All Elite Wrestling Thread (It's Wednesday...you know what that means.)

[Big Boss Man]

How WWE Is Trying To Sabotage AEW's Oct. 2 Show On TNT

"Dave Meltzer said on Wrestling Observer Radio (h/t Ringside News), that he and other wrestling media members were invited to see the WWE Performance Center on Oct. 2 - the same date that AEW debuts on TNT."

Source: https://www.thesportster.com/wrestling/ ... tnt-debut/

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New BTE~!

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[Ocelot]

Something kind of funny. So MJF and a bigwig in the Dungeons and Dragons community are having a worked war of words on twitter that is doing exactly what it's supposed to do - drumming up fan interest on both sides. I'm part of a DnD group on facebook that is falling for it hook, line, and sinker because MJF is claiming he's better than we all are and it is absolutely amazing.

Something I really like about him - he's working his gimmick to the hilt - but he never goes for the personal slams or takes it to a truly hateful level. You can tell he's a guy that enjoys what he's doing but isn't trying to go overboard with it. That's cool to see.

[Bandit]

Cody says they may put a third hour for Wednesday on B/R Live for free. On one of the last audio shows Meltzer said something about them considering a Talking Smack style show hosted by Tony Schiavone.

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[Bandit]

With Dustin on the image does that mean he will be a regular?

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I believe he signed a contract extension a while back so that could be possible.

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Seems there's a conflicting story to AEWs UK deal

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I wonder if Sky Sports have made a late bid since they are losing WWE programming at the end of the year when WWE goes to BT Sports.

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Still nothing new on the UK TV deal. It was basically confirmed for ITV4 when the ITVBoxOffice deal was announced originally. No news if they are carrying Full Gear either. Whilst WWE are still on Sky Sports there's no chance of AEW there. BT I'm assuming won't pick it up since they have WWE UK TV rights coming in January.

Channel 4 aired WWE in the early 2000s and Channel 5 aired later day WCW so they could be possible destinations. There's of course other channels, would be ironic if they turned up on TCM since TNT/TCM aired WCW back in the day.

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AEW will be on tape delay in the West Coast

https://whatculture.com/wwe/aew-dynamit ... west-coast

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Still nothing new on the UK TV deal. It was basically confirmed for ITV4 when the ITVBoxOffice deal was announced originally. No news if they are carrying Full Gear either. Whilst WWE are still on Sky Sports there's no chance of AEW there. BT I'm assuming won't pick it up since they have WWE UK TV rights coming in January.

Channel 4 aired WWE in the early 2000s and Channel 5 aired later day WCW so they could be possible destinations. There's of course other channels, would be ironic if they turned up on TCM since TNT/TCM aired WCW back in the day.

Nothing about the Australian TV rights either.

Channel XWT will have to do.

[Bandit]

Hmm. That surprised me because New Japan does well in Australia, I thought they'd make it a priority to get a deal on cable there.

[Big Boss Man]

Yea there's still nothing new on the UK, Australia
or Canada TV deals. Maybe they'll announce something regarding international TV today on BTE?. But a few days back Matt and Nick said they didn't know. If you search for AEW on TiVo it comes up as All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite but says no shows in the next 2 weeks. Whether that's because ITV haven't confirmed they will air the live broadcast or if it's tape delay.

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CVV interview with Sonny Kiss