Timbo Slice

Jesus CHRIST what a match that was. More than lived up to the billing.

Danielson/Shibata on Collision. Because why not?

This sure looks like the start of a heater of TV, but man, Eddie dropping things to Okada after all that growth is tough.

Laborious match. Joe stays golden though. God damn it, Okada is getting me with the most basic shit.

There are plenty of good options. I’d even try and pry Akiyama away from DDT if you could.

I avoided the Mone references because I’m the king of making thread titles that are invalid due to accents and apostrophes. Went into Bu$$ine$$ for myself, you might say.

Insert making it rain/here comes the Mone jokes here.

I suggest folks go watch the DDP Yoga mini-docs on Marcus as a corollary to this. Page being able to help out dudes like this has been amazing to watch.

Part of this seems like Tanahashi is trying to assess who would make sense as a booker given Gedo’s ideas are not drawing a dime right now. I say bring back Lyger and let him run with it.

Yeah, the font gave away the Succession stuff. Hilariously, it’s a self own because it means they’re admitting they’re failsons in a way.

Rhea giving Dom away, I’d wager.

I like it given it seems like a great way to pay tribute to Bray.

Yeah, considering top WWE star downsides are more in the $500k-$1m range, that number seems like a worked number the Bucks came up with.

He’s going after Kingston so don’t think he’s going after Triple B.

The smile at the end got me. Not gonna lie. Business seems to be picking up.

What did Kyle O’Reilly know wearing that shirt

Really is a heck of an in-ring product top to bottom, this show. I did skip the scramble and the women’s match because both the setting of the scramble and the roles in the women’s match didn’t really scream out must watch right away. Short and tidy of it all: -Christian is the most efficient and effective wrestler on the roster and it’s not really close. He’s an absolute master of every facet of pro wrestling. A true joy to watch. Garcia is already over but Christian is truly gonna make him a top guy. -Bryan/Kingston was great, but wasn’t on the level of Kingston winning the Continental Crown. Bryan continues to be the best of all time at conveying in-ring narrative shifts. Wish Kingston’s Hansen homage landed better but very few complaints here. -Strong/Cassidy was good, and Roddy got to really show off his strength at times. Love the gutwrench turnbuckle spot, true insanity. Cassidy goes out as probably the best champion AEW has ever had with any belt with his two runs. Insane stretch for him. -FTR/BCC took a bit of time but once it got into the stretch run it hit another level. Couple bad spots of timing but otherwise, what you’d expect from these four. Full of neat little homages. -Ospreay/Takeshita hit the level folks of the style wanted, but both guys went a bit further than was necessary for me. Fast food, wrestling-wise, but it was good. Did think Ospreay’s kidney exploded on the botch, guessing he’ll be feeling that for a while. Takeshita as a heel still doesn’t really do it for me, and I think the whole Callis thing needs to go away soon. -I have one quibble with the three-way, which I did think was good. Page should have been facing Swerve when he tapped. Think it lost something a bit in translation when Swerve put on his face about Page screwing him, and I don’t think you need to play the “what-if” game. Page could have tried to get out, knew he was done, seen Swerve crawling, and tapped when he made his move. Joe KILLED Swerve with that final suplex, though, goddamn. -The main event was perfect from a send off standpoint. Sting becoming a top-tier death match worker is not something I had on my bingo card, but the dude is just something else. Darby is insane, the usual Bucks bullshit didn’t hamper it, Ric’s involvement didn’t hamper it, it was just a great emotional match. Choked up a couple times in it. An emotional capper like few others.

Nevermind the fact that WWE would sue them for an exorbitant amount with inflated accounting just to stick it to Tony.

He’s no longer lead guy and Ian didn’t libel him. It’s sour grapes and bad form for a guy who got his opportunity and didn’t really do that well when given that chance. Mirrors aren’t expensive.

That was a fucking cracker of a promo, Rock is running circles around everyone. Just dropped out of the sky and does this. Nitpicking certain thing is fine but holy crap, the whole thing is just another level.

Nick Wayne is only good in people’s minds because he’s 18 and he has the “potential” to be good. Meiko was 15 and miles ahead of Wayne, various luchadors at 18 and younger were already very good, Wayne does nothing that guys in Private Party couldn’t do. The only thing that stands out is his age. Has a long way to go to. He’s Hook with a better understanding of in-ring work and way less charisma. The Flair stuff was sad, on top of just being tone deaf about him being on TV in the first place. Sting is gonna go all out and that will be fun to see. Loved the rafters bit. Heel Hangman is such a breath of fresh air. Seems like he’s revitalized after all the stuff post title reign. AEW has intrigue given what will happen in the coming weeks, but Danielson’s shot calling continues to be the best thing going. Assuming he finishes things off at All Out with his full time work, I have a feeling he has has some great things still to come, especially if they pull the trigger with Nigel (given health can be accounted for) and an Ospreay match. Can only imagine what he has cooking up.

Or lack thereof.

How do you fuck up visas other than not wanting to pay for it?

Hangman broke his foot, it looked like.

You beat me to posting the ASUKA video. As wholesome as can be. She’s the best. That was someone who worked there, as she called the owner asking where they were since ASUKA was there. Really awesome stuff.