I still have no idea what this groups gimmick was.

>>18259915 (OP)
Work shooters/Mox's gang

le heel faction that holds all the belts

no samoans means the death riders are ok with me

>>18259915 (OP)
Sadists with a neo nazi aesthetic. They got pretty overt towards the end of Moxley’s title reign
>Their logo was an owl (like the Reichsadler)
>Most of the members were white
>Half of them were bald
>Wanting to “save” AEW
>One of Moxley’s moves is the curbstomp (which he used on swerve)
>Moxley directly lost the title by being choked with the chain (lynched)

"member the bloodline"

>>18259915 (OP)
Repelling viewers

>>18260109
>Slav
>Hapa
>Geordie
>Schweiz
>Cincinnatian

>white

>>18261168
Wheeler is the non white white nationalist gimmick

>>18261471
That’s even more fitting desu

>>18259915 (OP)
Neo Nazi's duh don't you watch movies?

>>18259915 (OP)
Why was the belt kept in a briefcase for months?Thought there was going to be some reveal when Page won. They should have revealed Punk's X belt

>>18261580
Moxley didn't think anyone deserved to see it.

>>18261591
He should put himself in a piece of luggage to follow that up.

Death riders. They ride death. Or ride on death. Soemthing like that. Also bloodline.

>>18259915 (OP)
I think the storyline was "Moxley hates and disrespects you unless you are willing to die for AEW". Which doesn't explain why he had a problem with Darby or Danielson or Page, who all do self-destructive shit regularly. Moxley clearly has brain damage, so it ended up being arbitrary, inconsistent bullshit. Hopefully he goes away for a long time.

>>18261617
The hypocrisy was the point you dummy. Why do you think every match had interference and once all his allies were taken out, he tapped like a panicked bitch to Hanger?

>>18261644
Fair enough, but he was never presented as a hypocrite. Just a zealot. Maybe it was a commentary on religion (Christianity, of course), in which case I kneel.

>>18261617
>Darby
He didn't have a problem with Darby, he wanted his title shot. He only targeted Darby when Darby kept interfering with his plans
>Danielson
Danielson went "soft" and started doing things for his family instead of AEW, this was literally spelled out in a promo
>Page
Again he didn't have a problem with Page, but Page was the number 1 contender for the title. He wanted Page to prove he'd be willing to die for AEW.

The groups gimmick boiled down to "Are you here for yourself or AEW?" and if you were here for yourself (Cope, Hobbs, etc) then you were getting killed.

>>18259915 (OP)
So what was the big thing that was coming that Mox was trying to prepare them for. Wasn't that a whole thing at one point?

>>18261748
The interference was the presentation. AEW isn't a spoonfeeding slopfed bro.

>>18261756
>the big thing that was coming that Mox was trying to prepare them for
More Exfed shitters

>>18261756
WWE attempting to counterpromote. Unfortunately for WWE they failed to realise their slop sucks when actually enjoyable wrestling is on the menu

>>18261756
I think it was one promo. 2bh I put it up to the Dick Riders themselves being that threat.

>>18259915 (OP)
Their gimmick was pointing out AEW's flaws and then doing absolutely nothing to fix them.

>>18261644
>The hypocrisy was the point you dummy.
They weren't supposed to be hypocritical. They accidentally came off that way because of terrible, inconsistent storytelling.

>>18261776
lol sorry you're too dumb to understand wrestling lilbro

>>18261776
>then doing absolutely nothing to fix them.
To be fair killing Cope really made AEW watchable for a while.

>>18261807
Did it, though? Oh boy, instead of a Cope segment, we get Gravity vs. Hechicero.

>>18261817
sounds dineros desu

>>18261817
>Instead of an aged Exfed guy trying desperately to hit all his greatest hits we get actual wrestling
???

>>18261817
Copes feud with Mox was ill conceived. An Exfed guy trying to save AEW was never going to work. It was made all the worse when their match absolutely shit the bed.

"CM Punk ruined AEW and everyone is divided so i will take this world championship and lock it away in a briefcase so no one can see it again until everyone gets on the same page and someone worthy steps up and does what it takes to beat us".

>>18261830
I guess the idea was probably "if we don't run Moxley & Cope now we might never get another chance". Also they had a match when everyone was expecting a fight.

>>18261756
It was supposed to be Shane McMahon.

>>18261995
We coulda had it all

>>18261995
That would have been insanely based

>>18261168
Geordies are white, ya pinhead

>>18262025
WEY AYE YA TUNE BOY

>>18259915 (OP)
At the start Mox seemed to imply there was a threat coming to AEW he was trying to save it from. They pivoted into whatever the fuck it was after a few months anyway.

>>18261168
ty for calling out the 'city' of cincinnati, they've been getting away with it for far too long

>>18259915 (OP)
Mox got spooked after losing to Naito and began thinking he was now a fraud. He created a cult of guys hyperfixated on claiming to be badass while acting like bitches as a way to compensate. He also repurposed a prior gimmick of his that was done to indicate how little he cared for titles as a way to psychologically supplant the idea of the championship with himself to try to hijack the main event in that regard.

>>18259915 (OP)
Coolest Mother Fuckers on the Planet. Now it's over. It hurts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzIDK2PkflI&list=RDIzIDK2PkflI&start_radio=1

>>18259915 (OP)
Why the fuck is that female ref with them? How would it make sense to have Aubrey join a stable?

>>18259915 (OP)
Need a video package to explain it?

>>18259915 (OP)
Dollar Tree-bal Chief and his Mudline

>>18259915 (OP)
They are proto-fascists

>>18261830
>An Exfed guy trying to save AEW was never going to work
Anon, Mox was an exfed guy trying to save AEW. And the Dick Riders storyline didn't huh. Huh, I guess you're right.

>>18261830
>An Exfed guy trying to save AEW was never going to work
Anon, Mox was an exfed guy trying to save AEW. And the Dick Riders storyline didn't work. Huh, I guess you're right.

>>18262163
least faceblind anon

>>18262192
except with talent and work ethic

>>18262228
>$3.5 MILLY gate

seemed like it worked just fine

>>18259915 (OP)
Cinema

>>18261995
>>18262019
At least in the short term it would've been better to have Shane as a face, it seemed like they were building up to him taking over as acting EVP.

>>18262390
>$3.5 MILLY gate
>Zero dollars made
Seems like it didn't work at all

>>18262418
Bringing in Shane wouldn't have worked unless Shane took over AEW as a shoot. Everything is pure slop as long as Tony's still the one booking.

>>18260109
>neo nazi
c'mon bro how lazy can you get. just because two guys are legit bald. nothing about this group has anything to do with that

>>18262696
It went over your head, it’s alright to admit it anon

>>18259915 (OP)
Literally I would've had the Death Riders be the shock troop/attack dogs of The Elite, except reveal that part on PPV and have Moxley "sell out" and be The Elite's Champion
>Inb4 that sounds like The Corporate Champion gimmick
Because it is but better because its not WWF slop

>>18261168
all whiter than the nazis on /pol/ I'm afraid

>>18259915 (OP)
>I don't know about what's going on with this thing in this show I don't watch!
Gosh, maybe you'd know if you actually watched.

>>18263793
I would've had the storyline be that the Dick Riders were actually working for Tony the whole time doing his dirty work while he pretended to be mister nice guy. Once this gets revealed, Tony turns heel and becomes like NWO Eric Bischoff but with severe autism.

>>18263827
>watching AEW
pfftt hahahha good one

>>18263815
'aid 'o

>>18263849
lose weight

>>18263868
Brit a cute. A CUTE!

>>18261755
but he never went after MJF or Jericho or the Callis family or the Hurt Whatever, and he loosely allied his group with the Bucks who were abusing their EVP powers to their own benefit. In the end all that revolutionary nazi-adjacent bullshit was nothing more then “the good guys are le bad and the bad guys are le good”
hanger better wash that belt good, mix probably shoot threw up on it a bunch of times because he’s a fucking drunk piece of shit

>>18263868
they all look like shoot retards but I’m impressed that none of them are even half of hogwheels’ weight

>>18259915 (OP)
skinheads, but for AEW instead of the white race

>>18259927
This
Pro Wrestling 101

>>18259915 (OP)
I think this was Moxley trying to be smarter than he actually is. He was trying to do a long running heel stable shit like he saw Roman do in WWE. I'm Tony was like "We should do that and highlight you." I could see Moxley not wanting to come off like the Bloodline or the Shield. Instead I think he wanted to poke at fun Punk with the group and gimmick the same way Jericho did with the Learning Tree shit and WWE booking. He wanted to come off as invading force that tries to hold the AEW roster to his own standards. And he wanted to "take the belt hostage" the way I guess he feels WWE booking did or does. So again, a bunch of meta WWE horseshit being done by people that aren't that good at editing their own shit, and booked by someone who isn't good at booking.

>>18259915 (OP)
Best part was when everyone was involved in their storyline a few months ago and the Elite was scared of them, Jack Perry avoided them and Christian lurking with his world title contract but obviously had no chance of cashing it in. Heels reacting to heels always intrigued me in wrestling. I hope they continue.

>>18259915 (OP)
What was the kayfabe reason for hiding the belt?

>>18265165
See
>>18261580
>>18261591

>>18259915 (OP)
A significantly more fleshed out, built up, and expanded Shield that actually brought world titles home.
I saw the vision. I will always love the Death Riders. Fuck this board.

>>18259915 (OP)
It's GayEW
Nothing means anything there

>>18261591
hes right, but not for the reasons he thinks

>>18265190
Shit taste. Rotten brain. No dick. Pick whichever one describes you best

>>18265145
wrestling would be so much more entertaining if everyone was a heel

one of my fav feuds and matched back in the day was was triple h vs kurt angle 2000-2001, culminating in that royal rumble title match.
sure when it started in 2000 it was portrayed as hhh being a relative babyface, but no one bought into that, triple h was the top bad guy going back over a year into 99, he even ruined wm by retaining, the fans still didnt like him, they were just entertained by the kurt-steph shit. anyway that rumble match was great, both heels, crowd not quite knowing what to do. it was kino rather than a carcrash.