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So Dipshit Dave and Braindead Bryan rip two women for doing the same exact thing that they routinely give five stars to when it happens in AEW. No wonder they have to keep raising prices to make up for lost subscribers. What a pair of shill clown sellouts.
"This was a very very heavily choreographed gymnastics display that was disguised as a wrestling match."
So it’s ok when this happens on AEW all the time, but when Sol Ruca & Kelani Jordan do it it’s “not wrestling” 💀
The hypocrisy is next level
This is what the end of
@AEW
looks like. CM Punk was right, this is not run like a business, to make money. It's run by a goof who was "afraid for his life" for no reason at all. I am so glad I watched this at my friend's house so that they didn't get a Nielsen hit from me.
No matter what this garbage turns out to be, it’s proof that
@TonyKhan
should not be booking a wrestling company. It’s every bit as bad as Adam Copeland’s embarrassing Dynamite promo. It does nothing to advance storylines or improve business. Tony makes it easy to loathe AEW.
Giovanni Vinci suffers a head injury and WWE's doctor goes in and stops the match. Jon Moxley suffers a head injury and AEW has him not only work the whole match, but also take two finishers. Who has the safest workplace in wrestling again
@TonyKhan
?
After hearing Kenny Omega's interview that's on the site, it's now pretty clear Kenny wasn't the one feeding the lies that Dave Meltzer reported as "fact" in his rag. I guess it's also pretty clear why Dave divorced Kenny and anointed Ospreay as his new bestie.
#CleanYourOffice
“WWE has decided against bringing in CM Punk.”
Uncle Dave, a short while ago.
Just when you think he can't butcher another story worse than the last one he got wrong, he shows you that he can take being inept to new depths. That's a talent folks.
I turned on
@AEW
Dynamite and saw Adam Copeland clearly giving a much-needed on-air hug back to
@TonyKhan
. Unlike in recent weeks, I turned it off immediately. If your response to bad recent business is to double down on the bad stuff you are doing, you don’t deserve my Nielsen #
People ask me why I continue to point out the horrible things that Dave Meltzer does. Here's why. He and Bryan "report" that Pat McAfee wasn't at Raw as part of an angle when, as you all know, he had a death in the family. It's just egregious how irresponsible they are.
Yesterday
@MikePWInsider
and I talked about my non love of Will Ospreay. This is shit to me. It’s not pro wrestling. Pro Wrestling is about making a fake fight seem real. To me this is two dopes who would get knocked out in seconds in a real fight, like Matt and Nick.
Nice to see that Tony Khan, AEW and The Young Bucks have gotten over CM Punk. Jesus, that promo, they never learn. He is still a huge part of their show, even though he is long gone. He hit the nail on the head when he said he worked with children.
Some AEW fans.....my God they are dim. They honestly believe that if the company posts this before a show it absolves them of all liability if a fan gets hurt and they had no problem "educating me" to that "fact". That is just a different kind of stupid.
Can someone, SOMEONE, in AEW's inner circle please tell
@TonyKhan
that win-loss records don't matter in a WORKED SPORT. Only the geekiest of the geeks care what Hook, or anyone else's record, is. People care about wrestlers that they invest in emotionally, not a cold statistic.
A double standard:
@730hook
28-1 career record, on winning streak calls out the Champ, a logical challenge sparks online outrage
Jinder has literally lost every single match he's in for the past year, immediately gets title shot, where is the rage
#AEWDynamite
TOMORROW on TBS
If you are young and don't think COVID will get you, take a look at the Vancouver Canucks. Young, healthy athletes and it is wiping them out. The new strains seem to be adapting to younger people. Be careful.
OK,
@TonyKhan
it's time to stop listening to Uncle Dave and his nephew when they say Dynamite is great. Start listening to people who give you constructive criticism. All time lows for Dynamite have to wake you up, right?
If I worked for AEW and heard Tony Khan say today that his company is in great shape because it does so well with a 100 or so hardcore fans on Cagematch, I would definitely start saving my money (and reaching out to WWE or TNA). I can see why important people have left that mess.
OK, I take back everything positive I said about
@TonyKhan
's decision to fire
@CMPunk
. If you really felt that your life was in danger, damn man, you have led a charmed life. You allowed soft babies to whine about fake persecution. Now I get why. You are just like them.
AEW is the safest place to work in wrestling. Sure it is. I am so glad I didn’t spend 50 bucks to support this. Darby is a moron and Tony Khan is an enabler, at best.
Boy,
@TonyKhan
had been so good on Twitter lately. Then, he had to go and attack
@EBischoff
like petulant baby. As long as Tony acts like a message board troll, AEW has no chance of ever being much more than it is now. Follow HHH's lead Tony. You know, focused and professional.
So first
@TonyKhan
makes himself a character on his own show, which he vowed to never do. Then he takes one of the fakest, worst looking bumps ever. Dream fulfilled. Now he is calling WWE Harvey Weinstein. Is anyone else seriously wondering if Tony knows the end is near for AEW?
They sure do. They need to look in the mirror and say, "THANK GOD we didn't spend all of that money, only to see AEW unable to break 800,000 viewers on Dynamite both weeks after signing them!" Is Uncle Dave writing for the Post now? It's a logical next step for him.
Man, this one popped me big time. Uncle Dave is such a clueless fraud and whoever it was that responded hit the nail on the head. Meltzer isn't even hiding his agenda anymore. It must be that the shoe polish he puts in his hair has reached the cerebellum.
#CleanYourOffice
Here's today edition of why Dave Meltzer is a clueless douche who has no social skills and must have a small package because he can't ever admit when he's wrong. He knows the whole story, in his mind, but never reached to
@MikePWInsider
to see if it was true.
#CleanYourOffice
This shows why Dave Meltzer is a moron. He is so easily played and jumps to conclusions, then turns it into a "fact". He's such a simp that he falls for the trap HHH set with the comment. Now, we call get to laugh at Meltzer for being an easily played rube!
#CleanYourOffice
I am laughing at Tony Khan's outrage to Rossy Ogawa allegedly "funneling" talent to WWE. What is there to funnel? For instance, if Giulia has the option to go to WWE or AEW, no funneling is needed. You can go to the big time...or AEW.
For a year and a half, every day that poor Adam Page came to work, he felt a black CM Punk cloud was hanging over his head. God, that passive aggressive baby crap makes it really hard for me to watch AEW. Hey Lollipop Guild, you won. Get over it you babies.
You know, it's almost a full day later and I am still stoked about WrestleMania XL. I am eligible for Social Security and yet I feel like a kid. There is no better form of entertainment when it's done properly than professional wrestling. Thanks again
@WWE
.
AJ Styles just blasted the shoe polish off of the top of that clueless, arrogant prick Uncle Dave's head! He ain't wrong either. Meltzer knows what a five star match is to a small portion of the fan base. He has no clue what appeals to the masses and, you know, makes money.
Interesting to see the reaction to how HHH handled the Vince questions. I don't know what people expected him to say, unless they don't understand business and the system. Of course, some people who are attacking HHH said absolutely nothing about fur hatted Tony Khan.
#Agenda
I guess Uncle Dave thought I was kidding when I told him to cancel his Elite sub before it renewed next month. I allowed him to have it as a professional courtesy (I haven't paid for his work in decades). He stopped being professional, he no longer gets courtesy so I canceled it.
Well, WrestleMania is over so we can get back to our regularly scheduled segment of Dave Meltzer not only reporting a lie, but not even bothering to reach out to Mike Johnson to ask if it was true. He is the shits, he really is. What a clown. Be Better.
For those of you thinking of getting into journalism of any kind, if you want to be professional, this exactly what you never do. Dave Meltzer is an embarrassment....not to my business because he is not in wrestling journalism....but rather to himself.
A truly pathetic anonymous quote to post after all the disturbing PUBLICLY NAMED allegations this week. A perfect example of how easy Meltzer is to fool with the most obvious ax to grind agenda gossip that he's lived off the past 40 years. A new low for you,
@davemeltzerWON
.
I literally loved everything about the main event. You can't have a five star match without a five star storyline. They delivered it. Overall, night one of Mania kicked ass.
So Dave Meltzer interprets Cody's supposed agenda where CM Punk is concerned, then says people make up agendas for his buddies The Young Bucks. Dave, you are a clown, a full one circus clown.
Did anybody else interpret Cody Rhodes RAW promo saying, "welcome back" to CM Punk as Cody sticking up for his buddies, The Young Bucks, and a "f*ck you" to Punk, or was it just Dave?? 😭😭
No matter what
@TonyKhan
airs tonight he looks like a moron. If Punk did what he said and choked Perry?Moron. If it shows nothing new? Moron. If Punk slapped 20 people? He looks like a super big moron for being so stupid and not addressing the Elite-Punk situation to begin with.
I just listened to Born To Run as I cleaned the garage and had a cocktail. You can learn a lot from people in your life, and also from people you don’t even know. Bruce Springsteen changed my life. “It’s a town full of losers and I’m pullin’ outta here to win”. Amen my sensei.
I just made it through Dynamite. It's a good thing that they already sold the tickets for All In. Numerous run-ins, a Jericho angle that made no logical sense, at least two blade jobs and the Chainsaw match. It was like watching what would happen if Vince Russo took acid.
Gotta love
@CMPunk
putting over
@TheJimCornette
on Raw. It's a shame that there are tribes in pro wrestling, but there are so it's always interesting to see where people stand.
I want to thank
@TonyKhan
for bringing CM Punk back to the business so that he could end up back in WWE and do the face off I just saw with Seth Rollins. It wasn’t his intention but that isn’t my problem, it’s his. Damn. Bring on Mania!
Blocked by a guy who lives like this? I will take that every day. Seriously, the fact that he lets the world see what a pig he lives like says it all about what a train wreck the guy is. Uncle Dave was put on earth to make us all feel better about ourselves.
I know some of you come here for my snarky (and deserved) comments about
@AEW
but I gotta tell you I don't have anything today but anger.
@TonyKhan
has booked for his Uncle Dave for years now and it has cost him viewers. He has 672,000 reasons to realize a change is needed, asap.
I can already hear the ADHD wrestling fans saying, “All they did was talk for 40 minutes.” Yes, yes they did. Thats why WWE is the big time and flipper central is bring up the rear.
I have no idea how reputable Tokyo Sports is but if Tony is paying anything close to $4.5 MILLION a year to Okada, which what they reported, he is the biggest money mark to ever promote wrestling. There was no market and he won't make AEW back his salary. Sweet Jesus.
I hate that I still have to write articles like this. Jesus. If you want to be a journalist do the work to be a fucking journalist. Bryan and Dave, you have been around for decades. Be better.
Remember I said yesterday that
@TonyKhan
listened to the wrong Dave? Here is your proof, sent to me by a friend. You have to be pretty stupid and arrogant to think 100 or so randos validate anything. The shoe polish is seeping into what’s left of his brain.
If you are waiting for
@TripleH
to post similar research concerning Adam Copeland's poor numbers for his AEW debut match you can stop now. H is hard at work making his product better, unlike the guy who is so desperate that he did an Semitic angle the week Israel was attacked.
This week, 2 active decades-long ratings streaks from 2 great legends were ended
With all due respect, until this week's head-to-head AEW on TBS vs WWE on USA, neither John Cena nor Undertaker had ever been on a WWE show with under 1 million total viewers + under 400k in the demo
This is exactly why AEW will never be anything more than a distant number two to WWE. He gets thumped by WWE and all he is worrying about is winning a hack award voted on by almost no one. AEW will continue to be a rich kid's vanity promotion. If we expect more we are dumb.
My son-in-law, who is a casual at best fan, just sent me this: "Talk about the ying and the Yang. After Wrestlemania I thought damn you get to watch this for your job. Then after what I read about Dynamite I thought damn you have to watch this for your job." I laughed out loud.
I wonder who called friendly "news" outlets and "leaked" scandalous reports of CM Punk's ESPN interview that none of them have seen yet. OK, I don't wonder. I call them The Lollipop Guild for a reason. They are small, small people and Tony Khan is a dope for enabling them.
I LOVE that WWE has booked people so smartly tonight. Rather than be a dipshit, Randy Orton looked at the tron and saw what happened. AJ wasn't a dope and knew LA would be there and called him out. Little things lead to big things. That's great booking folks.
I will go out a limb and say that potential high level TV executives will have to think twice about maybe working with someone who tweets like this. I could be wrong.
My advice to MJF, that I know he couldn’t care less about? Stay away from
@AEW
. The cuts are starting. The guys at the top of the card there are showing
@WWE
that they aren’t draws and are killing their contact value. Don’t let
@TonyKhan
’s terrible booking put a stink on you.
Just heard CM Punk’s awesome interview on MMA Hour. He said so much about out what is wrong in
@AEW
but their wrestlers rather getting five stars from an out of touch hack in a 1/4 filled building rather than working the big time said it best. They will keep AEW the Indy it is.
So after the biting commentary by HHH and Pat McAfee about AEW today on Pat’s show, who will
@TonyKhan
send out at the start of ROH tonight to give him another much needed in-ring ego hug? Is Adam Copeland in town?
So Mike Johnson reports a story on Ricochet. Uncle Dave tries to be relevant and questions it. Sean Ross Sapp then confirms Mike's report. Wheels on the bus go round and round.
This tweet came up on the show with Eps today. The author doesn't let me read his posts. In seeing it, I also want to make this point. Those aren't "equal drops". WWE lost 26% , AEW lost 43%. That isn't "equal", it's excuse making because you love AEW. Drop REAL knowledge.
I am not one to say that a show was the best ever or any crazy 7 star match shit on a five star scale stuff like that but if you said tonight’s Raw was in that realm, you won’t get an argument from me.
50 year old Adam Copeland jumped from the top of the cage and unlike Logan Paul a day earlier, landed on his knees instead of doing a splash (you know, the safer way to do the move). As soon as I saw it I said injury coming for sure. If I knew that was a bad idea, he should too.
Back in the day, I started my newsletter because I knew for a fact that Dave Meltzer was wrong all of the time in his Observer. Nothing has changed. His sycophants used to say all I did was “copy from Meltzer”. You won’t find this kind of lame work on PWInsider.
#UncleDave
The egg nog was clearly extra spiked this year at Casa Jericho. I am sure Tony will really love this tweet though. Thanks for proving that Punk was right when he said that worked with children at his old job. Santa should get a lot of you guys professionalism for Christmas.
Seriously, if you have never been in a fight, I guess an angry Punk yelling at you and "lunging" would make you wet your pants. If you have been in a fight, it sure as hell wouldn't.
I just listened to 2 reporters say that Tony Khan had every right to be scared for his life due to the backstage events. It dawned on me, there are two kinds of people. Those who have played sports and been in fights don't share Tony's fear. Those who haven't do.
@davescherer
History has shown that when the mark goof Final Bozo promoter takes a bump, the end of the company is near. I already recorded a hotline for tomorrow. I may have to do a second one.
@TonyKhan
screwed the pooch tonight. Jesus. What a shit show.
I just turned on Peacock and wondered what the hell AEW was doing on there. Then I realized I was watching men’s gymnastics from the Olympics. I kid AEW.
I will just say this. There are two 60+year old guys named Dave who report on the wrestling business.
@TonyKhan
had a choice as to who he would listen to as a way to make his company a success. He chose to listen to the one who doesn't have his pulse on the business.
#BigMistake
We stopped doing year end awards years ago, for all of the right reasons. A competitor kept doing them. Today I saw the comical results of their awards. If those were the results of my voters, I would be embarrassed. It’s sad but marks don’t understand business.
I am not making this up.
@TonyKhan
said that The Bucks aired the All In footage. About The Bucks he also said "it affected their mental preparation, they weren't able to pray." Dear Jesus, please have Tony change his mind and lets us win the worked match.
#WhatAGoof
My two cents on the Matt Hardy-Jim Cornette online war. Matt has every right to love the work of The Young Bucks. Just because people like me, and the actual AEW fans that turn off their matches, don't like them has nothing to do with what Cornette says. They aren't entertaining.
This what a bozo who should never be in the wrestling business looks like.
@TonyKhan
wore a gimmick to the NFL draft while his ATM looked on. Sweet Jesus.
Translation, "Will Ospreay is my new best friend and he tells me everything. We do sleepovers together and we are going to double date to the prom (if he finds me a date)! I can't let that mean HHH speak about him!" Tony Khan is the Final Bozo. Meltzer is the SemiFinal Bozo.
I said all along that
@AEWrestling
would have been better served to not poke the
@WWE
bear. I said that coming at them head on would lead to a powerful response. AEW got that response today. Their road to significantly monetize their TV show just got a lot harder. A LOT harder.
I see everyone's crazy Uncle Dave is saying WWE is loading up next week because they see AEW as competition! Nick Khan has already said that they see all entertainment as competition. Unca Dave may have missed it but WWE has been loading up NXT recently....to get a NEW TV DEAL.
WWE has Bron Breakker destroy the guy well beneath him in dastardly fashion for his Raw debut. He came away as a beast.
@TonyKhan
spends millions to bring in Whiny Will and he barely beats the AEW version in his debut. That’s why one is the leader and the other is languishing.
Someone just sent me this from dopey. This is why the guy is such a menace to the industry.
@TonyKhan
literally studies Japan and what is hot on the indies and gives it to us weekly. His business is languishing. WWE's is roaring. Uncle Dave proves once again that he is clueless.
Look what Captain Gutless did! I would tag him here but the pussy blocked me. Now please, cancel your Elite sub. I don't want your money! Hey
@MeltzerSaidWhat
you will have to keep me in the loop from now on!
This one is beyond belief. The narcissism is off the charts and frankly Tony connecting your mom's horrible situation with a perceived slight in your business life that couldn't happen is disturbing. If it's more than just being a narcissist, it's time to seek professional help.
This weekend marks 1 year since
@MayoClinic
saved my mom's life.
During her ordeal many AEW talent came to me alleging WWE tampering, inducing them to break their contracts.
I'll never forget these phone calls at her side in the hospital; it's when business became personal for me
I have to think Tony Khan will not be happy with this number after signing Okada, Ospreay and Mone. I know I wouldn't be. Why are they languishing? The answer is waiting for him in his mirror. I hope he sees it.
I was sent Uncle Dave's review of the Vlad documentary. He said a lot of things that I could take issue with but this one showed how much he lacks self awareness. He wrote, "his small apartment, it was like WWE museum rather than a place of living," presumably from here.
Part of the reason I have been married for 37 years is that when I am in my office and out comes
@HeymanHustle
and he says, "My name is..." she yells "PAUL HEYMAN" from the other room. You find yourself someone like you have finished your own story.
I remember when I met Chris Jericho in the 90s. I interviewed him for The Lariat. He was a kid who wanted to be part of a new wave of talent that gave the young guys a chance he felt the old guard held them back from getting. I liked that kid. The new FTW champ? Fuck that guy.
Man, I used to really respect Forbes. I can accept WWE at $6.8B. They generate significant revenue, plus they just sold to Endeavor which proves they are a huge asset. But valuing AEW at $2B? Who wrote this thing? Crazy Uncle Dave, aka Shemp, and Bryan, aka Joe Besser?
Here is a message to anyone in
@AEW
that really cares about the promotion. Please, find a way to get into
@TonyKhan
's X account and delete the thing. I understand how he feels but the things he is posting make him and the company look really bad to the average fan.
Last week
@TonyKhan
says that WWE is Harvey Weinstein, even though the League that his dad owns a team in works with WWE. Tonight, Super Bowl MVP Mahomes shows up on Raw. I can't wait to hear what subliminal message Uncle Dave and Wild Willy Ospreay glean from that.
#TheFinalBozo
Earlier today
@EBischoff
told us the truest thing you will read on X today. I am going to take his lead and state the most obvious thing you will see on X today. In my 3 decades of covering this business
@tiffstrattonwwe
is as much of can't miss future HOFer as I have ever seen.
Dynamite started out with 946,000 viewers in the first quarter. They dropped to 822,000 for the Chainsaw Match. By the time we got to the main event, where The Gunns took on The Young Bucks, the audience had dropped to 738,000 viewers, which was down 208,000 (22%) from the open.
I guess Chris has finally had enough of me. I will miss all of those late night/early morning/the bar just closed tweets. I guess I just MADE THE LIST!
It's a good thing that their biggest show of the year isn't any time soon, Right? Man, this is fugly. It's not easy to lose to lose 306,000 viewers (over 37 percent of your audience) from start to finish but Tony found a way to do it. Damn.
I was told Uncle Dave is raising his price to an obscene $14.99 a month! I heard about it from someone who hasn't subscribed in years but was still emailed. Brilliant! Uncle Dave learned one thing from Vince, raise prices when you are losing subbers! For $15 you can be lied to!
I am glad I said something positive about AEW earlier today because that debut for Okada? Jesus H Christ. The fans are on fire and then they have him join up with two guys that even a big chunk of AEW fans tune out because they don't want to see them.
#NoLongerBookerOfTheYear
So in the last day for AEW:
*The show following a PPV lost 5% of the audience.
*Tony is reportedly paying Okada $4.5M a year, and his first appearance was part of the 5% loss.
*Will Ospreay's hyped first match drew the two lowest quarter hours on the show.
#UhOh
If my EVPs’ stooge and my buddy’s wife were trying to undermine my efforts to bring back the guy who could help me putt asses in the seats of Wembley Stadium, I would fire them. Then again I am not
@TonyKhan
. He’s a lot nicer than I am.
It's a shame that "The Best" who wrestle don't do so for a decent booker. Just imagine how great "The Best" could do if they had a good storyteller to work with. I would love to see what AEW could do with someone competent writing the shows.
#IgnoreYourUncleDave