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Yeah, that’s overbooking to a T. An unforced error if there ever was one. I’m glad they’re going back to Phoenix because that crowd ate it up last night. Not everything hit, but the things they did were big. I think in addition to the overbooking, there’s a tone problem up and down. It’s one thing to be able to eat things up a la carte, but watching it within the flow of a show, there were a few times where things just did not feel impactful because of pacing, production choices, etc. It’s not a new phenomenon, either, so I’m curious as to what they’re looking at when trying to put the show together and figuring how things should be ordered.

Bahahahahaha. Who Dat indeed.

Toni is going over given May beat Toni in London. Harley winning isn’t necessary right now.

Ellering had the master of The Last Battle of Atlanta, which had long been sought after in full and he agreed to terms with WWE to release it. Around the same time it got released to the public was when the AoT was given their initial push with him as manager.

Ellering literally took a single tape from his collection and turned it into years of employment way past his expiration date, which is an amazing play on his part.

Yeah, seeing him celebrate with his kids was awesome. Crowd absolutely lost it for him. Felt like the old days a bit. Great start to the year for them. Hope they can keep it up.

This channel is gonna be the default home for old shows going forward. I don’t think they’ll ever just dump the library but they’ll continue trickling things out.

It’s wild people don’t understand Okada is working this way because he’s beat up to hell and is trying to essentially preserve himself for the big matches. It’s not a secret or anything. He gets to work like this and save some wear and tear and collect the biggest paycheck of his career (allegedly). Dude is damn near 40 and worked a hellacious style on top for over a decade. They’ll get to All In and he’ll get 30 with Kenny and they’ll turn back the clock for a night, but dude saying “bitch” and getting as big a pop as anything he does in the ring tells you everything.

When you have a good heel stable? You’re only as good as the folks you put across from them to be compelling. OC had cache, but he kinda got stomped out a bit. They’re saving Darby to be the guy at All In more than likely, but in the meantime, the folks thrown at Mox aren’t gonna make you think they have a shot. They put BRYAN DANIELSON out to pasture with a bad neck in a truly sick fashion, and with him being younger than Copeland, too. You’re running a poor facsimile of that now. Building up old fools who are desperate to not retire yet. JJ being in the shadows, too And while there’s a clamoring for Kenny/Will/Hangman to have the belt, there’s diminishing returns there across the board. Hangman at least is fleshing out, but Kenny probably can’t run a champions schedule and while I know Will is loved around here, he has one style and one style only and that can get old quick. MJF fell into his old traps and didn’t evolve when he needed to, and now he’s middling at best and no longer compelling. Will’s work is one thing, but the house style has led to this downturn where you can’t just keep running that out forever. Then nothing has a chance to stand out. There’s a middle ground but I’m not sure where that is given there’s such a stratification of talent now.

Private Party was basically gift wrapped the titles and got to come back from an attack from the champion. They aren’t as over as folks want them to be. The act just doesn’t have legs.

This has Nakanishi vibes. No reason why Goto can’t win, have a defense, then lose it, maybe back in Osaka or Sakura Genesis?

The elephant in the room is the non-WWE footage. It seems like they’re trying to move things to the WWE Vault channel, but it’ll be piecemeal?

Kadaveri also did a write-up at SC breaking down fact and fiction: https://segundacaida.blogspot.com/2024/09/queen-of-villains-truth-fiction.html?m=1

Sigh. Copeland is whatever. Guessing Kingston is still not cleared.

Have to imagine Kingston returns tonight given its in Orlando, where he’s living now (if I remember right).

I was actually five minutes away from the Pyramid in Long Beach that day but left town hours before the show started. Knew a few people on the show from my time at the local indie I used to do commentary for. Alas, the stars couldn't align. Wish the house could have been a bit better. The lack of Ospreay/Okada has to be due to NJPW wanting to control their returns being of a truly worthwhile event. Okada coming back especially. Again, I do find it funny that Kenny is coming back on this show at this time, the Bucks have been off TV and are coming back at this show...just odd choices. And yes, the planning around this show seems haphazard at best and ill-conceived at least.

If anyone here is subscribed to Loss’ Wrestling Playlist Newsletter, today’s Season of Giving comp was an Amaresu set from CFØS. Wild stuff.

The reunion, either with Big E being cleared or New Day realizing the error of their ways, is gonna be an Elizabeth hugging Macho Man-level pop.

I’m very interested in how Okada is going to position himself for Wrestle Dynasty now that the rest of The Elite is confirmed (sans Perry, for now). There’s some political stuff under the surface here with how AEW is moving forward and The Elite are operating outside of it for the time being, but not much is being said even though some of it seems pretty damn overt.

Kenny said this is essentially a way for him to pay back NJPW for the AEW departure, which I get, but he also talked about how he didn’t want to get in the way of AEW’s current direction, which is odd to say the least with the Bucks on the shelf and Okada on paternity leave. Either the diverticulitis did a true number on him and he’s gotta be a part timer going forward or there’s something underneath the hood in his relationship with TK going on.

Bronson Reed is such a perfect fit in the New Bloodline. It’s also the only move that seems bigger even than Jacob joining, just because of what the last several months have been like. There’s now only two choices for Roman: Somehow bury things with Seth? Or the Final Boss. It’s gripping shit, really.

Wonder if Lin-Manuel called him up about his “The Warriors” remake. Things need to pick up a bit, methinks.

Nigel seemed like he was a bit apprehensive early, rightfully so, didn’t want to lay it in for whatever reason, but it got good towards the end. Definitely below the matches they had in their heyday, but was fun to see them play the hits. Nigel becomes very interesting going forward now.

They’re humming so they can afford to. Wild that Jey got to kick out of the spear.

My hope is that with the TV deal now in place, the placement of bigger deal shows gets better. Part of why Grand Slam deteriorated over four years was because it isn’t nearly as important as shows two weeks before and two weeks after it, so place it elsewhere so it can be big again. Just a quick reassessment, man.