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Post by Feargus McReddit on Jul 10, 2023 4:04:12 GMT -5
AEW will announce it as 93,174 attending, then Dave will say it's actually 78,001. Alternatively, they could take the WCW approach and say it's 73,000 when it's actually 78,000 and nobody will know why they undervalued themselves.
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Post by Feargus McReddit on Jul 10, 2023 4:36:15 GMT -5
Just to add as well, extremely weird for some of us to go "This isn't going to be a big show because the PPV's next week" without, like, waiting for the actual card of the show to be announced. Along with that, stuff from this show can lead to the PPV this week and still be big, it can be done.
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Post by stoptheclocks on Jul 10, 2023 5:05:56 GMT -5
Ok, im going to level with you guys. I haven't kept up with WWE in years but I do catch a little AEW on ITV when its on late at night which I watch and enjoy, although it's late at night and I'm pretty tired. I don't follow the story lines but just watch what I see. Now I've got that out of the way, I see AEW are doing Wembley Stadium in August. From what I see, it's sold extremely well. My question, are we talking a full on event like SummerSlam 92? How on earth did that happen? Fair play to AEW just amazed it all just passed me by. I think while you could argue that some of the hype around AEW has levelled off a bit in the US, they've never had a show in the UK before. The UK (and Europe) is full of fans who've been following AEW since the start and never had a real opportunity to watch these guys live. Yes they've had good spots in terms of ads at various big Wembley events, but the majority of tickets they've done went almost immediately. It was a brilliant idea to go big and turn it into a historic event and people have responded to it. Tickets have also been priced well.
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Post by lucaslawless on Jul 10, 2023 8:32:51 GMT -5
Just to add as well, extremely weird for some of us to go "This isn't going to be a big show because the PPV's next week" without, like, waiting for the actual card of the show to be announced. Along with that, stuff from this show can lead to the PPV this week and still be big, it can be done. Definitely, but hey, you dont have to look far for negative comments about this entire event. My fear is injuries from All In that could change the All Out card. Though, they have enough talent to leave some off each card and make it fresh... as well as creating stipulation matches/other rematches for All Out a week later. It'll be fantastic.
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Post by Feargus McReddit on Jul 10, 2023 8:43:48 GMT -5
Just to add as well, extremely weird for some of us to go "This isn't going to be a big show because the PPV's next week" without, like, waiting for the actual card of the show to be announced. Along with that, stuff from this show can lead to the PPV this week and still be big, it can be done. Definitely, but hey, you dont have to look far for negative comments about this entire event. My fear is injuries from All In that could change the All Out card. Though, they have enough talent to leave some off each card and make it fresh... as well as creating stipulation matches/other rematches for All Out a week later. It'll be fantastic. Oh yeah, those concerns I can understand. It already sucks Danielson won't be wrestling (even if it's a fair reason, he broke his damn arm) and I need to see Hayter up front before I believe she'll wrestle on the show but like you said, they have enough talent who have contracts who can have some fun stuff with and set up stuff for All Out. Like, if the card's announced and it sucks, that'll suck but I'll at least get it. We're probably going to be starting the build for the show this Wednesday.
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Post by Kalmia on Jul 10, 2023 8:45:40 GMT -5
I do think it's telling that the big banner in the arenas since Forbidden Door has been for All In and not All Out. I think that's a sign that AEW isn't going to phone in All In and concentrate purely on All Out.
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Post by Feargus McReddit on Jul 10, 2023 8:58:17 GMT -5
I do think it's telling that the big banner in the arenas since Forbidden Door has been for All In and not All Out. I think that's a sign that AEW isn't going to phone in All In and concentrate purely on All Out. Especially since they confirmed All Out for Chicago at Forbidden Door so it's not like they don't have a reason to not promote it.
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Post by KME on Jul 10, 2023 9:15:06 GMT -5
Haven't they hinted at doing Omega/Ospreay again at Wembley? If that isn't a sign that they won't be phoning it in at All In I don't know what is.
They're not idiots, it's their biggest ever crowd by a country mile, some of the biggest exposure they'll ever have and they've promoted the shit out of it, not to mention they barely ever put on less than excellent show regardless, they'll be very set on delivering an amazing card I would think. They have a deep enough roster to have a great All In and All Out, it helps that they have basically two rosters on two main shows right now, they've never been better equipped to be able to have enough storylines to cover two big shows close together.
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Post by markymark on Jul 10, 2023 9:30:06 GMT -5
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Post by Kalmia on Jul 10, 2023 9:36:20 GMT -5
Haven't they hinted at doing Omega/Ospreay again at Wembley? If that isn't a sign that they won't be phoning it in at All In I don't know what is. They're not idiots, it's their biggest ever crowd by a country mile, some of the biggest exposure they'll ever have and they've promoted the shit out of it, not to mention they barely ever put on less than excellent show regardless, they'll be very set on delivering an amazing card I would think. They have a deep enough roster to have a great All In and All Out, it helps that they have basically two rosters on two main shows right now, they've never been better equipped to be able to have enough storylines to cover two big shows close together. They haven't, but Ospreay mentioned doing a third and said he had the ideal place for it (or words to that effect) It sounded like he meant something more special than just a regular PPV venue.
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Post by KME on Jul 10, 2023 10:47:06 GMT -5
Haven't they hinted at doing Omega/Ospreay again at Wembley? If that isn't a sign that they won't be phoning it in at All In I don't know what is. They're not idiots, it's their biggest ever crowd by a country mile, some of the biggest exposure they'll ever have and they've promoted the shit out of it, not to mention they barely ever put on less than excellent show regardless, they'll be very set on delivering an amazing card I would think. They have a deep enough roster to have a great All In and All Out, it helps that they have basically two rosters on two main shows right now, they've never been better equipped to be able to have enough storylines to cover two big shows close together. They haven't, but Ospreay mentioned doing a third and said he had the ideal place for it (or words to that effect) It sounded like he meant something more special than just a regular PPV venue. That was the hint I meant, I took an English guy saying he knew a place to mean Wembley haha
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Post by AdamAFL was sooooo wrong on Jul 10, 2023 10:51:46 GMT -5
They haven't, but Ospreay mentioned doing a third and said he had the ideal place for it (or words to that effect) It sounded like he meant something more special than just a regular PPV venue. That was the hint I meant, I took an English guy saying he knew a place to mean Wembley haha I 100% think that’s what Ospreay was alluding to it and doing it in a “Please NJPW/AEW make this happen”
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Post by dreamghost on Jul 10, 2023 10:59:31 GMT -5
Is this gonna be on PPV or televised in the us? They really have not talked much about this on tv or what the matches will be but i guess its early July so that info is probably not finalized?
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Post by polarbearpete on Jul 10, 2023 12:13:09 GMT -5
Is this gonna be on PPV or televised in the us? They really have not talked much about this on tv or what the matches will be but i guess its early July so that info is probably not finalized? They haven’t announced anything but most guesses right now is that it will air either on Max, BR/Live, or on a Turner cable station.
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Post by Dub H on Jul 10, 2023 14:07:29 GMT -5
All In is going to be the biggest event on AEW history, the idea of then phoning in is absurd
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Post by Final Countdown Jones on Jul 10, 2023 15:09:55 GMT -5
I'm much more fearful for All Out than All In.
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Post by Mid-Carder on Jul 10, 2023 16:30:09 GMT -5
All In is going to be the biggest event on AEW history, the idea of then phoning in is absurd As is the idea that it won't be televised or on PPV
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Post by gentlemengreg1 on Jul 13, 2023 12:49:17 GMT -5
Booking Prediction for Wembley:
Punk defeats Starks in Owens Cup Final in controversial manner. Ref screws up somehow..neither wrestler is at fault. Punk wins the tournament but feels bad about how it all went down and declares he will make it up to Starks sometime down the road.
Starks, who has seen what is in CM Punk’s bag, tells Punk he would like to challenge for what Punk has in the bag. Punk says yes to the rematch and he pulls out the AEW Linear Championship for all the world to see. Word comes down on high Tony Khan has made the title official…for there us now the AEW World Championship (MJF) & AEW Linear Championship (Punk)
Starks defeats Punk for feel good upset victory for AEW Linear Championship and now he becomes top dog on Collision.
Punk gracefully, at this time, accepts defeat and congratulates Starks.
At the same time this is all happening MJF & Cole loses to FTR on Collision because of some devious maneuvers from CM Punk which gets Cole injured and Cole takes the pin. During tag team match neither MJF nor Adam Cole turn on each other. MJF is pissed at CM Punk…eventually challenges CM Punk to a match at Wembley Stadium for his AEW World Championship.
Punk, as a heel, defeats MJF at Wembley Stadium with the help of Britt Baker & Adam Cole turning mega heel.
MJF becomes the super star face of the company for next 3-4 years.
New AEW World Champion CM Punk teases he may never go and defend the championship on Dynamite. Khan makes ruling Punk has to show up on Dynamite every week and we get the long story line played out with Punk the heel trying to avoid the elite on the show. This all leads us to stadium filled main event at end of 2024…Punk vs Omega.
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Post by Oh Cry Me a Screwball on Jul 13, 2023 17:44:30 GMT -5
It's going to be real interesting to see how they book these shows, potentially with a lot of people looking at two angles at once, but given how some of these angles seem to be playing out, you can see the seeds for multiple matches being planted right now. The Cole and MJF team is destined to implode, but now we can see Roderick Strong getting jealous leading to the Cole and Strong friendship imploding too. Punk has the bag which should result in a title match, and where else but Chicago would you do it? But of course, he is also involved in the Bullet Club Gold rivalry with FTR. And of course, Omega has no shortage of enemies at the moment. So, I would wager some of the big matches on the show might resemble the following...
All In: MJF defends against Adam Cole, CM Punk vs. Jay White, Kenny Omega vs. Will Ospreay III
All Out: MJF vs. CM Punk in title vs. the bag. Kenny Omega vs. Konosuke Takeshita, Adam Cole vs. Roderick Strong
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Post by markymark on Jul 14, 2023 10:50:43 GMT -5
If it was between BR and a MAX app that is apparently not ready to stream PPV then you pick the lesser of 2 evils.
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