AEW 2025: Who will save us from the Deathriders?

[claydude14]

Really happy they signed Knight. Also glad they brought Athena up finally.

As someone (probably like many) who hasn’t seen any of Athena’s ROH run, she came across as a star and a very strong promo in the back.

 

[Brocklock]

Big Boom AJ is starting shit with MJF on Twitter. If MJF goes all out and cuts a vintage MJF style promo on the Costco guy and his dumb kids, I'll be a huge fan again.

 

[Hawk 34]

You’ll get a reference to Mama Justice paying a subscription to MJF’s big wiener and like it pal.

 

[Valeyard]

Five big booms for MJF's career.

 

[Tino Standard]

If you’re wondering how Dynamite is doing now that it is also streaming on Max, the answer is: pretty good!

https://www.sescoops.com/news/exclusive-aew-streaming-numbers-actual-numbers-on-max-streaming-app/

 

[Big Papa Paegan]

Came to post that.

This puts the AEW viewership size around ~1mil a week. Either there's a massive amount of double-dipping going on, or, and more likely, half of the audience was streaming illegally.

 

[Epic for Springs]

Max was my first time watching Dynamite weekly. Before that, it would be either through clips or illegal streams so yeah, there may be some truth to that.

 

[Brocklock]

Yeah, I barely watch cable tv at this point, so it's nice to just pop on Max and watch at my own leisure. Before that I'd just search for some random hyped matches. Definitely truth to that.

 

[Sex Machine Gun]

Still streaming illegally but whatever. Happy for 'em.

 

[Hawk 34]

AEW will join in on the trend of promotions moving their special events earlier in the day announcing that ALL IN will air at 3 PM (et).

 

[Tino Standard]

That’s interesting. I wonder if a day show was always the plan, or if they moved up the start time because WWE is trying to mess with them by running a SNME the same day.

Either way, I’ve liked the earlier start time with the show being at Wembley the last couple years, so I’m glad that continues.

 

[Valeyard]

See the move now is a Clash of the Champions-level show against night two of the lowest attended Wrestlemania in 20 years.

 

[Brocklock]

Watching 2020 AEW and after this Death Riders shit is over, they really need to let Mox be funny again. Obviously not to the level of WWE Dean Ambrose, but he's a naturally funny guy and needs that for his character. He had a sassy finger point to Willow last week in the brawl that made me remember how entertaining he could be.

That segment where Mox "joined" the Inner Circle made him look as cool as 97-99 Austin. He'll never get to that level again in his career probably idk, but just make the guy less serious and for the love of god get rid of that theme song. It's such a buzzkill. I know it was his NJPW theme, but it just drags the show to a hault when it plays and I see Wheeler Yuta or Marina Shafir.