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Post by Seth Drakin of Monster Crap on Oct 26, 2022 2:28:22 GMT -5
A huge thing that will help AEW if they get this deal. Maybe they can finally that streaming deal which would be massive.
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Post by kingoftheindies on Oct 26, 2022 10:17:50 GMT -5
AEW has also been named as one of Fast Company's Brands that Matter. What is that?
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Post by Wieners=$$$ on Oct 26, 2022 10:46:40 GMT -5
Moxley v. Batman; book it ya cowards!
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Post by The Trashman on Oct 26, 2022 11:30:33 GMT -5
Sure sounds like there isn't going to be any kind of rights increase and still nothing about ROH, streaming or anything of real substance here. When is the last time John Arezzi broke a story in wrestling?
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Post by Sponsored by Groose Wipes on Oct 26, 2022 11:37:56 GMT -5
Moxley v. Batman; book it ya cowards! When the joker ends up just being The Joker.
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Post by EP 54 is banned from Collision on Oct 26, 2022 11:53:53 GMT -5
Wrestling has legitimate athletes, but it will never be a legitimate sport no matter where you air it. In sport people literally compete. Wrestling is niche entertainment and will never be mainstream in the eyes of those outside the wrestling bubble. Yet I f***ing love it anyway. There could be an argument made that Pro-Wrestling IS a sport, but it's one of the more artistic ones like figure skating or *sigh* dressage. Your basic match is a co-operative endeavor to put on an athletic performance, based around a framework. You could in theory have Pro-Wrestling could be in the Olympics. Like you could have different match typres, like American Singles or British Catch Singles or Lucha Libre Trios or Ciberneticos etc Each country puts on a match around a basic framework given to them by the organisers. So you could have a American Tag (Hot Tag, Submission Finish, no interference, 3 false finishes) They're each judged by a panel of judges and whoever gets scored highest wins the gold. It'll never happen, the IOC would take one look at Brian Cage and nope out. But they do have dressage, which is surprisingly similar...if you look at it from a very oblique angle. (I hate dressage)
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Post by TOK Hehe'd Around & Found Out on Oct 26, 2022 14:58:22 GMT -5
AEW is getting grouped under the sports umbrella because, from a production standpoint, it is a sport: live, constantly traveling on a weekly basis, constant cuts both within the action and to various interviews and pre-taped segments, and focused on highlighting athleticism. Same way WCW was under the Turner Sports umbrella when WCW was at it's peak except AEW has much more control of the production because they're the ones in control of the product.
Sports are the only thing keeping cable television afloat at the moment. Being grouped with legitimate sports for production and advertising reasons can only be a good thing.
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Post by TOK Hehe'd Around & Found Out on Oct 26, 2022 14:59:27 GMT -5
No no this is actually unironically horrible news. I'm not trolling here, think about this; what comes with mo money? Mo problems. Are you ready for more Marina Shafirs on this show? We're f***ed. Shit...how long does it take for the violence to get here from the start of the violins playing?
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Post by sportatorium on Oct 26, 2022 15:05:20 GMT -5
AEW is getting grouped under the sports umbrella because, from a production standpoint, it is a sport: live, constantly traveling on a weekly basis, constant cuts both within the action and to various interviews and pre-taped segments, and focused on highlighting athleticism. Same way WCW was under the Turner Sports umbrella when WCW was at it's peak except AEW has much more control of the production because they're the ones in control of the product. Sports are the only thing keeping cable television afloat at the moment. Being grouped with legitimate sports for production and advertising reasons can only be a good thing. The audience is also going to overlap much more with a sports audience than standard reality TV or sitcoms too. Their definition of "sport" is unique to TV, not so much in how the content is delivered.
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Post by This Player Hating Mothman on Oct 26, 2022 15:13:11 GMT -5
AEW is getting grouped under the sports umbrella because, from a production standpoint, it is a sport: live, constantly traveling on a weekly basis, constant cuts both within the action and to various interviews and pre-taped segments, and focused on highlighting athleticism. Same way WCW was under the Turner Sports umbrella when WCW was at it's peak except AEW has much more control of the production because they're the ones in control of the product. Sports are the only thing keeping cable television afloat at the moment. Being grouped with legitimate sports for production and advertising reasons can only be a good thing. We should honestly all be breathing a sigh of relief over AEW being put under the sports umbrella. Look at the cuts WBD is making. Them classifying it as sports programming and trying to push it as such is probably going to save the whole deal, frankly; management sees it as somehting that suits the direction of their planned repurpose, which means it survives the merger rather than getting shunted off because it doesn't suit where they want to take the network. People might balk at the idea they're trying to sell wrestling as a sport and it 'isn't', or whatever, but this decision is likely one we can thank for AEW being saved from the axe right now.
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Post by markymark on Nov 9, 2022 17:09:01 GMT -5
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