>>18808712
Follow Cody's vision for the company as a genuine business and if the Bucks or Kenny or whoever threatens to leave because they wanna be PWG with a budget then so fucking long
I'd do whatever it took to keep Cody Rhodes in AEW under the condition he does a heel run and get over from it as was the original plan when he was teasing some deranged Homelander-style character
I'd try everything in my power to keep CM Punk too, actually try to mend fences between him and The Elite since Kenny was allegedly willing to do business
Still hire the Stardom poaches because Megan Bayne and Mina Shirakawa are very beautiful women
Then I'd poach the shit out of WWE

>>18808712
>Hurt Business always gets 5+ minute entrances and come out surrounded by white women
>their matches are always squashing white wrestlers
>that same monotone WE HURT PEOPLE is played as loud as possible from the start of the show until the end

>>18808712
>Who'd you fire?
Bucks
Excalibur
FTR
Daniel Garcia
Hook
Wardlow
Don Callis
All the women

>>18808788
You wouldn't release hangtranny?

>>18808812
No because people like the guy unfortunately. Maybe I’d drop him into main eventer without holding a belt, but crowds(small ones) love him.

>>18808712
If I have to keep the ROH belts I'd keep the ROH World, Tag, and Women's belts but have them be presented at least as something prestigious but also as a testing ground for who'd make champion material, even have the ROH belts main event shows and vice versa kinda like how the WWE brands operated during the 2010s

>>18808808
>Daniel Garcia
You need a jobber to the stars who exists to get other guys over though, that'd be a perfect function for him
>Hook
Why?
>Wardlow
Yeah he does get injured a lot
>Don Callis
Why?
>All the women
Oh come on at least a few could stick around to do bikini contests, or be managers

>>18808712
Kenny Omega literally said if it were up to him he'd fire 80% of that roster so I'd start there and keep the guys & gals I like personally and think you could make money off of

>>18808854
Hook is utter dogshit on the mic his only move in the ring is "no sell everything".

>>18808712
If I woke up as Tony Khan and it was 2018 again but what I'd do is in this order
>Lure Paul Heyman away from WWE
>Establish Heyman as the booker
>Jerry Lynn & Billy Gunn as coaches/trainers
>Mark Henry or Jim Ross or both as Talent Relations
>If guys don't wanna be coached or trained to be presentable for TV then you can find an easy job elsewhere
>The Elite are not going to be office guys because that so far has only ended in nothing but disaster
>Profit

>>18808854
You'd fire Mina?

>>18808914
Meant for this
>>18808808

>>18808712
Change the name to something that covers more than kenny's clique, like Dynamite Championship Wrestling, Ultimate League Wrestling, Best Bout Championship Wrestling, New Wrestling Century, something

>>18808784
>poach the shit out of WWE
The only guys in WWE worth stealing are Bron and Drew, there's nobody else worth poaching

>>18808914
I don't know who that is so yes.

>>18808712
Appeal to more zoomers. AEW has the talent and freedom to do it but they just don't. Right now it feels like it's made by Millennials, for Millennials. Gen Z are the ones who are going to talk about you and make you famous. They want to see things they can meme and shitpost about.

Run Brian Cage as a MAGA heel character

>>18808936
She's the Jap who's whole character is acting slutty and shakes her tits

>>18808945
>She's the Jap
Then yes definitely. Joshit is fucking cancer and only for pedophiles.

>>18808933
>bron
They’ve got like 5 manlet steroid users.

>>18808937
The problem with zoomers is they're also easily offended by just about anything and everything much like millennials and are even more terminally online

>>18808921
Tony's initial name for AEW was gonna be called World Elite Wrestling and you probably see the issue with calling it WEW

World Dynamite Wrestling though...

>>18808712
Try to move exclusively to HBO or HBO Max so it could be fully uncensored and be the truly "adult" alternative to WWE

>>18808933
I'd steal Tiffany, team her up with Mina and have their gimmick be that they're complete bimbos
The dimes that could be milked from gooners and simps would make a lot of people rich

I'd have snatched Jacob before WWE could and strap a rocket to his big Samoan ass

>>18808712
Call the World Championship the AEW World Heavyweight Championship, dunno why the cut the middle word out like it's a bad word. Just feels more complete
I'd also sign Cardona, don't care if no one backstage likes him he's charismatic, can work, and would be a hell of a get circa 2020 where I'd make him a top guy, I'd try to snatch Ziggler away round that same time.

>>18808960
Their not actually. That's the women. The boys who would watch wrestling lean right. They like crude humor, seeing people sperg out, people that they can call demons. This generation of men is apathetic and mean spirited. I like Hangman but Anxious Millennial Cowboy does not resonate with them. The story telling in AEW reeks of Millennial. That *wink* *wink* *nudge* *nudge*, safe edgy, buy our funko pops shit

>>18809097
>people that they can call demons
This is why I wish A. Tony didn't have what seems to be a bias against powerhouse-style wrestlers and B. Wardlow wasn't made of fucking glass because guys like him, Cage, Lashley, and Hobbs could be those very demons
Size isn't everything though its just AEW has exactly 0 diabolical heels or tweeners either

If I switched bodies with Tony I would try and knock up Megan Bayne

>>18809143
Tony (and for that matter The Bucks) try to appeal to millennial wrestling fans and millennial wrestling fans hate literally everything that made wrestling cool when they were kids such as the monsters, the gimmicks, characters, and so on
They prefer seeing the flips and dives and puro cosplay shit

>>18809143
It's not even necessarily a physique thing it's a mentality thing. You get the sense that, regardless of what happens on TV, everyone is going to go out for drinks together after the show is over. It's a problem with AEW at it's core.

>>18809097
>The story telling in AEW reeks of Millennial. That *wink* *wink* *nudge* *nudge*, safe edgy,
THANK YOU! Somebody fucking set it but it never stops ringing true. My generation fucking ruined storytelling and writing in general and they seem proud of themselves
Fuck

>>18808835
>but also as a testing ground for who'd make champion material
So...kinda like what the ECW title became in WWE but more respectable?

>>18809097
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8fUkZSDwqFU&pp=ygUSV3Jlc3RsaW5nIHNvdXAgYWV3 watch from 1:20 to 1:55 because they actually touch on this in a sense. Nobody wants to be a real heel except possibly Max.

A heel Moxley under a booker who wants him to garner heat could absolutely do just that, get him to be as the kids say a menace, who gets nuclear heat from the crowd and trash thrown at him.

>>18809287
Lol, holy shit. But yeah, in a way the average AEW fan can digest, it's performative to the point of feeling completely inauthentic. Wrestling is all about moments in time(this is also why building a company around what people USED to like about wrestling doesn't work). It's at it's best when you are unable to separate fiction from reality. The inherent ideology of AEW is at odds with that concept yet still tries to be wrestling. The result is a product that feels hollow

>>18808712
I'd start with fixing the Don Callis Family
Are they supposed to be taken seriously as a group or one big fuckin joke? Because Kyle Fletcher has all the tools to be a god-tier heel, the rest? Not so much unless you're Josh Alexander

Make Don Callis an actual threat, a corrupter who can make careers but get his shit rocked every once in a while

>>18809359
Shit I mean look at how WWE fed the dirt sheets fake leaks and tricked the world into thinking Seff was hurt for real.

Kayfabe as it used to be didn't die, it mutated into something else and you need to be smart to execute it properly

>>18809388
Instead Tony Khan books what the IWC used to like about 2000s-2010s ROH and NJPW

>>18809143
>Wardlow wasn't made of fucking glass
Hammerstone is a free agent and could be the monster AEW wanted Wardlow to be and he isn't fragile like Wardlow is.

>>18809287
Its like guys in that company want to do actual wrestling angles and serious shit sometimes but are beholden to a bunch of Reddit memesters who'd rather fuck around

>>18808712
Delete the Trios belt
Delete the Owen belt (just give them a cup instead)
Bring back the Texas Chainsaw Massacre belt so JJ can finally defend it the lazy fuck
Give Joe every other belt

Simple, really.

>>18809470
>Reddit memesters who'd rather fuck around
That's been the Jacksons thing for a decade and a half now, they have the same disdain for seriousness in storytelling that every current dogshit TV writer does and slather it in "LOL Irony". Now these faggots have executive power and would gladly tank a company rather than make a watchable product

pay Nash money to appear and put him in a rape angle with Hobbs and Shane Taylor

>>18809475
>Give Joe every other belt
Even the women's belts?

>>18809495
he has bigger tits than most of them anyway

>>18809495
Yes, I want to see Joe vs Mone in a Winner Takes All match.

>>18808833
but they don't like him enough to watch his segments

>>18808982
>HBO
I mean maybe but isn't HBO like up their ass about what kind of content is on their network?

>>18809509
There are lots of wrestlers in the company who can’t pop a ratings. If that’s the case let’s close the company.

>>18809509
>>18809526
These things happen when you've pissed away a majority of your promotion's goodwill
And people can say that's because they lost Punk but that's only a part of the problem

>>18809537
Letting Punk humiliate and squash all of your guys with any star potential is another part of the problem.

>>18809547
>all of your guys with any star potential
Anon, nobody for a minute believes Lee Moriarty is any kind of star outside of being a mid card guy

>>18809537
That Brawl Out or the events that lead up to it happened at all were what damaged fan goodwill at first, that any of the Punk drama happened when getting Collision off the ground didn't help matters

Its up to you if you consider Cody leaving a contributing factor to the decline of AEW. But the Punk/Colt shit should've been handled internally and whoever let out there was drama should've been fucking fired and denied

Isn't Goldberg's son training to be a wrestler? Sting's too?
If I were Tony I'd be looking into that

>>18809599
Punk's match against Darby was the biggest offender. Yeah, Darby's a smaller guy, but not by much, and Geriatric Punk was gassed the entire time, and looked like he was having a heart attack half the match. Him beating someone fit and healthy like Darby, clean, was one of the most preposterous matches I have ever seen.
Starks and Hangman were over before Punk buried them. Not every loss is a burial, but the way Tony let Punk go over these guys was terrible. They've never recovered. Starks is in a different company and he still hasn't recovered. Hangman is the champ again and he still hasn't recovered.

>>18808712
1.If you're a booker/exec/producer/EVP/whatever, you're not going to double dip and be a wrestler. Hell, you're not going to be on camera, period. Yes, Tony that means you too, fuck off.
2. Hire Dario Cueto/Cesar Duran or whatever fucking name he uses now, he'll be the authority figure.
3. Send Mox to rehab again until he stops pissing on his baby.

>>18809971
>you're not going to double dip and be a wrestler.
Hasn't literally every podcast boomer ever explicitly said boys working in the office always without fail ends in disaster?

>>18808908
Heyman would demand a huge ownership chunk of the company, large enough to basically give him enough power to be a huge pain in the ass and allow him to mount a hostile takeover once he got his loyalists in place and enough people on the roster loyal to him and not Tony or the Elite.

It's why TNA never brought Heyman onboard because they knew Heyman demanding 40% ownership would lead to trouble down the line

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>>18808921
>Best Bout Championship Wrestling
BBCDubya, huh?

>>18810023
Calling it BBW would be even worse

I'm not saying everyone should be built like brick shit houses but I'd make going to the gym regularly be a prerequisite for being employed because too many guys look fucking anemic as shit, get some definition, only exception are Darby, luchadores, and big fat guys

Secondly bring in some big men, not the meathead type exactly but more big fellas who look like they can throw their weight around like Bam Bam, George Steele, or Mark Henry

Do what ECW did and AEW currently is failing to do - versatility, have your lucha, Japanese, women, technical wrestlers, and even hardcore wrestlers

>>18810022
This. If you think the drama with Punk was bad, Heyman being in AEW would be much worse since unlike Punk, Heyman would be actively staging a hostile takeover the second he comes onboard.

Bring on Court Bauer, Gabe Sapolsky, or someone who knows the business as a booker
Shit I'd even look at maybe even bringing in Vince Russo if I had to but keep him on a short leash which neither TNA or WCW did

>>18810096
>>18810125
Vince Russo is also a terrible idea because he and The Bucks outright had heat and they'd probably bail the minute they find out he's involved with creative

>>18810088
Shit even Hangman looks like he takes care of himself
If you can't do the Adam Page regimen then what the fuck are you doing?

>>18810010
Just watch WCW TV when Vince Russo made himself a fixture of TV - it went from mediocre to outright dogshit

>>18808712
All of the women who are flat are getting breast implants and I'm appealing to the coomer market because those degenerates are incredibly loyal

Unrelated but when the fuck is AEW adding the 2022-2023 catalog to HBO Max?
I noticed they have 2019-2021 then 2024-present

I’d have founded it a decade earlier when there was actually independent wrestlers who were good enough for tv.

>>18809537
>>18809547
>>18809661
It doesn't help that Brawl Out and that initial stepping down of Vinny Mac was within weeks of each other. It was a double fuck hammer

>>18809599
Moriarty is a solid wrestler and can talk

>>18810537
You'd be running the same venues TNA and early 90s WCW did

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>>18809058
>Call the World Championship the AEW World Heavyweight Championship, dunno why the cut the middle word out like it's a bad word.
this

The main thing is getting developmental going. You have to have your own stars and wrestlers people can't see elsewhere. There's probably thousands of people who can do what Kenny and Will do, but you have to find them.

>>18810575
No, because AEW has a benevolent benefactor to buy tickets and pay people to fill the seats.

>>18810630
Its because Tony is mark for ROH and ROH did it
Hell numerous people have called the belt the heavyweight championship, or if you wanna just call it the AEW Championship
Alternatively its probably that gay millennial micro aggression bullshit where certain words hurt people

>>18810657
That's easily Tony's biggest flaw. He'll spend a billion dollars on music licensing but won't run house shows where guys can practice their poisonranas any of the other spots everyone keeps insisting on fucking up on TV.

>>18810088
>big fat guys
Its not like fat man wrestlers are in short supply, there's an appeal to hefty freaks
I'm not sure why Tony is averse to things that'd appeal to people

You want example of how much worse it could get just watch NWA

>>18808712
This but instead I'd poach Fatu and Hammerstone from MLW and Latimer from NWA

>>18808712
Keep Omega, keep the bucks as a midcard team only, get rid of all of the floppy shitters, get rid of a bunch of ROH, remove all belts except World Championship and tag belts, get new midcard belts

>>18808933
>Trick
>Jacob
>Tiffy
>Gunther/Walter
>Solo
>Guerillas of Destiny
>Jeff Cobb
>Dragon Lee
>Getting back Ethan Page
>Getting back Mariah May
>Roman
>Oba
>Seff
>Becky
Plenty of guys I'd poach from WWE

>>18810703
He did. And no one went to their house shows.

>>18808784
losing punk was a bigger loss for AEW than cody but getting cody was a bigger gain for WWE than punk was, if that makes sense
really they just need to not lose punk

>>18808712
this is always a retarded prompt because everyone's grand plan is always "uhh depush daniel garcia and hire all these guys who will just be wardlow or brian cage 2.0, also do more russo angles"
which literally changes nothing about AEW because they already did that in 2024 and that was their worst year
also they don't have time to start a developmental because they'll be taken off TV (2027) by the time they finish building a performance center

I'd just double down on what makes /pw/ and casuals seethe and bury their favorites to spite them

>>18808712
>If you were in charge of AEW what'd be different?
Tony Khan would be banned from having anything to do with AEW. Production would be handed over to veteran TV producers. Booking would be handled by professional writers. My role would mostly be supervisory.
>What would be the same?
Nothing. AEW needs a reset and I mean a real one. Not one of Tony's fake resets.
>Who'd you poach from other promotions?
Nobody.
>Who'd you push?
People who look like credible physical threats, have promo skills, and understand how to wrestle.
> Who'd you fire?
99% of the roster. All of the women.

>>18811561
>>18811593
Double Post

>>18811511
>they don't have time to start a developmental
ROH exists and that's what you can use for that

>>18811417
>Seff
>Becky
On one hand, a Mox/Tyler Black feud would be kino because they always delivered in their 1v1s.
On the other, Mercedes is already a malignant tumor on the women's division and Becky would be just as much an egotistical cunt

>>18810691
>gay millennial micro aggression bullshit
How much of a soft faggot do you have to be that a simple word that's existed in pro wrestling forever hurts you personally?

>>18810919
>Latimer
I mean his wife already works there and he's probably out the door as soon as his NWA title reign ends, and nepotism reigns supreme in wrestling

I tried watching this week's Dynamite replay on Max and holy shit this show is fucking boring, even Shelton Benjamin looks bored as fuck while wrestling Ricochet
Also, why does Kyle Fletcher have a title shot again?

>>18809475
AEW needs way less tournaments. Ideally only the Owen and the Owen should be purely for a title shot if you win. Plus it gives you a chance to build up some new feuds to ride off of for the rest of the year.

The problem, the fundamental issue with AEW is somehow Tony Khan is such a failure that he took guys like Kenny fucking Omega, Swerve, Moxley, Josh Alexander, and even MJF and they're all just guys on the roster, there's no stars or special attractions or anything that makes anyone give a fuck. He has no idea how to make anyone into a draw for him.

>>18811853
In AEW you can just ask for a title shot and get it or something?
God I miss when there were just four to five ppvs a year

>>18812050
Swerve was never a big deal until he came to AEW. Still a dimeless shitter.

>>18808712
I honestly wouldn’t change what they do for PPVs, they’re usually always good & sell well enough. Dynamites have to be more planned out however for what closes the show & how it’s formatted. As it is Tony pretty much throws whatever card out there close to going live but I’d plan out entire shows weeks in advance. I don’t think pushing certain guys matters (beyond obvious exceptions of whose shit like Garcia or Wheeler Yuta) but rather the tone of the show entirely, needs to be darker, more cutting edge.

>>18812050
>Kenny Omega
Always injured.
>Swerve
Pushed far above his actual level, didn't draw, but did become a credible top guy booking-wise and a name they could slot in the main event without looking out of place (at least next to the other names) or being outright rejected. They did what they could and did fairly well considering. He's just not the guy.
>Moxley
Was given the biggest push possible and had the red carpet rolled out for him starting with the first ever AEW show, drew until he didn't anymore, and then got pushed even harder in spite of his staleness.
>Josh Alexander
In what world would this guy ever be a star? He sucks. He wasn't even over in TNA.
>MJF
Similar to Moxley but homegrown and his world title push was even worse.

>>18812247
>didn't draw, but did become a credible top guy booking-wise and a name they could slot in the main event without looking out of place (at least next to the other names)
Kinda like Jeff Jarrett under a booker that isn't his friend or himself?

>>18812247
>Always injured
This, Kenny is good but that retard sawdusted himself into oblivion and made it worse during his AEW run

>>18812271
More or less. Seth Rollins is my usual point of comparison for Swerve though because they dress similarly, work similar styles, and fit a similar role for their company

For all his problems, Tony Khan dodged a massive bullet by not hiring Matt Riddle once Riddle became available because I could only imagine how Tony would deal with him.

Has Esfinge appeared in AEW? Because I'd sign him because I dig his theme music and you could sell replica masks and make bank (Like what Tony should have done with the Lucha bros)

>>18808712
ID PULL THE FUCKING PLUG

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>>18809934
>They've never recovered
>he still hasn't recovered
>he still hasn't recovered

>>18812425
>I could only imagine how Tony would deal with him.
How?

>>18808712
Hire Russo, Stevie Richards and Bin Hamin and let them run wild. They came up with the best shit during the Thunderdome era and no one knows that USA hired them as consultants during that time.

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>>18810023
Fraid so

>>18811417
>Guerillas of Destiny
Ehhhh I'd take Tama Tonga at the very least considering IIRC he's actually had a decent singles run here and there, Loa is the Janetty of the two
>Trick
I'd rather snatch Evander Holyfield's son since there's name value there, was Trick even on the indies or is he a Performance Center creation.
>Dragon Lee
Why not
>Roman
Would never defect unless you give him something way more lucrative than what WWE already gives him. Also WWE owns the name Roman Reigns

>>18814873
>WWE owns the name Roman Reigns
He can just go by Roman or change his legal name to Roman Reigns

>>18811417
>>18814873
>>18814937
2019 AEW would never ever sign fucking Roman because the fans left WWE because he was on TV every fucking week and epitomized what they hated about Vince McMahon

>>18815096
>epitomized what they hated about Vince McMahon
Which is why I'd debut him as a heel, a monster to be conquered and beat WWE to Cody/Roman by several years. I'd still put Jericho as the first champion but rework that Cody-World title stipulation that he can't so long as Jericho is champion or earn his eligibility for the world title back by beating Kenny or someone important

Vince's problem is he sucks at creating outright babyfaces, all of his biggest stars started as heels or got over from being a heel

>>18810703
Yeah. It's dumb too because he has an arena in Daily's Place that he can run anytime.

>>18808854
>You need a jobber to the stars who exists to get other guys over though, that'd be a perfect function for him
You can't get guys over if you're not over

>>18808712
>bra and panties matches
>no male wrestlers shorter than 6 feet
>women's wrestling attire has to show at least 90% of overall ass cheek surface
>any woman with more than 20% body fat is released
>Tony is a silent owner who is never seen nor heard from
Want a milly? This will get you there.

>>18815626
>any woman with more than 20% body fat is released
Don't you kinda need more than 20% to have big tits? Otherwise you got a fed full of flatties

>>18815560
Literally he'd cut down on travel costs significantly if they just did TV in Jacksonville and only went on the road for ppv, because they won't do House shows because none of the wrestlers wanted to do them

>>18815560
There's also the Esports stadium in Texas he runs ROH at too

>>18808712
If I had to fix one booking decision its that I'd merge the Death Riders and The Elite Invasion into one big storyline at some point where the DR had "sold out" to become the Elite's attack dogs and center Mox as an AEW equivalent to The Corporate Champion gimmick

>>18810022
>enough people on the roster loyal to him and not Tony or the Elite.
This is bad why? Force Tony into a silent investor role and an AEW without the Bucks or Kenny in control sounds like a good idea

>>18808712
Id report my entire audience (traps and troons) to the FBI and thwart countless school shootings and political assassinations.

>>18808954
Based

>>18808982
HBO is all uppity about "Prestige", and I don't think they find something like professional wrestling worth putting with their "Prestige TV" because of its fanbase.
Fuck sake they turned down Yellowstone because it wasn't "Metropolitan" or something

>>18809246
Kinda yeah, being the ROH world champion would be used to test if someone is ready for the big push or not

Instead of Nyla I'd hire Gisele Shaw cause at least she's a slightly pretty tranny, well in the way you'd find it pretty if you were drunk

>>18811464
Irrelevant, he's willing to lose money on his big shows that expose his roster. Lose money on small shows so they can, if not learn their craft, then to at least get coordinated enough to do all the stupid shit they try.

>>18816368
It also didn't help a lot of the wrestlers just said no to doing house shows at all.
Training or coaching these people is almost impossible because they're all obnoxious faggots who think they're too good for that

>>18816382
Sammy Gayvera saying he didn't want to do a house show cause he doesn't want to do big spots if it's not recorded has to be up there with that bitch from TNA saying all modern wrestlers are better than Benoit cause they can memorize more spots. Clueless generation.

>>18816399
Its why I don't feel bad for the NIL and Nepo kids getting fast tracked for big pushes because you can mold them into not being spastics

>>18816399
>didn't want to do a house show cause he doesn't want to do big spots if it's not recorded
Then don't destroy your body doing high spots at house shows you fucking retard, Jesus how does he still have a job?

>>18816450
Sammy was hired by Cody and Tony keeps him around in the hopes he'll lure Cody back to AEW

>>18816627
Nah, Sammy is still around because Punk named him one of the Pillars.

>>18814873
>was Trick even on the indies or is he a Performance Center creation
He was actually, he used to wrestle in CZW as Sweet Daddy Trick, Solo used to wrestle the indies too
Even Bron was dipping his toes in bingo hall shows

>>18808788
i don't watch the dub but i feel like just from what i see about it through osmosis this is probably about what i'd do, with a few alterations

>>18808712
Release 90% of the current roster. Offer 20 mil a year to any WWE top guys to bail and come to AEW.

>>18816693
>Sweet Daddy Trick
What was his gimmick? a low-rent Godfather?

>>18816203
So would be be The Elite Champion? Elite of Champions?

>>18817103
Which ones would you change?