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Wasn't the (alleged) whole reason Shawn lost his smile was because he didn't want to do the job to Bret at Mania? I remember at the time not having access to THA SHEETZ yet and being baffled that they really were going to run with Sid as champ. When you think about it, things probably worked out for the better the way they happened since we got Bret/Austin which was the kickoff point for the Hart Foundation as well as Austin's babyface run. As awesome as a Bret/Shawn match would have been, what we got ended up being far better in the long run.

I loved the whole Rey/Hunter interaction, both were really good. Rey the understandably distraught father and Hunter the boss who has worked with this guy forever and doesn't want to see him throw his career away over it. Seeing a sympathetic authority figure on WWE TV was almost disorientating in how alien it felt at first, but it was done well.

FWIW I think those were legit emotions from Bray, iirc getting fired and losing Brodie Lee hit him pretty hard . Not that it's not going to lead to something, but I'd wager there was a lot of realness in what we saw.

So is Liv's new deal that she's into pain now?

Opening with a car accident, did the NXT Parking Lot get a callup too?

Tomorrow is the big finale of the Triplemania Trilogy and here is the lineup: AAA Mega Championship Hijo del Vikingo vs Rey Fenix While this wasn't the match AAA wanted, believe it or not (hi Kenny!), this match should be an absolute banger. Vikingo has been one of the best in Mexico and Fenix is Fenix, so it would take an act of God for this to not be awesome. Mask Tournament Final Pentagon Jr vs Villano IV Villano IV has been punching above his weight this whole tournament, no one expected much from him but he's been able to turn back the clock and have fun brawls. That's right in Penta's wheelhouse so this should be a fun crazy brawl even though the outcome is not really in question here. Hair vs Hair Cibernetico vs Pagano This is going to be the "Mexican ECW match" portion of the show. Pagano's matches on big AAA shows are always plunder filled spectacles, and if that's your jam this should be up your alley. AAA Reina de Reinas Championship Taya vs Kamille This should be technically good, but there's a high chance the crowd will shit on it because they wanted Flammer to get the shot after she won a mask match a while back. She probably will end up getting her shot, but in the meantime we get a follow up on a match that took place in the NWA (which no one in Mexico watches). AAA Trios Championship Nuevo Generation Dinamita (Sanson, Forastero, Cuatero) vs Bandido/Laredo Kid/Psycho Clown vs Brian Cage/Johnny Caballero/Sam Adonis This should be a good match, but it's basically NGD vs people they wanted to get on the card but didn't book a match for. Except for Cage, since he usually plays one of the characters in the Marvel themed matches. Winner gets an AAA Tag Title match Latigo/Toxin vs Kommander/Myzteziz vs Arez/Willie Mack vs Dragon Lee/Dralistico Funny how in AEW the people complain FTR never gets a shot at the tag titles, while in AAA FTR are the champs and haven't been around much to give anyone else a shot. This most likely will either be a highlight match or a trainwreck depending on how everyone ends up working together. Dragon Lee/Dralistico are the only regular tag team in the match and it would be quite the upset if anyone else won.

https://www.f4wonline.com/news/japan/former-njpw-young-lion-katsuya-kitamura-passes-away-at-36-years-old Just a few years ago he seemed like a can't miss prospect, and now this. Shocking.

In a non-wrestling instance of showing how important it is for your announcer to be the voice of your audience, two trash ass Thursday games in a row got Al Michaels sounding like he wants to leap out of the broadcast booth window. He's out here like JR coming up with about a dozen professional ways to say this game sucks ass.

I mean, if that's the case then good. Nothing worse for a wrestling show than seeing the crowd look like they want to be Raptured out of the building due to sheer boredom. The Pandemic Era was the closest I ever came to giving up on wrestling because I just couldn't with little to no crowd noise. Also I think this might be some sort of course correction after 20 years of never having these sort of things happen at the level they are now. Plus "holy shit it's those guys from the other promotion/area" is one of those things that just always works in wrestling, even if the person wasn't a top guy. Having a monopoly for so long (or for us older farts, remembering the WWF vs NWA battles) make seeing someone jump sides hit the This Is A Big Fucking Deal button in our brains.

That sucks, but at least he has his Twitch streams to occupy his time and AEW has more than enough folks to fill the roster, so he can take as much time as needed to make sure he's 100%.

If Nyla can channel like a quarter of her Twitter personality on to TV she's going to be a superstar.

Wrestlers have always been weird about others using their moves. KO made a point to be clear he got Austin's blessing to use the Stunner too.

LT did good for someone making their debut in the main event of Wrestlemania, and Bam Bam was a total pro. I can see why a fellow wrestler would give props to them.

The movie itself is fine, it just got adopted by incels and dudebros as some kind of mission statement in life.

Yes, the very first incarnation of the Dudleys was basically them being hillbilly versions of the Hanson bothers.

Not to mention the Road Warriors themselves.

Jushin Liger was literally an anime that the wrestler was portraying.

Dave mentioned it's going to be defended at smaller shows that don't often get title matches, and every match will be free on NJPW World.

Switchblade made a joke at the press conference deal they had today about him sending the Good Brothers to WWE, which would be hilarious if that became canon in New Japan.

To me it was noticeable how different it would have been handled under Vince. He would have (based on history) forbidden any mention of them which would only make the crowd more willing to hijack the show due to the elephant in the room.

That went as well as anyone could have rightly expected. None of the current talent got embarrassed, everyone got their moment, and it was contained to one segment of the show. Well two I suppose if you count the opening, but in another the whole show would have been all DX all the time.

ELIAS!!!

Weird they would do what for all intents and purposes is a babyface vs babyface match with Sami/Riddle

Also poor Seth finally able to get babyface reactions again just in time for Bray to return

They might have some kind of arrangement because Karl still has the NEVER title.