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I think both the Bucks and Usos have great matches, but the Bucks have meant more in terms of business than the Usos probably ever will. Not that it's the Uso's fault because they are in a company that doesn't see any value in tag teams, but it's telling that the only way they get to be relevant in WWE is because of Roman. If it wasn't for him, they'd be on every PPV pre show facing like the Viking Raiders or some shit.

Well it was only after Tay left WWE that she started getting good. It's less of "how did they let her slip away" than it is an indictment of how shit their training process is. I have a feeling they have something special planned for this show, since Brodie was obviously so important to everyone. Having this be the week Page returns to mend the Dark Order internal feud would be a pretty great moment.

Some classic Dave deadpan humor on last night's show: Bryan: (recapping Goldberg's promo on Raw) he said "if I'm lucky, I'll kill you!" Dave: Well they're going to be Saudi Arabia, so that's the place to do it. fucking DIED at that

None that I'm aware of, the prevailing mindset in the business (and society at large) at the time would have made that difficult.

So is Xia Li injured or is she in the doghouse for kicking Mercedes Martinez so hard she flew out of NXT?

Oh god, they are doubling down on the Joe Gacy gimmick..... someone tell Vince the only people who use triggered unironically are boomers and right wingers.

You can easily come to this conclusion from the commercials, which it should be noted, are the parts they chose to include to paint the show in the best possible light.

Counterpoint: The presentation of Omega and the Bucks is what dorks think cool is like.

Elektra must be pretty good already since the last time we saw B-Fab in a match she looked really "not ready for prime time".

I think you nailed it Bubba. Cody just comes off as unlikable, as opposed to Miz and Maryse, or the Bellas on their shows. I never watched any of the WWE shows, but I heard a lot of folks saying how someone like Nattie came off as a sweetheart on Total Divas and it helped draw more of an audience to the main programming since people wanted to see these characters they liked. Based on all the ads I've seen Cody comes off as a douchebag and I can't imagine anyone wanting to check out AEW because of it. I saw someone on Twitter sum it up best by retweeting a pic the AEWonTNT account posted of Cody and Brandi advertising the show and pointing out that to non fans it probably looks like a show about a former Proud Boy turning his life around.

Was just thinking how Super Brutality sounds like either a Mortal Kombat finishing move or a tag team from Japan in the 90s but instead it's being used for a team where one person is rolling her eyes at how the other one is constantly acting like a goof.

In a wrestling context, they did. The last thing people looking for an escape from WWE is something like Total Divas being advertised on their show.

Honestly, as more people become comfortable with the idea that AEW is something worth investing your time in (as in won't keep making you feel like an idiot for getting invested like WWE programming tends to do) you'll see even higher growth. Wrestling fans at this point tend to be like abused animals where they just expect the promotion to kick them in the ribs so it was always going to take some time for AEW to earn the trust of the fans that they aren't going to get fucked over for becoming invested. They went from a million viewers as a potential high level benchmark to something that is expected every week real fast. People are starting to realize everything leads to something, everything will usually make sense, and if they have a misstep when something lands with a thud, they'll usually course correct and get it fixed quickly. IMO, that's when the fans turned on Cody. His jingoistic feud with Ogogo didn't go over well and when he just kept fucking that chicken it left a bad taste in the mouths of their audience who very much saw that as a WWE style "you're gonna like it no matter what" move.

Yeah I liked it but it seems every WWE cage match I'm thinking how much better it would be without the escape bullshit.

Wow, they actually remembered that Drew Mac can challenge for the title again now that Lashley is no longer champ.

I want to enjoy this but WWE escape the cage rules just kill it for me. FFS, it's not the 1970s and you need to have a way for Bruno to take a loss without getting pinned anymore.

Shanya breaking arms every week is must see TV tho.

It's like WWE heard the feedback of people complaining about the stupid fuck finishes last night and decided to up the ante.

You just know Alexa is gonna appear at some point just as this match is getting good.

The best part was how they went out of their way *not* to mention her hometown (which most times means they won't do what they usually do) and proceed to do the hometown humiliation anyway. Also WWE recently put a video on their YouTube page of the Top 10 times people got humiliated in their hometowns in case you were still under any false idea they aren't aware of what they are doing.

Also holy shit Hobbes just pointed out they debuted Seth's appearance on Austin's show (where he tells a story about being pissed at the HIAC with the red lights finish) after a show that had a red light finish as a main event.

While the main event is getting all the attention, and rightly so, lets not forget the other two highly promoted matches (the women) ended in a DQ and "pin after being hit/distracted by a doll" respectively.

That's the ultimate WWE ending, "our faulty equipment will make sure we have the flattest most deflating finish ever".

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