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I distinctly remember when Scott first busted out the Frankensteiner and everyone lost their goddamn minds that a dude his size was effortlessly pulled out a move like that. Also the best part of Regal's promo was Bryan in the battle of his life trying not to lose it when Regal said he was the wrestler he should have become.

Agreed, this was one of those weeks where Dynamite was like "what if something was as fast paced as peak Russo but was actually good", but I enjoyed the show.

to be fair, we had both Britt-Rosa and Jade's Goldberg-ian who's next deal both featured tonight

We seriously do this every time AEW starts a new PPV cycle, the first week or so is setting up all the new programs, people complain that the show sucks and is all WWE-fied, and within a couple weeks everyone's frothing at the mouth for the upcoming PPV.

Seems clear MJF is gonna fuck over Wardlow to set up their match since Wardlow said he was "done" with Max.

The OG Hardys theme is actually stock music anyone can pay to use. I've heard it in the background of lots of things.

It was good for introducing Jeff to AEW, not their fault he spoiled it like a dumbass in that interview he did.

I suppose his trademark for the William Regal name went through. He's so effortlessly charming and charismatic, He has that Mick Foley quality of being loveable but still able to flip the switch to terrifying when needed.

Still trying to figure out how New Japan is going to break out of their doldrums when they won't be able to create the same buzz as before (no one is able to share clips and gifs of awesome spots/matches without getting DCMA'd to hell). A good chunk of their latest boom period came from Western fans going nuts over things they saw on Twitter, and they did an excellent job squashing that.

Honestly I think it's just more of the "if it isn't specifically tailored to me and my interests, it's trash" mindset that seems to have taken over pretty much any kind of discourse these days.

I think Loss may have hit upon something when he mentioned part of it seems to be from people mad that a national company made something that happened on the indies canon. After decades of being told anything that didn't happen in WWE or WWE approved-history doesn't count, people seem to lose their minds when AEW ties 2000s ROH into their storylines.

Dang, poor Bron lost his belt and got his pants pulled down on TV

Everytime I see Tiffany Stratton, for one second my brain thinks its Brooke Hogan

Bron has one match on Raw and Vince was all "goddamn it pal, why are you on NXT?"

Yeah, we don't need to see Austin trying to do a full match (and by all accounts neither does he), all people want is for him to stomp a mudhole and stunner someone, then drink some beers. I'm certain we'll get that and I don't think anyone would be disappointed.

I've thought for a while now Kacy is one of those WWE is missing the boat on. Not only did she have the mainstream appeal WWE is always dying to get with her Ninja Warrior appearances, she could easily be in the Rey "tiny person does amazing things" category and become a star.

Also all these people complaining about music references is why Vince thinks wrestling fans aren't smart enough to deal with two people having the same first name.

I wasn't watching ROH back then so I had no idea what significance the music had, but as soon as I saw him come out in the basketball shorts I knew he was going back to his ROH gimmick.

I mean the whole meat of the feud was MJF being traumatized that his hero abandoned him, so the Punk he got for the match was the Punk in the famous photo of the two meeting each other. It was the ultimate "fuck you" from Punk, MJF got his ass beat by the guy he was excited to meet back in the day.

Not surprised, Austin has been dead set against coming back for a match for a while. I expect they'll have a verbal confrontation leading to KO eating a stunner and a beer bath. Which is all people want to see from Austin anyway, so it's probably for the best.

Did Edge just join the House of Black?

Dolph growing his beard out makes him look like Old Man Adam Page

I love how WWE's default storyline this time of year is "How will *X* find their way to Wrestlemania" despite it being a two day, eight hour affair.

Regal had neck surgery a couple years ago that ended his in ring career. I suppose he could have one of those miraculous recoveries from career ending injuries that wrestlers tend to have, but I wouldn't expect it.

Also Regal's biggest strength is behind the scenes, and Tony already said he would have a role there as well. This is probably going to end up being one of AEW's low key best gets just for that alone.