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I was watching some highlights from the latest Dynamite, because I was interested to see who won the match between Bryan Danielson and Daniel Garcia.\u00a0 But during the match I couldn\u2019t help but notice that the turnbuckle pads had something other than an AEW logo on it, and at one point, I had to scrunch my brow when I realized that it was literally the crest for House Targaryen<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n Why<\/em> was the House Targaryen crest on turnbuckles of an AEW wrestling show?<\/span><\/p>\n Well, the answer wasn\u2019t hard to determine, because outside of any shot that wasn\u2019t zoomed in to where you could see the turnbuckles, pretty much everywhere else in the West Virginia arena was like an explosion of Game of Thrones<\/em> branding.\u00a0 Since TBS is a Turner Network and Turner bought HBO and HBO owns the rights to Game of Thrones, naturally it was decided that AEW Dynamite would be the perfect venue to cross-promote the impending premiere of HBO\u2019s House of the Dragon<\/em> prequel series.<\/span><\/p>\n So instead of continually pushing awareness for AEW, or their shop\u2019s website, or perhaps promoting any upcoming pay-per-views, all through the entire night was Game of Thrones shit, all over the place.<\/span><\/p>\n If I didn\u2019t know what AEW was, and I was flipping channels and landed on Dynamite, I probably would\u2019ve thought that some mega nerds* had created a wrestling promotion based on Game of Thrones, and I was watching some LARP of some Dothraki slave pit fighting instead of professional wrestling.<\/span><\/p>\n *I realize this is kind of an oxymoronic descriptor to describe Tony Khan, Kenny Omega and the Young Bucks<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n But this is a good example of why it\u2019s hard for me to take AEW seriously sometimes. \u00a0No matter how genuinely good their wrestling product is capable of being, they just do so much shit on the business side or over social media or their performers, that just pumps the brakes on the progress they are totally capable of making, if they just didn\u2019t get in their own way so much.<\/span><\/p>\n AEW\u2019s entire show was completely hijacked by Game of Thrones this week.\u00a0 A few weeks ago when I went, the entire show was completely hijacked by Discovery\/Animal Planet plugging the ever-living fuck out of Shark Week, to where they had a match where Jericho\u2019s cronies were suspended in a diver\u2019s cage.\u00a0 And a little while back, just about every AEW show was paintbombed by Draft Kings logos all over the place.<\/span><\/p>\n I\u2019m not sure if it\u2019s Tony Khan\u2019s choice, or if he\u2019s being strong-armed by Turner Ben Afflecks, but AEW is basically this cheap vehicle to promote other things, completely sacrificing their own brand identity and integrity whenever they do.\u00a0 They\u2019re like a Tesla Model S, with a vinyl wrap for Juan\u2019s Paint and Windows, and they\u2019re required to drive it around in prominent communities and log a substantial amount of miles to justify the ad space.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n If it\u2019s TK\u2019s choice to allow his pet promotion to be pimped out to plug shit that isn\u2019t his, then shame on him.\u00a0 If it\u2019s Turner being Turner and fifteen old white guys with VP titles are all jabbing their fingers into the AEW pie to try and make their mark, then that\u2019s really nothing out of the ordinary for Turner\u2019s modus operandi, and we can continuously count the days before AEW copies WCW in another manner; being managed to death by Turner.<\/span><\/p>\n But the bottom line is that it\u2019s really hard for me to take AEW seriously when they participate in shit like this, and it\u2019s got to be hard for even them to continuously try to declare themselves the alternative to the WWE, when they\u2019re constantly being handcuffed by shit that makes it hard for people to take them seriously.\u00a0 As much as the WWE is so often seen as this corporate soulless entity, they take their brand seriously, and they almost never cross-promote with anyone or anything, not without at least some substantial benefit to them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n There\u2019s absolutely zero benefit for AEW when they help plug Shark Week, House of the Dragon or Draft Kings, and until the company can grow a backbone and push back on bullshit orders to cross-promote, they\u2019ll never be taken as serious as they should be capable of commanding respect.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I was watching some highlights from the latest Dynamite, because I was interested to see who won the match between Bryan Danielson and Daniel Garcia.\u00a0 But during the match I couldn\u2019t help but notice that the turnbuckle pads had something other than an AEW logo on it, and at one point, I had to scrunch … Continue reading Why it\u2019s hard to take AEW seriously sometimes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[79,100,45,178,191,83,69,190,54],"class_list":["post-48890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-cashmoney","tag-comparison","tag-fail","tag-game-of-thrones","tag-greed","tag-observations","tag-television","tag-white-people","tag-wrestling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48892,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48890\/revisions\/48892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
![House Targaryen<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\nWhy<\/em> was the House Targaryen crest on turnbuckles of an AEW wrestling show?<\/span><\/p>\nWell, the answer wasn\u2019t hard to determine, because outside of any shot that wasn\u2019t zoomed in to where you could see the turnbuckles, pretty much everywhere else in the West Virginia arena was like an explosion of Game of Thrones<\/em> branding.\u00a0 Since TBS is a Turner Network and Turner bought HBO and HBO owns the rights to Game of Thrones, naturally it was decided that AEW Dynamite would be the perfect venue to cross-promote the impending premiere of HBO\u2019s House of the Dragon<\/em> prequel series.<\/span><\/p>\nSo instead of continually pushing awareness for AEW, or their shop\u2019s website, or perhaps promoting any upcoming pay-per-views, all through the entire night was Game of Thrones shit, all over the place.<\/span><\/p>\nIf I didn\u2019t know what AEW was, and I was flipping channels and landed on Dynamite, I probably would\u2019ve thought that some mega nerds* had created a wrestling promotion based on Game of Thrones, and I was watching some LARP of some Dothraki slave pit fighting instead of professional wrestling.<\/span><\/p>\n*I realize this is kind of an oxymoronic descriptor to describe Tony Khan, Kenny Omega and the Young Bucks<\/em><\/span><\/p>\nBut this is a good example of why it\u2019s hard for me to take AEW seriously sometimes. \u00a0No matter how genuinely good their wrestling product is capable of being, they just do so much shit on the business side or over social media or their performers, that just pumps the brakes on the progress they are totally capable of making, if they just didn\u2019t get in their own way so much.<\/span><\/p>\nAEW\u2019s entire show was completely hijacked by Game of Thrones this week.\u00a0 A few weeks ago when I went, the entire show was completely hijacked by Discovery\/Animal Planet plugging the ever-living fuck out of Shark Week, to where they had a match where Jericho\u2019s cronies were suspended in a diver\u2019s cage.\u00a0 And a little while back, just about every AEW show was paintbombed by Draft Kings logos all over the place.<\/span><\/p>\nI\u2019m not sure if it\u2019s Tony Khan\u2019s choice, or if he\u2019s being strong-armed by Turner Ben Afflecks, but AEW is basically this cheap vehicle to promote other things, completely sacrificing their own brand identity and integrity whenever they do.\u00a0 They\u2019re like a Tesla Model S, with a vinyl wrap for Juan\u2019s Paint and Windows, and they\u2019re required to drive it around in prominent communities and log a substantial amount of miles to justify the ad space.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nIf it\u2019s TK\u2019s choice to allow his pet promotion to be pimped out to plug shit that isn\u2019t his, then shame on him.\u00a0 If it\u2019s Turner being Turner and fifteen old white guys with VP titles are all jabbing their fingers into the AEW pie to try and make their mark, then that\u2019s really nothing out of the ordinary for Turner\u2019s modus operandi, and we can continuously count the days before AEW copies WCW in another manner; 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