This post is part of the Twitter Threads project. I posted this last Sunday.
2000 yards #swimming this morning. Did some tempo work & felt good doing it.
— Danno E. Cabeza (@DannoECabeza) April 21, 2024
Life is good, friends.
This post is part of the Twitter Threads project. I posted this last Sunday.
2000 yards #swimming this morning. Did some tempo work & felt good doing it.
— Danno E. Cabeza (@DannoECabeza) April 21, 2024
Life is good, friends.
I answered a survey.
Hey everyone, @JesseCollings is running a brief little survey for AEW fans and he'd like to get a lot of entries. Help do the wrestling science.https://t.co/xDpWMPnOwr
— Trevor Dame (@TrevorDame) April 19, 2024
If you'd like to answer it yourself, you can find it here.
I posted this on Twitter a few days ago, but since I’m trying to make better use of this space, I’m reposting it here.
Thanks.
I've seen SO MANY PEOPLE complaining about anti-AEW podcasts, and I feel that. I mean, I really want to like Wrestletalk because the guys themselves are usually upbeat and entertaining. Alas, lately it feels like those guys really don't want to be there, at least as far as AEW is concerned. Like, there's already a lot of WWE to cover, and that's mostly what makes them money, so AEW has become little more than a pain in their collective asses.
Behold, the world's tiniest violin, my friends.
I honestly don't care that they don't like the product. In fact, I think the issue is more that they do like the product, but there's just too much product on TV between the two companies. Which, again, is not my problem in any way. However, if they -- or anyone else -- is going to present themselves in the "support all wrestling" vein, then at that point no one wants to hear them complaining about having to cover wrestling.
If they don't want to do that shit, I'm 100% sure that the real, working world is still out there for them.
So.
Here is my review of AEW Dynamite. Because, as they say, solve the problem you want to see solved. Regardless of my qualifications or lack thereof, I at least actually enjoy this show.
Watching the combined United Football League (UFL) struggle this week to build and maintain an audience reminded me of some of AEW’s recent struggles with ratings and attendance.
The UFL is, of course, the fifth recent attempt at launching a spring league of American Football in the United States, following on from the AAF, XFL 2.0, XFL 3.0, and the USFL. This newest league is an amalgamation of the most successful half of the XFL 3.0 -- the one owned by The Rock -- and the most successful half of the USFL. It’s notable because it’s launched to markedly less overall fanfare amongst the general populace of football viewers than several of these other leagues. This has happened despite the UFL producing by far the best on field product of any spring football league in American history.
It reminded me of AEW in the sense that AEW has also struggled to maintain buzz and overall audience despite producing the best, most consistent in-ring product of any major American pro-wrestling brand.
My wife and I saw Styx, REO Speedwagon, Foreigner, Sammy Hagar, Loverboy, and George Thoroughgood all in concert over the summer a couple of years ago. We had a LOT of fun, but we also realized -- inescapably -- that our favorite bands are all getting old now. These guys are in their mid-to late-70s or worse.
Like it or not, seeing these bands in concert is becoming a limited time proposition.
With that in mind, we launched the Live Album Project, both because we wanted to get recordings of our favorites before it gets too late and because we wanted to find some new favorite bands for the future.
I wrote earlier this week about how AEW is a young man's or woman's company, and then they throw *that* out there.