- Joined
- Aug 23, 2018
Tony vastly over-estimated how much people would care about RoH when he bought it. Their roster at the time consisted of people who couldn't make it in any of the bigger companies and indie guys that AEW could book already anyway if they wanted them.
He then proceeded to throw the RoH belts into AEW which further watered down both products. He should have jumped at literally any TV deal offered for the brand so it could have stood a chance of being established as its own thing rather than shitting up the midcard for his main show.
I think he felt obligated to try to keep ROH around because he made such a big deal about buying them when WWE was sniffing around to try to scoop up the tape library. Where he fucked up was not being a bit more ruthless, should've just killed ROH, kept a few talents around and saved the tape library for a future streaming deal. Trying to integrate a dead promotion just doesn't work, like we can see that in WWE's failed attempt at keeping WCW alive shortly after Vince bought them, but to Vince's credit he was smart enough to stop when he saw it wasn't working.
I feel like powebomb has a level of impact that let's it keep its Lustre in a way that a superkick might not
Also helps with the wrestler too, some dudes just make moves look better because they got so good at doing them like Kane and Taker with the Tombstone Piledriver.
Whoever said "Will Osprey is the new signing" won.
The dude went so far as to have the fake Wembley attendance number tattooed into his flesh, I'd be more surprised if he didn't sign with AEW.
The Collision and Rampage ratings are absolutely embarrassing.
Megamind stocks are HOT!