Tony has officially given up on having an inner circle of guys he bounces ideas off. We now have confirmation that he's not listening to Jericho, the Elite, Danielson, CD, any of the producers, the writers, literally anyone in the company>“Do you know how many people I talked to in AEW yesterday, and every last single one of them… ‘aghast’ may not even be the right word… ‘appalled’ that Toni Storm’s return is on Rampage.>“I swear to god this is true – you could have had 200 people lined up outside Tony Khan’s door last night, one by one, all 200 of them could have gone in there and said, ‘This idea is stupid’, and do you wanna know what’d happen at the end of the night?>“He’d have still done it, because that’s what happens.>“People argue things with him every single week, and at the end of the day, he does whatever he wants.”So that explains why the booking has fallen off the last 2 years.What a fucking mark.
I think he's shoot furious that he lost Booker of the Year. He's tried three different takeover angles and none of them are sticking.
>>16463983Source?
>>16463995https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjOWGbbMLqY
>>16463983He was part of the movement that created the entire company and he's a certified booker of the year. I don't know that he needs their advice. He could listen, but there is something to be said about trial and error and doing it on his own. I'm sure he takes more pride in that.
>>16464017Yeah keep reinforcing snowed white the stupid dork. What could go wrong with letting the amphetamine addict nepo failson keep fucking up booking and riving the company into the ground. He won a smark award a couple times
>>16464017still Tony
>>16464017He won booker of the year riding the Elites storylines built on BTE and in NJPW. Tony unfiltered gave us Punk as AEW champion with no direction and the abysmal summer of 2023 program with Adam Cole and MJF.
>>16464000Kek Bryan is so close to making AEW his new TNA
>>16463983if not him, there needs to be another person who is able to say no to terrible fucking ideas
>>16464382Fully justified. AEW speedrunning every mistake WCW and TNA made, and in just the last 3 years
The times AEW actually tried to have stories that people liked>Hangman's road to AEW championshipA rehash of Golden Lovers vs Bucks NJPW angle, penned by the Elite>Good parts of the Codyverse like Dustin match and Brodie Lee destroying CodyAll Cody's ideas>Punk vs. MJFPunk's idea>Hangman vs. SwerveHangman, Swerve and Kenny>Timeless Toni StormRJ City Tony didn't have a single good or memorable idea in the past 5+ years. It's all yummy wummy callbackerinos to obscure moments and trivia only the most autistic of smarks even remember. It's a show for the audience of one, exactly what RAW was under Vince.
>>16464458>It's a show for the audience of one, exactly what RAW was under Vince.AEW fans will never admit this bitter truth
>>16464458Holy shit, this anon is painfully correct.
>>16464776I disagree. Anyone who has ever been part of a committee understands that someone's "ideas" are actually a group effort. One person will pitch then it will bounce around with inputs and changes from people until it goes to air. The original idea is often very different to what you see.Tony is making a bold move if the reports are true, and one that I think is a mistake but I understand why he's doing it. AEW is Tony's company, it's his name above the door and him who pays the bills. The creative is widely acknowledged to be the shits at the moment. As owner that is his responsibility and taking in ideas from everyone makes this muddy. It's his responsibility to fix his company and now he has no excuses. AEW creative will live or die now solely on him, there's no hiding any more behind committees. I think it won't work and this will lead Tony to eventually appoint a Head of Creative but it's his toybox and him who needs to guide it to the right place.
>>16464458>>16464776>The times AEW actually tried to have stories that people liked>Hangman's road to AEW championshipyup stopped reading there you fucking faggot lolkys
>>16464017Pride goeth before destruction :)
And let's be honest, this doesn't matter either way. Tony will run his company as a loss making entity for his entire life. It isn't a real business. The creative only matters in wrestling in as much as it drives revenue. But if you don't care about losses then who gives a shit? As long as Tony enjoys what he's doing then that's the primary concern for him
>>16464458>>Hangman's road to AEW championshipPeople only pretend to have liked this storyline, it was shit, way too cartoony and gay. They literally dressed up like ghost busters and pretended the proton packs could actually hurt people in the final build up to the match.
>>16463983>appalled’ that Toni Storm’s return is on RampagePeople are so fucking stupid. You watch AEW 3 times a week, 4 when there's a PPV, and you fundamentally don't understand the product. It's right there in the fucking name, ALL elite wrestling.It doesn't matter what show it's on, or who's invovled it's going to be high level wrestling. There's no shame in being on Rampage, it is equally elite to the other shows cause they are ALL elite.
>>16464458There was no story with Hangman’s championship chase, to the point where people were posting headcanon twitter threads to try and act like there was a story
>>16464017>it’s good that AEW has been booked terribly for the last two yearscare to extrapolate?
>>16465067>kenny touched jungle boys hair>hagman also has hair
>>16465055Then why did Rampage get cancelled? Elite things don’t get cancelled.
>>16465055>don't understand the product Yeah me and 800k other people seemingly.Rampage is DONE. What's the point in promoting a show that IS ENDING and is doing 100k viewers a week? You sound kinda dumb anon.
>>16465093>>16465095Shockwave. On Fox. Instead of Smackdown.
>>16465144When was that announced? :)
>>16464017>he's a certified booker of the year. I don't know that he needs their advice.I guarantee that it’s this exact kind of mark thinking Tony uses to justify his shitty booking and plummeting ratings/relevance.
>>16465144What's that got to do with Rampage on TBS?
>>16465152>>16465210Slopdown got cancelled. Then, now, forever.
>>16464017There is a reason the proverb "pride cometh before a fall' is so well known
>>16463983keep throwing shit at the wall tk time for some crash tv bro
Good. The booker shouldn't be listening to a bunch of failed midcarders who have never drawn a dime in their lives
>>16465592I think when you've never had any experience in the business you at least need people you can trust. Even Vince had an inner circle.
