Guys this is Just and idea ok

So what if death riders need to face other faction like don callis family and hurt syndicate and FTR and elite who will win and how bloody it will be

Hey AEW fans! I host a weekly wrestling podcast on YouTube and I’d love to do a Q&A portion at the end of this week’s video. Unfortunately, we just don’t have many commenters yet.

We’re either recording tonight directly after the Royal Rumble or tomorrow morning. If you guys have any AEW questions, we’d love to answer them! I would be happy to send you a link to the video with a timestamp, where we respond to your specific question.

This is such a phenomenal community and my cohost and I would really be thrilled to answer your questions.

For nearly two years, we have been doing 2 AEW podcasts every week.

• Ignition - a weekly look at the hot topics in AEW. Every Tuesday at 8:45 est
• All Elite Talk - our Dynamite review show. Every week right after Dynamite

We record the podcasts on our Discord server https://discord.gg/wrestlinghub These are voice-only podcasts.

We provide an honest view of AEW. We don't sugar-coat it. What's good is good, and what's bad is bad. That being said, we laugh a lot and have a great time.

If you're interested, add me (Kelson64) as a friend on Discord, and we will do a voice chat to get the ball rolling.

and pls god dont say kamille

For nearly two years on our AEW Fan Hub weekly podcasts, I've been adamant about saying that AEW has too many heels holding titles. Don't get me wrong here - I think AEW does a terrific job building up their heels. However, if you look at the eight current AEW Title holders, seven of them are firmly heels.

I think AEW needs some charismatic babyfaces that actually win. Charisma goes a long way.

Look at Hulk Hogan in his heyday. He was never the best wrestler, and his finishing move was absolutely preposterous. Yet his charisma and connection to the fans was off the charts. He was often in trouble in many of his matches, but he always found a way to rally, and win. The crowd ate it up.

Look at Goldberg when he defeated Hogan for the WCW World Championship. The crowd absolutely erupted. They were given a reason to cheer - and they did!

The last time that I can remember a pop like that for AEW champions was with Better Than You Bay-Bay.

I'm not saying that AEW needs to put belts on more babyfaces. I simply think they need to find a younger guy with charisma who can be the hero. Don't over-expose him, and make his matches meaningful.

Crowds will get excited and cheer if they are given a reason to do so.

The fact this sub allows posts that do nothing more than bash a wrestler on a personal level is not okay.

I get people don’t like the Learning Tree or the Deathriders but making posts about how horrible a specific wrestler is just seems too below the belt IMO.

There is something to be said about giving constructive criticism there is another about making a circle jerk about how bad a wrestler is and they should be taken out of the show.

Let’s all be better and stick to productive conversations and keeping the sub from becoming a cesspool of negativity.

Last nights dynamite was ok but s let down from last week.

Idk how you guys feel but it felt like the show drug on. 3 segments for the death riders was imho too much.

Not every night can be good but they have to fix the way they run the death rider angle. Change it up.

I think it's safe to say that, by his own standards, 2024 was an off-year for MJF. A lot of that had to do with injuries and prior obligations, but his feud with Adam Cole was pretty bad.

His recent "feud" with Jeff Jarrett hasn't done him any favors, either. How does MJF return to form in 2025? Is the booking doing him a disservice? Is his act getting stale? Does he need to present himself in a different way? Do you think becoming a heel again, so abruptly, caused a hitch?

OR will things naturally work out for MJF, because he's better than me and I know it? I want to hear what you guys think.

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Why is Jeff Jarrett getting match interface to protect him in a lose but Jay White is going 13+ minutes back and forth with Wheeler Yuta.

That Jay White and Wheeler Yuta match should have been 3-5 minutes of actual match and 10 minutes of Jay White hitting his finisher on Yuta over and over and over again until the Deathriders came out to save him.

Claudio is supposed to the right hand, the second in command to the WORLD CHAMPION. 50 or 60 something year old Jeff Jarrett DOES NOT NEED TO BE PROTECTED IN A LOSE TO CLAUDIO CASTAGNOLI.

For at least 2-3 years now by far the biggest thing I've wanted out of AEW is to have the back catalog available for streaming, and after all this wait we finally have it! Well sort of, only 2019 is up so far but that's fine, I'm taking the slow approach and watching the BTE stuff as well (counting All In there are 5 PPVs to get through before we get the first episode of Dynamite, so those BTE vlogs were essential in building up matches at the time).

I'm enjoying the process of reliving this stuff from Day 1 - I even subscribed to Honor Club to watch the inaugural All In since it predates the formation of AEW and hence isn't part of the MAX offerings - and I figured I'd share my thoughts hoping to hear y'all's feedback as well:

Pros:

- there's a certain low stakes innocence to this time period... not "low stakes" in the sense that they weren't making concerted effort, but moreso kind of an "anything goes" ethos while they were feeling out where they were trying to go moving forward

- for the aforementioned reasons the vlogs were much more essential viewing back then, whereas in 2025 they're practically non-existent. I miss those extra-textual story beats that took place outside the programming itself

- obviously as the hot new brand at the time there was a lot more positivity surrounding AEW's inception and first year or so. I haven't even gotten to the COVID era yet but I do have weirdly fond memories of that time period, not because I didn't take the pandemic seriously - quite the contrary - but it was a unique time and place to be a part of, and AEW was a big part of helping me get through being locked up in the house

- it's interesting to see the rise of folks like MJF/Darby/Britt at a time period when they weren't so big yet that they couldn't afford to eat losses

- saved this one for last because it kind of doubles as one of the cons as well, which we will get to below: it's very intriguing to watch AEW at a time when their roster was still in flux, with only a handful of proper stars and a lot of experimental signings that they weren't yet sure what - if anything - they could do anything with

Cons:

- to follow up on the last bullet point, AEW very much felt like a "super indie" at the time, meaning there were always going to be a lot of wrestlers that had slightly above average in-ring competence, but didn't bring a ton to the table in terms of charisma or in-ring storytelling. There was arguably less "flippy shit" at this time, but that didn't mean that most matches weren't indie-style exhibition matches rather than proper storytelling

- again, this probably comes down to limited ability to build storylines outside the vlogs, but the booking up through All Out (2019) is really inconsistent. There are a lot of future stars in this first pre-Dynamite era that are taking a lot of random L's. I realize that a lot of that is due to TK trying to figure out what he actually had at the time, but watching it back in hindsight the booking can seem kind of random and - at least up through the first All Out - one could argue that only Cody and Nyla Rose are being established as stars at this point just based on consistent wins. Just a different barometer for future expectations this early

- a substantial portion of the limited storytelling was pretty weak: the librarian angle was always going to be corny, Shawn Spears turning on Cody just because the latter referred to him as a "good hand", SoCal presenting as babyfaces even though they call every city "the worst town I've ever been in", etc.... character motivations just weren't very compelling at this point in the company's booking

NOTE: for brevity's sake I titled the post "Year One" even though I'm only admittedly up to All Out. I still have to watch 12 episodes of Dynamite and the accompanying vlogs/Dark episodes so obviously this is an incomplete assessment at this point. I'll chime back in as I go with further observations but in the meantime I'm eager to hear what y'all think about this time period, particularly those that watched it at the time and are revisiting it now: what did you think back then and what perceptions have changed over the 5 years since?

I know we’re still a ways out from it but who do guys think should be the main event for All In? Imo, it just has to be Omega vs Okada for the title right? It’s going to be their first match on US soil and I think a match of that magnitude deserves to be for the world title, and I honestly think it would be a little disrespectful for it not to be. Those matches Omega and Okada had in New Japan are basically what started the movement that got AEW created in the first place. What do you guys think?

I think they’ve been in ROH purgatory for a few years now, and other than the Death Riders beat down and friction with Hangman, I feel they’ve been sorely missed. I say let THEM be the ones to take the Trios Titles off the Death Riders and give them a good run with it.

Any other ideas?

I am interested in discussing and maybe keeping score of which venues are holding special moments in AEW. This can be where iconic promos, banger matches or big moments have occurred.

Ill start with the KIA Forum in LA: -We witnessed the MJF pipebomb promo there. The way he starts with a full house of boos and "shut the fuck up!" chants and turns the crowd by the end of it was masterful. The intesity of the promo and ending it by calling Tony Khan a "fucking mark" is something that i believe will go down in AEW history forever.

-The Forum also held Hangman vs Swerve 2 in a Texas Death Match that was absolute madness. between the spots, my constant concern for Swerves blood loss (Hanger spitting his blood in the air was awesome tho) and the ovation from the red hot crowd ,I believe it should count for this venue.

So please, give me your thoughts on my picks or venue choices/moments of your own. I would like to add that this discussion should be centered around something specific in AEWs visit to the venue. For example, lets not list Wembley stadium just for hosting All In but rather for a monstrous pop for nigel McGuinness return at All In 2024. With enough interest, i could make this a running list and recap periodically.

No limits on promotions, injury, era etc.

It feels it’s catered way more towards sickos rather than the big exhausting storylines. Yet it remains important with segments such as the one between Toni and Mariah. A perfect balance between significance and wrestling that makes AEW into AEW

So, I've been an AEW fan since the second Dynamite, which I attended live. I've loved the alternative to WWE that AEW provides and have loved so many of the memorable matches and moments it's given us in just 5 short years.

But is it perfect? No.

Is it a mess? Also no.

It has a lot of good and some really bad, like most everything in life.

One trend I've seen over the years that I would change if someone have me the pencil is... Don't waste the hype.

After Malakai Black seemingly drive Cody out of the company, they announced his return and match with Black before we saw him return to TV to blindside Black. To me, if you saved announcing that match until after Cody came back, you get a lot more hype and interest in that match.

Last year, the SECOND Mariah May won the Owen, they had her turn on Toni, with many weeks before All In. They could've slow played it. Told a better story. Made Mariah and Toni both seem conflicted and worked up to that brutal betrayal that would've added a lot of juice to All In a week or even two before it happened.

This past week, the Toni-Mariah face-to-face didn't really accomplish much that it wouldn't have if it happened next week. Doing that, again, amps up the and intensity much closer to the event rather than bringing it from a boil to a simmer.

For a company that does a great job with long-term storytelling, I think tipping their hands with some of these moments is self-sabotaging and fails to really build and capitalize on the hype they generate. One of the best things about the Monday Night Wars was tuning in to see a HUGE match announced for that same night that really pulled you in and made you feel like it truly was must see TV.

The Death Riders are supposed to be AEW's big Bad, right? but as i've noticed on tv more People pop more for Don Callis walking out and Talking Shit then the monologues Mox is Doing. Cause Mox's Romper-Stomper bit has now become Sleep inducing. and i personally am more excited for Kenny and Will to face The Callis Family