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Post by Dub H on Mar 11, 2021 17:44:43 GMT -5
AEW doesnt want to make decent solo faces. I cant think one... Let alone two. Sooo I guess one of the 15 tag teams not doing anything.. Let's go with Bear Country. Are we counting friendship as a team?Because real people have friends Darby Sting Moxley Eddie are all "solo" right now as stars. Archer was solo too but i`m not sure if he will keep heel or face,I think so far he is still face.
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Post by thegatewaydrug on Mar 11, 2021 17:58:06 GMT -5
Let Ricky fly solo so we can hear his awesome theme more often!
Would Starks vs. newly face Jericho work the summer? (Let the Demo-god take time off now so Sammy can lead P&P against MJF + FTR.)
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Post by defectiveepitaph on Mar 11, 2021 17:58:46 GMT -5
Maki Itoh joins. She has that FTW mindset. She’ll sing while Cage powerbombs dudes straight to hell.
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Post by Malibu Albino on Mar 11, 2021 19:04:52 GMT -5
AEW doesnt want to make decent solo faces. I cant think one... Let alone two. Sooo I guess one of the 15 tag teams not doing anything.. Let's go with Bear Country. I mean, the AEW champion for the better part of 2020 was a face and solo, it was like a huge point in a number of his feuds that he had no real allies.
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Mar 11, 2021 19:11:02 GMT -5
AEW doesnt want to make decent solo faces. I cant think one... Let alone two. Sooo I guess one of the 15 tag teams not doing anything.. Let's go with Bear Country. This feels like a way out of left field take. Allies should not be an issue when it comes to Faces. The likes of Cody, Darby, Orange, Omega, Hangman, Kingston, Moxley, Shida, Riho, Rosa? They all have had allegiances but they're way over on their own and have flourished as such in a face role. As someone else already said Mox was a lone wolf face champion for like half a year. Also AEW finds a lot of ways to get their multitude of teams involved in shows and storylines and one of the best ways is factions and groups, and it's worked really well. Bear Country are literally on Dynamite this week with Jurassic Express in a huge match vs Hardy Empire.
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Post by chrom on Mar 11, 2021 19:16:59 GMT -5
They never did explain why Hobbs decided to join them
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Mar 11, 2021 19:46:13 GMT -5
They never did explain why Hobbs decided to join them Taz was recruiting him for weeks. Pretty sure Hobbs saw it better teaming with Team Taz than the faces, and to his credit, I think Hobbs has been the most protected member of the group so far.
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Post by chrom on Mar 11, 2021 20:47:09 GMT -5
They never did explain why Hobbs decided to join them Taz was recruiting him for weeks. Pretty sure Hobbs saw it better teaming with Team Taz than the faces, and to his credit, I think Hobbs has been the most protected member of the group so far. There was no promo or video package explaining the turn, not even Taz could be bothered to explain he talked with him in private and convinced him to join them or something.
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Mar 11, 2021 22:02:12 GMT -5
Taz was recruiting him for weeks. Pretty sure Hobbs saw it better teaming with Team Taz than the faces, and to his credit, I think Hobbs has been the most protected member of the group so far. There was no promo or video package explaining the turn, not even Taz could be bothered to explain he talked with him in private and convinced him to join them or something. I mean it seemed obvious Taz recruited Hobbs, baited Cody and Darby in, and then he turned on them
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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2021 22:28:12 GMT -5
AEW doesnt want to make decent solo faces. I cant think one... Let alone two. Sooo I guess one of the 15 tag teams not doing anything.. Let's go with Bear Country. This feels like a way out of left field take. Allies should not be an issue when it comes to Faces. The likes of Cody, Darby, Orange, Omega, Hangman, Kingston, Moxley, Shida, Riho, Rosa? They all have had allegiances but they're way over on their own and have flourished as such in a face role. As someone else already said Mox was a lone wolf face champion for like half a year. Also AEW finds a lot of ways to get their multitude of teams involved in shows and storylines and one of the best ways is factions and groups, and it's worked really well. Bear Country are literally on Dynamite this week with Jurassic Express in a huge match vs Hardy Empire. Maybe I should have better explained myself. There’s just way to many tag teams, stables, and managers. I feel every match on dynamite ends in some sort of multi man brawl or interference. I can’t think of two different solo acts for Cage and Starks to have separate feuds. Everyone is paired up. As for your examples. The woman do fine for themselves. But the men... Mox feels like lone exception but being a lone wolf is his gimmick. I guess there’s Darby which being a loner is his gimmick as well. But he comes off being the goofy goth kid in math class Cody seriously has an Entourage of 80 people. Omega and Hangman were apart of the super elite friends, OC is seriously apart of a group called “best friends.” Kingston was a heel up until a week ago but half his promos use the term “brother”. It’s so refreshing to see Christian. Just Christian.
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Mar 11, 2021 23:53:27 GMT -5
This feels like a way out of left field take. Allies should not be an issue when it comes to Faces. The likes of Cody, Darby, Orange, Omega, Hangman, Kingston, Moxley, Shida, Riho, Rosa? They all have had allegiances but they're way over on their own and have flourished as such in a face role. As someone else already said Mox was a lone wolf face champion for like half a year. Also AEW finds a lot of ways to get their multitude of teams involved in shows and storylines and one of the best ways is factions and groups, and it's worked really well. Bear Country are literally on Dynamite this week with Jurassic Express in a huge match vs Hardy Empire. Maybe I should have better explained myself. There’s just way to many tag teams, stables, and managers. I feel every match on dynamite ends in some sort of multi man brawl or interference. I can’t think of two different solo acts for Cage and Starks to have separate feuds. Everyone is paired up. As for your examples. The woman do fine for themselves. But the men... Mox feels like lone exception but being a lone wolf is his gimmick. I guess there’s Darby which being a loner is his gimmick as well. But he comes off being the goofy goth kid in math class Cody seriously has an Entourage of 80 people. Omega and Hangman were apart of the super elite friends, OC is seriously apart of a group called “best friends.” Kingston was a heel up until a week ago but half his promos use the term “brother”. It’s so refreshing to see Christian. Just Christian. Guess we're gonna have to just disagree here, it's not like I don't mind wrestlers being solo but I also dont think them being a part of groups hurts them at all. I like when wrestlers interact with each other, form partnerships, even break away from them either mutually or not. I like faction warfare, it makes things very interesting. But I also think guys like OC and such have shined in feuds even with allies. Archer doesn't have a faction either, I left him out. Sky doesn't really hang around SCU anymore and has been trying his own thing, Caster may be part of The Acclaimed but he got a singles push for the ladder match and he looked real well during it, Penta may be part of Death Triangle but now he's doing his own thing with Cody, and Cody may have an entourage but outside of Arn and Brandi, Cody goes solo in almost all matches and feuds and has from the get go. There to me is a difference between a faction constantly being the reason you win, and being affiliated with others and having connections. Omega but especially Hangman got over on their own merits too, Hangman connected with his character, it doesn't really matter who he's with, right now he and Dark Order just compliment each other in a very wholesome way. And Darby well... dude's one of the most over acts in the whole company so I guess it pays to be the "goofy goth kid in math class". Sting also seems to be seperating a bit from him to let them both breathe after the Team Taz feud ended. My point I guess is, I dont see the issue if Starks and Cage don't have seperate feuds right this second, I wouldn't mind it of course, but AEW's found use for a lot of the factions, teamups, and managers that have come through. It's helped a lot of guys and I think it will only continue to. If Christian stays Christian thats also cool.
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Post by Viking Hall on Mar 12, 2021 5:45:08 GMT -5
There was no promo or video package explaining the turn, not even Taz could be bothered to explain he talked with him in private and convinced him to join them or something. I mean it seemed obvious Taz recruited Hobbs, baited Cody and Darby in, and then he turned on them It's worrying sometimes how much wrestling fans need stories explaining to them. Hobbs had no history or background in AEW, this wasn't Scott Steiner turning on Rick or something where we needed to know what the motive was after years of them being together. He was a new wrestler and they did a classic bait and switch with him to help get him over. It wasn't exactly cutting edge or high concept story telling.
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Post by Oh Cry Me a Screwball on Mar 12, 2021 6:09:24 GMT -5
I mean it seemed obvious Taz recruited Hobbs, baited Cody and Darby in, and then he turned on them It's worrying sometimes how much wrestling fans need stories explaining to them. Hobbs had no history or background in AEW, this wasn't Scott Steiner turning on Rick or something where we needed to know what the motive was after years of them being together. He was a new wrestler and they did a classic bait and switch with him to help get him over. It wasn't exactly cutting edge or high concept story telling. Hell, it even worked out that the multi-man where Hobbs was supposed to team with Mox and Darby against Cage, Starks, and Archer got canceled due to Archer catching COVID, so Hobbs never actually fought against Team Taz. Instead, he presumably signed with Taz in secret, pretended to be on Darby's side for a bit while never turning down the public offer, and put the knife in his back when Darby started to trust him. It's not hard to figure out.
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Mar 12, 2021 6:58:19 GMT -5
In another thread somebody mentioned Taz attacking Cody and it not being paid off. I would be game for Taz shifting focus back to Cody.
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Post by raymondcky18 on Mar 12, 2021 9:57:51 GMT -5
I mean it seemed obvious Taz recruited Hobbs, baited Cody and Darby in, and then he turned on them It's worrying sometimes how much wrestling fans need stories explaining to them. Hobbs had no history or background in AEW, this wasn't Scott Steiner turning on Rick or something where we needed to know what the motive was after years of them being together. He was a new wrestler and they did a classic bait and switch with him to help get him over. It wasn't exactly cutting edge or high concept story telling. And the fans moan when it’s made to obvious and you can see the storyline from a mile off
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Post by Cyno on Mar 12, 2021 19:46:17 GMT -5
They never did explain why Hobbs decided to join them Taz was recruiting him for weeks. Pretty sure Hobbs saw it better teaming with Team Taz than the faces, and to his credit, I think Hobbs has been the most protected member of the group so far. And I thought they did have a promo or segment where Hobbs was just a complete merc about it? I remember it was also the first time we saw his sneer which is the stuff of legends.
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Post by Fade is a CodyCryBaby on Mar 12, 2021 20:04:38 GMT -5
In another thread somebody mentioned Taz attacking Cody and it not being paid off. I would be game for Taz shifting focus back to Cody. They should destroy what’s left of the Nightmare Family.
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