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Yikes. The ducking and waiting so as to not give/take chair shots to the head was really bad.

I can see almost all of this working out. I'm sure they would just fill the syndicated time slots with WorldWide or Power Hour or whatever other B show they had running in their own syndication at the time that wasn't already airing in the market. That's easy enough. The ESPN slot is interesting, because they probably would have had to come up with a new show for that slot, but I can't remember how many days a week AWA was airing on the channel at that point. Whichever way it goes, I don't think they would have had trouble filling it, and it probably would have been helpful for the promotion. Knowing WCW, they wouldn't have done jack shit with the library, and it would have just ended up on the WWE Network anyway. The influx of talent would have been fine, because they would have just been additions to an already bloated undercard, and a lot of them ultimately ended up there anyway. Tully might be interesting if he ended up back in the Horseman, Slaughter could change history if he stayed with the company and we never got the Iraq bullshit and thus Mania 7 gets a different main event, and Del Wilkes signing this early completely changes the trajectory of the GWF. Greg Gagne is whatever, he's a fine stooge. Where this all falls apart if Verne Gagne as the on-air commissioner and the AWA World Title situation..... Verne is about as exciting as watching paint dry, and with all of the backstage turmoil in WCW during this time period, his role wouldn't have lasted long. But the AWA Title Situation is really where the whole thing explodes. Even if they had agreed to recognize the AWA Title, we all know that would have only lasted for a while, and eventually they would have had a unification match, and then Verne being the hard headed old prick he was would have probably tried to sue them or something. So Yeah.... the only real changes I see in the world of wrestling if this happens, other than the obvious AWA dying a year early and being bought by WCW.... The Main Event of Wrestlemania 7 changes, the GWF has to find a new top babyface (or someone different to play The Patriot), and potentially Tully Blanchard rejoins the Horseman.

I don't know anything about this card, but he was certainly annoying all night on that Mike Tyeon fight a few weeks ago.

I keep seeing people saying that. Saying that this is going to be the coming out party for Juice Robinson. This is not me trying to be a dick, this is me genuinely asking.... What am I missing? I don't get get it. I find him annoying as fuck on the microphone. I think his look sucks, and I find the ring work I've seen from him in AEW mediocre at best. (Never saw him in New Japan to be fair)

You hate to see "The King of Rock 'n' Rumble" get submitted! Shocked that Kerr didn't smash Babalu, as this time period was the height of him just demolishing everyone he got in the cage with,

I know some people are excited for The Hurt Syndicate, and I'm not anti-WWE guys going to AEW, but 3 guys whose combined age is nearly 150 might not be what "the alternative" needs. I like these Julia Hart vignettes. Nice way to re-introduce the character. Also like Private Party coming out and sitting in their VIP section to watch the qualifying matches to challenge them at the PPV. Plays to the gimmick and shows them scouting the competition. Good stuff.

Penelope Ford does yet another job, as Charlotte Fla.... I mean Britt Baker makes yet another return to ever decreasing crowd noise. Penelope deserves better. Harley Cameron is going to end up getting herself over as a babyface if they keep letting her talk. She is tremendous. It will be interesting to see how the crowd takes to Mina Shirikawa if she is going to be around full time

Probably showing my age here, but Nick Waynes Mom got it going on... Respectfully, of course. Not feeling this PPV coming up, but O'Spreay and Kyle Fletcher should be good fun if nothing else. I hate to keep harping on it, but Adam Cole looks awful both physically and in his ring work. It looked like he could barely lift Takeshita tonight. He looked like he was falling over. It's just bad

Thought for sure they were splitting Private Party, so they got me there. Glad to see the belts off the Bucks. Someone in charge must love them some Kris Statlander because my god the pushes just won't stop. I am very meh on Lashley, but Swerve/Shelton was very entertaining.

The crowd counting Cole out during the injury angle was hilarious.

Well, one thing Adam Cole didn't do during his 14 month lay off was train his upper body.

I know they are setting up Darby and Orange as the saviors of AEW in this angle against Moxley and crew, but damn would this be an amazing time for Eddie Kingston to come back and lead the fight and win the big one.

You all might want to take a look on the first page cause I think a bunch of Free Agents from when Last Stop Tour got a roster and immediately fired 95% of it never made it back into the free agents list. I definitely see Brian Lee and Bill Dundee missing, but I am sure there are others.

Have they said if the PPV's will be free with a Max subscription like the WWE shows currently are with Peacock, or will they be money on top of a Max subscription like the UFC shows are with ESPN+

I absolutely don't think he should be the person to beat Danielson. At this point, I'm not sure who that should be. But I do think this new gimmick is something interesting and exciting for him, and I think the promo that opened the show last night was fantastic.

I'm glad they are finally realizing that the fans like The Outrunners! Fantastic promo by Moxley to start the show. At least to me, AEW is starting to feel like a product that is trending in the right direction again. For a while there it felt stagnant and pointless. Hopefully if they can be consistent and get some people and angles hot it will help the crowd size problem too. I do think sooner rather than later, the Jericho problem has to get addressed though. His shit is consistently the weakest part of the show. It's time for him to go.

I thought Giulia looked good in her debut. Not sure about the animal pelt on the back of her outfit, and I thought Chelsea maybe took a little too much of the match, but all in all I think it came off well.

That's amazing. I certainly hope that becomes available to see outside of visiting The Estonian Sports and Olympic Museum, because I can't see that being in my travel plans anytime soon.

Maybe I am biased for being a huge fan, but I thought Nigel looked pretty damn good for a guy whose last match was in December of 2011

Just checking out what you all have going here and saw a few things: David Taylor is listed in both ECW and WCW Johnny Gunn and Tom Brandi are the same person. Dick Slater retired from injury in 1996 Doink the Clown is listed in free agency and the WAR section. (Assuming this is supposed to be Ray Apollo, and not Matt Borne, cause if it's the latter, he's also listed as himself)

It's amazing that Jeff Jarrett has gone from a guy who had Go Away heat from like 1999 to 2014 to getting deafening pops at 57 years old.

Swerve did indeed come out with Rave's Embassy jacket draped over his shoulders. That's a nice tribute.

Is that Jimmy Rave's coat?

They are going to need a long video package to fix that streamer issue!

Nigel was my favorite wreatler for much of the RoH era and I was there the night that he had his last match in a VFW that smelled like piss and had stray cats running around, so I am SO happy to see this moment. That should never have been how his career ended.