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Post by markymark on Mar 20, 2022 17:31:52 GMT -5
I'd say the main ones are an inability to delegate and focusing too much on the long-term. Having a plan and an ending for a title reign is the best way to do it, but you also need to be willing to pivot. That he plans title changes so far in advance can be a weakness sometimes. He could probably do with getting someone to work exclusively with the women's division too, although booking for that has slowly improved over the last few months and we do finally have multiple stories going. As far as billionaire wrestling owners go, his shortcomings are fewer than most. I'll give him that!
This is true, see Rosa and Britt, the original plan was for Rosa to come to AEW in January(once her NWA deal expired) to resume the Britt feud but since she left earlier, TK didnt know what to do with her to stall time aside from having Rosa lose the Casino Battle Royal and in the TBS tourney.
Tito Ortiz? Snitsky? Ezekiel Jackson? Al Snow?
Not even close
The habit of keep having Major announcement for signings and ext. Not the talent who showed up. I don't recall them hyping the shit out of the debut of any of those guys but Ortiz.
Borash was the one doing the hype of "A Former World Champ will show up in the Impact Zone", they did it so many times from 2007-2014 Spike TV era.
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Post by The Dark Order Inferno on Mar 20, 2022 17:32:06 GMT -5
I do worry about how TK will handle mass criticism once burnout hits, his handling of the Swole situation does make me afraid he will go scorched earth on a section of the fanbase as his skin is painfully thin when he feels he's in the right on an issue. He absolutely needs a PR person seperating him from social media, providing a voice that says 'Do you really think saying that is a good idea?'
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Post by markymark on Mar 20, 2022 17:59:10 GMT -5
I do worry about how TK will handle mass criticism once burnout hits, his handling of the Swole situation does make me afraid he will go scorched earth on a section of the fanbase as his skin is painfully thin when he feels he's in the right on an issue. He absolutely needs a PR person seperating him from social media, providing a voice that says 'Do you really think saying that is a good idea?'
True that he handled wrong the situation considering she was talking sht about him and the Young Bucks before the incident on twitter spaces
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Post by Cyno on Mar 20, 2022 18:00:46 GMT -5
To be fair, Khan does seem to have cooled it on the "big major hyped up announcements." And the last one he made was legitimately a huge deal in him purchasing ROH.
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Post by Starshine on Mar 20, 2022 18:24:52 GMT -5
His social media stuff is easily the worst aspect of him.
I generally don't have an issue with the booking as a whole, there's some stuff I don't like (House of Black, for example), but I put that as a me thing. Him taking hold of the reigns has made AEW better, so until any sort of burnout starts showing, or affecting the shows, he's doing it right to me.
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Post by robferatu on Mar 20, 2022 19:10:07 GMT -5
Personally, his biggest shortcoming his inability to sometimes find the medium when it comes to booking the length of story lines. I've said it in post before for every Kenny Omega vs. Adam Page there's also Orange Cassidy vs. Matt Hardy.
Also, I agree with those who said that he's fallen victim to the Dixie Carter complex of everything is a "landscape changing" announcement. However, unlike her and Eric Bischoff... I don't ever see him becoming an on-screen character, mostly because he's absolutely devoid of charisma and horrible on the microphone, and I think he has enough self-awareness to realize that.
With that said, I don't think any of his shortcomings will be the companies undoing as AEW is definitely here to stay, but I do feel like he will eventually burn-out and start delegating some of his responsibilities more accordingly.
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Mar 20, 2022 19:11:43 GMT -5
I feel any complaints I made would be deliberate nit picks so I'll abstain. Dude is putting on a good show over all, we don't need to go around looking for excuses to be negative.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2022 19:23:40 GMT -5
He doesn’t like fun.
That’s the best way I can explain the problem with AEW, its too pretentious. There’s not enough characters or storylines, everything is grounded in reality. A lot of “good at wrestling” guys. Most storylines are this person doesn’t like this other person, so they jumped them after a match or backstage. I need something more than good matches. Since most of the results are forgone conclusions.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2022 20:39:20 GMT -5
Well documented are the things he does better than Vince but what does Vince do better than him? (thinking Vince at his peak, 2022 Vince should have retired years ago)
The main thing that springs to mind is striking while the iron is hot and tearing up plans if things aren't going according to schedule or the crowd reacts differently. Pushing Austin to the moon when he heard the reactions, turning Rock heel and Mankind face at the start of the AE, seeing that Cena had more potential than Orton to be 'the guy', looking towards Bret and HBK once the giants went south or lost their source of "magic medicine". All of these were not his initial plans but circumstances changed and so did he.
Khan needs to be a bit more flexible to changing circumstances. Cody should have turned heel, Baker should have lost the title two months ago, the inner circle should have split six months ago ect. Timing in AEW is generally good with Omega/Page and Punk/MJF feuds not being a second longer or shorter than they should have been but when things do need changing Khan is too timid IMO.
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Post by rnrk supports BLM on Mar 20, 2022 20:58:23 GMT -5
He doesn’t like fun. That’s the best way I can explain the problem with AEW, its too pretentious. There’s not enough characters or storylines, everything is grounded in reality. A lot of “good at wrestling” guys. Most storylines are this person doesn’t like this other person, so they jumped them after a match or backstage. I need something more than good matches. Since most of the results are forgone conclusions. It's weird, I get where you're coming from, yet I'd describe it almost the exactly the opposite way. It's all weightless fun. It's a lot of sweet little boys who grew up playing video games and pretending to be pro wrestlers and got hooked on reading the WON and giving a damn about workrate and now they're still playing pro wrestler but they're doing it on a big stage. Everyone's friends and everyone's watched the same wrestling shows as kids and makes the same winking in-jokes at each other and it's impossible to hate or love any of them. The only pushed acts who don't fall into that paradigm are the ex-WWE guys they're starstruck by enough to be given free reign to do their own thing, and Eddie Kingston.
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Mar 20, 2022 21:07:03 GMT -5
I do worry about burnout I think more than anything else. I do think Khan needs more people to trustfully delegate things. He's doing so much, and I guess it depends on how he RUNS ROH and how, but it is a genuine worry just how much he can do at once without it effecting the quality of programs
There should be more delegates and pipelines in AEW to help with some talent who are either foreign or less likely to be open or broad about storyline pitches. Wrestlers shouldn't fall through the cracks because of these things.
It's been much better since the Swole incident, but absolutely do not take personal attacks to heart, don't snap back, it'll be way more of a detriment than it would be beneficial in the end. Criticism with the company isn't always bad, it's about listening to what's being said and adapting to it. You can't please everyone, but your actions will do so much better than words.
And while I defend plenty of AEW related happenings, not everything is perfect and not everything clicks. Some storylines can run long more than anything else, and I do feel like Khan should realize either how to pivot to keep things fresh (Adding people to the feud for fresh interactions perhaps) or letting things breathe a bit, counter-rotating people out and in to the show, delegating certain storylines to vignettes some weeks while others get match time, would be a decent approach to this endeavor.
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Mar 20, 2022 21:08:39 GMT -5
Chaos Project disagrees, THEY PUT THE F U IN FUN!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2022 21:16:40 GMT -5
Also the video of him hugging a bloody Brit after the Unsanctioned match following her around like a puppy dog going on and on about it would be able to win an WON award. That video gives me the heebie-jeebies.
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Post by The Ichi on Mar 20, 2022 21:20:06 GMT -5
He doesn’t like fun. That’s the best way I can explain the problem with AEW, its too pretentious. There’s not enough characters or storylines, everything is grounded in reality. A lot of “good at wrestling” guys. Most storylines are this person doesn’t like this other person, so they jumped them after a match or backstage. I need something more than good matches. Since most of the results are forgone conclusions. There's tons of fun segments though? And I mean fun, not """fun""".
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Mar 20, 2022 21:32:36 GMT -5
Also the video of him hugging a bloody Brit after the Unsanctioned match following her around like a puppy dog going on and on about it would be able to win an WON award. That video gives me the heebie-jeebies. The guy was jazzed about a huge match between two women that inevitably got a monster rating and did in fact get a ton of acclaim. I can't particularly blame him for being that way. Tony's always a bit awkward as a person, but it didn't come off any more than that to me.
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Post by ASYLUMHAUSEN on Mar 20, 2022 21:33:38 GMT -5
He's doing too much blow. Or not enough. Whatever it is, it isn't getting AEW to the next level. Hey, someone has to keep the Columbian economy afloat
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Post by Heartbreaker on Mar 20, 2022 22:13:30 GMT -5
I really dislike the weird worship he gets from some people. Then again I hate how billionaires in general get worshiped like Vince, Elon Musk, etc. It's really creepy to me.
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Post by Jacy Jayne Atomic Dog AMV on Mar 20, 2022 22:19:11 GMT -5
Hasn't said a god damn thing about gays in the military
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Mar 20, 2022 22:25:19 GMT -5
I really dislike the weird worship he gets from some people. Then again I hate how billionaires in general get worshiped like Vince, Elon Musk, etc. It's really creepy to me. I do think there should be a line between liking the guys booking or creative, and being thankful for him making a genuine alternative to wrestling that feels fun, exciting, and fresh, and then acting like the guy needs to be defended for stuff he does, or like you're his best friend or even weirder like a "soldier" that needs to go to bat for the guy. In the end he's a billionaire, and AEW isn't going anywhere at this point imo. If there's criticism to be had, or stuff to be said, it can and should be said about a guy who more than likely will never see it, or will not care in the grand scheme either, whether it's the criticism or the defensive praise. It is the extremes some take as you said though. Some people just overly commit, and almost take insults against Khan like insults to themselves. It's not healthy, and it'd sure be nice if more people realized it... not just in that instance but for many more, across all fandoms. Then again despite all Vince McMahon has done, people still bow to him when he makes appearances like he's some kind of deity in crowds so... is what it is... at least I haven't seen THAT yet from an AEW event lol
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Mar 20, 2022 22:26:28 GMT -5
Hasn't said a god damn thing about gays in the military Captain Shawn Dean however has sure had a lot to say about Jobbers Mom's and their sex lives in Sammy's Vlogs, so we're getting there.
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