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Post by lucaslawless on May 2, 2023 17:19:37 GMT -5
Good for them, a mixture of a starved market and AEW having good overseas TV deals. The former factor means WWE are almost certainly doing a UK or Ireland stadium PPV at some point in 2024 (they probably regret "only" booking the O2 for MITB). I think St James Park due to business connections with the Saudis or Croke Park if Becky, Sheamus, or Finn are being pushed well at the time. Though, with their ridiculous smackdown/MITB prices im not so sure they'd do as well. MITB single tickets go on sale Friday along with general sale for All In. I'd like to go to MITB too but I doubt I will if it's extortionate. There WWE Live events seem trash these days. Hell I went to one years ago with Orton, Batista, Shawn Michaels and more at Wembley Area. These days they hardly stack the card like that at all.
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Post by Bo Rida on May 2, 2023 17:41:17 GMT -5
Good for them, a mixture of a starved market and AEW having good overseas TV deals. The former factor means WWE are almost certainly doing a UK or Ireland stadium PPV at some point in 2024 (they probably regret "only" booking the O2 for MITB). I think St James Park due to business connections with the Saudis or Croke Park if Becky, Sheamus, or Finn are being pushed well at the time. I do wonder what Endeavour think looking at smaller rival making a success of running Wembley. There's got to be some big questions as to why WWE have left so much money on the table for 30 years. Although tbf that's finally changing.
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Post by Mr Mario Mario on May 2, 2023 17:53:53 GMT -5
I've seen quite a few on the internet community (not here) try to dunk on AEW for even trying this (Rene Dupree's cohost even said there's no market for AEW in the UK) so whether you like AEW or not, seeing how many people have laughed at even attempting this has me rooting harder than ever this is a success Yeah, I'm not sure how it couldn't be a success at this point. Think some online pundits are going to be eating their words even before the event happens, when the reports start coming out about how people are finding it difficult to find seats and how thousands and thousands of tickets have been sold already. Yeah, still not over them being like "Oh, you can add a £60 party invite on top of your ticket purchase" because, like...nowhere on the emails did they say there was such a thing. That's a crazy thing to just drop in there with no real information across two different emails. I do still think we'll get emails saying "Hey, there's still spots for this party" closer to the time because there's no way anyone would have expected it considering. Quick quick! Better decide! Your reservation is about to expire! You tried for an hour to get to this point in the booking process, after 7 errors, 4 times back in the queue, and all the previous tickets we offered you being £1500 or suspended from the rafters by a bit of string, you already spent the last 60 seconds panic-researching where the seats we offered you are, you wouldn't want to miss your chance, would you?! Oh, you skipped it because you were so desperate not to lose your kind-of-OK tickets? Too bad. Yeah the welcome party for me was a “Take 2 seconds to think about it” and f*** it, I’ll take the risk. Usually I’m ultra planning and measure up how much do I want this, how much is it etc but just took the plunge because of that gosh darn timer Edit: I went through the process again just to see how long you got to make the decision and it’s 2 and a half mins lol
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Post by Mr Mario Mario on May 2, 2023 17:54:45 GMT -5
I normally roll my eyes at Tony Khans Twitter activity but this one made me laugh for how over the top a response it was. I mean it’s justified to an extent but damn lol
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Post by discoelysium on May 2, 2023 17:58:23 GMT -5
Been watch Succession finally and the manic Kendall energy TK gives off is beautiful, exactly who I want running a wrestling company. And I mean that unironically, bring the madness.
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Post by darbus alan on May 2, 2023 18:33:55 GMT -5
Damn Tony. Just f***ing murked that guy.
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Post by Jaws the Shark on May 2, 2023 18:41:38 GMT -5
Good for them, a mixture of a starved market and AEW having good overseas TV deals. The former factor means WWE are almost certainly doing a UK or Ireland stadium PPV at some point in 2024 (they probably regret "only" booking the O2 for MITB). I think St James Park due to business connections with the Saudis or Croke Park if Becky, Sheamus, or Finn are being pushed well at the time. Tussle At The Toon could finally become reality.
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Post by Kalmia on May 2, 2023 18:53:25 GMT -5
You can take Tony Khan away from wrestling message boards, but you can't take posting on wrestling message boards away from Tony Khan. Sometimes he tweets like he's still on the Death Valley Driver message board.
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Post by kingoftheindies on May 2, 2023 19:24:21 GMT -5
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Post by "Evil Brood" Jackson Vanik on May 2, 2023 19:37:44 GMT -5
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Post by ASYLUMHAUSEN on May 2, 2023 19:49:42 GMT -5
Been watch Succession finally and the manic Kendall energy TK gives off is beautiful, exactly who I want running a wrestling company. And I mean that unironically, bring the madness. Oh god. Now I’m imagining TK in booking meetings spewing corporate jargon manic Kendall-isms. And I’m imaging Shad Khan constantly telling everyone to f*** off 😂
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Post by Kalmia on May 2, 2023 19:55:09 GMT -5
In today's edition of a broken clock is right twice a day:
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Post by kingoftheindies on May 2, 2023 20:02:38 GMT -5
In today's edition of a broken clock is right twice a day: BUlly is another guy that has tried dunking on AEW because Tony won't give him a job. Now since his recent Impact run (which admittedly has been good) he mellowed out a bit on his criticisms
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Post by jm on May 2, 2023 20:08:29 GMT -5
In today's edition of a broken clock is right twice a day:
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on May 2, 2023 20:08:50 GMT -5
In today's edition of a broken clock is right twice a day: Bully's been known to be a prick, but I mean he's absolutely right here and it's nice to see someone who is usually aa critic, be happy about something going right It's good for wrestling to see this shit happen, especially when another company other than WWE can do it.
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Post by darbus alan on May 2, 2023 22:18:20 GMT -5
Bully Ray makes a really good point about just how big a risk it was at first for WWF to run the Silverdome for Wrestlemania III. And this was at the height of Hulkamania. But WWF had never run a show that big before. Wrestlemania 1 was in MSG and Wrestlemania 2 had the ambitious but weird idea to be held in three separate arenas across the US on the same day: the Nassau Coliseum in Long Island, the now-AllState Arena in the Chicago suburbs, and the Los Angeles Memorial Arena. WM1 had about 19,000 people and WM2 had about 40,000 combined between the three different venues.
So taking WrestleMania from running basketball and hockey arenas to a massive football stadium was a big risk on paper. But it paid off in spades for WWF. And it's looking like doing something similar for All In is going to pay off for AEW.
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Post by "Evil Brood" Jackson Vanik on May 2, 2023 22:19:38 GMT -5
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Post by ASYLUMHAUSEN on May 2, 2023 23:05:21 GMT -5
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Post by EoE: Well There's Your Problem on May 2, 2023 23:20:55 GMT -5
Who dares wins. Fair f***s to them for taking this big chance that may pay off massively here.
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on May 3, 2023 0:10:03 GMT -5
This really does show how gracefully Jeff has aged That hairline is undefeated lol
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