This, all the interesting stuff about AEW was happening behind the scenes while the show was filled with dimeless shitters like Garcia and Yuta. Trying to force ROH onto AEW programming didn't help either and now AEW has like 18 belts on their show.
>When did you give up on AEW?
I never once gave up on AEW.
To be fair I never started on AEW so I have nothing to give up on, but all the same.
In the truest sense of the words I never gave up on them.
Literally when Cody left. I mean I later gave them a chance again with the Punk MJF stuff, but I just streamed those episodes after the fact and only skipped to the parts with MJF and Punk. The rest of the show is just incredibly... bad.
I'm trying to think back and I can't really remember an exact moment I stopped giving a frick. It was a lot of little things that sucked and kept building on one another.
Cody leaving kinda made me sad because I thought that the audience really did him dirty, but I was still watching at that point. After I heard about the Cody Rhodes Hell in a Cell where he worked with a torn pec I started watching WWE for the first time since I think 2014 or whenever Tips did that "me and my friend Mark" promo. I started watching more and more WWE because Cody's story was genuinely fascinating, but at the same time AEW just kept getting more and more stale.
It doesn't help that AEW fans on /aspw/ are horrible. Like I watched from the original All In in 2018, but any time I would complain about anything in AEW being bad I would get seething replies from people telling me to kill myself, calling me an edrone, and just genuinely being unpleasant homosexuals and making the game threads unbearable. So I watched less and less AEW because the shows just weren't that good and I couldn't even enjoy discussing it because the fans are the worst and actively attack their own community for questioning any decisions Tony Khan makes.
So yeah, I haven't watched AEW since summer of last year and I really have no desire to watch it going forward, but I really really enjoy laughing at it's failures now because the people on this board who made me stop caring are seething at a rate previously thought impossible by modern scientists.
>t doesn't help that AEW fans on /aspw/ are horrible.
If there's anyone who completely turned me on AEW is the obnoxious fans who seethe and call you names if you think one little thing wasn't perfect
>t doesn't help that AEW fans on /aspw/ are horrible.
If there's anyone who completely turned me on AEW is the obnoxious fans who seethe and call you names if you think one little thing wasn't perfect
yeah the fans taking any critism of the show as a personal attack against their life is a huge turn off for me talking about the show on here almost at all. I want to be able to go I thought that match sucked or point out tony is a bad booker without a bunch of people seething and calling me all sorts of names in the book over it or calling me a liar or a troll. its like it's impossible for them to accept any reality that isnt praises only for aew
>It doesn't help that AEW fans on /aspw/ are horrible
This is such a big part of it to me. I know I should be able to assess the product on its own merits, but your only option for discussing AEW on this board is glowing praise if you don't want AEW fans to call you a drone who doesn't know enough about Dragon Gate or whatever the frick.
Around the feud between MJF and Jay White. MJF was the only thing keeping me watching AEW and I always wanted to believe in MJF because his heel promos were awesome during his feud with CM Punk, but watching him try to be a super israelite by beating everyone was so cringe, it doesn't help that Atom Cole completely killed all the heat he could have had. His feud with Jay White was just nothing, it was boring as frick and they had 0 chemistry.
When Punk got fired. Tony letting his only real draw go and siding with the utterly dimeless Young Cucks and Jungle b***h of all people made me realize AEW was dysfunctional beyond any hope of salvation and it was digging a hole for itself that it would never climb out of. And the last 5 months have proven me absolutely fricking right.
Back during all the weird Punk and Mox title shit. Dropped off for a year or something like that after that. Started watching again last fall and in all honesty it's been pretty good for the most part
This is very specific, but the night Danielson debuted. He is my least favourite wrestler ever (no i'm not wolfcuck) so just seeing his dumb fricking head made me angry, but when he got on the mic and literally said "who wants to see me fight whoever (omega i think), that is when I realised what aew was all about. 2 guys having pointless, heatless, nonsensical, unrealistic, forgettable "dream matches"
I've been shitting on them since before they had their first show. Since before All In 2018.
I've been burying all these people on Fhite since 2017 when trannies kept trying to start new japan threads here
I had a lot of hope when Bryan and Punk debuted. I watched the original All In with some hope but it was just the kind of indie wrestling I was sick of done by significantly worse talent. Adam Page wouldn't have made it on a young lions' cup or ROH tryout show, yet he's one of the best modern wrestlers there is.
There was no particular moment, but it just become clear there wasn't enough good wrestlers in AEW to make a 2 hours watchable, never mind their other 3 hours of television of 8 hour PPVs.
I only watched the Inoki tribute show. Some watches were good, the rest were shit. Edge Phoenix’s debut there was embarrassing.
When they started signing every single ex WWE guy they could and started pushing them over the AEW guya
October 2nd 2019
After the All Out scrum, promotion just looked like a disaster and I lost interest then the title history went to shit.
that made me unironically more interested to see how shit plays out but it turned out to be boring in the end
This, all the interesting stuff about AEW was happening behind the scenes while the show was filled with dimeless shitters like Garcia and Yuta. Trying to force ROH onto AEW programming didn't help either and now AEW has like 18 belts on their show.
>When did you give up on AEW?
I never once gave up on AEW.
To be fair I never started on AEW so I have nothing to give up on, but all the same.
In the truest sense of the words I never gave up on them.
When I found out Jericho was involved
I only really watch the ppvs now
when Mox beat Bryan for the vacant belt
Literally when Cody left. I mean I later gave them a chance again with the Punk MJF stuff, but I just streamed those episodes after the fact and only skipped to the parts with MJF and Punk. The rest of the show is just incredibly... bad.
Cody didn't leave until after the 1st MJF/Phil match you lying swine kek
Everyone knew Cody was leaving at least 3 months before he did
when tony first made an appearance
before their first show when I became keenly aware of the ilk they were attracting
I AINT GONNA EVA GIVE UP
I'm trying to think back and I can't really remember an exact moment I stopped giving a frick. It was a lot of little things that sucked and kept building on one another.
Cody leaving kinda made me sad because I thought that the audience really did him dirty, but I was still watching at that point. After I heard about the Cody Rhodes Hell in a Cell where he worked with a torn pec I started watching WWE for the first time since I think 2014 or whenever Tips did that "me and my friend Mark" promo. I started watching more and more WWE because Cody's story was genuinely fascinating, but at the same time AEW just kept getting more and more stale.
It doesn't help that AEW fans on /aspw/ are horrible. Like I watched from the original All In in 2018, but any time I would complain about anything in AEW being bad I would get seething replies from people telling me to kill myself, calling me an edrone, and just genuinely being unpleasant homosexuals and making the game threads unbearable. So I watched less and less AEW because the shows just weren't that good and I couldn't even enjoy discussing it because the fans are the worst and actively attack their own community for questioning any decisions Tony Khan makes.
So yeah, I haven't watched AEW since summer of last year and I really have no desire to watch it going forward, but I really really enjoy laughing at it's failures now because the people on this board who made me stop caring are seething at a rate previously thought impossible by modern scientists.
holy shit, an actual thought out response.
>t doesn't help that AEW fans on /aspw/ are horrible.
If there's anyone who completely turned me on AEW is the obnoxious fans who seethe and call you names if you think one little thing wasn't perfect
yeah the fans taking any critism of the show as a personal attack against their life is a huge turn off for me talking about the show on here almost at all. I want to be able to go I thought that match sucked or point out tony is a bad booker without a bunch of people seething and calling me all sorts of names in the book over it or calling me a liar or a troll. its like it's impossible for them to accept any reality that isnt praises only for aew
promo's good
>It doesn't help that AEW fans on /aspw/ are horrible
This is such a big part of it to me. I know I should be able to assess the product on its own merits, but your only option for discussing AEW on this board is glowing praise if you don't want AEW fans to call you a drone who doesn't know enough about Dragon Gate or whatever the frick.
>tldr
AEW fans online behavior drove me away.
Same here brother.
We didn't want you anyway.
Ricky was my only reason to watch, so this was the last straw for me.
Around the feud between MJF and Jay White. MJF was the only thing keeping me watching AEW and I always wanted to believe in MJF because his heel promos were awesome during his feud with CM Punk, but watching him try to be a super israelite by beating everyone was so cringe, it doesn't help that Atom Cole completely killed all the heat he could have had. His feud with Jay White was just nothing, it was boring as frick and they had 0 chemistry.
When Punk got fired. Tony letting his only real draw go and siding with the utterly dimeless Young Cucks and Jungle b***h of all people made me realize AEW was dysfunctional beyond any hope of salvation and it was digging a hole for itself that it would never climb out of. And the last 5 months have proven me absolutely fricking right.
AEW is better than ever. Deal with it.
>the show is centered about the young bucks and jungle boy
>better than ever
No
fraid so
Oof, absolute shit taste bro. I rather watch women's wrestling than the bucks
I'm sure you would, you big fat homosexual lol
>why would you rather watch women than literal twinks, you fricking homosexual
Your typical AEW cultist, everyone
When they put the title on Swerve (around dimes), he isn’t ready or worthy of it, not even close
Never did.
When i saw the bloated roster and the feeling was gone
I think what broke me was mox/punk for the tittle on a random dynamite
Back during all the weird Punk and Mox title shit. Dropped off for a year or something like that after that. Started watching again last fall and in all honesty it's been pretty good for the most part
This is very specific, but the night Danielson debuted. He is my least favourite wrestler ever (no i'm not wolfcuck) so just seeing his dumb fricking head made me angry, but when he got on the mic and literally said "who wants to see me fight whoever (omega i think), that is when I realised what aew was all about. 2 guys having pointless, heatless, nonsensical, unrealistic, forgettable "dream matches"
I've been shitting on them since before they had their first show. Since before All In 2018.
I've been burying all these people on Fhite since 2017 when trannies kept trying to start new japan threads here
Their very first match when that homie with no legs was wrestling
unironically the first show.
I cant believe people are saying its somehow gotten worse
I almost want to watch it just to see how that's possible
>I cant believe people are saying its somehow gotten worse
It has. 2019 AEW is like the attitude era compared to 2024 AEW.
I had a lot of hope when Bryan and Punk debuted. I watched the original All In with some hope but it was just the kind of indie wrestling I was sick of done by significantly worse talent. Adam Page wouldn't have made it on a young lions' cup or ROH tryout show, yet he's one of the best modern wrestlers there is.
There was no particular moment, but it just become clear there wasn't enough good wrestlers in AEW to make a 2 hours watchable, never mind their other 3 hours of television of 8 hour PPVs.
Adam Cole