He's so bad, he's a puppet for AEW or he's plain dumb. No one loved what's happening with the Bucks/Sting. No one except him and a few ''diehards'' who always love whatever does AEW.
Totally agree,I was just listening to Eric's podcast with that John alba fella and they were having the same argument but alba sounded like he was about to start crying really defending the bucks
The Young Bucks returned on the January 10th episode of Dynamite. According to WrestleTix tweeted on January 10th before Dynamite aired that night, that there were 15,314 tickets sold for Revolution. The Young Bucks much like their "wrestling" didn't sell anything. Wish Eric would have went further calling him out on that.
They’re the first two “wrestlers” that Shawn 0-Life Michaels could beat in a fight. Punk beat them up at age 45, with a torn tricep and 16 screws in his foot. They’re lucky Dax and Cash have patience and tolerance for manchild behaviour, because that fight would look like a 4 year old vs Meng.
Eric is 100% right here, to have a good story, u have to have compelling characters, Sting and Darby check that box, but when the Bucks just insert themselves into "wanting to get rid of Sting", it doesn't work for me brother. The Bucks aren't nearly as over as they once were and the tv viewing audience leaves in droves when they're on, people just don't care, except for Meltzer and now Conrad
"it was a fun angle, it is not a great story" that sums up, just one reason , why wwe has people invested in the characters and hitting records/milestones and aew has no buzz to it anymore. The thing I think people forget in a bigger picture, is we all remember the moments, however the moments didn't mean anything at the time to remember without the investment in the story getting there. For whatever angle that, as Eric said was executed fine, it doesn't give you the emotional response without a story to make you care. Pick a moment you always remember from a movie or tv show, they needed to build to it, whether in 2 hours or multiple seasons. You need a good story to care for the performers to watch and invest in the matches. Also Eric, again correct, for Conrad saying how can you say its not compelling from tickets sold in Greensboro, that has zero to do with anyone involved, its Stings last match and people want to go. Young Bucks get zero credit for that, or anyone in the match. Conrads trying to defend that its aew putting it on cause of others who didn't deliver is poor argument.
Gotta love Conrad giving The Young Bucks credit for ticket sales. The Young Bucks returned on the January 10th episode of Dynamite. According to WrestleTix tweeted on January 10th before Dynamite aired that night, that there were 15,314 tickets sold for Revolution. The Young Bucks much like their "wrestling" didn't sell anything.
My favourite part is the whole logic doesn't make sense because Sting is retiring and everyone knows it. So Bucks don't need to "run him out" because he's done anyways.
Conrad trying to explain why this is a good storyline because the Bucks are getting heat by beating up a beloved legend is literally everything wrong with AEW storylines. Nobody cares about these people, so no matter how much sense it makes on paper, there's nothing for anyone to care about unless you're already an AEW fan. You can't just explain it away, you have to feel something.
if the young buck were to be sting last opponent aew needed to set up this long time ago. Especially if it was not going to be a shawn micheal and ric flair type of send off. You needed the buck to be part of the story much earlier and slowly tease them into the role maybe do a temp check earlier and so on. Giving sting the tag belt so the buck have a belt when they beat sting when they send it up is just the cream for this fk cake.
@@rubenarriaga3029 i mean you could had set up a feud with the buck and blil and the feud they are upset that they didn't get the title shot and attack sting cause they jealous of sting getting it. at least that something
The Bucks in particular are incapable of coming across as genuine, whether heel or face. They feel like kids pretending to be wrestlers. It never works.
Plastering Dwayne Johnson's face all over WWE in an attempt to coverup the whole Vince McMahon disgrace is as transparent as it is stupid, especially on behalf of the Rock. Why he would choose to sully his reputation by jumping in with WWE at this point is beyond me. I'm no fan of the Bucks at all, or even AEW at this point, but I'll take them any day of the week over WWE/McMahon.
@@austin31697 Sting is a much bigger star in wrestling than The Rock - Steve Borden was already a WCW Triple Crown Champion by the time Dwayne Johnson was starting his career to cries of "die Rocky die". The Bloodline angle revolves around Roman Reigns, someone who isn't even half the star The Rock is, let alone Sting.
@@namikstudios you can just take neither. We aren't talking about WWE here. Both can be shit at the same time for different reasons. Vince is still a scumbag if the Young bucks are shit. What a weird way to think.
Ratings drop for every Bucks segment. There were over 15k seats sold for Sting’s retirement weeks ago. The Bucks are now shoehorning their way in when the audience has shown they don’t want them.
I wish Eric would have went further into calling out Conrad on his blatant lie about The Young Bucks deserve credit for ticket sales. The Young Bucks returned on the January 10th episode of Dynamite. According to WrestleTix tweeted on January 10th before Dynamite aired that night, that there were 15,314 tickets sold for Revolution. The Young Bucks much like their "wrestling" didn't sell anything.
@AEWandObituary Hey Hey that's exactly why they insert themselves into shit like this so they can say they're part of the reason why they sold those tickets.
@Purist-dc4vk but according to Connie, 16k people said stick it up your ass because that's how many tickets have been sold. Although Connie doesn't say anything about the prior tickets sold before the Bucks got involved
Here are the precise numbers. The Young Bucks returned on the January 10th episode of Dynamite. According to WrestleTix tweet on January 10th before Dynamite aired that night, that there were 15,314 tickets sold for Revolution. The Young Bucks much like their "wrestling" didn't sell anything.
What's worse is Conrad's attempt to give The Young Bucks credit for ticket sales. The Young Bucks returned on the January 10th episode of Dynamite. According to WrestleTix tweeted on January 10th before Dynamite aired that night, that there were 15,314 tickets sold for Revolution. The Young Bucks much like their "wrestling" didn't sell anything.
@@AEWxObituaryit was nice when Eric called him on that, instantly. Conrad's answer was such a long winded tangent after that as he knew he was being disingenuous in that moment.
@@namikstudios I didnt just mean a mark for Ric. Conrad always gives AEW passes that he wont give to any other promotion. Usually defends it and hardly ever criticizes it. He is a mark for AEW.
The Bucks opportunity to draw real money was taking the reality of the backstage stuff with Punk,onscreen. Nobody is clamoring for more of them,especially not beating Sting in Greensboro. Thats literally the WRONG kind of heat. You have HHH and Rock doing Authority figure vs Authority figure,which is two stars…then you have The Bucks for no reason suddenly hating Sting and just being inserted in this match as EVPs in the first time since the company started. Who is this getting over? Even if Darby turned on Sting,WHY? Conrad is morphing into Meltzer and its kinda sad to see.
Well said Eric. This isn’t a story at all. We all know how it ends. The bucks decide they’ve changed their minds at some point, now they’re friends with someone and they’re good. It’s not story telling and it’s not even trying. It’s setting up a match that has nothing to do or nowhere to go after the match.
@@MrLexanderluther1986look at his previous comments. He is one of those perpetually weird, cultish AEW fans that gets upset if you criticise AEW. Odd. I wouldn't bother engaging.
@@paulmallon9292 yeah, just saw those after commenting. You'd think we're beyond cultish type of admiration these days, being its freaking 2024. But....everywhere you look.
@@MrLexanderluther1986 it's very strange to get defensive to critique, in the comment section of a channel that is a critical look at wrestling. Weird.
They're saying this story makes sense on paper, but someone explain why the bucks feel the need to run off Sting WHEN HE ALREADY ANNOUNCED HIS RETIREMENT
I don't think that anyone can. Honestly they should have stated from get go that they wanted to run off all talent that were in WWE, WCW, TNA, or ECW with Sting being made an example of. That way, they could have continued that crusade and maybe have something there.
I couldn't stop laughing when I heard this segment on the podcast. Conrad gets so upset and butthurt that Eric doesn't like the Bucks and can't listen to reason😂😅... basically another Meltzer when it comes to the Bucks
Tony Khan and Conrad are both fans with a lot of money whose knowledge of the wrestling business comes mostly from reading Meltzer's sheet. Dave has also made a nice living off of conning people for years into believing that he knows everything about the business side of the wrestling business and has all the answers for everything when he's never actually done squat in it. Both he and Conrad are living vicariously through TK. But at least Conrad has done some promoting. Dave would never start his own promoton or be a booker, at least not "officially" because I'm sure he's passing along ideas to Tony, because if and when he fails at it, it will ruin his reputation as this so called wrestling guru and expose him for what he really is
@@thedoubledowner5359 Yep Punk vs Omega and Bucks would've been the hottest story in AEW since MJF vs Wardlow or MJF vs Punk. They were too childish or scared or both to capitalize on it though.
@@joen6894 I disagree with a lot of what Conrad says but to say he doesn't understand wrestling at all is totally false. I mean the guy is Ric Flair's son-in-law for crying out loud. Being son-in-law to the greatest of all time would be an education in wrestling in itself!
I the idea that the Young Bucks are turning heel because of the reaction to CM Punk getting fired makes no sense on multiple level. First, AEW has never mentioned what CM Punk did and the only thing that we know of is that it was about Jungle Boy, not the Bucks. Then AEW started treating the Bucks like they just now became EVPs when anyone who knows about the CM Punk situation also knows that they've always been EVPs and have always abused their powers as EVPs to put themselves over. So if you haven't been following the dirt sheets, the angle makes no sense and if you have been following the dirt sheets, the angle is fake. And the Bucks are trying to run Sting out of AEW when they ALREADY announced that Sting would be retiring.
They can’t hide anymore when they try to be big time. They are fine while in high school gyms cause they are about the same size as the students so they blend in
This is the point isn't it? Conrad disagreeing with Eric is fair enough, but getting angry is pathetic and also just a bit out of order. Like you can say what you like about Eric, but he was a fairly good heel. Him telling Eric how to be a heel is so ridiculous.
I still say FTR would have been better. They were childhood fans of sting, grew up in the Carolinas and fans of Crockett promotions. There's the back story. Sort of like flair vs Michaels
Conrad is wrong. The story sucks, the lead to it is garbage, the ratings might be the last time AEW reaches 1M viewers or fills an arena. The only way they fill an arena or get 1M viewers again, is if Randy Savages returns as a zombie. They sold those tickets to see Sting, before the Bucks got into the story.
Here are the precise numbers. The Young Bucks returned on the January 10th episode of Dynamite. According to WrestleTix tweet on January 10th before Dynamite aired that night, that there were 15,314 tickets sold for Revolution. The Young Bucks much like their "wrestling" didn't sell anything.
I have no words for Conrad, those tickets sold out because it's Sting, it's his send off in a place that is well known as a staple to any WCW fan and a wrestler they consider their own
This is a “Home run” ???? AEW viewers are DOWN. Live attendance is DOWN. They’ve never been more cold. The Bucks on top is death for business and this is a home run? All that whining and crying Conrad did toward WWE yet this is good? No wonder I haven’t listened to his shows in years.
Conrad still didn't answer Eric's question at the end. He knows like the rest of us. Those 16k sold because of Sting and Sting alone. Tickets were selling before anything but the retirement match was announced..
He knew he was called out for making a disingenuous point. You only speak like that if A, you are a politician or B, you've been called out on misrepresenting something. Whatever anyone's opinion of the angle, Conrad was unnecessarily aggressive and passive aggressive here.
Punk was right. He worked with children. The difference is that the Rock is a high authority figure for TKO and him along with the Bloodline make it believable. The Young Bucks or rather the middle aged Bucks are playing dress up act like authority figures when they are active wrestlers themselves. One thing I will never understand is that if you are in office as an EVP or something, you have to be retired from in ring competition or wrestle a couple of matches like what HHH did.
Conrad's Rules 1. You're not allowed to not like AEW. 2. It's okay to not like WWE. 3. If you criticize AEW, you have to also criticize WWE the same amount or more. 4. Because something happened on AEW, it was successful. A heel beat up another guy's family, so they're instantly good heels regardless of whether it actually worked. 5. AEW's declining metrics are "growing pains" 6. It's okay for AEW and Tony to talk trash, but it's not okay for anyone to do the same to them. 6. Bad booking doesn't exist in AEW. It only exists in WWE. If something dumb happens on AEW, say it's not a big deal; say it was actually good; or talk about how WWE did something just as dumb one time.
Babyface or heels the Bucks are some of the weakest characters in the whole wrestling zeitgeist. There's literally nothing intimidaitng about them. You could tell neither of them could win a legit fight if their life depended upon it.
Punk showed the world how “tough” those two really are. We all knew it by looking at them. That book is all cover and no chapters. Punk simply proved it.
"I dont care what people think of a show. If i like it I like it. It doesn't matter what other people say" As hes literally crying and making excuses and justifications for why Eric must not like it. He literally sounded like a child in this video.
Gotta love how Con-Sad tried to credit The Young Bucks for ticket sales. The Young Bucks returned on the January 10th episode of Dynamite. According to WrestleTix tweet on January 10th before Dynamite aired that night, that there were 15,314 tickets sold for Revolution. The Young Bucks much like their "wrestling" didn't sell anything.
Poor Conrad had to be a flipp flopper here trying to explain why the youngbucks are heels. Bc it doesn't make sense, the youngbucks did a promo and it never explained why they want to take sting out of aew. It was just because... its lame, its silly and its cosplay.
Their recent interviews are just bad Vince McMahon impressions with bad Vince McMoustaches (that look like Vince shit on their upper lips, especially the log on Bratty Matty’s upper lip) and Spy vs Spy outfits. It screams of childish petulance at being told that they’re immature man-children who need to grow up, so they’re trying to mock being a “grown up”.
Tell em Eric. Appreciate hearing different opinions Conrad says he’s not a mark….not only a mark but a aew Stan(hey I watched wwe since 97. Im a mark too) He thinks his happiness is more important than everyone else’s. This story makes him happy so it’s good People bought tickets because of stings last match in Greensboro not because the story
@@LatenightNinja Here are the precise numbers. The Young Bucks returned on the January 10th episode of Dynamite. According to WrestleTix tweet on January 10th before Dynamite aired that night, that there were 15,314 tickets sold for Revolution. The Young Bucks much like their "wrestling" didn't sell anything.
YearsOVDecay Your brain has definitely suffered your name in spades. Truth hurts doesn’t it ?? BTE, Collision, and Rampage are being outdrawn by the Jim Cornette Experience viewership on RUclips alone, 405k and rising. Sometimes 2 of the aforementioned AEW shows are outdrawn combined by JCE. The Elite don’t draw fans, move ratings, are not wanted to be viewed by any audience anywhere anymore. They are are DONE!! Yesterday’s news!! Old and out of touch just like Dementia Dave and Bryan Alzheimer’s. The children played on the trampoline long enough, the adults want their wrestling back.
Yeah I agree with Eric. It's just not believable that those small Bucks laid out everybody including Sting's kids, one being a football player. That really throws me off. There should've been more than those two at least to help out.
What upset me the most was at the end of that tag team championship match was the short lived celebration of Darby Allin, Sting, and then to include Stings Sons in the ring, only to be beaten up for no rhyme or reason by the Bucks. That AEW did not get that iconic look of all four in the ring with the belts held high and Allin with Stings family, that would of been a great memory and image to have for us as fans. I have to 100% agree with Eric here. The Bucks just came out from nowhere, after they had their tantrum after the "Golden Jets" Beat them. When Kenny Omega already was moving on from them.
I remember how Eric would relish being this A hole heel character as opposed to the Bucks whining about having to do their jobs every week. It just becomes a killjoy and it's exhausting.
The current state of AEW can be summed up when TK announced Punks firing and the Bucks did a victory lap in a 1/3 arena just before their second biggest show of the year
Gotta love how he falsly tried to credit The Young Bucks for the ticket sales. The Young Bucks returned on the January 10th episode of Dynamite. According to WrestleTix tweeted on January 10th before Dynamite aired that night, that there were 15,314 tickets sold for Revolution. The Young Bucks much like their "wrestling" didn't sell anything.
I don't know why but this is my 5th time watching this video. I really like Conrad's reactions when Eric tells the truth about the Young Bucks! This is so effin hilarious!
He thinks this "story line" sold those tickets. I actually like Conrad, but he is in the Dave Meltzer AEW mark camp. To think this story line or the Bucks sold those tickets is a joke.
Eric Bischoff doesn't like something like in AEW? What a surprise! I like Eric, from his WCW days. I will always be a fan, and I am glad to see that he's discovered a new way to make money from the WWE marks: produce AEW hate content. It is so meta to watch Eric call the Young Bucks edrone trolling story as weak. ERIC, NEWSFLASH... YOU HELPED CREATE THIS ANGLE FOR THE YOUNG BUCKS! You are helping it now. You, and Jim Cornette, and all the folks who grift the edrones and Fed-marks, and make content to help them cope with their insecurity about another wrestling company on TV. You gave them free material, and they're monetizing. Bischoff should be honored.
The tickets were almost sold out before stings opponent was even named. Nobody cares about this angle. They are just going because it’s stings last match.
Easy e is correct. Their heel push is not a good story and has a weak background behind it. Literally all they had to do was show the bucks in real life being a bunch of douchebag pricks and someone in the locker room getting screwed over from it.
@Purist-dc4vk Seeing as most of Eric's wrestling opinion happens on 83 Weeks and that show is part of Conrad's network - yeah, I kinda have to put up with it.
Eric is right, there's no reason why they are heels other than the story needed a heel. Their cartoon fining people and them being douches is surface level heel shit. If they pushed the evp stuff after the fight with punk it would be more believable.
Never did. I’d hear the Meltzer talk about them being the best tag team ever, watched them on ROH once or twice and could not understand what anyone saw in them. Still don’t, because it’s not there: they are completely phony.
I think Eric and Conrad were on different wavelengths. Conrad was speaking from a fan's perspective, and Eric was looking at it from a business perspective. I understand both points. Conrad was saying it was good because he liked it, and Eric was saying that it sucks because it is not drawing money. While I get both perspectives, I have to side with Eric on this one. If it doesn't make dollars, then it doesn't make sense.
I’m with Uncle Eric here it was just not it. I don’t mind Sting and the Young Bucks working together but they missed the opportunity to do compelling television
Lemme make this simple, Conrad. The booking changes being so abrupt kills *immersion* . If I want to enter the world of AEW, I need to see things consistently move over time and any changes made need to be explained with a decent and clear excuse or angle. Ric Flair disappearing without an injury angle or getting left in the previous town or something simple like that would have helped me see Ric Flair disappearing as less jarring. Him disappearing into thin air without explanation removes the reality for me. The Young Bucks should have come back, tried to be extreme babyfaces, then, turned heel on a fan favourite and made the "fans" their enemy, as an on-screen reference to the real internet heat they have. Then, they could go on and attack Sting and make him an avatar for Punk, an old legend who won't "go away". See how much better the story sounds now!? I don't care about the Young Bucks because AEW doesn't care if I care. So why should I? Yeah. Boo the Young Bucks on-screen since you boo them online. I don't care about them as on-screen stars and haven't for ages. Give me a reason to care again and I WILL!
He does this on literally every show he's involved in that talks about AEW, and most wrestling journalists are like this as well. It's not a character, they're all just inexplicably mesmerized by Tony Khan and the Elite.
Eric torching Conrad and AEW is my favorite thing to listen too on a weekly basis, thank you Eric!!!
Same! 😂
OMG Conrad is really a bucks mark. nobody likes the bucks zero heat, nobody cares, no reaction at all.
He's always a mark He's annoying
I had to put on my Canada Goose Parka the reaction was so cold.
They even had to pipe in boos
i thought he was being sarcastic at first lol
They are awful. I dont believe anything they say or do. They are trampoline guys
Cornette calls them The Hardly Boyz which is perfect
You know when Conrad starts cursing, he's pissed Eric doesn't agree with him.
Big baby behavior.
#conradcrybaby
Hey Hey big head is upset
😂Eric bischoff is completely correct about AEW trash booking
Conrad sounds goofy af. The Bucks are not just believable as heels
I can already see Conrad praising this gimmick to high heaven for no reason at all
Maybe he just liked it without trying to get click bait hate reviews
He's so bad, he's a puppet for AEW or he's plain dumb. No one loved what's happening with the Bucks/Sting. No one except him and a few ''diehards'' who always love whatever does AEW.
Conrad is the resident AEW mark. It's actually obnoxious how up their rear he is.
😂
@@DaleWeise99forget those 800 dedicated fans 😂
Eric is 100% correct. Conrad is way too sensitive and wants everyone to love his little Buckaroo Boys. He sounds pathetic.
I could give two craps about the bucks
@jasmith8039they got that double J chosen 1 heat.
It should have been Darby vs Sting for retirement match it makes sense similar to Shawn Michael and RIC Flair
Totally agree,I was just listening to Eric's podcast with that John alba fella and they were having the same argument but alba sounded like he was about to start crying really defending the bucks
Seeing Conrad owned by someone who has been in the business for years and knows how this all should work is just absolutely glorious.
Conrad forgot to point out those tickets were sold before the bucks showed up
THE BUCKAROOOOOSSSS
The Young Bucks returned on the January 10th episode of Dynamite. According to WrestleTix tweeted on January 10th before Dynamite aired that night, that there were 15,314 tickets sold for Revolution. The Young Bucks much like their "wrestling" didn't sell anything.
Wish Eric would have went further calling him out on that.
Typically Bucks, only inserting themselves in shows that already is sold out.
@@AEWxObituarymaybe Eric saw Conrad was about to cry and choose to stay silent...
I had got tickets thinking the Bucks would still be on hiatus.. Sting sold that ppv. Darby and the Bucks are the tagalongs here
The Bucks couldn't sell out a high school gymnasium on their own merit.
I saw them wrestle live and I don’t think that they can draw
They couldn't even sell tickets for an event in their home town a few months back.
The Bucks and weak are pretty much synonymous.
Buck'weaks, it has potential
@@danielreynolds4716that needs to be a shirt and I bet Connie would even shill it for a price
Damn
Yep. Going heel was weak? Everything I’ve ever seen them do has been weak!
They’re the first two “wrestlers” that Shawn 0-Life Michaels could beat in a fight.
Punk beat them up at age 45, with a torn tricep and 16 screws in his foot.
They’re lucky Dax and Cash have patience and tolerance for manchild behaviour, because that fight would look like a 4 year old vs Meng.
Eric is 100% right here, to have a good story, u have to have compelling characters, Sting and Darby check that box, but when the Bucks just insert themselves into "wanting to get rid of Sting", it doesn't work for me brother. The Bucks aren't nearly as over as they once were and the tv viewing audience leaves in droves when they're on, people just don't care, except for Meltzer and now Conrad
I Care..
"it was a fun angle, it is not a great story" that sums up, just one reason , why wwe has people invested in the characters and hitting records/milestones and aew has no buzz to it anymore. The thing I think people forget in a bigger picture, is we all remember the moments, however the moments didn't mean anything at the time to remember without the investment in the story getting there. For whatever angle that, as Eric said was executed fine, it doesn't give you the emotional response without a story to make you care. Pick a moment you always remember from a movie or tv show, they needed to build to it, whether in 2 hours or multiple seasons. You need a good story to care for the performers to watch and invest in the matches.
Also Eric, again correct, for Conrad saying how can you say its not compelling from tickets sold in Greensboro, that has zero to do with anyone involved, its Stings last match and people want to go. Young Bucks get zero credit for that, or anyone in the match. Conrads trying to defend that its aew putting it on cause of others who didn't deliver is poor argument.
Gotta love Conrad giving The Young Bucks credit for ticket sales.
The Young Bucks returned on the January 10th episode of Dynamite. According to WrestleTix tweeted on January 10th before Dynamite aired that night, that there were 15,314 tickets sold for Revolution. The Young Bucks much like their "wrestling" didn't sell anything.
My favourite part is the whole logic doesn't make sense because Sting is retiring and everyone knows it. So Bucks don't need to "run him out" because he's done anyways.
@@shayandaryanYou a _Being the Elite_ fan/viewer?
Aww, Conrads feelings are hurt because Bischoff is right.
HILARIOUS confused face!!
"WTF do you mean?? How wasn't that the greatest angle ever?? Lie to me, Eric!!!"
😂😂😂😂
Eric is wrong you know it dont try to deny it
@davidcoombsbestmegadethalb9780 no. There is nothing authentic to grab onto. Nothing. No real heat.
Also said outloud the same thing...Sting's kids could beat the Bucks' asses quick. You have to "hate" the Bucks in kayfabe.
The butterflies on Adam Page’s jeans could beat up the Bucks quickly.
Conrad lost.
Everything but LB’s
Everything but his appetite
Lol dang y’all some savages.
@@RonJP-pm7jp clearly Conrad needs some pushing. Pulling also. Any general form of movement.
He sounds lost 😂
Conrad sounds like meltzer at this point
What do you expect from a guy who literally idolizes Meltzer.
The only thing Conrad has on Meltzer at this point is at least he doesn't sound like a recovering stroke victim when he speaks.
He's one of the people that hang in everything Meltzer says.
@@AEWxObituarylike like like like
He reads the Meltzer star ratings and everything.
The guy should just stick to selling mortgages.
Conrad trying to explain why this is a good storyline because the Bucks are getting heat by beating up a beloved legend is literally everything wrong with AEW storylines. Nobody cares about these people, so no matter how much sense it makes on paper, there's nothing for anyone to care about unless you're already an AEW fan. You can't just explain it away, you have to feel something.
if the young buck were to be sting last opponent aew needed to set up this long time ago. Especially if it was not going to be a shawn micheal and ric flair type of send off. You needed the buck to be part of the story much earlier and slowly tease them into the role maybe do a temp check earlier and so on. Giving sting the tag belt so the buck have a belt when they beat sting when they send it up is just the cream for this fk cake.
Right compare this to the storylines from NWA mid to late 80s
@@rubenarriaga3029 i mean you could had set up a feud with the buck and blil and the feud they are upset that they didn't get the title shot and attack sting cause they jealous of sting getting it. at least that something
there is no pay off. cm punk is not there anymore. makes no sense
The Bucks in particular are incapable of coming across as genuine, whether heel or face. They feel like kids pretending to be wrestlers. It never works.
The bucks aren’t money. Now the rock is the heel authority figure, they look even more like children.
No one in that company is bigger than The Rock or The Bloodline story period.
The Rock turning "corporate heel" makes the Bucks' attempt to do so look so second rate.
Plastering Dwayne Johnson's face all over WWE in an attempt to coverup the whole Vince McMahon disgrace is as transparent as it is stupid, especially on behalf of the Rock. Why he would choose to sully his reputation by jumping in with WWE at this point is beyond me. I'm no fan of the Bucks at all, or even AEW at this point, but I'll take them any day of the week over WWE/McMahon.
@@austin31697 Sting is a much bigger star in wrestling than The Rock - Steve Borden was already a WCW Triple Crown Champion by the time Dwayne Johnson was starting his career to cries of "die Rocky die". The Bloodline angle revolves around Roman Reigns, someone who isn't even half the star The Rock is, let alone Sting.
@@namikstudios you can just take neither. We aren't talking about WWE here. Both can be shit at the same time for different reasons. Vince is still a scumbag if the Young bucks are shit. What a weird way to think.
Ratings drop for every Bucks segment. There were over 15k seats sold for Sting’s retirement weeks ago. The Bucks are now shoehorning their way in when the audience has shown they don’t want them.
I wish Eric would have went further into calling out Conrad on his blatant lie about The Young Bucks deserve credit for ticket sales.
The Young Bucks returned on the January 10th episode of Dynamite. According to WrestleTix tweeted on January 10th before Dynamite aired that night, that there were 15,314 tickets sold for Revolution. The Young Bucks much like their "wrestling" didn't sell anything.
@AEWandObituary Hey Hey that's exactly why they insert themselves into shit like this so they can say they're part of the reason why they sold those tickets.
AEW hit a home run creatively lol lmao even. Connie is the worst kind of mark.
Hey Hey the definition of neck beard lol
Weren't something like 15k tickets sold before the Bucks interjected themselves into this match?
Yes.
@Purist-dc4vk but according to Connie, 16k people said stick it up your ass because that's how many tickets have been sold. Although Connie doesn't say anything about the prior tickets sold before the Bucks got involved
Here are the precise numbers.
The Young Bucks returned on the January 10th episode of Dynamite. According to WrestleTix tweet on January 10th before Dynamite aired that night, that there were 15,314 tickets sold for Revolution. The Young Bucks much like their "wrestling" didn't sell anything.
Sting chose his final match. Dumb ass.
@@AEWxObituarythat's my birthday. That's all.
It’s embarrassing when someone clearly lays out his opinion in an understandable manner and Conrad acts like “Eric is a baseless hater”
What's worse is Conrad's attempt to give The Young Bucks credit for ticket sales.
The Young Bucks returned on the January 10th episode of Dynamite. According to WrestleTix tweeted on January 10th before Dynamite aired that night, that there were 15,314 tickets sold for Revolution. The Young Bucks much like their "wrestling" didn't sell anything.
@@AEWxObituaryit was nice when Eric called him on that, instantly. Conrad's answer was such a long winded tangent after that as he knew he was being disingenuous in that moment.
@@AEWxObituary I mean it just makes AEW fanatics either as liars or delusional… it’s the only thing it accomplishes.
@@paulmallon9292Sounds like he took a page out of Tony Khan’s book.
Conrad is a such a child.
"Home run creatively" LOL
"YoU DiDnT LiKe iT!?"
How could anyone NOT like it??? They beat up Sting!!
😂😂😂
The fact that AEW is like 45yrs younger than WWE and Conrad’s main anticipation is will Ric Flair turn on Sting in 2024 says it all smh
Because Flair is a star and played a key role in Sting's career. There are almost zero stars left in wrestling today.
is because he is ric's son in law and a total mark.
@@zeromagnum2811 you don't need to be Ric Flair's son-in-law to be a mark for the greatest of all time.
@@namikstudios I didnt just mean a mark for Ric. Conrad always gives AEW passes that he wont give to any other promotion. Usually defends it and hardly ever criticizes it. He is a mark for AEW.
NWA 4 Lyfe
😂
The Bucks opportunity to draw real money was taking the reality of the backstage stuff with Punk,onscreen. Nobody is clamoring for more of them,especially not beating Sting in Greensboro. Thats literally the WRONG kind of heat. You have HHH and Rock doing Authority figure vs Authority figure,which is two stars…then you have The Bucks for no reason suddenly hating Sting and just being inserted in this match as EVPs in the first time since the company started. Who is this getting over? Even if Darby turned on Sting,WHY? Conrad is morphing into Meltzer and its kinda sad to see.
Eric should get a new host
No he shouldn't - the fact that Eric and Conrad disagree is a very good thing for the show. Controversy Creates Cash...
Nah it’s funny to watch him own Conrad
@Purist-dc4vk What choice does he have if he is a fan of Eric and there is no other podcast with him on it but this one?
@Purist-dc4vkfor Eric yes. What choice do we have?
@@namikstudiosyep agreeing to each other dont make an interesting show even Conrad is a freaking mark lol
Well said Eric. This isn’t a story at all. We all know how it ends. The bucks decide they’ve changed their minds at some point, now they’re friends with someone and they’re good. It’s not story telling and it’s not even trying. It’s setting up a match that has nothing to do or nowhere to go after the match.
Conrad is such a damn AEW shill. So damn transparent. Eric is 💯 right.
@@BlackQueen-z5b right. Eric is right.
@@MrLexanderluther1986look at his previous comments. He is one of those perpetually weird, cultish AEW fans that gets upset if you criticise AEW. Odd. I wouldn't bother engaging.
@@paulmallon9292 yeah, just saw those after commenting. You'd think we're beyond cultish type of admiration these days, being its freaking 2024. But....everywhere you look.
@@MrLexanderluther1986 it's very strange to get defensive to critique, in the comment section of a channel that is a critical look at wrestling. Weird.
Mate, he just likes the show like millions of others.
They're saying this story makes sense on paper, but someone explain why the bucks feel the need to run off Sting WHEN HE ALREADY ANNOUNCED HIS RETIREMENT
I don't think that anyone can. Honestly they should have stated from get go that they wanted to run off all talent that were in WWE, WCW, TNA, or ECW with Sting being made an example of. That way, they could have continued that crusade and maybe have something there.
I mean no harm, but the Conrad guy seems to be a little biased.
Big biased!!
@@BangemJ His bias definitely matches his body weight.
He’s so far up the bucks’ ass his toes are brown
To be fair, he grew up being a Dave Meltzer fan and so he's inclined to agree with Uncle Dave.
I couldn't stop laughing when I heard this segment on the podcast. Conrad gets so upset and butthurt that Eric doesn't like the Bucks and can't listen to reason😂😅... basically another Meltzer when it comes to the Bucks
He's always like that when AEW is critiqued
@alcheman12 yeah big time 😆 and he can't handle hearing Eric's opinion
Tony Khan and Conrad are both fans with a lot of money whose knowledge of the wrestling business comes mostly from reading Meltzer's sheet. Dave has also made a nice living off of conning people for years into believing that he knows everything about the business side of the wrestling business and has all the answers for everything when he's never actually done squat in it. Both he and Conrad are living vicariously through TK. But at least Conrad has done some promoting. Dave would never start his own promoton or be a booker, at least not "officially" because I'm sure he's passing along ideas to Tony, because if and when he fails at it, it will ruin his reputation as this so called wrestling guru and expose him for what he really is
First time viewer, will definitely rewatch multiple times
😂😂
Conrad also makes it too much about himself when it's supposed to be Eric's show!
If Conrad really thinks the Buck's moved tickets(which were already sold) he doesnt have the common sense to be doing mortgage's
Or a wrestling podcast....
When has a YB segment spiked a rating? Never.
That's just not true. I've seen their segments spike way way down.
Ha.
About the only angles the Buck'weaks could have spiked a rating on take place off camera.
@@Am0ment0fB you missed a way
They had their chance to spike ratings. But they were too afraid to work with Punk. That was the match that everyone wanted to see.
@@thedoubledowner5359 Yep Punk vs Omega and Bucks would've been the hottest story in AEW since MJF vs Wardlow or MJF vs Punk. They were too childish or scared or both to capitalize on it though.
Conrad on the payroll??
So that's what all of those excessive deliveries from GrubHub were about.
I thought this exact thing
No, just a giant mark that doesn’t understand wrestling at all.
My theory is Stockholms Syndrome.
@@joen6894 I disagree with a lot of what Conrad says but to say he doesn't understand wrestling at all is totally false. I mean the guy is Ric Flair's son-in-law for crying out loud. Being son-in-law to the greatest of all time would be an education in wrestling in itself!
I the idea that the Young Bucks are turning heel because of the reaction to CM Punk getting fired makes no sense on multiple level. First, AEW has never mentioned what CM Punk did and the only thing that we know of is that it was about Jungle Boy, not the Bucks. Then AEW started treating the Bucks like they just now became EVPs when anyone who knows about the CM Punk situation also knows that they've always been EVPs and have always abused their powers as EVPs to put themselves over. So if you haven't been following the dirt sheets, the angle makes no sense and if you have been following the dirt sheets, the angle is fake.
And the Bucks are trying to run Sting out of AEW when they ALREADY announced that Sting would be retiring.
That last part you said I was gonna bring up. Sting tole everyone he was leaving way before the Old Cucks turned heel. 😂
“It can’t be good friends jumping off buildings on each other”
When has that stopped AEW before?
"HAS to be". Also has to be a Tornado tag? A better story couldn't be done with guys you don't want to see lose or don't want to see beat Sting? Ehhh
This is LITERALLY what they love to do. They love friend v. friend much to the chagrin of their audience.
Cornette has called the Bucks "cosplayers" for years. Now, other people are starting to see it too. They are a joke.
They can’t hide anymore when they try to be big time. They are fine while in high school gyms cause they are about the same size as the students so they blend in
Conrad, if Eric doesnt like it, he doesnt like it. Let him be.
This is the point isn't it? Conrad disagreeing with Eric is fair enough, but getting angry is pathetic and also just a bit out of order. Like you can say what you like about Eric, but he was a fairly good heel. Him telling Eric how to be a heel is so ridiculous.
Conrad is unbearable. He can't give an honest opinion because he's afraid to get shut out by AEW.
Nothing is more sad being a bucks fans.
Eric is correct and I’ll add in without Cody would there had been an AEW. Sting deserves a better send off
Sting deserves to go out on his terms, which is what he is doing, not being forced into retirement by a jobber called Seth in Vince McMahon's WWE.
Connie is on Tony’s payroll just like Meltzer.
Young bucks suck shld have been ftr
I still say FTR would have been better. They were childhood fans of sting, grew up in the Carolinas and fans of Crockett promotions. There's the back story. Sort of like flair vs Michaels
And it doesn't hurt when they lose.
Eric Bischoff spoke 100% FACTS here. He has been a part of many great stories in his time.
And so have the bucks. And Bischoff has been associated with a LOT of dog sh*t
Conrad completely dismissing the fact those tickets were sold before the bucks were even mentioned. Come on Conrad
Conrad is wrong. The story sucks, the lead to it is garbage, the ratings might be the last time AEW reaches 1M viewers or fills an arena. The only way they fill an arena or get 1M viewers again, is if Randy Savages returns as a zombie. They sold those tickets to see Sting, before the Bucks got into the story.
Here are the precise numbers.
The Young Bucks returned on the January 10th episode of Dynamite. According to WrestleTix tweet on January 10th before Dynamite aired that night, that there were 15,314 tickets sold for Revolution. The Young Bucks much like their "wrestling" didn't sell anything.
The Bucks don’t work for us, brother.
I have no words for Conrad, those tickets sold out because it's Sting, it's his send off in a place that is well known as a staple to any WCW fan and a wrestler they consider their own
Conrad: "I don't like things because of how many people also like it."
Also Conrad: "This angle is successful because of the ticket sales."
Sometimes you can both run a successful mortgage business but have horrible taste at the same time. I learned something new today.
🤣💀
One of those “ don’t quit your day job “ moments for Conrad. Just one of many at this point.
This is a “Home run” ???? AEW viewers are DOWN. Live attendance is DOWN. They’ve never been more cold. The Bucks on top is death for business and this is a home run? All that whining and crying Conrad did toward WWE yet this is good? No wonder I haven’t listened to his shows in years.
Everything is great! 🔔
Everyone is great! 🔔
It's all great! 🔔
Ha.
Your just not a fan of blue chews i guess😂
The only way AEW could be "colder" at this point is if they were Vince McMahon's WWE.
@@namikstudios I have to put on my Canada Goose Parka whenever The Young Bucks shown up on my TV
@@Am0ment0fB Ding
Bucks could have worked a really hot program if they'd have been willing to work with Punk.
Conrad still didn't answer Eric's question at the end. He knows like the rest of us. Those 16k sold because of Sting and Sting alone. Tickets were selling before anything but the retirement match was announced..
He knew he was called out for making a disingenuous point. You only speak like that if A, you are a politician or B, you've been called out on misrepresenting something. Whatever anyone's opinion of the angle, Conrad was unnecessarily aggressive and passive aggressive here.
The viewing figures drops repeatedly whenever the young bucks are on screen, that is simply undeniable
Conrad is the single person who finds the story compelling
Don't forget Brandon Cutler.
Punk was right. He worked with children. The difference is that the Rock is a high authority figure for TKO and him along with the Bloodline make it believable. The Young Bucks or rather the middle aged Bucks are playing dress up act like authority figures when they are active wrestlers themselves. One thing I will never understand is that if you are in office as an EVP or something, you have to be retired from in ring competition or wrestle a couple of matches like what HHH did.
Conrad's Rules
1. You're not allowed to not like AEW.
2. It's okay to not like WWE.
3. If you criticize AEW, you have to also criticize WWE the same amount or more.
4. Because something happened on AEW, it was successful. A heel beat up another guy's family, so they're instantly good heels regardless of whether it actually worked.
5. AEW's declining metrics are "growing pains"
6. It's okay for AEW and Tony to talk trash, but it's not okay for anyone to do the same to them.
6. Bad booking doesn't exist in AEW. It only exists in WWE. If something dumb happens on AEW, say it's not a big deal; say it was actually good; or talk about how WWE did something just as dumb one time.
Babyface or heels the Bucks are some of the weakest characters in the whole wrestling zeitgeist. There's literally nothing intimidaitng about them. You could tell neither of them could win a legit fight if their life depended upon it.
Punk showed the world how “tough” those two really are.
We all knew it by looking at them.
That book is all cover and no chapters.
Punk simply proved it.
"I dont care what people think of a show. If i like it I like it. It doesn't matter what other people say"
As hes literally crying and making excuses and justifications for why Eric must not like it. He literally sounded like a child in this video.
Just like the EVPs/Elite. No wonder he likes them.
Conrad is the perfect representation of AEW Neckbeard 😭
One day Eric will make Conrad cry
Dudes defense of the evps is not Con-Rad. It's actually Con-Sad.
Ha.
@Purist-dc4vk no. I watch despite the big tub.
Ha.
Gotta love how Con-Sad tried to credit The Young Bucks for ticket sales.
The Young Bucks returned on the January 10th episode of Dynamite. According to WrestleTix tweet on January 10th before Dynamite aired that night, that there were 15,314 tickets sold for Revolution. The Young Bucks much like their "wrestling" didn't sell anything.
@Purist-dc4vkwhat's with y'all constantly repeating comments? Dude right above me about the ticket sales is doing the same thing
Chill y'all
It’s a Con Ad for the Bitcharoos
Now I understand why ppl say Conrad is a AEW make. Eric is 100% right
Poor Conrad had to be a flipp flopper here trying to explain why the youngbucks are heels. Bc it doesn't make sense, the youngbucks did a promo and it never explained why they want to take sting out of aew. It was just because... its lame, its silly and its cosplay.
And the Bucks suddenly want to take Sting out of the AEW after AEW already started selling tickets to Sting's retirement match.
@@Hedgehobbit hogan level 💯
Their recent interviews are just bad Vince McMahon impressions with bad Vince McMoustaches (that look like Vince shit on their upper lips, especially the log on Bratty Matty’s upper lip) and Spy vs Spy outfits.
It screams of childish petulance at being told that they’re immature man-children who need to grow up, so they’re trying to mock being a “grown up”.
Tell em Eric. Appreciate hearing different opinions
Conrad says he’s not a mark….not only a mark but a aew Stan(hey I watched wwe since 97. Im a mark too)
He thinks his happiness is more important than everyone else’s. This story makes him happy so it’s good
People bought tickets because of stings last match in Greensboro not because the story
And those tickets where sold before they won these belts
@@LatenightNinja Here are the precise numbers.
The Young Bucks returned on the January 10th episode of Dynamite. According to WrestleTix tweet on January 10th before Dynamite aired that night, that there were 15,314 tickets sold for Revolution. The Young Bucks much like their "wrestling" didn't sell anything.
@@AEWxObituaryyet again holy crap man WHAT ARE YOU ON
YearsOVDecay
Your brain has definitely suffered your name in spades.
Truth hurts doesn’t it ??
BTE, Collision, and Rampage are being outdrawn by the Jim Cornette Experience viewership on RUclips alone, 405k and rising. Sometimes 2 of the aforementioned AEW shows are outdrawn combined by JCE.
The Elite don’t draw fans, move ratings, are not wanted to be viewed by any audience anywhere anymore. They are are DONE!! Yesterday’s news!! Old and out of touch just like Dementia Dave and Bryan Alzheimer’s.
The children played on the trampoline long enough, the adults want their wrestling back.
Conrad sat with his arms folded like an angry child knowing he has no legitimate response to Eric's well put forward argument 😂
AIN'T LYING!!
"He last match in TNA/WWE sucked"
CRY MORE
Yeah I agree with Eric. It's just not believable that those small Bucks laid out everybody including Sting's kids, one being a football player. That really throws me off. There should've been more than those two at least to help out.
What upset me the most was at the end of that tag team championship match was the short lived celebration of Darby Allin, Sting, and then to include Stings Sons in the ring, only to be beaten up for no rhyme or reason by the Bucks. That AEW did not get that iconic look of all four in the ring with the belts held high and Allin with Stings family, that would of been a great memory and image to have for us as fans. I have to 100% agree with Eric here. The Bucks just came out from nowhere, after they had their tantrum after the "Golden Jets" Beat them. When Kenny Omega already was moving on from them.
True, I really wanted to see Sting & Darby kiss unironically😔they deserve a nice ending to their love story
I remember how Eric would relish being this A hole heel character as opposed to the Bucks whining about having to do their jobs every week. It just becomes a killjoy and it's exhausting.
Conrad is offended that Eric doesnt like it
The current state of AEW can be summed up when TK announced Punks firing and the Bucks did a victory lap in a 1/3 arena just before their second biggest show of the year
I like how Conrad used ticket sales to justify his argument. Brought up tna and wwe. Stings last match in wwe was in front of almost 15k.
Gotta love how he falsly tried to credit The Young Bucks for the ticket sales.
The Young Bucks returned on the January 10th episode of Dynamite. According to WrestleTix tweeted on January 10th before Dynamite aired that night, that there were 15,314 tickets sold for Revolution. The Young Bucks much like their "wrestling" didn't sell anything.
@@AEWxObituarybro quit copy pasting that sh!t over and over .... Why tf are you *dDdDeEeErRrPpPpP* about every last person seeing your point
Eric spot on
Meltzer loves the Bucks therefore Conrad has to love them too .
The Bucks are awful and always have been .
I don't know why but this is my 5th time watching this video. I really like Conrad's reactions when Eric tells the truth about the Young Bucks! This is so effin hilarious!
They sold 16,000 tickets not a single one of them due to the young bucks being involved
No but the AEW brand helped sell it
"im not owned! im not owned!!", Conrad continues to insist as he slowly shrinks and transforms into a corn cob
This is horrible. It makes me not care about sting retiring wrestling these two goofs. This sucks
It was so weak and Conrad not seeing this is incredible.
Does Conrad really believe its the Bucks that sold those 16 000 tickets ?
Weren’t the majority or tickets sold before they even announced a match?
He thinks this "story line" sold those tickets. I actually like Conrad, but he is in the Dave Meltzer AEW mark camp. To think this story line or the Bucks sold those tickets is a joke.
Eric Bischoff doesn't like something like in AEW? What a surprise! I like Eric, from his WCW days. I will always be a fan, and I am glad to see that he's discovered a new way to make money from the WWE marks: produce AEW hate content.
It is so meta to watch Eric call the Young Bucks edrone trolling story as weak. ERIC, NEWSFLASH... YOU HELPED CREATE THIS ANGLE FOR THE YOUNG BUCKS! You are helping it now. You, and Jim Cornette, and all the folks who grift the edrones and Fed-marks, and make content to help them cope with their insecurity about another wrestling company on TV. You gave them free material, and they're monetizing. Bischoff should be honored.
Conrad just wants to make sure the those two teenage boys playing in their dads clothes come to his birthday party.
The tickets were almost sold out before stings opponent was even named. Nobody cares about this angle. They are just going because it’s stings last match.
Conrad lives in a completely different world than the rest of us. In his world AEW is a good product
Easy e is correct. Their heel push is not a good story and has a weak background behind it. Literally all they had to do was show the bucks in real life being a bunch of douchebag pricks and someone in the locker room getting screwed over from it.
Incredibly annoying that to listen to what Eric has to say I often have to put up with Conrad's takes
@Purist-dc4vk Seeing as most of Eric's wrestling opinion happens on 83 Weeks and that show is part of Conrad's network - yeah, I kinda have to put up with it.
@Purist-dc4vk Stop sucking Conrad, it’s pathetic.
Eric is right, there's no reason why they are heels other than the story needed a heel. Their cartoon fining people and them being douches is surface level heel shit.
If they pushed the evp stuff after the fight with punk it would be more believable.
Glad I’m not the only one that does not get the Young Bucks.
Never did. I’d hear the Meltzer talk about them being the best tag team ever, watched them on ROH once or twice and could not understand what anyone saw in them. Still don’t, because it’s not there: they are completely phony.
I think Eric and Conrad were on different wavelengths. Conrad was speaking from a fan's perspective, and Eric was looking at it from a business perspective. I understand both points. Conrad was saying it was good because he liked it, and Eric was saying that it sucks because it is not drawing money. While I get both perspectives, I have to side with Eric on this one. If it doesn't make dollars, then it doesn't make sense.
Did Conrad buy stock in AEW or something 😅
That makes a lot of sense.
I’m with Uncle Eric here it was just not it. I don’t mind Sting and the Young Bucks working together but they missed the opportunity to do compelling television
Young bucks equals no bucks..they not a draw look at the ratings when they on
Eric Bischoff|Jim Cornette|Paul Heyman|Vince Russo vs Shahid Khan|Tony Khan|Shane McMahon|Vince McMahon Past Present Future
Bischoff is spot on. Conrad marking out for the bucks per usual.
Lemme make this simple, Conrad. The booking changes being so abrupt kills *immersion* . If I want to enter the world of AEW, I need to see things consistently move over time and any changes made need to be explained with a decent and clear excuse or angle. Ric Flair disappearing without an injury angle or getting left in the previous town or something simple like that would have helped me see Ric Flair disappearing as less jarring. Him disappearing into thin air without explanation removes the reality for me. The Young Bucks should have come back, tried to be extreme babyfaces, then, turned heel on a fan favourite and made the "fans" their enemy, as an on-screen reference to the real internet heat they have. Then, they could go on and attack Sting and make him an avatar for Punk, an old legend who won't "go away". See how much better the story sounds now!? I don't care about the Young Bucks because AEW doesn't care if I care. So why should I? Yeah. Boo the Young Bucks on-screen since you boo them online. I don't care about them as on-screen stars and haven't for ages. Give me a reason to care again and I WILL!
Conrad looks like he’s fighting back tears🤣🤣🤣
@@BlackQueen-z5bYes, he does. His weak little voice cracked. He sounded broken.
😂😂😂
The Young Bucks suck no matter what. You can put sugar on a turd and it still ain't a doughnut.
Conrad is delusional.
They're gonna run out the old guy who announced his retirement date. He is absolutely delusional
Sting deserves a way better exit than a Young Bucks tag match.
Connie desperately trying to run inference for little Matty & Nicky
Conrad's definitely playing a character on this podcast
He does this on literally every show he's involved in that talks about AEW, and most wrestling journalists are like this as well. It's not a character, they're all just inexplicably mesmerized by Tony Khan and the Elite.