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Post by "Evil Brood" Jackson Vanik on Aug 4, 2023 16:09:59 GMT -5
If the main event of All Out is MJF/Punk in a title unification match, it should do fine.
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Post by Feargus McReddit on Aug 4, 2023 16:28:53 GMT -5
If the main event of All Out is MJF/Punk in a title unification match, it should do fine. Yeah, unless you want to do something drastic story wise, Punk should face the champion at All Out to sell that show. Doing something like that here would feel like a waste considering how much has already been sold.
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Post by lucaslawless on Aug 4, 2023 17:04:22 GMT -5
Put Grado on Zero Hour for Christ sakes. There is AEW talent that deserve that slot far more. That match has to be a squash with Jarratt winning with a guitar shot and Grado getting a comeuppance afterwards if anything. Personally, Id stick The Elite in a 4 man tag with BCC or similar just so there is more room on the card. Jericho/Ospray and Omega/Takeshita is any hour gone easily if not more with entrances. Where's Cassidy? Guevara? I honestly cant see The Acclaimed not being a part of it with Billy Gunn returning just for the obvious. Sting? Darby?! That card is way off.. I'm just completely brainstorming with this but we don't even have enough time on the card unless they're going for short match times Adam Cole Vs MJF Chris Jericho Vs Kenny Omega The Bucks Vs FTR Punk vs Jay White House of Black vs Blackpool Combat Club Ospray vs Danielson The Outcasts Vs Shida, Britt Baker and a returning Hayter Orange Cassidy Vs Sammy Guevara Jack Perry Vs Taz/Hook (with help from ECW Alumni) Zero Hour Lucha Bros Vs Hardyz (Can Jeff Fly to the UK?) Vs The Acclaimed vs The Gunns and Juice Robinson vs The Dark Order vs 2point0 Grado (if you have to) Vs Jarrett Plus surprises, plus a couple of promo's at least.. Whens the curfew/kick out 10:30pm?! Surely they'll have to go with 7 matches at the most. Of course we could have some great 10 minute matches to give a large card.
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Post by Zone Was Wrong on Aug 4, 2023 17:07:25 GMT -5
I'll be honest, outside of mentions on here, I do not know who Grado is. So can't say I'm too interested in any match with them in it at the moment.
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Post by lucaslawless on Aug 4, 2023 17:24:43 GMT -5
I'll be honest, outside of mentions on here, I do not know who Grado is. So can't say I'm too interested in any match with them in it at the moment. Likewise, I knew from a related YouTube search that he used Like A Prayer as his entrance. I get that hes big in Scotland but he isnt big enough for a spot on the card imo.
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Post by KME on Aug 4, 2023 18:25:31 GMT -5
Put Grado on Zero Hour for Christ sakes. There is AEW talent that deserve that slot far more. That match has to be a squash with Jarratt winning with a guitar shot and Grado getting a comeuppance afterwards if anything. Personally, Id stick The Elite in a 4 man tag with BCC or similar just so there is more room on the card. Jericho/Ospray and Omega/Takeshita is any hour gone easily if not more with entrances. Where's Cassidy? Guevara? I honestly cant see The Acclaimed not being a part of it with Billy Gunn returning just for the obvious. Sting? Darby?! That card is way off.. I'm just completely brainstorming with this but we don't even have enough time on the card unless they're going for short match times Adam Cole Vs MJF Chris Jericho Vs Kenny Omega The Bucks Vs FTR Punk vs Jay White House of Black vs Blackpool Combat Club Ospray vs Danielson The Outcasts Vs Shida, Britt Baker and a returning Hayter Orange Cassidy Vs Sammy Guevara Jack Perry Vs Taz/Hook (with help from ECW Alumni) Zero Hour Lucha Bros Vs Hardyz (Can Jeff Fly to the UK?) Vs The Acclaimed vs The Gunns and Juice Robinson vs The Dark Order vs 2point0 Grado (if you have to) Vs Jarrett Plus surprises, plus a couple of promo's at least.. Whens the curfew/kick out 10:30pm?! Surely they'll have to go with 7 matches at the most. Of course we could have some great 10 minute matches to give a large card. There's no chance they put the Elite with BCC, their feud is done. Think you're getting a bit too worried about 'the card', it's mostly just Meltzer guessing based on what he's seen on TV, it wasn't long ago he was telling everyone the plan wasn't to do a Pillars 4 way and that it looked like it was just going to be MJF vs Darby. You've listed a few people there who likely won't make the show because of injury too, don't think Jamie is even close to making it and I don't think there much chance of Danielson either.
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Post by markymark on Aug 4, 2023 21:24:24 GMT -5
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Post by Some Guy on Aug 4, 2023 22:26:13 GMT -5
If the main event of All Out is MJF/Punk in a title unification match, it should do fine. This is why the thought here of Punk/Kenny and MJF/Cole with the winners facing off a week later was a good idea. Hell what does Kenny even do if the Takeshita match is at All In instead of All Out? I cannot even possibly feign excitement for Kenny/Jericho again if that's it.
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Post by Feargus McReddit on Aug 5, 2023 6:03:20 GMT -5
Anyone with a AEW Plus subscription, check your inboxes because they’re giving you 20% off the price of the PPV.
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Post by HMARK Center on Aug 5, 2023 6:26:14 GMT -5
I'll be honest, outside of mentions on here, I do not know who Grado is. So can't say I'm too interested in any match with them in it at the moment. Comedy wrestler from Scotland who got himself incredibly over in the UK, worked TNA for awhile, and does acting, hosting, and stage stuff outside of wrestling. Really no reason for people to be freaking about him being on the card, potentially, dude will appear and isn’t exactly going to be devouring a ton of screen time, but he helps generate a little more buzz for an already big show, especially among Scottish fans.
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Post by Mid-Carder on Aug 5, 2023 6:41:16 GMT -5
I'll be honest, outside of mentions on here, I do not know who Grado is. So can't say I'm too interested in any match with them in it at the moment. Comedy wrestler from Scotland who got himself incredibly over in the UK, worked TNA for awhile, and does acting, hosting, and stage stuff outside of wrestling. Really no reason for people to be freaking about him being on the card, potentially, dude will appear and isn’t exactly going to be devouring a ton of screen time, but he helps generate a little more buzz for an already big show, especially among Scottish fans. There is a reason to freak out when he's taking up a spot that could have gone to someone employed by AEW. It doesn't need to generate a buzz, they sold over 70,000 tickets before there was even a match announced.
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Post by Feargus McReddit on Aug 5, 2023 6:48:37 GMT -5
Comedy wrestler from Scotland who got himself incredibly over in the UK, worked TNA for awhile, and does acting, hosting, and stage stuff outside of wrestling. Really no reason for people to be freaking about him being on the card, potentially, dude will appear and isn’t exactly going to be devouring a ton of screen time, but he helps generate a little more buzz for an already big show, especially among Scottish fans. There is a reason to freak out when he's taking up a spot that could have gone to someone employed by AEW. It doesn't need to generate a buzz, they sold over 70,000 tickets before there was even a match announced. I mean, I just don’t think there’s a real harm in it especially since, logically, it isn’t going to take up much time if it does happen (because, again, we were all kicking up a fuss about RVD appearing all last week and that doesn’t seem to be happening). If you can get a portion of the people who sell out shows he does appear in if you do announce him, you can hit and exceed that WM 32 record that’s looming closer.
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Post by lucaslawless on Aug 5, 2023 6:51:05 GMT -5
Put Grado on Zero Hour for Christ sakes. There is AEW talent that deserve that slot far more. That match has to be a squash with Jarratt winning with a guitar shot and Grado getting a comeuppance afterwards if anything. Personally, Id stick The Elite in a 4 man tag with BCC or similar just so there is more room on the card. Jericho/Ospray and Omega/Takeshita is any hour gone easily if not more with entrances. Where's Cassidy? Guevara? I honestly cant see The Acclaimed not being a part of it with Billy Gunn returning just for the obvious. Sting? Darby?! That card is way off.. I'm just completely brainstorming with this but we don't even have enough time on the card unless they're going for short match times Adam Cole Vs MJF Chris Jericho Vs Kenny Omega The Bucks Vs FTR Punk vs Jay White House of Black vs Blackpool Combat Club Ospray vs Danielson The Outcasts Vs Shida, Britt Baker and a returning Hayter Orange Cassidy Vs Sammy Guevara Jack Perry Vs Taz/Hook (with help from ECW Alumni) Zero Hour Lucha Bros Vs Hardyz (Can Jeff Fly to the UK?) Vs The Acclaimed vs The Gunns and Juice Robinson vs The Dark Order vs 2point0 Grado (if you have to) Vs Jarrett Plus surprises, plus a couple of promo's at least.. Whens the curfew/kick out 10:30pm?! Surely they'll have to go with 7 matches at the most. Of course we could have some great 10 minute matches to give a large card. There's no chance they put the Elite with BCC, their feud is done. Think you're getting a bit too worried about 'the card', it's mostly just Meltzer guessing based on what he's seen on TV, it wasn't long ago he was telling everyone the plan wasn't to do a Pillars 4 way and that it looked like it was just going to be MJF vs Darby. You've listed a few people there who likely won't make the show because of injury too, don't think Jamie is even close to making it and I don't think there much chance of Danielson either. Im not worried at all. Im discussing possible scenarios.. As for injuries, thats always how surprise returns happen!
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Post by An Dog On An Skateboard on Aug 5, 2023 6:54:46 GMT -5
I'll be honest, outside of mentions on here, I do not know who Grado is. So can't say I'm too interested in any match with them in it at the moment. Comedy wrestler from Scotland who got himself incredibly over in the UK, worked TNA for awhile, and does acting, hosting, and stage stuff outside of wrestling.Really no reason for people to be freaking about him being on the card, potentially, dude will appear and isn’t exactly going to be devouring a ton of screen time, but he helps generate a little more buzz for an already big show, especially among Scottish fans. This is what makes it totally understandable for me, he's the closest thing they'll have to a mainstream crossover star. I'm personally fine with it, he'll do his big entrance on an undercard match to pop people and then have a short match. It's fine.
When it first got announced one of my friends suggested they should book DBS Jr. for it too, for a similar reason: he's got the link back to the last Wembley Stadium show and he wouldn't have to do much, just be part of the publicity as a callback to Summerslam '92 and maybe be part of an undercard match just to sell the show to casuals.
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Post by Feargus McReddit on Aug 5, 2023 6:58:26 GMT -5
Comedy wrestler from Scotland who got himself incredibly over in the UK, worked TNA for awhile, and does acting, hosting, and stage stuff outside of wrestling.Really no reason for people to be freaking about him being on the card, potentially, dude will appear and isn’t exactly going to be devouring a ton of screen time, but he helps generate a little more buzz for an already big show, especially among Scottish fans. This is what makes it totally understandable for me, he's the closest thing they'll have to a mainstream crossover star. I'm personally fine with it, he'll do his big entrance on an undercard match to pop people and then have a short match. It's fine. When it first got announced one of my friends suggested they should book DBS Jr. for it too, for a similar reason: he's got the link back to the last Wembley Stadium show and he wouldn't have to do much, just be part of the publicity as a callback to Summerslam '92 and maybe be part of an undercard match just to sell the show to casuals.
Considering he’ll be wrestling at PROGRESS on the Saturday, I’m 99.99% sure he and the rest of the family will be at All In. At the very least for Schiavone to greet them onto the stage to take everything in.
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Post by markymark on Aug 5, 2023 7:16:21 GMT -5
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Post by Mid-Carder on Aug 5, 2023 7:59:17 GMT -5
I don't think it's as complicated as "Tony's trying it again". I think All Out was booked in ages ago and All In had to fit in with Wembley scheduling and British weather.
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Post by lucaslawless on Aug 5, 2023 8:08:18 GMT -5
Has everyone ordered a poncho yet?
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Post by ssdrivin on Aug 5, 2023 9:16:21 GMT -5
I don't think it's as complicated as "Tony's trying it again". I think All Out was booked in ages ago and All In had to fit in with Wembley scheduling and British weather.
May have had something to do with WWE muscling in on the summer schedule in the UK with Money in the Bank.
That kind of came out of the blue, plus AEW took for-freakin'-ever to actually follow up on their "we're coming to London!" stuff.
Seems pretty plausible to me that they'd intended on coming earlier in the year, WWE pre-empted their plans, and they had to fit it in where they could so that it didn't clash with WWE, other Wembley events, the football, or bad weather, and the spot they had to choose was the one they booked.
Speaking of weather, if the "summer" we're having right now is any indication, it might be a little damp three weeks from now...
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Post by Feargus McReddit on Aug 5, 2023 9:29:15 GMT -5
I don't think it's as complicated as "Tony's trying it again". I think All Out was booked in ages ago and All In had to fit in with Wembley scheduling and British weather. May have had something to do with WWE muscling in on the summer schedule in the UK with Money in the Bank. That kind of came out of the blue, plus AEW took for-freakin'-ever to actually follow up on their "we're coming to London!" stuff. Seems pretty plausible to me that they'd intended on coming earlier in the year, WWE pre-empted their plans, and they had to fit it in where they could so that it didn't clash with WWE, other Wembley events, the football, or bad weather, and the spot they had to choose was the one they booked. Speaking of weather, if the "summer" we're having right now is any indication, it might be a little damp three weeks from now...
Oh yeah, the moment AEW were first talking about the UK dates, June was the only month that really made much sense. There was no real sport to worry about in the UK, no pre-season for the Jags or Fulham to worry about or even any dealings needed to be done before those, it was away from most of the major shows etc but I don’t feel it’s a coincidence talks stopped the moment MITB got announced and didn’t kick off again until much later. I’m not even going to say that was intentional but considering what we know about contracts with arenas and the like, it’s really hard to rule it out either.
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