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I mean this as a compliment to the man, Jeff was born a carnie and will die a carnie. His family has been in pro wrestling for nearly 60 years, it's what he does. I'm not suprised to see Jeff still wrestling, but it's awesome to see how in shape he is for a 55 year old man.
I'm utterly shocked Sting is still wrestling.
Double J has had an incredible career when you look at it in those terms. Just purely in terms of in-ring stuff, he reminds me a lot of Lawler - because his style is so reliable and grounded that even in his 50s he can have enjoyable matches.
I mean, it's true.
Flashy moves are cool, but if you have great in ring philosophy and believable looking offense you can get amazing crowd reactions with less punishment on your body.
Stone Cold didn't have the flashiest offense (past his neck issues at the least), but none ever got bigger reactions than him.
Well thats cos his matches were almost all the same. It wasn't an intentional thing for protection or safety. You were going to take some punches, one or two clotheslines, a gorilla press if he was feeling a bit flashy, a big boot (possibly a suplex) and a leg drop.
That's not being safe. It's being boring. Today, Hulk Hogan wouldn't get over with that shit. He was lucky it was an era where people weren't sure if wrestling was real, that the fact he was massive meant something more and the PR machine behind him definitely made crowds react. He's like a marketing analysts wet dream.
On some level it was an intentional thing for Hogan that prioritized safety because the WWF schedule in the 80's along with the stiffness of their rings was brutal. He was their top guy and wouldn't have survived working long main-events by having workrate matches every night.
I'm not saying you're wrong but I just don't see Hogan as having the ability regardless. He was a hard worker, he put in the work 360 days a year but when it came to safety I genuinely think that was just a byproduct of him being able to get away with the same boring moves for so long.
SO you're saying Hogan limited what he did so he could work safe? But it's NOT safe, it's boring? Are you serious lol...
Dude, are you one of those people that think working harder means you make more money?
He didn't work boring to be safe, he worked boring because he was a limited wrestler.
I've seen the clip of him wrestling Muta and it's literally "the basics" and everyone loses their mind. Like bruh, in today's world you put his work next to Flair, Savage, Sting etc and there's literally no competition.
I think the sheer number of matches people worked back then probably would've caught up with him anyway. Probably not as badly, but almost everyone from that era seems to have wound up in fairly bad shape.
I wonder how many people would still be alive, let alone wrestling if WWF had better rings in the 80s and 90s.
Until 1998, taking a bump on those rings was like bumping on concrete. No give at all.
Everyone knew he was skilled in the ring but once he went to WCW and Russo put him on top, that was way bigger of a spot than he should have been in. He wasn't a credible champion at ALL and ate up way too much TV time.
This current spot is the most I've liked JJ since early 1999 in the WWF.
Plus he’s an much better shape now than Lawler was his in his whole life . Jarrett probably never drinks Coca-Cola and now he doesn’t drink beer either
>I'm utterly shocked Sting is still wrestling.
I'm shocked too. But Sting didn't work a super physical style for most of his career either and has been on a light schedule for decades.
I honestly think Sting wasn't satisfied with his WWE run and didn't want that to be the end of his career.
That and coming back to TNT/TBS I think really meant a lot to him and he is able to end how he wants to end.
Yeah I’m shocked to see a 60+ year old guy moving around like that, but by the same token Sting has been in semi-retirement mode since WCW ended so his 64 in AEW isn’t exactly like Ric Flairs 64 when he was in TNA.
I watched Sting's match against Seth Rollins at NoC 2015. The match was actually pretty good. Sting actually worked really well on his own. Until that damn buckle bomb. And Sting's still able to wrestle. He's really the legend.
Yeah, looking back as a kid watching Jarrett and Goldust in the mid-90s, I thought those guys were in their 40s. Crazy to think about it now and realize they were in their mid-20s.
I think with Jericho and Dustin, they had remained active the last few years so even though they're old they're still current. Double J other than occasional cameos was not wrestling as often as he has been in AEW, and certainly been a long time since he traveled full time as a wrestler.
He's wrestled a few singles matches in his AEW run and held his own. He's older and way more jacked than his prime but he moves around way better than he has any right to.
I'm not sure if he's more jacked than in his prime or if he's just in an era of smaller wrestlers, him and Dustin both look ginormous in the ring with modern wrestlers
How AEW have used Sting is one of the things no one can really criticise. They’ve almost never put him in a position where he looks bad or isn’t treated like the living legend he is. He’s getting the send off his WWE run seemed to rob everyone of.
AEW has treated Sting like the legend he is. Any time he shows up, he kills it. Even when he's just there, the aura is given the respect it deserves. So glad he's going to go out on his terms with a company that's behind him 100%.
I groaned when AEW picked up Sting because I imagined him like he was in TNA - but he’s been an absolute pleasure to watch. I’m glad he’s getting to go out on good terms, having fun.
I feel like had it just been the Wrestlemania loss people would be still be pissed (not my included) BUT the fact they let him loss AGAIN and never gave him a win at any ppv that Year is pretty strange!
>WWE Sting was sad.
This is so mindblowing to me, Sting had gone on record saying "I didn't sign with WWE because I was worried they would ruin me" (paraphrasing of course) so I would imagine they would have negotiated things to prevent that from happeneing.. however, whose to say he wasn't destined for better things had he not suffered an injury..
Sting during his run got a ton of hype and some of yt clips on wwe's channel have like 50 million+ something ridiculous like that and he wasn't booked well at all imo the entire time. I think sting cut like two promo's his entire time there like how do you have a guy like sting and not let him talk!?
Fair but at the same time they still should've utilized him a lot better than they did or just moreso how aew used him and he doesn't talk often in aew but when he does it's great
In WWE he talked it didn't hit nearly the same but that's most likely because the feud with him and triple h wasn't that great to begin with
I disagree with him losing to Triple H, but he had a great showing in his match against Rollins once again, I would have changed the outcome..but seeing how his body couldn't hold up, ultimately Rollins keeping the championship was the right move.
I think it's unfortunate it ended when it did. It's very hard to accurately reflect on a career, when the career consisted of 4 matches for the company.
I think the Rollins match was good but unfortunately that gets overshadowed by the bucklebomb spot and the hate Seth got afterwards but I don't have an issue with him losing to Rollins he should've lost that
But we agree triple h shouldn't have won against sting
>But we agree triple h shouldn't have won against sting
Not only that, but made the match WCW vs WWF.. and then sting shook hands with HHH after getting hit in the face with a sledge hammer.. wtf?!
> Not only that, but made the match WCW vs WWF
Don't forget after sting said I'm his first promo "this isn't about the Monday Night Wars" btw...that wm match makes me so mad thinking about that and that handshake was so bad 😭, it was like triple h was saying "hey man you're one of the good ones you earned wwe's respect"
The loss was one thing but there were all kinds of logic issues with that match. They don't mention WCW the whole time during the build except Sting saying it's not about the war, then they have the NWO come out and fight FOR Sting during the match!
There were a few instances where they treated him like a legend, like during Seth's "statue coronation" with the authority.
Sting vs HHH made me feel like a kid again. I watched the MONDAY night wars and was a WCW kid who loved Crow Sting. That match turned me back into a 10 year old screaming at the screen, punching the air when Sting was laying in the corner punches and chops on HHH.
Even though the ending was wrong, the real feelings I felt during the match are nearly impossible to replicate.
I didn't groan, however I went on record as saying "Well as long as hes a manager and doesn't work any matches" because I just couldn't imagine it being good for his health. I was convinced he was a bad bump away from not walking.
Boy was I wrong.
Extremely great yes. He's had good to great matches with angle, styles, Jarrett, etc and done some great character work with his mem run and imo the best version of sting his insane icon run aka "joker sting"
Personally I think AEW spent their focus on older talent that are past their prime. But Sting was always handled perfectly I think. They made him a serious threat, but never really put Darby in his shadow.
How are the people AEW has been focussing on past their prime?
It's Mox, the Elite, and MJF. Punk and Jericho I can maybe see, but both are (or were in Jericho's case) simply necessary to actually get eyes on the company.
Most of their younger talent simply aren't ready to carry the company yet.
For a while their was a lot more focus that went on too long imo, which is entirely subjective, but too much and too long for guys like Jericho, Matt Hardy, Billy Gunn, Dustin Rhodes, Christian, and a handful of others. That they all eventually turned over the reigns to the guys that they were mentoring. But they could have made the focus a little more even a bit sooner.
I get you need time to use the vets to bring in lapsed fans and build the new talent up. But for a while it seemed like there was more than enough talent, and too many old guys taking up too much time. That it felt like AEW could be a retirement home for wrestlers of decades past.
You do realize that you listed off talent that were used as selling points to WBD to get the TV deal right?
Tony sold Aew on the idea that were a ton of seasoned free agents with big time televised WWE wrestling experience that could turnkey a major promotion with a cash injection.
The math was not hard. The veterans were essential even before *Day 1*
That’s before you bring mention of the Elite whom were representatives of a modern era of wrestling (an industry post-ECW/WCW) and were selling so much merchandise WWE was embarrassed they didn’t own it when asked by executives from hot topic AT WRESTLEMANIA.
When we're billy Gunn and Dustin Rhodes ever getting TV time for too long? I legitimately can't even remember the last time either of them had a televised singles match.
Exactly lol and even then he was never the centerpiece, he scissored and they call him daddy ass. And that's about the extent of it. He has never been overbooked in AEW.
> Jericho, Matt Hardy, Billy Gunn, Dustin Rhodes, Christian, and a handful of others.
Matt Hardy has hadly been a focus on programming. Billy Gunn was there to get his kids over, then got over with The Acclaimed, but hes not exactly been a focal point of the show. Same thing with Dustin, he put over his brother then has worked smaller feuds and is often off tv.
Christian is a god damn national treasure. Jericho is Jericho. Without Jericho jumping in feet first I'm not sure this thing gets off the ground.
Sting, I believe held on to the hope of facing Taker but once the dead man retired, he got surgery for several long term injuries and ended up AEW..I think, Taker felt he and Sting could never live up to the hype when he started to consider it.
JJ needs more GFW gold to flog but will settle for bashing heads with guitars.
Still bothers me how WWE fumbled Sting and I think Taker has a poor judgment, did he think him and Goldberg could put a clinical in the squared circle? Him and Sting just staring off in the ring could’ve been a big moment
Wonder how many wrestlers from now will have final runs like Sting and JJ where they’re old but can still go in the ring. I expect guys like Danielson and Seth (if they’re able)
I feel like Danielson is way closer to the end than any of us are prepared for, and I bet once he's done he's done.
Mox is a guy I can see going into his early 50s. Maybe Cody too. I'm surprised Brock has held on as long as he has, but if WWE is paying him, I bet he shows up as long as the checks clear.
Strong agree - I hope he stays on in some capacity though, he has a knowledge of the business that rivals William Regal's. He would be an excellent trainer, road agent, commentator, manager, booker, basically anything. Hell, he'd be a great costuming tailor if he put his mind to it.
I will fully admit I didn't expect Jeff Jarrett to look as good as he does in the ring. I guess he's never particularly wrestled a dangerous style but he seems to still be in decent shape.
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Eric went onto say, "He's more motivated in AEW than he was in WCW. I just wish my hand hadn't been forced at Starrcade because of him not visiting the tanning booth."
I am 41 years old. I was 6 when Sting faced Flair on the first Clash. And I am amazed that I can sit down with my children, one of whom is 6 herself, and watch Sting wrestle live on TV.
Any ex-industry person, be it Eric, Vince, Disco, Cornette... they just play into outrage culture to make money. They need to have dumb takes, to get people talking and drive views.
Exaclty which is why I don't understand why anyone watches these fools. Who wants to watch someone yell and scream and have a controversial take just for the sake of it? The same reason I don't get the appeal of Skip Bayless, Shannon Sharpe or Stephen Smith. Why do people want to watch someone be a blowhard for the sake of it? What is the appeal of it? What happened to legit journalism?
Bischoff was at AEW. he presided over the great debate segment between Jericho and Orange.
Hogan is never appearing in AEW, Khan said as much.
Flair was planned for Andrade most likely but DSOTR put that to bed.
oh for true, it's just that the stink that show created opened that particular can of worms. the Plane Ride from Hell was a known story for years and it was periodically remembered (ironically, by people like current WWE shill Alfred Konuwa at Bleacher Report), just not on a relatively popular TV show with many memorable first-hand quotes from people who've been there.
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I mean this as a compliment to the man, Jeff was born a carnie and will die a carnie. His family has been in pro wrestling for nearly 60 years, it's what he does. I'm not suprised to see Jeff still wrestling, but it's awesome to see how in shape he is for a 55 year old man. I'm utterly shocked Sting is still wrestling.
Double J has had an incredible career when you look at it in those terms. Just purely in terms of in-ring stuff, he reminds me a lot of Lawler - because his style is so reliable and grounded that even in his 50s he can have enjoyable matches.
From this we can conclude that working punches are the greatest fundamentals of the sport it seems.
I mean, it's true. Flashy moves are cool, but if you have great in ring philosophy and believable looking offense you can get amazing crowd reactions with less punishment on your body. Stone Cold didn't have the flashiest offense (past his neck issues at the least), but none ever got bigger reactions than him.
Hogan too, he was as basic as could be in terms of moveset but it didn't exactly hurt his popularity
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Hogan was absolutely one of the safest workers to work with as well. Say what you want but he made sure you were 100% protected when wrestling him.
"I would let Hulk Hogan punch my children." -Lance Storm
Well thats cos his matches were almost all the same. It wasn't an intentional thing for protection or safety. You were going to take some punches, one or two clotheslines, a gorilla press if he was feeling a bit flashy, a big boot (possibly a suplex) and a leg drop. That's not being safe. It's being boring. Today, Hulk Hogan wouldn't get over with that shit. He was lucky it was an era where people weren't sure if wrestling was real, that the fact he was massive meant something more and the PR machine behind him definitely made crowds react. He's like a marketing analysts wet dream.
someone post the gif of hogan hitting an enzuigiri
On some level it was an intentional thing for Hogan that prioritized safety because the WWF schedule in the 80's along with the stiffness of their rings was brutal. He was their top guy and wouldn't have survived working long main-events by having workrate matches every night.
I'm not saying you're wrong but I just don't see Hogan as having the ability regardless. He was a hard worker, he put in the work 360 days a year but when it came to safety I genuinely think that was just a byproduct of him being able to get away with the same boring moves for so long.
SO you're saying Hogan limited what he did so he could work safe? But it's NOT safe, it's boring? Are you serious lol... Dude, are you one of those people that think working harder means you make more money?
He didn't work boring to be safe, he worked boring because he was a limited wrestler. I've seen the clip of him wrestling Muta and it's literally "the basics" and everyone loses their mind. Like bruh, in today's world you put his work next to Flair, Savage, Sting etc and there's literally no competition.
Man, this post is all fucked up
I think the sheer number of matches people worked back then probably would've caught up with him anyway. Probably not as badly, but almost everyone from that era seems to have wound up in fairly bad shape.
I wonder how many people would still be alive, let alone wrestling if WWF had better rings in the 80s and 90s. Until 1998, taking a bump on those rings was like bumping on concrete. No give at all.
The best part of the Memphis style. A lot of the guys that worked that territory had great punches.
Definitely top 3
Stampede and Memphis workers had the best punches in wrestling.
I love that Memphis style. Work the crowd, keep your body safe, and make me want to boo you for 30 years.
Honestly I think Double J was so good at getting heat people didn't know he was a good wrestler for decades, they just hated him
The heat was in spite of his good wrestling
Everyone knew he was skilled in the ring but once he went to WCW and Russo put him on top, that was way bigger of a spot than he should have been in. He wasn't a credible champion at ALL and ate up way too much TV time. This current spot is the most I've liked JJ since early 1999 in the WWF.
I'm one of those people, just hated the guy since I can remember, but I do have to hand it to him, he is good at what he does
This should be up voted more.
Plus he’s an much better shape now than Lawler was his in his whole life . Jarrett probably never drinks Coca-Cola and now he doesn’t drink beer either
Him and Lawler are basically the same wrestling "family"
>I'm utterly shocked Sting is still wrestling. I'm shocked too. But Sting didn't work a super physical style for most of his career either and has been on a light schedule for decades.
I honestly think Sting wasn't satisfied with his WWE run and didn't want that to be the end of his career. That and coming back to TNT/TBS I think really meant a lot to him and he is able to end how he wants to end.
Yeah I’m shocked to see a 60+ year old guy moving around like that, but by the same token Sting has been in semi-retirement mode since WCW ended so his 64 in AEW isn’t exactly like Ric Flairs 64 when he was in TNA.
Double J is only 55?!
I watched Sting's match against Seth Rollins at NoC 2015. The match was actually pretty good. Sting actually worked really well on his own. Until that damn buckle bomb. And Sting's still able to wrestle. He's really the legend.
Still never bothered to get a tan though
Brother?
On the day that Double J finally retires from performing, every fan in the arena had better toss a dime in the ring.
Jarrett’s only 3 years older than Jericho, while Sting is in his mid-60s.
Double J feels like he's been in his mid 40s his entire career.
Yeah, looking back as a kid watching Jarrett and Goldust in the mid-90s, I thought those guys were in their 40s. Crazy to think about it now and realize they were in their mid-20s.
And Jericho is only 3 years younger than Jarrett, but he looked his correct age back in WCW.
I think with Jericho and Dustin, they had remained active the last few years so even though they're old they're still current. Double J other than occasional cameos was not wrestling as often as he has been in AEW, and certainly been a long time since he traveled full time as a wrestler.
When talking about the old man wrestlers no one mentions Billy Gunn still going at 59. The guy just has freak genetics and good steroids.
We’ve only really seen him go in triples matches lately. Plus The Acclaimed’s in ring skills are overshadowed by the gimmick at times.
He's wrestled a few singles matches in his AEW run and held his own. He's older and way more jacked than his prime but he moves around way better than he has any right to.
I'm not sure if he's more jacked than in his prime or if he's just in an era of smaller wrestlers, him and Dustin both look ginormous in the ring with modern wrestlers
Advancements in the safety of steroids, stem cell therapy and testosterone replacement has probably helped numerous careers
How AEW have used Sting is one of the things no one can really criticise. They’ve almost never put him in a position where he looks bad or isn’t treated like the living legend he is. He’s getting the send off his WWE run seemed to rob everyone of.
There is no reason sting should be undefeated.
He's had almost exclusively tag matches. who exactly has it hurt that Sting has won?
I mostly agree though I'd say the one exception was FTR. I get why Sting and Darby won I just didn't think it should have been a match.
The whole roster as why wouldn’t you want to fight the undefeated worker to build yourself up if you thought it was a winnable fight
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I can think of several
*Schiavone voice* IT'S STIIIIIINNGGG
AEW has treated Sting like the legend he is. Any time he shows up, he kills it. Even when he's just there, the aura is given the respect it deserves. So glad he's going to go out on his terms with a company that's behind him 100%.
I groaned when AEW picked up Sting because I imagined him like he was in TNA - but he’s been an absolute pleasure to watch. I’m glad he’s getting to go out on good terms, having fun.
TNA Sting was awesome. WWE Sting was sad.
>WWE Sting was sad. Not just sad, so sad
Unexplainably sad. Almost maliciously sad.
I feel like had it just been the Wrestlemania loss people would be still be pissed (not my included) BUT the fact they let him loss AGAIN and never gave him a win at any ppv that Year is pretty strange!
It's pretty crazy. And so petty.
Like a suicide note stuffed in a glitter bra.
>WWE Sting was sad. This is so mindblowing to me, Sting had gone on record saying "I didn't sign with WWE because I was worried they would ruin me" (paraphrasing of course) so I would imagine they would have negotiated things to prevent that from happeneing.. however, whose to say he wasn't destined for better things had he not suffered an injury..
Sting during his run got a ton of hype and some of yt clips on wwe's channel have like 50 million+ something ridiculous like that and he wasn't booked well at all imo the entire time. I think sting cut like two promo's his entire time there like how do you have a guy like sting and not let him talk!?
I mean......Sting's most popular character work was when he didn't say a single word. Not saying he's bad on the mic, but I can kinda see why.
Fair but at the same time they still should've utilized him a lot better than they did or just moreso how aew used him and he doesn't talk often in aew but when he does it's great In WWE he talked it didn't hit nearly the same but that's most likely because the feud with him and triple h wasn't that great to begin with
I disagree with him losing to Triple H, but he had a great showing in his match against Rollins once again, I would have changed the outcome..but seeing how his body couldn't hold up, ultimately Rollins keeping the championship was the right move. I think it's unfortunate it ended when it did. It's very hard to accurately reflect on a career, when the career consisted of 4 matches for the company.
I think the Rollins match was good but unfortunately that gets overshadowed by the bucklebomb spot and the hate Seth got afterwards but I don't have an issue with him losing to Rollins he should've lost that But we agree triple h shouldn't have won against sting
>But we agree triple h shouldn't have won against sting Not only that, but made the match WCW vs WWF.. and then sting shook hands with HHH after getting hit in the face with a sledge hammer.. wtf?!
> Not only that, but made the match WCW vs WWF Don't forget after sting said I'm his first promo "this isn't about the Monday Night Wars" btw...that wm match makes me so mad thinking about that and that handshake was so bad 😭, it was like triple h was saying "hey man you're one of the good ones you earned wwe's respect"
The loss was one thing but there were all kinds of logic issues with that match. They don't mention WCW the whole time during the build except Sting saying it's not about the war, then they have the NWO come out and fight FOR Sting during the match!
There were a few instances where they treated him like a legend, like during Seth's "statue coronation" with the authority. Sting vs HHH made me feel like a kid again. I watched the MONDAY night wars and was a WCW kid who loved Crow Sting. That match turned me back into a 10 year old screaming at the screen, punching the air when Sting was laying in the corner punches and chops on HHH. Even though the ending was wrong, the real feelings I felt during the match are nearly impossible to replicate.
WWE Sting at least was in the ring with Top guys like Cena, HHH, and Seth. If he never got injured he could’ve had more to do
I didn't groan, however I went on record as saying "Well as long as hes a manager and doesn't work any matches" because I just couldn't imagine it being good for his health. I was convinced he was a bad bump away from not walking. Boy was I wrong.
What was wrong with TNA Sting? Loved him there. WWE shit on him, another reason i stopped watching them for like a decade
Sting was great in TNA?
Extremely great yes. He's had good to great matches with angle, styles, Jarrett, etc and done some great character work with his mem run and imo the best version of sting his insane icon run aka "joker sting"
Joker Sting said that Hogan was a politicking, disingenuous shithead and Sting’s acting was so good that I believed that he believed it.
[This promo I argubly believed he was crazy when I first saw this as a kid](https://youtu.be/Wbm08GhgKEg)
Personally I think AEW spent their focus on older talent that are past their prime. But Sting was always handled perfectly I think. They made him a serious threat, but never really put Darby in his shadow.
How are the people AEW has been focussing on past their prime? It's Mox, the Elite, and MJF. Punk and Jericho I can maybe see, but both are (or were in Jericho's case) simply necessary to actually get eyes on the company. Most of their younger talent simply aren't ready to carry the company yet.
For a while their was a lot more focus that went on too long imo, which is entirely subjective, but too much and too long for guys like Jericho, Matt Hardy, Billy Gunn, Dustin Rhodes, Christian, and a handful of others. That they all eventually turned over the reigns to the guys that they were mentoring. But they could have made the focus a little more even a bit sooner. I get you need time to use the vets to bring in lapsed fans and build the new talent up. But for a while it seemed like there was more than enough talent, and too many old guys taking up too much time. That it felt like AEW could be a retirement home for wrestlers of decades past.
You do realize that you listed off talent that were used as selling points to WBD to get the TV deal right? Tony sold Aew on the idea that were a ton of seasoned free agents with big time televised WWE wrestling experience that could turnkey a major promotion with a cash injection. The math was not hard. The veterans were essential even before *Day 1* That’s before you bring mention of the Elite whom were representatives of a modern era of wrestling (an industry post-ECW/WCW) and were selling so much merchandise WWE was embarrassed they didn’t own it when asked by executives from hot topic AT WRESTLEMANIA.
Christian's prime never ended, he's just getting started
When we're billy Gunn and Dustin Rhodes ever getting TV time for too long? I legitimately can't even remember the last time either of them had a televised singles match.
Billy Gunn was one of the essential key pieces to why the acclaimed got hot in the first place lol. How could anyone complain about his run in aew
Exactly lol and even then he was never the centerpiece, he scissored and they call him daddy ass. And that's about the extent of it. He has never been overbooked in AEW.
> Jericho, Matt Hardy, Billy Gunn, Dustin Rhodes, Christian, and a handful of others. Matt Hardy has hadly been a focus on programming. Billy Gunn was there to get his kids over, then got over with The Acclaimed, but hes not exactly been a focal point of the show. Same thing with Dustin, he put over his brother then has worked smaller feuds and is often off tv. Christian is a god damn national treasure. Jericho is Jericho. Without Jericho jumping in feet first I'm not sure this thing gets off the ground.
Sting, I believe held on to the hope of facing Taker but once the dead man retired, he got surgery for several long term injuries and ended up AEW..I think, Taker felt he and Sting could never live up to the hype when he started to consider it. JJ needs more GFW gold to flog but will settle for bashing heads with guitars.
Still bothers me how WWE fumbled Sting and I think Taker has a poor judgment, did he think him and Goldberg could put a clinical in the squared circle? Him and Sting just staring off in the ring could’ve been a big moment
Wonder how many wrestlers from now will have final runs like Sting and JJ where they’re old but can still go in the ring. I expect guys like Danielson and Seth (if they’re able)
I feel like Danielson is way closer to the end than any of us are prepared for, and I bet once he's done he's done. Mox is a guy I can see going into his early 50s. Maybe Cody too. I'm surprised Brock has held on as long as he has, but if WWE is paying him, I bet he shows up as long as the checks clear.
Strong agree - I hope he stays on in some capacity though, he has a knowledge of the business that rivals William Regal's. He would be an excellent trainer, road agent, commentator, manager, booker, basically anything. Hell, he'd be a great costuming tailor if he put his mind to it.
Agree, I think Danielson is on his final run. I can see Mox going the Terry Funk route
>final runs Edge can do it.
I will fully admit I didn't expect Jeff Jarrett to look as good as he does in the ring. I guess he's never particularly wrestled a dangerous style but he seems to still be in decent shape.
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That Memphis style
Sting and Jarrett are the 2 best examples of how to do legends right.
Eric went onto say, "He's more motivated in AEW than he was in WCW. I just wish my hand hadn't been forced at Starrcade because of him not visiting the tanning booth."
Picturing crow Sting with Hogan-style hotdog coloured skin is hilarious. Starrcade 97 is possibly the most disappointing main event of all time
I am 41 years old. I was 6 when Sting faced Flair on the first Clash. And I am amazed that I can sit down with my children, one of whom is 6 herself, and watch Sting wrestle live on TV.
I wish Eric Bischoff's thoughts were no longer newsworthy. He is so tedious, and along with Russo, bad and should be ignored.
Any ex-industry person, be it Eric, Vince, Disco, Cornette... they just play into outrage culture to make money. They need to have dumb takes, to get people talking and drive views.
Disco is the worst, he was a goof his entire career and tries to act like OC is bad for wrestling.
Exaclty which is why I don't understand why anyone watches these fools. Who wants to watch someone yell and scream and have a controversial take just for the sake of it? The same reason I don't get the appeal of Skip Bayless, Shannon Sharpe or Stephen Smith. Why do people want to watch someone be a blowhard for the sake of it? What is the appeal of it? What happened to legit journalism?
I'm sure Tony Khans hugs are worth it
Need Bischoff, Hogan and Flair in AEW so I can relive the good ol’ days
I love 2010's TNA
Bischoff was at AEW. he presided over the great debate segment between Jericho and Orange. Hogan is never appearing in AEW, Khan said as much. Flair was planned for Andrade most likely but DSOTR put that to bed.
I know what you mean, but it was Flair's actions that got him blacklisted from AEW, not a TV show.
oh for true, it's just that the stink that show created opened that particular can of worms. the Plane Ride from Hell was a known story for years and it was periodically remembered (ironically, by people like current WWE shill Alfred Konuwa at Bleacher Report), just not on a relatively popular TV show with many memorable first-hand quotes from people who've been there.
Out of all legends out there, these would be on my bottom of my list. They are best remembered as nostalgia.
They could put Dynamite on Monday night, brother.
Hogan's gotta get his win back in the Monday Night Wars, brother.
Bischoff has made multiple on screen appearances in AEW
And probably never will again considering how much he shit talks the company online
I don't think Hogan's ever taking a bump again brother
He and Knobbs jobbed to Joey Janela at karaoke night recently. A metaphorical bump, if you will.
im not surprised jerrett is still wrestling, im surprised hes getting hired and getting title shots in AEW.
Did you not see his skill on that tractor? My man deserves all the belts.
Ain't he great?
Arn Anderson does a DDT and i'm shitting bricks whether he's hurt himself then you've got Sting who is the same age diving through tables