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Completely agree they need to move on, even if that means my recent purchase of shares in various popcorn manufacturers may have been a mistake.
The thing I do think this shows though is that if TK has receipts, he will show them if pushed. I think that may actually be a good thing, longer term, in terms of moderating behaviour and keeping adults acting like adults. Act like a cunt, get tret like a cunt.
I got the negative reception this got. But I don't have that opinion.
Tony was clearly happy to sit on this footage for months until the Punk interview. If he was as petty as people say he was, this would have come out months ago.
And now that it is out there. It's out there and it's over, everything is out and the company can move on.
That's the one thing im hoping - that this footage & the angle between Bucks / FTR is the last we ever hear of Punk in AEW.
I'm guessing that it was sat on due to NDAs and shit.
And now that it is out there. It's out there and it's over, everything is out and the company can move on.
Absolutely.
Narrator: The company did not, in fact, move on.
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I hope they don't go full late stage WCW
They won't. Bad as they can be and have been, I lived through WCW 2000, we're still night and day.
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Completely agree they need to move on, even if that means my recent purchase of shares in various popcorn manufacturers may have been a mistake.
Never a mistake in this fucking business.
The weird thing is, I don't think this changed anyone's mind on Punk. To my eye, it clearly shows that Punk lied about every aspect of his encounter with Perry (other than the "there may have been some light choking" part), but it seems like most of the people who have been defending Punk all along don't seem to see it that way. Which makes sense, since we live in a post-truth era.
I made the mistake of looking at the other place this morning, and, yeah, I don't get most of the top comments are how this shows Punk was right.
Proper through the looking glass shit.
It certainly reminded me why I don't go to Reddit anymore lol
I still have to comb Reddit on the regular cause...well it's easier than having a fuckin' Twitter account to keep up to date on spur-of-the-moment news, but yeah it's been a bit....hectic
If putting it out there means we can get Jack Perry back, it was worth it.
This was honestly my last straw with AEW. I had felt for awhile that the variety early AEW had (Young Bucks indie, Lucha bros Lucha Libre, Omega DDT/NJPW influence, Mox's hardcore, Jericho/Cody's WWE influence) was done with a single unified vision, with everyone putting ego's aside to make something bigger then the sum of it's parts. An AEW roster that was so respectful that Brodie Lee's illness was never leaked to the press.
I honestly can't say that the reactionary AEW has me gripped like the early AEW that was interested in long form storytelling. And one with a roster so divided you can feel dissension within the roster. I don't want backstage drama to be the basis of ongoing storytelling, that's not an interesting story. I want to see the show working like a well oiled machine. It honestly makes me uncomfortable watching AEW as it is currently.
I thought AEW purpose was to change the wrestling industry not succumb to it.
I think a big problem is objective value over culture fit.
Punk may have been a big name and high value, but I remember wondering back then if it was worth derailing Hangman' story over a nostalgia act (I wasn't into wrestling back when Punk was a big deal) instead of focussing on the emotional core of the main event scene and properly using the momentum behind him.
The reality is that some people have too much of an ego to be good team players and should not be picked up even if they're big names.
I work at a company where our hiring philosophy is absolutely geared towards culture fit over performance, and it has worked for us tremendously, and we just develop software, trust isn't all that important yet we have it in spades. Meanwhile in a business where people risk death or injury regularly they seem to go with skill over fit most of the time. Baffling really, especially in the age of social media where a modicum of skill and some savvy can carry anyone to great heights.
I mean one of the breakout stars of Joshi of late is a girl whose gimmick is being rude and having a big head, everything is possible.
I mean one of the breakout stars of Joshi of late is a girl whose gimmick is being rude and having a big head, everything is possible.
Now now, her gimmick is also being the cutest deathmatch queen this side of Kyoto damnit!