We talked about this before, they just have a lot of green female talent. I believe getting the time to practice your craft would greatly improve for them, but AEW doesn't have a PC like WWE. I have nothing to back this up other than the comparison of WWE women's division to everyone else

They use a training facility managed by QT Marshall and Cody Rhodes called "The Nightmare Factory". QT and Cody also serve as trainers along with Dustin Rhodes. Once they feel the talent is good enough to have actual matches they put them on AEW Dark/ Elevation and have them work with more experienced wrestlers like Shida, Rosa, Deeb, etc. If they impress on Dark/Elevation then they get a chance on Dynamite. Red Velvet is a recent example of someone who came up through the Nightmare Factory and has progressed very well.
 
Stories that's been put out there is he left because of creative differences he had with WWE and needed time away to heal his injuries. I honestly don't know if that's the truth but that's the narrative that's out there at the moment.
Gotcha...
Thanks for the info. I've always wondered that but then he tried that ufc stuff so I figured he wasn't trying to heal
 
They use a training facility managed by QT Marshall and Cody Rhodes called "The Nightmare Factory". QT and Cody also serve as trainers along with Dustin Rhodes. Once they feel the talent is good enough to have actual matches they put them on AEW Dark/ Elevation and have them work with more experienced wrestlers like Shida, Rosa, Deeb, etc. If they impress on Dark/Elevation then they get a chance on Dynamite. Red Velvet is a recent example of someone who came up through the Nightmare Factory and has progressed very well.


Thank you for the info!
 
What was the reason he left in the first place?

Vince would often make promises to Punk like main event pushes, storylines that Punk would pitch, and time off - just to get Punk to do stuff he didn't want to do (ex. wrestle Ryback), and then after Punk did what Vince wanted him to do, Vince would often renege on those promises.

There was real tension and resentment between Punk and HHH because HHH buried Punk in their feud in 2011 at Night of Champions. 2011 was when Punk first got over, that was after the pipe bomb promo and the Cena match where he left with the title in the crowd. It killed his momentum. So much so that Punk refused to wrestle HHH at WM 30.

And along with wanting time off to heal his injuries, there was a specific medical issue where Punk had a boil on his back, and he would ask WWE's head doctor to pop it, but they refused, they would just give him antibiotics that had him fucked up. He even shitted himself during a match on Smackdown. They kept letting it grow and grow and he was often sick after his matches. He finally went to an outside doctor and was told that it became a staph infection because they didn't pop it.

Punk talked about it on Colt Cabana's podcast without mentioning the doctor's name and the doctor still sued them for defamation which also eventually led to Punk and Cabana falling out at a later point over lawyers fees and shit.

Then the nail in the coffin was them firing Punk on his and AJ's wedding day.
 
Vince would often make promises to Punk like main event pushes, storylines that Punk would pitch, and time off - just to get Punk to do stuff he didn't want to do (ex. wrestle Ryback), and then after Punk did what Vince wanted him to do, Vince would often renege on those promises.

There was real tension and resentment between Punk and HHH because HHH buried Punk in their feud in 2011 at Night of Champions. 2011 was when Punk first got over, that was after the pipe bomb promo and the Cena match where he left with the title in the crowd. It killed his momentum. So much so that Punk refused to wrestle HHH at WM 30.

And along with wanting time off to heal his injuries, there was a specific medical issue where Punk had a boil on his back, and he would ask WWE's head doctor to pop it, but they refused, they would just give him antibiotics that had him fucked up. He even shitted himself during a match on Smackdown. They kept letting it grow and grow and he was often sick after his matches. He finally went to an outside doctor and was told that it became a staph infection because they didn't pop it.

Punk talked about it on Colt Cabana's podcast without mentioning the doctor's name and the doctor still sued them for defamation which also eventually led to Punk and Cabana falling out at a later point over lawyers fees and shit.

Then the nail in the coffin was them firing Punk on his and AJ's wedding day.

Thanks for the detailed explanation.
 
Nah likely Adam Cole. Cole said he would never give up his twitch channel. So unless he had keeping his twitch included in his new contract he's gone from WWE.

There's also Bray.

But it's probably Cole. His extension ends on Sunday, and besides the Twitch thing, I don't think trying to negotiate a guaranteed main roster push is worth the fight.

If I'm Cole, I would want to get pushed because they see something in me, not pushed so they won't get sued.

Cole should go where he'll be wanted and appreciated.
 
There's also Bray.

But it's probably Cole. His extension ends on Sunday, and besides the Twitch thing, I don't think trying to negotiate a guaranteed main roster push is worth the fight.

If I'm Cole, I would want to get pushed because they see something in me, not pushed so they won't get sued.

Cole should go where he'll be wanted and appreciated.
Bray 90 days aren't up. Don't know if they can legally sign a new contract until after the 90 no compete clause. Braun days are nearly up but I would prefer him getting a new WWE contract.
 
They use a training facility managed by QT Marshall and Cody Rhodes called "The Nightmare Factory". QT and Cody also serve as trainers along with Dustin Rhodes. Once they feel the talent is good enough to have actual matches they put them on AEW Dark/ Elevation and have them work with more experienced wrestlers like Shida, Rosa, Deeb, etc. If they impress on Dark/Elevation then they get a chance on Dynamite. Red Velvet is a recent example of someone who came up through the Nightmare Factory and has progressed very well.
Red Velvet is married to Wes Brisco... So, that helps her out as well ..
 
Would be very fitting.



I was just pondering that myself. The card for Rampage tonight is:

Jade vs. Kiera Hogan
Private Party vs. Jurassic Express
Moxley w/ Kingston vs. Garcia

So either they were gonna do a separate segment for Punk at the end or have him go at Moxley because Miro is already starting a feud with Eddie.

Punk vs. Moxley would go. And the Roman shade would add instant fuel to the fire as he name dropped both of them. He might've even been in on it.
 


I like that signing... I just don't know what all these other guys are going to do on this show...

Two more questions about the women's division. What's the hype with brit baker and what happened to the guy in that division, wasn't he dominant and then fell off? I don't get it...
 
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Ivory was more sexy with the conservative look. I remember from that stable Right To Censor.

Right to Censor would by the way would be super over as an updated faction with new members. With all the hypersensitivity out there it would never be a shortage of material that can be lampooned with good writers.
 
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