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| Zeus 02/15/21 11:38:56 PM #203: | I was watching the 2018 elimination chamber match and geez they had some awesome spots involving Strowman. ParanoidObsessive posted... You're kind of missing my point. Because Cornette's bias is so strong, and because he's your main source of information about AEW, you're only hearing about the worst aspects of the company, and they're being painted in the worst possible light, so your own impression of the product is far more biased than you actually realize. His "bias" against the company is nowhere near as pronounced as many claim. The stuff he complains about are all logical things to complain about (although a few are clearly style choices). And while you could argue that he might highlight the bad more than the good, that doesn't excuse the bad. If George Clooney was doing a million volunteer functions, but also drowning small animals, I wouldn't hold it against somebody for focusing on that drowning small animals part of his persona because that other shit doesn't excuse it. Or, as was noted in Clash of the Titans, 'A thousand good deeds cannot make up for one murder' Otherwise it's fundamentally different from TYT, MSNBC, etc, in that when I see the actual thing they're talking about, it's nothing like what they're claiming. When I find an AEW clip -- and somestimes not even the one they're referencing -- it's usually been shit. Instead of exaggerating like the media does, Cornette is understating some of it. ParanoidObsessive posted... He felt threatened enough to immediately counterprogram against their show in a desperate attempt to cost them ratings, and his show is regularly beaten by them in the ratings every single week. When you take demographics into account, their show is actually right on par with Raw, his beloved baby. You mean NXT is beaten by them in ratings. Raw and SD both trounce AEW in ratings. In fact, if you took AEW's rating and tripled it, AEW ***STILL*** would come up short against Raw and SD most weeks. Raw is the A show. SD is the B show. NXT is the C show. You're making a big deal about AEW beating the C show. The only way you could set the bar any lower would be if NXT was beating it as well. And your attempt to say, "Well, if you look at the demographics," is just weird. ParanoidObsessive posted... Hell, even Cornette and Brian Last themselves have freely admitted that for all that they hate AEW, they still tend to like it more than the current WWE product. WWE really isn't attracting new fans, even NXT (which was the trendy, smark-favored brand for years). Regardless of what you might think of the product, AEW is. Cornette has repeatedly gone on record as preferring NXT to AEW. And the only new people AEW gets watching the program are people Cornette sends there with his criticisms to see if the program really is as rotten as he claims. ParanoidObsessive posted... Cornette's mentioned that the Montreal Screwjob was his idea (though it's up to the individual to decide whether or not he's lying - considering other people have claimed credit for it as well, I'd argue his version of the story seems the most plausible). Or that, at the very least, he's the one who gave Vince the idea. I've listened to the omnibus and individual Montreal videos a few times in the past, I don't remember Cornette claiming it was his idea (and a few of the videos phrase things in a way that suggest he wasn't really involved). Some of the clips even discuss how he believed that Brett would honor his word. And on that subject, some of the WWE's performers and staff at the time have gone on record claiming that they think the Screwjob was a work and that Brett was really in on it, so... there's also that craziness. --- (\/)(\/)|-| There are precious few at ease / With moral ambiguities / So we act as though they don't exist. ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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