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13 minutes ago, Jonesy7211 said:

It used to be BT sports. It's available on most illegitimate streaming devices. I get it on mine. Some of the fire sticks and streaming apps have on demand TV shows and movies on. By lunch time tomorrow Raw will be on there if you don't fancy staying up.

Just found it on Amazon and got a free sub for 7 days, result!

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1 minute ago, Dodgyknees said:

Just found it on Amazon and got a free sub for 7 days, result!

You’ll get the Villa game on Thursday too

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18 minutes ago, Dante_Lockhart said:

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The Punk v Jungle Boy fight was lame, and basically was exactly what punk said. Crowd started chanting Punks name when the Young Backs were in the ring.

Absolutely mad to show the footage. I've seen worse in a school playground.

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Just a crazy fall from grace.

It was never going to beat the behemoth that was WWE but it was providing health competition and was the much better, cooler product.

The pendulum has well swung now.

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1 minute ago, Wainy316 said:

Just a crazy fall from grace.

It was never going to beat the behemoth that was WWE but it was providing health competition and was the much better, cooler product.

The pendulum has well swung now.

I was fully invested at one stage but it’s dire now. Tbf it has helped somewhat in that WWE has shifted its product but not sure that’s down to AEW or UFC

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4 hours ago, Wainy316 said:

AEW went from being the cool fresh wrestling product to year 2000 WCW pretty quickly didn't it.

The owner has to take the blame, allowed the inmates run the asylum as he is just a deluded fanboy. Somebody in WWE would have called a halt to most of the shit

The 175 finishers in a match plus ridiculous career ending moves was mad booking

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My opinion on airing the footage is threefold;

Firstly it vindicates CM Punk as the footage basically showed it to be pretty much how he said. There was one inaccuracy like CM Punk saying Jack Perry approached him when it was 100% the other way round, but aside from that it vindicated him. Yes, CM Punk is a dick, we know that, he knows that, but all the footage showed was that CM Punk was honest about what he did.

Secondly it reopens old wounds for the sake of pushing a storyline. The Bucks lost at All In to FTR because of the brawl and having to deal with it? Stating that FTR were behind it all? If you want to use reality to push a storyline then go with FTR not being championship material, and FTR not being clean enough to be the face of the tag team division. How do they do that? Young Bucks could bring up FTR Bald always causing controversy online, and FTR Hair pulling a gun on someone in a road rage incident. Make it the EVPs on a crusade to clean up the division of miscreants. They didn't need to weave footage of FTR's friend getting Jack Perry into a chokehold. 

Thirdly it just looks unprofessional and Tony Schiavone wore the disappointment on his face all night. He looked like a man that had witnessed this kind of bullshit before, and that's because he has in WCW. I understand that AEW can't stand there and be a punching bag, but there are times to punch back and times to leave it alone. This was one such time to leave it alone because CM Punk is untouchable. His whole schtick was being a word removed, so airing the footage just resulted in "Punks gonna Punk" responses, while AEW wound up looking worse for showing it. 

On the topic of punching back. Will Ospreay had a jab back at Triple H for labelling AEW signees as lazy for the reduced work schedule. Now, Will is well within his rights to jab back, but firstly he did it on a show that already featured the All In footage, and secondly it puts ex-WWE talent in a very awkward spot. Renee Paquette looked like she wanted to leave the stage once Will started going on about Triple H skipping the hard work by sleeping with Stephanie McMahon. Renee is very good friends with both of them, as are many people in the locker room because 50% of AEW now is ex-WWE. It was easier to jab back at WWE when the roster was 95% indie, and the 5% ex-WWE guys hated WWE, but that's not the case in 2024. 

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On 11/04/2024 at 08:47, Wainy316 said:

AEW went from being the cool fresh wrestling product to year 2000 WCW pretty quickly didn't it.

They'd kill to be 2000 WCW, Punk's interview with Ariel Helwani gave a real insight as to how they operate. They're not bothered about selling tickets or making money.

The footage and response to the backstage All In footage now shows that even though he's left, AEW's biggest star is still CM Punk.

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