Jim Cornette Reviews A 2019 Young Bucks Interview About AEW

From Episode 342 of the Jim Cornette's Drive Thru
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[@trakficjam17]

AEW in 2019: We don't want "empty seats" in our show. AEW in 2024: We have "empty seats" in every show.

[@ocmsshow]

Empty seats are a GREAT thing! You can't grow if you don't have any room!

[@bennyboo8121]

​​@@ocmsshownot when you are getting more empty seats in smaller buildings. That's not growing.

[@I-wont-read-your-replies]

​@@ocmsshowdon't listen to that other guy the rest of us realized you were being sarcastic

[@polsdofer]

Someone need to make a sign that reads "Bucks 2019: We don't want to see empty seats" and get it on the camera 😂.

[@JAR2388]

The fucking irony 😂

[@ReiHost]

Remember Cody made a story out of making sure he didn't push himself. The Bucks aren't even young anymore and made themselves the storyline focus.

[@SamuraiJack99-uc3pz]

Yeah, I like Cody as a wrestler. But he should never book. Wrestlers should not be allowed unchecked creative control. Maybe guys like Heyman or Cena can do it on their own.

[@bradpaton3927]

Cena sucks, but seeing him run-in @ WrestleMania XL ("I was there" Pal!) was interesting.

[@SamuraiJack99-uc3pz]

@@bradpaton3927 I used to think he sucked. But I had some new found respect for Cena after seeing Roman and Seth bomb as the top babyface star. There's more to being the top face of WWE than just in ring and mic skills.

[@robertnapier624]

@@bradpaton3927 you were there? Are you sure it wasn’t Owen hart?

[@markfroman738]

Hell they weren’t young in 2019

[@jocelyne6692]

These losers are delusional and will continue to reference Wembley as their only source of validation.

[@bradpaton3927]

What ~ All-In @ MSG?

[@JohnKobaRuddy]

If WWE does a Wembley show then AEWs record will be shattered into a trillion pieces.

[@cyruskane8687]

@@JohnKobaRuddy Which is why we! We need it! To happen!

[@robertnapier624]

@@JohnKobaRuddy especially if wwe do Wrestlemania at Wembley one year. Might not be for a couple years since the next one seems to be in vegas.

[@MariuszMroczek-dd7ku]

Kenny Olivier seems to be preparing his escape from the sinking ship with his statements and behavior. Will put on women's clothes again to get into one of the rescue boats.

[@sbz88]

Cody's vision for what AEW should be was not the same as Tony and Bucks' vision. Which is why he was smart to leave when he did. He's been around the business his entire life. He saw the trainwreck coming a mile away.

[@rondoughhowell6442]

and also I think that his wife Brandi talk about it in a Interview last month

[@charlesbradley7638]

Facts

[@CptRedBeard117]

This interview aged like milk in the sun from AEW perspective 😅😅

[@nickhughes8179]

This interview aged like death

[@matthew2874]

Cody in fact was not the same. He’s the smart one

[@zlinedavid]

And give Kenny some credit, he’s finally catching up.

[@bradleysloan37]

I think Kenny may have caught up a while ago, which is why he so rarely appears on tv. He's just a bit more public with his opinion now​@@zlinedavid

[@MariuszMroczek-dd7ku]

Cody is Michael Keaton in The Founder.

[@MichaelSmith-fq6hz]

“big city, big building.” So that’s why Heyman went out of business. He was running the ECW Arena when he should have been running Franklin Field. Genius!

[@rodneykendall2022]

Also copyright claims from music

[@kinginthenorth1437]

@@rodneykendall2022 That's why The Network has to edit his footage but music labels had better things to do than sue the son of a lawyer that didn't have any money. The real problem was he couldn't stop the WWF and WCW from poaching all his wrestlers that actually had talent.

[@FIXTREME]

​@@kinginthenorth1437 There's a really interesting follow up question to that point: Did RF Video ever get sued for music with their share of the ECW video library?

[@northleedspoppa]

Leyton Orient should relocate to wembley clearly

[@TakerKaneanite619]

The only difference, is that Tony has a bottomless pit of money, and that's a massive problem. He probably takes that type of thing lightly.

[@JUYAN16]

I think it's so great Dutch Mantel calls Jungle boy "Elephant Boy." Lol

[@ronald-xs7sp]

He does?

[@madmex989]

@@ronald-xs7spyup lol

[@darrylholtman2601]

I pop every time

[@ebransc09]

Jim Herd to repackage him as Mogli.

[@Argov82]

@@JustinK6664 Sorry Jack, we didnt think you would read this. Course...we didnt know you could read.

[@namelessjedi2242]

“The dimwitted one”? How can you decide, Brian? 😂

[@bradpaton3927]

I view him as the more tolerable, possibly more talented one.

[@Nediablo]

​@@bradpaton3927oh we have e to be talking about Nick then? 😂 Yeah he's the better of the two. Easily. He doesn't do the "promos" like Matt but Matt is the least believable guy in a role like his possibly ever. Zero conviction. Zero charisma. Zero craps given.

[@herbert9241]

"You're going to have to narrow it down." (Jim)

[@kidcoyoteanarchy]

One has two brain cells as opposed to having one.

[@ScottRen14]

The dim one is also the bald one i believe

[@robertnapier624]

“We don’t want pictures of empty seats on the internet”. Oh boy.

[@Cross3061980]

I'll say that a majority of the sentiment around AEW isn't pro-AEW, it's anti-WWE.

[@Nediablo]

Great breakdown!

[@JohnKobaRuddy]

It's like how a lot of Celtic and rangers fans seem to hate one another more as opposed to supporting their own team. Plus behind every deluded AEW fan there is a jaded WWE fan upset Vince didn't push someone they'd boo within minutes.

[@robertnapier624]

AEW need to worry about building their own brand. Not worry about competing with wwe, they never will compete. And build healthy ratings

[@theonetheonlyjoey]

​@totallybored5526 Because in their mind, WWE is the polar opposite to AEW and pure evil. So if you're criticising AEW, you must be praising WWE

[@ModernDayRenaissanceMan]

​@@totallybored5526exactly. I have a wrestling channel myself and if you go through the comments All I do is simply educate people how to wrestle properly since I was a former wrestler. If I pick out an aew clip then I am pro WWE somehow

[@michaellamb4001]

You can tell Jim has gained a little more respect for omega calling him Kenny instead of mcfinger bang

[@MariuszMroczek-dd7ku]

Everything is just posed. Olivier plans his escape. During his promos, excavated earth trickles out of his trouser legs.

[@sbz88]

The Bucks saw a clueless billionaire mark who is desperate to be "one of the boys" and took full advantage of him 😂😂.

[@MariuszMroczek-dd7ku]

The lamest of all heist movies.

[@RatedRcny]

That's exactly it.

[@8Bitorbust]

I said those exact words years ago. Well actually it was they Khanned a billionaires son. That's it. They couldn't do this anywhere else.

[@Kratosx23]

What's amazing is they *actually admitted* it. They did an interview where they said that when they first saw him at some fan convention, they thought he was just some dumb mark, but their attitude changed as soon as he invited them on to his yacht. It's an astounding public admission.

[@natebaxter9551]

​@@Kratosx23is this real? Has Tony actually seen this?

[@stonedViking304]

Matt Jackson Philosophy 101 “Left Foot…Right Foot” 😂😂

[@kidcoyoteanarchy]

Superkick

[@panchunathadhikary8089]

Levitating

[@anjaspriambudy1048]

the bucks getting pushed as top guy while claudio doing nothing is a crime

[@brood1316]

But I thought Aew was gonna treat him better

[@Kratosx23]

@@brood1316 Cesaro may have been a bit underused but he beat Seth Rollins at WrestleMania. Advantage, WWE.

[@anjaspriambudy1048]

@@brood1316 their fans always told me by giving claudio a roh title, tony already book him better than wwe. Those people arent blessed with brain

[@Kobe24brady12]

And the AEW fanboys who complained how he was used in WWE don’t say a word about his AEW run

[@stefanm2731]

Claudio is a solid hand, nothing more nothing less

[@wilcee238]

Tony Khan’s leadership actually makes Captain Sobel from “Band Of Brothers” look like Captain America.

[@Mars-qh2tz]

Hi ho, Silver!

[@glibfacsimile]

Captain Sobel trained good soldiers. He just didnt have any sense of combat command starting with not knowing where he was on a map. Tony isnt even training talent up, NXT is.

[@wilcee238]

@@glibfacsimile That's fair. He did get sent to train paratroopers after losing Easy Company

[@JohnKobaRuddy]

Let's be honest the mem of easy company later went on to say that the reason they did so well was via Sobels training.

[@ultraman5168]

​@JohnKobaRuddy proof that the character was very effective. Even with the men explaining to you that he helped them survive, some of the audience still hates him too much to accept it.

[@heathermccoy5230]

This feels like the dying days of AEW. In other news, god the Bucks are stupid.

[@huffmanelitetraining]

💯 on both accounts!!!

[@bradleysloan37]

Papa khan can't pull the money fast enough...

[@MariuszMroczek-dd7ku]

They don't care how many seats they sell as long as they get paid the same amount from the money bag.

[@tomvu1470]

Bucks might be worse than Lance Storm on the mic (🤣) but they ain't stupid. Likely millionaires. Who's more stupid? These midcarders or the fool that pays them a millionaires salary? Tony, the guy who was born on third base with Barry Bonds in his prime in the batter's box.

[@user-bc9mv8oc9k]

There's been so many segments in the last couple years I could instantly see in a "death of WCW" style montage in my head...

[@drumitar]

Big Bang Theory doesn't deserve this.

[@JohnKobaRuddy]

Poor Sheldon he is the biggest draw and hundreds of thousands tune out once they see the real champion not on AEW. It's Just awful booking.

[@Macgyver00]

​@@JohnKobaRuddy Sheldon could legitimately be champion in AEW. He has got the perfect size and build.

[@randomguy8893]

@@Macgyver00 No he doesn't. He is taller than the bucks stacked one on top of another

[@holdingpattern245]

@@randomguy8893 Sheldon v Two Bucks in a Trenchcoat

[@agdabossman]

This aged well!

[@joshuagonzales635]

This aged like fine wine my friend

[@Nediablo]

​@@joshuagonzales635aged like Salma Hayek.

[@peytonlong5573]

The statements TK and the bucks made before AEW began just shows the arrogance they had at the time, they are gonna collapse from it as well

[@nathanrohde3440]

Pockets, yeah the dude is athletic but, once you've seen the act you've seen it.

[@bradleysloan37]

Yep same moves, same comeback every match

[@JohnKobaRuddy]

​@@bradleysloan37like every wrestler there really. Can't see the appeal in ostrich he does this bizarre running forearm thing that never connects and looks shit. But he keeps doing it.

[@theonetheonlyjoey]

​@JohnKobaRuddy He used to make that Hidden Blade forearm look pretty good, but ever since he's been in AEW and even a bit before that he's been lazy with it. He shouldn't do it if he's not even going to try, and I'm a fan of him

[@maxxdahl6062]

@@JohnKobaRuddy Not to that degree, and they used to be trained to mix things up for every crowd. Pockets doesn't bother.

[@scottmartin3228]

I'd be fine with his slacker gimmick if he just put on standard matches. The comedy spots with the pockets in the hand and slow motion kicks are unwatchable.

[@xDanimothx]

I got actively dumber listening to that

[@MattyPeq]

You probably like 0-2 CryingMf Sux. You can't get dumber.

[@jeffmendez02]

🤣🤣🤣 I also remember in one of the interviews in TNT AEW podcast 2019 i guess, in the episode it had Young Bucks. They said how some promotions rejected their ideas and them wanting to bookers. 😂😂😂 Fast forward we know why!

[@john_blues]

I'm dying from this thumbnail and I haven't even heard any audio. 😂 Travis, the mad genius.

[@NJTRAF]

It’s honestly so OBVIOUS what happened with AEW when it comes to their arena bookings; - they got “new” hype which lead to a large demand initially for tickets - someone within the company said “holy shit we can book bigger arenas!” And that’s exactly what they did Nobody said “we’re selling 5000 stadiums out, let’s book some 7000 stadiums and see how they do”… they just jumped to booking the biggest arenas possible because nobody took into account that once the “newness” ran out and AEW was less of a “shiny” new thing that attendances would drop and now they’re fucked

[@kidcoyoteanarchy]

They also spent too much performing in front of the same markets.

[@anthonyharris4234]

Oh my gawd this has to be top 5 artwork outta travis. Great job 🛎️

[@user-do2ev2hr7h]

Am I the only one reminded of Gene Okerlund's comments on Andre the Giant: "Big man, big fart"?

[@bradpaton3927]

RIP to all of them! "Mean" Gene and Bobby "Brain" Heenan could've killed as stand-up comedians!!

[@ryanmellor2238]

Ha ha h a

[@MadVybez]

This aged well 🤣🤣🤣🤣😭😭😭😭🤣🤣🤣

[@ThePhysicalReaction]

"Is it better to sell out a 4000 seat place, or to put 6000 in a 10000 seat place?" "I mean an economics guy, a finance guy will say 6000! ha" Not at all. The 10000 seat place will cost significantly more to rent. Even with straight values, the 10,000 seat place might cost an average 2.5x as much as the 4000 seat place, meanwhile you are only selling 1.5x the tickets as the 4000 seat place. You'd have to raise the ticket price significantly to break-even on the upgrade, which isn't exactly doable if your range of ticket sales only gathers between 4000 and 6000 people to begin with. edit: ah, turns out Cornette makes this exact point later.

[@mickeymojito]

lmao the dead buck in the artwork

[@CoffeeStain-Music]

Brian said "this speaks to the arrogance in the early days" I remember watching the first Dynamite and Omega said something like "its like we can do no wrong" and I immediately went "uh oh..."

[@TrueNomadSkies]

I remember that interview. So funny how sensibility goes out the window once the show comes to reality.

[@dcmans2122]

"big city big building. Small city small building." LOL

[@muryt12]

In Grandpa Cornette's case: Small City,Mini Building Shutting down his company in less than 3 years and telling people how to run a company 😂

[@JohnKobaRuddy]

​@@muryt12he's done better than tiny Khan't who had $100 million to play with.

[@muryt12]

@@JohnKobaRuddy And he still lives in your head rent free for absolutely no reason at all. Cry me a river 😂

[@nickhughes8179]

muryt112 Somebody is crying rivers (you) over AEW attendance not even being able to fill up SMWs arenas halfway these days. Can’t even get 800k viewers anymore either.

[@muryt12]

@@nickhughes8179 I'm not gonna mark about some company's viewership. Whether they get 700k or 7m I still don'r win/lose anything. I ain't like one of you marks who think they get a percentage of WWE's success. A billionaire who doesn't even know you exist and his private company live so rent free on millions of marks heads that they can't even spend a week without their numbers 😂

[@russellcampbell3500]

“The internet’s funny” bucks “ so funny” van vliet “ the funniest” Brendan schaub

[@nickhughes8179]

Also Schaub Wanna walg me to muh trugg?? Matty and Nicky YAAAAY!!

[@djpaul8705]

Ha. Good shit pal!

[@Bando710]

"They don't have an eye for talent, they have an eye for their friends" -- that was COLDDDD 🥶

[@lovelywaz]

I got it! They ARE actually quite smart. They just simply don't give a flying F and are happily burning Tony's money.

[@AdrianBeegoatz]

This is honestly the most frustrating part… Tony Khan CANNOT see it. The Bucks are overpaid jokes, who are bad all-around, and the viewers are the ones that are stuck watching an AEW that revolves around these clowns as main eventers… 🤦🏻‍♂️ This is why I had to stop watching the weekly shows.

[@kurtisallen3879]

“Who put these people in charge of any fuckin thing?!” 😂😂😂

[@Press_scrum]

With the crowds now it doesn’t matter how big the city is . All the shows should be in bingo halls

[@MariuszMroczek-dd7ku]

Or directly in a retirement home. Where the audience can't escape and doesn't understand what's going on anyway.

[@MattyPeq]

You have 0-2 CryingMf in the profile picture. Your opinion doesn't matter.

[@Daint_McTaint]

Thankfully they met a guy who sees the arena as less than half full instead of more than half empty…

[@Mr.Majestic77]

Tony Khan staying loyal to the Young Bucks (Matt & Nick Jackson), and the Young Bucks playing backstage politics with Tony Khan being apart of that Young Bucks inner circle, is what wil eventually have Anthem Sports and Entertainment's TNA Wrestling being neck to neck with Shahid & Tony Khan's All Elite Wrestling. Tony Khan's Ring of Honor is a lost cause, and Ring of Honor is basically the World Wrestling Entertainment's Extreme Championship Wrestling reboot.

[@chroniclesofnigeria1358]

they just wanted to destroy the business of professional wrestling when anyone with respect for the business told them "no thanks"

[@user-fj9nd8zv7h]

"I don't know if he's a dutchman..." 😂😂

[@lastdayonearthmysteryman4849]

Did people want AEW to succeed or wanted Vince to failed!

[@AdrianBeegoatz]

I for sure wanted it to succeed. Because competition is good for everyone. But AEW just can’t shake off the bad unfunny comedy antics. Why? Because they have the biggest clowns at the top of the card 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@greghuffman3061]

"Vince better be ducking for cover" Sounds like they got one thing right

[@jamesgodwin9931]

I agree that Cody was smart to “abandon ship”, but he does share is some of that culture. Remember he also stated in an interview that “Babyfaces and Heels were tired old tropes”.

[@michaelsuezo]

Imagine an alternate universe where tony had someone else book and they had punk and Cody still vs the wwe of today. Thered be a real new wrestling war with competition driving quality up.

[@muryt12]

Punk still would've been old,fragile and injured as always. You people act like Tony is the only person that fired Punk. It was in fact the 4th time he was getting fired. And I'm sure he's not done yet. So cry me a river.

[@michaelsuezo]

@muryt12 hmmm punk wanted to quit only after a short while. Very revealing leadership and environment. Either way he's happier where he is now. Thanks to Tony.

[@WrestlingIsReal649]

@@muryt12yeah definitely not tony khan fault 😂😂😂

[@Josue-wj2uf]

@@muryt12he’s injured and still having the hottest feud in wrestling right now

[@deyampert3738]

The fact that Wardlow and MJF aren’t AEWs Hogan vs Piper alone blows my mind!😂 Add all the other bs and there you have it! 700k viewers!

[@DoubleMeatpalace]

I still want AEW to succeed because competition usually betters the product. But man, They had Chris Jericho at the start of it, who was breaking into the conversation as the goat of wrestling, at one point they had Wardlow who was more over than anyone in either company, they had MJF who was super hot, and they had CM Punk's return to wrestling. They somehow ruined it all and when I look at AEW it seems so barren.

[@romelmunoz7957]

They said this Monday Raw when the Adam Pearce and Bon Breakker segment was aired a frustrated Wardlow was caught yelling "that was supposed to be meee!!" 😅

[@robertnapier624]

Now, Jericho has go a way heat, MJF has been MIA, Cody and Punk have returned to WWE with Cody now champion and Punk despite being injured in the middle of a feud with Drew McIntyre.

[@AdrianBeegoatz]

And somehow Tony Khan decided that the best idea was to continue pushing the Bucks in the main event… I don’t know if I should laugh or be angry at how bad TK’s decisions have been every time he chooses to side with those clowns. The Bucks (and Jericho) are the ones who keep getting TV time because they don’t care about putting on a quality wrestling program, they just give Tony what he likes: they kiss his ass and tell him his ideas are great. Thus, they are his BEST FRIENDS 🤷🏻‍♂️ Such a freakin’ waste of a billionaire starting his own wrestling company. Seriously? The Bucks?! Over and over again? Come on… 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@SaulAguilar.]

The artwork 💀

[@iamdb1990]

"it was a gift they were given" is a thing Jim has been saying for ages, never been wrong

[@ISM313]

They were prophetic like the Simpsons 😂

[@NaZtRdAmUs]

No real wrestling fan wanted to see AEW fail but the whole thing is in shambles right now.

[@sigmablock]

TK to stubborn to realize that actual veterans should be EVPs over The Bucks who capitalized on the All In and NJPW Elite BC Hype.

[@AdrianBeegoatz]

The thing is, the Bucks weren’t even the most interesting part about Bullet Club/Elite to begin with. It was always the Kenny Omega show. And the Bucks were just lackeys in the group. Yet, somehow we’ve been stuck with the Bucks in main event angle after main event angle on AEW tv?? These guys are a midcard comedy heel tag team AT BEST. This is where the glaring issue is with AEW and Tony Khan. He doesn’t put people in the right spots. And he continues to push the wrong guys time and time again to positions that they are not qualified for.

[@sigmablock]

@@AdrianBeegoatz I wanna emphasize on a maybe related or not note that there have been outlaw schmucks campaigning for pockets Cassidy to be in AEW like crazy, and TK and presumably with cucamonga influence signed pockets. While don't get me wrong pockets imo can actually wrestle, the gimmick is dumb that if he faces someone like at least Samoa Joe he'd just clothesline him after the first "kick". Pockets is more suited to wrestle in DDT in Japan as it's Japanese outlaw wackotown.

[@DavidOwen-yv8wz]

Oh my God, they even sound like South Park characters…

[@virgilhawkins7368]

"I got a raging clue!"

[@rl318]

It was all Internet hype, and after a while, people who had seen this play out before saw it was nothing new, and they had made every mistake past promotions made but faster.

[@mooseknuckle4665]

That constant look on the bucks face even in death is the funniest fucking thing ever. Will never not be😂😂😂

[@Am0ment0fB]

We live in a multiverse multiple timelines. In not one of them, does Aew have no pics of empty seats on the internet. Ha.

[@fateagle4life]

Yeah, Biloxi has never had an 18,000 seat arena. The Coast Coliseum seats maybe 11,000 or 12,000. All those arenas along the gulf coast seat the same and were built at about the same time.

[@MIKELIN8]

I met Victor Rivera back in the 80s. He was visiting family who lived on my block. His nephew knew I was a wrestling fan and introduced us. Nice man.

[@televiper11]

The Bucks will go down in wrestling as the most overpaid, least drawing, most damaging to the industry tag team in modern history.

[@Hush_Money2]

I've said it before and I'll say it again. Vince McMahon stepping down was the worse thing that could happen to AEW. AEW started with alot of hype cause of Vince McMahon being at the top of WWE running it. People were happy to see something different that wasn't stupid and out of touch. That was when AEW came around. At a good time. Now that Vince left people don't wanna watch it. Cause they are now seeing all their flaws. Just how they saw the flaws with WWE. Which WWE still has their flaws. Just not as much as AEW has.

[@robertnapier624]

Yeah, AEW are struggling to adapt in a post Vince world now.

[@RatedRcny]

I'm more concerned with a better WWE which is what we're getting now lol

[@WrestlingIsReal649]

People didn’t want alternative they just wanted a better product from wwe 🤷🏾‍♂️🤷🏾‍♂️🤷🏾‍♂️

[@MattyPeq]

Yeah, thankfully we have Triple Sucks now.

[@jonezy1234]

The Bucks definitely love the smell of their own farts 😂

[@Comrade2261]

Great way to start the day.

[@victorrivera2726]

Thank You Brian and Jim!

[@ACM-sp1gh]

This aged fabulously

[@tmc9118]

If your gonna create a heel stable make sure all the guys in it are over 5 foot and don't look like they need a juice box and a nap

[@myhandlewastaken]

Aew puts on incredible ppv. The problem is that hardly any of those matches are the result of a consistent and easily digestible conflict. When they have had something i.e MJF vs Wardlow, or Keith Lee vs Swerve, they fail to send it properly. It's frustrating as someone who had hopes because it's such a simple problem to solve.

[@prestonpfeiffer]

Say what you want about Cornette but his long standing hatred of the Bucks is justified and FUNNY AF 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Its worse than Omega

[@EwanCumia]

The Bucks are the most unprofessional men that have ever been in the business.

[@misterelom]

The way they finish/continue each other's thoughts reminds me of the evil twin brothers The Crimson Guard from the 80s G.I. Joe cartoons and how they used to finish each other's sentences. I wonder if someone punched one of the bucks, would the other one feel it?

[@OopsMyBad1979]

Tomax and Xamot! Haha! Great analogy!

[@stevenrose86]

In 5 years the only new stars in AEW are ones signed from other companies. They dropped the ball again and again with the likes of Starks, Wardlow and no doubt they will with Swerve. Think of 5 years in WWF/WWE. 1989-1994? 1994-1999? 1999-2004? Always bringing new people up the card and keeping the product fresh. Thats why in the Cena years (and early attempts to get Roman over) it felt so stale. And it's why AEW feels stale now

[@maxxxxx6511]

‘They don’t want pictures on the internet of empty seats’ 🤣🤣

[@jroc133]

I can only speak for myself: I, too, had enthusiasm initially. But I saw how things progressed for the worse and I gave up. Especially after Punk quit. My point: I know what it looks like when a promotion falls on hard times. UWF/Mid-South in 1987, World Class in 1988, AWA in 1989, WCW in 1999. I've seen how things can get completely out of control and promotions can die. AEW is no different.

[@TJ52359]

I remember AWA 1990; when Verne had the 'AI' audience... and would splice in reaction shots from a random Bar that was allegedly receiving the feed...

[@GMc-tt6st]

The young bucks book is titled “killing the business”. Let that sink in for minute

[@ThomasMiddlehurs1984]

The first AEW match I saw involved the Young Bucks in a multiman cage match when one of the bucks had pins in his shoe showing to the camera and then putting into his opponents face. I turned the show off almost immediately. I am rooting for an opposition to the WWE competition is good, work for wrestlers is good. I want wrestling to succeed. But AEW is failings and it is sad. We may never get another chance to see a competitive product to the WWE.

[@kevindwyer2064]

My opinion, without being involved in the business at all, but when there is a company that constantly produces hardcore matches and everyone is doing the same kind of stunts it is hard for me to differentiate between a face or heel while watching. Also the fact that they have champions from multiple companies from all around the world makes it confusing to the casual fan to know who really is the top dog. The company is a mess.

[@lastdayonearthmysteryman4849]

I wonder if Jim said yes I wonder how long he would have last in AEW?

[@AdrianBeegoatz]

Probably not even through the 2nd PPV. He would have tapped out before the premier of Dynamite.

[@rickyusa1000]

Look up Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines Iowa seating chart for Dynamite coming in June. They have at least 75% of the seats in the arena closed off. The building holds over 16,000 for a basketball game, not sure of the total available for AEW.

[@andrew36345]

It's still weird to hear Jim say that he's not knocking Kenny. Have we intersected some alternate timeline like The Flash?

[@Ossi-1986]

If the Young Bucks were able to kill every Face in the Company, that makes them the biggest heels in wrestling history?

[@anonymousbo0318]

They're struggling to get 2k attendance nowadays. Let alone 4k or 6k. So that didn't work out for them regardless.

[@tomvu1470]

How much of those 2K in attendance were "free tickets"? (eg., two for one deals, straight out giveaways, etc.,)😉

[@WICBands]

Hey Jim, I'm from Beaumont Texas 😂

[@sickboy703]

I had such high hopes for AEW in 2019....

[@Nediablo]

Ditto! I was really hoping for a sports based presentation/alternative to WWE. We have ended up with an alternative to WCW. 2000.

[@MariuszMroczek-dd7ku]

Mr. High hopes for better ratings. Must have taken one of those stupid visualization courses, if he thinks something happens just because he imagine it.

[@savievere9759]

Calling it now. 10 years from now, Omega will be getting a Stingesque run in WWE while the Bucks are reminiscing about their matches in Japan

[@patrickdepew4976]

I don't know if you can say it was ever "hot," but GWF started with a national TV deal on ESPN and had some interesting talent, and it quickly devolved into Dallas-only talent, despite still having a few notable veterans and rookies.

[@OopsMyBad1979]

GWF was where I first saw Raven as Scott Anthony and X-Pac as The Lightning Kid

[@zaphod100]

All Embarrassment Wrestling

[@ThePenandtheSword84]

Arena Empty Wrestling

[@bradpaton3927]

All Exits Wrestling.

[@memenath27]

All except Wrestling

[@JerseycatsFishing]

An Entire Waste

[@nickhughes8179]

Anally Effeminate Wimps

[@barrymccockiner773]

“They will neva be ova!!!”

[@jackkottwitz5236]

The Bucks are the worst thing in Professional Wrestling now days. They just need to leave.

[@a.r.s978]

What sucks is AEW has has the pieces to have a solid product but they either lacked foresight, cooled them off, or run them off.

[@tmomeymusk23]

Can’t wait for Corney’s thoughts on what Omega said about Uncle Dave not knowing what a good match is anymore

[@colehazard]

i love pluuuuun and fullllco being recurring characters

[@graydondombowsky1337]

Corny should do a shoot interview w Chris Van Vliet someday. CVV has said a lot of his listeners want to see him do a shoot interview with Corny, and as a fan of both it would be epic to see. I don't care how long it'll be, or how long I'll wait for that day to come. When of if that happens, I'll be tuning in to see it

[@TJ52359]

the key to the "4 in 4" vs "6 in 10" question and to growing beyond them is to run 4K several times and then look at the turn-away and the reaction and then expand as you legitimately feel comfortable spreading out...

[@davsavchav]

Is Kenny still an EVP? If he is, his comments about not wanting to be an EVP mean nothing; it's having the cake and eating it too.

[@johnchristopher8727]

JCs analogy of a general going into war is exactly the plot of literally EVERY big blockbuster movie where the heel general thinks they will crush the small rebel team, and then the general ends up deleting himself in an empty room surrounded by no one else because they’ve already abandoned ship.

[@lastdayonearthmysteryman4849]

AEW all stared with a guy in the ring with one leg that should’ve been a sign!

[@stephenrogers4537]

Hey Tony never throw rocks at a man with a machine gun😮😂😂😂😂

[@DoobieKeebler]

I never made it into the FB group. I guess Brian decided I wasn't worthy. 😅

[@anonymousbo0318]

Guess you didn't verbally blow him enough. His fragile ego and all

[@tonycordero6105]

Cry more

[@DoobieKeebler]

@tonycordero6105 You must not read good.

[@Hypno_BPM]

man 2019 feels like ages ago

[@lastdayonearthmysteryman4849]

AEW 2019 We don’t want empty seats! AEW 2024 Only have empty seats!

[@Rocket_Skates]

When Jim hears Kenny’s take on Meltzer the face turn will be complete.

[@markfroman738]

I saw this and immediately clicked