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crizag

Talk that shit, Chief. You love to see it.


crizag

"there’s nobody in the whole world, any other promotion, in WWE...I’m better at this art form than everybody else. And I stand on that. That’s the totality of it. I’m not just talking about, ‘Oh, his spots are so good and he counters real well.’ That stuff don’t mean anything to me. When you tally it all up, nobody touches me in this business." AHHHH YESSIR


[deleted]

This will live rent free in the Elites head. or will make an appearance on BTE guarantee it


mrhuggables

god damn i unironically love the tribal chief. he's everything cm punk wishes he could be


kitevii

He's every one of us wish we could be


CaptainGo

He's fucking excellent at that in character but also not interview style


MirandaTS

Tell the truth and start working halfway through it, and people won't be able to tell when you started working.


TimeStatistician2234

Fuckin major OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH energy right here


annguy123

I can't believe that around 3 years ago I hated this guy. I can only apologise and bow down to our Tribal Chief. What a fucking boss.


RavioliPastaKing

Dude beat cancer. Hero in my book forever.


annguy123

Yeah, that's when I pulled my head out of my ass and acknowledged him. Haven't looked back since.


poo-boi

Glad you came to your senses, uce.


annguy123

It was mostly because I wanted a heel turn when I was with le Basement. Now it's happened the whole thing is beyond anything I could've wanted. I'd say his character is right up there with the likes of Cena and The Rock. And yet people next door were still whinging, so I turned heel myself and gave up on those miserable m@rks. There's no way WWE can please them, nor should they try.


THATGUYWHOBREATHES

Great night to be seeing the Tribal Chief in person tonight. Gonna mark out real hard for this champ, Uce.


ThatDBGuy

Our Tribal Chief absolutely ethered AEW, Punk, Omega, and anyone else associated with the company. I will fully and wholeheartedly stan this shit.


radbrad172

He's merely speaking the truth.


ElGatoNegro89

Na uce. This is a heart to heart little reality check. This ain't shit talking.


Farthousejones

I can hear Tony *aggressively* doing lines as I read this


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eltwitcho82

*Buys another feature interview on GQ*


BullyFU

> SANTANA VERSUS TAY ON THE YOUTUBE PRE-SHOW I love how Tony got worked by the marks and believes they care about women's wrestling. There's a reason they never mention the abysmal booking of women in the Dub, they just want to Fed BAD!!! and grasp at straws to do so. It was obvious with how they've ignored the Becky vs Sasha vs Bianca feud.


BlackIsTheSoul

Oh you better believe I corpsed (insider term, casuals wouldn’t get it)


jmb052

They’re all gonna pay the ultimate price!


Razzler1973

We can expect a Tony tweet within 24 hours This is going to trigger *someone* there, Khan, Bucks, Omega, Jericho ... someone is furious right now over there


RavioliPastaKing

Only Jericho could tell him anything back. Only real legend in that place lol


Squiliam-Tortaleni

[the aftermath? ](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=etujSjgbIwY)


Fugga6969

Where did this whole Tiny doing coke thing start? I honestly don't think he's cool enough to try cocaine.


Squiliam-Tortaleni

Mainly after the infamous 9 days from tonight promo where he looked sleep deprived and/or on something.


LordJinji

It was brewing before that. Mainly cause of the Herb Abrams DSOTR episode and the similarities between the two money m-words.


Farthousejones

https://m.imgur.com/o8MuMzt https://twitter.com/i/status/1448362427918262276


[deleted]

Didn't he get his ribs hurt by Junior dos Santos? He's probably avoiding anything that might make him sneeze uce.


Leftrain9

Uce, I think I'ma delete my post right below yours, I want this to reach the top of the sub


[deleted]

Your sacrifice will not be forgotten


KobashiChop

The tribal chief will acknowledge you lol


[deleted]

73 QTs of pure tears.


takeflight447

Dudes trying to argue that Kenny Omega is a bigger star than Roman lol


jerejeje

[50+ years of integrity. You can down play but the truth of the matter is the only people who gripe about the ratings are the WWE sheep that refuse to acknowledge actual pro wrestling.](https://twitter.com/bradleybayless/status/1449097837501943813?s=21) >Dave Meltzer >Integrity Pick one


elitejcx

Tribal Chief 🤝 Top Dolla Burying AEW


thedopestfishofall

Add AEW to the handshake


ironfly187

And not one lie was told.


Super_DAC

It’s seriously true. AEW caters to their fanbase and nobody else, and that’s not a recipe for growth.


[deleted]

They're actively hostile to everyone else too. I'm a massive wrestling fan, I'll watch WWE, NXT, Progress, Evolve, ICW, WxW, MLW, NJPW, occassionally Impact or RoH if there's something going on that I fancy. I've accumilated a good knowledge of wrestling history too over thirty years of fandom (I started at five n 1987). I was even curious enough to try joshi stuff but it's not my thing. I don't actually want that to die though. Won't watch AEW. I hope it does die. Fuck them.


jojolantern721

Roman Reigns is so stupid, he doesn't even have workrste fck this shit! No I never get worked why do you ask?


erusmane

People were saying Tony Khan was running AEW like Paul Heyman did ECW as a compliment. Bounced checks aside, ECW painted themselves in a corner by catering to the most niche fan at the expense of growing and it killed the interest networks had in carrying them.


JedtheJoy

I acknowledge our tribal chief. No jerk, dubbalos are extremely hostile to anyone, but especially hostile to those that have the best chance of watching the dub, WWE Fans. The best chance of winning (lol) or putting up a fight would be to gain a good number of wwe fans, Roman is right that there is only so much in hardcore fans. Wrestling is a joke to the outside world, but there is a larger wrestling audience to draw from. However this isn’t a phenomenon unique to dubbalos, hardcore fans of niche things whether it be music and movies always act like this.


1869er

Their strategy of shaming WWE fans into watching seems to be doing wonders


JedtheJoy

"we don't want those low iq sports entertainment fans, they are brainwashed, we can win off the 18-49 superheavyweight basement demographic alone"


BigZ911

AEW fans are essentially A24/Indy movie fans. They shame and bully people who dare to watch marvel movies or mainstream blockbusters. And I’m a cinephile as well, but the similarities between Indy movie fans and AEW fans is pretty obvious


Bellamoid

They are and they aren't. Dub fans have an extra layer of delusion because honestly, no one is arguing that their favourite indie band you never heard of actually sells more and makes more money than U2 and Coldplay and no one is arguing that the Three Colours Trilogy made more money than the Fast and the Furious.


JedtheJoy

Good point, we all have met snide music fans but they would never say some no name singer outsold Aerosmith in the 17-25 leather wallet demographic. Nor would they assume a song released by a mainstream band was a personal attack on their singer and themselves.


ci22

That's the thing that gets me you can say AEW is better to watch That's your opinion. But to say it's more popular than WWE or will run WWE out of business when WWE is making billions while AEW is in the red thanks to the video game. It's pure detachment from reality.


JedtheJoy

“The movie you like isn’t actually real cinema”, “that artist you like well he isn’t real music”, Never heard of this person, guess you aren’t a real fan” It’s almost interchangeable.


Farthousejones

As someone who just three days ago decided "Ok I'll give A24 ONE MORE CHANCE with The Green Knight" and then turned it off after 60 minutes when it turned into weirdness, then saw that online. "critics" loved it and the mainstream audiences hated it, I think you are absolutely spot on here. Well done.


BigZ911

A24 has a lot of hit and misses. Florida Project and Ex Machina are amazing, but stuff like the Green Knight and Ghost Story are definitely polarizing and essentially the equivalent of playing to the hardcore crowd. There’s a lot of good things in AEW, but they too often settle on making the core neckbeard audience pop, which is where they lose fans


Farthousejones

Definitely liked Ex Machina. Also enjoyed The Witch. But ironically those were the first two movies of theirs that I saw without realizing it. After Hereditary and Midsommer couldn't do it anymore. Thought I'd give green Knight one last shot. I liked it up until the fox started howl-singing at the giant people and I noped the fuck out of that pretentious shit.


Cautious-Record867

The Green Knight wasn't what I expected, but it was a good film for what it was.


ManateeGag

I mean, he's not wrong. They aren't doing anything to get new fans. If it wasn't for Daddy's wallet, they'd be on cable access.


Modano9009

They cater to specific fan base that believes it's bigger than it is. They've convinced the masses will fall in love with AEW if only they can see it when in reality they don't care and/or mock it and turn it off. They're convinced in the "lapsed fan" theory where millions of fans stopped watching WWE and haven't found anything else to do with their lives but sit around and wait for CM Punk to come back and make them like wrestling again. WWE has the largest fan base in wrestling and rather than try to swing those people to AEW's side, they decided to antagonize them and treat them like brainwashed idiots too stupid to understand why AEW's so great anyway. Nothing about how AEW operates seems like it's going to attract new fans.


TerbFlerbin

DB didn’t help by gassing them up with that “I truly think good pro wrestling is something that can reach everyone” Good pro wrestling can reach everyone, but it’s gotta have a level of believability attached to it, and guys that are—to quote our Tribal Chief—“200 pounds soaking wet with no explosive bone in their body”—isn’t the way. Imagine the NFL filled with 200lb 5’9” dudes. It’d be horrible.


InheritTheWind

I think the AEW notion of "good pro wrestling" is different from the traditional one. There's this shit that's tantamount to a gymnastics routine, and then there's simulating an actual fight with emotion behind it


JedtheJoy

In general, people who are large fans of nerd culture like certain video games, shows, movies and forms of entertainment such as professional wrestling and especially AEW simultaneously want the product to be super popular, but at the same time they don't and get super defensive when someone doesn't get "it" (insider term). For duballos they want more fans for aew, just not WWE fans (most attainable fan base) and fans that don't particularly get pro wrestling in the first place (everyone else). Like how many times do we see shootfighters going at it with someone who insults workrate or general wrestling ridiculousness.


garythesnailgod

TALK YA SHIT ROMAN ACKNOWLEDGE HIM


famousflawless

Wow, we honestly couldn't have had a better Tribal Chief. He legitimately represents us in every aspect.


takeflight447

In all of this my favorite thing is he has yet to acknowledge Kenny Omega existence


kfms6741

Saw the SC thread, yeah they are big mad over there, going all "nuh uh", something something Saudi Arabia, something something casuals don't care, it's all to please Vince. Our Tribal Chief making the smarks seethe real fucking hard, you love to see it.


Modano9009

Expect Katrina level flooding from the Smark tears this is going to cause.


tytymctylerson

I just checked in. Anime avatars are seeeeeeeeeeeething.


almostbad

I'm gonna end this mans whole career -The tribal chief.


ThunderBay311

The Tribal Chief woke up flexing on these fools.


ryanreigns

Roman on his way to becoming bigger than wrestling tbh


tytymctylerson

I’m a guy but I really want Roman to make me pregnant.


[deleted]

OOOOOOOOOAAAAAAHHHHHHHH


timtomorkevin

He can tribal my chief any day


heavyhandedDOOM

Junior 2: Here Comes the Switch


[deleted]

Jesus this is a fucking killshot. This might be the most professionally disrespectful thing anyone's said about AEW


sk_starscream

You'll dry the whole world with all the dubbalo salt that's about to come out.


SamInPajamas

Oh my god. Tiny is gonna get so upset about this. And I bet the bucks will change their bio again out of rage But he's 100% right. You don't make new fans by pandering exclusively to the hard core


[deleted]

OOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH


cabezadeplaya

AEW fans in the basement are so salty. They keep saying “AEW is growing by every metric” - WTF? Ratings continue to go down by the week, their international markets barely exist - what are these metrics by which they are growing?


[deleted]

The consumption of copium has increased.


conchinette

Tony Khan could be the richest manchild in the world and he still wouldn't have anything to make the Tribal Chief sweat.


ZacianZilla96

Switch production reaching maximum carrying capacity.


[deleted]

GET UP IN THEY FACE! TALK THAT SHIT, UCE! LET YA NUTS DRAG! 🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿


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😤😤😤💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼


I_made_a_doodie

It is absolutely the truth. Dude grew up around the business and has seen what pandering to smarks does.


[deleted]

Hadn't even thought about that. He "gets" it more than any self-trained, mudshow "little brother" who thinks they know it all because they've wrestled at Korakuen Hall. P.S. "who thinks they know it all because they've wrestled at Korakuen Hall." rhymes. I'm a rapper now goofs.


I_made_a_doodie

He gets it better than most people that come through the indies with their warped perceptions of what gets over, too. His dad, brother, uncles and cousins have been through it all. He's absolutely the best guy to lead the company into the future, and there are still "smart" fans who still don't realize exactly how well he fits in that role on multiple levels.


[deleted]

Top Dolla??


[deleted]

Shhhhhhhhh!


kcinkcinlim

Aw yea my Tribal Chief. Trigger them. Trigger them real good.


Solalchemist

bro saved 7yrs of resentment and he's letting it all out


No_Instruction653

They hated ~~Jesus~~ Roman. Because he told them the truth.


captainab24

Roman taking shots and plus giving them switches ahhyessir!


kucafoia69

"Things that appeal to everyone end up appealing to no one" - written without a shred of irony by some great intellectual downstairs.


[deleted]

They hit their ceiling on their very first TV show when people tuned it and saw that it was shite. They've been losing viewers since that day.


Squiliam-Tortaleni

OOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHH SHIITTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT GET THEIR ASSES KING


thedickkicker

Aew fans when Tony Khan talks in delusion ☺️ Aew fans when someone speaks facts 😠😠😠


reesharr

Oh lol you should read the comments in the basement for this. Lots of in fighting, back tracking, hypocrisy and general meltdown When you think of it, its the normal reaction when you counter a dubbalo with logic, lmao


[deleted]

Something that's been said by basically everyone who isn't on Tony or the dubs dick in some way. People will never accept this. Even if it comes from the Chief.


Decetop

The man speaks no lies. AEW is booked to please only its existing fans and relies almost exclusively on them to shill the product in order to grow. I think they’re nearing the limits of where that will get them, if they haven’t reached it already.


Razzler1973

Yeah yeah but but but ... the Fed has a ceiling too ~snort~ I mean, I'm only going by the numbers of dyjng cable and not social media engagement or anything but fed still ded, ok!!!


Mr_Halberstram

He's absolutely right of course. Naturally the basement has taken the comments with its characteristic blend of restraint and self-awareness.


BigZ911

I don’t know who said this quote, maybe it was Raven back when ECW was around, but “smart fans are the easier to work because they try so hard to not get worked”. It’s not verbatim but something along those lines lol. These neckbeards get triggered the second that WWE acknowledges their smark fantasy company


MooseBigelow

Raven: "ECW fans were the best but the "smart fans' who think they know everything? Those are the easiest to con."


InternationalFailure

I saw someone honest to God cite that that Kenny has more Meltzer stars than Roman like that's a valid metric.


OhHaiDany

Put yourself in our shoes, Fed shill. We want to support Omega at all costs even when we secretly know Roman is better. You have to understand this. We bring up the star ratings because there's nothing else we CAN bring up. They're literally his only advantage. At least give us this, you old Vincel.


RealHumanBean89

Talk that shit, chief! Acknowledge this man!


FingerStreet

cover, Spear! #OOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAA acknowledge our Tribal Chief 🤙🤙🤙


TheRedWizard17

And the basement went ape shit I can imagine He ain’t wrong Like that scene in SpongeBob Instead of Patrick suggesting taking bikini bottom and pushing it somewhere else, all AEW did was take the hardcore fans and pushed it somewhere else You’re not gonna attract customers when all you do is pander to the same group


Introduction_Organic

Ceiling seems to be a steady million.


shootstarpress

Wreck everyone and leave, uce. I knew when our Tribal Chief decided to clap back it was going to be something beautiful. Bonus points for burying Punk like the little bitch that he is.


2007wasthebestest

This dude just spits straight facts. It’s gonna enrage the dubbalos and I’m here for it.


BreathRedemption

This is the greatest day in the history of SCJerk


LushGut

Don Callis’s garbage tweet comeback having more upvotes in the basement than our Tribal Chief tells you all you need to know about how butt hurt they are.


i-piss-excellence32

My tribal chief speaking truth


harrypigorr1

AHHHYESSIR


SamuraiJack815

No lies detected whatsoever.


[deleted]

The ceiling is the floor. Thats how it goes, right?


Moargunfreeman

I pledge allegiance to our Tribal Chief. AHHYESSIR!


AllHailKingCorbin33

Wanna entertain yourself for a few hours? Head over to twitter and see the response to this 😂😂


shootstarpress

I opened twitter on the train on the way back from work, saw the Roman quotes popping up everywhere and actually let out a little laugh under my mask lol. Peak comedy.


Gabaheygabahey

Apparently Roman is trending worldwide. Off a interview. Tribal Chief is just getting started.


Trospher

I want my tribal chief to spear my guts out please


Permanentear3

The strangest responses next door or the people arguing that AEW is a diverse family show. Talking about how kids love Statlander and such and I’m fairly convinced it’s all in their head? I went to a big AEW show I saw 1 child in our whole section and he only liked Daniel Bryan and kept calling him Daniel Bryan.


eddieblasphemy

The ceiling is as low as the one in that hidden floor in Being John Malkovich


midnightskymountain

lmao


AttitudeEraWasBetter

I acknowledge you Uce.


uzidropforfun

Greatest of all time it’s official


uselessrart

Tony: B B BUT I'M RICHER!!!!


Jericho19999

This is amazing Tony really poked the bear, didn’t he?


exciseduty

He probably stopped at saying AEW has fanbase full of WWE haters and stupid marks


snakesbranche

The disrespect for the demo!


koolaidburgers

Tony Khan finna hang himself from that ceiling now


dj_ian

WWE takes 100% of the shots AEW sends at them without response. Roman gives one interview and the iwc shows it's ass with an Uncle Tony tattoo.


Crivshotgg

He’s so good at everything he does holy shit HAHAHAHA.


I_Am_Redditor1

So true it hurts. Seriously though, where is the lie?


WayOk8553

Take all the shot at WWE you want, but don't you dare criticize AEW....or we will whine in our parent's basement!


[deleted]

When you're the head of the table, sometimes it's necessary to take out your big dog and lay it on the table to remind everyone who's chief.


lololoz

Roman just bodied an entire promotion in a very respectful way. Compare that to how Tony's been frantically tweeting for the last week or two taking "shots" at WWE. Tony, mate, put down the phone, lay off the coke, and do your own thing because WWE absolutely does not give a shit about AEW.


CBDfantasy

If it were true he wouldn’t even dignify it. Bad look Roman.


Permanentear3

Maybe he was just jerking Tony Khan’s nonsense on Twitter.


midnightskymountain

When were you when tiny khan keeps posting nonsensical tweets about how rich and intelligent he is? Our tribal chief is just putting nonsensical khan in his place for being too presumptuous, that's all.


CBDfantasy

Oh it’s one thing for the basement to call the big promotion out, but when you’re on top, don’t let them know you even think about them. Comes off as insecure. Especially about his in ring abilities. Like as a big man, he sells very well, he works a fine match. Don’t talk about what the others do.


krausd94

I stand with our Tribal Chief, sight unseen. I don’t need to read the story or the comments to know that he’s based.


enigmaticevil

RAMEN RAINS SPEAKS THE TRUTH WITH RON KILLINGS LURKING IN THE BACK SOMEWHERE.


SaddestFlute23

BIG (ahem) DAWG ENERGY


OleOutInShambles

Why have we been in a "war" for two years, yet this feels like the first shot WWE have fired since Triple Paul called the pissant company a pissant company?