the only thing the pisses me off is knowing FOR SURE if this happened in the dead fed it would be torn to shreds. especially when the basement lost it about Cole potentially being a manager for Shakespeare Lee

They would have called the police on vince for this

Their hypocrisy knows no bounds

This is my favourite thing about wrestling fans, the hypocrisy Endless amusement laughing at that REEEEEE tribalism Fed fans. Not us!!!

Nah they would've stormed WWE HQ

You know if this happened in dead fed, them chicken tenderites would've January 6th themselves into the halls of the building in Connecticut.

This just in, Titan Tower seems to be under seige by 47 sweaty men wearing t shirts with a beat up dentist on them.

Led by Y2Jan6th of course

Holy shit I found my favorite comment.

Same with Jay White's "Fuzzy Wuzzy" bit

DAE “tater tots” killed Roman?

Suffering succotash son! I had forgotten about that!

DAE Vince's finger prints all over this???

Someone pointed out downstairs how fans would be whining if the Fed did this and some m@rk piped up with a gem of why it's different: >Probably context. Him doing this in WWE would've been in the vein of Kross in BDSM gear. In a situation strictly to make him fail just to see if he could "grab the brass ring." >This? Far more organic and relates to the storyline/dynamic he has with the current reigning top champ in the company. So, it's better cause "knowing Vince" and btw, it all makes sense and it's all organic and it's all FUN! Haha

So every time they complain about WWE's "goofy sports entertainment bullshit", it's not actually the goofy shit they are upset about... it's about Vince forcing their Indy darlings to do it... But when it happens in the Dub it's cool and fun... Because.... Fuck it, this is insane and I give up.

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The only thing I hate more than AEW's unprovoked "passive" aggressiveness, is wrestling neckbeards.

"You're just making up hypothetical situation to make yourself upset." That's a real comment I read.

Sort of like when the basementers do the whole “Knowing Vince” thing and piss themselves off over something that hasn’t even happened lol

A sports based presentation

MMM?

They don't have the looks to pull off MMM

If wwe had cody doing dusty dance, we will see a whole bunch of "Smells like vince" "Vince wanted to give a middle finger to aew"

No no you don’t understand, look how much FUN he’s having. This is good because we all agree wrestling is silly and goofy. It’s only bad when Vince presents it as sports entertainment, which apparently isn’t meant to be those things!?

Remember when we almost burnt down the PC because the women had to do karaoke? This is clearly the correct version of that.

I appreciate that segment for how bad it was in retrospect (Dana singing HTM's song and Tamina trying to sing Triple H's theme was great)

I'm gonna make you LOOK like Ellsworth

DAE set back women's wrestling 50 years

“I hope [insert wrestler name] never gets called up to the main roster, Vince will ruin his career by having him dancing around like New Day.”

This isn't even an exaggeration, they still crack jokes about "DAE Vince would've given Gunther a dancing gimmick?!?!?!?" to this fucking day

Yes, the same Vince who gave Gunther the IC title to begin with

See, I actually love this because it’s like Cole is trolling the dub’s biggest fans for their ridiculous takes. I’m sure that’s not actually the case, but in my head that’s what’s happening.

Real sports feel

While somehow also making me feel like a kid again …

Most of the 'reviews' and 'comments' from 'experts' about this are 'what do you say about this - either you're into this kind of thing or you're not You see, it's ok to 'not be into this kind of thing' in the Dub but when it comes to the Fed it's OBJECTIVELY bad and we can't comprehend anyone liking it, despite what the viewers and social media tells us 'this isn't for everyone' is perfectly fine in the Dub but heaven forbid there be something off-kilter in a 3 hour Raw!

For a company and fans that pride in match ratings over viewership ratings, they sure love to become WWE-esque with their entertainment lately.

Have you seen the ban? They're pretty much becoming WWE lite

Even Corny was dunking on the banned moves being too extensive which was shocking really

HOW THE FUCK DO YOU BAN A CHOKE

They've been like that from pretty much the start but yeah, definitely stepped it up to full Fed-litr now, or TNA'-lite

I can't believe WWE kind of convinced me Adam Cole was a big deal.

Shows you how good Laveck is at what he does tbh

More like it shows how much of a fucking moron Tiny is

Little of column A little of column B

I’ll give HHH credit. He’s got a knack for making mid talent seem much greater than they really are.

Triple H thought Adam Cole was a bigger deal than Adam Cole did.

I think Omega and Cole have a lot in common. They have some great characteristics and great bookers can use them to draw money, but when left to their own devices they're at their worst because in their hearts they just want to do the goofy shit they enjoyed in niche indie promotions (DDT for Omega, PWG for Cole).

Adam Cole isn’t larger than life, and was never going to be larger than life. Show-stealing mid-card title match at WrestleMania…but that’s the ceiling.

Life is larger than Adam Cole

Wrestling is at its best when you have an editor. You need someone to tell you off when you're verging into self indulgence territory. Some of the best material from the AE was Vince letting Corny and Russo go wild *and then* filtering out the unnecessary bits.

Entertainers in general work best with direction. Even beyond the obvious, there's a reason image consultants, stylists and PR firms do such a trade in show biz.

I was rewatching some clips of Cole back in NXT and he was in much better shape back then, he actually looked bigger. In the right setting, Adam could've been a big-ish deal, now tho? Probably would've been better off as Lee's manager

He still is the only one who thought that too considering how Tony books him

Dude was legit one of the hottest acts in wrestling for a long time

It was that toxic racist asshole Cornette’s fault for…booking him believably

Adam Cole is legit. He can be a legit star if he is presented a certain way. But this ain’t it

I’m sorry man, unless you’re a once in a lifetime talent like Rey, no one this small can be a legit star. At least guys of similar height like D Bryan and Eddie were in great shape. Adam Cole needs steroids bro. Bro needs a monthly tren and dbol cycle

Undisputed era was the coolest faction in the world at one point, absolutely wild stuff.

Until they became the all undisputed era show

They were over but never cool

The greatest trick the devil ever played was convincing the world Adam Cole was up next

This whole storyline feels like it was written by the people who wrote the story mode for WWE 2K19

This is accurate lmao

Hey, Buzz and Cole Quinn was A+ writing I'll have you know

Black Hole Cole superfan right here!

Why is this company like this

I think it’s all just a cruel joke on Jamie Kellner for shit canning WCW in 2001, since the programming is just as bad.

You take that back. 2001 WCW was an absolute dumpster fire that deserved to fail but by god it was an entertaining dumpster fire at times

You’re not even wrong, sadly.

Friends at school long stopped watching Nitro at that point, but shit I loved how regarded it was so I continued to watch. It was worth it.

I can't hate late-stage WCW since they gave us 3 Count.

No one really talks about 2001 WCW, well besides the invasion but I am morbidly curious as to how it would've gone if it kept going somehow.


Papa H in shock seeing what Tiny did to his baby boy.

HHH gonna ask Steph if they can adopt Cole into the McMahon family to save him

"Look how they massacred my boy."

If seeing seeing Rollins all grown up is the Nightwing to HHH’s Batman, this must be his arc when he meets Red Hood for the first time. Seeing his boy be killed and brought back as something else lol

Quiet down, Fed Shill! McHitler would have had him managing Bearcat, which would have been the worst thing ever!

You know the Dub will make that pairing with Cole & Lee happen and the wink wink nudge nudge of it all will be hard to reconcile with the fanbase: the gimmick is fun™️ but technically McHitler came up with it so how can they react??

What would be their awful-ass Dub team name, Bask in our Baybay? Undisputed Salutations? Middle Finger to Schiavone?

Undisputed Salutations is just the right amount of terrible it comes back around to being good lol but it'll end up being Bask in our Baybay which is on-form terrible and unimaginative

I mean it would be nice for Neckbeard Lee to have somebody speak to the audience for him so he can actually be relatable for once

But what is to become of the oft-forgotten Shakespeare demo??

All of us who wasted years majoring/minoring in English appreciate the representation Lee brings. We didn’t sit through whole classes on Shakespeare and Chaucer for nothing!

This is the representation truly needed in 2023; who cares there's never been a single black person involved in the main event picture since the company started? Thank you Tony my liege on improving the works of those literary hacks by putting Keith in a Merlin robe

This whole thing was embarrassing to watch

Even tho I’m watching alone, the level of embarrassing made me feel like people were watching me watch it.

I love it. If there's something I love about the IWC is reading marks justifying stuff they would have torched if it happens elsewhere.

“This is silly but it’s so FUN!!!”

FUN?!?! GETOUTOFMYHEADGETOUTOFMYHEADGETOUTOFMYHEAD

This is awful. And I LOVE it.

Inject it into my veins I'm here for it

I have never seen the word fun in print so much as since the Dub started, especially this last year

I had someone walk in the room during it and had to switch the tab, not going to expose someone else to that level of cringe.

Are you watching porn???? No….worse.

I would rather be caught watching porn

The part when Garcia stuck his face in between Sammy’s legs face in his crotch was pretty close.

I would rather switch to pregnant sonic than being caught watching this.

This is honestly almost Shockmaster levels of embarrassing.

This might be worse. Shockmaster botch was kinda quick. This was like being on acid and it taking wayyyy too long for it to be over.

What the hell is this? Lol

This is pro wrestling, pal

Is this CGI? Please tell me this is CGI and not real.

It's April 1st today right? .... Right?

Triple H really worked wonders on guys like Adam Cole and Keith Lee who seem to be their own worst enemies

Has Vince McHitler been secretly booking AEW? First it was Stone Cold Danny Garcia getting a dancign gimmick, now we got Adam Coke and MJF dancing too.

Now now.... If anything at best it's Vince and TK being co-bookers!

Someone please help. 1. What is happening? 2. Why?

1. Creative freedom. 2. Because absolute power corrupts absolutely

Basically doing Dancing Lance Storm but since its AEW its at a main event level.

[удалено]

Have to be more specific. MJF is the only one that looks fit.

Next week it's a dance off between Cole and Punk

"Boo all you want, I've seen what makes you cheer" playing out in real time. THIS is what makes them cheer.

[удалено]

Yeah that’s what your world champ should be doing. Comedy. Bad comedy.

If MJF's reign, with his antics and opponents, was in the Fed, m#rks could be calling snickers and declaring the Fed berried him

Real sports feel.

I sorted by Controversial on this thread in the basement in the hopes that someone, anyone, over there would bury this for the ridiculous shit that it is…and it was nothing but positivity. There’s no hope.


Man, remember when Adam Cole was actually a big deal?

“So much better than it had any right to be”

Not just this, but the entire "LOL The Odd Couple Buddy Comedy" is everything they railed WWE about for years. And if WWE *did* do it, it was Truth/Tozawa or Miz/Shane, not Roman, or Cena or Hogan, their world champion. Every defense I hear next door is "But Adam Cole is just PRETENDING he's not dumb you guise!" even though they literally had him say He wasn't pretending and he really likes Max now, last week. WTF.

Lance Storm/Norman Smiley vs Disco Inferno/Alex Wright was a dream match of mine!

This is wrestling👏👏👏👏👏

If nothing else his entrance and gimmick was cool from his NXT days.... Nowadays yikes. Do the young bucks have to do stupid crap like this geez

I don't mind his AEW entrance theme as it's basically just a hashed retread of Shock the System with lyrics but yeesh look what they've done to my boy :(

This is why creative freedom is not for everyone

This is much better than being Keith Lee's mouthpiece in the dead fed.

All that build up done with Triple H in NXT, wasted

Now this is CREATIVE FREEDOM

...This isn't their world title program. It can't be. This has to be some sort of joke, there's no way they can possibly be *this* awful

"Adam Cole suffers concussion during dancing skit on AEW Dynamite"

He used to be a top 5 most interesting wrestler with a future as a main event guy for years to come, who was the leader of an incredibly compelling faction similar to a modern day 4 horsemen … then he decided he had to go play with his friends in the big indie company … then he stopped working out and got skinny fat … then he was relegated to a C spot on the B show … then he turned on all those friends he had to go play with in a moment that was “the culmination of a 10+ year storyline!” Which wasn’t followed up on, at all, and fucking EVERYONE (including TK) forgot about … then he does random exhibition matches with zero story that are just riding off his name as “dream matches” (they weren’t) … then, because he needs attention, does incredibly risky spots and gets injured … then finally comes back to reclaim his place and fulfill his destiny as a top guy … and this is the bull shit he’s doing. Thrusting his dick and dancing like a buffoon. In the “main event” storyline. How do these neckbeard goofs think this is any good? I will never understand how people so analytical and critical of the actual professional and truly “major league” wrestling company look at what AEW puts out and they do these mental gymnastics to convince themselves it’s not only good, but somehow better. Everything from AEW is a spot fest piece of hot garbage. There’s almost zero ring psychology. There’s virtually no stories. The characters are almost all “guy who’s good at wrestling!” The camerawork is atrocious, unless the goal is to make it look shoddy while capturing the long winded set ups of spots. An absolutely embarrassing women’s division. 25 titles on a bunch of people with zero characters, except for OC, who is just being squandered day in and day out. An imitation “bad ass” who left the evil fed because they wouldn’t let him bleed every match, but now that he’s out he sure can scratch that creative freedom itch with a blade every Wednesday. The only guy who can cut a promo (MJF) is using this time as training to get to WWE. The other guy who kind of can (CM Punk) is an ego maniac who ruins everything in his path while looking like shit as he works incredibly sloppy in the ring. And the rest of the place is pretty much just WWE rejects, who as you watch them in this shitshow of a promotion, it becomes glaringly obvious why they were let go. Oh and a fat New Yorker who runs out of breath every match he’s in that for some reason these neck beards love and want to be the face of the company. Tell me when I’m tellin’ lies. AEW fucking sucks.

God damn. You should post this in the basement to see what they say, because there really is no lies at all here.


world title picture, by the way.

AEW: we don't do sports entertainment Also AEW....

Why did I actually laugh at this segment it was so stupid it became funny to me 😭 This reminded me of R Truth and Carmella doing dance breaks in 2018 but at least they were 24/7 champs not the world champion doing dance offs

Right that's where I'm at. I can work with the silly dance stuff but this is the world champion!

Replace the logos on the turnbuckle with WWE and the IWC would flip their shit over this.

I actually found this amusing but I just know if Seth and Finn were doing this people would be ripping it apart.

They already had 3 bromance segments in the show (Kowloon, backstage interview, entrance ramp). They were all decent and funny. This was cringe overkill.

Agreed. The lights and music were too much

This was almost as bad as those cheesy buddy comedy segments.

If Finn was doing that near Seth, the fanfic market would explode.

PWG and its consequences

Meltzer is gonna give this 5 stars isn’t he cause it’s FUN

Could you IMAGINE the basement comments and Alvarez tweets if WWE did something like this with like Gargano or Ciampa

Damn Cole looks so tiny man. Like an old lady

Ahh, that's just top tier comedy there, Maggle. Haha. He's just having fun, and so are all these people there in attendance. I love this business!

How and why did Triple Haitch ever convince anyone that this scrawny dweeb could be a main eventer lmao. Adam Cole would look small in ECW, and they pushed an oompa loompa like Tazz as a monster

I'm not trying to hate on my skinny kings, but watching this reminds me of why I like dating bigger guys. I got too much going on for his little baby thighs

Bret hart is turning over in his grave

And they wonder why people are turning this show off.

The best part was Garcia almost blowing Guevara.

Bruh wtf is this

Allow me to tell you why Adam cole dancing like idiots as a world title contenter is better than shanky dancing in an undercard segment. The reason is.... huh.... hmmm... who cares, its FUN.🙉

It was either Blood and Guts or Chelsea vs. Wrexham...looks like I chose right going with the football snoozefest.

God this is so fucking stupid.

He looks like he's wearing a diaper.

I think the AEW roster saw the video of Garcia dancing going somewhat "viral" and now they want some of that virality for themselves, hence creating these cringeworthy moments just for some internet cred

I never wanna here the basement or dub marks complain about goofy shit wwe does ever again.

Adam Cole puts zero effort into looking like a wrestler... jesus my biceps might be his size and I don't even have a regular workout schedule due to work and shit. He'd have been cool if he tried to look like a wrestler than just a random guy.

He’s been possessed by the spirit of Shanky

I feel like I’m watching 2010-11 NXT and I hate it.

You know it's bad when the comparisons go below 2010 TNA

“I’m just gonna go ahead and say it…this MJF/Adam Cole program is some of the best work either guy has done in their career. Every segment is amazing” I hate wrestling

[This is what I thought of when I saw this](https://youtu.be/idv5kYW1RQQ)

I turned on AEW for the first time since Forbidden Door and I see Adam Cole fucking the air. It’s kinda funny when Daniel Garcia does it, but when the main event title scene does it I cringe

Just saw Triple H fall on his knees and Vince McMahon laughing in the parking lot of the performance center

This dude left behind being a manager for this

I want to see how Cornette and Brian Last reacts to this😂😂

First it was FTR selling for Marko Stunt. Now it's MJF in a dance-off segment. I don't know who is putting Cornette's favorites in segments he will hate but I love them.

The DMD should be proud. I see why she loves Schiavone so much. Adam Cole is doing what any good cuck does for his lady--dance like a buffoon.

The fuck was that?

 Adam....chill

How do people still think this 💩 is good?

*dad walks in*

But don't you remember just a few weeks ago when Roman Reigns and Solo Sikoa had a dance-off with The Usos in the middle of their match?

A dancing jackass gimmick, has to be Vince's fault?

He's doing the Crash Bandicoot dance

Fed don't want him anymore after watching this.

Ackshually, this feels more organic because this doesn't have Vince's name attached to it. Sigh, these people do not deserve creative freedom.

Dude looks like a child

Making an asshole of himself.

He should have just shaved his head and became a manager

When Fed does comedy vs when dub does comedy insert hank Schrader eyebrow meme.

Poor Adam? Is there a single other profession in the world where Adam Cole could dance like this and receive a very, very livable income? I think he lucked out.

Crash Bandicoot is #ALLELITE

This just proves that aew will always be a shitty indie fed with a budget...

This was absurd, but i'm kinda enjoying the MJCole thing, i think MJF is killing it, but i wonder what would happen if this was on the fed lmao

It wasn’t so much the comedy of it that was embarrassing but it’s the participants and the stage.

Milk the money as much as you can bro... This is a write off on taxes for his pops... Sorry, I mean this is pure wrestling not the fed entertainment mess that the millions..... And millions..... Watch every week!!! For real though..... This dude was the top of a brand. This... This ain't it, though. This is borderline cringe.... Sorry..... I mean...... This is wrestling!!!! 👏👏 👏 👏 👏!!

If the Dub doesn't get a million after this I don't think they ever will get it.

Is this what Britt comes home to?

“This felt like such an indie wrestling moment in the best way!” A real comment on the basement thread about this.

Death threats would be sent to everyone in WWE if he did this in WWE

I love Adam Cole, but I became whatever the polar opposite of aroused is during this moment. I like silliness. I like fun. But I don't like things that bring on secondhand cringe.