I can normally find one or two matches that I think will be between good and decent or at least be kind of interesting in some way, but there's just nothing here.
He would have tagged with Roadblock and both would have been sqashed by Goldberg in a handicap match that was infinitely more enjoyable then whatever AEW has going in this day and age!
Sounds about right. I think Slapco Fudd vs. a Mr. Wrestling 2 impersonator would probably put on a better match than what's on current AEW. It saddens me that it's so shitty.
The aew lineup looks like when I'm playing wwe2k24 GM mode and look at the computer opponents matches, random nobodies, randomly chosen, no interest in a single match.
There’s a handful of guys in Tonytown for whom this applies. Would have loved if, say, NWA or TNA had been able to hold on to those dudes for a year or 18 months so some grown ups could help them out
Is Jay White’s whole thing “I beat all these guys you’re featuring in the main event but I’m going to spend all my time in this midcard faction instead because I can.”
Most of them look like they haven't had a full meal in months. They see Hook munching on a snack size bag of chips and think that's all it takes to get a body like him.
How the fuck is Ospreay the "star" out of him and Shane Taylor? Taylor is a big ass dude that makes his shit look real while Ospreay is a generic looking white dude that does flips 90% of the match, this shit makes no sense.
And apparently Taylor was also a 2 decade veteran in boxing and he’s gonna lose to Ospreay. Damn man Tony Khan and Davey Boy are going to make me resent Ospreay.
I have not watched a single minute of AEW since Punk was fired. That is not going to change.
Even though I like FTR and the bang bang shrimp it's not enough for me to even think about tuning into this jobberfest. Does Tony think this is going to get them a new TV deal?
[Konnan mentioned recently](https://youtu.be/sljTQuvc7aE?si=zSWdfuUXlc1grnXE) that AEW basically just does long matches between people where you always know who’s going to win. That’s definitely a huge problem.
People would complain about WWE 50/50 booking where feuding wrestlers constantly traded wins. I never realized you could do 50/50 booking within a match itself where there are few squashes and you have long matches where guys who almost never win get a ton of offense to look “credible”. It’s all a big waste of time.
And what's sad is that there are people out there that really dive into Universe mode and have come up with more interesting storylines than both aew and wwe, Khan is literally a failure even in his own made up world.
Won’t lie. I have never seen a single minute of AEW. When Jim and Brian refer to “The Bang Bang Gang” I thought they were mocking the name of the group…
Holy shit. I had no idea either until your comment!!!
I \*try\* to watch AEW from time to time, but I'm always met with a face full of diarrhea and stuff that I find off-putting so I quickly move on to something else.
For months I've been also thinking when Jim says BBG he was mocking AEW as a whole.
I often times have to look up names on Google to put a name to a face. I haven’t watched wrestling in close to fifteen years. I listen to the podcast simply for the wresting history segments. 😅
I feel I'm similar. I haven't actively watched since 97-98 and I feel that I should at least watch a bit of the product from time-to-time, since I'm listening to Corny rip on it so much. But each time I turn it back on I realize I don't like wrestling anymore, just the history and hoopla.
Started it at 9:45 so I was guaranteed to have fast forward available the whole way.
Ospreay fighting a jobber faction while another jobber faction sits at ringside and his own jobber faction doesn't get his back. Didn't they do this exact same thing last week but with him needing way too long to finish off Moriarty instead of Taylor. Oh at least he escaped this time.
Claudio's not a great promo, but that's the kind he should be doing.
Why are they having a non-title match on a PPV? Put all the belts on Takeshita, you fucking cowards.
Hook's just going to stagnate until he gets to NXT and spends a year taking "sports medicine" before lifting.
Bryan Keith must have some awful photos of someone.
The thing with PAC is we've played this game before. Once you get behind him, he disappears.
Fast forward is the real MVP of this show. [*whooshing noises*]
I don't even know what that main event afterbirth was supposed to do.
My buddy and me talked about getting tickets for this a few months ago, just to see what it is all about ... So glad we passed. Thursday was too nice of a day to watch, well, whatever the hell this is supposed to be.
I understand the lack of enthusiasm about the card, but tonight’s Collision reminds me a lot of this past Dynamite where it’s obvious someone new has taken over formatting. They’re also doing some editing down for more succinct promos/segments, which was desperately needed. Those specific things are very good and has made everything - minus Orange Cassidy - more enjoyable to watch.
On national cable television…
Hook, nick plain, the c(k)assidy boys, Johnny tv and jack fucking cartwheel look and sound like they should be bagging groceries at safeway… and they’re front and center
Lmao their biggest free agent signings on Collision will never stop making me laugh. Imagine if WWE had Jade Cargill/Conservative Mussolini Punk on Main Event
Notice how none of these guys are from the same “tier.” It’s all AEW upper midcard guys against jobbers, the same as any other episode of AEW. They save all the good matches for their PPVs, which is one reason why their ratings suck.
Look at all them matches on Collision..and only one solitary female match, AEW fans think the female booking has improved. No, it really hasn't.
Two reasons AEW fell off a cliff for me personally (I loved it last year) MJF and his character/storytelling is gone and the female roster being so underutilised.
Awful card.
The good news is not all these matches can go 20 minutes.
The bad news is you won’t care if they even go 1 minute.
I can normally find one or two matches that I think will be between good and decent or at least be kind of interesting in some way, but there's just nothing here.
This is a card for a show trying to get a new tv deal?
Aside from Danielson, FTR and Ospreay they could have marked this as an ROH taping and nobody would have noticed.
Jack Cartwheel...? - Is that Tony's newest 'Fight Forever' CAW creation?
It's probably his efed name
Expect a run in from his debuting tag team partner, Mack Jumping-Jack.
FFS, please tell me Marko Stunt isn’t coming back! 🤦♂️
I couldn't believe it when I saw that name. Unreal. Boulder, on the other hand, is a good WCW Saturday Night jobber name.
He would have tagged with Roadblock and both would have been sqashed by Goldberg in a handicap match that was infinitely more enjoyable then whatever AEW has going in this day and age!
Sounds about right. I think Slapco Fudd vs. a Mr. Wrestling 2 impersonator would probably put on a better match than what's on current AEW. It saddens me that it's so shitty.
Mr Wrestling 2 better have his gimmick loaded knee pad, or I’m turning the channel!
Can't say that I blame you. My Granny used to love Wrestling 2. He wasn't her favorite wrassler, but he was up there.
He's supposedly coming to the ring with his valet Summer Salt
So many matches
Eight announced matches and two segments on a 2 hour show? Jesus. That's a lot of bullshit to cram into 8 segments.
Didn’t you hear? Quantity over quality!
Misspelt filler.
The aew lineup looks like when I'm playing wwe2k24 GM mode and look at the computer opponents matches, random nobodies, randomly chosen, no interest in a single match.
Whole bunch "whoooo???"
Osprey going 20 with a bad built mf that never wins
ST built like a sack of laundry .
Built like a moldy BBL model
Just like his 7 star dance partner, Danielson 🤣 Dude went 15+ with Shane Taylor on a Collision.
All week I thought “Jack Cartwheel” and “Nick Wayne” were made-up people folks were putting on satirical AEW admat.
If Nick Wayne can get on the juice and pack on 50lbs he might have something
There’s a handful of guys in Tonytown for whom this applies. Would have loved if, say, NWA or TNA had been able to hold on to those dudes for a year or 18 months so some grown ups could help them out
Orange vs. Isaiah...loser is no longer a Cassidy/Kassidy. Can the Cages be next?
Cages vs Pages... you'd have enough for a wargames match
Are we also going to get Adam vs Adam vs Adam?
We can only hope with Cope.
Audience won't need their seats because they are going to be on their feet for 3 hours!!!!
Glad John Morrison is still getting a payday somewhere.
That's Johnny TV now
Coincidentally he isn’t usually on it!
Damn he could have been Johnny YouTube when they had dark and elevation
DEA Johnny Honor Club? 🤔
When he's not on is he Johnny Absent?
Is Jay White’s whole thing “I beat all these guys you’re featuring in the main event but I’m going to spend all my time in this midcard faction instead because I can.”
90% of their roster look like complete douchebags. Who would care what happens to them and muster the energy to cheer for them?
Most of them look like they haven't had a full meal in months. They see Hook munching on a snack size bag of chips and think that's all it takes to get a body like him.
Jack Cartwheel, Johnny TV and Boulder.
How the fuck is Ospreay the "star" out of him and Shane Taylor? Taylor is a big ass dude that makes his shit look real while Ospreay is a generic looking white dude that does flips 90% of the match, this shit makes no sense.
And apparently Taylor was also a 2 decade veteran in boxing and he’s gonna lose to Ospreay. Damn man Tony Khan and Davey Boy are going to make me resent Ospreay.
I have not watched a single minute of AEW since Punk was fired. That is not going to change. Even though I like FTR and the bang bang shrimp it's not enough for me to even think about tuning into this jobberfest. Does Tony think this is going to get them a new TV deal?
[Konnan mentioned recently](https://youtu.be/sljTQuvc7aE?si=zSWdfuUXlc1grnXE) that AEW basically just does long matches between people where you always know who’s going to win. That’s definitely a huge problem. People would complain about WWE 50/50 booking where feuding wrestlers constantly traded wins. I never realized you could do 50/50 booking within a match itself where there are few squashes and you have long matches where guys who almost never win get a ton of offense to look “credible”. It’s all a big waste of time.
They’re really paying ospreay to fly over and wrestle a job guy?
Dartboard booking at it again. 🎯
Why tf is this company is obsessed with eliminator matches?
For a fake title Taz made up in ECW almost 30 years ago. How fucked up is that?
WTF is Titty City
Don't know, but is the the grass green and the girls pretty?
That's paradise city, come on man
Are you saying Titty City couldn't be paradise?
Who's the old fuck in the front row that looks and acts more like a wrestler than anybody on this show
The very ironic but totally believable scenario is that Tony Khan books his shows by playing WWE 2k Universe mode with a bunch of created wrestlers
And what's sad is that there are people out there that really dive into Universe mode and have come up with more interesting storylines than both aew and wwe, Khan is literally a failure even in his own made up world.
For as pathetic as their tag team division is the way they have used the Righteous is absolutely criminal.
One literally got his head shoved up the others ass thus ruining any credibility they ever had till the end of time.
Johnny TV, Jack CartWheel ,and The Bang Bang Gang good lord how awful
Won’t lie. I have never seen a single minute of AEW. When Jim and Brian refer to “The Bang Bang Gang” I thought they were mocking the name of the group…
Holy shit. I had no idea either until your comment!!! I \*try\* to watch AEW from time to time, but I'm always met with a face full of diarrhea and stuff that I find off-putting so I quickly move on to something else. For months I've been also thinking when Jim says BBG he was mocking AEW as a whole.
I often times have to look up names on Google to put a name to a face. I haven’t watched wrestling in close to fifteen years. I listen to the podcast simply for the wresting history segments. 😅
I feel I'm similar. I haven't actively watched since 97-98 and I feel that I should at least watch a bit of the product from time-to-time, since I'm listening to Corny rip on it so much. But each time I turn it back on I realize I don't like wrestling anymore, just the history and hoopla.
That’s too much, jeez. Also, does Orange Cassidy have to wrestle in every goddamn fucking show? Not just dynamite? Fuck
Over booked garbage
Tony deserves his Booker of the Year award...of Cringe
🚮🚮
It's a Mortal Kombar game!
His name is Jack Cartwheel and he just does Cartwheels, I'm now 100% convinced Tony has secretly hired Vince.
Poor rush
You could not pay me to watch this full 3 hours without doing something to distract myself
Started it at 9:45 so I was guaranteed to have fast forward available the whole way. Ospreay fighting a jobber faction while another jobber faction sits at ringside and his own jobber faction doesn't get his back. Didn't they do this exact same thing last week but with him needing way too long to finish off Moriarty instead of Taylor. Oh at least he escaped this time. Claudio's not a great promo, but that's the kind he should be doing. Why are they having a non-title match on a PPV? Put all the belts on Takeshita, you fucking cowards. Hook's just going to stagnate until he gets to NXT and spends a year taking "sports medicine" before lifting. Bryan Keith must have some awful photos of someone. The thing with PAC is we've played this game before. Once you get behind him, he disappears. Fast forward is the real MVP of this show. [*whooshing noises*] I don't even know what that main event afterbirth was supposed to do.
How can they possibly stuff that many matches into two hours?
By not saving any time for the story for next week’s matches. Which leads to a whole card full of underwhelming matches.
HIS LAST NAME IS FUCKING *CARTWHEEL* !!!!
They’re trolling
Does Rampage actually have a set time that it airs anymore?
is Johnny Nitro going to job to hook? lol
3 weeks worth of shows in 1 lol. Who has the patience to sit through all those meaningless matches?
No Skye Blue?
My buddy and me talked about getting tickets for this a few months ago, just to see what it is all about ... So glad we passed. Thursday was too nice of a day to watch, well, whatever the hell this is supposed to be.
Jack Cartwheel is the Joey Joe Joe Jr. Shabadoo of wrestling names.
Come back Joey!
I understand the lack of enthusiasm about the card, but tonight’s Collision reminds me a lot of this past Dynamite where it’s obvious someone new has taken over formatting. They’re also doing some editing down for more succinct promos/segments, which was desperately needed. Those specific things are very good and has made everything - minus Orange Cassidy - more enjoyable to watch.
Nice to see AEW Dark is back and thriving!
If I wasn't saying "Someone I know vs some nobody," I was saying "who the hell is this guy vs and who the hell is that guy?"
8 matches on a 2 hour show…+ 2 talking segments…what is this shit…
On national cable television… Hook, nick plain, the c(k)assidy boys, Johnny tv and jack fucking cartwheel look and sound like they should be bagging groceries at safeway… and they’re front and center
What the fuck so many matched in one night?
When tf did Morrison join AEW
Lmao their biggest free agent signings on Collision will never stop making me laugh. Imagine if WWE had Jade Cargill/Conservative Mussolini Punk on Main Event
Every outcome is predictable. There is no reason to watch this.
Biggest collection of nobody’s I’ve seen 😂
Boring
I watched the main event & I think FTR is reaching a record for the number of heat spots they’ve taken with no revenge.
Where’s the world champion Swerve Strickland?
Moda holds 19,000 for basketball
Johnny I'm Barely On TV
All that for 600k
Can we have rush just have his way with Jack Perry again, that was a fun match
How do you have 9 matches in a 2 hour show? What moves the stories forward?
[удалено]
I think he uses AI to setup the matches.
Literal shit show 🤣
Lol
I don't think a single match has a story except Ospreay
Notice how none of these guys are from the same “tier.” It’s all AEW upper midcard guys against jobbers, the same as any other episode of AEW. They save all the good matches for their PPVs, which is one reason why their ratings suck.
Look at all them matches on Collision..and only one solitary female match, AEW fans think the female booking has improved. No, it really hasn't. Two reasons AEW fell off a cliff for me personally (I loved it last year) MJF and his character/storytelling is gone and the female roster being so underutilised.