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The way all this is shaping up, Hangman and MJF are great first losses for Danielson and Punk (obviously Punk later on, not tonight), really putting them both over as true pillars of the company and also getting rid of that pesky 0 in the loss column that can be a booking detriment. It also makes the Omega rematch for Danielson when he comes back most likely at Revolution that much more impactful.

I thought it went back to Rock’s appearance on SNL, yeah?

We started on time this week? We failed.

Jimmy Rave has passed away. He battled a ton of demons in recent years, and then to get the MRSA infection he did and have it take three of his limbs is just absolutely heartbreaking.

It they bring them in from other farms.

I do think we like to get ahead of ourselves a bit in regards to wanting to be right about hype lest we have to eat crow (this is an internet message board after all).

Hook was polished and looked like he went through the right paces, which is a lot better than what can be said for most folks in their first match. On the sliding scale of debuts, definitely on the higher end, but not like, Angle/Akiyama. His natural athleticism is apparent, though, and he gets the little things.

Again, Tony Khan reportedly isn’t really interested, so…??? New Japan?

How dare you.

Will MJF actually shut up? Probably not.

In-ring style doesn’t correlate to money for WWE. Which is why they don’t put much into that.

https://www.espn.com/wwe/story/_/id/32822454/wwe-signs-15-college-athletes-nil-deals-eyes-developmental-pipeline NXT decision more and more apparent now. Way more bang for your buck here, more control of talent, and you get to fully build folks from the base up. It will be interesting to see if AEW does something in response, as it seems Tony is content on combing the indies for a specific type of talent, but with his love for Mid-South and the like, could see him wanting Dustin or others to train up some big D1 athletes to come into the fold, too.

What TV show?

Because the talk wasn’t about Hansen’s skill, but his recklessness. The general consensus is that if a wrestler is good in-ring, shit gets overlooked, but they aren’t mutually exclusive. Nobody said that because he was reckless, he sucked. It was that he was reckless. More like the other side of the coin than shitting on him.

Page/Danielson is a lock for December 15, which seems really soon and seems like a big issue given how Danielson has been booked. Tony isn’t a hot shotter, so it’s gotta be Page winning, yeah?

Meltzer has always preferred style over substance and a guy with Ibushi’s arc fits right into his narrative. And there are a ton of folks who think Bryan’s decade in the WWE was a waste of time.

You know how you get around the issue of jobbing out guys on their debut? You give them squash matches against folks who can take an L. Wild thought, I know.

Janela’s strengths were always outside the ring. And him being able to go enough to make other folks is as valuable an asset in the business today as anyone else.

There was nothing that could be done, to be honest. They didn’t want to run a super Indy, they used COVID as cover to make changes in desperation, and they don’t have the voices backstage to do something worthwhile that isn’t Vince or Bruce-led. I’m surprised it took three months for it to happen.

QT is also from Chicago and Punk knows him well so this is a make good. People reading too much into this.

None of those are really “major” though, to be fair.

Basically: “Cowboy Shit.”

FULL CARD: AEW Championship: Kenny Omega (c) vs. Hangman Page. AEW Championship Eliminator Tournament finals: Bryan Danielson vs. Miro. CM Punk vs. Eddie Kingston. AEW Women's Championship: Britt Baker vs. Tay Conti. AEW Tag Team Championships: Lucha Brothers vs. FTR. Darby Allin vs. MJF. Falls count anywhere: Christian Cage and Jurassic Express vs. Adam Cole and The Young Bucks. Street fight: The Inner Circle (Chris Jericho, Jake Hager, Sammy Guevara, Santana and Ortiz) vs. Ethan Page, Scorpio Sky, Junior dos Santos, Andrei Arlovski and Dan Lambert. Pac and Cody Rhodes vs. Malakai Black and Andrade El Idolo. Preshow match: Nyla Rose and Jamie Hayter vs. Hikaru Shida and Thunder Rosa. I know Coach Tony hates non-finishes but you HAVE to do it with Kingston/Punk.

A go-home show for a PPV that almost seems like a letdown of sorts. The go-home show, not the PPV.

For me, it’s always come down to tone and pace for Kenny. He talks too fast and it doesn’t allow for folks to catch on to his stuff sometimes.