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AEW isn't the most popular around here, but some AEW news: Adding an 11th PPV, Redemption, in July. This'll function as setup for All In, sort of like No Way Out was for Wrestlemania.

Up to 11 PPVs now I believe, only month that's missing one is January. The individual PPV buyrates aren't what they were in the first few years (when there were four) anymore due to being diluted so much, but it seems to be amounting to significantly more money altogether coming in so I'd expect them to go ahead and add a 12th one at some point rather than scaling back.

DirkDonkeyroot said:

Somehow he's a merchandise selling machine, but since I don't get a cut of the merch I don't give a shit. You can only add so much crowd noise to cover the boos. Cody already takes up the majority of the cheer tracks and if you reuse the same track on the same show the idiots may catch on.

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Danhausen is pretty fucking lame. He was lame in AEW too. I liked him at first when he was a big deal from the indies, but then he spent pretty much his entire AEW tenure injured (mostly from pre-existing stuff) and just isn't any sort of serious wrestler. Now he's in WWE doing the fucking curse thing all the time and it's annoying as hell. The crowds need to go back to booing him so maybe they'll stop featuring him so frequently.

He's all over the goddamn shows while Michael Cole acts like he's amazing. It's like the return of fucking Hornswoggle or something.

Merrith said:

They can build it up by having Brock look strong early, but to just job out Oba after that hype of a promo and to kill all his momentum in general for Brock who doesn't need the win whatsoever would make so little sense. I'm not usually a holy shit that was a moment guy, but that promo "I have always been the one" was the fucking future.

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-Wrestlemania 40 was them retelling Starrcade 97, only doing it right

-Oba vs Brock was them doing the Goldberg vs. Ultimate Warrior match that WCW could have done in 1998 and inexplicably didn't (yeah, it wouldn't have been good but it would have done a monster buyrate in Fall 98)

-Oba vs Roman is going to be them retelling Goldberg vs Hogan and doing it even better