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Is AEW being booked for 14-year-old boys? On Wednesday, Mariah May does a promo with Anna Jay where she makes a clever double entendre about the two of them being T&A — tenacity and aggression… then Anna Jay rolls her eyes and says “Tits and ass?” The next night, Toni Storm does a double-entendre-laced promo about remembering her first time, enjoying the pain, doing it with one person, then two, then three, and even using inanimate objects… then adds, “If you think I’m talking about sexual relations…” The point of a double entendre is that you don’t then immediately explain the joke seconds afterward. Does Tony Khan not understand the joke without having an immediate explainer?
It’s being booked by and for a 42 year old man. That makes it even worse.
Speaking of jokes… Dave Meltzer. No explanation needed. (Solid 3 1/2 star joke, 5 stars if it had been in the Tokyo Dome)
Ouch.
Why is everything in AEW always a blood feud to the death? I liked when Will Osprey joined the company and his promos were along the lines of “We’re gonna have a lot of fun, bruv!” Now he’s afraid for his son’s wellbeing because Kyle Fletcher knows where his kid goes to school. Can’t people just want to win the world title without burning down someone else’s house?
Tony definitely books to the extremes. That’s what happens when a booker is not good at building characters and telling stories, they hotshot. The irony is that when AEW is was supposedly going to be booked like real sports. That died quickly.
I get the concept of Dark Side of the Ring — wrestling true crime stories… but has the true crime audience been watching? Should they keep trying to target the crowd who compulsively listen to murder-mystery podcasts or accept that the audience is wrestling fans? I’ve seen every episode, but I don’t care to focus on the horrible, drug-addled aspects of say Eddie Gilbert, Bam Bam Bigelow, Luna Vachon, Sheri Martel, etc… Is their a happier medium? Even the Earthquake episode seemed to focus too much on “He died of cancer!”
I am the wrong one to ask as I refuse to watch the show. I find the whole concept sleazy. It’s not my thing. I have no idea how to make it better because I don’t watch it. I don’t need to relive people’s tragedies.
Anyone with a journalism 101 background and basic understating of defamation and libel law, coupled with the fact that any idiot with a twitter following and a podcast is destroying the basic tenets of journalism… do you not hope that this college student whose life has been destroyed by Pat McAfee’s defamatory comments takes him to the cleaners? I hope, to wresting fans, she is this generation’s Richard Belzer. Your thoughts?
What Pat did on his show was really wrong in my opinion and it did damage the poor girl. To cite people “reporting it on the internet” was really weak, especially when the “story” is as salacious as what Pat was telling his audience about. I hope she gets a substantial settlement because she was definitely wronged in a big way. Pat needs to be better than that.
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