Jim Cornette on Dave Meltzer's Comments About AEW Morale

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5 ай бұрын

From Episode 330 of the Jim Cornette's Drive Thru
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@Rogerio-kj5lg 5 ай бұрын

"They cut the cancer out and found out that that was the only interesting part about the patient". Jim nailed it. This is the best quote i've heard about the whole CM Punk in AEW saga.

@williamreynolds6332 5 ай бұрын

What's the old saying? "The operation was a success, but the patient died."

@edwells4769 5 ай бұрын

Lol, Jim cracks me up

@songeekutheedgehog4699 5 ай бұрын

like a filler episode of House MD

@WrestlingIsReal649 5 ай бұрын

Such good shit pal 😂😂😂

@seanbarton4940 5 ай бұрын

Meltzer’s English teacher told him not to use double negatives in his writing, so he decided to pioneer the usage of quadruple and even septuple negatives.

@Knihcaggin 5 ай бұрын

Ive never heard a legit writer say because so many times 🤣

@sergioolivas8549 5 ай бұрын

Bruh 🤣

@inputnamehere1 5 ай бұрын

One day he'll reach exponent negatives and break the laws of physics

@john_blues 5 ай бұрын

It's hard to believe he's been a 'journalist' for so long and mangles the English language so bad.

@CarlosMedina-wu8ug 5 ай бұрын

As a former journalism major, I'd like to understand how someone is a "journalist" and has zero mastery of the English language. We were expected to be grammatically perfect. Maybe not on the first write-up, but certainly after the edits. Proper use of language is a big part of journalism. Especially print journalism, which is what the observer is.

@SairajRKamath 5 ай бұрын

At this point, Uncle Dave should rename the Observer to the Hallucinator.

@christerry1611 5 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣

@wilcee238 5 ай бұрын

🏆

@steveaustin330 5 ай бұрын

😂

@davidcook3116 5 ай бұрын

😆

@iamcraigstephens 5 ай бұрын

You sir, win comment of the year

@traviscompi5145 5 ай бұрын

Tony: "Cagematch > Morale > TV Ratings & Ticket Sales"

@JamesBrown-fj9ue 5 ай бұрын

And that should be the name of Tony's autobiography.

@matthewhostetter8974 5 ай бұрын

Don't forget "DREAM MATCH" and Meltzer's 5-star rating" That is really all Tony cares about. Anything thing gives him a pat on the head and makes AEW look good.

@carolynbuckley8733 5 ай бұрын

This is a great comment. It's going to be huge. Really great. Great timing, great profile pic, and Travis is a great name. Great job.

@85nxplosion 5 ай бұрын

@@carolynbuckley87336 great bell rings for you

@nielcarpnava 5 ай бұрын

@@carolynbuckley8733🛎️🛎️🛎️🛎️🛎️🛎️

@rocky01542 5 ай бұрын

There's enough content there for an entire Cornette podcast focusing on Dave's antics over the past week alone.

@elijahchesterthomas5334 5 ай бұрын

Omnibus material

@shenanitims4006 5 ай бұрын

That’ll be the upcoming third show.

@Kratosx23 5 ай бұрын

Please!

@kurtisbased183 5 ай бұрын

uncle daves losing it lmao

@nomarkzallowed 5 ай бұрын

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@mattypaul87 5 ай бұрын

"Everything is great." - Tony Khan.

@zolofttube4840 5 ай бұрын

Ding!

@MrSpeed-lt8gr 5 ай бұрын

🛎️

@protostnl6369 5 ай бұрын

I think people said it before but Tony is pretty much the dog in the "This is fine" meme

@lk29392 5 ай бұрын

slightly modified: "Everything is grrrrrrreat' - Tony "the tiger" Khan.

@christerry1611 5 ай бұрын

Narrator: Everything was NOT great"

@vulcan280 5 ай бұрын

I think Tony has some real behind the scenes social issues. He is basically simping for these wrestlers to like him and is too scared to push buttons. He also let the young bucks flood the roster with there friends so if he angers them that is half the roster gone

@mahakalavanilla6263 5 ай бұрын

One of the funniest things I’ve heard this year was that Tony was screaming at Punk “Get tf out there and f’ing wrestle!” File under “Things that never happened.”

@joegreene7619 5 ай бұрын

Then he should anger them. Getting rid of at least half that roster is step 2 in fixing things. Step 1 is hiring a real booker.

@wh2577 5 ай бұрын

I don't think the Bucks "friends" would choose them over an inflated paycheck. I'm sure most of them are friends of convenience not do or die.

@ironviper72 5 ай бұрын

He could lose half the roster and still have too many people

@accursedsidor8987 5 ай бұрын

Tony could lose half the roster and immediately improve all of the shows 😂 Remember, Corny went through it and knocked about 60% off over 100 names 🎉

@TheWhatMan80 5 ай бұрын

"Oh boy" - Jim Cornette

@LampLoungeLive 5 ай бұрын

Loved it

@1983jcheat 5 ай бұрын

Ortiz collecting a check for the last 2 years and doing almost nothing is smiling back in NY. 😂😂😂

@zlinedavid 5 ай бұрын

That’s almost like Sheikey drawing a check from WCW for two years, did less than 10 matches and at the end, everyone forgot he was even getting paid.

@1983jcheat 5 ай бұрын

@@zlinedavidYeah, say nothing and continue getting bread. The American way. 😂😂😂

@miguelortiz5286 5 ай бұрын

Maaan I gotta hit up primo for a gig 😂

@zlinedavid 5 ай бұрын

@@1983jcheat Nice work if you can get it 😂

@1983jcheat 5 ай бұрын

@@zlinedavid😊

@davsavchav 5 ай бұрын

I want to hear more about William Regal's experiences in AEW

@Bale4Bond 5 ай бұрын

He has most definitely signed an NDA.

@meguminchan4809 5 ай бұрын

NDA says hi😂

@CairnieR 5 ай бұрын

@@Bale4Bond there aren’t any AEW people that haven’t signed an NDA is there? Then again if/when AEW folds then all those NDAs are gone, that would be interesting

@battlemole8233 5 ай бұрын

@@CairnieRtrue but in legal point, nda lasts usually about 1-5 years. Ceratin cases like coca Cola receipt it lasts longer

@CairnieR 5 ай бұрын

@@battlemole8233 good point, don’t AEW do lifetime NDAs? Or that was the rumour anyway, how well that sort of thing works legally I wouldn’t know but if AEW went down the pan then surely that couldn’t be enforced?

@ThePhysicalReaction 5 ай бұрын

There's a phrase in the music world, "If you can't bring down the house with a small crowd, you'll never be able to do it with a large one"

@elijahchesterthomas5334 5 ай бұрын

Jim has been right since the beginning of AEW. There is an audience for this type of wrestling but it is not a national audience. It just isn't. Then people get mad at Jim for saying it but believe me, I'm sure he wishes that aew was awesome.

@qorpse 5 ай бұрын

We all wanted AEW to be at the very least, decent. Sadly they've failed to live up to their potential and at this point, I don't think it's going to get any better.

@lk29392 5 ай бұрын

I'm mean, I'M SHOCKED that millions and millions of people aren't watching an untouchable 180 pound 'cool cat' with his hands in his pockets play literal twinkle toes in the ring. That'll bring 'em in right Tony or at least Tony keeps telling himself that over and over and over.

@megsley 5 ай бұрын

it's ecw-lite, and we all know how ecw ended.

@christerry1611 5 ай бұрын

@@qorpse They got their next "game changer" in Mercedes Mone. That'll move the needle. Lol

@vikram-ro6fu 5 ай бұрын

@qorpse were decent in summer/end of 2021, Tony blew it

@CornBreadtm1 5 ай бұрын

So let me get this straight. Tony made a deal that prohibits Penta and Fenix, his former tag champions from appearing on his TV program? Regardless of what you think about the guys, they've been booked well enough to be popular crowd pleasers and get good crowd reactions. When you consider that the CMLL guys get 0 crowd reactions cause nobody knows who the fuck they are! You can see the obvious problem! TK decided to put more masked people on his show, but at the same time made a deal were the masked people that his crowd actually knows, can't show up! His Luchadores can't wrestle other luchadores! The only AEW guy he can have in the ring who has a mask is Lee Moriarty cause he's black and a Tiger mask fan! What the fuck?!

@NeRo-uwu 5 ай бұрын

sanest TK decision right there 🤣

@SportPhilosophies 5 ай бұрын

Absolutely pissed myself laughing when he said most on the roster are not people. That certainly how Tony sees them. living action figures

@tristhekid 5 ай бұрын

We need a Meltzer Meltdown omnibus

@jer2dabear 5 ай бұрын

We just need more Omnibus's period.

@ernie316 5 ай бұрын

Makes me think of that meme with a dog in a room that's in flames saying 'this is fine'. Here in the UK, AEW averaged 160k before wembley, currently averaging 80k, from a potential audience of 60million, every tv in the country has the channel they're on. I'm no wwe fan, but they're averaging 120k on pay tv (£30 a month - $42) from a potential audience of 3.5 million.

@darthraider450 5 ай бұрын

ITV have absolutely ballsed up the AEW scheduling on ITV4 and ITV1, it’s so random that there is no surprise to see the British audience leaving in droves. AEW in the UK could have easily been like TNA Impact and dominated WWE simply with a consistent time slot (TNA was on Bravo then Challenge at 9pm every week without fail), but they are getting slayed despite being on free TV, and WWE on TNT Sports.

@ernie316 5 ай бұрын

@darthraider450 I thought rampage and collision are moved around, but dynamites time slot was fairly consistent. It's hard to get ratings for rampage and collision, as if they are less than 30k they don't appear on the chart.

@robfinlay8058 5 ай бұрын

AEW should be on ITV1 at 4pm on a Saturday as that is the traditional timeslot for wrestling in the UK.

@ernie316 5 ай бұрын

@robfinlay8058 they'd be thrown off the network all together by OFCOM, can't have that level of violence/language before the 9pm watershed. If they edited the show suitable to broadcast at 4pm, it'd be about 5 minutes long. Show open, tk makes an announcement, end credits.

@MotherHen2012 5 ай бұрын

@@robfinlay8058 The show would be censored like mad if it was on that early.

@user-hd1qj5km3t 5 ай бұрын

Tony Khan is the Captain of the Titanc while Kenny Omega & The Young Bucks are the iceberg.

@ellemarr7234 5 ай бұрын

Scarily accurate

@zlinedavid 5 ай бұрын

What does that make Unca Dave? The hole?

@pendafen7405 5 ай бұрын

Darby floating on the big door crying don't let go Sting💔

@vinceraven1501 5 ай бұрын

Um Captain Khan, we're rapidly approaching an iceberg & boy howdy, that's one "Elite" iceberg........ 😜

@zlinedavid 5 ай бұрын

And will someone tell Jericho to quit singing that Celine Dion song?

@mjdf122 5 ай бұрын

Tony Khan Dave Meltzer and Bryan Alvarez think any Buckaroos match is better than Ric Flair vs Ricky Steamboat 😂

@Nediablo 5 ай бұрын

You'd tell CMLL to do one. Don't book the wrestlers if they try to make demands for YOUR SHOW! Penta and Fenix are your talent. Since day 1. They are way more important than people not under contract. If the CMLL wrestlers don't want to work the same SHOW even, don't book them. Don't give them exposure. They're acting like children. Learn to say "no" Tony. You wet blanket.

@namelessjedi2242 5 ай бұрын

The problem is Tony doesn’t want to say no, the thought never crosses his mind. He LOVES all this stuff, good or bad for his TV audience, he doesn’t care. In his mind more is better, he is playing with his action figures.

@Nediablo 5 ай бұрын

@@namelessjedi2242 you are 100% correct

@user-je7uh2zc2y 5 ай бұрын

@@namelessjedi2242my god what is this he is the son of a billionaire why he can't say no and where is his father did he not see that they are taking advantage of his son

@supermanXL 5 ай бұрын

I can see why he agreed. As long as he keeps them separate from each other then he can keep both. If Tony is getting top talent on his show I can understand.

@Nediablo 5 ай бұрын

@@supermanXL maybe I could if he was getting any top talent! He's not though. They're adding zero to his ratings. No one cares about them outside of Mexico. He needs to use the massive roster he already has and try to build stars from there.

@MichaelSmith-fq6hz 5 ай бұрын

Imagine if Tony did a deal with a Canadian promoter who said no Canadian talent. No Edge, no Christian, no Kenny Omega… you know, that might not be a bad idea come to think of it

@FreeMANcer 5 ай бұрын

“They cut the cancer out and found out that’s the only interesting part of the patient” is a crazy line. That sounds like a modern proverb.

@mahakalavanilla6263 5 ай бұрын

Dave will make some criticisms but he’s Tony’s worst enabler. He’s always arguing with no-names on Twitter about how great their cable rankings are as audiences dwindle and buzz fades. I’m convinced Dave was patient zero of the Shibata treatment

@maxmalten7749 5 ай бұрын

you mean they removed his brain but forgot to put it back in?

@mahakalavanilla6263 5 ай бұрын

They tried to remove his brain, but found nothing and just tossed a Kenny Omega action figure in there and stitched him up

@EliC09 5 ай бұрын

@@mahakalavanilla6263it all makes sense now!

@Doug-my8qz 5 ай бұрын

The whole world: that match was garbage. Dave: 4 and a half stars! Tony: it was great! Ric: WOOOOO-ings!

@MariuszMroczek-dd7ku 5 ай бұрын

"Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale, a tale of a cokeful trip. That started from this tropic port, aboard of Tony's ship ..."

@zlinedavid 5 ай бұрын

The mate was a crazy writin’ man, The skipper high on coke, No viewers were tuning in, For their 5 hour joke.

@thatpart 5 ай бұрын

...a fiiive hour joke... 😂@@zlinedavid

@QAZ-OMEN 5 ай бұрын

I'm gonna have to watch some of that now. And I'm not talking about aewful wrestling

@mikawhofan 5 ай бұрын

@@zlinedavid👏👏

@madbrowniac7871 5 ай бұрын

Who in AEW qualifies as "Mary Ann"😘? Who could be a better "Ginger" (so to speak) than Miss Becky Lynch? And is "Timeless" Toni Storm AEW's equivalent of "Mrs. Howell? Just asking is all.🤔🎤🤼‍♀️B.W.

@asurlybarber3620 5 ай бұрын

Uncle Dave: "Dave Meltzer is dead, I am what remains. You didn't destroy him, I did."

@LowTierScrub 5 ай бұрын

Tony wan Kenobi: I'm sorry Dave, for all of it....

@alexmartin3143 5 ай бұрын

Yeah that show sucked too

@billlee6424 5 ай бұрын

Dead and Buried 😂

@catwheeler 5 ай бұрын

The AEW/CMLL partnership is so bizarre. I believe Tony is trying to undermine Konnan (the booker of AAA) because he is critical of AEW on his podcast which is incredibly petty if true.

@willowrush4765 5 ай бұрын

Interesting... since Tony complains about K100 criticizing AEW booking and decisions

@moleabe92 5 ай бұрын

The CMLL & AAA rivalry has always been a political mess. Both companies have exclusive rights to specific arenas across Mexico. As for Konnan, I think Tony is trying to stick it to him for the Dragon Lee incident. Tony probably threw a fit when Lee announced he was WWE bound after pinning AEW talent

@willowrush4765 5 ай бұрын

@@moleabe92 that will be mega petty then

@billykidman2091 5 ай бұрын

"Morale is great when you consider they're not even people" lmao

@Nofunleaguesportschannel 5 ай бұрын

Im just glad that the snowman doesnt have to fear for his life anymore lmao 🤣🤣

@YoursAnonymously 5 ай бұрын

For all the AEW fans that were claiming ad nauseum that they don't need sports entertainment stories and "we're all about wrestling!" Do you now see WHY you NEED competent storylines and compelling characters? Good storylines and characters lead to investment in both, leading to more interest in your product, and that leads to success. WWE is thriving because of the aforementioned, while AEW is skating by because they have good wrestling. You need MORE.

@joegreene7619 5 ай бұрын

If you don't have good characters and storylines, then you don't have good wrestling. All you have at that point is dudes in their underwear flipping around.

@namelessjedi2242 5 ай бұрын

As long as Tony is putting on shows he personally enjoys for the audience of he himself, and his dad’s money keeps flowing, he doesn’t care. That’s the problem. He’s a rich kid playing with his toys pretending it’s a business when it’s really just a vanity project or hobby.

@Chaz4543 5 ай бұрын

Its fine to not need all that if you're some indie fed but if youre getting paid millions of dollars to be on national tv its not so fine.

@lk29392 5 ай бұрын

yeah, without compelling characters and stories you have a bunch of relatively normal looking body type dudes (at least many of Tony's guys are like OC, Hook, Young Bucks, etc...) that are just throwing punches and doing flips. If you have some great storylines and bigger than life characters then the wrestling quality follows. The wrestling itself is worthless without the rest of it preceding it. No one is invested nor do they care about some average looking sweaty dudes flip-flopping in ring with nothing making it matter. Make us FEEL something Tony!

@CairnieR 5 ай бұрын

It’s why soap operas, even sitcoms get big audiences because there are characters and some form of story in every episode or between episodes. AEW is in the weird place of having nothing to offer anyone, it doesn’t have any story’s, characters and is obviously not a sport or even presented as such so no one can believe the matches have any real stakes or reason to happen either way. But clearly no one in AEW gives a shit about any of that, seeing as they’re on guaranteed money win lose or draw, no matter how much merch they sell, no matter how draws more viewers in, they are still on for silly money

@michaellee8816 5 ай бұрын

Have we got up to Dave thinking a clip of the Rock and Triple H from 2014 was from this week......

@malikevans2615 5 ай бұрын

No we he didn't notice lol

@llydrsn 5 ай бұрын

Well, with the CMLL deal it looks like Dragon Lee made the right choice not signing with AEW

@acotbc 5 ай бұрын

Of course he did! Had he stuck with AEW (where he got unmasked by his egomaniac brother as the show went off the air, which got ignored by the commentary team), he'd be getting a TV match maybe once every month or two. Now, with this CMLL agreement, he wouldn't even be able to get on the shows at all. On WWE he's been given a lot of TV time on both Smackdown and NXT, including title feuds.

@Zantar45 5 ай бұрын

Dave is the only person to ever get CTE secondhanded.

@megsley 5 ай бұрын

they're worried about the wrestlers being friends when they should be worried about not selling tickets 🤦‍♀️

@TD-sw3kv 5 ай бұрын

Tony Khan saw those documentaries about the Herb Abrams and the Jim Crocketts and then he became the way richer version of those guys. Just a total money mark where everyone is talking behind his back about working him for money 24/7 and lying to his face.

@SamsarasArt 5 ай бұрын

Every time meltzer speaks it's always incomprehensible verbal diarrhea.

@teecakes 5 ай бұрын

"They cut the cancer out [of AEW] and realized that was the only interesting part of the patient" Helluva line

@stevensingleton6742 5 ай бұрын

So many wrestlers on AEW that should be happy they even get a paycheck.

@scattonm 5 ай бұрын

Tony's eyes and Dave's tongue are the greatest tag team in modern wrestling

@rumbledcrumbled1099 5 ай бұрын

Meltzer’s week: “Rock and HHH filmed a face to face that didn’t air.” It aired…10 years ago. “Tommy Dreamer is the new head of creative.” No he’s not. Literally reported the Rock was a work, then came back around and refuted that. Maybe David should take a break.

@virgilhawkins7368 5 ай бұрын

Or just go away

@rumbledcrumbled1099 5 ай бұрын

@@virgilhawkins7368 that’s definitely a better option lol

@gkgyver 5 ай бұрын

Dave has an amazing ability to state two polar opposites in one sentence. "Morale is at an all time high; that said, there's too many people and morale is low"

@TooMuchGirth 5 ай бұрын

Everything GREAT!!! Thanks Guys!!!!

@InsignificantNick 5 ай бұрын

Dave's writing makes my head spin.

@kevinbray909 5 ай бұрын

Tony Khan is Kevin Bacon in Animal House yelling as the crowd is running past him "Remain calm, all is well."

@youcantalwaysgetwhatyouwan8419 5 ай бұрын

I’m still a fan of Ethan Page and I’m a big Danhausen fan, they both expressed their frustration, rightly, and are doing indies again. I feel sorry for the frustration these guys feel. The fact they can’t split the shows into divisions or leagues, just to focus on better groupings of wrestlers is insane to me. And TK needs to drop the new Japan and cmll shit, nobody cares!

@Chaz4543 5 ай бұрын

The problem with Daunhausen is that while he is one of the few guys out there who did work very hard on creating his character and getting over he would still rather play with toys and action figures than be in the gym so I cant feel sorry for him there. Hes the definition of the people in the ring being the same as the fans in crowd.

@alexmartin3143 5 ай бұрын

Has Cornette said one thing remotely positive about either of those 2? They’re not saving any division…

@xyrus7366 5 ай бұрын

@@alexmartin3143 Jim when he first saw the danhausen gimmick, thought it was thoroughly entertaining, same as Brian. Jim also explicitly said that he actively didn't want to see the guy wrestle cause it might ruin his perception of him. Looks like that happened after all.

@wilcee238 5 ай бұрын

The people trapped on CETI Alpha 5 with Khan in Star Trek 2 had more morale than the wrestlers trapped on AEW with Tony Khan.

@namelessjedi2242 5 ай бұрын

Those people had a confident and charismatic leader.

@alexmartin3143 5 ай бұрын

THIS IS CETI ALPHA 5!

@christerry1611 5 ай бұрын

That Khan was a better leader lol

@wilcee238 5 ай бұрын

I love this community sometimes.

@hasanx8066 5 ай бұрын

At some point they have to say it all sucks and start over. They are in the WCW downslide right now and it's being propped up with Tony's money idc what nobody says

@user-je7uh2zc2y 5 ай бұрын

I bet WWE executives and bosses are amazed that Tony Khan is spending all this money on nobody's i means multi millions deals while he is on losses no bright business man will do that only TK because he is spoiled rich kid and one day his father will cut him it's just a matter of time

@pendafen7405 5 ай бұрын

WCW were at least more interesting and charming about their bullshit. AEW doesn't even have that, it's all slick tedious expensive-looking dreck.

@Harry-sc1xk 5 ай бұрын

Wcw had loads of stars and full arenas still. This is the TNA down slide.

@starshipfame1 5 ай бұрын

It blows my mind how many people are on the roster and Tony still feels the need to bring outsiders in to take spots…instead of building up the homegrown.

@narlabegins 5 ай бұрын

Tony Khan saw how Vince McMahon tried to monopolize wrestling for years, and got upset because he thought that only he should be able to play with every single action figure there is.

@patriciaoneil 5 ай бұрын

Does anyone care about CMLL? Your own talent is getting unhappy and the new mexican guys most probably won't change the viewership numbers. So you're risking morale and riot for what exactly? Instead of bringing promotions together, he should consider bringing fans and venues together.

@namelessjedi2242 5 ай бұрын

Tony is so obsessed with constantly bringing in random people from other promotions who have no established presence in his show, when he needs to focus on establishing and promoting his own people first. Most viewers don’t know these new people, so cannot care or be invested in what happens. It’s shocking he and others there don’t seem to understand that.

@moleabe92 5 ай бұрын

Only the hardcore lucha libre fans care about CMLL. I know CMLL definitely has lost popularity since AAA’s inception in 1992. I think no american promotion should work with either one. Working with CMLL or AAA gets you dragged into their political mess

@supportpatriarchyordietrying 5 ай бұрын

my teacher always used the term "not rarely" which already hella confused me

@kleckamania4477 5 ай бұрын

When are Jim & Brian gonna talk about Collision being cancelled???? I'm dying in anticipation

@reginaldshort8486 5 ай бұрын

Can’t wait for Konan to hear about CMLL deal with Tony and apparently nothing good happens on a Jericho cruise.

@QuynhNguyen-zw8uv 5 ай бұрын

What I love about their podcasts is I walk away learning a new word.

@sbz88 5 ай бұрын

I was watching the Dark Side of the Ring episode about Herb Abrams and the UWF. Hard to watch that and not immediately think of Tony 😂.

@gavindoyle8717 5 ай бұрын

Video should be added so we can see Jim and Brian's reactions.

@namelessjedi2242 5 ай бұрын

They explained why they won’t do that. It would mean a more formal show, more preparation, and less of them actually feeling up to doing this.

@brianflores9828 5 ай бұрын

The Tony khan artwork has been killing me lately 😂

@1983jcheat 5 ай бұрын

The artist needs a raise. 😮

@john_blues 5 ай бұрын

Thanks guys.

@lk29392 5 ай бұрын

Wardlow's morale cannot be worth a darn right now. He is 100% over being 'the enforcer' type for the cole cripples or undisputed or whatever that new faction being pushed is called. Dude literally looks like he just rolled out of bed.

@randemness2680 5 ай бұрын

And 3/5ths of that new dominant group just got beat up by pockets. So that group is done already

@user-je7uh2zc2y 5 ай бұрын

@@randemness2680If i was Adam Cole f##k TK, my Buckaroos friends, my GF Britt Baker im getting Triple H number to revive what is left of my career because this company buried, injured and destroys my career 😂

@nickwaclawski6166 5 ай бұрын

“lol 😂 everyone is fine “- Tony Khan, Yeah okay lol 😂.

@Christian.J_hXc 5 ай бұрын

Everything's great!! 🛎️

@stingrey1571 5 ай бұрын

This is what happens when you have a fanboy run a fed.

@Amazinger 5 ай бұрын

Can we all just agree the best solution is to feature neither Mexican company's roster of indistinguishable, charisma-void, flippy guys who have absolutely no idea how to sell or tell a story?

@Chaz4543 5 ай бұрын

Its the best solution if youre on national television trying to get as many people to watch as possible but thats not the case here since they arent trying to get as many people watching as possible and just cater to a certain smaller crowd and audience.

@DaggerPrince 5 ай бұрын

yeah thatd be the perfect solution. all luchadors suck. rey mysterio was the only good one. period.

@theangelperiel 5 ай бұрын

@@DaggerPrincethat's a bit hyperbole. Psychosis tore it down with Rey in the earlier days, La Parka is an absolute legend, and Ultimo Dragon was one of the best technical wrestlers among fellow luchadores. His matches with Dean Milenko were stellar! I think there's more to lucha than just one athlete. But it's all in how it's showcased.

@JMFSpike 5 ай бұрын

That's an *incredibly* ignorant post, because Lucha Libre is a very different style. The reason why they seem "indistinguishable" to you is because they all wear masks and you're not that familiar with most of them yet. The masks are a tradition and a HUGE deal for them. It's part of the culture. They are "charisma-void" because they are Mexican wrestlers who do not normally wrestle here. There are several Mexican stars who have though, and many of them are over, most notably Rey Mysterio. No shit they are "flippy guys", that's Lucha Libre! Lastly, selling is not really a thing in Lucha Libre. They're not bad wrestlers, you just don't like Lucha Libre. That's okay, it's not for everyone, but you could at least be more God damn respectful!

@Amazinger 5 ай бұрын

@@JMFSpike I couldn't give one solitary shit, and neither could anyone else who doesn't invest time into lucha libre. As it is, they are unknown guys who can't work the American style, who make their opponents (the actual AEW guys) look weak, who aren't sticking around for us to care about them anyway, and are taking TV time from contracted wrestlers whom Tony should be building the company around so viewers have a reason to tune in every week. Tell me how AEW, its wrestlers, and the fans will benefit from this.

@MackEastwood23 5 ай бұрын

To those that don’t know the beef between AAA and CMLL goes back to when AAA’s founder Antonio Peña was the booker for CMLL with Juan Herrera Peña introduced the mini division and wanted the main event to feature the younger talent like Konnan, Octagon and Mascara Sagrada but Juan wanted the main event to stay the same with the usual heavyweights stars like Atlantis and El Dandy eventually CMLL owner Paco Alonso chose to go with Juan so Peña left CMLL and took the young guys with him and created AAA and thus giving younger talent the main event spot talent like Konnan, Rey Mysterio jr, Psicosis, Juventud Guerrera, Súper Crazy etc. I guess you can say CMLL didn’t want to admit Peña was right so they both tend to ignore each other and don’t want their talent working the same shows

@yuriykaraivan8310 5 ай бұрын

I shall paraphrase T.S. Elliot and say "This is the way the AEW ends Not with a bang but a whimper"

@benespinosa6725 5 ай бұрын

AEW'S morale is terrible their product absolutely sucks not the amount of hirings can help it's the creative plus the ratings are the lowest it's been in awhile plus wwe is on fire while aew is fucking ice cold tony doesn't have too many stars he has people nobody knows about i got a headache reading what dave meltzer said lol.

@tommyfraz. 5 ай бұрын

Tony Khan is Rick Moranis in Ghostbusters. Surprising number of people showed up to his party, and now they want to bail. Instead of making friends, he started a wrestling company so it could be a tax write off. He also gets generic cocaine for half the price, which is sound financial advice.

@yoholmes273 5 ай бұрын

👀 Thanks guys! ☃️

@dadman9799 5 ай бұрын

Same thing applies in the NFL and NBA. Everyone is “buddy buddy” and it results in a watered down product.

@pendafen7405 5 ай бұрын

See, many oldschool fans complain about this in pro soccer (as you'd call it) too, but I personally enjoy the displays of male affection in those games. It feels genuine. Not so much in wrestling, though, I don't need it there and it breaks the narrative frame.

@prestonpfeiffer 5 ай бұрын

1:28 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 im sitting in public and just busted out laughing. Jim is comedy

@doubles7533 5 ай бұрын

We need a Dave Meltzer omnibus

@bootneyfarnsworth2844 5 ай бұрын

It would last 6 months!!

@vikram-ro6fu 5 ай бұрын

Tony books for the moment/or who is the flavour of the month. No booking in advance or developing wrestlers. Malakai, jay white, keith lee, briscoe and many others who came in hot - whats their direction? What is their story?

@user-je7uh2zc2y 5 ай бұрын

They can all burn in Tony Khan hell they choose AEW it's their F problem in the past i came to the defense of those wrestlers because they don't have choice it's either Vince McMahon or Tony Khan and Tony seems better than Vince McMahon but now there is no Vince McMahon it's Triple H and he so much better so i don't have any sympathy for guys that choose AEW over WWE now like Mercedes and Okada and Ospreay if Tony buried them they should not complaining on Twitter

@christopherolie817 5 ай бұрын

"The beatings will continue until morale improves": the HMS AEW

@michael_stout79 5 ай бұрын

I have the full cm punk fight with the young bucks not sure what to do with it

@namelessjedi2242 5 ай бұрын

Send it to Jim and Brian.

@thatpart 5 ай бұрын

If true, you can always post a snippet on your own channel.

@cheloxmv 5 ай бұрын

Yeah sure.

@mollylong3571 5 ай бұрын

Sure you do

@herecomesdatrain 5 ай бұрын

Im curious if konnan would address this situation if he havent already

@THE_Dodge_Morningstar 5 ай бұрын

CMLL demanded that stipulation, because they knew they could get Tony to agree to it. The guy _does not_ consider AEW a business, and I'm just not going to hold it against him anymore. We're silly if we treat it like a real promotion.

@stewartfennell8926 5 ай бұрын

Could all the wrestlers back stage not being used just go out and sit in the the crowd to make the audience look bigger?

@JustDevon 5 ай бұрын

I love how AEW is supposed to be this big deal but Tony is happy to be dictated rules by CMLL

@JustinSteereMusic 5 ай бұрын

What Dave doesn't realize is that the AEW roster is only high level performers on this Podcast. The content that they give Jim alone gets more viewers than their entire wrestling program. You don't even have to watch AEW to follow along with their shenanigans.

@BackwoodSpiritAnimal 5 ай бұрын

That Mexican stuff makes so much sense consider what Fuego Del Sol has alluded to on his KZfaq channel

@cosborne06 5 ай бұрын

Travis, you need to update the dynamic dude Dave Meltzer’s hair color to the current pitch black that it’s naturally coming in as.

@justin_your_cousin9273 5 ай бұрын

I really don't want another 20 years of a monopoly

@vitaliydubkov4008 5 ай бұрын

Not booking your own talent because of some guys nobody knows? That's a new low.

@riffcrypt8438 5 ай бұрын

Penta should definitely be ripshit about that CMLL crap. That is a huge slap in the face, and he has consistently been one of the best guys in the roster. Basically, always been over too. To get shoved into the bottom of the toy box for 3rd rate talent not a single fucking person knows in the US/Canada. Good job TK.

@Simouno 5 ай бұрын

"Most of the roster are not people" Those are the truest words Dave Meltzer has ever outtered 😂😂😂

@mattroxursoul 5 ай бұрын

Didn't Meltzer go to college? The study of journalism is supposed to contain English as far as I know. What is with the run on sentences.

@MariuszMroczek-dd7ku 5 ай бұрын

He went to the John Belushi college.

@user-od9rw3ko1e 5 ай бұрын

Can you do a video explaining who you would keep and feature and who would you get rid of

@ShaneKraemer 5 ай бұрын

I believe they did that year or two ago. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hLxnYNly39XPdKs.html

@AndrewTown-xm5ml 5 ай бұрын

Tony wants All Amigos Wrestling.

@justchilling7594 5 ай бұрын

The whole reason they go to the AEW for the most part is because they aren't good enough to be on prime time.

@canedust 5 ай бұрын

Tony probably wasn't worried about CMLL'S stipulation since he's planning to just poach anyone they send, like with New Japan

@darksideon 5 ай бұрын

00:42😂😂😂True words

@joeytocd 5 ай бұрын

“Most on the roster are not people.” 💀😂

@MarquisLeary34 5 ай бұрын

When you have infinite money, quality doesn't factor in, sadly.

@Gotchism4Life 5 ай бұрын

If I were on the AEW roster, I would shut up, collect my money, and invest wisely.

@Chaz4543 5 ай бұрын

Getting paid a lot of money to not injure and maim myself sounds like a good deal to me. I get you wanna work but if youre not gonna work safe then why bother ?

@Gotchism4Life 5 ай бұрын

@@Chaz4543 Exaxtly, and the guys in AEW are more reckless than WWE, so it's safer to stay home.

@lennyclinton5672 5 ай бұрын

The Cocaine Bear is bleeding out!

@fishin4bass2002 5 ай бұрын

AEW morale is great- Tony Kahn

@davidratty2242 5 ай бұрын

I almost laughed out loud when Brian said "Most of the roster are not people."

@TheWill1225 5 ай бұрын

Dave “I English good speak” Meltzer

@JMFSpike 5 ай бұрын

I don't know why Tony brings up how the ratings have been "great". They have not! They've never been great or even good. Dynamite's ratings are always merely okay. The other shows can be considered okay only due to the nights they are on, but the ratings have slowly gotten worse and worse over time which is obviously bad. Anyone can look this stuff up and see for themselves. Heckel should do an art piece of Tony drowning with a speech bubble that says "I'm doing great!"

@ismthamisfit 5 ай бұрын

0:58 😂😂😂😂😂😂

@nickhughes8179 5 ай бұрын

Is that Cokie the Khan as Titanic captain Edward J Smith??

@OgKamoGaming 5 ай бұрын

Tony just wants to buy every wrestler he can. Dudes a spoilt rich kid, still playing with action figures.

@Jeff_Pryce 5 ай бұрын

This is why I’m very nervous about Sasha Banks/Mercedes Mone going to AEW. The talent she is joining aren’t that talented, yet they think they are and will take their failures out on her simply for being there and being pushed and trying to attract more viewers to their dwindling audience. She’s a strawberry being fed to a pig, a diamond being put into mud. I get it, she wants the bag and good for her for getting it, but I have a feeling this won’t end well for her. How long before Britt Baker suddenly decides Mercedes is a threat? Or some sloppy clumsy clod like Willow Nightingale injures her (again)? As a fan of hers, I wish her nothing but success, but I have my concerns.

@Harry-sc1xk 5 ай бұрын

She’s not gonna make a difference. Doomed before even started with that womens division, but is she really even a diamond? You’re probably just gonna see the Moxley effect happen again.