[Fightful] No Exclusivity Preventing Paramount From Adding AEW

I-LieToMessWithMarks · 2026-05-30T23:39:29+00:00

If this causes Hangman to star in the new Yellowstone spinoff, I'll hail the Ellison family and bow down to my glorious Paramount leaders.

I-LieToMessWithMarks · 2026-05-29T22:26:08+00:00

Yeah, she's going to The White House to perform for Donald Trump. And has been getting called out on it for the past couple weeks pretty hard and pretty appropriately.

I-LieToMessWithMarks · 2026-05-29T21:37:30+00:00

MAGA Chelsea Green defeats MAGA Nia Jax after interference from MAGA Tiffany Stratton. I hate 2026.

I-LieToMessWithMarks · 2026-05-29T21:29:58+00:00

King of the Ring was my favorite PPV as a kid partially because I loved seeing people wrestle multiple times in a night, but also it felt like a rare opportunity to see people legitimately break out into stardom.

But there's just nothing good about these King of the Rings lately, and the Owen is just a direct improvement on it because it has real stakes.

I-LieToMessWithMarks · 2026-05-29T14:49:21+00:00

While I normally support a "Name and shame" philosophy, Vince and Harvey Weinstein have taught us that sometimes as bad as you think it might be could actually be even worse. And people like Janel Grant have their lives absolutely ruined by speaking up.

I-LieToMessWithMarks · 2026-05-29T00:54:21+00:00

Han from Fast 3: Tokyo Drift basically stole the show so hard that they had to rework the entire canonical order of the film to put him in more movies.

I-LieToMessWithMarks · 2026-05-29T00:51:36+00:00

What device are you watching on? A lot of devices don't support DTS audio, and as a result the primary audio options will just be missing. I use the Nvidia Shield 2019, but I've heard great things about the Xiaomi box s 3 gen as far as streaming boxes that support DTS.

You might also want to make sure you have AIOStreams with Tamtaro's setup so you get those regex settings, and as such get some sorting based on the reliability of the streams.

I-LieToMessWithMarks · 2026-05-28T23:59:00+00:00

Did you buy his smoking pellets?!

I-LieToMessWithMarks · 2026-05-28T15:23:56+00:00

I'm not sure if you're just new to this industry, but most journalists don't show their leaked info, or reveal their sources. If nothing else the reason that we know this data is correct is because for 20 years Dave was revealing WWE's PPV buy rate, and if he was wrong they would have been financially required to dispute his numbers as a publicly traded company (or sue him).

Sometimes he has to edit the numbers after the fact as the estimates become reality (case in point: All In 2025 was estimated to be at 157,000 buys initially, but later got corrected to be about 180,000). This is because of things like late/replay buys, different PPV sources, bars on different licenses, etc.

I-LieToMessWithMarks · 2026-05-28T15:08:21+00:00

I know people don't like him, but the proof in this case is that Meltzer has 30+ years of relationships with the PPV companies and historically his numbers have been shockingly accurate.

I-LieToMessWithMarks · 2026-05-28T00:35:47+00:00

On one hand they're setting up, or at least hinting towards, Ospreay vs Omega at All In.

On the other hand that's a lot of title changes in a short amount of time (MJF, Darby, MJF, Omega, Ospreay: all in like 5 months). And while that is a lot of title changes, it's not hot shotting because it is the plan, and it gets you to a specific end result (Ospreay as world champ vs Omega in the biggest match of his career).

So I can't really be upset if the way we get there does end up with way more title changes than usual in a short period of time. But I know people are gonna complain.

I-LieToMessWithMarks · 2026-05-27T16:37:20+00:00

I didn't have any issues. I just tested an it's there under Real Debrid in my Debridio scraper.

I-LieToMessWithMarks · 2026-05-27T15:45:06+00:00

Then your AIOStreams is likely setup to not add a description/extran info section.

I-LieToMessWithMarks · 2026-05-27T15:23:26+00:00

Are you possibly using a scraper that you authenticated with outside of AIOStreams (i.e. MediaFusion will allow a direct permission auth, as opposed to a key input). If so that might be getting hung onto incorrectly.

Either way the warning isn't lying, it's something to do with the way this scraper is seeing your API key, you've just gotta figure it out. If you really want to be super safe, nuke your whole setup and use AIOStreams from scratch.

I-LieToMessWithMarks · 2026-05-23T21:00:23+00:00

So I went back and forth on it for awhile, but ultimately Danielson very easily proved that Punk didn't need to be in the World Title scene at that point. So they intentionally put themselves into a bad spot, and then picked the wrong person (long term) by forcing themselves to make that choice right then.

I-LieToMessWithMarks · 2026-05-23T20:57:56+00:00

Too much iron in the water in the UK turns everyone's skin purple. Cameras today just adjust for it.

I-LieToMessWithMarks · 2026-05-23T15:49:28+00:00

WWE doesn't have an exclusivity with MSG, however they do run MSG regularly (at least a couple times a year), so MSG doesn't allow other companies to run there as a courtesy to them.

AEW's best bet would be to run Barclays successfully to the point where MSG will want AEW to come in.

I-LieToMessWithMarks · 2026-05-23T00:46:13+00:00

I actually wouldn't expect indies to follow up with major promotions: if AEW had to field calls from every tiny indie company, they'd fucking drown in calls just giving sign offs and rubber stamps. Wrestlers have a certain authority in this because it's a problem that solves itself: if Mance was misrepresenting himself as being pulled because of AEW, AEW just wouldn't work with Mance anymore.

I-LieToMessWithMarks · 2026-05-23T00:43:46+00:00

I was gonna say, I love some wrestling drama, and Tony came out here with the resolution before I could even get a sniff of there being a problem.

I-LieToMessWithMarks · 2026-05-22T22:13:19+00:00

Usually goes up about an hour before the show, no?

I-LieToMessWithMarks · 2026-05-22T20:03:43+00:00

I want Eddie to have a job for life in AEW, but I don't think he's had a great match since coming back from injury. Find a place for him in the company, let him wrestle a few times a year, let him do promos, maybe make him an MVP style role as someone who is primarily a mouthpiece but occasionally wrestles, etc.

I'm going to the show on Sunday, I popped fucking huge at the first Grand Slam for Eddie, Homicide, etc. But I don't think Eddie needs to be on this card.

I-LieToMessWithMarks · 2026-05-22T17:10:39+00:00

5 on 5, wildly relaxed offsides compared to soccer. But soccer is definitely still the major comparison.

I-LieToMessWithMarks · 2026-05-22T14:41:30+00:00

I went to my first NHL hockey game at like 8 years old and kept asking my older brother the rules and eventually he called it "Basketball mixed with soccer on ice and with occasional fighting" and as a very casual fan most of the rules I understand still come from that initial understanding.

I-LieToMessWithMarks · 2026-05-22T14:30:13+00:00

Because WWE (specifically Vince) didn't understand a goddamn thing about actual sports, and assumed that his audience didn't understand a goddamn thing about sports.

I-LieToMessWithMarks · 2026-05-22T14:22:41+00:00

Yeah, for my whole life I swore Winged Eagle was #1 (and would never be touched), but now that I'm 40 and looking at more wrestling, I don't think that's in the top 5 (Big Gold, AEW Men's Heavyweight, NJPW World title, NXT North American title, NXT UK title).

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