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Post by Natural Born Farmer on Oct 1, 2022 18:18:42 GMT -5
I’ve long felt these two are bozos. This does not dissuade me from my opinion. They might be bozos but they're over as hell. Freezing them and not booking them is a huge mistake on TKs part. Right now, would you put them over The Acclaimed? |
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Post by chrom on Oct 1, 2022 18:24:10 GMT -5
They might be bozos but they're over as hell. Freezing them and not booking them is a huge mistake on TKs part. Right now, would you put them over The Acclaimed? Given they were getting pops louder than everyone else on the roster, yes. |
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Post by Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) on Oct 1, 2022 18:48:52 GMT -5
Could be a work but it has been a hot min since FTR felt like they were doing anything
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Post by J is Justice on Oct 1, 2022 18:53:25 GMT -5
Problem is, AEW's tag division is too good, lol.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Oct 1, 2022 18:54:02 GMT -5
If this is a work, then this disgruntled employee angle wrestlers play in AEW is getting very tiresome. It is not even worth doing as TK isn't a consistent on-screen character. I'm sure this is a work as this has been FTR's like main sticking point on tv forever... but there are like 4 other people doing the disgruntled thing? |
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Post by Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) on Oct 1, 2022 19:03:11 GMT -5
If this is a work, then this disgruntled employee angle wrestlers play in AEW is getting very tiresome. It is not even worth doing as TK isn't a consistent on-screen character. I'm sure this is a work as this has been FTR's like main sticking point on tv forever... but there are like 4 other people doing the disgruntled thing? Andrade doing it in his tweets but not on screen. MJF has based it around his character. Thunder Rosa to an extent playing up the sandbagging stuff. Brian Cage hasn't said anything for a hot min after they put him in a group |
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Post by tntchamp on Oct 1, 2022 20:23:33 GMT -5
I wouldn't blame FTR if that was the case. Like them or hate them, they were incredibly over as hell yet it seems like they have been actively pushed to the sidelines. This could be a angle and I wouldn't be shocked if it was but who knows.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Oct 1, 2022 20:25:07 GMT -5
I'm kind of on two minds on how FTR is being (not) used, in that I do think it's pretty stupid how much their momentum has been completely squandered but I also don't especially actually mind not seeing more of them.
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Post by Natural Born Farmer on Oct 1, 2022 20:35:35 GMT -5
I seriously don't get what people want FTR to be doing after some of these responses.
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Post by Dr. Bolty, Disaster Enby on Oct 1, 2022 22:17:34 GMT -5
I seriously don't get what people want FTR to be doing after some of these responses. Where I am, too. Like...they've got three titles so that they can be presented as a big deal without being AEW tag champs and freeing up that scene, which has worked out great for a lot of other wrestlers. The whole "ranked #1" thing has also been a way to put them over in a different way than giving them the AEW titles. Tony Khan has effectively put his thumb on the scale for them to probably win the Observer Best Tag Team award this year. Like, I do get the complaint about lack of two-on-two tag matches, but everything else has been pretty well calculated to make them look good without locking down the tag title scene. I'd rather FTR lose out on the two-on-twos for a few months than not get the current white-hot Acclaimed. |
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Post by TOK Hehe'd Around & Found Out on Oct 1, 2022 22:52:19 GMT -5
I seriously don't get what people want FTR to be doing after some of these responses. Where I am, too. Like...they've got three titles so that they can be presented as a big deal without being AEW tag champs and freeing up that scene, which has worked out great for a lot of other wrestlers. The whole "ranked #1" thing has also been a way to put them over in a different way than giving them the AEW titles. Tony Khan has effectively put his thumb on the scale for them to probably win the Observer Best Tag Team award this year. Like, I do get the complaint about lack of two-on-two tag matches, but everything else has been pretty well calculated to make them look good without locking down the tag title scene. I'd rather FTR lose out on the two-on-twos for a few months than not get the current white-hot Acclaimed. Especially when they're the most likely suspects to be feeding scumbags like Scott Lost. They're legit my favorite tag team ever but they make it so hard to like them by how they act |
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Post by The Ichi on Oct 1, 2022 23:11:25 GMT -5
We're not seriously doing "FTR are being wasted" are we? They were the strongest booked tag team until The Acclaimed took off big time. That's not so much "new toy syndrome" as discovering one of your toys can make you huge amounts of money.
Even then though, they still hold multiple belts and with The Bucks still on hiatus are the #2 team by a big margin.
That's not touching how much of a work this obviously is.
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Post by The Ichi on Oct 1, 2022 23:16:47 GMT -5
Where I am, too. Like...they've got three titles so that they can be presented as a big deal without being AEW tag champs and freeing up that scene, which has worked out great for a lot of other wrestlers. The whole "ranked #1" thing has also been a way to put them over in a different way than giving them the AEW titles. Tony Khan has effectively put his thumb on the scale for them to probably win the Observer Best Tag Team award this year. Like, I do get the complaint about lack of two-on-two tag matches, but everything else has been pretty well calculated to make them look good without locking down the tag title scene. I'd rather FTR lose out on the two-on-twos for a few months than not get the current white-hot Acclaimed. Especially when they're the most likely suspects to be feeding scumbags like Scott Lost. What's the story there? |
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Post by TOK Hehe'd Around & Found Out on Oct 1, 2022 23:27:24 GMT -5
Especially when they're the most likely suspects to be feeding scumbags like Scott Lost. What's the story there? Who else is going to feed a Cornette groupie pro-CM Punk bullshit that is constantly disproven |
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Post by markymark on Oct 1, 2022 23:27:26 GMT -5
We're not seriously doing "FTR are being wasted" are we? They were the strongest booked tag team until The Acclaimed took off big time. That's not so much "new toy syndrome" as discovering one of your toys can make you huge amounts of money. Even then though, they still hold multiple belts and with The Bucks still on hiatus are the #2 team by a big margin. That's not touching how much of a work this obviously is.
It looks like the combination of people jumping on the Hunter bandwagon along with Punk/Elite drama that made fans sour on AEW that some are acting like the company is WCW 2001...
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Post by jm on Oct 1, 2022 23:31:33 GMT -5
We're not seriously doing "FTR are being wasted" are we? They were the strongest booked tag team until The Acclaimed took off big time. That's not so much "new toy syndrome" as discovering one of your toys can make you huge amounts of money. Even then though, they still hold multiple belts and with The Bucks still on hiatus are the #2 team by a big margin. That's not touching how much of a work this obviously is.
It looks like the combination of people jumping to the Hunter bandwagon along with Punk/Elite drama that made fans sour on AEW that some are acting like the company is WCW 2001...
Or even some people saying that AEW is just as bad or even worse than TNA. It's ridiculous. |
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Post by mrpeacock on Oct 2, 2022 0:14:10 GMT -5
Where I am, too. Like...they've got three titles so that they can be presented as a big deal without being AEW tag champs and freeing up that scene, which has worked out great for a lot of other wrestlers. The whole "ranked #1" thing has also been a way to put them over in a different way than giving them the AEW titles. Tony Khan has effectively put his thumb on the scale for them to probably win the Observer Best Tag Team award this year. Like, I do get the complaint about lack of two-on-two tag matches, but everything else has been pretty well calculated to make them look good without locking down the tag title scene. I'd rather FTR lose out on the two-on-twos for a few months than not get the current white-hot Acclaimed. Especially when they're the most likely suspects to be feeding scumbags like Scott Lost. They're legit my favorite tag team ever but they make it so hard to like them by how they act Scott Lost the former PWG wrestler? Or do you mean Brian Last? |
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Post by Fade is a CodyCryBaby on Oct 2, 2022 0:54:07 GMT -5
“f*** The Revival” - Tony Khan prbly i dunno.
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Post by Pgarodactyl on Oct 2, 2022 5:14:23 GMT -5
I mean, if it is a work, it's a pretty paint-by-numbers, unimaginative work, also probably not something you should be running with an apparent face tag team.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2022 5:47:21 GMT -5
To note I was there live. FTR had a phenomenal main event and were super over as baby faces. TK needs to do something because he's risking turning the company heel in the eyes of their audience.
Also, this was FTRs first 2v2 tag match since... June, maybe July? And that is wasting them
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