AEW 2025: Who will save us from the Deathriders?

[cobainwasmurdered]

It's a new year so a new thread? How are you feeling about AEW? What do you want to see from in in 2025? What did you like/dislike about it in 2024?

 

[One Epic Winter (OEW)]

All 2019 AEW PPVs and Dynamites are now on Max. Randomly put on a Dynamite from late 2019 while I clean the house. 2025 OFF TO A GOOD START!

 

[Tino Standard]

This is awesome. I put on the first Double or Nothing. Broadcast team is JR, Excalibur and Alex Marvez. Meanwhile, I spotted Tony Schiavone (not identified) in the crowd.

 

[JHawk]

I was going to do the free trial of Max to try out the simulcast but I guess they don't do a free trial anymore. I'm assuming they're still doing ads on the simulcast but figured I'd give a shot with a trial. Might as well stick with TBS unless I hear the simulcast is actually ad free.

 

[Big Papa Paegan]

I wonder if Dynamite/Collision will be up for streaming after the simulcast is over.

 

[BUTT]

Max | Find out about the Max ad experience that comes with the Max With Ads plan.

help.max.com

This page says the Max live simulcasts will have the same commercials as the TV broadcast regardless of whether you have an ad-free plan.

 

[JHawk]

Good to know, I can save the 17 bucks a month until I actually need access to the archive.

By the way, these streaming services need to figure that shit out, at least for something like that where shit is happening during the breaks. Not just wrestling, but NASCAR and shit too. I pay extra for ad free for a reason.

 

[Tino Standard]

Watching Bret Hart unveil the AEW world championship belt and share the ring with Hangman and MJF feels like a fever dream.

 

[Hawk 34]

They announced the return of Casino Gauntlet Match next week (it’s been a whole 4 months, kudos to TK for his remarkable restraint) with the winner challenging Moxley at Maximum Carnage on 1/15.

 

[Valeyard]

Should genuinely be Briscoe.

 

[Big Papa Paegan]

Mox/Briscoe might be the only Mox match I'd be truly interested in seeing.

 

[Valeyard]

Like Briscoe is just intensely likable and the story is a great one. Match would be super fun as well and could cement Briscoe.

 

[Hawk 34]

The maximum carnage show is in Moxleys hometown and probably the only place left that doesn’t loathe his boring routine so Briscoe is probably your best bet.

Or maybe TK is gonna debut and hotshot someone.

 

[Valeyard]

Put all the eggs in the Omega/Okada basket.

 

[Valeyard]

Best shot in the arm is pull the trigger on someone over in the mid card and see what happens. What's the worst that can happen? Different is good right now.

 

[cobainwasmurdered]

lirl at Dynamite opening to "I'm So Excited". You never know what this company is going to do.

 

[Valeyard]

Toni may be on caffeine pills

 

[cobainwasmurdered]

not a homerun show so far but I think part of that is having to do this right after a ppv when most of the roster is hurting.

 

[cobainwasmurdered]

second hour picked up. they should have put the 3way on first IMO.

 

[cobainwasmurdered]

They clearly have something the fans want to see in Moxley vs Cope but I don't know how long they can keep it fresh if they want to keep it going until the next ppv.

 

[Valeyard]

Booking ppv-level shows almost weekly bites them a lot that way.

 

[Tino Standard]

Thought tonight’s show was solid, if unspectacular. I watched on Max and was a little disappointed by the experience. Apparently, the show was broadcast in Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos, but you only got it if you subscribe to the highest tier on Max (everything else in their sports package gets the Dolby bells and whistles in every tier). Also, not only do you get commercials (a lot of people were hoping it would be commercial-free like the international stream), but watching on Max, you don’t even get picture-in-picture. So, in that way, it was actually worse than watching on cable.

 

[One Epic Winter (OEW)]

The main event was hot and the triple threat was good. That's about it. Oh, I also liked heel Riccochet taking out Swerve, showing that he has something other than flips.

 

[Hawk 34]

Doing a Terry Funk/Jerry Lynn inspired angle with Jeff Jarrett is certainly a choice for the alternative brand to decide to push into the year 2025 but given the path of other angles recently involving the world title, this is somehow a positive direction. Kind of.

Also, the Vinceifiction of changing his name to Cope is so preposterously delightful and the absurd seriousness in which they’ll present it will make for great television and really all you can ask for is that with AEW.

 

[Tino Standard]

Two things I forgot to mention last night:

1. Ricochet looks like a serial killer in those glasses. This heel turn is off to a fantastic start.

2. If AEW is hellbent on bringing back the LED board barricade across from the hard cam, would it be asking too much to make it a color that isn’t blindingly bright orange when matches are going on? It really distracts from the action in the ring.

 

[skullman80]

Thought tonight’s show was solid, if unspectacular. I watched on Max and was a little disappointed by the experience. Apparently, the show was broadcast in Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos, but you only got it if you subscribe to the highest tier on Max (everything else in their sports package gets the Dolby bells and whistles in every tier). Also, not only do you get commercials (a lot of people were hoping it would be commercial-free like the international stream), but watching on Max, you don’t even get picture-in-picture. So, in that way, it was actually worse than watching on cable.

If nothing else the video quality was much much better on Max. I think we are on the highest plan though. Way less compressed than the normal feed I would get on TBS/TNT through youtube tv. Having ads sucks, as well as no PIP, but it is what it is. We have MAX regardless so I will watch it on there just for the bump in video quality.