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All Elite Wrestling announced; bankrolled by Tony Khan, son of Jacksonville Jaguars and Fullham FC owner Shahid Khan
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Qualitywise? Probably better.
They're looking for a real network deal (not like landing on some obscure channel apparently), hopefully they can get the production values to match it though I would be willing to obviously cut them some slack on that in their first year.
Bandido offer was 250k minimum and wwe backed down from that.
Their main roster pay just became the minimum for indies.
I mean the wwe talent has buy out their contracts or get themselves fired.
All the women should really just walk out in a power move, it is in their best interest, the gap is just too big to wait another contract negotiation.
Thing is, plenty of wrestlers have walked away from WWE mid contract and have had no issues in the subsequent lawsuits (most didn't get that far as WWE had to concede pre-trial), because everyone is a private contractor.
It is just a question on how well you can afford a good lawyer.
Yup, Rey Misterio proved that you don't even need good money to win the dispute. That Pac didn't went there worries me that they have changed something, but the private contracting have been their undoing in the past.
Not sure they are going for that same type of product but we will see. The focus might be more on the in-ring quality, which wasn't really the case for either WwE or WCW during the attitude era. The biggest question for me is what AEW's storytelling look like. Will it be like New Japan? ROH with a bigger budget?
It's all on the Contracts portion of the WWE.com Superstars page
basically none of it is public
all that we know is AJ's contract is coming up this month, so he's due for a massive, massive payday no matter where he goes.
None of that is made public. Its pretty much whatever Meltzer gets his hands on and a few states make them disclose gates.
it's funny because he was champ for so long but didn't headline shit the entire run it seems
I'd say the chance of Kenny going anywhere else than AEW is extremely low.
One of the recent episodes of BTE basically teased at the end that Kenny would be going to AEW. I'd be shocked if he goes anywhere else.
Jesus, imagine the shit storm behind the scenes at wwe if AJ jumps to AEW.
ESPN interviews Cody Rhodes about AEW:
http://www.espn.com/wwe/story/_/id/...estling-origins-future-chris-jericho-path-aew
http://www.espn.com/wwe/story/_/id/...estling-origins-future-chris-jericho-path-aew
Given how much Vince and AJ respect each other, it would be quite the betrayal
I don't think he'd leave unless AEW pays him more than WWE and lets him work fewer dates
It's a money mark promotion that'll get a 1 year TV deal against a company getting money from the two biggest networks in the US for many many years, that have effectively unlimited money to spend on talent and that will soon have sub-brand promotions on three continents to maintain a strangehold on the development of new talent.
It's already over guys, it's cute you think this could ever work.
And the rumour is that he will have the first full time wwe deal with fewer dates, maybe just TV and PPV?
Vince is going to have Cody back in the Stardust costume by the end of next year and The Bucks will be jobbing to Lucha House Party on 205 Live.
Tony "The Mark" Khan will fold like a house of cards once network execs see the audiences getting smaller and smaller from Double or Nothing onwards and he realizes the only channel they're going to get is one less than five people have heard of it and its on in the dead of night and drawing sub 0.3 ratings.
Why would anyone want to go to AEW? TNA failed, Lucha Underground failed, they would just be putting themselves in another hole when they could go to WWE and make guaranteed good money.
Wrestling fans will never get a big business alternative to the WWE, the conditions for that sort of thing to manifest have long passed and the sooner they accept that, the easier it will be on them.
The WWE have everything they need to swat away AEW at every turn. This may be their dream job but its not reality.
Tony "The Mark" Khan will fold like a house of cards once network execs see the audiences getting smaller and smaller from Double or Nothing onwards and he realizes the only channel they're going to get is one less than five people have heard of it and its on in the dead of night and drawing sub 0.3 ratings.
Why would anyone want to go to AEW? TNA failed, Lucha Underground failed, they would just be putting themselves in another hole when they could go to WWE and make guaranteed good money.
Wrestling fans will never get a big business alternative to the WWE, the conditions for that sort of thing to manifest have long passed and the sooner they accept that, the easier it will be on them.
The WWE have everything they need to swat away AEW at every turn. This may be their dream job but its not reality.
All kidding aside, I think its got a better chance than people think. Klonere's post though made me wonder whats the bleakest outlook I could have thought about and typed out.
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I'm less concerned about the quality of the wrestling and more concerned there isn't an audience for what the Young Bucks, Old Man Jericho and Cody Rhodes have to sell. I've read Jericho's books and he has loads of cheesy-as-fuck ideas and the Bucks/Cody, well...I'm just concerned it's going to come out and be this weird parody of wrestling (which is of course a weird parody of real combat sports) like Lucha Underground that will have a bunch of buzz in it's first few years before it dwindles.
This is a concern I have too and is probably the one I focus on the most. Can they attract a larger audience than the ones that go to Indy shows and watch New Japan World. If they are going on a high tier cable company, they are going to be expected to do that.
When the story broke out on AEW, Dave said if they got a TV deal that the "Goal is Mid South Wrestling vibe ". And that it will be the exact opposite of BTE. But nothing has shown me that they are capable of achieving that style seeing as how they are always tongue in cheek.
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Wouldn't get my hopes up on Styles. Five years ago or so he probably would have been all in for AEW to try to reignite that spark from TNA but now AJ is 42, making good money and has a high spot on Mcmahon's roster. He's going to finish out his WWE tenure and retire to be with his family.
If they get Goldberg, it doesn't have to be in a wrestling capacity, he's done color commentary for a number of MMA promotions before. I feel that would be a better use for him given his age, and they can always do the retired color guy stands up for the nonwrestler announcer angle if he wants to get in the ring once in a blue moon and have a match.
I'm very excited that there are no scripted promos. That ruins the WWE. It feels so forced.
That would be hard to do (I'm assuming you mean "Formation of the NWO" time period). I'm betting they will do better than Impact is doing, and probably better than it did when it was TNA. Not having a complete failure like Russo writing sub-Jerry Springer crap already gives many people hope.
Greatly exceed TNA/Impact. WWE hasn't had this kind of reaction to a competing company since WCW. AEW is for real.
It will certainly enjoy some initial success that will dwarf what TNA was doing, but obviously the real test will be if they can sustain a company like that over time. It will be a legitimate challenge to last as long as TNA/Impact has, with their roach-like super power to live on no matter what.
All signs point to AEW. It would be a legit surprise if he did anything else.
Very possible he still does some stuff with NJPW while in AEW. It'll be interesting to see how that relationship shakes out.
They will do much better on the road then TNA does.
Dont know how TV is going to go. Really need to see what kind of presentation they will go for.
AJ has always been a guy who's openly said he'll go where the money is but at his age and considering he seems happy with what WWE does with him, I don't think he'd jump to AEW unless they offered considerably more for him than WWE would. So he's basically in a place where he could say "I'm making enough money" and stick with WWE until retirement.
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