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So going by this break down, and WWE's track record, we should expect either Orton, Rollins, or The Fiend to be the person to unseat Roman.

I didn't know anything about her history, but do agree that she does look older. I just looked at her wikipedia page earlier, and it had her listed as 22. 32 would make a lot more sense.

I thought the Xia Li/Raquel Gonzalez match was pretty decent until the injury happened. I had no idea that Xia Li was only 22 years old. If she continues to progress and get better, she could be great.

It never fails to amaze me that in a company that employs something like 200 wrestlers, the moment they have the slightest blow to their ego or reputation, the first thing they do is go "Find me someone who was popular 25 years ago." I can only imagine what an amazing boost for morale that is.

Other than what looked like some minor language barrier miscommunication between Yuka and Penelope during their match, I felt like this was a pretty solid all around edition of Dynamite. Getting back on the road is going to end up being a huge thing for AEW as people are obviously super excited to see the product. They were popping like crazy for Christian/Hardy, the aformentioned women's match, and everything else. I do think that if they continue with the Black/Cody feud, the crowd is going to double turn them whether they want too or not!

I always thought Brock looked awesome in the UFC with his mountain man beard. It's a shame he never brought it to WWE.

I saw Miyu Yamashita in Chikara several years ago and thought she was absolutely fantastic. I'd like to get into TJPW. What's the best way to do that not living in Tokyo!

I'm really hoping the crowd loudly chanting TOMMY, TOMMY puts an end to the Malachi Black name before it gets off the ground.

What? You don't have fond memories of Season 4, Episode 18 of World Class! Yeah, it's the shits.

Peacock has added back all of the World Class and the limited amount of Smokey Mountain that was previously up. So apparently they are attempting to follow up on that SummerSlam promise!

Tommy Dreamer tweeted that he talked to Terry Funk on the phone today and that Terry is not in bad health. He said direct quote from Terry. "I'm currently sitting in my assisted living place with my thumb up my ass whistling dixie but I don't remember the words!"

Is there anyone out there still doing a Russian gimmick that they can bring in to feud with Moose and Squirrel?

and then takes a nice long vacation so that Guevara and Santana/Ortiz can get some shine without him.

Finished this the other day and really enjoyed it! Well written, very descriptive, had me laughing out loud more than once, and has me seeking out matches I never knew about. Can't ask for much more! Thanks Phil!!

I just finished the Tom "Rocky" Stone book, and I'm not really sure how to rate it. Formatting wise it is a disaster. There is no time line, it jumps all over the place, the editing is the shits. At one point he is talking about how nice Owen Hart is, and how big of an asshole Bret was in 1994, then he was saying how sorry he was Owen died, like it happened days after Bret was a dick to him in 94. If you can get past that, tt is your typical wrestling book with some stuff that will have you laughing out loud, and some stuff that will have you going "No way in hell that happened." He thinks very highly of himself, but at the same time realizes he was a jobber. it is a very strange dichotomy. But, if you are reading it on Kindle, you really can't beat the price.

I've been watching some Global recently, and Del was certainly over at the "Global Dome!" Always enjoyed the Dark Patriot feud, his team with Bagwell, and his WWF run. Never saw the Japan stuff, but may have to look for it. RIP Mr. Wilkes

Amen to this statement. The minute they (I assume WWE, maybe WCW, I don't remember who did it first) took eliminations out of multi-man matches and turned them into a lazy booking tool to get the title off of someone without them having to do a job, they utterly ruined the concept.

That would have been fantastic.

It quite frankly amazes me how little the folks in WWE see in John Morrison. His LU run was fantastic, and he could be doing amazing things for them. Then again, minus the LU part, I just described half the roster at this point.

All of this talk about whether McIntyre should or shouldn't find a way to get another shot at Lashley, and if he does, how he should do it..... You do realize we are discussing what has probably become the laziest booked company in the history of wrestling, right? The next PPV is Money in the Bank. What easier way to get out of a stipulation you don't want to honor than by using an overdone, outplayed crutch of lazy booking!

This is precisely how I took it. They have plausable deniability with the first explanation, while Vince and his pals laugh hysterically at the bigger girl having a poop themed name that they think no one but them gets.

The paragraph describing the Four Horseman at the beginning of the Flair/Morton section is an absolute thing of beauty @Phil Schneider The quip about wrestling's nuanced depiction of ethnicity/race/culture (I can't remember the exact word you used) also got a laugh out of me.

I absolutely agree with that, and would love to see guys like Darby and Jungle Boy and the like do more of it. I just feel like maybe there needs to also be someone telling Jericho, Cody, and the Bucks that every idea they have isn't gold.

I apparently missed a question during my inital answering, and I'd like to answer it, so I hope no one minds me making another post! Most importantly, what do you think the greatest positive about current AEW is & what do you think is their biggest hindrance at this point in time? Biggest Positive: As Gordi said above, the company seems to respect the fanbase. Something that it has become glaringly obvious the WWE no longer does. Now, obviously a wrestling company can't bow to the whims and desires of the fans all the time or they would lose control of their own product. I get that, we all get that. But AEW at least seems to care enough to try and make changes when it is blatantly obvious that something isn't working. When The Dark Order was failing, they took steps to change it and make it better. When that Brandi Rhodes heel turn and stable wasn't working, they killed it. Babyface Britt Baker, changed it and made a HUGE star. That's just three examples. In the WWE, it seems like ever since Vince had to listen to the damn fans about Daniel Bryan, and then he got a concussion, he decided never to listen to the damn fans again. Even though he's "a really good listener." Biggest Hindrance: I feel like too much of the talents vanity stuff is getting on TV. This was my fear when the company began, and they actually kept it in check for a long while. Sure, little bits would appear now and again, but for the most part I didn't feel it was problematic. Now though, it is starting to become front and center and it's getting annoying. Jericho has become insufferable since the Inner Circle babyface turn, and you can tell that lots of his ideas are being implemented into things. Then on the other side, The Elite storyline has gotten more and more tedious and has begun taking up more time and well, instead of droning on about it, I will just be nice and say that I am glad that Adam Page distanced himself from it!