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> While speaking on the Duke Loves Rasslin podcast, the conversation turned to Cornette after D-Von and Duke discussed New Jack’s memorable Smoky Mountain Wrestling promos. D-Von credited Cornette for knowing how to push the envelope without losing sight of what made professional wrestling work.

> “Jim believed in pushing the envelope to the edge. And, you know, he knew what worked in professional wrestling.”

> As the conversation continued, D-Von pointed to something he’s noticed throughout his career. In his view, many of wrestling’s biggest stars have consistently spoken highly of Cornette’s knowledge of the business.

> “I’ve noticed that the most successful wrestlers put Jim Cornette over. I’ve always noticed that, and I’ve always found that interesting.”

> D-Von went on to explain why he thinks Cornette has earned that level of respect. He argued that Cornette understands the wrestling business and compared his ability to develop talent to Paul Heyman’s.

https://www.ringsidenews.com/tony-khan-urged-sign-jim-cornette-fix-aews-problems/

> AEW already owns enough championship belts to fill a trophy case twice over, but there is one title idea that never made it past the planning stage.

> Sean Ross Sapp shared the story during a Fightful Select Q&A while talking about titles that got pitched but never materialized.

> The Continental Championship was originally supposed to be the MAX Championship, tied directly to Warner Bros. Discovery’s streaming platform.

> Before jumping to conclusions, though, Sapp checked the story directly with Tony Khan, who pushed back a little. Khan told him that the Continental Championship was basically the title he had always wanted to build, even if a MAX-branded version had floated around earlier.

> The timing helps explain how the idea came about. Warner Bros. Discovery reportedly reached out to AEW in mid-2023 about streaming pay-per-view events on MAX, and both companies felt that talks were moving well. That deal did not officially close until the fall of 2024, but during those early conversations, adding an actual MAX Championship was seriously discussed.

https://www.ewrestlingnews.com/news/aew/report-aew-ditched-plans-for-a-corporate-max-championship

Regarding the Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic:

> Notable there is nothing from TNA, and with Bound for Glory coming, and no WWE talent appearing with TNA any longer, it does appear that relationship is nothing close to what it was. It’s a bad situation. This always happens when you work with WWE historically.

> The fan base sees the WWE guys as superior because they are booked superior, and then when it ends, you have to draw with your inferior guys. TNA’s ticket sales are way down now. It looks like most saw this going in, that WWE worked with TNA as a way to hurt AEW, the key being send talent so TNA has better leverage for a TV deal. In that sense, the deal did short-term work out great for TNA, but now they have to struggle with the post-deal period.

> I think the hope was that TNA would get television on Wednesday, thereby cutting into the AEW audience and perhaps the hope that with WWE talent given some of the people who should know better predicting TNA with a TV deal would have a shot at the No. 2 spot, and if this was the case, it hurts AEW’s chances for renewal and lowers its value, and this would be a No. 2 affiliated with WWE, that WWE could buy if needed but it’s more beneficial in some ways not to own because of anti-trust. Remember, the same lawyers who were so successful with the UFC case, know the similarities with WWE and UFC as far as market domination and keeping talent pay to a low percentage. But a strong AEW is the potential major difference in what UFC had and WWE has as far as competition. But in the end, the TNA hurting AEW thing didn’t happen and you can see the end result.

https://www.f4wonline.com/newsletters/wrestling-observer-newsletter/won-september-2026-cmll-vs-aaa-roman-reigns-penta-butcher-obit/