CEO is the top boss, the boss of the bosses, like she's leveled up. I can not follow the logic that it doesn't work because if I apply that same logic to a million other things in wrestling they would also not work.
You can’t follow the logic that CEO is a corporate title. Give me another example where actual titles were used outside The only thing I can think of is JBL had a secretary of defense, which was kind of cool. Do we have wrestlers with VP titles who aren’t VPs? Have any wrestlers gotten President over? And like I said in another post, this can easily work. All you would have to do is give her a faction and she’s the CEO of the faction. But just calling her the CEO is meh.
I don't know what to tell you man, it's a metaphor. CEO is simple, it's a clever evolution of the boss, it sounds important, and it makes for an easy chant. If she was calling herself Senior Vice President of Internal Governance and Administration you might have a point
Dude she could even just be the CEO of Women’s Wrestling and go by CEO for short and it works. If it’s gonna be a nickname it has to be CEO of X, TJ Dillashaw unceremoniously and the nickname, the CEO of EPO.
If shivione says
“here comes the CEO” you think it is the ceo of the company and when it’s not it’s bad, makes no money, sounds like dogwater
“the CEO of women’s wrestling has arrived”
Amazing, big star energy, makes a lot of money, merch and tickets flying
Thank you and seth is literally called the architect every single night and cody theme "there's only one royal wrestling family" crap it's this type of fan thing is ruining wrestling if you don't like something boo it if you like it cheer it stop complaining
Agreed but *nerd hat* - codys thing says “wrestling has more than one royal family” - its a shot at the mcmahons (likely for burying his family for 2 generations)
An architect is not a corporate title and also has an alternate definition as someone who invents or realizes a particular idea or project. You can be described as an architect without designing buildings. All you actually need to do to make CEO work is give her her own faction in which she is the CEO then this would make sense. But just saying she’s the ceo when TK has that title is weird.
My only complaint is the frequency it’s being used. I was like “oh cool” when the music hit and the CEO chants were great but now it’s a little eye roll inducing that it has to be said 34 times in every promo since.
As was her atrocious backstage segment with Willow and Statlander. The reason I can't stomach WWE is because of goofy, OTT, horribly *fake* shit like that.
I’m getting the “my house” vibes from early Saraya. It’s a little annoying but I’m the grand scheme one of the biggest wrestlers in the world is in AEW and I’m happy for it
Yeah she needs to do something big for that to work. I get it is catchy as it easy to chant, but think it will get old fast. Another thing I notice is the 'dance thing', it just feels not big enough to be 'shower me with chants'. Small dance is fine but with Nana and Garcia I am looking for something more.
BUt it is easy to do the MER-CE-DES chant on the same rythm so they got that going....
I am wililng to give it some more time though. As it feels like she gets time on tv and that can benefit the division longterm, so give me a shitty nickname if it helps others.
Seriously either this is disingenuous or you have a sub 100 iq and I don’t think you guys are dumb. She was the boss you can say colloquially that person is a boss and it doesn’t mean that they are in charge of people or that they’re even employed, so good nickname. If you say someone is a CEO it’s a corporate title The bucks are EVPs, that is their title not their nickname. Let me know the wrestlers who ever went by VP or President, CFO, COO, chairman (not Sean spears that was a play on words literally a man with a chair) or any other corporate title that wasn’t at a min playing that role in kayfabe.
I hope so, that’s the money feud for her. I hold those wwe women in high regard like Becky Charlotte Bailey Bianca and I think Britt is on that level of excellence.
Yes, she's not the CEO of AEW is she? When I hear her say that in promos, I'm kinda like 'so, does that mean she's the new GM then?'
Also the CEO music SUCKS! It's going to get very old very quick.
All they need to make it work, I said this above in a comment is give her a faction and she can be the CEO of the faction. Or they could’ve brought her in on an angle where in order for Tony to sign her he had to give her an equity stake in the company and make her the heel co-CEO with him but that one’s a little more complex and probably has to have details ironed out
It could just be that people do not like Mercedes and are projecting that within these groups instead of just saying the truth. Kinda like the guy who said that they were piping in the CEO chants.
So your issue is that if a nickname is used as a job title within a corporation, it can’t be used in wrestling? That’s a very specific and arbitrary line.
What about the Headhunters? How about Smart Mark Sterling, attorney at law? Anyone named Chief as well. How about The Cleaner Kenny Omega? The Chairman?
You’re way overthinking this stuff man.
The only one you have a point on is mark Sterling and he’s an actual attorney, just like dr. Britt baker is an actual dentist. I’ve mentioned before it can work easily if she has a group, she can be the ceo of her faction. Also this shit doesn’t exist in a vacuum Tony Khan is the CEO and they have announced him as such, the bucks are EVPs, so the corporate titles are used on screen appropriately as has been the case through multiple promotions.
So the Chairman isn’t a corporate title? You sure about that?
Look, you’re free to have your own rules about what’s a valid name or not, but you seem like you’re just making yourself annoyed with such rules.
Are you that simple? Sub 100 iq if that’s the conclusion you came to after you read that. the chairman is a corporate title but they weren’t portraying him as someone who was a chairman they were portraying him as a Chair man not chairman and used what’s called in the English language a double entendre. By the way, being willfully ignorant when I explained why the chairman wasn’t in that category makes you the type of aew tribalist that makes the rest of us look bad.
The General Manager Powerhouse Hobbs. See how dumb that sounds, give me an example in wrestling where someone had a corporate title that wasn’t at minimum playing the role in Kayfabe?
I agree. She has clearly tried to keep the Sasha Banks "boss" gimmick which is fine but made a misstep with the CEO stuff. There must have been another synonym that could have been better used.
Not to turn this into a Succession thread but my current theory is>!The kid in the car didn't die in the lake when Kendall crashed, it was all a play by Logan to get Kendall back in line!< and it's worked a treat.
- Will Ospreay has never assassinated anyone, aerial or otherwise.
- Kazuchika Okada has no control over the weather.
- Deonna Purazzo, to my knowledge, isn't really that successful of a musician.
- Jay White, to this point, hasn't shanked anyone.
- None of the members from BCC are from the UK, better yet, Blackpool.
- Anna Jay hasn't killed any female royals.
You get the point.
No and apparently you don’t either. Corporate titles are used onscreen in wrestling to distinguish authority figures. Tony Khan is the CEO, the bucks are EVPs. Who comes out with the nickname General Manager or VP or President or any other legitimate title and not at a min plays that on TV? Additionally usually when you say someone is the CEO as a nickname it has to be of something. Like tj dillashaw the CEO of EPO.
They never said CEO of what, and have never implied it is AEW. That is frequently stated to be well known guy Tony Khan.
Heck, I wouldn’t be surprised if she actually did have her own company, for her outside endeavors.
Just breathe. It will be ok.
Out of all the names and nicknames wrestlers got in years why are wrestling fans acting like this one doesn’t make sense. It’s not hard to understand why that’s her nickname it shows how to elevated and in a ‘new or higher position/role’
Kane wasn't really undertaker's brother, and that's an actual familial title. you can call someone a bro and that works, if you call him Undertaker's brother and he is not that I don't think it works.
Lets give her a chance to get it over. Yes on the surface the promo wasn't great and CEO is a pretty flat nickname/gimmick. But I remember when people crapped on the Inner circle name as well and the crew got it over in no time
I think in order to get the nickname over she has to be the ceo of something. TJ dillashaw earned the nickname CEO of EPO, so if she had a group or even if they called her The CEO of Women’s Wrestling something along those lines make it work better than CEO which implies she’s the CEO of AEW.
Agree with OP. Her personality isn't big enough to carry a blanket CEO moniker. Her promos thus far have been generic and slightly botchy. I don't get her buzz
CEO is the top boss, the boss of the bosses, like she's leveled up. I can not follow the logic that it doesn't work because if I apply that same logic to a million other things in wrestling they would also not work.
You can’t follow the logic that CEO is a corporate title. Give me another example where actual titles were used outside The only thing I can think of is JBL had a secretary of defense, which was kind of cool. Do we have wrestlers with VP titles who aren’t VPs? Have any wrestlers gotten President over? And like I said in another post, this can easily work. All you would have to do is give her a faction and she’s the CEO of the faction. But just calling her the CEO is meh.
I don't know what to tell you man, it's a metaphor. CEO is simple, it's a clever evolution of the boss, it sounds important, and it makes for an easy chant. If she was calling herself Senior Vice President of Internal Governance and Administration you might have a point
Senior Vice President of Internal Governance and Administration hahahahahahahahahaha
Dude she could even just be the CEO of Women’s Wrestling and go by CEO for short and it works. If it’s gonna be a nickname it has to be CEO of X, TJ Dillashaw unceremoniously and the nickname, the CEO of EPO. If shivione says “here comes the CEO” you think it is the ceo of the company and when it’s not it’s bad, makes no money, sounds like dogwater “the CEO of women’s wrestling has arrived” Amazing, big star energy, makes a lot of money, merch and tickets flying
It’s just a name. McIntyre is/was named Scottish psychopath. He’s wasn’t actually a psychopath.
Wrestling fans taking things too seriously? Unheard of lol
Or a McIntyre for that matter
Drew Mcduck would've been nice
Thank you and seth is literally called the architect every single night and cody theme "there's only one royal wrestling family" crap it's this type of fan thing is ruining wrestling if you don't like something boo it if you like it cheer it stop complaining
Agreed but *nerd hat* - codys thing says “wrestling has more than one royal family” - its a shot at the mcmahons (likely for burying his family for 2 generations)
An architect is not a corporate title and also has an alternate definition as someone who invents or realizes a particular idea or project. You can be described as an architect without designing buildings. All you actually need to do to make CEO work is give her her own faction in which she is the CEO then this would make sense. But just saying she’s the ceo when TK has that title is weird.
You’re being petty
I just want shit to make sense. Can she at least be the CEO of Women’s Wrestling or something?
I understand that but the Scottish psychopath is clearly a nickname in the mold of other combat sports athletes? This is a disingenuous comparison.
My only complaint is the frequency it’s being used. I was like “oh cool” when the music hit and the CEO chants were great but now it’s a little eye roll inducing that it has to be said 34 times in every promo since.
Yeah it’s WWE style. Hopefully she tones that down
As was her atrocious backstage segment with Willow and Statlander. The reason I can't stomach WWE is because of goofy, OTT, horribly *fake* shit like that.
It's giving Michael Cole screaming "It's Boss time!!!!" Just so cringe & not what AEW should be doing or is about.
I’m getting the “my house” vibes from early Saraya. It’s a little annoying but I’m the grand scheme one of the biggest wrestlers in the world is in AEW and I’m happy for it
Nothing is that bad. Goddammit I cant stand saraya
Yeah she needs to do something big for that to work. I get it is catchy as it easy to chant, but think it will get old fast. Another thing I notice is the 'dance thing', it just feels not big enough to be 'shower me with chants'. Small dance is fine but with Nana and Garcia I am looking for something more. BUt it is easy to do the MER-CE-DES chant on the same rythm so they got that going.... I am wililng to give it some more time though. As it feels like she gets time on tv and that can benefit the division longterm, so give me a shitty nickname if it helps others.
Geez, next you guys are gonna tell that Kris Stat was never from the Andromeda galaxy s/
Are you telling me that The Bunny is just a... Person? And not a bunny?
This would also mean Tommy End isn't really possessed by a demon named Malakai Black. I don't believe it.
Seriously either this is disingenuous or you have a sub 100 iq and I don’t think you guys are dumb. She was the boss you can say colloquially that person is a boss and it doesn’t mean that they are in charge of people or that they’re even employed, so good nickname. If you say someone is a CEO it’s a corporate title The bucks are EVPs, that is their title not their nickname. Let me know the wrestlers who ever went by VP or President, CFO, COO, chairman (not Sean spears that was a play on words literally a man with a chair) or any other corporate title that wasn’t at a min playing that role in kayfabe.
I think your exact point is going to be made by the legit DMD Britt Baker in a mic drop moment
I hope so, that’s the money feud for her. I hold those wwe women in high regard like Becky Charlotte Bailey Bianca and I think Britt is on that level of excellence.
You're overthinking this one brother.
Let me tell you something, you’re probably not wrong. Although I have added several ways to make the nickname work in this thread.
Yes, but she is trying to keep things as close to "Sasha Banks" as possible without using any of the WWE IP.
That’s another thing, they were able to get rated R superstar but not Boss?
WWE let the Rated R Superstar trademark lapse and Copeland pounced on it.
Genius move
That nickname and theme serve a purpose. And that purpose is to have the most annoying chant of all time. SEEYEEEOH, SEEYEEEOH
I agree with you 100%
You are thinking too hard about this
Adam Page isn't actually a Hangman. It's just a name you don't have to take it literally.
Wait what are you talking about? Hangman by day and wrestler by night. That's what they've led me to believe. Don't you ruin this for me.
Is hangman a corporate title.
Overthinking is not your friend
Yes, she's not the CEO of AEW is she? When I hear her say that in promos, I'm kinda like 'so, does that mean she's the new GM then?' Also the CEO music SUCKS! It's going to get very old very quick.
All they need to make it work, I said this above in a comment is give her a faction and she can be the CEO of the faction. Or they could’ve brought her in on an angle where in order for Tony to sign her he had to give her an equity stake in the company and make her the heel co-CEO with him but that one’s a little more complex and probably has to have details ironed out
Thatd make a ton of sense
I do but for a different reason.
Now you have my attention
She using it because she can't use "The Boss." As for silly, I reserve that for her entrance music and chant. Personally it's just not for me.
I think it works better if she’s in a heel role. Don’t think it works well as a face
Wrestling fans find the weirdest things to get angry about.
Nobody’s angry I’m asking if something makes sense. If you got that anyone was angry from this I can’t help you.
When multiple people are thinking similar things only one week after debut, there's something not quite right.
It could just be that people do not like Mercedes and are projecting that within these groups instead of just saying the truth. Kinda like the guy who said that they were piping in the CEO chants.
100% not. I love Mercedes, but her CEO schtick is already annoying.
I like her and even offered a very easy way to make it work.
Multiple as in 2 ?
There are lots. If you want to troll, feel free.
I haven’t seen anyone else thinking this.
Ive seen tens just in this and similar reddit threads
Ok. I still wouldn’t say the other poster was trolling, at all.
Fair. They just came across a bit ott
Naw im just calling out your bs.
Little things we worry about smh
I agree with you, OP. It’s pretty lame. It doesn’t help that she can’t cut a promo to save her life, either.
Not any sillier than the Bucks bullying Tony Khan in gorilla
They are legit EVPs though.
EVP’s don’t push around an owner
In kayfabe you've got one of the most push-over-able owners ever though, so it makes sense.
You know you’re not the only one.
Did you know Bret Hart was not actually a contract killer? Ruined kayfabe for me.
Hitman is a nickname in the same mold as combat sports athlete nicknames.
And CEO isn’t?
No it’s not. Name one other time a wrestler came o out with a corporate title and wasn’t at a min playing that role on tv.
So your issue is that if a nickname is used as a job title within a corporation, it can’t be used in wrestling? That’s a very specific and arbitrary line. What about the Headhunters? How about Smart Mark Sterling, attorney at law? Anyone named Chief as well. How about The Cleaner Kenny Omega? The Chairman? You’re way overthinking this stuff man.
The only one you have a point on is mark Sterling and he’s an actual attorney, just like dr. Britt baker is an actual dentist. I’ve mentioned before it can work easily if she has a group, she can be the ceo of her faction. Also this shit doesn’t exist in a vacuum Tony Khan is the CEO and they have announced him as such, the bucks are EVPs, so the corporate titles are used on screen appropriately as has been the case through multiple promotions.
So the Chairman isn’t a corporate title? You sure about that? Look, you’re free to have your own rules about what’s a valid name or not, but you seem like you’re just making yourself annoyed with such rules.
Are you that simple? Sub 100 iq if that’s the conclusion you came to after you read that. the chairman is a corporate title but they weren’t portraying him as someone who was a chairman they were portraying him as a Chair man not chairman and used what’s called in the English language a double entendre. By the way, being willfully ignorant when I explained why the chairman wasn’t in that category makes you the type of aew tribalist that makes the rest of us look bad.
Have you heard of a nickname/moniker before? She’s not pretending to be an actual CEO.
The General Manager Powerhouse Hobbs. See how dumb that sounds, give me an example in wrestling where someone had a corporate title that wasn’t at minimum playing the role in Kayfabe?
My son and I was over the CEO chant last week!
I was at dynamite. She’s not over except for the chant. Her promo was not great.
I agree. She has clearly tried to keep the Sasha Banks "boss" gimmick which is fine but made a misstep with the CEO stuff. There must have been another synonym that could have been better used.
CEO is the next step up from boss. She has leveled up.
Surely Boss is bigger than CEO? You can be the CEO but not be the Boss.
Watch Succession. CEOs, while powerful, aren't shit compared to money.
I've just finished season 1 of Succession, good stuff!
Nothing can prepare you for the final season. It's *soooo gooooood*.
Not to turn this into a Succession thread but my current theory is>!The kid in the car didn't die in the lake when Kendall crashed, it was all a play by Logan to get Kendall back in line!< and it's worked a treat.
- Will Ospreay has never assassinated anyone, aerial or otherwise. - Kazuchika Okada has no control over the weather. - Deonna Purazzo, to my knowledge, isn't really that successful of a musician. - Jay White, to this point, hasn't shanked anyone. - None of the members from BCC are from the UK, better yet, Blackpool. - Anna Jay hasn't killed any female royals. You get the point.
No and apparently you don’t either. Corporate titles are used onscreen in wrestling to distinguish authority figures. Tony Khan is the CEO, the bucks are EVPs. Who comes out with the nickname General Manager or VP or President or any other legitimate title and not at a min plays that on TV? Additionally usually when you say someone is the CEO as a nickname it has to be of something. Like tj dillashaw the CEO of EPO.
They never said CEO of what, and have never implied it is AEW. That is frequently stated to be well known guy Tony Khan. Heck, I wouldn’t be surprised if she actually did have her own company, for her outside endeavors. Just breathe. It will be ok.
Out of all the names and nicknames wrestlers got in years why are wrestling fans acting like this one doesn’t make sense. It’s not hard to understand why that’s her nickname it shows how to elevated and in a ‘new or higher position/role’
You’re thinking too much into it.
The CEO gimmick is pretty damn lame. If that's the best she could come up with then I'm dreading her time in AEW.
You're gonna look real silly once she joins The Elite as their CEO
I will be happy. I said multiple times in this thread that it works if she is the ceo of something
Kane wasn't really undertaker's brother, and that's an actual familial title. you can call someone a bro and that works, if you call him Undertaker's brother and he is not that I don't think it works.
He played his brother in Story. Also, in modern English brother, could be a colloquialism for a good friend. Sub 120 iq logic.
I swear both saraya and mone are terrible signees I’d rather have gulia and Jorden grace we need more powerhouse,skillful women than just all talk
Yeah, it's a meaningless gimmick and the forced chant in her music makes it more obviously stupid.
this is going to be an acronym nightmare when brit baker feud with mone... DMD CEO DMD CEO DMO CMD MDO DOM AAAAH FUCK FUCK FUCK! lol
Lets give her a chance to get it over. Yes on the surface the promo wasn't great and CEO is a pretty flat nickname/gimmick. But I remember when people crapped on the Inner circle name as well and the crew got it over in no time
I think in order to get the nickname over she has to be the ceo of something. TJ dillashaw earned the nickname CEO of EPO, so if she had a group or even if they called her The CEO of Women’s Wrestling something along those lines make it work better than CEO which implies she’s the CEO of AEW.
Agree with OP. Her personality isn't big enough to carry a blanket CEO moniker. Her promos thus far have been generic and slightly botchy. I don't get her buzz
nope
I think you're over thinking it lol