious to it! But yea, they better have a HUGE push for Jack Perry to save face . TK said no comment a million times, wasn't til Punk called TK a clown boss, but would it better to have a clown as a boss? Or a sexual rapist predator boss? We all know HHH knew most of everything going on, as did most of the company, just bcuz 1 man was deleted from the company doesn't mean the team in charge now, doesn't have skeletons in their closets too.. they at least covered for VKM, at the very least, which is disgusting tbh.
@lilosi445
Ай бұрын
Everything Punk said in that Ariel interview happened so it was embarrassing to prove him right, especially on their TV show. Its different if they went to a podcast or interview and talked about it. Plus what you said about Hunter and co is literally defamation because you have no proof they knew about the sexual part. All we know is people at the top knew they had a relationship.
The state of AEW is downhill.
@marskingdoms
Ай бұрын
This weeks Collision had more than 2500 audience, which WWE had 2000 audience in 2011, since then WWE hasn't booked any match in that venue 👍
@EL_Chapo187
Ай бұрын
Facts
@skyboss4008
Ай бұрын
Bro , tk should figure out a solution to grow tf up and focus on his company not cm punk who is apparently haunting him in his dreams Aew is more important than a wrestler that used to work in it despite how much value he added to the company but now he is gone, making money and probably laughing his ass out cuz he is seeing that he lives in aew head rent free Grow up Focus on the company
@Baby_Face412
Ай бұрын
@@skyboss4008who are u to tell another grown man how to run a company 😂😂😂😂😂
@skyboss4008
Ай бұрын
@@Baby_Face412 1st of all talk like a sensible man not like a kiddo diehard aew fanboy Secondly , im just saying that he is not running his company as he should or else he wouldn't have made such dumb, childish mistakes and im not yet talking about creative mistakes im talking about overall wrestling related mistakes
All these people commenting thinking aew is done when in reality are just getting started and it's a weird cap these people want it to fail and never in their life ran a company but will tell others how to run a company 😂😂😂
@user-zq1px9yb7g
Ай бұрын
It’s hilarious to see you AEW baby’s commenting! It’s clear you have never been around the running of a successful business! Tony is a FAN, he has made that perfectly clear! He wants to be buddies with his EMPLOYEES, not the boss! He has ZERO clue on how to produce/book the matches! He will get behind a wrestler for a month or two then move on to the next, new face! Brian Cage ring a bell? He got a sold push for a month, lost the title match & was not given a real push since! Until you have seen how to run a business from the beginning up, don’t go trying to call out others for criticizing TK! Fan “boys” are just sad!
@sgame165
Ай бұрын
@@user-zq1px9yb7gi mean apparently criticizing means you want it too fail 🤷♂️
@NoName-cz3wn
Ай бұрын
If Tony wasn't funding out of his own trust fund baby pockets, it would already be done. Most businesses don't get the chance to lose $35 mil before they close
@melasn9836
Ай бұрын
We don't want it to "fail". We want it to improve. But they don't want to, and neither do their fans, and so they'll happily cater to a terminally online audience that dwindles more & more but is violently loyal to them instead of a wider audience that might actually expect them to try outside of PPVs.
AEW should of stayed as one tv show plus dark. They grew too quickly and it's not organic. After the pandemic people just wanted to get out of the house. AEW got unlucky when it came out when the world shut down
@IronTonyStark
Ай бұрын
The company itself (via its owner & the group the company is named after) have become too cocky and too full of themselves. They have their heads up each other's 🍑s, as well as their own, and are high on their own supply. They have become a toxic element within the pro wrestling industry...which then trickles down to their diehard fans who themselves perpetuate the toxicity. That in addition to p1ssing away the gold will of most of the viewers who have been watching them from their first press conference in Jan 2019 onward (Including me). Furthermore upon review, many of the promises and claims they made at the start about the Wrestlers getting health insurance and not repeating the mistakes of WCW, etc, have either not happened or have been rolled back on to now where there is no health insurance benefit and are routinely making the same mistakes as WCW in 2023 + 2024. By contrast, TNA is off in their own little corner of the wrestling landscape doing their own thing. They're not trying to be the talk of the pronwresrling world or reinvent the wheel. They're just producing solid shows, got some minor live event touring between tapings and not offending anybody. Rather than trying to be a FAKE "challenger brand" to WWE and punching up far beyond their station in the pro wrestling industry. They should just do their own thing like TNA & MLW & NWA, etc, insteading of force themselves into success. If they just do their own thing with solid pro wrestling fundamentals (which AEW currently does not have) and not constantly be the center of the joke within the pro wrestling industry, they can eventually earn back the good will of the people someday.
@user-zq1px9yb7g
Ай бұрын
Growing is what a company needs! The problem with AEW is TK! The guy is a fan first of wrestling, businessman second! He can’t promote to save his a$$ he needs to step back & be the OWNER & let the people who know wrestling produce & promote the shows!
@IntoxicatedGhost1
Ай бұрын
@@IronTonyStarkit goes both ways, wwe fans wanted AEW to fail when it first got announced. Both environments have toxic fans and if people can't see that they are biased
@IntoxicatedGhost1
Ай бұрын
@@user-zq1px9yb7gthey don't need 3 shows in 5 yrs. They need to stop hiring talent. TK should step back but I don't think that will happen. They should really first stick to one show and when that's under control they could do a 2nd but its just not organic
Tony Khan runs AEW like the talent are his personal toys. In other words if a Wrestling Mark was extremely rich, they would be doing exactly what Tony Khan is doing.
AEW just dont know how to tell a story.
@CINEMATICWRESTLING
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Not true
@user-zq1px9yb7g
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TK doesn’t know how to work a promotion! Look at how he already has Hook & Jericho going against each other now & they basically just became a tag team!
@CINEMATICWRESTLING
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@@user-zq1px9yb7g you people focus on the negatives which also exists in WWE btw look at the awesome stuff Joe and Swerve is doing but you guys want to complain
Advice for wrestlers that get injured. Don’t let your Girlfriend hang out with Edge while you’re injured.
AEW = ABSOLUTE MULE OF WRESTLING PROMOTIONS
I GUARANTEE YOU, WWE has put out a lowkey, negative slanderous marketing campaign on AEW. Many of these haters are just BOTS!
@melasn9836
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Or we're people who got back into wrestling cuz of AEW and have become bitterly disappointed in how it's deteriorated because we're normal humans with functional eyes & brains instead of stans who think an "attack" on AEW is an attack on them. Please, go back to watching BTE reruns. That's more your speed.
The state of aew is nothing.😊
Broken Matt is dead…..sad to say but true. Move on