>>19583827Back when the milly’s flower like wine and KWABOTYs seemed unfathomable
>>19583827Why did this faggot insist on dropping the Rhodes name when he was on the indies even though his entire gimmick is “muh daddeh”
>>19583827Never forget what they took from you.
The series finale
it never was, joke promotion starting with the Casino Battle Royale at Double or Nothing
>>19583909WWE owned the name Cody Rhodes because he’d never used it outside of WWE and it wasn’t his legal name. He was able to just go by Cody because that is his legal first name. They eventually let him use it in AEW.
>>19583827WWE could can be good when Cody gets his ass kicked as well
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>>19583827Tony khan sperging out as leatherface was kinda cool in a cringekino way
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my moty this year
The graphics were better, that's for sure.
Cody's neck tattoo was the inflection point
>>19585903This was when I knew Pornostar would be the GOAT of his generation
>>19585903>>19585967Die
>>19583827I know wrestling fans are autistic and like to categorize things in "eras" that are clearly "good/bad" based on viewership metrics but AEW has never worked like that. It's always been wildly inconsistent in the exact same ways. The best stuff and worst stuff they've ever done has often coexisted on the same shows. Revolution 2025 was a good PPV with the most dogshit slop main event I've seen in any company in years. AEW never really changes. The only difference in the product in 2025 is that the average midcard match is less botchy because they signed more properly trained wrestlers from WWE and Japan.
This and the Continental Classic are the closest AEW.jas gotten to delivering on the sports-based presentation as originally promised.
>>19586007The roster is overall a lot better. They've come a long way since Marko Stunt and Jimmy Havoc and Peter Avalon and the Dark Order the hokey shit they did early on I'm the undercard. AEW has really only had 2 bad periods when Tony pushed ROH all over the product and the fallout of Punk and the Devil storyline. 2025 has probly been the best on-screen product since 2021.
>>19586160>sports-based presentationI watched this entire series. It had multiple wacky stipulation matches and the "story" of the entire feud was that Penta had a hammer and kept hitting the Elite with a hammer
>>19586160This whole Best of Seven Series sucked ass. It was just Tony trying to kiss the Young Bucks's ass after the whole Brawl Out incident and having to strip them of the trios belts (which were only created to pad their records in the first place). Punk was sidelined for six months while the Young Bucks got the prance around and do whatever the fuck they wanted for weeks. Each match had a lower rating than the match before it because it was just nonstop, self indulgent, flippy bullshit, which of course The Cucks and Kenny won. This type of shit is when AEW started to go downhill for good. It was just Tony caving to the whims of talent in favor of actually decent booking.
>>19585884This was the last time AEW felt like a big deal
>>19586172>2025 has probly been the best on-screen product since 2021people who don't watch at all will probably find it a ridiculous notion because of how badly the company's weekly numbers have been doing, but I agree. I think the damage was already done during that 2023-2024 meme period and I don't think they'll recover to what they were before. the product isn't especially good right now to win a lot of people back, but it's not completely off the fucking rails Vince style like it was for a long time with MJF bar mitzvah parties and shit like that
>>19585860tony wishes he had that kind of body control
>>19585884>>19586536It should have been a PPV main event, not thrown on at the start of Dynamite.
>>19586160Do you know what the genesis of the "sports-based presentation" line was? It was a 2016 tweet from Road Dogg replying to a fan saying "wins and losses don't count, it's about character and he's a winner!"It was Cody's idea of what he wanted the promotion to be back in 2019. Khan agreed with the idea but giving more creative freedom to the talents killed it. Really what they both meant was a stronger focus on how people lose, x wrestler loses more to y move, stuff like that. Ironically Gunther and the sleeper is exactly the presentation they were after.
>>19583827When STINK was on
