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Post by héad.casé on Apr 20, 2019 6:06:44 GMT -5
"It's different. We're not doing it that way where anyone who doesn't like what they're doing in WWE is automatically guaranteed a job in AEW," Jericho said. "We will look at every talent on an individual basis. There's some guys we'd love to have in WWE, and there's some guys we probably wouldn't take." "Obviously we haven't even had a show yet and our roster is already very deep. When you talk about the Double or Nothing show, how many people can you book on that show? If you have 60-70 guys, you have the same problem as WWE" www.wrestlinginc.com/news/2019/04/chris-jericho-talks-possibility-of-disgruntled-wwe-stars-653295/
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Apr 20, 2019 6:18:21 GMT -5
Does Jericho actually have any kind of seniority in AEW?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 20, 2019 6:19:12 GMT -5
First sensible thing he's said in a long time and the first thing out of AEW that's made me go "Oh that's good to hear" in a while.
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Apr 20, 2019 6:34:55 GMT -5
Does Jericho actually have any kind of seniority in AEW? I don’t believe he’s even one of the 34 Executive VPs.
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Post by Welfare Willis on Apr 20, 2019 6:45:54 GMT -5
Good, the answer isn't WWE lite. The answer is to be what WWE isn't.
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Post by OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 on Apr 20, 2019 7:22:30 GMT -5
I’ll hold him to this, i dont want to read a thread about Alicia Fox signing a huge AEW contract.
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Post by EoE: Well There's Your Problem on Apr 20, 2019 7:36:33 GMT -5
I understand where he’s coming from, you don’t want to see them becoming TNA and just hiring any old scrub that ever worked for WWE.
The weird thing though is... all these disgruntled talents eyeing the exits, most of them aren’t what we’d generally call scrubs. That’s how strong the talents levels in the WWE roster have been the last few years. It’s finding the balance between not getting that TNA reputation, but not passing up the quality talents that might eventually become available, be they Luke Harper, Sasha Banks or The Revival, solely to avoid that.
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Post by héad.casé on Apr 20, 2019 7:40:25 GMT -5
I understand where he’s coming from, you don’t want to see them becoming TNA and just hiring any old scrub that ever worked for WWE. The weird thing though is... all these disgruntled talents eyeing the exits, most of them aren’t what we’d generally call scrubs. That’s how strong the talents levels in the WWE roster have been the last few years. It’s finding the balance between not getting that TNA reputation, but not passing up the quality talents that might eventually become available, be they Luke Harper, Sasha Banks or The Revival, solely to avoid that. Honestly, the talent you mentioned would be great hires anywhere. Even Sasha if she was humbled a bit and dropped the ego.
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Post by This Player Hating Mothman on Apr 20, 2019 9:02:40 GMT -5
I understand where he’s coming from, you don’t want to see them becoming TNA and just hiring any old scrub that ever worked for WWE. The weird thing though is... all these disgruntled talents eyeing the exits, most of them aren’t what we’d generally call scrubs. That’s how strong the talents levels in the WWE roster have been the last few years. It’s finding the balance between not getting that TNA reputation, but not passing up the quality talents that might eventually become available, be they Luke Harper, Sasha Banks or The Revival, solely to avoid that. Everyone knows the TNA reputation, but they picked up a lot of people who sucked and gave them weirdly placed pushes and "WWE did me wrong" promos. That's what really killed everyone on someone making the move to TNA when it should have been a fresh move like it was for Christian. Then doubly so when Hogan came in and he brought in just all the worst choices. In the decade since WWE has stopped turning out a ton of disillusioned shitty dudes and now the people unhappy are people who would do great work if given the chance or have done great work already and just aren't happy where they are, witbh them hiring up and down the indies to generate this weird turnaround cycle that's leaving lots of disillusioned people running back to the scene again after time in WWE. It's such a weird situation, but at the same itme I can see where the fear is there, and also where it can get in the way of a lot of what AEW has been doing to hype people up. The effort spent buffing up all these up and comers on the scene and putting people you haven't heard of into showcase positions. Is an ex-WWE midcarder going to bring in much more attention than anyone else would, and is it worth pulling in a bunch of those over finding the next big thing and being the only person who's shown that off? Cody is ex-WWE and I'm sure he wants to avoid those associations more than most people, because it runs counter to his hopes of running this out of the company's shadow and proving himself. It puts AEW in such a weird position.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 20, 2019 9:07:12 GMT -5
they only need like 30 people for a once a week show
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Post by Mozenrath on Apr 20, 2019 9:16:06 GMT -5
they only need like 30 people for a once a week show Guess it depends. Given the Bucks, I imagine tag teams will be a big deal, and even only 4 teams would be 8 alone. Then again, they might just use local workers or something as one offs, given pretty much nobody seems to be doing that anymore.
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Post by James Fabiano on Apr 20, 2019 9:43:41 GMT -5
So....not TNA. That's a start, to say the least.
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Post by OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 on Apr 20, 2019 9:44:42 GMT -5
I understand where he’s coming from, you don’t want to see them becoming TNA and just hiring any old scrub that ever worked for WWE. The weird thing though is... all these disgruntled talents eyeing the exits, most of them aren’t what we’d generally call scrubs. That’s how strong the talents levels in the WWE roster have been the last few years. It’s finding the balance between not getting that TNA reputation, but not passing up the quality talents that might eventually become available, be they Luke Harper, Sasha Banks or The Revival, solely to avoid that. Or wcw under Bischoff where he hired everyone involved with the wwf, even Lanny Poffo and the guy who made copies at Titan.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 20, 2019 10:17:47 GMT -5
Does Jericho actually have any kind of seniority in AEW? I don’t believe he’s even one of the 34 Executive VPs. Jericho is the unofficial Vice President of Good Times
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Post by toodarkmark on Apr 20, 2019 11:44:47 GMT -5
They've literally signed no one from the WWE.
Pac and Jericho were friends with the Bucks. Thats why they are working with them. They have like almost what, 50 people on their roster, zero left WWE for AEW. Will there be some? Sure. But people who believe that every WWE person leaving is going to be picked up by AEW are projecting, and not looking at empirical data.
I bet people will read what Jericho said and STILL NOT BELIEVE IT. I guess it's just a sign of the times.
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Post by Rave on Apr 20, 2019 12:06:54 GMT -5
I understand where he’s coming from, you don’t want to see them becoming TNA and just hiring any old scrub that ever worked for WWE. The weird thing though is... all these disgruntled talents eyeing the exits, most of them aren’t what we’d generally call scrubs. That’s how strong the talents levels in the WWE roster have been the last few years. It’s finding the balance between not getting that TNA reputation, but not passing up the quality talents that might eventually become available, be they Luke Harper, Sasha Banks or The Revival, solely to avoid that. This. TNA used to sign anyone with ex-WWE credentials and a pulse then push them to the moon solely because "look who we got!", that's why the whole "e-jects" thing got coined in the first place. If AEW cherry picks and doesn't rely on prior reputations (and no "WWE did me wrong!" work-shoots), it's perfectly fine for them to sign ex-WWE people.
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Post by Rican on Apr 20, 2019 12:27:34 GMT -5
I understand where he’s coming from, you don’t want to see them becoming TNA and just hiring any old scrub that ever worked for WWE. The weird thing though is... all these disgruntled talents eyeing the exits, most of them aren’t what we’d generally call scrubs. That’s how strong the talents levels in the WWE roster have been the last few years. It’s finding the balance between not getting that TNA reputation, but not passing up the quality talents that might eventually become available, be they Luke Harper, Sasha Banks or The Revival, solely to avoid that. Yeah that's true. Everyone who is leaving or rumored to want to leave WWE I'd be interested in seeing elsewhere except maybe Dillinger and TJP
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Post by El Pollo Guerrera on Apr 20, 2019 14:07:22 GMT -5
"It's different. We're not doing it that way where anyone who doesn't like what they're doing in WWE is automatically guaranteed a job in AEW," "So quit calling us, Road Dogg!"
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Post by Glitch on Apr 20, 2019 14:48:05 GMT -5
Yeah. Because Roh already has that covered.
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Post by honsou on Apr 20, 2019 17:26:34 GMT -5
I think we can already see that with who has been asking for their releases from WWE. Basically all of them but Banks would have killer matches and would probably be a great fit for AEW. Its telling that guys like Ryder or Zigger didn't leave because they probably know they would never get picked up.
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