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I'm sure it's because he's 39 and Vince has that weird phobia of people being too old despite devoting 3/4ths of last night's show to Orton's two decades of service.

I know he's not the most popular guy around here, but it's crazy to me that LA Knight was over like the Rock in NXT and all they have for him on the main roster is being a manager. I guess he got Adam Cole'd.

You can take it to another level and say KO is playing the role of Roddy Piper who upon seeing Saba Simba yelled out THAT'S TONY ATLAS!

Honestly, Ezekiel does look much better than the last time we saw him, but they need to get to the payoff for this gimmick fast or he's gonna get Red Rooster'd.

Yeah that's where I'm at, I'm prone to sinus infections due to allergies and so far it feels like a somewhat stronger version of that. My wife and son haven't shown any symptoms yet so fingers crossed. Also I don't think you made the wrong call watching ZERO1, it was certainly more memorable than a lot of recent Raws due to the returns but nothing you'd be kicking yourself over missing.

Him becoming an amalgam of Guys Vince Hates would be an entertaining twist.

Also did Ciampa lose his name too or do the announcers just not know how to pronounce Tomasso?

Got an elephant sitting on my head thanks to the rona, but I noticed we didn't have a thread so have at it.

Yeah I seem pretty lucky so far, at first I thought it was allergies turning into a sinus infection (which tends to happen to me this time of year). Right now I just have congestion/runny nose/scratchy throat/mild cough. I'm fully vaxxed and boosted so hopefully this won't get too much worse.

Well Ali was discussed to return soon, that's def. gonna be a "I'll wait until it happens" for me since things went so sideways there.

Welp apparently I got COVID from going to Dynamite.

It makes sense right now for Punk to be positioned in a place to have better matches since he's being built to face the champ (and possibly win), as opposed to Bryan who's main goal right now is getting over the BCC. Bryan's still going to have good matches since it's probably not physically possible for him not to, but he's not going to be in a top showcase position right now.

Kenny said a while back the only thing he was waiting on was hernia surgery, since he overestimated how easy it would be to get surgery scheduled while hospitals are still dealing with COVID.

I would suspect they are waiting for Omega to come back, since Dave's pretty much stated the plan is to do Kenny and the Bucks vs Legally Distinct Undisputed Era on PPV as soon as possible. Also I'm fine with the occasional dud with unscripted promos as opposed to the soul crushing sameness of scripted ones. Of course you can always argue Vince's weird language quirks of what can be said or not said is a bigger obstacle than scripted promos.

Speaking of that, it was quite a sight to watch Mox's entrance in person and see the camera guys frantically trying to keep up with him.

One thing I noticed is they need to give Yuta a new entrance video, it's hilarious to see him to come out to his Lisa Frank-ass video next to Danielson and especially Mox.

No wonder he enjoys his pairing with Riddle so much.

Also TK came out and had the crowd do various chants to be captured for the video game. He called it AEW Fight Forever, which I don't recall being publicly announced. Bubba @KawadaSmile would have loved how coked out he looked while doing this, and it made me realize he's probably a dude who acts goofy when he gets excited.

I just got back from the show, and holy shit what a blast it was. First, I was in the long ass line for a hot dog and a diet Pepsi during the Dark Evolution tapings. QT Marshall came out and I was feeling pretty good with my decision to be in line at that point when FUCKING MINORU FUCKING SUZUKI came out as his opponent. The girl behind me completely lost her shit marking out over it. There was a funny moment when the tech guys were setting up Penta's tombstone gimmick before his match and Justin Roberts was like "so who do you guys think is coming up next?" Tony Schiavone told us all to chant CM Punk to open the show, which turned out to be unnecessary as him coming out was probably the loudest crowd pop I've been a part of. The last time AEW was here it was a week before Punk's debut and it was like the crowd was more pent up than Veer. Dustin is amazing to watch in person, pretty sure he got the ref to bite that he was hurt for real as he was checking on him outside the ring multiple times, he was so good the crowd kinda turned heel on CM Punk a little, they at least were kinda hoping Dustin would win while realizing that probably wasn't going to happen. Sammy and Tay are going to be an amazing heel act. He's so good at being a douchebag, Dan Lambert was getting huge babyface reactions. PVZ smashing them is going to get over huge. It's amazing we had Darby in a coffin match and the most HOLY SHIT spot of the match was Sting doing another balcony dive. That was quite a sight to see in person.

Yeah the only time Vince ever cared about tag teams is when they were running A, B, and C tours at the same time and needed to fill all those cards.

Funny how Vince is on another NO REAL NAMES!!! kick but your NXT champ is out here using his real first name.

either Nattie is way shorter than I realized or Nikkita is way taller.

Grimes/Melo/Baby Uso three way? I'm here for it.

lol at Tony Baggadonuts sending his boys after Santos (I'm guessing that's who those dudes were)

Someone really needs to do a deep dive on why WWE always seems to want to give gimmicks to Asians that portray them as childlike.