at this point, just make Pockets the sole EVP. Guarantee that he'll be better than the 3 others

Only a matter of time before pockets becomes aew champion

Death knell of AEW.

They turned down maybe the greatest wrestler of all time for someone as bad as Orange Cassidy? 🤣

@@gmac673didn’t you know orange cassidy is the most over guy in Aew so he deserved to be an agent. Haha this is what someone said on one of my comments and I literally laughed out loud.

Yup, He is Dark Helmet playing with his "dolls" again.

I mean jeez. You have a guy willing to come in who is a descendant of the best wrestling trainer in Canada, and you turn him away? I lost all sympathy for AEW. They’re purposefully rejecting LEGENDS to improve the work over what, hurt feelings? Quality control? Hubris? It’s gotta be some mix of the three.

​@@deftfkaubgup4669gotta throw cocaine in that "mix" 😂

PWG trampoline wrestling with a tv show

Why you gonna hire Bret Hart if he's not gonna be on tv to show him off. Obviously you don't hire him if he don't wanna be on tv.

It’s like telling Gordon Ramsay to just wash dishes in a restaurant.

Sorry Hank, we do *other* things with the bats here, let me show you. Mr Slave, position 7

Like telling Oppenheimer to learn how to pronounce "nuclear" correctly but not build the bomb.

& then make the old mascot the new head coach to boot.

Any mascot is more well known by fans than any hitting coach. In wrestling, unlike real life, the fans actually do matter to the outcome. I would only pay Bret Hart to be on TV. Not to be a back. That's not what you do with a well known name.

It’s a mark promotion, for marks, by marks. Like the Joker it’s not about the money; it’s about sending a message.

For all it's woes, WWE still looks like a professionally run product. Clear hierarchy/chain of command..

@wilcee238 The only company that wasn't ran by a mark was Jim Crockett Promotions.

i think the problem with AEW is cocaine...

​@@christopherclinton8631No KID you CANT be a mark if u wanna run a successful promotion. You LITERALLY cannot afford it. My dad ran a local promotion for years and u have to treat it like a legit business..... TK doesn't HAVE to worry about making money he already HAS IT. He is just a fuckin LEGIT MARK playing with his little MARK wrestler friends.

Not as relieved as he was that after his layoff from a concussion, he could still fit his wife’s jeans

Moxley was so relieved he gushed blood like a scene from Evil Dead 2.

We know that cm junk would have said, shut up Brett, I know it all and I'm better than you ever were.

​@darkstars-torpedoes-of-truth Punk loves Bret Hart you obsessed weirdo.

​@darkstars-torpedoes-of-truth Punk lives in your head rent free huh

It's insane!

He sold every turnbuckle spot like it hurt the way it should be

Considering how the talent on the AEW roster treat veteran advice Brett actually dodged a bullet and a lot of grief.

you cant teach anything to guys who think they know everything already.

Somehow, he isn't the best there was, best there is, and best there ever will be in aew's eyes

😱😂

the professional gymnasts won't be pleased if they actually had to learn to WRESTLE without the spotfest video game crap

Ridiculous!

Kahn needs to lay off the uppers

Cole, Morrison, Rollins, Cody, Gargano, Logan all think they're 2nd comings of HBK.

I believe the late, great, noted philosopher Rick James said it best: "Cocaine is a Helluva drug." 😂😂

​@@Reese13Worked for cocain bear 🐻

technical wrestling, you mean the choreographed moves that Logan Paul and Bad Bunny learnt in 2 weeks?

@@darkstars-torpedoes-of-truth You call them technical wrestlers? 🤣 You make it sound either of those examples were Omega vs Ospreay level of insane move after move. If this were baseball, we'd say they had a low pitch count.

@@mr.whisper3338 I call Olympic Wrestlers technical wrestlers. Anyone else is as choreographed as a dance routine.

@@darkstars-torpedoes-of-truth So you're on a wrestling channel....whhhy? 😄

@@darkstars-torpedoes-of-truth You realize you're on a wrestling youtube channel, my man? What you've done is akin to walking into a mom & pop shop and complaining they're not as good as Walmart. lol Which is just profoundly stupid on so many levels.

People just set that off temporarily on the side like baggage. So it doesnt mean in this age theyre ignoring it completely. There are many opportunities and options out there

​@@heb430did you forget when Adam Page literally said he had nothing more to learn? you're giving these twats too much credit.

That would be incredible

Same here, nobody was better at telling a story from bell to bell. It beggars belief that AEW didn't want him to offer a few pointers to their guys.

Him or Ryback

If I were a wrestler, I wouldn't want anybody putting together my matches, but I sure as hell would be picking the shit outta Bret's brain n learning everything I could.

​@@dr.loomis4221ryback??😂

That's why AEW will never be the Best.

And OC is more popular than cm puke 😂🤣😂

​@darkstars-torpedoes-of-truth except the ratings show he's not.

@@zombieninjatedsmith1301 I know impunkt wrestlings ratings are proof that cm junk doesn't sell.

​@@darkstars-torpedoes-of-truthwhat's that got to do with bret Hart. You need to just have a hate wank over punk and get over it. You're obsessed. It's weird and creepy.

💀

But just imagine how much you could learn about doing that properly, and safely, from spending two days picking the brain of Mick Foley...

That's exactly when you need a legend to coach.

​@@bipolarminddroppingsFoley, as much as I enjoyed him, is a part of why wrestling is in the state it's in now.

Agree its sad they would turn down one of greatest of all time but happy at same time cause all his work would be for nothing I'd bet my shifty paycheck that bucks and all those turds had Tony's ear

Bret: You don't respect me. Well, the fact is, I don't respect you.

I thought the exact same thing

😂

Hence why they didn't want him. Tony knew he'd expose him.

lol. I could see Brock jobbing to Pockets, then a news story a few days later that Brock recently purchased half of Saskatchewan.

Pft, please try. Brock gonna Brock.

You're full of crap. Has Tony ever made CM Punk job to Pockets? Bryan Danielson? We'll see what happens with Jon Moxley. Jericho will do anything, he doesn't care, but Orange Cassidy other than Jericho, and maybe Moxley will job to him although maybe Moxley is the guy who beats him for the title, he has never beaten a *star* in the wrestling industry, ever. A notable, big name, he's never done it, other than Jericho who just trades credibility to be part of the cool kids. Tony would never have Brock job to OC and Brock wouldn't do it if he was told to.

Tony wouldn't have the backbone to go up to Brock and tell him he's jobbing to anyone, and I don't blame him one bit 😂

If they ask brock to job to pockets him saying yes and then destroying pockets in the ring they would have to bring the stretcher out because who would try to stop him

This.

Not a Cody Rhodes fan, but, my respect for him has grown a lot. He got out just in the nick of time.

@Reese13 if anything he got out before things really started going south

They probably wouldn't listen to him

I know you're joking, but your comment has more weight in reality than you realize friend.

5 star agent - Orange Cassidy

Nope .. Tony khan say so. Not everything is the elites fault lol and I'm sure bret didn't go to the evps cause there not cutting checks lol

This was probably before Punk came to the company. I could still see the evps having a hand in it though

​@@spinofthewheel5345Yes, they do.

It's always the EVP's isn't it. As far as junk and the bolder brothers go, I think they like it just fine being the big stars of impunkt wrestling, that tanking vanity press show.

​@@spinofthewheel5345 Could've fooled me

It's even weirder considering they had Bret present the AEW world title belt for the first time on TV. Seems like they want to get him on tv for the ratings but don't want him to help the actual product😂

SRV? You don't know shit about guitar player's.

If Stevie Ray Vaughn was willing to tune my guitars then I’d consider myself the most fortunate student ever. To elucidate your point even further, the Excrete dweebs think they can pull off David Gilmour’s iconic solo from “Comfortably Numb” by playing it on Guitar Hero.

How did he launch Rock?

@Speedyreedy1218 Bret protected Rock from Kliq politics and talked him up to Vince and Pat Patterson

Ron Simmons played a much greater role. I never heard this story about Bret and Rocky. If this is true this makes Bret look even greater.

@@LoganSewell83 Brett's heel turn involved him attacking Dwayne during one of his debut matches. Brett also helped keep "the Kliq" from burying the Rock. Why do you think the Rock used the sharpshooter as his submission move for his entire career?

@@wilcee238 There were no Kliq politics to protect him from. Hall, Nash, and Waltman were gone in wcw way before Rock debuted at Survivor Series 96. HHH was in the doghouse for the Curtain Call. Literally, only HBK had influence. The Kliq was no more as as a collective. What Bret did was talk shit about HBK to Rock; and HBK feeding into the game unfairly used HHH as a pawn also. Bret and Shawn tried to pit H and Rock against each other because of their own unresolved issues. To the point where Rock wrongfully accused HHH of stuff HBK instigated about Rock behind HHH'S back years down the road. Rock eventually smartenend up and apologized to HHH right before Summerslam 1998. This drama is covered in season three of Young Rock, episode 8 I believe. Rock and HHH friends in real life every since. They're just good at their jobs to make fans take sides. Back when wrestlers had the talent to make most fans believe angles and take it seriously.

Those insulting cheers would be top notch though.

Tony wants to play booker not actually further his talent and the business. They have Jake The Snake one of the greatest minds in the business and NO ONE will even ask him ANYTHING with help for their gimmick or what to say in a promo to generate a resonse or how to structure a good match that makes sense. i don't get it honestly.

@@americanbadass88 Whcih has what to do with Tony? Oh yea, absolutely nothing.

It's not really a missed opportunity, honestly. He wouldn't have done any good there. Nobody would have listened and everybody beside Jericho, Sting, and Billy Gunn would have dismissed him. They would just refuse to listen. It would have been wasted time and money. Even if you hire Jim Lee to teach your art class it won't do any good if everybody just snickers and jacks off instead of listening. Bret would have wasted his time and Tony Khan's money

@prophecygg5826 Tony Khan is actually the owner of AEW, which is the second largest wrestling company. That's the company they're talking about. In an employment situation (also known as a "job") the owner of the company is typically the person who has power to make decisions and force the people who work for them (called "employees") do perform the tasks and attend training sessions (among other things) because if the employees don't do it the owner can impose penalties or terminate employment. (That's called being "fired.") So it does have a lot to do with Tony Khan because Tony Khan owns the company. Honestly it would really do you a lot of good to familiarize yourself with the basics of how jobs and companies work. That's knowledge that you really are expected to have. I understand you've never actually had a job before and from your comment it seems like you've inherited a large amount of money so you won't ever have to, but for the sake of not appearing ignorant it really is best to learn these things

@hezekiahramirez6965 and you think the VPs who have been causing the problems with which you speak of have nothing to do with it, eh? Tony would love to have Brett. Guess who wouldn't? You would think with all your nonsense about jobs, you would that the boss isn't always the guy calling shots and doesn't have as much say as you think. You would also think after being on this channel long enough, you would know that Tony isn't exactly known for his no nonsense putting his foot down attitude. Also, you would know how the Bucks and friends hate people who know what they are talking about talking about wrestling. You don't think Punk would love to have Brett? You don't think Tony would? You don't think the majority of the roster would? It's called politics. Something every job, business, and company has a lot of being played, especially behind the scenes. You and all your infinite wisdom about the workplace and how a job which you clearly don't have much of one since you criticize people you don't know anything by talking out your ass and making yourself look and sound like a bitter jealous child would surely have thought about that before making a giant post that had little to no factual basis to it. Certainly, a person of your intellect and foresight would never make such an error. People like you are why the Cult of Cornette gets so much hate. FYI. If you spent half the time and effort to get an education or better your profession as you did wasting your time writing that message maybe someday you can have a good job too and can laugh at silly children in the KZfaq comments section. Good luck with all the delusion snowflake.

No, cm junk would say, you don't need Hart, you've got me.

@@darkstars-torpedoes-of-truth I bet you stick your thumb out like pockets

As Lance Storm said about firing Jim Cornette to hire Ed Ferrara in TNA. That's like trading your house for a tent.

​@@darkstars-torpedoes-of-truth Punk is probably going to punch out the Bucks again once it's revealed those two little weasels had something to do with telling Cokie to hire the friend over the expert. They're petty enough to do that just to make sure young wrestlers don't learn to start getting over by actually wrestling, instead of doing thigh slap noodle legged superkicks, 30 foot falls, and Canadian Destroyers. Gotta keep the young talent on the injury reserve from reckless dives, so the Bucks can hold all the gold and hog all the tv time, and Meltzer can lie about them being the greatest tag team ever. Cosplay Vanilla Midget Kliq has never been a more appropriate moniker.

@@nickhughes8179 I can just hear you now Nick, "back in my day, they wouldn't have gotten away with that, kids respected their elders in the olden days and I can't stand this noise they pass of as music either and they need haircuts" I guess times change but people like you don't. I would be nice if you were not so bitter.

Omg yes....yes!!!

and the clock is ticking on Terry Funk, unfortunately.......dude's not getting any younger and we don't know when his ticket is gonna be punched for the afterlife 😞 It's weird.....in the last couple of years, Terry shaved off his famous goatee and he's a dead ringer for his Dad! I always thought Dory Jr. looked more like his Dad than Terry did over the years......goes to show you that people age differently. Same can be said for Vince McMahon.....Vince Jr. didn't really look like his Dad until the last few years....of course, not too many photos exist of Vince Sr. as a younger guy. The basic point to this is.....we all end up looking like our Dads at some point down the line, lol 😆

@@furnitureconsortium yeah, Terry is in rough shape, sadly.

I'm hoping for a book like the death of wcw

@@L_Train hopefully... SOMEONE will snap & not CARE about the NDA's in place. All it will take is one person then the floodgates will open

it will be a whole season

They would do a full series of it. With All In as the first episode.

Hopefully Vice will still be in business by then, but, it's gonna have to be at least a 5 part miniseries. 😂

Aew fans iq is less than freezing point of water

@@abcsin6526Celsius or fahrenheit?

@@Wulfman317 farheneit🤣

Hell no. Our N64 wrestling was a solidly booked promotion. Better than anything AEW is putting out.

And impunkt wrestling looks like a silent movie out of the 1920's compared to today's movies, old, decrepit and past they're heydays.

@@darkstars-torpedoes-of-truth No one gives a shit.

​@@darkstars-torpedoes-of-truthsilent movies from the 20s are way more entertaining than the same old superhero vs butt chinned army villain on a quest for global domination for the 9,326th time that gets queefed out for neckbeard fanboy service today. Those are children's movies. You people are 35-45 now. Expand your horizons.

@@nickhughes8179 Another massive cope, you are really losing the plot today, aren't you. Who even mention superhero movies???

No they didn't - Kenny Omega already works there.

BURN!!!!

@@stonetic2515Drops mic

Bret was willing to help them for free most likely. Or near free. They have an owen hart tribute tournament to his brother. Yet they passed on Bret? Bret can add a lot of value to AEW. But they want more "new school" wrestling and the reason why they give us classic wrestling on Saturday with collision is just a concession. It's a compromise to keep guys like cm punk happy. Which fine ok. But Bret hart would be a huge asset.

​@@stonetic2515Yeah...no.

Mind blowing to me, but also not surprising.

Laugh now, but it’s going to happen bro!

@@wilcee238 then he will post another whiny letter about how hard it is to come up with all these rating grabbing storylines but wrestling choose him, he didn;t choose it. action andretti bro you are going to have a fling with the bunny bro and blade will be mad and want to beat you up and we put bunny on a pole bro and the winner gets to have ownership of her, err i mean gets her services bro, i just hear myself say that bro, it got to send ed a text later bro, and then you win and get bunny and spend the night with her and it turns out she is your long lost sister, bro, your sister bro. its hard being this much of genius bro,

@@wilcee238oh it’s definitely happening

​@@adamandanna Not enough Jehry Springah incest angles and hand births bro.

@@nickhughes8179”x on a pole” matches.

Just imagine Jake The Snake and Brett as agents and trainers. Brett teaching the technical wrestling side of it and Jake the ring psychology of wrestling. If they would actually listen AEW would be amazing honestly.

Bret at his most Canadian level of polite would still make Hangma'am cry. Bret could be encouraging Hangma'am in practice, accentuating his positives, buying him an actual badass cowboy outfit for ring gear, showing him how to really get over, and Hangma'am would still bawl for his trampoline and pink butterfly jeans.

I still remember when Adam Page was good. Before the so called "Texas Death Match" with Lance Archer, before the no selling super kick fest with Adam Cole...hell, I still remember when Adam Cole was good, when Chris Jericho, was. When Jon Moxley was actually a sleazy heel who didn't blade on camera. When RJ City was a wrestler who shunned flashy moves. Really all Bret Hart would need to do is identify exactly what about the promotion is bringing out the worst in so many wrestlers. That'd be more valuable than his services as a manager or agent, which isn't to say he still couldn't agent after it was understood, but goddam! They turned Scorpio Sky into a clown. They've reduced Claudio Castagnoli to a face in a crowd. Karl Anderson was standing in the middle of the ring throwing those shitty forearms. Hitting people hard, or at least making it look hard, was about the only thing Anderson was good at!

ROH had Ric Flair, but he no showed without giving notice and then trashed the promotion make the one his daughter worked in sound better. Nonetheless, Ricky Steamboat, Bobby Heenan, Mic Foley and Jim Cornette actually put in the work to make sure the promotion didn't go under. It lasted another seven years before Sinclair Broadcast Group purchased it. What if Carry Silkin had Tony Khan's money and Vice Versa. Would Ric Flair be rejected to begin with? Would Steamboat, Foley, Heenan and Cornette be standing around doing little of nothing while Pockets was the agent?

"You may have barebacked your way to some sort of main event"

Like Hickenbottom was Vince's for years?

​@@ValiantWrestlingexcept hickenbottom is better than pockets

Who cares about ftr

@@ishmael802 we all Do.

​@@ishmael802Wrestling fans do.

Yeah the evps feelings are the "higher ups"

It was those damn Reseda Mud Wrestlers

It was tony final say so stop blaming everything on them lol its a cope...Tony khan does the hiring and the contracts is common sense lol if it was just the evps they would of just put him on collision

@@SasukesSharingan. I never said I suspected the evps

@@parakathepyro your right my bad I guess I assumed for you, everyone else seems to think that tho , but who do yu think turned it down because I believe it was tony since he has last word

Facts

They’re already paying them, why not?

@@registereduser because certain individuals there think they know the business. Just because they wrestled in Japan for years lol. Dynamite is a clear example of a poorly run tv show. And I really like the roster they have, the problem is you're bringing in Indy talent that are too green. Jade Cargill is a prime example. She never should have been thrown into the mix that quick. It's obvious that she's never going to learn she's been champion since the debut of aew basically and she has a great look. Even if you gave her just a few moves she can't even execute them. There's so much new talent every week on dynamite that im just bored with it I don't even watch anymore.

This new generation wouldn't have survived in the 80s. Hogan and Andre didn't even have a finish set up or anything. It's all a scripted match now. And that's why wrestling sucks. It's not fun anymore. There's no cool debuts or interesting debuts. Too many people on the roster. Just way too much going on.

There is a reason. With that setup it would just be a matter of time before someone comes out of the AEW Power Plant or whatever it would be called who would completely outclass and outshine the EVPs. And there's every chance TK will be enamored with them and push them to the top. That threatens certain people's spots. I mean it's a good idea but it's too good an idea. They would squash it as soon as they possibly could

@@john9908 What? of course, Hogan definitely had finishes for matches. For example, the match finish with the Ultimate Warrior was scripted

same here! I've been predicting the death of this promotion for years and every time they seemingly get to that next rung on the ladder with some of the moves they make......their fingers slip and they end up falling two rungs down the ladder with the resultant moves they make afterwards. I got news for ya.......... eventually, you're gonna run out of real estate on that ladder.

Yep!

​@@Autisticwandereryes,he is!!!you elite suckup

I get where you're coming from but he absolutely would've been an agent if they let him, because there is actual talent on the AEW roster, like Punk and FTR, he would've definitely worked with, but not as a fucking manager. Of course he said fuck that, it would've been great to see him as an agent though, but maybe Khan thinks Pockets is the better agent. He is a snowman.

yeah i think much like cornette he heard sports based presentation and thought he this could be up my alley and i can help out this new burgeoning company

@@adamandannait could’ve been a very grounded, stampede style promotion. Could’ve been the operative word.

Or high. Or that. ☃️☃️☃️

Well Bret punched out Shawn. You know who idolizes Shawn. Punk punched out the Bucks. You know who idolizes Bret. In short. The Bucks got butthurt over Bret because he punched out their hero, and the man who idolizes Bret, punched them out.

@@nickhughes8179 That's how bullshit rumors get started. Bret introduced the AEW World Title. Just because you don't like The Young Bucks (and Kenny and Jericho too no doubt) doesn't mean that they're responsible for *everything* that happens in AEW. You guys are so easily brainwashed.

Next, AEW will turn down Raven teaching a promo class. 😂

​@@1983jcheatLMAO this shit is crazy 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

@@benespinosa6725 TK is a piece of work.

It's not arguable. The guy was the best of his generation in the ring.

Or even guided his brother in law through what would become a highly acclaimed Summerslam (was it summerslam) match because the in law was so high af he forgot what he was supposed to do

Fire Ant was a great character, tho. And while far from Bret's pedigree, still had better match and angles when Quackenbush was booking him.

@@Paugose ok let’s say your right,,,but if I was a billionaires son and with my own wrestling promotion,, and Bret’ The Hitman ’ Hart comes to me and says look I want to be an agent or a coach or whatever the hell they call it nowadays,, I’m saying hell yes and if it doesn’t work out fine,, but you at least have to take that chance…

@@Jrh-rp7np I'm not defending not taking Bret, by all means you should take him, especially with this idea of Bret that "You can never have the same match twice, each time you face that guy is gonna be different". I'm defending the idea that Fire Ant wasn't a bad run and probably was the best Orange ever did in his career thanks to a good creative team surrounding him.