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This will be the last year of the Forbidden Door PPV…

There is no point in running it when AEW talent is in random Indy’s every weekend & the AEW Men’s championship has been defended in said random Indy’s as well..

Plus Tony has raided his partner promotions so bad that they don’t have any more “stars” to help sell a PPV anymore(NJPW) & nobody cares about the other promotions(CMLL, Stardom etc) to not only travel to but build a PPV around..

I can see this maybe hitting 6000-6500 at the most come bell-time .. & that will the end of this PPV..

Agree or disagree Midcarders?

They barely got over 21-23k in the Rangers ballpark for All In here..

They might clear 32-35k in Wembley but that isn’t an event that you just book airline, hotels a month before in an spur of the moment decision, gotta have your passport & all that shit…

I just don’t know how much tickets Ospreay will move after he wins the Owen.. maybe 2-3k.. & that’s being generous..

If Mania drawing 50k for 2 days straight was considered “disappointing”..

What will drawing 30-35k be considered for AEW’s Mania when they drew over 52k the last time they were in London Midcarders?

2 matches I want to talk about from last night’s Dynamite..

I said a couple of weeks that TK should get rid of the women’s division due to just not giving a fuck about it.. got some pushback.. but when in an over 180 minute show.. 12 minutes is dedicated to the women & 3 minutes is a squash match.. that is completely unacceptable & needs to be called out.. Where you at Stopwatch Denise.. but the “sickos” & the “wrestling journalists” won’t say a peep cause they are bought & paid for by Tony so that tells me that their “caring” about women’s wrestling is completely 100% performative.. ya’ll should be ashamed(but aren’t) of yourselves for supporting a company that gives crumbs to their women wrestlers..

Now onto the Ciampa Briscoe match.. it’s 2026 & all of us know how unsafe & how shitty unprotected chair shots to the head is… & that spot has rightfully has been taken out of professional wrestling..

Now getting blasted with cookie sheets to the dome is acceptable? What happened to wrestler’s safety? The fanbase doesn’t care.. all they care about is seeing blood & lots of it which makes a “BaNgEr”

News flash: ECW is dead, & grow up out of that phase..

Now Ciampa, you left WWE to go to AEW so that you can bleed everywhere, & use a cheese grater in your match, a staple gun & get cut open by a screwdriver on a random Wednesday in Portland Maine in front of 2800 people? That is the “creative freedom” that WWE wasn’t letting you do & you were yearning for? Maiming your body for the marks of Cagematch & Reddit in a match that nobody will remember 2 weeks from now.. What a dumbass..

What say you Midcarders about the women only getting 12 minutes in a nearly 190 minute show & the Ciampa/Briscoe match? Am I being too harsh?

It FEELS GOOD TO BE ELITE E-DRONES!

A-HA!

Pulitzer when?!?

Damn, it’s good to be ELITE!!

Now pay Danhausen his human monies Knicks fans..

According to MJF(he says that every metric is up for AEW) this should be Minnesota’s highest attended game of the season.. lol..

Appreciate the out of box thinking here by Tony

But a glorified house show starting at roughly 10PM that’ll go on until 11:15 ish.. Dunno how well that will sell..

Plus could you pick the two most uninspiring baseball teams to go on after that aren’t a draw?!?

Twins haven’t been relevant since Mauer retired & Torii Hunter left them.. & the Angels just flat out suck.. they almost got no hit last night by the soon to be Las Vegas A’s.. lol..

Again Midcarders.. I appreciate the out of box thinking here.. but the time starting & ending isn’t a good selling point.. plus the two teams suck.. at least go on after a draw(Yankees, Red Sox, any road team that isn’t the Angels lol)..

What say ya’ll?

Good Morning Midcarders.

Since Mercedes Mone’s belt collector gimmick was such a rip rousing success…

How do you feel about Andrade doing the same thing a few months later? Lol..

4 going on?

Now do Dynamite MJF..

/s

So Midcarders..

Is it okay to talk about gates & ticket sales?

I mean, MJF did, so we can as well?

That’s my scumbag talking about ticket sales & gates for the PPV..

DAMN, IT FEELS GOOD TO BE ELITE!!

Now do Dynamite..

Oh wait..

Why is Thekla just in the background in the graphic, coming off super unimportant & why isn’t the AEW women’s champion words in the graphic on top of her name larger so you know who the top banana is in the women’s division?

Also no Stat & Shida being advertised(so far)to hype up the 4 way match is making this match feel so so so so so so so uninteresting, which I talked about a week or so ago.. & a random Thunder Rosa appearance in this story as well which makes zero sense..

Speaking of uninteresting, the FTR match in the 2nd photo..

in the last 3 weeks, we have gotten Dax vs OC, a 10 man “party match” which they had barely any interaction & now this week, an FTR tag title match 5 days before this “monumental” I quit match.. doing everything but making this Cope & Christian tag team title match feel like a big deal..

I mean, I know that OC won the match which gave them a tag title match, but isn’t the booking supposed to be heating up the I quit tag match with Cage & Cope 5 days before the PPV instead of a random tag match with Roddy & OC? No promos, no anything?!?

Instead this match feels colder than Bismarck North Dakota in January..

What say you Midcarders?

Am I wrong in questioning the defending WON Booker of the Year in how he is presenting these particular matches?

The hell does he even do?

Fed Ded.

That’s my 834948 time WON Booker Of The Year!!

Damn, it feels good to be Elite!!

No, using her Govt name isn’t strange or anything..

Why do you ask?

What’s the point of Tony Kahn’s ROH?

Like who is this benefiting?

No one is getting better wrestling once a month during the 6 hour tapings at a tv studio in Jacksonville…

No one is watching this slop…

Midcarders, is it time for SOMEONE ANYONE to tell Tony, “yo, this shit ain’t working, you are tarnishing the legacy of ROH, either give the pencil to literally anyone else with a pulse cause they can’t do any worse than you or pull the plug on this slop”

Thoughts..

Tony should future endeavor the entire AEW’s women’s division…just get rid of it..

It’s as clear as day that he absolutely doesn’t give 1 iota about it..

I was skeptical about this match when it was announced.. but I went into Dynamite thinking “I am going to get an unbelievable & nonsensical reason why Stat & Shida are challenging for the women’s championship despite not saying one word about going after it for weeks but it’ll be explained to me why they have a match for it”..

& I got absolutely nothing.. not a promo from Thekla, not a promo from Shida, not a promo from Hayter, hell, Stat wasn’t even in the building due to a “minor injury”.. just here’s the match & that’s it… awful..

What I did get was multiple appearances from Renee Young… like she is the most important woman in AEW.. backstage promos, pre match talking in front of the ring, & first segment of the show was an interview with her & MJF..

She was front & center the entire show.. more than any other woman.. a backstage interviewer..

That would be like Erin Andrews dominating an NFL telecast.. seeing her more than like Lamar Jackson, Josh Allen, etc.. yanno the actual players..

Been 4 going on 5 months since we have even heard of Mone’s name on AEW television.. she hasn’t even wrestled a match since end of March.. when she dropped the last of her random championships.. wonder if there is something going on there..

Okay, the main women’s championship is a bust.. maybe I will get some traction on the TBS championship.. & I get a match for DON with the TBS champion in it, but it’s not on the line.. wtf? It’s an opening round match in the Owen.. wait.. Tony already did a double champ Willow & it beyond sucked.. why are we possibly running that gimmick back again? So if Willow loses, she is still champion? WTF?!? lmao..

The Tag Team Champions? Lmao.. not even worth talking about.. beyond worthless.. the only tag team(Birds) are doing everything but challenging for the tag team titles.. what’s the point of the tag team titles & division for that matter?

& the Owen.. 3 of the 8 women aren’t full time AEW wrestlers & 1 of them has a hurt neck(Saree) & is out for a month..

Harley was & still is over but is booked like a joke.. so why even care about her, Mina, etc..

Alright Midcarders, agree or disagree with me in regard to Tony shouldn’t even have a women’s division?

I think TNA will be the best spot for Big Bill..

What say ya’ll Midcarders?

P.S. Has Tony ever booked a big guy well?

Surely the e-mail inviting Tony Kahn, & the “Effortlessly Cool” Thekla & Mr. Aura himself Swerve Strickland & the “all time leader in Meltzer Stars” Will Ospreay to the upfronts..

The e-mail must of ended up in Tony’s spam folder & he forgot to check it cause why wouldn’t WBD not want to brag about the 884939 quintillion viewership AEW brings to HBO Max?!?

Are they stupid?!?

Did they not want to be called “dumb bitches” 937 times by Thekla?!?

They missed out.. lol..

So not one word was said about AEW at WBD upfronts today..

Wonder how Meltzer & the rest of the “esteemed wrestling journalists” spin this Midcarders..

Where do ya’ll see AEW at come not only for the rest of 2026 but 1-1-2027?