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Rampage has been paced better as a live show than when they do a taping and have to edit a million segments together.

Another great Punk promo, I love that the result of this story is Punk embracing the dark side to become an asshole again.

ROWAN!

That three way was pretty rad, planting seeds of doubt for the PPV too.

With all the excitement around the PPV, I forgot Rampage was live tonight.

Partly the roughness of the style and I think also he put a lot of pressure on himself that has to take its toll after a while. This is the same guy who ended up dying because he felt like he had to keep working even though his body completely deteriorated, just because of the pressure he felt as the ace of the company.

Yeah it's something that will gradually be more accepted over time, and there will certainly be speedbumps along the way. I have a cousin who is trans, and I sometimes refer to him by his former name, not out of any spite but just from my old man brain autocompleting the name I knew him by for 20+ years. It's a learning process for everyone, and hopefully seeing these attempts to legislate folks out of existence will open some eyes to how trans folks aren't the devil but just folks wanting to live their truest lives. But, PWO of course, so I suppose this should probably end this particular conversation.

The best part is that it just recently came out Impact was paying him to sit at home while letting the public believe they parted ways with him. As skeezy as Impact can be at times, there's no way Elgin (or his lawyers) want this to go to trial and get all his dirty laundry aired out.

He was pretty vocal about being pro gay marriage, so that makes me think he may not be down with this latest round of Texas-ing. I could be wrong of course,

I could easily see this happening (the Austin bowing out part at least) if Texas keeps Texas-ing. He seems like a dude who wouldn't want to be seen as defending that kind of shit, plus he's been one of the rare folks in wrestling who really didn't want to come back and do an old man match to damage his legacy. Counterpoint: Vince assuredly knows all this and probably offered him the biggest payday he's ever offered to make it happen.

Aja Kong had that Taz factor where the badass factor somehow makes you not notice the lack of height. Shorter folks that are thick don't come off as smaller people.

Also Ian Riccaboni finding out the same way everyone else did and tweeting through his feelings like an excited teenager was downright adorable.

It should be noted that the wording of the press release seemed to go out of its way to specify that Tony Khan personally bought ROH, not AEW Wrestling LLC. It may sound like rich guy semantics, but it probably means whatever the cost of this was, it won't be on AEW's books directly.

Assuming Sinclair is keeping ROH on their same time slots, just that alone is a nice get for AEW.

Also as people have been pointing out on Twitter, AEW technically has trios titles now since ROH had them.

I get the feeling that Cole is such a polarizing figure that if you weren't down with him in the main event before, there probably wasn't going to be anything they could do to change your mind. The tag team battle royale was fun and it set up the three way at the PPV, and now with the ROH news it's pretty certain the Briscoes will show up soon.

Literally laughed out loud at Spears' "well I just fucked up" face

I don't remember him in ROH as part of the Bullet Club, pretty sure that was only in New Japan

Whoever the "finish guy" is in AEW, they're very good at booking the finish of battle royales.

I believe Tony has said or at least made illusions that he felt AEW didn't quite have enough in the vault yet to warrant a streaming service, so this certainly fills that void. Also I guess that means they have All In now too? Any collection of AEW history would have been missing a very key piece without that.

The people who were in ROH when people cared about ROH are in AEW though, and the ones in the last incarnation of ROH can show up via the Forbidden Door since they still have good relations with Impact.

From the way Dave has been talking (namely that UFC proved people will pay for a streaming service and also pay for the PPVs), I would highly suspect any AEW streaming service would not include PPV if they can avoid it.

It seems like the word in the locker room is that there is some kind of streaming deal with HBO Max. It's all part of the same family so it makes all the sense in the world for both parties to make it happen.

Baby Uso and GOONT-AIR with a nice little veteran vs newbie match.

Love how WWE decides it's a good gimmick for a young babyface (?) team to portray them as losers who can't get women.