TNT "Has to be worth at least 200 Gamerscore" Championship

["Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay]

Apr 17, 2022 10:52:28 GMT -5 The Ichi said:

Apr 17, 2022 10:19:24 GMT -5 @jdogindy said:

Now that he's a former champion, can we look back on his reign?

It's very safe to say that Scorpio likely will be established as the worst TNT Champion for now unless he gets another reign with meat on it, but even so, this was a nothing period with the belt.

He only cared about the gamerscore.

Yeah he got the achievement now so he can go do something else. Scorpio 'the f*** is new game plus' Sky

[Dub H]

sky could have a 300 day title reign and he probably would still be the worst TNT champion no idea why he won to begin with instead of Ethan Page

[rnrk supports BLM]

Apr 17, 2022 10:19:24 GMT -5 @jdogindy said:

Now that he's a former champion, can we look back on his reign?

It's very safe to say that Scorpio likely will be established as the worst TNT Champion for now unless he gets another reign with meat on it, but even so, this was a nothing period with the belt.

Scorpio "Title reign about as successful as Raiden as MGS2 protagonist, but maybe he'll get his Revengeance and be cool someday" Sky

[Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-]]

Given everyone fully expected him to lose the belt in a f***ing week to Wardlow, he still had a better reign than expected.

[Macho Pichu]

Nobody is allowed to simply be a 2-time TNT champion. You either get one, or you get 3.

[Cyno]

Scoprio "Now I can finally get back to my Persona 5 Royal Replay" Sky

[Susan "Poison" Candy]

Scorpio "Losing at Marble Madness, Ghost & Goblins, & Predator combined means MORE to me than losing the TNT Title" Sky

[Jacy Derangement Syndrome]

Giving him a new theme song that wasn't Men Of The Year as soon as he won the belt killed this man's title reign and I'm only half joking

[ASYLUMHAUSEN]

Scorpio “I lost because I was too busy trying to figure out how to get unstuck from this goddamn level on Elden Ring” Sky

[Hypnosis]

Apr 17, 2022 14:14:38 GMT -5 Jacy Derangement Syndrome said:

Giving him a new theme song that wasn't Men Of The Year as soon as he won the belt killed this man's title reign and I'm only half joking

What's the story with the change to a different, inferior theme anyway?

YouTube again, like with PNP?

[Dub H]

Apr 17, 2022 19:33:03 GMT -5 ASYLUMHAUSEN said:

Scorpio “I lost because I was too busy trying to figure out how to get unstuck from this goddamn level on Elden Ring” Sky

Scorpio "The Final Boss Of Kirby Lost Lands Is too hard" Sky

[Blade]

Apr 17, 2022 12:16:38 GMT -5 Dub H said:

sky could have a 300 day title reign and he probably would still be the worst TNT champion no idea why he won to begin with instead of Ethan Page

Because AEW switched to him being the top guy on the team rather than the job guy after they got a lot of criticism for how they were not pushing black talent. It was not subtle. 

Also, obligatory reminder that Scorpio Sky is really goddamn good. Ethan is also great, of course.

[ghost]

Can someone explain the Sammy to Cody to Sammy to Sky to Sammy transition with the title? Like, why? That’s four different reigns in about 3 months and none of them meant anything, and now it’s on Sammy again. If they were going to give it to Sky, then he should have either had a longer run (even though I find boring) or have him drop it to someone else.

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Apr 19, 2022 8:18:14 GMT -5 ghost said:

Can someone explain the Sammy to Cody to Sammy to Sky to Sammy transition with the title? Like, why? That’s four different reigns in about 3 months and none of them meant anything, and now it’s on Sammy again. If they were going to give it to Sky, then he should have either had a longer run (even though I find boring) or have him drop it to someone else.

I think Cody’s getting sick/leaving was the main catalyst of it. Cody was gonna drop the title to Sky (Who was being set up for a while to win it for a while). Instead the title went back to Sammy because he Cody got sick and then Sammy kept it because it Cody had a foot out the door. AEW didn’t want to throw out the year plus they had been building up Sky so he gets the win over Sammy.

Dropping the title back to Sammy could be a mix of a few things. Striking on the double turn being the biggest. Sammy is now a hot heel and ATT have new life as faces/tweeners.

[Gerard Gerard]

I still find Men of the Year and America's Top Team to be an awkward fit despite the effort they've gone to explaining it. It seems a marriage of convenience in terms of they want to take advantage of Lambert being able to draw heat in a blizzard while feeling like they should be doing something with Ego/Sky. God knows Ego/Sky don't really need anyone to talk for them, if anything I'd like to see all the recent stuff as impetus for ATT/MotY to separate.

The TNT hot potato recently has done a bit of a number on the title's aura as well. Granted, it's still the best-booked secondary championship in a long-arse time, but it feels like we're few miles away from the likes of Miro carrying it about like a 1b championship. Then again, your mileage may vary on that depending how ardently you subscribe to the whole "man maketh title" philosophy.

[sunnytaker]

i think the hot potato aspect of the TNT title actually makes it more interesting in a way. unlike the other titles where the average reigns are still around the six month range and we can pretty much see the endgame making the title defenses in between somewhat anti-climatic (rosa being britt's end game, hangman being omega's), the TNT title is the one title that you have no idea when it's gonna change hands again which makes every title defense a bit more interesting than it would normally be if it was bokked like the other titles.

still Sky deserved a longer run but the heeling trend of sammy and tay kinda forced AEW's hand if they wanted to keep Lambert and co heels. i mean PVZ got a face pop for coming out to attack tay after she interfered.