Whatever makes the community better, so I vote we leave since this has been an issue for quite some time.
It's been a while since we had a TK announcement, but I feel like the IWC is at its best when we are speculating and not trying to tear each other down. So let's all put down
Something you think the announcement is
Something you HOPE it is
Something you HOPE it isn't.
I'll go first!
I think the announcement is
Mercedes signing
I HOPE the announcement is
A streaming deal on Max (I hate the TNT/TBS apps)
I hope it's not
A PPV in April (there's no need for it, let the fall out of Revolution be a factor in the storylines until Double or Nothing)
I would love if she just keeps going down the spiral and eventually on a match where she loses the title she comes out on Grey make up, and as it wears off in the match she just loses her mind and then the title and she's left in the middle of the ring stripped of everything she was.
(I love the character, and I think when it's time to retire the gimmick it deserves to be a spectacle).
Holy shit that robe on Taya and Johnny being the himbo hype man!
I was hoping Fletcher would go over. It's time for Jericho to acknowledge that it's his time to put over mid card talent.
It reminds me of Bobby Heenan and it's one of the many reasons I love Taz.
It's hideous! I mean I wasn't a fan of the green power ranger themed stuff that Aussie Open wore but this is a major downgrade.
Yeah I'm replying to myself but I think I nailed it, Fletcher's gear reminds me of a dirty bandaid.
Who the hell made that gear for Fletcher? It's the least flattering thing I've seen since Bastion Booger. Sometimes it looks like pantyhose sometimes it's a shade of vomit with a curious red streak on the rear.....
I legit thought it was going to be an upset after that deadeye, he looked great especially in that spot.
Is "The Ocho" a reference to the amount of NDA's or times Jericho has attached himself to someone so he can stay relevant?
Posting The_Soub's pick em sheet from SQ
What are your predictions for tonight's show?
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Mercedes Monet shows up and makes her presence known to the AEW women's champ
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Luchasaurus wins the 20 man battle Royale, cashes in tonight and depending who he beats for it, effectively holds the belt for Christian Or reunites with Jungleboy
-Devil is unmasked, it is the very evil version of Danhausen who will play a Jekyll and Hyde character one is our very nice very evil, the other is more akin to the phantom of the opera terrorizing others from behind the scenes. (Yeah not happening but I wouldn't mind seeing it)
-We see some surprise free agents in the 20 man battle Royale
Sometimes there's a performer that just adds a little something to a standard move that takes it from a regular move to something that could be a finisher..
Like Athena, I've been catching up on Final Battle and God damn her shotgun drop kick looks like the most vicious and impactful run of the mill move out there right now. I don't know if it's just her frame and the way she looks when she bends her legs in or if she's just had great camera angles but ever since she went with this aggressive heel angle it's been one of the nastiest looking moves on TV.
Who has or had a move like that for you?
Rampage has become the "C" show and RoH is "developmental" that's only available on a streaming app.
With the TV/Streaming deal coming up in 2024 it makes perfect sense to merge these two, and brand it as a 2 hour show. I feel like the biggest issue with RoH is that it's AEW...but not. So you see some people show up, but if you want to follow them you need a subscription. A streaming app for a single weekly TV show with a subscription can be a hard pill to swallow for a lot of people, especially considering RoH doesn't have that type of presence.
Keep the titles as RoH, find a way to keep the name and preserve the history, but take all the good from RoH and Rampage I think you could have a banger of a 2 hour show. Follow the early NXT/Takeover playbook and you could have a killer developmental show that isn't the "C" show, but the chance to catch the up and coming talent and the beginning of feuds that could last years across all three shows over time.
So TK being TK we have a super hyped signing coming up on Saturday. We know it's not Kota since he just signed. I was originally thinking it's gotta be Osprey but with Rousey getting attacked with the ROH title.... I'm starting to think it's her. What do you guys think?
Osprey? Mercedes? Rhonda? Someone else?
Is Copeland it? Don't get me wrong I'm psyched for him especially with the vacuum that No Chill Phil created.
That being said I was expecting
Some NJPW related announcement
Or
A streaming announcement
Or
An updated PPV schedule
I'm really hoping they announce something to kick off the 4 year dynamite anniversary tonight. It's refreshing not having a "Tony Kahn has a huge announcement" every few weeks but this "New Era" talk prior to wrestledream is pretty mid.
Put your sports & movies knowledge to the test and try to fill out an immaculate grid! New grid every day!
I don't know how familiar others are with these grid games that have popped up but this is the only wrestling one I've seen. The concept is simple it's a 3x3 grid and you need to figure out a wrestler who for instance was NXT and US Champion. It sounds easy but the real challenge is getting the rarest picks. You can bulldoze through a lot of them with big names that have had long careers, but picking guys that no one remembers is very satisfying.
It's a fun daily challenge (refreshes around noon EST) and I think a bunch of us would have fun doing this and discussing.
Thoughts?
Also I'm ranked 65 with a score of 19 đ
I feel like it's looking rougher by the day. I was catching up on collision and that GTS on Joe was trash, and I feel like this has been the case for the entirety of his return. It just looks really bad, I have a friend coming over he doesn't watch wrestling but with as big an event as this is he is going to come by and check it out and I feel like I'm going to have to explain what was supposed to happen should Punk "hit" the GTS.
No idea why you are getting so much hate. Anyone who has been taught how to handle a firearm knows to treat every weapon as if it was loaded. It doesn't matter if it's a training firearm which can be a very bright color and has parts visibly drilled out so you can see it will not function, guns firing blanks, an airsoft gun, even something like a pneumatic nail gun, etc. Verify the source of ammunition is empty and there is not a round in the chamber visibly and physically.
I'm not saying everyone in the world should know this, but anyone handling any form of firearm should. Alec Baldwin has been in enough movies and shows where guns were handled that he must have been taught this and seen it as the protocol multiple times.
This is gun safety and it's not a bad thing,.I'm not a huge gun fan myself but promoting firearm safety isn't anything to look down on.
I've gone full soapbox preacher on federation of late, but it almost feels like trying to explain the internet to someone without a computer in 1998. It's amazing the amount of people who have said stuff like
"Yeah but YouTube can't just do whatever they want on the platform...."
Hopefully Threads will be the wake up call for the masses.
I was saying this from day one, we aren't teachers or nurses or someone who may feel they owe society some information about their strike.
People literally could not promise to stay away from a website for a week. The strike should have been indefinite it was our chance to try and save it. Now it's lost to me.
When AEW Fight Forever I had friends asking if I was going to preorder a game they knew I was buying digitally.
Our games are digital and we cannot run out of stock
We can buy them on our platforms at a moments notice, from the comfort of our homes. The days of lining up at a store until midnight is over. Therefore there is no reason to preorder, if there is a bonus that you must have wait until the last moment read every preview and buy it minutes to release, but remember anything that is given away as a bonus that is separate from the base game is almost always frivolous and doesn't really contribute to the game in any real way.
I don't know if I would wear a dress, but I'm all for making skirts gender neutral.
Connect has been a great app and I feel like it doesn't get the love it deserves.
Thank you for your sacrifice, I am sorry for your loss.
Since this place seems to be picking up what are your wrestling hot takes over the eras?
-If Hogan didn't screw Mr Perfect out of the Royal Rumble win in XX he would have gone to be in the conversation with Bret, and HBK.
-Bret would have always became the man he is regardless of Goldberg.
-DX really wasn't that great but they had a theme and a look that worked, and every subsequent trip to the well just got worse and worse.
-If NJPW and AEW really wants to grow their American audience they need to make anthology videosthat cover feuds or longer storylines cap them at 20 minutes and put them on YouTube. No new viewer is going to watch hundreds of hours to understand who Kota is or what Moxley is talking about when he says "Chikara bullshit" to Eddie Kingston.
-Adam Cole needs to gain just enough so he doesn't have baby knees. I love the guy but when he lowers that knee bad I just wanna go "awww".
-Let Keith Lee look the way he wants, old man Lee was a great look.