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Doesn't Dixie still own like 5% of the company? I wouldn't mind seeing her back in a non management capacity. She seems like a sweet person who genuinely loves pro wrestling, just not someone who should have been running things.

I would be okay with Hook destroying QT being a regular feature. Also seeing John Silver visibly marking out for Mark Henry doing the "ITS TIME FOR THE MAIN EVENT" was too precious for words.

Time to SEND HOOK

Teasing Mox/Danielson so that's a thing that's happening. Trent leaving Wheeler Yuta hanging on the dap attempt was an interesting "this is obviously foreshadowing" moment.

Funny how suddenly we have Seth name dropping Mox on Smackdown, maybe Vince hopes he can pop a rating for him too.

Dave putting it up for vote on whether or not to expel Chris Benoit (and the resulting vote to not do so) pretty much closes the book on the idea of a morals clause for a wrestling HOF. There's always going to be people who should be in who won't get votes because their transgressions are known beforehand. Bonds and Clemens are probably the greatest hitter and ptcher in baseball history respectively, but neither have a chance of getting in the baseball HOF because both were unrepentant assholes to the media who vote on it (and you better believe that's the reason why, steroids just make for a convenient cover story).

I mean he checks all the boxes Dave asks for. Is he a draw and has he been one for an extended period of time? Yes. Is he considered one of the top workers? Yes. Even if you want to argue the age thing, he would be the one guy I would think is the exception since his body of work is such that it's really hard to come up with a reason to not vote for him that makes sense.

Yeah once someone's been elected in his mind that's it even if he personally might not agree. You can always tell when that's the case when he's asked about a marginal candidate and his response is "hey they got the votes so apparently enough people thought *X* was HOF worthy"

To be fair, PPVs on Sundays are a relatively recent thing. Plus if you're going to make your tentpole shows 4 hour marathons it's better to have them on Saturdays so people don't have to go in to work or school hungover the next day.

Golf is absolutely the sport with the most affluent audience, I think it's by a large margin too.

Okada really wants to have dream matches with Punk and Danielson, and I'm sure he'd like to work with pretty much everyone else in AEW.

Yeah after all that went down he posted on Twitter that he went to Tony and they worked things out.

Dante really is the type of guy that encapsulates AEW right now. He'd either be in developmental forever or chasing the 24/7 title in WWE, and AEW saw this guy doing amazing stuff and wowing the crowd and decided "he's probably not completely ready but he's over so fuck it let's give it a try" and that is the kind of stuff that makes stars out of folks. Not a guarantee of course, but you gotta take a gamble on someone if they get over.

I'm sure a lot of people were interested in Cody because of the deal with his contract coming up. Ironically, I think that's one positive for AEW in how they don't ignore real world happenings.

Dynamite beat Raw in the demo this week, so everyone place their bets on what Vince's panic response will be next week.

Never forget that after Ali made an impassioned statement about police reform on Raw Talk, they made him the leader of the cartoonishly evil Antifa group.

Fightful reporting WWE is not going to grant Mustafa Ali his release, which is interesting. They clearly see him as a guy who could be a star somewhere else but yet somehow haven't figured out a way to put him on their TV that wasn't so offensive he lost his shit at Vince over it.

The Gunn Club stuff makes sense when you consider the Gunn Boys have a stellar record on paper but it's largely padded by jobber matches on Dark: Elevation.

I admit I'm kind of interested to see where they are going by implying Jericho seemingly becoming self aware of how other people see him.

Yeah people there said the guy yelled "get that drunk out of the ring" so I don't think TK will mind paying any fines over that one.

Cody's promo (and gimmick) makes more sense if you think of it as "what would happen if John Cena lost his shit at the height of the fan backlash".

Well historically the beginning of stories aren't as exciting as the middle or the end.

Clearly the story here is that Sting gets super powers from wrestling on TV stations Ted Turner once owned.

I feel we do this each cycle. AEW slow builds both because they only have 4 PPVs a year, so the first few weeks of a cycle introduces the new feuds while we all complain the show is "meh". I mean, we're not wrong they kinda are, but it also seems to be the point.

I admit I laughed at the finish of Punk/Spears, both because it was so absurdly perfect after all the build and it was like TK gave the book to @KawadaSmile