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Post by dbsot on Apr 29, 2024 13:26:32 GMT -5
Does anyone know how to shrink an image? Sorry for the giant post. It's fine on mobile. I just added the tweets instead of the image. Thank you, though.
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Post by Doo Doo Dickhead on Apr 29, 2024 14:11:28 GMT -5
Eric Bischoff is too old to be calling things "mid."
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Post by KME on Apr 29, 2024 14:13:32 GMT -5
I don't even think Bischoff knows what he's arguing there, seems to be saying Bald and FTR are mediocre but also seems to be bemoaning them being lower down the card in AEW and jobbing to the Bucks (who I'm sure he's totally aware had "jobbed" to FTR the last 2 times they'd faced them, including at AEW's biggest ever show, right after Cash had been arrested), and doesn't understand why they're ok with it, but also thinks Dax knows he's mediocre...but if that were the case that would explain why he's happy enough wouldn't it? If you knew you were mediocre why would you be outraged at the (non existent) drop down the card. And all that's ignoring the fact AEW have never booked them in comedy angles, in "jobbing to the Bucks" they were in one of the biggest matches on one of their best ever shows that set up their new big storyline, and that they were champions for the bulk of last year. And the fact AEW allow themselves to brand themselves as Top Guys and Living Legends, do we reckon WWE would have been giving them that kind of treatment? Not to mention AEW using their connections to have them win the AAA and IWGP Tag Titles and walk around as triple champions, which was a pretty good look for them. As with so many who talk about AEW Bischoff has literally no idea what he's talking about. I don't mean that in just a "he's wrong!" kind of way, I mean he's guessing and badly filling in blanks himself which seems really common among the clickbaiters and "I don't understand any of these storylines, what am I missing?!" crowd. Eric Bischoff is too old to be calling things "mid." This too. If I heard my Dad calling things mid I'd cringe and Bischoff is much, much older.
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Post by Kalmia on Apr 29, 2024 14:14:28 GMT -5
As soon as anyone complains about FTR jobbing to the Bucks you know their opinion is useless because they're conveniently overlooking the times the Bucks lost to FTR.
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Post by simplydurhamcalling on Apr 29, 2024 14:21:07 GMT -5
Eric Bischoff is too old to be calling things "mid." I'm around half Eric's age and I'm way too old to be using terms like mid.
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Post by KME on Apr 29, 2024 14:36:08 GMT -5
As soon as anyone complains about FTR jobbing to the Bucks you know their opinion is useless because they're conveniently overlooking the times the Bucks lost to FTR. And because the Bucks are generally considered by the non deranged to be, at the minimum, one or the very best teams of their generation, something that FTR themselves agree with. Even if they're not to somebody's personal taste they're a hugely decorated team, they've won multiple titles and been major players basically everywhere they've been while also being a part of huge factions with main event guys. There just isn't really a world where "they jobbed to the Bucks!" is a good way to dunk on someone.
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Post by This Player Hating Mothman on Apr 29, 2024 14:52:02 GMT -5
Chris Legentil is becoming like the crime boss whose name is whispered in shadows for all of the first two seasons before he finally makes his appearance known in season three, played by a very charming character actor who becomes an absolute fan favorite we all wish could somehow come back when we're on like season eight and the show is being sustained by sheer inertia with uncreative villain after uncreative villain.
But I don't think Eric Bischoff is being paid by the shadowy PR man to make mean tweets I think he's just a dick.
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Apr 29, 2024 15:34:25 GMT -5
All these Bischoff tweets just make me glad his stupid podcast ended lmfao
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khali
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Post by khali on Apr 29, 2024 16:52:40 GMT -5
I don’t even know why we’re bothering to post anything Bischoff has to say.
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Post by UN PLOMBIER NIGHTMARE #blm on Apr 29, 2024 16:59:47 GMT -5
Bischoff has to be one of the weirder AEW hater hanger ons. I swear I've hit "not interested" on youtube for his content but him and a shitload of other podcasts with like 2K views per video still show up. I watched one of his episodes with Conrad Thompson (who I also can't typically stand but to a much lesser degree) and it was so f***ing awkward. Eric is living in a fantasy land and there's this weird ass dynamic where you can tell Conrad doesn't want to piss him off more, it makes for awful viewing.
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Post by Mozenrath on Apr 29, 2024 21:54:43 GMT -5
Eric got the one check from AEW, and I actually found his appearance fun, but like... say they did hire him way back when, and he doesn't wind up embittered: what would he even actually do?
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Post by TWERKIN' MAGGLE on Apr 29, 2024 22:12:55 GMT -5
Reacting to Bischoff is giving him what he wants.
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Post by Jedi-El of Tomorrow on Apr 29, 2024 22:29:13 GMT -5
Bischoff has to be one of the weirder AEW hater hanger ons. I swear I've hit "not interested" on youtube for his content but him and a shitload of other podcasts with like 2K views per video still show up. I watched one of his episodes with Conrad Thompson (who I also can't typically stand but to a much lesser degree) and it was so f***ing awkward. Eric is living in a fantasy land and there's this weird ass dynamic where you can tell Conrad doesn't want to piss him off more, it makes for awful viewing. When it comes to Bischoff and AEW, it's TK's comment awhile back about Ted Turner that's caused his hatred. You can say a lot of negative shit about Bischoff, but he's always been loyal to Turner
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Post by Johnny Flamingo on Apr 29, 2024 22:40:46 GMT -5
As soon as anyone complains about FTR jobbing to the Bucks you know their opinion is useless because they're conveniently overlooking the times the Bucks lost to FTR. And because the Bucks are generally considered by the non deranged to be, at the minimum, one or the very best teams of their generation, something that FTR themselves agree with. Even if they're not to somebody's personal taste they're a hugely decorated team, they've won multiple titles and been major players basically everywhere they've been while also being a part of huge factions with main event guys. There just isn't really a world where "they jobbed to the Bucks!" is a good way to dunk on someone. Problem is a certain segment of fans believe they should be jobbers at best and legit believe they don’t deserve to be in the business. They feel the Bucks should only be used as squash wrestlers to put people over. Irony is that the same fans trash the Bucks saying they left money on the table while ignoring the fact that The Bucks sell a good bit of merchandise, have a loyal fan base and by their own logic should actually be pushed.
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Post by Starshine on Apr 29, 2024 23:01:31 GMT -5
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Post by Johnny Flamingo on Apr 30, 2024 1:29:22 GMT -5
Considering Punk/Pearce named dropped Cornette, Nash being weird towards Stings retirement and Eazy E being Eazy E it wouldn’t surprise me if they were getting a little “incentive” to trash AEW.
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Post by Starshine on Apr 30, 2024 3:25:17 GMT -5
Considering Punk/Pearce named dropped Cornette, Nash being weird towards Stings retirement and Eazy E being Eazy E it wouldn’t surprise me if they were getting a little “incentive” to trash AEW. Maybe, I also think trashing on AEW and being WWE positive drives more listeners and revenue at the moment. Though I do believe Cornette is being sincere in his criticism, and we know Punk has personal beef. But Bischoff is a total con artist, and you know he’d immediately change his tune if TK threw an offer his way.
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Post by KME on Apr 30, 2024 4:25:06 GMT -5
Considering Punk/Pearce named dropped Cornette, Nash being weird towards Stings retirement and Eazy E being Eazy E it wouldn’t surprise me if they were getting a little “incentive” to trash AEW. Maybe, I also think trashing on AEW and being WWE positive drives more listeners and revenue at the moment. Though I do believe Cornette is being sincere in his criticism, and we know Punk has personal beef. But Bischoff is a total con artist, and you know he’d immediately change his tune if TK threw an offer his way. AEW hate definitely gets the listeners/clicks right now, you can tell because a couple of cringeworthy football (soccer) reaction channels with guys sat in a chair watching the team they support on mute and just shitting on them whenever they're not doing well, screaming and shouting with totally unnatural overreactions, hyperbole and agenda driven statements, knowing it's great schadenfreude for rival fans and will get them loads of views, have started to latch on to AEW. A channel was recommended to me the other day from some idiot whose content I'd already said I wasn't interested in because it was all shit like "[insert team name here] bottle it! Season Over!", sure enough he now had a wrestling channel and despite seemingly only being a WWE fan his 3 videos in the last week were all just laying into AEW and how it "died". All 3 had basically the same title and similar sort of stupid thumbnail. Those sort of people and AEW hate are a perfect fit. I think a lot of it too is a lot of guys who were kids when WWE was really bad in the mid to late 2000s, early 2010's and beyond, who liked the new DX and Super Cena and Big Dick Johnson and Guest GM's, kept watching and became super fans are the most prevalent people on the IWC these days. The IWC's late teens to late 20/mid 30somethings used to be very anti-WWE and the way they did things but now that age range of people are their fiercest defenders and AEW's biggest critics. I started to notice it on WrestlingForum even before AEW formed, the place got taken over by a clearly younger generation of fan and became toxic as f*** with people pushing a "WWE or nothing!" rhetoric, the likes of Will Ospreay and ZSJ I remember getting so much hate that it was actually staggering when I watched them and they were incredible, I'd been led to believe they were among the worst workers on the planet. People talk about AEW's fans being terminally online, maybe that's just because of Cagematch ratings or something I don't know, but honestly it feels like the IWC is just becoming a WWE fan club where hating on AEW is the favourite past time. AEW wasn't getting it this bad the first few years (before the novelty wore off for some) when I wasn't watching but it was still there, The Elite always get hate, "Dork Order" was a phrase I saw a lot, and I recall all the same "where's the stories?!" or "Why do I need a phD to understand AEW storylines?" and lots of "just asking honest questions" type stuff. And once WWE got better that stuff just got taken to the next level. I try as hard as possible to try and ignore it because I really don't care what anybody thinks but it really is everywhere at the moment.
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Post by wankah on Apr 30, 2024 4:44:03 GMT -5
I'm somewhat surprised that Bald has watched Baby Reindeer apparently.
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Post by Johnny Flamingo on Apr 30, 2024 5:35:34 GMT -5
This is from flagship wrestling podcast. They do a good job talking about this. Basically saying that WWE’s PR machine is much better. It’s an interesting listen. youtu.be/KKUdSgsL5PU?si=-O1Rk9DixUCNIAgb
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