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I assume Stat beat Kamille to set her up for losing to Mercedes, which is fine since neither really has much going on. Especially since the pairing with Stokely just got retconned out of existence It seems the Bucks' loss and the following segment where they told Daniels they were "working from home" was a storyline way to write off Nick taking some time off for a separated shoulder

finally we get the return of BIG BOB, business is indeed back

Show's been pretty good so far, but does it seem odd to anyone else that they are having a show in the ECW Arena next week when Paul Heyman is currently off TV?

It seems like we've had this discussion a thousand times when AEW is starting a new build for something. People think AEW is cooked for a couple weeks after a blow-off PPV, and then after they build the new angles for several weeks everyone is raving about it.

Carlito got heat for ad libbing the "I gotta learn Chinese" line on Raw in the segment he was in with Damage Control. Beyond the obvious stupidity involved, apparently Io Sky was subjected to "go back to China" taunts from some audiences at some point.

I love that CMLL did the black and white gimmick

All I heard is Bautista supported Kamala, which should have come to no surprise to anyone who knows anything about him.

Bryan's neck is apparently so bad it wasn't 100% he would even make it through his title run, so his career might legit be over.

Its obviously super early, but it sure feels like this BCC vs the world stuff sure feels like Tony is trying to re-book the nWo angle only not making WCW look like total chumps and actually winning in the end.

Well they still have the trios titles now that Yuta made his choice, so they don't have to add any more belts if they don't want to. I understand folks not feeling another Mox run, but we're also getting a Claudio heel run along with Pac back in his natural element. Who knows, maybe a heel turn will be the spark needed to send Yuta to the next level as well. Plus I expect in the short term its going to be some combo of OC/Garcia/Darby battling through the minions to get to Mox so that should help get some juice to the Mox matches when they eventually happen. Also the babyfaces are going to need a woman on their side to combat Shafir, which I would presume is Willow, so that'll be a good way to get her to the next level as well.

I thought the ending was perfect, Bryan didn't quit and went out on his shield like we all knew he would. Since him losing would already be a bummer, it's the perfect time to do a big heat angle to get the new Big Bads over huge. The babyfaces sitting around the ring looking despondent really sold what a big deal it was. I was sort of expecting Nigel to get involved since it seemed like they were setting it up when Mox took a swipe at him, but I suppose it will probably be the next part of the story. Sometimes the bad guys need to get a big win to make it even sweeter when the heroes prevail.

Oh god, how is Darby going to die in this one

TK really edging us for the debut of Big Bob

Well that three way kicked all sorts of ass, even if the ending ended up being angle advancement it still didn't bring it down for me imo

It's Adam Cole (BAYBAY)

Love the announcers pointing out Willow learned lucha submissions during her time as CMLL champ

Great finish to that

Turbo Floyd Turbo'ing up got a pop from me

Zippy little pre show so far, AEW has it down pat where an hour or so just flies by on their shows.

Rico Constantino!

Show starts at 6:30 for Zero Hour AEW World Champion Bryan Danielson defends against Jon Moxley Swerve Strickland returns AEW Tag Team Champions The Young Bucks (Matthew & Nicholas Jackson) defend against Private Party (Isiah Kassidy & Marq Quen) Three-way: AEW International Champion Will Ospreay defends against Konosuke Takeshita & Ricochet AEW Women’s World Champion Mariah May defends against Willow Nightingale TNT Champion Jack Perry defends against Katsuyori Shibata ROH World Champion Mark Briscoe defends against Chris Jericho Darby Allin vs. Brody King Hangman Page vs. Jay White Two out of three falls: Hologram vs. The Beast Mortos Zero Hour: ROH Television Champion Atlantis Jr. defends against Brian Cage Zero Hour: MxM Collection (Mason Madden & Mansoor) vs. The Acclaimed (Max Caster & Anthony Bowens) Zero Hour: Anna Jay vs. Harley Cameron

Any UK folks or britwres aficionados here know if Johnny Saint is HOF level? That's one area that's been a blind spot in my fandom but considering he's one of the few UK names that people in the US have even heard of makes me think there must be good reason for that. I know its hard for lucha guys to get in, but the Dinamitas and Dorrell Dixon not being in are especially puzzling.

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I don't know for sure, but we've seen so many WWE guys (current and former) who have the cognitive dissonance to go around saying stuff like "well Vince never SA'd anyone in front of me so I personally have no problems with the guy" that seeing someone not have that stance seems surprising. Also from what I've gathered EY seems to be a guy who stands on principle so I wouldn't think he's the type to virtue signal. He's been in the business long enough to know its not run by the angels, if anything he probably thought all the Vince stories were exaggerations until he saw it for himself firsthand.

All that was missing from the Rock's appearance was Graves yelling "BUT WHO'S SIDE IS HE ON"