AEW in April 2024: The Young Bucks’ Hidden Camera Theater

[Valeyard]

They're in the TNA zone where the hardcores will always show up but they are unable and unwilling to grow. It's frustrating.

 

[909]

Starting to think that lots of these complaints are coming from people who are used to being doormats who don’t stand up for themselves. How dare anyone respond to unwarranted criticism coming their way.

 

[Valeyard]

Which complaints? I'm avoiding Twitter for this if I can help it.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

It is funny seeing all of the posturing from people on Reddit acting like they know they can fight.

Of course, it shouldn’t be a huge surprise cause the guy who they are stanning is the guy who thought he knew how to fight.

(CM Punk stans: Well who is doing the punching!?)

 

[909]

Which complaints? I'm avoiding Twitter for this if I can help it.

Everyone is complaining about Will. I feel like if you think he should have stayed quiet then those people must be used to getting shit on in their personal life all the time

 

[909]

It is funny seeing all of the posturing from people on Reddit acting like they know they can fight.

Of course, it shouldn’t be a huge surprise cause the guy who they are stanning is the guy who thought he knew how to fight.

(CM Punk stans: Well who is doing the punching!?)

Whether or not they should have aired it is a different issue but if you think Punk is manly for punching a guy while he’s fixing his hair then you’re a fucking idiot.

 

[Valeyard]

Oh those people are only people in name only.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

Honestly, I didn’t know Will was the guy Triple H was speaking about. Will is literally the last main eventer in AEW I think Triple H could make that comment about. It’s such a flagrantly wrong statement and was done so publicly by Triple H, that I think Will had to address it

Maybe talking about Triple H grinding on Stephanie was a little bit cheap but you have to refute it at least a little bit cause it is such an egregiously wrong statement.

 

[Valeyard]

I don't like Ospreay's promo but that's because of how lame it was vs hitting back. By all means hit back, just do a better job with the material.

 

[BUTT]

“Boss’s daughter” jokes were tired fifteen years ago. HHH is a huge babyface to the general wrestling audience this week after delivering a slam dunk of a WrestleMania. And to those who knew what he was talking about, he’s telling them he wants to get paid more to work less, which is cool of course but doesn’t endear you to the fans.

 

[BUTT]

I don't like Ospreay's promo but that's because of how lame it was vs hitting back. By all means hit back, just do a better job with the material.

Yeah, HHH shot himself so full of roids that he had a heart attack at 52. Make fun of that if you’re gonna fight back.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

Whether or not they should have aired it is a different issue but if you think Punk is manly for punching a guy while he’s fixing his hair then you’re a fucking idiot.

People on r/squaredcircle ‘s Dynamite thread were talking about how Jungle Jack got off easy. How is getting sucker punched getting off easy? What the hell would you have done? Hit him in the face with a brick (s/o Shannon Moore)?

Yeah, HHH shot himself so full of roids that he had a heart attack at 52. Make fun of that if you’re gonna fight back.

See I would have made fun of him being HBK’s bag carrier than pretending he was as great as HBK. Although that is technically even more dated than a Stephanie joke?

 

[Valeyard]

HHH has made his whole career by getting in with damaged people and exploiting them for his gain, even if he cares deeply for them. The Clique got him his job as a goof and used him as their DD and bellboy. Getting squashed by Warrior changed his outlook and once he got the chance to be that kind of star he never looked back. He got booked into a marriage with a woman with the keys to the kingdom and dropped his longterm girlfriend in the process, starting her own spiral which he didn't care about. Once he got untouchable he stopped GRINDING and nearly killed himself with steroids and now looks like John Fetterman but with a better beard.

Just spitballing potential promo fodder beyond "you banged the bosses daughter."

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

The one thing I really didn’t like about WrestleMania last week was how frequently Triple H was put over. OBVIOUSLY I AM NOT SAYING HE IS ANYWHERE NEAR AS HORRIBLE AS HIS FATHER IN LAW HOWEVER…there was never ever a WrestleMania where Vince put himself over a tenth as much as Triple H did.

I get the political reasons why he did it and Triple H does deserve a lot of credit for pulling the plane up from a nosedive after the Vince scandal but all of the adulation was nauseating as a long time fan.


And that is a more recent example Will could have used.

However the Cornette/Bischoff types would have cried hypocrisy given how many promos AEW had done in past week or two about what a great workplace it is.

 

[Big Papa Paegan]

(CM Punk stans: Well who is doing the punching!?)

You know, if you suckerpunch a dude and he doesn't go down...

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

Can’t even knock down a nepo baby tying up his hair!

 

[geniusMoment]

Ospreay vs. Claudio for Dynamite.

Fuck the rest of the noise. WWE won't touch this match on any of their shows this week.

 

[Gert]

After everything, I think it was dumb to air it, but I understand. I would have just kept talking about how he got fired for attacking people and it being unprofessional. Between Punk’s fans and the tribalism, there’s was nothing that could have been shown that people who like Punk and WWE would make them change their minds.

I’m cool with whatever Ospreay says because he knows he’s a top guy anywhere. Not sure I’d book him 4 days before a PPV match but I know he may be their top ratings draw.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1778481560783560816

What about the XPW reboot?

To which Brian Zane would counter “I need content to cover for my YouTube channel.”

 

[909]

Apparently Ospreay has told HHH the reason he wanted a lighter schedule was because his current girlfriend had a husband who killed himself and he didn’t think she could move away from her family. I can’t imagine how enraged I’d be if someone started bashing my decisions knowing that was the reason I made them.

So this isn’t surprising but HHH is a fucking scumbag.

 

[909]

Also now that I’m reading this Schiavone is pissed off that people interpreted his reaction as anything other than a babyface commentator reacting to a heel promo.

So there’s something here about how peoples predetermined opinions lead to them interpreting the actions of others as being a certain way. We fell for him kayfabing it and that’s ok.

 

[Fall of Epic]

Brian Cage re-signed. Apparently WWE was interested. Kind of crazy since he's a walking wellness violation.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

WWE will ignore PED usage if they like you enough. You think Lashley looks the way he does at 47 years old just through eating lots of egg whites and working out?

 

[cobainwasmurdered]

can you even think of the last wellness violations? it isnt a real policy. it was a short term pr move

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

I think it was done purely for Linda McMahon's US Senate campaigns and tbh, I think the concern was more painkiller abuse than steroids. Former probably killed 10x more wrestlers than roids if we're being honest.

 

[Hawk 34]

can you even think of the last wellness violations? it isnt a real policy. it was a short term pr move

last notable I remember is Roman sometime around 2015, I want to say.

 

[Valeyard]

Didn't Riddle get busted a few times?

 

[Tino Standard]

Pretty comprehensive list of wellness policy violations: https://www.fightful.com/wrestling/resources/list-wwe-wellness-violations

 

[Fall of Epic]

Riddle was popped for coke, not roids. Don't know where that lands on the policy.

 

[strummer]

Yeah Roman got busted in 2016 which led to Ambrose/Moxley getting the title for awhile

Eva Marie's was right in the middle of her return push and she was supposed to wrestle at .Summerslam that year. She wouldn't return for almost 5 years