Meltzer said Tony Khan would allow Billy Gunn to do the DX reunion as long as WWE mentioned Gunn worked for All Elite Wrestling on air. WWE then dragged their feet.
Danielson: "Five years into my career, no one was saying 'he's going to be the best wrestler in the world'-"
Tony Khan: "People were!"
Danielson: "Not in 2004!"
Tony Khan: "They were! On Death Valley Driver! I was there!"
No shot at the aggregators *salute* but here is the full audio of the SXSW AEW Panel with Tony Khan, Britt Baker and Bryan Danielson with Justin Barrasso as the host/moderator.
Tony references DVDVR which gets a big laugh from Danielson at one point.
AEW teasing interest in their recent signees to create buzz.
NXT warehousing their recent signees in bubble wrap and cryogenically freezing them before renaming them with the least marketable names possible.
Karl Anderson hasn't gone the best way about it but he’s obviously upset that generally, WWE has a detrimental effect on mental health among talent. WWE only sends emails like this when a situation arises where they fear bad publicity. Like different from the wellness policy.
Lots of Amy Winehouse content on BBC4 tonight, reminder that she was an F4W subscriber, she was a BOARD~! member, she was a secret poster and therefore one of us. A real one.
I don't know the actual origin but I saw this on the F4W board. Tremendous.
Remember the AEW rankings are supposedly the confusing one? And the people who ask in bad faith "I thought AEW was going to be sports based"?
A common belief among people in WWE is that:
a) Stephanie stepped down because this was coming and she didn’t want to be associated with it.
b) Triple H leaked the story.
Triple H clearing his throat and practising his "This is not goodbye forever... this is goodbye for now" speech before he closes his eyes, randomly points to a roster chart of generic bearded dudes and picks up the phone.
Speaking of BritWres.
The hot RUMOUR about AEW's UK dates are:
- Two dates in April
- A Dynamite taping at Wembley Arena in London
- A Rampage taping at the AO Arena in Manchester the following night.
I've heard a couple of versions of the story but it is all basically the same thing. AJ Styles had a horrible time on Raw. Him and Heyman didn't get along & he couldn't handle the banter as the locker room would make fun of him and his politics/conspiracy theories.
Kevin Owens in a media interview in French said WWE changed the ropes and ring mat & cleaned the arena from top to bottom between every match. And took his temperature before and after leaving the arena.
Meltzer not considered the possibility that Punk has been working on himself and has been going to therapy. And was just looking for closure yesterday.
“The feeling in WWE was that he (CM Punk) was there because he wanted back. Whether thats true or not, I have no idea
Obviously there were talks of him going back, whatever it was, late last year. But he couldn’t go because he was still under contract.”
- Dave Meltzer
(via WOR)
Triple H: "It is too expensive you marks"
Tony Khan exactly this time last month on Wrestling Observer Radio: "We are looking to run Craven Cottage next year"
WWE:
WWE is reportedly bringing The Biggest Party Of The Summer across the pond in 2022, thirty years after the company rocked Wembley Stadium in London.
#WWE
Leaked the Colt/ROH thing to the media and caused the ball to roll on the Brawl Out situation.
His attitude on social media alone reaffirms that belief.
"WWE sources confirmed to Fightful that Young had cited moral, creative and personal reasons as why he didn’t want to work with Vince McMahon."
Hell yeah.
I wish people would shut the fuck up about weed for 10 seconds and talk about how well Matt treated fans on the indies and let them know he valued their support.
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