Wrestling Thread 7: FTR Baldhausen • Page 890

Greet everyone with a sloppy forehead kiss

 

dont eat your boogers in front of them like you normally do

 

Okay, i’m writing these down

 

The less eye contact the better

 

surprise everyone with a bag of mcdonalds

 

oh make sure you refer to all of the wrestlers by their shoot names

 

any time the crowd starts chanting something, you start chanting with them

 

Well, obviously, i’m no amateur.

 

i wonder if TK has any tricks up his sleeve tonight in the lead up to All Out

 

Im actually more worried they're gonna do something dumb with the main title match (like giving Punk a rematch).

Feels like the only remaining big surprise is who's in the Casino Ladder match (which, most of the obvious entrants are/were all in the Trios tournament matches or angles....Malakai, Death Triangle, OC, Darby, Miro, etc) and if MJF is gonna return

 

Punk-Mox is gonna main event all out

 

it was always gonna

 

*spacemen meme*

 

Yeah it's not if for Punk, it's how they are going to do it.

 

Put the belt on miro

 

Agreed

 

i’ve always liked Dax Harwood who is 1000% correct

 

I mean all those things can be true. He can be helpful to young wrestlers and still be an absolute prick to others. People are nuanced/layered individuals

 

lately wrestling discourse seems like reading a gossip column

 

ewww.

punk already lost.
in 3 minutes.
didn't even walk out the ring.

i think the main event is the casino ladder match where mjf returns (though he isn't an entrant), just ends up grabbing the chip and deems himself winner. there's your three months of booking between all out and full gear where mjf wins the title.

 

FTR talks CM Punk situation, if they are the best tag team in the world, improvement of Wardlow | DAZN News US

DAZN: You guys talked about Punk earlier. It seemed like you were just getting ready to scratch the surface, and then he got hurt with his foot. He's getting a lot of flack, and you guys know him better than most people. What do you make of all these characterizations of you guys' good friend, CM Punk?

CW: I think it's a lot of things from the past, mostly. I think there's a lot of old grudges. I think there's a lot of old biases. I think there's a lot of unresolved issues that are tainting how people react to seeing him now sometimes because he's been nothing but nice and helpful to anybody that wants it. I know there's underlying animosity between... once you're in wrestling for so long, and especially at the top of it, there's gonna be guys who don't get along because you're all vying for the same thing. You all want the same title. Egos are going to hit. It's inevitable. I know there's going to be old tension. But as far as how he is as a person now, he couldn't be more inviting. He couldn't be more company-oriented as far as what he's thinking and anything to the contrary; I really think it's uneducated to go off of it because there's only been one side (and) that's all been the negative stuff. He hasn't even really commented on it publicly because he's not going to give it that much time of day and that much notoriety because it doesn't deserve it. But I will say there's two sides to every story, and then somewhere in the middle, that's the truth. Somewhere in the middle is the truth. He's been nothing but a great person, a great mentor to a lot of guys there, somebody who wants the best for the company. That's why he's wanting the biggest houses, the biggest gates, and the most fans in the arena. I think it's just going to be one of those things where time will tell. Over time, you'll see that he has been well-meaning, he has been doing some good stuff, and like I said, anything to the contrary is, in my opinion, just people being childish and behaving like middle-schoolers.

DH: And insecurity. I'm not gonna speak much on it because all that was perfectly put. But I'll tell you this, what's the better headline? 'CM Punk goes into business for himself and shoots on somebody?' Or, 'CM Punk invites Will Hobbs into his locker room and explains to him for 30 minutes what he could have done to better himself for the match earlier?' Or if the headline says, 'CM Punk goes to Danhausen, who came to him and asked for advice, watched his match, and CM Punk gave him notes of advice on what he could do to better the match next time?' Or if Brock Anderson says, 'Hey, do you mind watching our tag match tonight?' CM Punk sits there even though he's got a busy night and watches it and says, 'Hey, come into my locker room. Anybody else want to come into my locker room? Let's talk about this.'

What's the better headline? The more juicy headline is the one of him going into business for himself.

CW: The old Punk, and it's not the old Punk.

DH: Right now, I think I can safely say he's one of our best friends because we all share the same passion for professional wrestling, and sometimes passion gets mistaken for being an asshole because you just want the best. He wants the best for AEW. He wants the best for himself as well. We all do. But he wants the best for AEW and puts AEW above himself. I haven't met too many guys who have the love and passion for professional wrestling that he has. And I'll close on CM Punk with this, and we'll move on. I wish a lot of people, a lot of the guys look at it instead of saying, 'Oh my God, this guy from WWE is here in AEW, and he might be taking my spot' to say, 'Oh my God, this is a guy who has a legit Hall of Fame background guy who is drawn money, who's made money for a big company, who doesn't want to go back to the big company.'

 

Lmaoooo

 

Callis is still the damn best.

If I were booking All Out, I'd have basically all the top guys from their trios in the Ladder Match (OC, Malakai, Pac, Ospreay, Andrade, Silver, Parker), have Miro be the joker, and Miro walks out with the #1 contendership. Run the Miro/Darby/Sting v HOB Trios match as the Buffalo main event, Miro wins the belt at Grand Slam, and then Malakai v Miro as his first title match at Battle of the Belts.

Close 2nd option would be Dark Order needs a 3rd for the Trios finals due to injury...but Hangman also has a shot against Mox for the belt since Punk cant go. Does he stick with his friends (and try to beat his old nemesis), or does he do the selfish thing and try and win the title back?

 

But I'll honestly be stunned if Mox isnt still champ heading into the Cincy show.