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All Elite Wrestling and ITV has reveal that "AEW Double or Nothing" will be shown on ITV Box Office May 25th 2019.

Here is the up to date card for Double for Nothing PPV:

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


ITV News:
https://www.itv.com/news/2019-05-08/...tv-box-office/

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All Elite Wrestling personnel:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...ling_personnel

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Spoilers? You make it sound like a pre-scripted drama rather than a sport, surely not ! ;)

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Brodie Lee aka Luke Harper in wwe has died aged 41 from a non covid lung issue

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Cm Punk is back then...

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I can see AEW going Bankruptcy by 2035 due to all wrestlers under AEW contract and under use.

It turn into the new WCW.

Look like lots of politics are going on backstage with three Executive Vice President having Championships.

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With the Khan family money behind it plus their tv deal they won’t go bankrupt but I do think they’ll need to change their business model. Far too many poorly-trained “wrestlers” getting injured from Indy-level botches. The whole company is an absolute embarrassment but it’s loyal fans are happily blind to all that as acknowledging their failings would be seen as somehow validating WWE and nooooo, we can’t have that!!

Punk coming back…ok that caught my attention but he won’t be the Punk of old and speaking of old, can he still go? I know he cut down to compete in the UFC but last night he looked like he certainly has not put any weight back on. Still given the size of most of the AEW roster he’s like Andre the Giant.

I’m certain after all the hype dies down they’ll mess up Punk and he’ll be just another one of the boys.

Awful promotion putting on awful matches, paying awful “wrestlers” to take part.

And yes I’m a Jim Cornette guy.

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Except WCW wasn't bankrupt

Jim Cornette just strikes me as a miserable resentful git angry that wrestling promotions don't owe him a living, sure if impact or aew offered him a contract he'd bite their hand off and change his tune. The problem is we never knew how good we had it as kids, we had two top promotions to watch and now we have.... none. I think punk will be fine, 42, he is still in his wrestling prime and it's signings like him and Daniel Bryan that'll push the company to the next level, I hope interesting times are ahead as wrestling used to be brilliant and now it's just dull

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AEW did approach Jim before they started but when Tony Khan told him who would be part of it JC turned him down flat. And he was right. He’s also right about everything he’s said about AEW too. He did want them to succeed and be legit competition to Vince but they’re just an outlaw mud show promotion with wealthy backers.

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Hmm this is the man who worked for Vince Russo three times and he turned them down because of who he'd be working with! I don't believe him. It's a shame because he has so much knowledge and could have been an asset but I don't believe he turned them down. I like AEW, they've made some odd decisions but there not as bad as the old shock jock would have us believe

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Cornette has never worked for Russo. He’d rip his own nails out before he’d work for Russo.

Cornette has talked many times about the meeting he had with Tony Khan and given how vocal he’s been about AEW if it was a lie Khan would have called him out on it. People at all levels listen to Jim’s podcasts so there’s be denials left, right and centre if it was a lie.

Corny doesn’t want a job with any of the big companies. His last job (with NWA) was only as a favour.

AEW is a dangerous and amateur promotion. Look on twitter for AEW Botches and you’ll see what Khan would rather have hidden.

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He did because Russo was head writer, for the WWE in the 1990s and TNA in 2009, the WWE one was particularly horrific because of the brawl for all event that literally crippled wrestlers both physically and careerwise but all anyone talks about is what Russo did to WCW. You might have a point re the podcast and job offer though.

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Cornette worked WITH Russo but never for him. Different department.

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Three times he worked with him and couldn't stop him doing stupid things, that shows where the authority lay imo

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Yes, the authority was Vince McMahon, who didn’t want to stop Russo.

Cornette had no authority over Russo and vice versa.

Corny couldn’t take it anymore so moved down to OVW taking care of new talent. That’s where he slapped Santino Marella which led to his sacking.

I thought everyone knew this :confused:

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Couldn't take it anymore but then worked with him again in TNA, he's a resilient chap

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Dixie Carter made the choice to put them together.

Keep it up �� at no point has Jim worked under Russo or made the choice to work with him.

Russo’s only ability is to convince people he knows what he’s doing. I won’t link to it as it is full of f-bombs but search on YouTube for “Jim Cornette legendary Vince Russo rant”

Russo has never denied a word of it.

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I bet he didn't, how that man kept being employed is way beyond me, it's like he hypnotised people with bs and you know how much power chief writers have, so whilst corny can say I never worked for him he wasn't telling Russo what to do or making his life miserable it was the opposite

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He’s….never claimed to have told Russo what to do because he didn’t have the authority to do so. And making him miserable really isn’t Corny’s style.

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That's kind of what I was saying, Russo was in charge, he was literally finishing careers with his bs and corny could dp nothing to stop him, must have been really hard for him thinking about it, watching someone like Stevie Williams big chance ruined because of some bogus bs gimmick must have been so frustrating

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He may have been head writer but that didn’t put him in charge. All ideas had to go through Vince.

Russo may have come up with the idea of Brawl for All but he still had to sell it to Vince. Just because Russo came up with an idea did not mean it would go ahead.

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No it didn't but I remember Mick Foley saying despite Vince being hands on if he trusted you and liked your idea he'd let you run with it even if he had reservations, like when Foley brought 60 year old Terry Funk back in the early 2000s and I do believe Corny when he said he tried his hardest to stop it, just boggles the mind that after such a fiasco people including Vince still gave Russo top jobs

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There’s a big difference between being given freedom to use ideas, and being in some kind of authority. Russo had no authority over anyone other than Ed Ferrara.

The reason Russo used to get the top jobs is he’s great at telling people he knows his stuff. He told WCW he alone was responsible for the attitude era, for Stone Cold Steve Austin, the Rock etc

He sold Dixie Carter a bill of goods too by saying he’d take TNA to the next level.

All of these claims being eventually exposed for the BS that they were is the single reason why Russo can’t get a job anywhere now despite his brown-nosing to Tony Khan on twitter whenever he gets the chance.

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And no one checked!! Steve Austin came up with his gimmick himself and she should have asked him, unbelievable, they kind of deserved what they got but the fans didn't, did she not watch wcw when he made himself and David arquette champions

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Reports says that Austin Jenkins (WWE NXT's Adam Cole) has left the big leagues to join his girlfriend Brittany Baker in the AEW.

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AEW is a bigger league than NXT...

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@Russ do you know when AEW deal is up with ITV - It an joke.

I think AEW need to copy their Germany deal and sign an deal with Sky Sports.

WCW Nitro was shown every Friday on TNT UK.
WCW Thunder was shown every Saturday on TNT UK.
WCW PPVS was shown in German on DSF every month on an Saturday night.