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Thoughts on Carlito’s heel turn?
Since I trust Paul Levesque’s booking, I want to see where it goes. When Rey picked Dragon Lee over Carlito, I immediately thought that it should tick Carlito off. It would make sense. So when we found out that it did, it was logical. Now I need to see where it goes but so far, it makes perfect sense. Now if the question is should they have turned him, then I wonder a bit. He got great face pops coming back and there could have been more juice there, but I won’t fully judge the turn until I see where they take it. Carlito has always been really good as a heel so that may be the thinking here.
Does the Young Bucks' heel turn indicate that they've only figured out just recently how loathed they are?
If only we could be so lucky. Their self awareness is nonexistent. But, Tony Khan loves them so they get chosen over someone like CM Punk, who actually increased AEW business instead of making people turn off the show. Unbelievable, but also the perfect example of why AEW keeps backsliding. It just seems like if there is a wrong decision to make, Tony Khan is the man for the job.
Here's an idea, since Dave Meltzer wants to be part of the wrestling business so bad, and obviously Tony Khan is taking Uncle Dave's advice, why doesn't Tony just sign Meltzer to a million dollar contract and get it over with? He can sign Meltzer, put him in a meaningless segment on Dynamite that won't move the needle. He's already doing that with the multimillion dollar talent he has already, so what's another useless segment that doesn't mean a thing going to matter, right? Just sign Dave so that way he can finally live his dream of finally being part of the wrestling business in a company that's sinking like the titanic.
I have seen a lot of people say that Meltzer is or should be on AEW’s payroll. This subject came up on my twitter over the weekend and I will share here what I said there. First and foremost, Tony should not put Meltzer anywhere near a TV camera. Listening to him on his audios is painful enough, we don’t need to see him too. With that said, here’s the thing. He is certainly not on the AEW payroll. While Meltzer has way too much influence on Tony Khan, at least where the direction of his product is concerned, I don’t believe he is at all altruistic toward AEW when he constantly makes ridiculous, unquantifiable excuses for them and shares skewed “reports” about he company. I think the reason that he has become what he has become, and the laughingstock of wrestling reporting to people who want fair, balanced coverage, is because he has said for years that if a Japanese style, work rate based product ever came along it would become THE product because that’s what wrestling fans really wanted to see. He thought that because HE liked it, that would have to mean that the masses do as well (yes, hubris at its worst). He staked his reputation on that belief and made a number of statements about how AEW would show the world he was right when they started…….and he has been proven 100 percent wrong. So here he is, just months away from being able to get Medicare, and everything he has been championing for years has blown up in his face. In my view, he has been proven wrong and he doesn’t want to admit it. So instead, he doubles down on promoting that his vision of wrestling is what the masses want to see, even though AEW has shown that it isn’t. That style has its fans, but it’s a subset of the overall fan base, not the majority, not even close. When called on it, he lashes out at people on Twitter in pompous and condescending fashion. So at the end of the day, my belief is that his cheerleading for AEW is not about promoting Tony Khan, it’s about him desperately hoping that he can be proven right about having his pulse on the wrestling business while probably realizing deep down inside that he doesn’t. It has to be a blow to the ego of a senior citizen who thought for his whole career that was THE expert on the wrestling business, only to find out that he is anything but. So with that said, I am going to do my best to steer away from his antics. He is what he is, and I know what he is. Unless he does something egregious, I don’t see the need to answer questions about him any longer. All I can add is that if Khan wants his product to grow, he needs to make it appealing to the masses not cater to an out of touch old man.
What has happened to Jamie Hayter? She was one of the few I’ve seen genuinely get over in AEW and barely been seen for nearly a year now?
All I heard back when she lost the Title was that she was out with some kind of medical issue. I don’t know any more than that.
I'm curious to get your thoughts on the recent shots MJF has taken at Punk and Lesnar recently. Is this more of AEW taking shots at WWE or could this be MJF laying groundwork for a debut in WWE?
As far as I know Max is signed to AEW. I haven’t seen the shots that he is taking so I can’t comment on them. It doesn’t seem like a WWE kind of thing to do to me. Punk is already engaged with Drew McIntyre. Who knows when, or if, Brock will even be back. So if I am making an educated guess, it’s just Max doing what AEW people do, nipping at the heels of the big dog, which will be ignored.
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