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Post by Kalmia on Oct 9, 2021 14:42:50 GMT -5
I don't think there's anything wrong with Tony's tweet in isolation. It's just the effect it'll have on two fanbases that can already be ridiculously toxic. It's not Tony's fault that there's such toxicity around, but considering his position, maybe he shouldn't feed into it. Especially when there's a big chance he's going to be wrong.
That said, if AEW do beat Smackdown for that half an hour, I'd yell about it for weeks
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Post by Andy Martin on Oct 9, 2021 14:43:58 GMT -5
Tony guarantees victory once, and in a few years he’ll be on Rene Paquette’s podcast no caring of AEW is stru-ga-ling.
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Post by Muskrat on Oct 9, 2021 14:45:30 GMT -5
How the f*** did this thread hit 120 replies? This is nothing, and it stupid to being even worrying about it. I’m hungover, I have no patience for this stupidity today.
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Post by markymark on Oct 9, 2021 14:51:21 GMT -5
Idk if thats the reason why Khans tone changed today...
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Post by Muskrat on Oct 9, 2021 14:55:26 GMT -5
Idk if thats the reason why Khans tone changed today... Baseball playoffs will affect both shows. Aren’t the averaging like 6 million viewers a game right now in prime time?
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Post by This Player Hating Mothman on Oct 9, 2021 15:07:41 GMT -5
Idk if thats the reason why Khans tone changed today... The Saturday numbers are never reliable; Giri posted up 594 for last week, which averaged 640 across its two hours, and said Smackdown did 2.12 million when they did 2.25, but the he's comparing those numbers to the final, actual ratings. There's a lot of slack room and imprecision in these.
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Post by Cyno on Oct 9, 2021 15:12:41 GMT -5
Idk if thats the reason why Khans tone changed today... The Saturday numbers are never reliable; Giri posted up 594 for last week, which averaged 640 across its two hours, and said Smackdown did 2.12 million when they did 2.25, but the he's comparing those numbers to the final, actual ratings. There's a lot of slack room and imprecision in these. Ah yes, Raj "Kyle O'Reilly had a diabetic seizure" Giri.
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Post by Fake Jesus on Oct 9, 2021 15:15:16 GMT -5
Tony guarantees victory once, and in a few years he’ll be on Rene Paquette’s podcast no caring of AEW is stru-ga-ling. Again, sir, this time in English?
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Post by This Player Hating Mothman on Oct 9, 2021 15:16:10 GMT -5
The Saturday numbers are never reliable; Giri posted up 594 for last week, which averaged 640 across its two hours, and said Smackdown did 2.12 million when they did 2.25, but the he's comparing those numbers to the final, actual ratings. There's a lot of slack room and imprecision in these. Ah yes, Raj "Kyle O'Reilly had a diabetic seizure" Giri. Does he still call himself "Wrestling Inc. President Raj Giri" in his own articles for his own website? Because that's always been hilarious to me.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 9, 2021 15:17:39 GMT -5
I can see a couple sides to this. 1. I wish Tony and people in AEW would stop. It feeds the trolls, and it makes the "I'm an AEW fan, you are a WWE fan, so you're scum!" more legit. When, I'd wager, for people like myself who have fallen away from WWE. I don't want AEW to kill WWE, I just want their success to lean on WWE to force them to make changes for the better so I can enjoy both. 2. I can, kinda, understand where he's coming from. While it's not like he has a Midas touch with AEW and there have been mistakes and downfalls... the things AEW has gotten right have far outnumbered what they've gotten wrong. Plus, to have guys like Adam Cole and Bryan Danielson come over. Plus doing, what was once thought, as impossible by bringing Punk back to wrestling AND being able to give Owen Hart his due. Man, in his position, I'd be pretty hard-pressed to stay humble as well. I just hope he can reign it in, because an overabundance of bravado is exactly what brought Vince to his peak, but also kept him so sheltered inside his own bubble of "I'm a genius, and I'll tell you what to like" that an AEW had to exist to counteract that. 1 is pretty much what I see when I look at these things. Personally most responses I'm seeing online isn't truly "hey guys we love wrestling we want everyone to win" stuff but more so people who generally hate watch/hate WWE so much that they love clowning them since they've been hurt by programming and in turn there's veiled comments when the reality is its not authentic. It's honestly to the point where I've just stopped watching wrestling with the forum and watch alone because generally no matter the program I have way more enjoyment. I'm just done with trolls and people who act like this is some high school football rivalry and they're the quarterback. Tony pushing for it will always seem lame to me, same with WWE if they comment on anything in the future. I hope we don't get another Trips interview talking about em because he and the WWE should know better. To Tony and his comment, good luck to him and AEW. If they don't win then hey you did it to yourself. This is just opening the floodgates for people to clown which will then make AEW extremists clown when they've lost. If that's people's steez then go on with it, it just breeds bad fans insulting these places including those who work there. Just ain't me though. This is 2021 and with everything going on I want unity rather than "wrasslin wars." Shoutout to those who want unity.
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Oct 9, 2021 15:20:42 GMT -5
Seven pages for this damn thread and we haven't degraded into talking about Pastas yet
If there's anything to be disappointed about FAN it's that. I want real competition for Pasta Threads! I want to beat the WWE Boards in Pasta Warfare!!
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Post by pinja on Oct 9, 2021 15:49:16 GMT -5
I find Khan to be a bit unsettling. Always have. I do not want to speculate, I do not wante to psychologize. Whenever he's on tv interacting with anyone, be it a wrestler or the audience, he feels so stressed out that I in return get stressed out. It's a deer in the headlights thing. So when I read him making bold claims or the way he writes in first person, it's transgressive from the impression I got on tv (and try to avoid now).
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Oct 9, 2021 15:56:40 GMT -5
I find Khan to be a bit unsettling. Always have. I do not want to speculate, I do not wante to psychologize. Whenever he's on tv interacting with anyone, be it a wrestler or the audience, he feels so stressed out that I in return get stressed out. It's a deer in the headlights thing. So when I read him making bold claims or the way he writes in first person, it's transgressive from the impression I got on tv (and try to avoid now). I mean the dude does a lot of things every day. I'm sure there is some stress to that... but in listening to Khan in many interviews I really just think "That's Tony Khan" and always has been. It's why he's said he doesn't want a TV Role but he loves thanking the fans and interacting with them off camera or on the Youtube shows. I think it's dangerous to try and psychoanalyze a person you've never met and judge them off the sample size you see tbh.
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Post by Zone Was Wrong on Oct 9, 2021 15:56:43 GMT -5
I find Khan to be a bit unsettling. Always have. I do not want to speculate, I do not wante to psychologize. Whenever he's on tv interacting with anyone, be it a wrestler or the audience, he feels so stressed out that I in return get stressed out. It's a deer in the headlights thing. So when I read him making bold claims or the way he writes in first person, it's transgressive from the impression I got on tv (and try to avoid now). I think the only time he's talked in the first person was his Forbidden Door stuff, which fit the character. Definitely not indicative to the person as I've observed. And on camera, yeah dude is probably nervous to be in the limelight, hence the reason he's said he doesn't want to be a character on TV. At least not a consistent character. Not everyone is made for being on the camera really. Probably why he looks stressed out if he's on TV. As for the Twitter stuff, dude is setting goals and hyping his brand up. Not unlike a lot of owners.
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Post by eJm on Oct 9, 2021 16:07:54 GMT -5
As for the Twitter stuff, dude is setting goals and hyping his brand up. Not unlike a lot of owners. If we’re talking about owners on Twitter hyping their brand, I follow Bob Iger and he spends most of his feed hyping up Disney stuff and Quote tweeting articles about successes and such and…yeah, not that different from Khan and likely many others doing.
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Post by Dub H on Oct 9, 2021 16:12:07 GMT -5
I find Khan to be a bit unsettling. Always have. I do not want to speculate, I do not wante to psychologize. Whenever he's on tv interacting with anyone, be it a wrestler or the audience, he feels so stressed out that I in return get stressed out. It's a deer in the headlights thing. So when I read him making bold claims or the way he writes in first person, it's transgressive from the impression I got on tv (and try to avoid now). You can inform yourself with commentaries about the person(not trying to be aggressive here ), dude has said he doesnt want to be on tv and that he can be awkward and it shows on TV,usually when there is those sneak peak backstage where he doesnt even see the cameras dude seems more relaxed
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Post by DrBackflipsHoffman on Oct 9, 2021 16:12:56 GMT -5
if/when this doesnt work out they should just run with it as if they won
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Post by pinja on Oct 9, 2021 16:15:32 GMT -5
I find Khan to be a bit unsettling. Always have. I do not want to speculate, I do not wante to psychologize. Whenever he's on tv interacting with anyone, be it a wrestler or the audience, he feels so stressed out that I in return get stressed out. It's a deer in the headlights thing. So when I read him making bold claims or the way he writes in first person, it's transgressive from the impression I got on tv (and try to avoid now). I mean the dude does a lot of things every day. I'm sure there is some stress to that... but in listening to Khan in many interviews I really just think "That's Tony Khan" and always has been. It's why he's said he doesn't want a TV Role but he loves thanking the fans and interacting with them off camera or on the Youtube shows. I think it's dangerous to try and psychoanalyze a person you've never met and judge them off the sample size you see tbh. I said I didn't want to speculate and I didn't want to psychologize. And I surely didn't psychoanalyze. I said he feels stressed out, which in return makes me feel stressed out. You then gave two possible explanations for why he feels stressed out - which is the type of speculation I tried to avoid and find too sensationalistic.
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Post by pinja on Oct 9, 2021 16:32:14 GMT -5
I find Khan to be a bit unsettling. Always have. I do not want to speculate, I do not wante to psychologize. Whenever he's on tv interacting with anyone, be it a wrestler or the audience, he feels so stressed out that I in return get stressed out. It's a deer in the headlights thing. So when I read him making bold claims or the way he writes in first person, it's transgressive from the impression I got on tv (and try to avoid now). I think the only time he's talked in the first person was his Forbidden Door stuff, which fit the character. Definitely not indicative to the person as I've observed. And on camera, yeah dude is probably nervous to be in the limelight, hence the reason he's said he doesn't want to be a character on TV. At least not a consistent character. Not everyone is made for being on the camera really. Probably why he looks stressed out if he's on TV. As for the Twitter stuff, dude is setting goals and hyping his brand up. Not unlike a lot of owners. With "first person" I meant the times he points out his responsibilities for major and minor things. Pardon the inaccuracy. He may be nervous, he may be not - it's really beyond my sentiment and I want to emphasize that again: I'm not about the why.
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Post by eJm on Oct 9, 2021 17:05:45 GMT -5
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