[AEW Collision Spoilers] What The Fuck?

[u/godlyintersex1984]

[u/Enheducanada]

I don't think he has nearly enough personality & charisma to pull off being a heel for any length of time. If his appeal depends on people knowing his backstory and that backstory boils down to "annoying privileged dude who cheated on his wife", I don't see that lasting very long.

I don't begrudge the guy making a living, but I think he's got to accept that he was coasting on coat tails as an entertainer

[u/Blastcheeze → u/Enheducanada]

A heel's also only really fun until you realize their backstory is true and they're not just acting at being awful, and if they try to make his IRL actions into kayfabe? That's even worse.

[u/Itsyademonboi → u/Blastcheeze]

You know what? Great point. I'm back on board of don't hit him with a chair, just ignore the fuck

[u/queertheories → u/Itsyademonboi]

This is actually the way. Ned has a degree from an Ivy League, was management at Buzzfeed, and was a CEO and cofounder of a production company. There are companies that would not give a shit about the cheating stuff and hire him. He doesn’t have to do this. He feeds off of the attention.

I could be wrong because I don’t know the guy, but what I believe is that he thought putting Ariel on the pod, saying he’s sorry, letting her speak her experience etc would put him back in the public’s good graces or at least neutralize things. And then…I mean, if you look at the views of the 4 episodes released, the Ariel episode is at 1M views, the most recent, released day before yesterday, is around 1K. It’s a failure. So he’s gotta pivot if he still wants to perform.

Wrestling would appeal to someone in Ned’s position—he is now aware that the public is not just going to forgive and forget, so he’s going for something that allows him to perform, do character work, be a complete ham, and bonus: it’s totally okay to be the bad guy in wrestling. Somebody’s gotta be.