And mid show too!

The only thing left is Dave Meltzer shouting in Taz's ears

I agree. It should be illegal for the industry’s most influential journalist to have contacts in the industry

@@janon3400 😂😂😂

@@janon3400 illegal? NO. Freedom of expression and association should not be compromised. We can always call this clown out for being such a moron.

Nail in the coffin?? That coffin has been 6 feet under for a while now dude

Welp, if you've ever thought "wrestling journalism" you can't ever be seen as an equal. Only dumb MGers ever thought wrestling journos where above board should be mocked endlessly.

Nails been going that coffin for four years. Is it a coffin, or just a bunch nails at this point.

Coffin of nails- Good metal band name.

@@planexshifter Alice Cooper (In Moxley's voice)

Yep. He's a trivia buff fan boy and a paparazzi.

I love his ratings. Especially the 7 star ones 😂

ACTUALLY!!!! TMZ doesnt make stuff up. they are legit. mletzer is the cnn or fox news of wrestling, full of agendas

Does anyone espcially a professional wrestler give a fuck about it. Sure the younger crowd love star ratings...they mean fuck all to me and im a lifelomg wrestling fan. Il chance a guess only posers and smarks care for this. God forbid a wrestler cares.

​@@jeepernj99That's pathetic

Jim Ross would not be willing to train tony on how to run a company and book etc. He's not going to do that... It's not an option just like it's not an option to have Jim do the same.

​@@KevinSorbo.That doesn't make sense. No way Ross would pass up a chance to keep a ship he's on from sinking if given the opportunity.

@@grunt-sw8si that's complete BS how many companies was he a part of creative that went under? 5? Worked for one successful company which was WWF and Vince and others booked that. JR isn't even good. His idea of star material was Dr death Steve Williams... He has zero track record to say he'd be good.

this is the same company that turned down Bret Hart but hired Orange Cassidy as an agent.

Dutch Mantell said the same thing when he was a booker. He booked things he liked.

​@@dabellwrites6888LMAO, The Vince Russo method

Like you would do better than Vince.

@@darkstars-torpedoes-of-truth Russo or McMahon?

That's because everyone does it. Only WWE/Vince gets demonized for it, though. That's because you cringed pro wrestling fanboys can't get over the fact that Vince/WWE is successful despite your dislike of it/him. Unsuccessful people will always hate on people with more success, and always have a boatload of excuses for why they've never achieved similar success. It's much easier to do that than look inward at your own faults.

It got me too, that was the perfect way to respond to Dave

Still waiting for an A&E Biography on Dave Meltzer (with a lot of input from Conrad Thompson) for the Meltzer fans. Meltzer is guarenteed to get inducted into a couple of wrestling hall of fames.

I know, it's almost as bad as making a whole new wrestling program just to satisfy one wrestlers ego.

@@darkstars-torpedoes-of-truthI know it’s hard to tell the Young Bucks apart, but they’re actually two different people, believe it or not.

@@Teletheus Really, just like it's hard to tell which is cm junk and which is the meth head trolley boy from Walmart.

​@@darkstars-torpedoes-of-truthWhat's even harder is trying to make CM Punk move out of your head since he lives there rent free all the time.

somewhere along the line meltzer became more concerned with being friends with the wreslters rather than being a reliable source

Day One ish

Ah, "a LONG time ago"... So, when exactly and for what specifically? Dates and events, please! And he's "been compromised from Day One", you say? Him texting and distracting people in their work during a live broadcast with this unsolicited and superfluous nonsense in 2023, is "proof" that he was "compromised" in 1971, when he first started publishing news and opinions about pro wrestling? How so? Explain that, please! The only thing that's more ridiculous than Dave's descent into stupidity and for whatever reason thinking that TV professionals who regularly work on live broadcasts need him to tell them through their boss that the satellite signal has gone out, are the ignorant commenters who jump on the bashing bandwagon, without any understanding of who and what he used to be, especially in the pre-internet era and _especially_ especially in the age of social media. Anybody who claims that he's "just a fan like everybody else" or "never had any credibility to begin with" is just showing their ignorance, lack of knowledge, and cluelessness. Just because Dave has become a self-parody that even his longtime friends don't understand anymore, doesn't mean he was one for the four decades before that self-inflicted snowballing downward slide started. Goddammit, how many times have I said I wouldn't defend the guy anymore and stupid motherf%&kers make me do it again...

He lost his credibility when AEW started. Ok? As for ‘Day One?’ Day One of his love affair with the Bucks, Omega and TK. His super-biased ‘reporting.’ His fraudulent ‘star ratings’ of AEW matches compared to the dates you mentioned when he was SANE and hadn’t sold out pal. 🙄

​@@henrygvidonas9573shut up dave

5 Stars, 5 Stars, 5 Stars!!!🤣😂

To be fair, that happens every year. That’s how 90% of films get considered for Best Picture, and how most of us have never heard of the film until reward season.

Oh it’s worse than that. This is like if Ebert constantly phoned the director and then gave the movie 5.5 stars while pretending to be a neutral party.

@@tommyfraz.In most cases, the filmmakers and critics aren’t talking on a direct line. Filmmakers know what critics like, which is why so many Oscar movies are alike, but there’s more separation there than between Meltzer and AEW.

​@@tommyfraz. The difference is that people vote on it. Anyone that has been nominated or won an Academy award gets a vote, not the critics.

You forgot the "you know"

​@@archeign7769and the god forsaken breathing he does while trying to talk at the same time like a British narrator of a science episode on NOVA! he started doing that annoying 💩 around 2012 but it really sunk in just before the start AEW. And it makes me want to smash his mugg with a cast iron skillet. Y'all know he literally inhales deep and starts running his mouth is when he gets the skillet right in the face like in the Animaniacs cartoons.

@@archeign7769 dammit lol 😂🤣🤣🤣

That's a 5 star sentence.

Lol The whole Aew roster is the cast from Hills have Eyes Hangman has the same dumbfounded look as Pluto Best quote from Hills... Baby fat, you fat , fat and juicy (that almost sounds like Meltzer talking to Kenny)

the FBI most wanted basement dwelling nonce crowd. 😂😂

They don't have deodorant though Cheers

I could smell them through the tv

Neckbeards are naturally ugly. The same thing is happening on RAW, because last couple of weeks has had some of the ugliest people in attendance.😄

It wasn't JDFromNY was it

Your comment and this vid really shows why these guy shill so much for AEW. They wouldnt have this level of access in WWE.

🤣🤣🤣

I remember watching a livestream of his when MJF no showed the Double or Nothing fan stuff in 2022, someone superchatted and asked whether he had heard any particulars relating to the situation. Sean got super defensive and said “Nope nope, wasn’t me, you’re wrong, I never said that” when the guy never insinuated Sean was the one who said it. He’s such an arrogant douchebag.

When I was young I thought wrestling spent too much time recapping shit. But as I get older and live a life, it gets nice to see replays and be able to be reminded of shit or to give more oomph to the overall angle/storyline.

In a way a lot of AEW is like an endless succession of Eric Bischoff's "Sid's scissors" moments. Smart mark and insider "wink-wink" nonsense that's completely inaccessible and incomprehensible for casual viewers - and even for people who are fans, but simply don't want to follow and keep track of _everything_ that happens in and around a promotion, 24/7/365. Some people don't like to do mandatory preparatory homework all week just to understand what's happening on a silly wrestling show on Wednesday night. Imagine that! They had MJF allude to - and even quote verbatim - things that happened and were said in NXT years ago, when he ripped into Adam Cole, not that long ago. How the hell is a casual viewer supposed to understand that and react to it? Years-old references to a different show of a different company on a different network... What are they supposed do with this? It's "exclusive" in the worst way possible. It turns away people who could get pulled into "the product" and stay around. It's like the most passive-aggressive way of letting somebody know that they're not part of the "cool kids" in-group and should p!ss off. And that's how your show firmly stays under one million viewers for five months now - and generally dead in the water with no significant growth of your audience since the debut episode in 2019, Tony! The debut is still the most-watched episode in AEW's history. 1,409,000 viewers. They're regularly struggling for two thirds of that, this year.

It's like when Punk blew up at the press scrum. Never mentioned on air why Punk dropped the title and disappeared for month's - they didn't even mention an injury. And even if you heard about it and listened to what he said, you then had to go down a rabbit hole of internet articles, backstage gossip, snide references, wrestlers real names, receipts, legal action, podcasts, friend groups, etc just to understand the basics of what the hell he was ranting about. Whole thing was stupid, it was overblown & even understood only amongst a very specific circle, most of whom are either in the AEW Lockerroom, are press who also happen to be friends with / print gossip directly from part of the AEW Lockerroom as their bread & butter "reporting", or have been religiously part of or following the "Internet Wrestling Community" for 10+ years. And it's an even smaller fraction of that group who are now booing Punk when he appears on TV / PPV. Now try and explain to someone who casually follows Wrestling & knows Punk from when he worked in WWE why he gets a mixed reaction from AEW fans & watch them slowly back away and reconsider whether they want to continue being seen as a wrestling fan going forward when you're not even halfway through explaining it to them.

@@M-E_123 People who are involved in the internet wrestling community would be shocked to learn what most people who watch wrestling actually like and know about the product. So when you have a supposedly mainstream product made by people who have only ever listened to and performed for people in the internet wrestling community, it's a product that's permanently out of touch with all but the narrowest of niche audiences.

Why would they? This is AEW we're talking about.

Oh I bet Matty and Nicky are preparing that speech for him and Anorexic Angry Alvarez to parrot. Meltzer "This Thunderstorm that cancelled the show was conjured and sent by the evil Big Meanie Head bully CM JUNK..." Matty "you're not supposed to say CM JUNK, that exposes our bias, ah kah kah kah kah kah!" Meltzer "I wasn't supposed to say CM JUNK, that exposes our bias, ah kah kah kah 7 stars kah kah kah uuhh plans changed.."

"We're hearing that Punk was outside hanging around the, you know, the place where the electric, you know, and I don't know if, I mean, you know, if the electric went out, like I don't know if, you know, if that means that, and I'm not saying it does, it just, I mean, you know?"

@@johnhill6412 Dave: "I mean you know, the evidence is here, ummm, a Punk shirt!! This proves it!! What two balding bearded 5th graders?? I didn't umm you know see anyone you know uhh plant that shirt!! Plans changed, Punk is guilty, and ummm, Alvarez can uhh you know creep on errr.. date, yes date Maria Kanellis again... Husband?? Plans changed again you know... Alvarez and Maria shall be reported as a new item and power couple.." Alvarez: "PLUS 5 DATES!!!!!" Dave: "Plans changed, uummmm, we've got to smear Mike Bennett as a you know racist so Maria Kanellis will like totally break up with him.." Alvarez: "MINUS 5 DATES!!!!"

I'm sure Alvarez is practicing libelous excuses to pin this on Punk somehow, as I type this, in Granny's attic in front of his Maria life-size cardboard cutout that's 3 inches taller than him.

They're prolly writing a report that CM Punk was practicing witchcraft to make the Bucks leave AEW but it went wrong and caused this issue.

I mean, you know I mean you know. You know.

It’s like uhh, you know, it’s like you know. I mean uhhh you know it’s like.

“umm you know uhm umm climax, you know new japan workrate uhm you know, um it was the least good match you know uhm 7 stars!!”

Fair and Balanced!! Just like Fox.....

@@THE_SKiZzLe23 They reported Jewish Space Lasers funded by George Soros because it came out of Manjorie Transgender Gangrene's Oompa loompa mouth, but sure Fox tells facts. Fox told people to protest a virus, then drink bleach and sheep dewormer instead of taking actual precautions against germs, oh but only Fox tells facts. Tucker Carlson tells us Russia is our friend even though they've been planting hostile agents like Paul Manafort, Michael Flynn, and Steve Bannon in the Republican party since Giuliani, oh but Putin is a great strongman perfect to lead America, Fox claims, despite Putin poisoning and killing his political opponents and dissenting civilians, yup, Fox telling facts again. In fact, Fox is so factual, they only opened a year after the abolition of the Edward R Murrow fairness doctrine which legally held media and journalism to integrity, honesty, and vetted sources. You lie, slander, grift, and spread misinformation for a foreign country like Russia (like Fox and Tucker does) under that doctrine, you get shut down, legally penalized, and possibly investigated for treason. No crying either, suck it up buttercup, news is for facts, not your fascist feelings. Fox isn't even news. It's Infotainment. Their own lawyers proved so in court on legally documented record to defend Tucker, Hannity, and O'Reilly from slander and libel lawsuits.

Everyone has biases. It's called past experiences. Maybe not everyone boring loser.

At its finest

😳

@@CONCERNEDcitizenforever Trash.

Yeah, I remember ordering that. $19.95 down the shitter. It wasn't cancelled though, it came back on the air for the main event and the people in the arena saw the whole card, it just wasn't broadcast. IIRC the version on the network has the opening match and the main event from Sunday, and the rest from the make up show.

Michaels VS Bulldog was the main event.

I heard that Vega/Austin strap match was really good too

Can't listen to him he does not actually say anything

I didn't need that image in my mind.

If Dave did bukkake, his skin might improve.

Closest he'll get is being named co-conspirator in a hostile workplace lawsuit 😭😭😭

They're screwing her over pretty bad. A momentary heel turn, then they go to Canada and try to switch her back to face after 2 weeks. That confrontation with Storm where Taya kept saying "you're worried, you're worried, you're worried" like ten times was so cringey. TK just signed her to feed her to Jane, and then let Statlander win the women's belt.

They hired Taya Valkyrie just to Bury her and job her out to everyone on the roster.

Nobody cares about Darkseid. Ha.

​@@kingslayer2999Khan just wanted the name recognition...after that he doesn't know what to do with them.

To be fair, she's lost several steps in the ring. Still looks like a million bucks, but she's not really holding up her end of the technical ring work side like she used to be able to, and I think the only person there that could get a "Vintage Taya" match out of her is Thunder Rosa.

And also the nonsense of Hangman Adam Page not defending his belt in the previous BOTB hurt it as well.

Or the other way around

Look at the participants, it will be a 7 star match.

@@TomFoolery350 yeah you're probably right 🤣

Let's be honest, it was barely a solid 3*

5 😂😂😂 try 7

I Swear if Meltzer gives that Garbage more stars than FTR Vs Jay and Juice then he is a complete moron

While Punk and FTR are in the burning house saving the kids, Meltzer is in there saving any Elite merchandise they or their parents may own. If the kids are Punk fans, Meltzer would pour gas on the fire, because Punk Bad and his fans are Big Meanie Heads. Meltzer would then try to knock Punk in the Observer for saving Cult of Cornette members over Young Bucks T-Shirts.

And then he would rate the fire 5 stars

Mark! 🫵

​@@CONCERNEDcitizenforeverlol at least 15 of 'em.

😂

Meltzer is the REAL boss of AEW, not Tony.

What u mean? I missed it, how bad was it

Please give a honest rating, how many stars was it

@@bearface86seven stars, at least. Kota Ibushi looked amazing and not at all like he’s been sitting on the couch for a year. There was a bed of nails, broken glass, and even a shoe with thumbtacks on it. Best of all...after all of that mess, the fans were chanting for tables and fire, because it’s the long-term storytelling and in-ring psychology that matters in AEW.

​@@bearface86shite but honestly Jack Perry had probably his best performance

@@experienceanimation217what better Hook that really hasn’t done anything in months. For a title that completely meaningless

It’s so obvious lately that Bryan and Dave are on the aew payroll They make every excuse when dynamite ratings are down and get mad when fans dare criticize the aew brand

@@fredk3787 correct bro it so obvious have a great day fellow toxic cornette member

and yet somehow dynamitye and all access got a emmy nomination, or at least got on the list of nominations suggestions.

@@EmberMcLain87 Emmys and all other awards shows don't mean shit. They are events for celebrities to circle jerk.

​@@EmberMcLain87 assuming this is true, what categories were they suggested for?

I'm convinced everyone believes they could beat up 95% of the marks on that roster.. and the majority of that audience are comic con overweight simp virgins. Really says a lot. The f**k happened to professional wrestling?

A circus but no one is as over a any version of Doink was. 🤡

If the AEW womens division didn't suck so hard.