Jim Cornette Reviews AEW Battle Of The Belts III

From Episode 256 of Jim Cornette's Drive Thru
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[@pleaseshutup7053]

I hope Tony kahn wakes up and builds a booking committee they really need it.

[@thereallegend3163]

I hope you wake up and stop watching aew

[@Sky_Blaze]

Tony Khan on too much Adderall he never sleeps so he can't wake up

[@irishpanic]

I completely agree. His booking is terrible

[@irishpanic]

@@thereallegend3163 Gtfoh. You aren't the gate keeper of AEW. *Oh no somebody criticized my trampoline cowboys, time to take action*

[@ronniejdio9411]

Khan has a all star booking committee on staff. He doesn't listen to them. Arn.dean. jl.jim Ross insane talent. Listen to them Tony

[@BigMick502]

Does anyone remember kanyon in WCW running around giving everybody the diamond cutter/ kanyon cutter out of nowhere like security guards random guys in the back Anna jas is doing the same bit

[@charlest5604]

Hell yeah. I was a big Mortis fan before that and always liked Chris Kanyon. The man didn't get the respect he deserved.

[@segagenesis7708]

I didn't like it then and I don't like it now. That was Russo's WCW.

[@jaydav6521]

Who better than Kanyon? NOBODY

[@irishpanic]

Yes. Positively Kanyon was one of the only reasons to watch WCW in 2000/01

[@Simon_Diamond803]

It would be funnier if the random people who she's "chocking out" would stand there and ask "uhh, what are you doing?" Because that girl doesn't look like she can legit choke anyone out.

[@al5306]

Statistics also showed that Disco Inferno was the most watched WCW wrestler during a period of time in the 90's.

[@irishpanic]

Disco inferno was over in the late 90s. He was getting great crowd reactions. People tend to forget about that

[@vegetalover9297]

Cause Disco is great

[@Cruising_On_Lake_Havasoma]

I remember reading somewhere (I think from Meltzer in the Death of WCW book) that throughout the Monday night war Ric Flair had the highest average ratings for his segments, with Austin close behind.

[@renafan3333]

@@Cruising_On_Lake_Havasoma Well of course a WCW book is going to say that. For years that fight The Stooges had with The Mean Street Posse was the highest rated non wrestling segment in the history of wrestling. I don't know what passed it if anything did. Ric Flair never approached that territory in WCW.

[@sonicplys64]

Sable was getting great ratings too.

[@drewneedsmoresleep6680]

What was weird to me about Wardlow Lethal is it started with Wardlow saving Orange Cassidy. Now Wardlow is getting beaten, but OC doesn’t come out to return the favor?

[@mattmuller3756]

cause you got guys that aren't straight up heels and faces but selectively booked depending on what they want to do there diehard fans want to see and what TK books that week

[@deandrethompson7288]

Lazy Booking

[@kidneystonermusic]

Every week they have some kind of special lol. I cannot keep up with anything they do. Everything has a cute little name

[@bash8387]

Like quack at the lake what ever is freaking called

[@joaquimaraujo96]

Since they only have 4 ppv's it's normal to that lol, and in July it's always a months of specials it's been like this since the beginning if i'm not wrong. Quake by the lake was the exception on August this year.

[@maxxdahl6062]

@@joaquimaraujo96 If everything is "special" then nothing is.

[@constablekennedy7705]

It’s actually Nauseating and if everything is special, NOTHING is special!!…. 🤷🏿‍♂️

[@RealTK1213]

Claudio vs. Takeshita was one of the best matches I’ve ever seen and I hate that they didn’t even review it.

[@Sky_Blaze]

"Bad night for tv" is such a bs excuse you know people tune into sports on weekends so wtf. I swear The excuses just keep coming instead of admitting its bad booking.

[@rl318]

WWWF did excellent ratings in the Saturday Night Live time slot back in the day, but allegedly wrestling fans go out more on the weekend now.

[@hoganshairline4175]

it lost to the prelims of a UFC FIGHT NIGHT 😂

[@kdohertygizbur]

@@hoganshairline4175 and a SNL RERUN

[@robfinlay8058]

@@rl318 I don't think wrestling fans go out more, and in any case, SNME did huge ratings from people who would normally watch SNL, who probably watched no other wrestling. Because it was a great show, full of stars and very well promoted.

[@constablekennedy7705]

Well said Fella

[@flynnwalker5737]

Brian hit the nail on the head. The hardcore locked in wrestling fans no matter what no matter who is so much smaller than these people think it is

[@icantbelieveitsnotbutter8851]

This was actually a good non bias breakdown that TK can actually listen and learn.

[@The80sWolf_]

Why should he listen to Cornette? I think is busy running a company

[@insupportofjunhado]

@@The80sWolf_ And someone at the company can relay the relevant information to him. That might actually explain why Khan is still positive to ambivalent about Cornette, he doesn't listen to the insults and exasperation and just gets told "Jim says Lethal did a good job but has been booked poorly, need to build for Saturday shows better. Wardlow losing momentum. Didn't watch Hayter and Rosa."

[@icantbelieveitsnotbutter8851]

@@The80sWolf_ TK already states he listens sometimes and basically free info from someone who had a career in wrestling back stage etc. Don't even like this guy but he made some good points.

[@shai310]

@@charlesthoreson4162 I mean he does sometimes listen to Jim, for example Jim said the announcers should not talk during Malakai Black's entrance and on the second time he did it they didn't talk. I do hope he starts listening more. I think Tony has a lot of potential with improving AEW but he doesn't use it.

[@fhqwgads5000]

My favorite touch is Tony's doing partial derivatives. Not only is he doing unnecessary calculations, he's going multivariable with it!

[@irishpanic]

He doesn't know wtf he is doing

[@robintst]

Tony can't even spell Multivariable.

[@armandogomez2677]

One thing wrong with both aew and wwe is when they have my attention they go into split screen commercials and immediately lose me

[@Sky_Blaze]

Yep picture and picture has been garbage .the formatting of both shows is awful.

[@JDotWill]

This show was under promoted & had like 1 day of build & the in ring competition was probably the best of the 3 Battle of the Belt shows this year

[@vapelordyoda]

Yay I love to hear Jamie get praised, she’s my favorite!

[@johnhill6412]

It will be a travesty if she doesn't get a turn as Women's champ.

[@mjcastro82]

Ever since she squashed Skye Blue, I've been a big fan of JH. She's got IT.

[@dejuans1328]

She reminds me of Davey Boy Smith with her style.

[@Ramekink]

@@dejuans1328 good brits are good

[@Z2KR]

@@johnhill6412 honestly not holding the title is a good thing.

[@JDotWill]

I thought Hayter was concussed. I didn’t know her nose was broken, especially since she didn’t start to bleed at any point.

[@DeathofaNINJA]

Nah you can see the change in color of her face after the match concludes but they don’t give you a lot of frames to see it. Didn’t look pretty.

[@JDotWill]

@@DeathofaNINJA I remember thinking she looked more pale after the match but I thought it was because she sweated her makeup off

[@benespinosa6725]

LMFAO this Artwork is Absolutely Hilarious and it's Because I suck at algebra 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@virgilgiordano4582]

Is it sad that Jim's ad reads are the most entertaining part of my day?

[@constablekennedy7705]

Affirmative!!…. 💀

[@shai310]

Yes

[@MenWithVen]

Its very sad. You should be ashamed

[@RallyingSightsSounds]

I think they have spoken before about Hocus Pocus by Focus, I seem to remember getting a kick out of it at the time! 😅 Now I need to listen to the full podcast to see what was said this time! (23:45 in case this seem completely random, which it was!)

[@renafan3333]

For anything that makes sense in This World,I will never understand why they didn't make the first one 2 hour and have that stupid hour long Match Bryan Danielson and Hangman Page be the first or last match? They have a show called Battle Of The Belts that Saturday and they have the big title match on Wednesday?

[@JDotWill]

& to Brian’s point, I didn’t even know this happened until after the fact. I found it on a “streaming” site like 3 days later

[@crazypretzel1012]

WCW Monday Nitro promoted WCW Saturday night better than AEW promoted Battle of the Belts. You'd at least see a quick 30 second promo with Tony Schivanie telling who was on the show and some of the matches taking place, including a main event that was usually pretty solid sounding and they would play this a few times throughout the show

[@Robby_C]

Rosa landed on Jamies head about 4 times.... Tell me again how she doesn't sandbag?

[@Sky_Blaze]

Rosa is awful and that weird cringy smile in that backstage segment omg how can they keep putting people this cringy on tv smh

[@Robby_C]

@@joegreene7619 thats even worse... either way i don't understand why people defend her so much. They treat her like she's some all time great when she isn't even mediocre, her gimmick is nonexistent, and she's clearly a mark for herself.

[@irishpanic]

@@Robby_C if Nia Jax did these things people would be calling for her head

[@Cruising_On_Lake_Havasoma]

Do you even know what sandbagging means?

[@vegetalover9297]

@@Robby_C that's AEW for you

[@jeevesosiris]

Jamie Hayter is amazing.

[@kvsimagination7299]

As an AEW fan, this episode is why I still listen to and value Cornette's podcast. When he get's in "analysis mode" on how to get something over or position something to work is like a master class.

[@atomthorium3744]

Just checked in to remind everyone...for the first 7 years of his WWE career, Roman Reigns WORE A SHIRT. Horrible booking. Not only that, it was a FLAK JACKET. So literally a padded shirt. And people wonder why the guy wasn't getting over as a face, he was wearing Kevlar.

[@BigMick502]

50 cent did the same thing

[@pleaseshutup7053]

@@BigMick502 50 cent wore a bullet proof vest because he got shot

[@garywest2250]

the real question is, why do you prefer wrestlers to be shirtless ?

[@glassheart97]

@@garywest2250 is that suppose to be some kind of gay thing? Weird.

[@hunterweeks190]

D-low brown got over with his

[@shai310]

I hope they'll start timestamps for each section they talk about, that would make it a lot more comfortable to watch.

[@rl318]

Hulu never records this for some reason, but the old ones are still in my DVR. Probably didn't miss much.

[@youngzeus87]

Who taught Tony how to book? Who did he learn from?

[@FuckBalls64]

A violently schizophrenic crack addicted goldfish with a severe attention span disorder

[@ryancreecy9105]

I'm so pissed Jamie got hurt but I love how Brian spit her praise I love Jamie she's an awesome character and I'm so happy she came back after she left her whatever happened to her before she looks great she is great she is a future Star as long as Tony uses her right

[@mvrtinxz650]

is she fairly young ? WWE would be great for her right now

[@ryancreecy9105]

@@mvrtinxz650 Naah 👎🏿👎🏿

[@scottcoval1189]

@@ryancreecy9105 Well she ain't doing shit in aew. Nobody is gonna beat Jade for a very long time. If you arent Jade or Britt good luck on getting booked properly.

[@CyberDragoon656]

Hopefully she isnt side lined by riho.

[@shai310]

Well I do hope she'll get a push instead of Britt Baker, maybe make Jaime turn on Britt or Britt turn on her? I think in each case as long as Jaime gets a push I'm happy.

[@Sky_Blaze]

Tony Khan a numbers guy ..you'd think he'd see the numbers going down. The guy is clueless.

[@constablekennedy7705]

Agreed Bro

[@WaltTFB]

Are those Maxwell's equations on the graphic, I'm struggling to remember.

[@drgribb]

Yes! Congrats, you win a gold star, good job :)

[@Mr.Majestic77]

All Elite Wrestling vs. Impact Wrestling/National Wrestling Alliance/Major League Wrestling: (1) AEW:Dynamite vs. Impact Wrestling (2) AEW: Rampage vs. NWA: Powerrr (3) Ring of Honor vs. MLW: Fusion (4) AEW: Dark Elevation vs. NWA: USA Which non-WWE show from the list above is the better shows????

[@diluted8]

Tony playing baseball would be the virtuoso of the knuckleball and screwball

[@jesterr7133]

Jim: I didn't hear you snicker. Brian: That's because I was on mute. lmfao

[@TheBeatdownBros]

Hilarious as always. I look forward to the reviews and the ad after. Just great stuff, you can't enjoy life if you're f#cking dead

[@drgribb]

Lol love Travis' art here. Nice collection of actual equations here: Maxwell's equations and Lorentzian transformation equations, including a tensor form. What fucking channel am I on? XD

[@stephenrogers4537]

Does Tony Khan do any research at the fan level on what people want to see,? several years ago at the Chicago Amphitheater I and a team used to take surveys during the matches to see how the fans enjoy the match.

[@silxix2599]

One Of Jim Cornett's nicest down to earth critiques. I feel Tony Khan in some instances is too involved with so much work that he doesn't realize these mistakes. But it's important to deliver a better show for a Saturday prime time event, for a better rating. To assure a better deal. Jim Cornett pointed out all that was needed to make this event worth watching.

[@benjaminharris80]

I love Jamie hayter so hearing Brian give her props is 🔥🔥

[@MiguelangelLopez-hm9ig]

Aew really dropped the ball everything they do is rushed and there no real storylines. Dynamite and thunder look the same. They have Cm punk, byran Danielson, in the meanless matches. They have half of bullet club and they did nothing with it. Njpw atleast used them better.

[@irishpanic]

As soon as they put Danielson with Moxley I was done. Tony Khan just has no clue what he's doing

[@BadAxeEntertainment]

I didn't even know this was a thing.

[@CreightonChaney-io4xv]

I discovered Hocus Pocus by Focus a couple of years ago and I listen to it like crazy Been played on many movies RoboCop (2014) Baby Driver Babysitter: Killer Queen Etc

[@sonicplys64]

The only thing that got me excited this entire 37 min video was the Hocus Pocus by Focus mention.

[@Pogo113]

I think Britt needs to cost Hayter a few matches, so Hayter turns face. Then she'd be the one to beat Jane Cargill.

[@sandyunderpants4376]

Has anyone bought the Magic Spoon cereal? I just looked it up and 10 bucks a box seems pretty expensive for cereal even with Bidenflation factored in. Any reviews?

[@Cruising_On_Lake_Havasoma]

Corny should see if he could get Danica McKellar on next week to explain what the hell all that math means. That's like some Good Will Hunting shit.

[@charlest5604]

Maybe a troubled youth with a genius level IQ can solve it while moonlighting as a janitor at Harvard!

[@foleynj86]

You like apples?

[@Cruising_On_Lake_Havasoma]

@@foleynj86 Applesauce, bitch!

[@brysoncherry9884]

How to set and solve for derivatives. Calculus1-3 noone?

[@drgribb]

@Bryson Cherry, quit trying to show off. I can tell you stopped taking classes after calculus because you don't even recognize what those equations are (other than the fact that they have differential analysis in them).

[@__RYN__]

Completely agree Brian. Jamie Hayter is the top worker on the women roster. Caught some of her on a women's promotion in England. Then its Kris Statlander. They take bumps well, strong style because they probably wrestled grown adult males. Then you put Jade Cargill with experienced girls that will teach her on the fly. Mercedes Martinez, Leila Gray they have a really really good roster

[@mattmuller3756]

God when they announced they were doing Battle of the Belts in a new promotion that had some really good talents that I knew. Had been watching awhile. An got to enjoy some other talents that I wasn't familiar with. An in recent years had come to discover CWF/NWA super cards Battle of the Belts 1-3. Which I felt were like finding top notch territory era gems that I had no clue about or ever heard of other than the Windham vs Flair main event at the 2nd one. I was SO over the top hopeful that this was gonna be a modern day version of those shows or the original Dusty booked Clash of Champions show that made Sting. An stood toe to toe with Mania 4 and outdid it at times for free. Certainly producing the best match of the day/night. They had said it was gonna stay on TNT and be booked as a pay per view for free. How do you then book it as a one hour show??? I know it most certainly hurt that Cody missed the original show. An left right afterwards. Brian made a great point that I think they just have to much going on. He had never booked any promotion for real now he's booking the number 2 company in the United States bought a 2nd. That was not long ago the 2nd biggest it's self. TK is good and bad. In the start I wanted to see the good. An I still do. Just have gotten more realistic with it. They most certainly shouldn't of let Cody go unless there is more to it by FAR than I am aware of. If your only gonna go an hour it is 9 out of 10 times gonna be a throw away show and in this era not be worth watching live. I liked the Jamie Hayter vs Thunder Rosa match. But only saw it directly before I listened to this now. I do not like or understand the ways TK has booked Jay Lethal and Jonathan Gresham in AEW and especially ROH? Okay I can understand using Lethal to put over and make look good doing it a upcoming potential monster. But one night on Dynamite they had Mox vs Lethal in the 2nd match on the card without ever saying it was booked or advertising it on the lead up to the show??? 2 former world champions in the 2nd match on Dynamite? Why wouldn't that be on pay per view? Battle of the Belts? Or for God's sake let people know they may want to see it? That could of been a main event of an ROH pay per view I would of bought with the right build. TK needs to bring in a committee or at least be like here's dynamite you got any suggestions. He has guys under contract that are skilled at this. For a smart and successful young man whom is blessed and living his dream. He comes across at times like my toys my way don't like it don't watch. An that is a stupid way to run any business especially one where you may well be a big fan but everyone even very experienced bookers bounce stuff and need help don't be too good to take help with something that important to your life. Unless your not worried that it stay that way long term.

[@nickharper8682]

This felt like an episode of dark.

[@AnthonyAnalog]

Tony Khan wouldn't stop doing Adderall long enough to even ask if his baseball team had a LEAD OFF CALIBER left handed hitter on the roster. He'd throw the whole traditional dataset out before he'd figure out to sign an actual lead off lefty 😅 ALL at the Bucks behest as they steal from his wallet.

[@fayerson]

It did a rating along the lines of NXT on a Saturday night . There is nothing wrong with that. The show was promoted on aew tv and on the KZbin shows. The KZbin shows each get 200k views plus and can be accessed any time . People watch tv and shows differently in this day and age.

[@giospage]

nxt is a developmental brand running shows out of a 500 person arena. no excuse for that shit

[@alexandercorrente5509]

How in the blue hell…109 stitches from a elbow? God damn the Armstrongs got sharp as bows

[@jeffreysharp9925]

So I was out of town last week. Recorded raw, smackdown, dynamite, and rampage. Did not know about battle of the belts until Thursday. They need to promote shows better.

[@kuro694]

In regards to people getting jumped apparently christen brought his own security last week

[@johngotti1953]

just wait till the CEO of moxley plumbing tells Tony he is gonna use light tubes in a match

[@Mistertbones]

I wonder what excuse Meltzer will make for the terrible ratings.

[@kdohertygizbur]

The usual ...oh they had stiff competition from Food Network...a special Christmas Episode of Murder She Wrote was on Hallmark Channel at the same time

[@insupportofjunhado]

Dutt should have been setting up the table while Singh and Lethal held Wardlow, then officials should have stopped them from putting Wardlow through the table, with the heels being led out them while Wardlow recovered and promised revenge. And it should have happened before the title match. Am I wrong? Maybe a baby face tag team makes the save to set up a three on three with Wardlow versus Lethal for the title belt being the end goal?

[@ryanoneill2352]

I don't think Khan will give up the book because that's the point for him - he's not just an entrepeneur trying to make money, he's someone spending money to put on his dream matches and book what he thinks is cool. Subcontracting that to other people would miss the point for him. P.S. I once had sex with a wheelbarrow.

[@constablekennedy7705]

PAUSE Homie!!!…. You had me until the last portion ….👀

[@The80sWolf_]

12:00 No Cornette "most people" do not sit in front of AEW and take notes old man.

[@The80sWolf_]

And apperently "Nobody cares about wardlow"

[@kovulion7777]

Jim talking about AEW is funny and make AEW feel like a comedy show Jim talking about NXT 2.0 is making NXT feel embarrassing

[@blinkth3dog]

I wish Jim would give the girls a chance, Hayter is by far the best woman on the roster.

[@kdohertygizbur]

That really isn't saying much

[@williammitchell4417]

Key word ON THAT ROSTER

[@melvinepperson9404]

Hayter and Brit Baker are the only two women on that Roster with any legit potential and TK continuously books them horribly

[@fatalsniper3413]

Who cares about women wrestling? The only time that I want to see women on my screen, is when my phone is in incognito mode… and I’m doing research

[@brysoncherry9884]

@@fatalsniper3413 Enjoy when women say the same for you but with your wallet.🤡stay single. And you've got a name referring public shootings.yikes.

[@davidcgrabowski]

Will Tony give up soccer control or wrestling control first to fix the product? idk about the soccer, just heard fans of that team saying he sucked.

[@violagreene4643]

I get the feeling that Brian was about to ask what a cat's-head biscuit is but Jim wouldn't give him an opportunity.

[@BradleyWilloughby]

I think Jim already explained it a while back with the biscuits and gravy conversations. Brian needs some memory pills.

[@billrusso6422]

Last is right analytics have ruined baseball

[@glassheart97]

Good Morning Jim

[@keithyw]

Yeah felt bad for Jay Lethal as the sacrificial dummy for Wardlow. I can see him being used to train Wardlow but it really does no one any good. Jamie Hayter has been someone I've really gotten to like over the year. The one thing that I like about her is her personality that she shows. She knows how to work a crowd and actually can talk, but they don't allow her very often because Britt is mouthing off. They're putting too much emphasis on Anna Jay, Tay Conti and Julia Hart for no good reason; those girls have zero personality and are just flat out boring. Jamie has got some decent experience wrestling in England, Japan and the states. She's still young, has decent size, got herself into shape and can hit hard. But they've just left her into jobber purgatory in the shadow of Britt. Maybe Britt is the better promo of the two but not by much and definitely she's not as good as a worker as Jamie. I have to be honest about the main even though. I liked it. I know Cornette has written Takeshita off because of his involvement in DDT. But that's more of a DDT problem (and that federation is weird anyway). But Takeshita has some decent talent. Claudio was great too. I'd trade Takeshita and sign him to AEW and get rid of the whole Dark Order. At least when Takshita is given a chance to perform, he does well and doesn't goof off here.

[@normandave3429]

10/10 plug on this one

[@_partsunknown_]

Tony Khan should be 'Numbers Guy of the Year' as much as he deserves to be 'Booker of the Year'. He is a goof in every regard of his life except his bank account and dad.

[@glassheart97]

True

[@Cruising_On_Lake_Havasoma]

"except his bank account and dad" That makes him MORE of a goof, IMO.

[@glassheart97]

@@Cruising_On_Lake_Havasoma Tool😊

[@Cruising_On_Lake_Havasoma]

@@glassheart97 Only useless trash uses stupid shitty emojis.

[@fatalsniper3413]

Make me a billionaire and I’d happily take being called a goof by you. Actually…. I would encourage it

[@LeeShields11]

Also, Brian is right about Jamie Hayter. She's excellent, but we're not allowed to know or see that.

[@valentineX1X]

You'd think with people like JR, regal and others being at AEW they'd be way more on the ball by now. Its ironic that the things that create these shows are also the things destroying them.

[@johnreid1552]

Brian’s right about one thing: these matchups are just thrown together with no real rhyme or reason. As great as Claudio vs. Takeshita was, why would I care to see it? We didn’t even know that Takeshita was even in contention for the ROH title!

[@wyatthankins2544]

When the hell in this video do they actually talk about the matches? The Claudio match was 🔥 damn..

[@MortimerZabi]

If Tony ever goes full Herb Abrams, what would be sad. He seems to be a legitimate fan of the business and a decent human being who just happened to listen to all the wrong people.

[@Gurziak]

So was Herb.

[@BobHowler]

Nice to hear “shite” being used.

[@JebeTheGreat]

You don't honestly think that Tony Khan has any instincts for wrestling?

[@qjo5158]

Unless the wwe were involved it's not really battle of the belts, it would be very interesting tho 🤔

[@tmoss89]

battle of the belts down -12 percent from this time last year ... lol Tony good luck

[@MisterMason66]

Since Pac won the European championship.. How many times has he defended it? How about the tag belts? I don't think I've seen Keith Lee since lol.

[@JaculaDudek]

it's no euro title though ... it's north american title, get your titles straight bro

[@MisterMason66]

@@JaculaDudek Let's be honest, it's the same thing.

[@zemm9003]

@@Kalbuir66 what is that? A city in Canada? Why should anyone care?

[@ZeroShaneBob]

@@Kalbuir66 PAC's full defenses are on AEW Dark on KZbin.

[@d-Equalizer-b]

If Mr Last doesn't start note taking these shows 😒

[@wyatthankins2544]

Ratings, WCW On Tour, managers, I Love Lucy,… WTF what about the matches?

[@wyatthankins2544]

Can’t forget the weekly Louisville plug.. 🙄

[@RetroQGaming]

Jamie Hayter is also hot AF. She's like an unscuffed version of that Lions girl on NXT.

[@LeeShields11]

Looking at it in a way anyone who knows anything about Jim in recent times, this is how it should have played out. Wardlow SHOULD be booked like Leviathan "The Demon" of the deep, and Jay Lethal should be AEW's Shelton Benjamin! They are both that good if booked that way! Both are excellent athletes, but are made to look like jobbers... 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@convictionnotice1]

Cornette is giving away free advice to Tony. Is Tony listening?

[@skulldeath2334]

review of ric flair's last match when?

[@deyampert3738]

I look at Bobby Lashley...when he first won the WWE title, ratings went up. Now after he kept it, dropped it, got it back, beat Brock, lost it again and then turned face, Lashley is getting Attitude Era like pops! He is a legit needle mover!

[@brianel-khoury885]

Haha whays with the em equations

[@DynastyIcon]

i gave up on AEW long ago.. but these two can't leave it alone.. starting to believe they enjoy the AEW experience, whether good or bad they goin watch.. hope Tony realizes that, they shit on it but they will always watch.. Tony Khan wins

[@ultimungo3423]

Almost like they make money from it.

[@DynastyIcon]

@@ultimungo3423 must be getting paid big bucks to talk about something they "hate"

[@ultimungo3423]

@@DynastyIcon KZbin ads. Gets plenty of views from the way they segment the podcast into lots of videos. Podcast ads for the most popular wrestling podcast. Sponsorships on those podcasts. And people enjoy them laughing at it and pointing out flaws. Good work if you can get it.

[@scottcoval1189]

What do you expect them to talk about? This is a wrestling based podcast lmao

[@DynastyIcon]

@@scottcoval1189 nah i get that💯 but AEW dominates this channel and it's absolute garbage.. either the money is that good that they sit through this trash every week, or they enjoy the awfulness of it.. might be both🤷🏾‍♂️ but either way they will watch

[@benderisgreatandyouknowit]

Bender is great!

[@irishpanic]

Bender B Rodriguez

[@Cruising_On_Lake_Havasoma]

@@irishpanic "Come on Bender, do it for the senioritas!" "VAMANOS!"

[@irishpanic]

@@Cruising_On_Lake_Havasoma "Well, if jacking on will make strangers think I'm cool, I'll do it..."

[@frankE91210]

This Battle of the Belts was record during Dynamite that week, possibly even after rampage? so they started with the Wardlow main even because it was probably 1am and the audience had already sat and watched 7 hours of dog-shit wrestling

[@G_Six]

They also record Dark Elevation before Dynamite starts

[@jcc3333]

Dam 7 hours of that shit

[@TheJJWA]

1. I think Konosuke Takeshita is fantastic but I think he’ll get stuck because I don’t know if his English is good enough to cut promos and engage verbally with his opponents. Hopefully that’s not the case, but … 2. Not saying it changes the overall numbers drastically but anecdotally I know I don’t watch any AEW shows a live, it’s always on DVR or stream days later. How many viewers do that? Clearly the ratings are down and the promotion needs better promotion and storylines but I wonder how many regular viewers don’t get counted in the ratings numbers because they aren’t watching live.

[@charlest5604]

Companies have dvr numbers they just don't release them for some reason. You could make the same argument for Raw and Smackdown being on Hulu. Those numbers aren't added to their viewership either.

[@Sky_Blaze]

Takshitia can't cut a promo and he should wear a mouth guard cause god them teeth of his are disgusting, it's distracting when he tries to talk

[@Cruising_On_Lake_Havasoma]

@@charlest5604 Because people fast forward through the commercials. As far as advertisers are concerned they didn't watch the show.

[@vegetalover9297]

@@charlest5604 yeah so no one knows the real numbers

[@charlest5604]

@@Cruising_On_Lake_Havasoma Good point. That never even crossed my mind.

[@TheTalk23]

The "specials" aew have don't seem like specials. Wcw did the same thing and it felt different. It was live with a different enterence way and matches we haven't seen. Which include people we care about.

[@frankE91210]

that death before dishonor pay per view was the first time a saw a full show without a total stinker nothing stood out as spectacular either but it was a breath of fresh air to enjoy a full show without thinking about leaping from my 8th story window.

[@walterclark3198]

The matches didn't really make sense.

[@joshhefner8179]

Riho beat Jamie Hayter on AEW tv before.

[@monsterbrandman]

A lot of KZbinrs have reacted to the Lethal vs Flair WHOO off and its been positve. I don't think people want to boo Lethal, why make him a heel?

[@09hicktown]

Lethal and AJ (punks wife) used to date is my guess

[@G_Six]

Imagine being so sensitive that you would have an issue with a guy that dated your wife before you did. Now was Aj sneaking back for the “Lethal Injection” while she was with Punk?

[@elijahchesterthomas5334]

Gimme a roster of about 30-35 guys. 1 World Title, 1 mid title, 1 tag team title, and 1 woman's title. Use local indie guys as jobbers and watch title and star vs star matches on pay per view. Add some solid stories to program What is so hard about that ffs?

[@nickl4326]

Tony khan man lmao i hope mjf jumps over to wwe 💯🙏

[@vitaliydubkov4008]

I agree with Cornette on the concept of 1-2 big matches on these shows, UFC style, i miss this presentation. Then i went to AEW roster page, male roster have 105! people in it, with 2 hours of Dynamite you just can't showcase them properly. Then i tried to count the guys who i am interested in at all (>0%) and people interested in (for example i don't like Young Bucks or Miro or Danhausen or Santana and Ortiz, but i counted them, because it looks like fans give some sh*t about them) and i finished with 55 guys, this means half of this roster can be released today and fans will barely notice. And then from this 55' you can make something around 45, where everyone can have some direction and some story going on. I'am not a fan of people loosing jobs, but when it is impossible to feature them more than 10 minutes in a month on your main show, you can as well just release and free them to do their thing somewhere else.

[@matthewmagda4971]

This didn't need a review. AEW is a dozen belts that don't mean anything defended by wrestlers that we already see every week.

[@irishpanic]

Not only that but the booking makes no fucking sense whatsoever

[@BJORNArtist]

Lol, if Jim.(and Brian) didn't watch at this point I wouldn't care. AEW reviews are not even that funny anymore, its just disheartening to see the wasted talent and opportunities. Run, Wardlow, run. Toni Storm sitting in catering which is covered in barbed wire and flaming tables.... This is fine. Just ugh.