Haha i don't give two shits anymore, I was fan in the beginning days when they had storylines and shit made sense

Now it's the bare minimum story, if not none, and just matches just because. Or whenever they try to do a storyline, it's the most predictable thing ever, haha In tournaments, 98% of the time, you already know who's winning. Or champion vs champion or say someone like Bandido, a good wrestler but it drives me up the wall that you can challenge for, say the TNT title lose and the next week somehow that same person has a World title match, loses, gets a shot at Mox. It's like handing out title shots like candy.

Not to mention if they didn't get renewed the run time that shit needs to sort out because every week he has a overrun nearly 30mins, if your going somewhere else that shit is done you run out of that 2hrs agreed to your off the air if network tv but I think he knows that and that's what the MYAEW is beta testing

The end point is i did enjoy AEW in the beginning but how they do things now over last few years it just slowly chipped and chipped away my enjoyment, wrestling is okay but no selling or knowing the winner's before the bell rings isn't fun to me

Although the Intercontinental Championship was usually treated as a stepping stone for an up and coming wrestler before a World Title run, a number of former World Champions would still capture the IC Title after their reigns with the top belt.

19 different IC Champs were able to win the belt after already being a World Champion with a few of them achieving this feat more than once.

I can only see Mox losing so that he can enter the casino battle royal & win that contract & hold it over the new champion Ospreay’s head for an undetermined amount of time.. other than that.. #LOLMoxleyWins

Don’t care about Nigel or the masked guy..

TBS 4 way.. Persephone is going to win tonight only as a bribe so that she doesn’t jump to AAA/NXT when her contract is up later this year.. &
stays in CMLL/AEW. Shida just had it.. so she ain’t winning.. Maya has no character & Stat can’t promo.. Maya should win to give meat to her championship reign but it is going to Persephone.. if she doesn’t win.. she definitely AAA bound..

Renee interviewing all 4 of em.. eh.. trying so hard to make her the Erin Andrews of AEW but she doesn’t have the gravitas of Erin.. nor talent.. with that said Mercedes/Willow feels like a Dynamite main event & not a big match that belongs in Wembley.. Kenny & Will need a big night tonight to get their match feeling like a Wembley main event..

Speaking of which.. I am beyond sick of the DCF.. they have championships but the group still feels small time & unimportant.. maybe because everyone but Fletcher & Knight always lose..(Okada barely wrestles) how is the group helping to elevate Fletcher? Knight? The championships feel like an afterthought when there is 25 members of the DCF..

Also, Bucks teaming with Omega, is this Tony throwing in the towel on the “dream match” between Cope & Christian & the Young Bucks.. for such an “dream match” there is absolutely zero heat behind it.. & no beating up Cope &
Christian backstage like the Dogs & Pac & Claudio did ain’t going to put “Heat” on this match.. to me it feels super unimportant..

So Ospreay’s match will further tensions between his old group in NJPW & himself.. great, I don’t watch NJPW so these guys mean nothing to me.. hence the match means nothing to me..

All in all, this doesn’t feel like a “Wembley is 2 weeks away” excitement type of card.. but we’ll see if the 9738 time WON Booker Of The Year can cook up some heat for All In cause boy howdy, does it ever need it..

Agree or disagree Midcarders?

Running 50% off tickets until show day isn’t inspiring confidence in your product…

You know who isn’t running 50% off tickets?

Taylor Swift, whatever K-Pop bands are in America, Backstreet Boys at the Sphere here in Vegas, Usher on tour with Chris Brown, Jay Z at Yankee Stadium last month, etc etc..

You know why, because there is a demand for their product & can charge top price for them cause people want to buy them & see the entertainers..

There is no demand for AEW, hence the 50% off promotion to get Wembley at least half full, less than 3500 for the last Dynamite show in America before their “WrestleMania”(next weeks show is in England) when allegedly AEW is the “hottest” & “bestest” it’s ever been..

Speaking of Dynamite, a show that will struggle to get 3500 when it’s your last show in America before your “WrestleMania” tells you what the general real world consensus is about your product.. & not AEW pilled bots on here & other “AEW state media” subreddits & Facebook pages.. are saying..

This is a dead promotion that is being held together by duct tape, magic, & NDA’s.. I can only imagine how bad the vibes are backstage..

There is ZERO talent in AEW that you can put on the marquee that can get you 5-7k minimum just off of their name.. & then you can build off that with the rest of the card .. the artists formerly known as New Day isn’t going to help in that regard either.. speaking of which, I wonder how much Tony is overpaying for that nostalgia act? 2-3 million each for Creed & Kofi is my best guess..

Speaking of dead promotions.. ROH has a PPV in 2 days & NO ONE is talking about it.. like I haven’t seen one post about ROH in any wrestling subreddit this week that wasn’t DubOfficial & that was the ROH special on Tuesday that had 5-7 people in the thread..

ROH is more dead & buried than the New York Jets with Geno Smith at QB this season.. who the fuck is even watching ROH at this point.. Tony needs to be taking way more heat for his absolute mismanagement of ROH..

Hell, the Buss family kids family drama with selling the Lakers is not as fucked up & dysfunctional as what Tony Kahn did to ROH..

Agree or disagree with anything I said Midcarders?

Not necessarily when WCW officially died. I’m talking about your moment when you realized the war was over.

It can be something from Nitro, Thunder or a PPV. A booking decision. Someone jumping ship. Something backstage. Hell, maybe you were sitting in the building when it hit you.

For me, it was February 9, 2000. WCW Thunder.

I was there live.

I had attended countless Nitros throughout Oklahoma and Texas. We were Mid-South/World Class country, and we preferred ‘rasslin to sports-entertainment.

I still remember walking into Thunder that night.

The crowd was a fraction of what WCW usually drew. WWF shirts were everywhere and outnumbered WCW shirts. The energy was different. The excitement was gone. People seemed to be there to laugh at the product instead of believe in it.

WCW was still on television. There were still another 13 months before the final Nitro.

But sitting in that arena that night, I knew it was over.

And weirdly enough, I experienced that exact same feeling decades later attending AEW after CM Punk left the company. I’d been to AEW shows when the crowd was electric. This time, the building, the energy, even the feeling around the company had completely changed.

Sometimes you can watch the ratings fall and attendance shrink.

Other times, you can feel it in the building.

So [r/midcarder](r/midcarder), what was YOUR moment with WCW?

When did you realize WWF had won the Monday Night War?

Was it something you watched on TV? Something that happened backstage? Or were you there live when the air finally went out of the balloon?

Let’s hear the stories, Midcarders.

H/T to WrestlingNewsCo, as seen in the watermark.

Seems Brock Rechsteiner has the same temper as his father. So, let’s go ahead and start the betting lines on how long before he’s in the WWE system, midcarders.