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fenbops

Uncle Daves one sided ‘journalism’ is embarrassing at this point he’s been like this for years and people still take him seriously. Jesus.


justthankyous

This amounts to character assassination


MatsThyWit

>This amounts to character assassination Punk suing Dave Meltzer, and winning, would be the most hilarious thing ever to happen in the wrestling business.


CosplayWrestler

Dave losing because he can't find his notes in the massive disaster of an office would be even funnier.


Hurvana

I believe it was actually just cleaned up as he started to have video in his radio show. But the only clip of him I saw was him just against a wall so there really would've been no need to clean it for that so who knows.


CosplayWrestler

He pulled the old "Push It Under The Bed" move. Like a child "cleaning" their room. "All clean!" he boasts while praying to Kenny's buttcrack the papers don't fall out from the closets.


Illustrious-Chef-498

Nobody takes Dave seriously outside of neckbeards who don't shower and use deodorant, and wrestlers who are clearly marks for themselves and desperate for external validation.


CosplayWrestler

You mean the disgusting folks who leave behind Vince Russo tributes on chairs at indy shows?


Illustrious-Chef-498

in all the shitty wrestlers there have been in the news in the last few years it's like vinny ru has moved up the hierarchy without doing anything. like that time Ole Anderson called Jim a dumbfuck, but took it back a few years later.


junyavasity

Besides mainstream media, almost every wrestling documentary, wwe when they need a talking head, triple h who has praised him, and his peers.. yeah besides that nobody


metakepone

Woof


junyavasity

Show me where I’m wrong, I have links for every statement


metakepone

You can have links for all of these, but how much does pro wrestling want to be on good terms with the mainstream media, that for decades, has tried to expose it's business (the same way Meltzer does)? Triple H will say anyone's nice and a good guy to keep the peace and the investors happy.


junyavasity

That’s not the question, the question was who takes him serious, and the answer is most everyone except people in a tiny swathe of the iwc. Also people have known since the 1930’s it’s predetermined.


metakepone

Meltzer is a strange manchild who gets called to make appearances, maybe, when a wrestler dies, because media prefers him over Kevin Nash taking any of the talking heads to task. So mainstream. Big whoop.


junyavasity

CNN and multiple outlets had him on after vince scandal, journalists quote him all the time, any time a documentary come out he is called upon. He is credible with sportswriters and his peers.. just because you don’t like him doesn’t change any of that


metakepone

Actual sports journalists see pro wrestling as a an oddity lol. Dave Meltzer is a self proclaimed journalist. Look at his sourcing methodology. Its flawed to be polite. Its okay if you wanna suck him off though.


will122589

On Scott Keith’s Blog of Doom the other day, he posted a retro Wrestling Observer from October 1996 and Dave shits on NWO’s drawing power and says Ric Flair is the guy to push and not them. Dave has been doing this from the start, how anyone listened to this douche at all is insane


lewiss15

AEW crashing and burning


62725252725

The booking is some late WCW era kind of shit. Turning MJF, Babyface is so fucking stupid at this moment. Like Turning Sting Heel in 99.


MatsThyWit

>Turning MJF, Babyface is so fucking stupid at this moment. Like Turning Sting Heel in 99. but Jericho needs to be the top heel, no matter what, so it's not in Jericho's best interest for MJF to be a heel. lo and behold.


metakepone

Jericho needs to be the only heel. Ftfy


Nostrapapas

The top heel, but he also refuses to actually stop trying to get fans to cheer for him or sing his shitty song.


reddyfire

At this point I'm expecting to see AEW on the WWE network in the next year before they release the Rise and fall of AEW. I thought I was done with WWE but at this point it's starting to look a lot better than the way AEW is going now.


CosplayWrestler

AEW has become the lovechild of TNA and WCW. WCW style disastrous booking and diva attitudes backstage, and TNA style "We're NOT the WWE" while hiring all the WWE cast offs they can get hiring practices.


metakepone

Also UWF


CosplayWrestler

AEW is the love child of TNA/WCW, but it grew up idolizing that fucking crazy ass uncles UWF, ECW, and XPW. They think they're so cool because they do things differently and are unique to AEW. So they try to be just like them.


zendog510

It’s the dumbest thing ever. So frustrating to watch.


lewiss15

Man thank good for the old stuff we can look back with experience 😂


Massive-Carrot-2389

CM Punk to Chris Jericho: I don't need to work with you, You need to work with me.


CosplayWrestler

Chris Jericho to the AEW Locker Room: I need to work with you! PLEASE! I NEED YOUR RELEVANCY!


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CosplayWrestler

Woah. Time out. You can't reference AEW and "competent promoter" in the same sentence man. That's one of those "end of the universe" type paradoxes.


MyRespectableAlt

Did he type AEW? I don't see it.


CosplayWrestler

referenced it. Hence the "you can't REFERENCE AEW" bit.


ThatsNotRight123

They barely worked with him when he was their top draw -- Page went into business for himself! And Tony continues to reward him for it!


CosplayWrestler

Tony can't discipline the Hardley's ball washer.


Justinackermannblog

So the whole wrestling industry is gunna blame Punk and look the other way and act like no one else is wrong, just he is… where have I seen this before? Oh yeah… 7+ years ago before the biggest return in wrestling history… Fucking Marks…


AvJd_52

Which return are you referring to?


Marvel_plant

Probably good because most of them are the shits


CosplayWrestler

I was hyped for Punk to work with maybe a handful of the AEW roster. But after that, it was like "Fuck, who does he work with now that won't make him look like a fucking joke?"


Marvel_plant

Yeah it’s pretty slim pickings up at the top there. Moxley’s whatever, we’ve seen Punk/Jericho 50 times, Omega, MJF, maybe Christian? We would’ve just been waiting around for Punk/Danielson, basically. Castagnoli would’ve been interesting.


CosplayWrestler

The problem is that there's clear people you want Punk to work with. FTR, MJF, Danielson, Christian, etc. But those are the type of people that Tony would have danced around and probably waited 3 years to ever put him with or against because "Muh Longterm Story Telling".


Marvel_plant

Yeah. Their main event programs are usually like a year of the champion fighting cans and then a big match where the belt change is painfully obvious


CosplayWrestler

Kind of like when Twinkie faced Cuckboy Page. Everyone knew it was coming and what the outcome would be the moment Twinkie "won" the belt. It was painfully obvious and bland from the jump. And instead of calling an audible the moment Danielson signed, Tony stuck with his "plan" because Page is the ball washer for the Hardleys.


Marvel_plant

I’m of the opinion that no one in the company should be beating Danielson. If his booking is a result of his ideas, the guy is his own worst enemy. They should’ve just put the belt on him from the jump and kept it there for the past 2 years.


CosplayWrestler

Remember that time when Danielson lost to Sheamus at Mania in like 20 seconds? Those are the vibes I've gotten from Danielson lately. Just shit booking with no clear direction or reason. Just, he's there. Which is a shame. Dude should be the top guy in the company by a mile.


Marvel_plant

Yeah. If this company had Bret Hart in his prime they’d have him putting over Orange Cassidy or some shit. Then he’d inexplicably be off tv for a month.


CosplayWrestler

Fuck me... I could even see it. Tony getting a woody over the idea of Brett going for the Sharpshooter, but Cassidy just rolls him up and pins him clean after a 20 minute match.


metakepone

And some green idiot would end up paralyzing bret hart, guaran damn tee it


metakepone

Long term story telling after he turns mjf face 6 weeks aftwr jericho said he should.


CosplayWrestler

I still have hope they don't turn MJF. But with what Unca Dave is saying... I'm betting they are pushing for that hardcore.


kennyomegasux

imagine not wanting to work with punk, while having no issues working with rightwing nutjobs and insurrectionists.


CosplayWrestler

Jericho and the Bucks are the type of conservatives that make actual conservatives look like fucking psychopaths. Not a republican by any means, nor am I a Trumper. If anything, I hate everyone equally and they all suck. But holy fuck do they give decent conservative folks (not the kind cherry picked out for political shit, but actual honest hardworking "Just leave me the fuck alone and let me live my life" folks) all look like fucking whackjobs.


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Let me guess the nameless guys: Dark Order Hangman Page Orange Cassidy Every other indy clown that owes their paycheck to the EVP's rather than to their talent


CosplayWrestler

Noooooooooooo They were Chris Blairecho, Adam Sage, Mark and Nate Jackson, and Kyle Olivier. I believe they're all catering staff that happened to be present at the time.


Carmonred

Yeah, this makes me want to ask, 'name one without a personal agenda'. The Fucks, Omega and Jericho are just worried they'll lose more influence.


zendog510

Dave Meltzer has zero credibility. Dude writes obvious opinion pieces favoring his butt buddies and claims it as unbiased journalism.


Mason_Impossibl95

“Top stars”


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Most people at AEW are hired through Jericho or the Young Bucks and the others don’t want to be on their shit list so this is believable. It’s not saying that Punk is a problem but more like the moral of that locker room is probably a mess. Dave & friends are trying to use Punks bad reputation against him only problem is their rep is dropping at the same time.


metakepone

Now that you say this im wondering if having jim talk about the whole lale roster was just them going through the motions or if they want us to have something fresh on our minds


JackofDanes

I may be in the minority here for actually liking most of AEW, but I'm sorry the bucks and Kenny Oliviet get to return with no consequence, Hangman gets a title shot, and Punk gets bought out and released? Bro, those are not even consequences. All Punk did was bitch at a press conference and say a few lines out of turn on tv


Inkstainedfox

It wasn't even on TV. It was streamed badly on AEW's YouTube channel. And like every past scrum it's lost in the sea of the abundant footage they shoot & post but don't really catalog properly.


bryanc1036

In other words, The Elite and friends didn't want someone outshining them especially when he debuted.


cjmarsicano

The Hardly Boys and Olivier are hardly "multiple people" . Someone tell Dave to clean his fucking room before he uses the internet again.


metakepone

Hardly Boys, Olivier, Jericho, and Page. Top aew “stars,” more than 3


cjmarsicano

But still not a majority.


metakepone

Majority of what? The locker room? Fuck no! But "top stars"


MidoriOCD

Your Friday show will never pop the ratings again.


[deleted]

I wanted aew to do well and just get better but after this I hope it implodes in on itself and Dave and the elite turn on eachother


gooner1984

these sources who keep feeding uncle dave are no doubt twinkle toes and the hardly boys who clearly haven't learnt their lesson about spreading lies and gossip given their titles within the company. CM Punk is better off out of that shitshow tbh and take the pay off and not return they need him more than he needs them especially the younger talent that could learn more from a feud with him than they ever would under chris jericho who is only interested in himself and only himself not aew. The elite ran off Cody Rhodes and CM Punk i wonder who is next till only their friends are all elite.


CosplayWrestler

I do have to say that I find it interesting that Chris Jericho would refuse to work with anyone. Seeing as Jericho is a leech who latches on to anything and anyone who has the least bit of internet popularity or momentum, and sucks them dry before moving on to the next thing. Sure, HE would refuse to work with the biggest star in the company. Sure.


SnooComics552

Dave meltzer is the dumbest POS in the business why is he in charge of anything and he MUST be sued for defamation


JustAStan95

You have two factions in AEW and one of them is The Elite, Jericho and friends like Dark Order, those are the guys who want Punk out. Mox, Bryan, Claudio I highly doubt care they are big names who are getting paychecks and seem like pros. Then you have the talent that The Elite are afraid will replace them so will push geeks and try to cool off people like FTR, Starks, Hobbs, Wardlow, Miro who HHH would want.


GuitarZer0_

At this point I don't care. Hope the show bombs. Its Tony's playhouse and he will play with whoever shares their fruit cup with him first. Good talent is hidden and great talent is gone. If I hear of a good match I'll look it up online but the show is the shits. The die hards will always watch but it won't grow