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I mean, AEW as an entity was willed into existence due to the growing base of pro wrestling fans who were beyond tired with WWE's hamster wheel of the last 20 years. What better person to lead that charge than the guy famous for being sick of WWE's bullshit? Like the only difference between Punk and Moxley is that Mox didn't have a very public falling out with his best friend.

It's one thing to not like CM Punk, but AEW has been back over a million viewers since he's returned, crowds are hot, and the angle to build the Mox match (as quickly as it had to be done) was fire. To say his signing was in any way a detriment to the company is some real galaxy brain thinking at this point.

She became a star because Nia busted her face up and she got to have a cool "badass stands bloodied but victorious" moment. She kept it going with her promos, but they weren't the cause of it.

Filming the Twisted Metal show (movie? I forget which).

It was pretty clear almost immediately that ReDragon was signed as Tony's post-goal celebration after NXT admitted defeat. I didn't really care much about them being in AEW, but I can't begrudge TK wanting to stick it up Hunter's ass one more time that his pissant company beat him by completely snatching the team that ran roughshod on NXT.

Well for Brandon Cutler it's established he's the camera man for the Bucks' vlog/Youtube channel so there's a legit storyline for him to be there, but you got a point for the rest. I suppose they could just say Nakazawa is just Kenny's Brandon Cutler, but there's no way to make Don fit.

Buddy must have been fun to work with, I know the NWA had to threaten to donate his championship deposit to charity and put him in the ring with Lou Thesz to make sure he finally dropped the belt. Also pretty sure Bruno had to give him the "we can do this the easy way or the hard way" talk so he would drop the WWWF title.

Probably, although I think there's been times it was close. It's just cool having two major promotions with excitement and hot crowds again. This is how it always used to be until the Monopoly Era, but it feels like a breath of fresh air.

Ospreay and Omega at Wrestle Kingdom is going to be absolutely banana.

Both guys aren't going to be babyfaces in Chicago I'm sure. Plus sloppy or not, these are the two biggest names in AEW (at least until Kenny gets back up to speed) so it's a money match to make.

I can't say I recommend waiting until the week of to book your PPV main event, but if you do holy shit is that the way to do it

Miro cutting promos on God will never not be awesome.

I mean I respect the guy for straightening out his life, but I don't want him being a regular in AEW.

Stokely, baby, what is you doin?

He's really the World's Tallest Vanilla MIdget. Dude obviously has wrestling skills but all the charisma of a cardbox box.

Mox with the fire promo to kick things off.

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Sorry bubba @Timbo Slice

They definitely booked themselves into a corner. By the way this show has been built, Drew should win 100%, but the way WWE in general is being booked clearly the long term plans are still with Roman as champ. There's pretty much no way Drew doesn't come off as a goober if he doesn't win or has a short reign,

Has anyone actually been doing that? I mean I'm sure it happened since there's misogynistic assholes on Twitter but it's not been something I've seen spread wide.

Rico vs Melo? Holy shit.

All the NXT 1.0 folks showing up seems like a pretty obvious attempt to merge the universes back after the big 2.0 Thanos Snap.

Oh lord, the internet is going to explode from Rhea showing up to talk about grabbing things by the balls.

Charlie Dempsey looks like if William Regal had Tom Baker's hair and it trips me out. Also this is my first time seeing him in ring and he's now my favorite wrestler in NXT. Very similar to Bryan Danielson (which makes sense of course) and I want to see him in the BCC asap.

Interesting that it appears all the NXT UK champs seem to be fairly big underdogs, which would be an odd thing for a show in Wales.