Glad to see the thread is mostly positive on OC. Dude just makes me smile. Confident he'll be used in the right way and should make for some memorable moments.
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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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Fallen out of favor with wrestling due to age and McMahon trying to win investors with the kiddie crap, but interested to at least check out the first show of this when it debuts on TNT.
Please give Attitude-era type wrestling. I want violence, I want blood, I want swearing, and I don't want corny gimmicks and promos.
Please give Attitude-era type wrestling. I want violence, I want blood, I want swearing, and I don't want corny gimmicks and promos.
It should be more adult and hopefully more mature in a good way but I wouldn't expect much blood outside of select PPV matches.
I...am not sure you'll enjoy it if that's what you want in pro wrestling on a regular basis. Impact Wrestling might be your jam if this is what you want, though.
From AEW, you should expect great matches, awesome moves, some gimmicks, angles, and unique and colourful characters mixed with some hardass characters.
The fact he half-arses the thumbs up always makes me laugh too, just such commitment to the character :D
Never actually seen an OC match but saw a while back the clip with Daniels which i instantly loved, saw a few more clips and watched an interview and I absolutely cant wait to see OC in action on AEW TV.
Wouldn't say the person who doesn't want "Corny gimmicks" would want the promotion with Invisible Man.
honestly if you want simple wrestling that's relatively serious and will have a decent amount of blood just watch AAW
Signing Orange Cassidy seems like a smart play. The gimmick isn't really my thing but a lot of people seem to enjoy it. As long as they handle it with care, that can be a fun and unique act that will play well on a viral/social media level to attract eyes to their product. One of the best things about AEW is the variety and this should be an example of a comedy type act that isn't cringe-level like the librarian stuff.
And that's jobbing to Roman Reigns at next years Fastlane!
I'd love to see what Rusev could do away from the WWE. The guy has a good look, he's an agile hoss, is charismatic. It's hard to understand how the WWE doesn't see something in him or can't find a use for him. Well, it's not really surprising, but baffling as usual.
I found the video. It was angelico and Jack Evans. Lol. Dumb me.
Anyway thinking of Rusev, what vkm did to Rusev Day, taking something hot as fuck and burning to the ground because reasons is criminal.
I'm fairly optimistic that nothing like that will happen in AEW. As the Bucks said "sometimes things simply catch fire and there's nothing you can do about it".
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I think he can flex his skills without really changing the gimmick.
Cassidy is going to be featured fairly often I would imagine even if its not every week, I think he's smart enough to know he'll have to switch up the routine more often, probably get into serious mode more often more quickly, not go through every OC spot every match, etc.
I fell down a hour long rabbit hole of Sammi Guevara's youtube vlogs after his latest one appeared on my recommended section
(On an unrelated note, I am also excited to see what Orange Cassidy will bring to AEW)
(On an unrelated note, I am also excited to see what Orange Cassidy will bring to AEW)
They're good! He's a good kid. I wanna protec and take the bumps for him.
He does seem to be a really great dude, I hope he does great things in AEW, ... he is talented enough for sure, best merch in the business too ;)
I'm mad I missed out on the Sammy Guevara Gundam shirt.
Now imagine this week 17 on TV doesn't really sound good
I'll take it.
Only two hours per week. I doubt we'll see him on every episode with a roster of around 50 performers.
Gimmick wrestler like that work when they are indy circuit and people only see him once or twice. They die when they have to do the same thing weekly.
They could hide him in pre-recorded segments and add some layers to his character. Let's give him a chance. I'd say he has more depth than someone like Fandango or Tyler Breeze. We'll see.
I mean those guys were like better a wresltera then him though like he's like boring without the gimmick. For lot like of wreslter like this it's cool the first couple times you see it and then it just gets old.
It'll depend on his promos and who they put him up against. It's not like he's going to be booked as a top guy out of the gate. I'm willing to give AEW the benefit of the doubt for now. I really want to see them succeed.
I can't give them that benefits because I've seen what they do with there comedies / meme wrestler stuff and it's god-awful.
I hope AEW books a 3-way triple threat match between Cassidy, Joey Janela, and Marko Stunt just to troll the f out of Jim Cornette.
It's 2019, not 1989, there's hundreds of Orange Cassidy clips and even full matches out there that everyone can easily watch whenever they want. He's been popular for long enough at this point to know that he isn't just a one note joke or fad, he's a genuinely good comedic wrestler.
He obviously shouldn't be doing his thing every week but then no-one should because that's how you make them uninteresting, just look at how WWE runs almost everything they touch into the ground. That's not a reason why they shouldn't hire comedic wrestlers, it's a reason why they shouldn't have the same guys wrestling every week.
Having said all that, I won't disagree with you about AEW's comedic stuff so far but hopefully they'll eventually learn to leave the comedy to comedic wrestlers who're actually good at it.
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