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It’s hard to tell who beats MJF for the title but I feel like it could very well be a bit of a short reign, so hopefully they continue building up Swerve in that time. He could legitimately be a top guy here, no question about that
Man that makes so much sense but you know it wouldn’t happen 🤦♂️. Realistically though I do see him dropping the belt to Ricky. He’s one of the biggest baby faces they have right now
You're exactly right. Ricky Starks should be the next AEW World's Heavyweight Wrestling Champion. Without a muthaf*ckin doubt. But it shouldn't be a short reign. And neither should MJF's reign. Constant short reigns devalue the championship.
While I agree, the championship hasn’t really had short reigns until the weirdness this summer. Or I guess more specifically the ending to the summer of Mox with All Out. Mixing some shorter reigns in there imo is both fine and necessary otherwise nobody will take the first couple challengers seriously if they feel obligatory
Short reigns don't necessarily devalue titles, sorry ineffectual back and forth reigns do. Or having your champ not defend the belt or appear enough.
Competitors should want to win the belt and the champion should want to keep it. But good matches are good matches, and good storylines, with good matches, make the vent valuable, not long reigns. It should be incredibly hard to keep a belt for a long time.
Look at the TNT belt and Darby's second reign. Short but good.
For a while I was certain Eddie would be the one to take down MJF but AEW seems to be reticent to really get behind him. If it's not Eddie, I hope it's Hangman. I'm bummed his run got cut short & would really like to see him with a nice reign and some good feuds.
Not sure why it's like that but it seems to be the case. At the very least Eddie could be their Foley. Good enough to win but can't really hold onto the title. A little palate cleanser - if you will. It's perfect for his character and he's believable as an upper mid carder that occasionally breaks through.
That's how I'd do it. Eddie gets his big moment in the win, gets one nice interstitial beat for the crowd to bask in it, and then have Swerve immediately take it from him and start his reign with nuclear heat
eddie is also really good at losing, if that makes sense. so imagine if he won the title only to lose it soon after? (maybe to swerve like others have mentioned) hes one of those guys where its more about the journey than the destination
They just had Darby do all the stuff with Samoa Joe, tho. I agree with you that your plan would be cool, I just think don’t think they would have that happen right now given everything else going on
oh this is me assuming MJF has the belt all summer. Darby takes a few weeks off, comes back in like April, they find a program with him for the summer that puts him in MJF’s orbit eventually, like he wins the Casino Battle Royal at DoN and then MJF goes after Sting to get to Darby. Darby wins the belt at All Out and Sting officially retires in ring after a summer of helping Darby fight off The Firm or whatever and getting Darby to the promised land of a world title, then Swerve could win the eliminator tournament at Full Gear and be world champ by Winter is Coming.
The bidding war of 2024 mandates a long time with the belt, is my point of view. I think he won't be at any risk of losing until Full Gear or Winter is Coming.
I think every promotion needs two ace heels, one who is truly hated and annoying (MJF) and another who is cool and dangerous, which Swerve is 100% perfect for. No chicken heel shit, just disrespecting your favorites and looking dope as hell doing it
He's winning the TNT title this year, at least. He should be the one who defeat Wardlow for it.
AEW needs top heels. Swerve has incredible potential to step up in that category.
Give him the benefit of the doubt. They have a chance to vindicate him.
Darby and Joe had done a tremendous job to elevate the title. Hopefully Wardlow continues the trend.
I’d love him to continue being a fighting champion like Darby and Joe. But even then, he’s always been booked as a monster so any match he has feels like it’s going to be a squash.
I think that's an issue in general with those monster reigns, you need a way to both transition away and something else for the characters to do. Jade is facing a similar problem.
It didn't help that Wardlow's time with the TNT belt seemed to be a bit of a lull in AEW's creative.
He’s got everything. I would love for him to be a sadistic heel champ for a little bit.
MJF will talk shit and usually back it up when you can actually get him in the ring, but generally speaking he’s a cowardly little shit. Swerve would straight up cut dudes for fun then laugh about it.
Love the graphic. As always AEW makes it pop.
I love Ricky Starks up front, [I still laugh over that twitter bust he did a few years back. Someone said he was white, with a decent tan. Ricky, holding nothing back, told that stupid bitch he was black.](https://i.imgur.com/JnGvoed.png)
I was just thinking they’re bound to have forgotten someone, but one of the guys who’s been there since the beginning?? Nice they just about squeezed him in
It's funny, when AEW originally started doing Hispanic Heritage Month stuff, and had events surrounding it Cody was one of the more prominent people featured.
There were a bunch of people on this sub throwing a fit that Cody was included without doing the most basic research to realize he's Cuban.
slightly off topic but I remember the first few months he started that every match he worked would be amazing without fail
it got to the point where I would see him and immediately perk up
They should have had a half invisible Cody in the corner (like a cheesy 80's movie poster) smiling down at them thinking about his contributions to the cause.
I love how The Acclaimed are in the front! Everybody Loves The Acclaimed!
Wrestling has come so far from just 5 years ago. Black wrestlers are a joy to watch.
We went from just happy to be here babyfaces and mad at the man heels to more depth than imaginable. AEW themselves have gotten better with their booking.
This was downvoted a few times when I saw it.
To whomever did that....if you don't understand what this reference is you shouldn't be voting on othings on this sub. Take 5 aeconds to look up the Acclaimed or maybe even professional wrestling.
And as a side note, a hearty fuck you for downvoting what you thought the post were saying. I hope all your sandwiches tasted iek shit and your hair falls out.
bro came for the big defence haha. i appreciate this my friend. i was confused to the point that i thought i maybe mistyped the joke or something. i was wondering if people thought i was being political or inflammatory etc
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I'd love to see more of him. He was doing Dark matches for a while.
Personally I thought he was great on commentary as well as on the mic in his feud with Cody. Think it's a bit unpopular of an opinion though.
From following him on social media, it seems he’s just had a series of unfortunate events over and over again.
From close family members passing, to medical, etc
Its been a hot minute since he was on Dark unless I skipped an episode. But yeah, just put him a feud with anyone lol. He isn't/wasn't learning enough squashing people.
Hell if there is nothing for Miro either, let them go at it on Rampage or something.
There's just something about her. She just has 'it'. I've been 'watching' (I usually do something else during most of the shows) wrestling for almost 10 years now and every time she's on my screen I actually start watching. There are very few wrestlers that have that quality for me.
I love this, but it reminds me of something that a few different companies I worked for did for BHM where they would send out a newsletter that’s essentially “hey look at all the ethnic people we hire” and it was always SUPER weird
First few comments saying “Where’s [Insert White Wrestler]” and using this to bash a black wrestler who fell out with the company. This subreddit never surprises me.
I can’t tell if this is a joke or not
The “see, Swole???” comments whenever diversity is brought up look so dumb when her gripes were literally years ago. It should feel natural to see different people pushed towards the top of the card, rather than using that fact to spite someone
How this company turned to genuinely right it’s perceived wrongs with the POC community has been really good to see.
All these people are fucking stars and should be treated as such.
As a black man I despise this month. You telln me we ain integrated enough with society dat we have to have our own separate month. Might as well just say every other month is for white peoples then. We can’t just be apart of history, nah…. We gotta have a month where we get put on a pedestal for the forefront of society so that the rest of America feels good about themselves. History is history, don’t need a month
definitely would and one day it will. pandering it may be but if it spotlights black talent / establishes a platform for them to take advantage of whilst also acknowledging those that came before then i’m all for it. absolutely better than nothing.
But real black history isn't taught in schools properly. So technically every other month is white history. Isn't the tagline black history is American history or something. The day it truly is equal pride month, bhm and international women's Day won't be needed. Until then it fulfills its purpose.
Lol this take is ignorant as hell. Nothing wrong with celebrating differences and cultures. It’s something everyone should be encouraged to do. Issues only arise when shit like this is used to exclude and vilify other races
I’m not vilifying anyone, or at least I’m not attempting to, I get WHY it’s done… but everyone has too much faith in our society and gov’t. You don’t think that this month as a whole, could possibly be used to keep us from thinking about real issues, to keep us blind. We have a video of CNN admitting that they have hot button issues that they push and pre-plan, and don’t think that the other side on FOX is any better, trust me their worse. I find all media outside of independent journalism untrustworthy, and even independent media isn’t innocent
The exact same roll out every year is pretty played out. For example it feels like WWE just plays MLK quotes every year and sends their talent to a black history museum. I don’t have the exact same energy as you but every February feels kinda forced in some way
Oh yea, WWE does it in a very PR focused way. “HEY GUYS WE LOVE OUR BLACK TALENT! WE LOVE BLACKS. WE LOVE EQUALITY! SEE HOW BIG E IS ALMOST IN TEARS LOOKING UP AT THE MLK STATUE. EVERYONE LOVES BIG E!”
Respect the opinion just want to point out other months are used to celebrate heritages as well. Asian heritage month is may & Sept-Oct is Hispanic heritage month.
And Black wrestlers are a HUGE part of wrestling history. JYD was bigger than Hulk Hogan in Midsouth. Bobo Brazil was a pioneer. Wrestling as an industry appealed to all social classes in a way that it forced integration in places like Memphis during times where society was far from colorblind.
I think the sentiment comes from a good place but it just creates division.
Love me some swerve I know his two goons are kinda of jokes but flips side in the real world I see three dudes who are are muscled and tatted to fuck and they give me a bad look I'm going the other way lol. And we know he can pull off a brutal beat down from his indies and lucha underground matches.
Here’s my deal with the affiliates: as long as they don’t wrestle and only have the “big, scary bodyguards role”, I’m totally cool with them. They do add to Swerve’s presentation
Yeah I don't see them making a run for the trios division or anything like that but let those guys work dark learn to work and then every now and then have those guys help boot up some pretty boy and make em bleed and then swerve can be a evil dick head.
Bro, i'm gonna be honest. Here in Italy we don't have a lot of biracial people, in reality almost none. My eyes are not good at recognizing mixed people 😂 For my eyes they are white people 😂
I get it.
I do think “being white” is a more complex thing especially depending where you’re from. For me, being “white” is different in America from being “white” in other parts of the world due to the history, etc.
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Swerve to me should be a future World Champ.
He should be the next top heel after MJF
It’s hard to tell who beats MJF for the title but I feel like it could very well be a bit of a short reign, so hopefully they continue building up Swerve in that time. He could legitimately be a top guy here, no question about that
It should be Ricky so the story goes full circle, and then Ricky can drop it to Swerve.
Man that makes so much sense but you know it wouldn’t happen 🤦♂️. Realistically though I do see him dropping the belt to Ricky. He’s one of the biggest baby faces they have right now
You're exactly right. Ricky Starks should be the next AEW World's Heavyweight Wrestling Champion. Without a muthaf*ckin doubt. But it shouldn't be a short reign. And neither should MJF's reign. Constant short reigns devalue the championship.
While I agree, the championship hasn’t really had short reigns until the weirdness this summer. Or I guess more specifically the ending to the summer of Mox with All Out. Mixing some shorter reigns in there imo is both fine and necessary otherwise nobody will take the first couple challengers seriously if they feel obligatory
I see what you're saying. But, let's not chop MJF off at the knees to further anyone else. MJF is the one that will sell house tickets.
Short reigns don't necessarily devalue titles, sorry ineffectual back and forth reigns do. Or having your champ not defend the belt or appear enough. Competitors should want to win the belt and the champion should want to keep it. But good matches are good matches, and good storylines, with good matches, make the vent valuable, not long reigns. It should be incredibly hard to keep a belt for a long time. Look at the TNT belt and Darby's second reign. Short but good.
For a while I was certain Eddie would be the one to take down MJF but AEW seems to be reticent to really get behind him. If it's not Eddie, I hope it's Hangman. I'm bummed his run got cut short & would really like to see him with a nice reign and some good feuds.
Not sure why it's like that but it seems to be the case. At the very least Eddie could be their Foley. Good enough to win but can't really hold onto the title. A little palate cleanser - if you will. It's perfect for his character and he's believable as an upper mid carder that occasionally breaks through.
Eddie beating Max and then dropping to Swerve a month later seems pretty good to me.
That's how I'd do it. Eddie gets his big moment in the win, gets one nice interstitial beat for the crowd to bask in it, and then have Swerve immediately take it from him and start his reign with nuclear heat
Give Eddie a few months and a mini-feud to win first and you've got yourself a deal!
Nothing wrong with a transitional champion. Give him a month and a half to two month reign, then he drops it.
eddie is also really good at losing, if that makes sense. so imagine if he won the title only to lose it soon after? (maybe to swerve like others have mentioned) hes one of those guys where its more about the journey than the destination
The heel that beats him would get a crazy amount of heat for it too especially if it was on the casino ladder match chip cash in
ESPECIALLY if you do it in New York. that crowd might go insane if that were to happen
If Punk had his shit together it should have been: Punk -> Eddie -> MJF cashing in his chip immediately as Eddie wins his world championship
That would have been phenomenal
Darby beats MJF, Swerve beats Darby would be a very happy path if it were up to me. Darby and Swerve would have a very good plunderfest between them.
They just had Darby do all the stuff with Samoa Joe, tho. I agree with you that your plan would be cool, I just think don’t think they would have that happen right now given everything else going on
oh this is me assuming MJF has the belt all summer. Darby takes a few weeks off, comes back in like April, they find a program with him for the summer that puts him in MJF’s orbit eventually, like he wins the Casino Battle Royal at DoN and then MJF goes after Sting to get to Darby. Darby wins the belt at All Out and Sting officially retires in ring after a summer of helping Darby fight off The Firm or whatever and getting Darby to the promised land of a world title, then Swerve could win the eliminator tournament at Full Gear and be world champ by Winter is Coming.
The bidding war of 2024 mandates a long time with the belt, is my point of view. I think he won't be at any risk of losing until Full Gear or Winter is Coming.
I think every promotion needs two ace heels, one who is truly hated and annoying (MJF) and another who is cool and dangerous, which Swerve is 100% perfect for. No chicken heel shit, just disrespecting your favorites and looking dope as hell doing it
I totally agree. Swerve could be the psycho heel, the totally unpredictable one.
THE YOUNG LEGEND
#ACCUSATIONS
MAKIN' HISTORY
Swerve is the total package. He’d be an absolute main event heel.
They need to let Swerve become the supervillain he’s destined to be
He's winning the TNT title this year, at least. He should be the one who defeat Wardlow for it. AEW needs top heels. Swerve has incredible potential to step up in that category.
I really can’t subscribe to another Wardlow reign, the first was super underwhelming.
i’m cool with it if they actually have a plan for it, but otherwise, yea.
Give him the benefit of the doubt. They have a chance to vindicate him. Darby and Joe had done a tremendous job to elevate the title. Hopefully Wardlow continues the trend.
Letting Wardlow defend on a weekly basis against different opponents instead of sticking him in go-nowhere feuds is a start.
I’d love him to continue being a fighting champion like Darby and Joe. But even then, he’s always been booked as a monster so any match he has feels like it’s going to be a squash.
To each their own but their reigns were boring, great matches but not even actual feuds
I think that's an issue in general with those monster reigns, you need a way to both transition away and something else for the characters to do. Jade is facing a similar problem. It didn't help that Wardlow's time with the TNT belt seemed to be a bit of a lull in AEW's creative.
He’s got everything. I would love for him to be a sadistic heel champ for a little bit. MJF will talk shit and usually back it up when you can actually get him in the ring, but generally speaking he’s a cowardly little shit. Swerve would straight up cut dudes for fun then laugh about it.
Fully agree. Whatever face is champ next, Swerve should be the one to eventually dethrone them.
Right after he dumps those 2 nerds hanging with him.
I'm sure he'll get one of the 20 belts in AEW
Love the graphic. As always AEW makes it pop. I love Ricky Starks up front, [I still laugh over that twitter bust he did a few years back. Someone said he was white, with a decent tan. Ricky, holding nothing back, told that stupid bitch he was black.](https://i.imgur.com/JnGvoed.png)
Lol, Nyla Rose constantly wins Twitter
"asking for a me" iconic
Exactly. Literally laughed out loud like Ms. Krabappel at that.
Twitter Nyla is best Nyla
Put her with The Acclaimed or something and let her be silly
>Love the graphic. As always AEW makes it pop. Although it would be hilarious if the poster was McMahon calling Cena "My N\_".
No Scorpio Sky?
They deleted it and posted a new one with him https://twitter.com/aew/status/1622305324513230849?s=21
Oh, poor Scorpio lol
I guess TK needs to APOLOGIZE!
FORGIVEN
My boy got done so dirty 😭
I was just thinking they’re bound to have forgotten someone, but one of the guys who’s been there since the beginning?? Nice they just about squeezed him in
No Malakai?
Saving him for next month's Satanist History Month graphic
And WWE isn't even mentioning Steve Blackman.
The blatant disrespect to the BLACKpool Combat Club needs to be addressed as well.
> Steve Blackman Steve Muhfuggin' Blackman
You suck, Black Man! -Stunt Granny in nursing home
More importantly, no Cody!?
It's funny, when AEW originally started doing Hispanic Heritage Month stuff, and had events surrounding it Cody was one of the more prominent people featured. There were a bunch of people on this sub throwing a fit that Cody was included without doing the most basic research to realize he's Cuban.
Cody's family is kinda crazy when you think about the fact that his Uncle via marriage is Jerry Sags since Cody's mom and Sags' wife are sisters.
Cody has literally Cuban grandparents on his mother side.
I know right? Hell there’s an entire house he runs!
You may be Malakai Black, but I’m a black bitch!
This pic actually goes really hard.
It’s a quality graphic ngl
I don't know why, but seeing that ref on the side just made me laugh hard.
He looks like he’s just happy to be there
He's probably the only one who knows the release date for fight forever
slightly off topic but I remember the first few months he started that every match he worked would be amazing without fail it got to the point where I would see him and immediately perk up
They should have had a half invisible Cody in the corner (like a cheesy 80's movie poster) smiling down at them thinking about his contributions to the cause.
He's won the war on racism he should be included, company boundaries be damned
I love how The Acclaimed are in the front! Everybody Loves The Acclaimed! Wrestling has come so far from just 5 years ago. Black wrestlers are a joy to watch. We went from just happy to be here babyfaces and mad at the man heels to more depth than imaginable. AEW themselves have gotten better with their booking.
unless you're part of law enforcement ✂️✂️✂️
This was downvoted a few times when I saw it. To whomever did that....if you don't understand what this reference is you shouldn't be voting on othings on this sub. Take 5 aeconds to look up the Acclaimed or maybe even professional wrestling. And as a side note, a hearty fuck you for downvoting what you thought the post were saying. I hope all your sandwiches tasted iek shit and your hair falls out.
The downvoters are cops
the downvoters clearly hated scott steiner and right to censors themes back in the day
bro came for the big defence haha. i appreciate this my friend. i was confused to the point that i thought i maybe mistyped the joke or something. i was wondering if people thought i was being political or inflammatory etc you're a good people ✂️✂️✂️
Hear me out. What if everyone in this picture was in a rebooted Nation of Domination
“PuT tHeM iN tHe HuRt BuSiNeSs”
everyone in this picture except swerve should take turns at being the new leader of hit row
https://imgur.io/D4ZRPaj?r
How I feel every time I read an article about Malcolm X or the Black Panthers
Why not Los Boricuas?
Anthony Ogogo in there. Where has he been?
I'd love to see more of him. He was doing Dark matches for a while. Personally I thought he was great on commentary as well as on the mic in his feud with Cody. Think it's a bit unpopular of an opinion though.
From following him on social media, it seems he’s just had a series of unfortunate events over and over again. From close family members passing, to medical, etc
Man that sucks. Hopefully everything gets better for him soon.
Never recovered from his Cody feud lol But seriously, I saw him on Dark but it was a while ago. Maybe injury/nothing written for him?
Its been a hot minute since he was on Dark unless I skipped an episode. But yeah, just put him a feud with anyone lol. He isn't/wasn't learning enough squashing people. Hell if there is nothing for Miro either, let them go at it on Rampage or something.
Four a slightly lighter note than the other few posters, he’s been doing some stuff in the UK with Progress Wrestling recently
Love that Jade, Athena and Willow stand out. They're the future.
If Willow is not the face of your womens division in 1-2 years what are we even doing here
Celebrating Jamie Hayter?
We do that every day, or at least should
Or Hating
There's just something about her. She just has 'it'. I've been 'watching' (I usually do something else during most of the shows) wrestling for almost 10 years now and every time she's on my screen I actually start watching. There are very few wrestlers that have that quality for me.
Sonny appears in diversity campaigns more than on TV :(
I thought trustbusters were going somewhere... but apparently not.
Was gonna say I haven't seen Sonny on TV in forever, but they made sure to get those cheeks visible on the graphic
This graphic looks great ngl. Good mix of superstars and future faces of the company here.
Am I missing scorpio sky or is he there?
They have the nerve to put Sonny Kiss on that poster when he doesn't get time on Dark. lol
Mark Henry looking suave as hell.
Look at sonny assssss
Bro is caked up
on a thursday afternoon, no less
Why did I get downvoted lol look at it
I'll upvote bruh
You’re a real 1
That’s an ass that should be at the top of the card
I love this, but it reminds me of something that a few different companies I worked for did for BHM where they would send out a newsletter that’s essentially “hey look at all the ethnic people we hire” and it was always SUPER weird
not putting Cody there is some WWE rewriting of history
For some reason I can’t place the guy to the left of Nyla Rose…..who is that?
AR fox
Right! Thanks.
Is it just me or does Mark Henry really pop out from the bunch, like photo editing wise?
The color balance might be just a tiny bit off, or maybe it's just an illusion since he's wearing a black suit
Half expected Peter Avalon to show up on this one too.
Remember a year ago when there was complaints about lack of black talent? Safe to say Tony Khan heard it
V E R Y C O O L ! Please forward to Ron Desantis
Save Sonny Kiss! Seriously Dalton Castle and the Boys are right there. A fun Dark/Elevation tag team.
I absolutely love that The Acclaimed are front and centre.
Yay this makes me so happy. Look how diverse my people are
Dante is black?
[удалено]
First few comments saying “Where’s [Insert White Wrestler]” and using this to bash a black wrestler who fell out with the company. This subreddit never surprises me.
I think the Malakai joke is that his name is Black Pretty good joke ngl
Everyone gets the joke It is just particularly tonedeaf especially on a forum where most of the users are white
Didn't realise Nyla was black. Assuming mixed.
I think she's Native American and Black if I recall.
Yeah I knew she was native. Never realised she was mixed race.
One of her one liners a few years ago was she looked straight at the camera and said "always bet on black."
Correct
Shame Cody’s not there anymore, he’d be front and centre
Big Swole has gotta hate this.
I can’t tell if this is a joke or not The “see, Swole???” comments whenever diversity is brought up look so dumb when her gripes were literally years ago. It should feel natural to see different people pushed towards the top of the card, rather than using that fact to spite someone
Big Swole in shambles
As a black man where is Hook?
taz isn't black, he's Italian i genuinely thought he was black for years tho
"I knew Taz before he was orange, when he was a pudgy white boy." - New Jack on Kayfabe Commentaries.
He's still black to me dammit!
Black delegation selects hook
Oh hey they even got Stephon Smith in here, that's pretty cool
How this company turned to genuinely right it’s perceived wrongs with the POC community has been really good to see. All these people are fucking stars and should be treated as such.
Yeah basically all of them are either current stars or future stars
As a black man I despise this month. You telln me we ain integrated enough with society dat we have to have our own separate month. Might as well just say every other month is for white peoples then. We can’t just be apart of history, nah…. We gotta have a month where we get put on a pedestal for the forefront of society so that the rest of America feels good about themselves. History is history, don’t need a month
“history is history” is only valid if it’s all acknowledged my dawg. this is a way of acknowledging it.
Would be nice if it was acknowledged in day to day life. This is pandering masked as progress. The entire month.
definitely would and one day it will. pandering it may be but if it spotlights black talent / establishes a platform for them to take advantage of whilst also acknowledging those that came before then i’m all for it. absolutely better than nothing.
But real black history isn't taught in schools properly. So technically every other month is white history. Isn't the tagline black history is American history or something. The day it truly is equal pride month, bhm and international women's Day won't be needed. Until then it fulfills its purpose.
Lol this take is ignorant as hell. Nothing wrong with celebrating differences and cultures. It’s something everyone should be encouraged to do. Issues only arise when shit like this is used to exclude and vilify other races
I’m not vilifying anyone, or at least I’m not attempting to, I get WHY it’s done… but everyone has too much faith in our society and gov’t. You don’t think that this month as a whole, could possibly be used to keep us from thinking about real issues, to keep us blind. We have a video of CNN admitting that they have hot button issues that they push and pre-plan, and don’t think that the other side on FOX is any better, trust me their worse. I find all media outside of independent journalism untrustworthy, and even independent media isn’t innocent
The exact same roll out every year is pretty played out. For example it feels like WWE just plays MLK quotes every year and sends their talent to a black history museum. I don’t have the exact same energy as you but every February feels kinda forced in some way
Oh yea, WWE does it in a very PR focused way. “HEY GUYS WE LOVE OUR BLACK TALENT! WE LOVE BLACKS. WE LOVE EQUALITY! SEE HOW BIG E IS ALMOST IN TEARS LOOKING UP AT THE MLK STATUE. EVERYONE LOVES BIG E!”
Respect the opinion just want to point out other months are used to celebrate heritages as well. Asian heritage month is may & Sept-Oct is Hispanic heritage month.
And the day we all just see people as people dis shit won’t be needed
And Black wrestlers are a HUGE part of wrestling history. JYD was bigger than Hulk Hogan in Midsouth. Bobo Brazil was a pioneer. Wrestling as an industry appealed to all social classes in a way that it forced integration in places like Memphis during times where society was far from colorblind. I think the sentiment comes from a good place but it just creates division.
I agree, the sentiment does come from a good place, but it doesn’t address the real problem of why it is felt it is needed in the first place
I thought Nyla was Native? Also Scrops omission sucks
She's both Native American and Black.
Ahh cool
> Scrops That's his new name now
Scropio Syke lol
Lean into it ..... Scropio Skrye
_returns as the masked luchador hacker scropts confirmed_
Love me some swerve I know his two goons are kinda of jokes but flips side in the real world I see three dudes who are are muscled and tatted to fuck and they give me a bad look I'm going the other way lol. And we know he can pull off a brutal beat down from his indies and lucha underground matches.
Here’s my deal with the affiliates: as long as they don’t wrestle and only have the “big, scary bodyguards role”, I’m totally cool with them. They do add to Swerve’s presentation
Yeah I don't see them making a run for the trios division or anything like that but let those guys work dark learn to work and then every now and then have those guys help boot up some pretty boy and make em bleed and then swerve can be a evil dick head.
He reminds me of The Joker, or at least some Batman villain, Parker & Trench are his big ugly goons, and I love them for that.
First Generation of Black History of All-Elite Wrestling.
Holup did Sonny get a BBL?
did Sonny get a... get a *what*?
A surgical enhacement
Brazilian Butt Lift
Hobbs and Ricky doing a pose-off
Ricky has that Jojo spirit in him, so he should win
_pillar men theme intensifies_
a person of culture here
oh crap, taz isnt black
At least they remembered that Sonny Kiss still works for them.
It’s pretty disgusting that they left out Scorpio Sky in this initial post, especially considering he’s the first ever black champion in the company
Relax dude, it's just a mistake from the graphic designer who made it and they immediately corrected it. It's not that serious
Are Dante Martin and Ricky Starks black? I'd sworn they were white. I'm a white italian man and my skin is darker than theirs 😂 Good for them i guess.
Dante Martin is the whitest black man alive. The last one was Michael Jackson
Isn’t he biracial
Pretty sure he is
Yeah that's the answer
I've never agreed more with a comment than this 😂
When I first saw them, I knew they were biracial, not white-white.
Bro, i'm gonna be honest. Here in Italy we don't have a lot of biracial people, in reality almost none. My eyes are not good at recognizing mixed people 😂 For my eyes they are white people 😂
I get it. I do think “being white” is a more complex thing especially depending where you’re from. For me, being “white” is different in America from being “white” in other parts of the world due to the history, etc.