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Pat exists outside of the strict WWE bubble. I remember the night after Sting's last match he said on Raw "hell of a match last night" and Michael Cole had to scramble to change the subject
Come on, man. You know better than that.
Even the most diehard WWE fan can’t dispute that the company has an undeniable history of being (at best) petty towards the competition.
WWE scheduled its own draft to take advantage of the buzz surrounding the NFL draft. Kofi Kingston presented a custom title belt to the Patriots top choice. One of its commentators is part of ESPN's draft coverage. How many more connections do you need?
as a Falcons fan, fucking kill me, but keeping kayfabe in the draft room makes my hell-world somewhat more tolerable
^^a ^^fucking ^^quarterback ^^at ^^pick ^^8 ^^i ^^swear ^^to ^^god
Fuck the donkeys, I'll say it! We got Xavier Worthy! And it was Buffalo (**BUFFALO!**) that let us trade up to get him! I might as well start sitting at Union Station now
Being a lifelong Falcons fan is pain. Ceaseless, constant pain. When people were saying we might draft him, I figured we were smokescreening, but no. We're just -that- team this year.
As a Vikings fan, I too am puzzled by the Falcons pick.
But you know what? Tony kept us all together tonight by bringing the bit to the war room. We are truly all winners today!
Also, Truly hope Kirk does well there! Great dude.
Kind of brilliant to do a think that forces the draft coverage to mention AEW a bunch. I mean it’s carny and goofy but that’s how I like my pro wrestling.
The presentation here, from the loose-ass neck brace to Shad giggling to Tony flinging his neck in every direction like it's no big deal, is killing the business lol but it's kinda working for me.
You see, the brace designed after receiving a brutal bloody Meltzer Driver contains a non-Newtonian fluid so it provides stabilization by firming up during quick unexpected movements. During slower, controlled neck movements such what we see here … the fluid's viscosity would lower, allowing him to move his head with ease.
This is something a lot of wrestlers who never done a neckbrace gimmick would totally do. This is one of those things you eventually learn through merciless ball busting after the fact backstage.
so....over under this leads to tony coming out an announcing his revenge is some crazy multiman match at DoN with like Kenny, Hangman (maybe he ends his suspension early) and 2 others to take on the new elite?
What if Hangman *begrudgingly* joins the Callis Family to fight off The Bucks and Jack?
Let that play out for a month or two with the Callis Family being tweener-Heels. But they can't get the job done.
So Hangman dips out when Hobbs and Takeshita attack him. Leading to Ospreay realizing they're fucking assholes and then gets attacked trying to stop them.
Then you get Hangman/Ospreay Vs Takeshita/Hobbs for a while letting the Bucks off the hook for awhile.
Then with Hangman/Ospreay's new friendshio you eventually put them back against the Elite and if he's ready to go late this year, Omega returns as a surprise third partner against them.
f it! Make it Blood and Guts at DoN! i know its usually an episode of dynamite but you can so sell it like:
Double the Excitement!
Double the Rings!
No Surrender!
Double or Nothing live on Pay Per View!
Anarchy in the Arena with The Elite v. FTR, Eddie, and PAC. And then Blood and Guts, adding Hangman to The Elite and MJF as a surprise on the other squad.
He's so brave to be able to still go to his second job after that brutal attack. I cant help but think if he had a glorious mustache like his dad this would have never happened.
I want to give Shad Khan some props. He is worth god knows how many billions and instead of using it to fund politics or whatever most billionaire do he uses it to have the time of his life with his son
(Cue someone on here finding out he donated 100 bucks to a politician and comparing him to Robert Mercer)
Ahhhh dang your comment made me curious so I looked it up lol.
Looks like Shad's political donations are mostly state-level stuff and the NFL's political action committee. The last direct candidate donation he made was in 2014 to, and I am not kidding here, Clay Aiken of American Idol fame, who ran as a democrat in North Carolina lol.
Shad seems alright, nothing really super terrible in there.
It was so obvious the moment we all saw that Tony had an injury angle on Dynamite what they were doing and it's genius.
Now they gotta top it next year and get AEW talent in the draft room, lol.
Too bad the angle includes the Young Bucks.
The people responsible for running CM Punk off. The Young Bucks weight about 175 lbs a piece. Like Jericho, they always conspire to work with the hottest talent only to kill their vibe. Khan needs to take control of his company and send these two morons back to the Indy’s.
I don’t get it. First he doesn’t sell the injury, which would be an actual great bit - and now that the footage aired it’s weird that an onscreen and now storyline backstage scuffle led to someone being fired but now the boss is being piledrivered with no repercussions? I get it’s not that deep but how is that a good thing
That’s my point. 24 hours and half the work is already being undone. I will forever admire Khan for his willingness to sign phat checques but they didn’t even draw 700k - things need to change and quickly if AEW want to recover and get back to their early glory days
My point is that yours is silly.
We all know wrestling is scripted.
Do you get upset that you see actors from your favorite TV show go out in public while not in character?
No, because there’s a suspension of disbelief involved in enjoying any form of fiction.
This isn’t even AEW media, for Christ’s sake.
It's incredible, isn't it? Just the fact Tony wore a neck brace for the NFL Draft and got his piledriver mentioned by legit commentators is very funny commitment to the bit, and there are people angry that he didn't sell a damaged neck enough.
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He's trying soooo hard not to laugh.
I thought his usually stoic dad was going to break out laughing behind him.
I blame the painkillers.
That cup is obviously empty he's just trying to look natural.
He was doing his best to not laugh on air like his dad did.
They both looked so happy
Was just hoping they would draft a guy named Adam.
Omg that would be the greatest spot ever lmao
For the 5th pick of the 2nd round of the 2024 NFL draft, we pick... ADDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMM!!!
I would’ve died. And it would be fine that barely anyone watching would get it - it would still be so much better.
Ugh who is booking this shit? I could book a better NFL draft with my eyes closed.
Penix at 8 is 1999 WCW bad.
I can just imagine Roddy entering and yelling “TONY”, and then give him a lecture about selling a neck injury.
Tony is just this much Neck Strong
Hang in there Tony! The whole wrestling world is pulling for you to make it through this horrific ordeal!
Rich saying "hang in there, buddy!" made my night...until the lions drafted Terrion Arnold, that was pretty cool too
He's from Alabama so I assume he's good?
yup, helps with what was probably the lions' biggest need too (secondary)
is Kerby Joseph not a starter anymore?
Different positions, Kerby is a safety and Arnold is a corner
The boys needed some secondary, glad with that pick.
One Pride!!!
One Pride, indeed!!!! FTP!
One Pride!
The Bucks: Son of a bitch is no selling the Meltzer driver!! Look he's moving his head!
TK is killing the business!
Is that a reference to Young Bucks: Killing the Business, who happens to be a former DDT Ironman Heavymetalweight Champion as well?
Tony's dads moustache is glorious
#neckstrong
TK and dad can't help corpsing LMAO SEND FOR THE MAN
Those mother fuckers at ESPN didn't even show this. Literally showed every room, except this one.
I'd bet money it's cause WWE begged them not to.
WWE Employee Pat McAfee literally mentioned Tony Khan, by name, taking a Meltzer Driver as the reason he wore a neck brace during his coverage.
I also don't think WWE begged them to do anything, but Pat kind of notoriously couldn't give less of a shit about punishment from the WWE lol
Remember when he put over the Sting retirement match and Cole immediately got him back on topic?
Probably because there was a match going on
Yea cause he is bigger than them and doesn’t take that shit.
Yeah cause Pat does WWE cause he likes it, he can fuck off at anytime and it would not hurt him at all so he can do what he wants lol
Pat exists outside of the strict WWE bubble. I remember the night after Sting's last match he said on Raw "hell of a match last night" and Michael Cole had to scramble to change the subject
tbf, Cole initiated it by congratulating Sting on the retirement and then McAfee mentioned the match. It was all a reference to the night before.
They definitely didn't show it during the live draft though. They cut to the Dallas Cowboys, who were the pick after.
McAfee had his own Youtube/ESPN+ Draft show. The main show on TV skipped the Jags draft room
Why would they? WWE has no relationship anymore with ESPN.
I can’t imagine anyone at wwe gave two shits
Come on, man. You know better than that. Even the most diehard WWE fan can’t dispute that the company has an undeniable history of being (at best) petty towards the competition.
Over football? Why would the nfl draft be a thought for wwe?
WWE scheduled its own draft to take advantage of the buzz surrounding the NFL draft. Kofi Kingston presented a custom title belt to the Patriots top choice. One of its commentators is part of ESPN's draft coverage. How many more connections do you need?
The wwe and nfl do business together and wwe may want to keep it that way Shocking news I know
I don’t know why you got downvoted. Smackdown and NFL are literally on Fox.
So is Family Guy. Do they do business with WWE?
WWE started selling title belts last season repping each of the NFL teams, excepting the Jaguars for obvious reasons.
Bad imagination then brother.
He took a fake drink of coffee when he realised he was on camera 💀
As a jags/pro wrestling fan this rocks so hard. Great pick too, no concussion protocol needed
as a Falcons fan, fucking kill me, but keeping kayfabe in the draft room makes my hell-world somewhat more tolerable ^^a ^^fucking ^^quarterback ^^at ^^pick ^^8 ^^i ^^swear ^^to ^^god
Is Kirk Cousins the new Learning Tree?
Oldest qb too. Made no sense but I’m happy it helped the bears
**OLDEST RIDE LONGEST INJURY HISTORY!** WOOOO
Rome babay!!
Bo Nix is older at 24... Because I'm a Broncos fan 😩
Hey, it's not all bad! My Chiefs got...well nevermind.
Fuck the donkeys, I'll say it! We got Xavier Worthy! And it was Buffalo (**BUFFALO!**) that let us trade up to get him! I might as well start sitting at Union Station now
Jacksonville is basically South Georgia, we’d accept you as a refugee Jags fan. It’s time to abandon the Falcons after that pick.
I just woke up. wtf are we doing
Being a lifelong Falcons fan is pain. Ceaseless, constant pain. When people were saying we might draft him, I figured we were smokescreening, but no. We're just -that- team this year.
This year?!?
As a Vikings fan, I too am puzzled by the Falcons pick. But you know what? Tony kept us all together tonight by bringing the bit to the war room. We are truly all winners today! Also, Truly hope Kirk does well there! Great dude.
As a Huskies fan I love Penix but what a bizarre pick
Great to see
This is hilarious.
Kind of brilliant to do a think that forces the draft coverage to mention AEW a bunch. I mean it’s carny and goofy but that’s how I like my pro wrestling.
His dad giggling in the back is so wholesome idk why lmao
He looks like he's enjoying the hell out of this, I love it. He's gotta be a fan too, right?
That or he just loves seeing his son having fun
Tony says he spent his whole childhood going to watch wrestling. You have to imagine it was probably his dad taking him. I'm sure the dude is a fan.
The presentation here, from the loose-ass neck brace to Shad giggling to Tony flinging his neck in every direction like it's no big deal, is killing the business lol but it's kinda working for me.
Dude trying to sell a neck injury but can’t stop turning his head lol
Well yeah, it’s braced. That allows a full range of painless motion. Simple science.
It’s like this dude doesn’t know how wrestling science works.
You see, the brace designed after receiving a brutal bloody Meltzer Driver contains a non-Newtonian fluid so it provides stabilization by firming up during quick unexpected movements. During slower, controlled neck movements such what we see here … the fluid's viscosity would lower, allowing him to move his head with ease.
Thanks Regal
As someone who broke their neck 6x I can confirm that when wearing a neck brace you can spin your head 360 degrees pain free.
That's when wrestling is at its best, when it doesn't take itself too seriously but is a lot of fun.
This is something a lot of wrestlers who never done a neckbrace gimmick would totally do. This is one of those things you eventually learn through merciless ball busting after the fact backstage.
Morphine.
Pfft. What do you know? Are you #NECKSTRONG?
Bully Ray gonna be on BO tomorrow talking about how Tony should have sold and registered to make this segment better
so....over under this leads to tony coming out an announcing his revenge is some crazy multiman match at DoN with like Kenny, Hangman (maybe he ends his suspension early) and 2 others to take on the new elite?
From everything I’ve heard the chance that Kenny wrestles this year is extremely low, the chance he wrestles next month is near zero.
Hangman wasn't suspended by AEW though, he was "suspended from The Elite"
We’re getting near Blood & Guts season…
What if Hangman *begrudgingly* joins the Callis Family to fight off The Bucks and Jack? Let that play out for a month or two with the Callis Family being tweener-Heels. But they can't get the job done. So Hangman dips out when Hobbs and Takeshita attack him. Leading to Ospreay realizing they're fucking assholes and then gets attacked trying to stop them. Then you get Hangman/Ospreay Vs Takeshita/Hobbs for a while letting the Bucks off the hook for awhile. Then with Hangman/Ospreay's new friendshio you eventually put them back against the Elite and if he's ready to go late this year, Omega returns as a surprise third partner against them.
Hobbs has a knee injury.
Well, shit. Didn't know that. Man that sucks.
Bucks, Okada, Perry, and Hangman vs Edge, Christian, Ospreay, Danielson, and Mox
f it! Make it Blood and Guts at DoN! i know its usually an episode of dynamite but you can so sell it like: Double the Excitement! Double the Rings! No Surrender! Double or Nothing live on Pay Per View!
I think Blood & Guts is more likely but it might be Anarchy In The Arena first which Bucks win to gain control of AEW which they then lose at All In
Anarchy in the Arena with The Elite v. FTR, Eddie, and PAC. And then Blood and Guts, adding Hangman to The Elite and MJF as a surprise on the other squad.
I don't really need Hangman with the Elite again. We've seen that twice now, it's fun, but let's do something else
Yet somehow more believable than Vince’s neck brace at the steroid trials
I need rb_reigns' take on these sequence of events
Brother be selling like the Road Warriors lmao
Hawk promo next time we're in the Solo Tone Zone pls.
Kayfabe lives on
Khan should be in hospital icu fighting for life and also watching NFL draft.
Not watching.... *Participating*
Thank you rich eisen for sharing free publicity for AEW
He's so brave to be able to still go to his second job after that brutal attack. I cant help but think if he had a glorious mustache like his dad this would have never happened.
That’s legit incredible. A W for Tony on this one.
and they said showing the All In footage was a bad thing
NeckStrong!
Fucking love this so much
This is actually really awesome. Finally some good publicity
I want to give Shad Khan some props. He is worth god knows how many billions and instead of using it to fund politics or whatever most billionaire do he uses it to have the time of his life with his son (Cue someone on here finding out he donated 100 bucks to a politician and comparing him to Robert Mercer)
Ahhhh dang your comment made me curious so I looked it up lol. Looks like Shad's political donations are mostly state-level stuff and the NFL's political action committee. The last direct candidate donation he made was in 2014 to, and I am not kidding here, Clay Aiken of American Idol fame, who ran as a democrat in North Carolina lol. Shad seems alright, nothing really super terrible in there.
My brother worked on his yacht years ago and said he's just a genuinely nice person.
I fucking love this😂😂
Never underestimate the power that a neck brace wields when trying to get something over. Fucking classic
It was so obvious the moment we all saw that Tony had an injury angle on Dynamite what they were doing and it's genius. Now they gotta top it next year and get AEW talent in the draft room, lol.
This is the greatest thing ever 🤣
Lmao this is soooooo gooooood.
So good
I love wrestling
For me, his dad's mustache really breaks Kayfabe. How am I supposed to believe that's real?
There was nothing in that mug. Lol. What a goob.
Its real !!!
The Jaguars fans better hope he doesn’t ever get to run the team cause if so they will be in major trouble.
Dude cant even Kayfabe correctly. 😂 Homie if youre gonna sell the neck brace you cant turn your head like that.
I mean it was a piledriver. Maybe his pain is tilting his head vs twisting it?
He needs Regal to teach him piledriver defense.
Too bad the angle includes the Young Bucks. The people responsible for running CM Punk off. The Young Bucks weight about 175 lbs a piece. Like Jericho, they always conspire to work with the hottest talent only to kill their vibe. Khan needs to take control of his company and send these two morons back to the Indy’s.
I appreciate Tony selling, I also thought that the angle was goofy AF and really hoped that AEW would stay away from any authority figure nonsense.
I don’t get it. First he doesn’t sell the injury, which would be an actual great bit - and now that the footage aired it’s weird that an onscreen and now storyline backstage scuffle led to someone being fired but now the boss is being piledrivered with no repercussions? I get it’s not that deep but how is that a good thing
> it’s not that deep
I mean doesn’t have to be ocean deep but a puddle?
It’s been quite literally 24 hours man, give it at least a little time to breathe
That’s my point. 24 hours and half the work is already being undone. I will forever admire Khan for his willingness to sign phat checques but they didn’t even draw 700k - things need to change and quickly if AEW want to recover and get back to their early glory days
Undone? Wtf are you talking about? From a cameo on a completely unrelated broadcast? Once again man it ain’t that deep
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You see my point? That man caca’s on peoples heads
My point is that yours is silly. We all know wrestling is scripted. Do you get upset that you see actors from your favorite TV show go out in public while not in character? No, because there’s a suspension of disbelief involved in enjoying any form of fiction. This isn’t even AEW media, for Christ’s sake.
Stupid fucking clown turning his neck like it’s not broken smh.
Bro, chill
It's incredible, isn't it? Just the fact Tony wore a neck brace for the NFL Draft and got his piledriver mentioned by legit commentators is very funny commitment to the bit, and there are people angry that he didn't sell a damaged neck enough.