Yeah, it sounds like a lot but they have 5 hours a week of just AEW, then another 2 hours of Ring of Honor - and a bunch of those wrestlers are exclusive to the latter.

If you had a balanced roster of 70 with Women, tag-teams & men’s championships, a couple of tiers of each you’re going to get pretty bored with seeing the same people over & over.

Or Wikipedia’s count of just Wrestlers is 167 including part-timers, injured & inactive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_All_Elite_Wrestling_personnel

Like even this list which includes managers, commentators & Shad Khan only gets to like 200 I think.

https://www.thesmackdownhotel.com/roster/aew/

And that’s across AEW & RoH and includes people on per appearance contract like Peter Avalon.

i’m pretty sure they dont have 210 people signed.

Exactly.

“Mr. McMahon” begins by noting that most interviews in the docuseries were conducted before McMahon’s initial resignation, his return, WWE’s merger into TKO, and the sex trafficking lawsuit filed by Janel Grant — events that took place between 2022 and 2024.

I think that’s what is going to be interesting here. Because it was only after all of that where some of the WWE performers started to push back on McMahon a bit; but that’s only the tip of the iceberg of the allegations against him over the years.

Like, why did you praise him so much right up until that point when he was clearly scummy the whole time you worked for him.

Lucky for AEW Mark waited to put his foot in his mouth until after he’d left.

Luther is a highlight of the whole show for me, the Best Butler.

I see what you did there!

Strap a rocket to these young fellas and push them to the mooooooon!

When is Punk’s return to injury?

That’s definitely part of it; but she’s still pretty green and AEW relies on a more work rate, and technical style of presentation which she wasn’t really nailing. Whereas WWE has ways of hiding her weaknesses there while she improves plus the facilities and trainers that AEW just doesn’t have the scope for.

I’m not convinced Jade leaving is so bad for AEW. She has a great look and aura, but in matches & promos wasn’t all that good and wasn’t going to get better there. She might not get much better in WWE either, but they have far more tools to deploy training her. I think she was pretty much already at her AEW ceiling and had to spend time elsewhere to improve.

I think its worth bearing in mind that professional sports people compete injured all the time, and “career ending” can mean a lot of different things.

Eg I don’t think we’re talking never be able to walk again type of injury - but it could just be something that he will lose range of motion, or be in pain until its fixed surgically and then once fixed he won’t be in pain or will have full motion but its not safe to risk the repair from that point on.

And, of course, the whole thing could be a work :)

So, do you think that was kayfabe, or is Chuckie T actually finished? He got to say shit on TV, and had an epic final match - but if he’s not coming back as either a wrestler or manager i’m going to miss him - the Best Friends & Dark Order were both my favourite things from early days AEW outside of the Bucks, Omega, Hangman early story that culminated in the original Stadium Stampede.

I guess given the references from Kenny he’s written out until a point where he can compete in a Blood & Guts match; but if the write-out was so he could get surgery I thought the way it worked is that the timeline for recovery was pretty open ended.

“I wanna be a good boy”

From what i’ve seen of Thekla she is awesome too, so hopefully she does show up on Forbidden Door because adding more from Stardom to the women’s side of those matches will be rad.

So good.

I was flying into Brisbane Australia years ago and halfway through the immigration / customs section I saw 3-4 border control agents around this absolute giant of a man, super tanned, jacked, blonde hair. Initially I wondered if it was a drugs bust but everybody was way to jovial and chatting and only later did I realise it was Billy who I think was in town for some indie show in 'straya. He looks big on TV, even bigger IRL.

Yeah there’s a difference between having young wrestlers wrestling, and young wrestlers posing for glamour photo books & whatnot I guess.