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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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Crossposting from the main wrestling thread:
Meltzer says Jericho's deal is for three years, and "the most lucrative deal he's ever signed". He's also able to work NJPW and his cruise.
Meltzer says Jericho's deal is for three years, and "the most lucrative deal he's ever signed". He's also able to work NJPW and his cruise.
ohhhhhh man
I wonder if they can land Ibushi with a similar deal. I bet the "Here's a shit load of money.... and you can still work New Japan" contract is going to be very tempting.
I think Ibushi just does not like signing contracts. He is too much of a free spirit for that. I could see him arriving to an accord with NJPW and AEW to do both.
I'm currently being cautiously optimistic in my hopes for AEW being the catalyst to reignite my and my wife's passion in pro wrestling which has been waning in the last few years what with Lucha Underground fizzling to shit and WWE becoming a complete slog to get through outside of PPV's and NXT events.
I think seeing some new faces as well as some old (wife loves Jericho to pieces) in a new atmosphere with hopefully better booking could be what we're looking for.
I think seeing some new faces as well as some old (wife loves Jericho to pieces) in a new atmosphere with hopefully better booking could be what we're looking for.
I can see it happening. Jericho still being able to work with NJPW apparently is a very good sign.
Although Kevin Kelly is overly optimistic on pretty much everything lol
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Yes, NinjaScooter, he does. Is there something wrong with Mr. Waltman?
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He said some cool stuff about Reigns when he had to take his hiatus, that's when I found out his podcast was still poppin.
I was under the impression Jericho had a deal with the WWE when he did the Omega match last year. I could be wrong about that though.
Wrestling cool again? Not when they continue to book stuff like WWE if not even cringier.
I have no doubts about the technical quality it will have or the match quality, but the entertainment so far, at least on All In, BTE and the Rally was WWE to the bone and I don't really like that.
Penis druids and mascot segments are more cringy then cool. Hope they will be a bit more different here in the end.
If you had any more doubts Kenny was coming, Jericho low key confirmed he was.
Jericho says there's multiple tv deals in the works, wouldn't have signed if there wasn't.
Very interested to see how AEW do. If there's a way to watch from outside the US, which I assume there will be, I'll be watching.
The hype made me want to check out All In, but at $40 or £38.99 here (that conversion rate, ouch) the price is kinda high. Maybe it's standard price in the US but even before the network WWE PPVs were £15-£20 here. I apparently have $17 in "Fite credit" so I thought oh cool, £23 or so, I can deal with that. Nope, apparently the entire thing has to be paid for with credits or you get no money off at all. Bizarre system really.
Hopefully it will get a price cut eventually.
The hype made me want to check out All In, but at $40 or £38.99 here (that conversion rate, ouch) the price is kinda high. Maybe it's standard price in the US but even before the network WWE PPVs were £15-£20 here. I apparently have $17 in "Fite credit" so I thought oh cool, £23 or so, I can deal with that. Nope, apparently the entire thing has to be paid for with credits or you get no money off at all. Bizarre system really.
Hopefully it will get a price cut eventually.
I've never seen the version of WWE that's as fun as All In. Even NXT's thing is just "good wrestling" but I wouldn't call it fun.
I'll agree with this.
Hopefully they dump the dumb dick humor come time for a TV deal.
Pretty sure All In is still apart of NJPWorld and that's still ~$10ish a month. Plus you get New Japan out of the deal. Worth.
Oh wow, I didn't realise that! Going to check now, thanks for the heads up. ~$10 a month for All In and WK13 would be an absolute bargain.
Edit: It is indeed, just signed up now. Thanks!
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Do they finally have an actual supported English version/way to sign up?
Ibushi doesn't need money. He'll do whatever he finds fun. If he works for them it'll probably be without a contract.
There is also that thing where he doesn't like going overseas because he always gets lost though, dunno if that will impact his decision lol
I haven't watch wrestling since 2006 i'm hoping does well. btw how us uk fans going to watch Double or Nothing
wee don't even know how us fans not at the arena going to watch it. Gotta wait for more info.
If they do move into the wwe format of one or two TV shows a week and a PPV at the end of the month, wonder how they're going to handle the PPV component.
Because getting people to commit to $39.99 shows a month is probably going to be a tough sell for people who were weaned on the WWE network's pricing.
Tony Khan needs to get on ol' Stone Cold's podcast
WELL GOD DAMN SON YOU'RE SAYIN YOU'RE PUTTING STORYTELLING BACK IN THAT OL 20 BY 20 SQUARED CIRCLE. WHAT'S THE CREATIVE HERE TONY
If he promises that at least one wrestler will use a DDT as his finisher Stone Cold will be on board.
It is just so funny to me that WWE accidentally created potentially their biggest competitor since WCW simply because they refused to let Cody stop being Stardust.
Whoops.
Whoops.
He'd been using it as an entrance theme for his whole New Japan run. It was a theme song for an NXT Takeover a while back too.
In this context though? Its pretty great.
Especially if its unintentional.
Never had any doubt. Naysayers running out of excuses to cling on to.
You can watch it via New Japan World, which costs about £7.50 per month. I would highly recommend you do that, and not just to watch All In!
EDIT: Ahhh, just saw your other post :)
I'm sure he was sold the minute he saw people in dick costumes on parade.
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