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Yeah Tessa seems to rub everyone around her the wrong way, so all the racist stuff became a convenient cover for people to pass on her without having to say it's because she's an asshole who pisses everyone off. The PC is a flop because it produced wrestlers for NXT and not the main roster. All those NXT people we like flopped because they spent all their time working to be the ideal of Hunter's Private Indy Fed and then Vince would see them on his show and be like "wtf is this bullshit?". Of course things designed to appeal to hardcores in NXT instead of appealing to the old man running the big show aren't going work. All those folks being set up to fail should be a war crime.

SRS stated Bronson Rechsteiner's NXT name will apparently be Rex Steiner, which is kinda brilliant since his dad's ring name was just his last name phonetically written. Him carrying that tradition on is neat.

I would posit Trish gets more props from the hardcores because she was very Not Good when she started, but put in the work and improved to a decent enough level which was almost unheard of in the Divas Era. She wasn't an amazing worker but she came off like second coming of Toyota compared to all the bikini models she had to work with.

Shocked that someone who was openly having an affair and rubbing his wife's face in it is an insecure shithead (/sarcasm). I always heard grumblings around here that he was a shithead when he was Sterling James Keenan on the indies here, but I figured it was just sour grapes over him making it to WWE. The more that comes out about him the more I realize that wasn't the case.

Cage is actually pretty good in AAA. He's great as the big dude who can catch all the dives and hit some big moves himself. Plus he does the Thanos gimmick in those Marvel themed matches which fits him perfectly. That's probably the best place for him IMO.

I think Archer will be there to do the promo for Suzuki and it will be Miro/Eddie and Suzuki/Mox in NYC.

Funny thing is Dave was talking about how the original plan was for Gallows and Anderson to be full time in New Japan when they jumped and go to Impact in between tours until the pandemic squashed that. So if you needed another reason to be annoyed by COVID there you go.

Plus they are moving to a channel with the same reach under the same corporate umbrella. This isn't "move from USA to Spike and hope people find it" both AEW and Warner will be hyping the hell out of it so the impact (no pun intended) will hopefully be minimal.

They're moving because TNT got the rights to the NHL along with the NBA, so it was either move or get pre-empted nearly every week in the fall/winter.

In before next week's Raw is just Brock and Becky decimating the entire roster while Cole exclaims ARE WE THE COOL BRAND YET

AEW sent out a tweet that Archer and Suzuki are going to be on Dynamite to issue another challenge to Mox, so it looks like we probably are going to get our KAZE NI NARE at the Arthur Ashe show.

Yeah even though a lot of his verbiage is taken almost directly from Corny rants, it seems a lot of the AEW fans who aren't as online see him as a Vince stand in.

It's something for the truthers to latch on to in their undying quest to never acknowledge AEW having any success. On the other hand, all the "TV ratings and PPV numbers don't count because no one watches traditional TV/PPV anymore" is so bonkers out of touch with reality.

Also how telling is it that WWE clearly understands that these guys have value, (why bother hoarding them away from other promotions if they didn't?) but don't seem to have any interest in using that value themselves. "This guy is so talented, he'd be a huge star elsewhere and make another company a lot of money, so let's sign him and put him on a treadmill in Orlando for years and never generate any buzz for our own product" is such a silly business model it's actually amazing it lasted this long before they binned it.

Cole was the poster child for "WWE only wants him so other companies can't have him" so it shouldn't be a huge shock they didn't have anything more than "pipsqueak manager" in mind for him.

Still dying at the thought that was Vince's idea to keep Adam Cole in the fold. Saw some WWE Like he really came up with that and was like "goddamn pal, he won't be able to pass that up". Also how awkward must the next Danielson/Garcia family get together must be when it was Johnny Ace's job to keep Bryan and obviously that didn't happen.

As someone who gets deluged at work from people calling in to order every major PPV event, the idea that cable boxes are some dinosaur relic from a bygone era is kind of an inside the bubble thing. Yes more people are comfortable doing things on the internet, but it's still a relatively tiny percentage. It's not just The Olds Not Getting Technology either, a lot of people have the capability of doing things online and just prefer watching it via their TV provider because it's what's they are comfortable with.

Yeah it's him not really having done anything but look mean but you know it's in his DNA to destroy people and you're just waiting for him to snap one day and start suplex the shit out of people.

TK offered Moriarty a contract after the match so it's good to see a local guy do good.

Also it was the perfect way to get the crowd to turn on Adam Cole was to tell Tony he can't be friends with Britt anymore. The heelest of heel maneuvers.

Really good show indeed. Everything seemed hot and was definitely setting things up for the next cycle. Can you imagine going back to like 2018 and telling everyone that we'd have a real alternative national promotion and they are going to give you Omega vs Bryan? You'd probably be told that's some message board fantasy stuff, so of course someone who posted on DVDVR made it happen.

It doesn't help that Mox makes his entrance from goddamn Cleveland and takes forever to get to the ring.

I mean, that's part of his schtick that Kenny dresses like an obnoxious asshole, because he's supposed to be one.

Adam Cole vs Jungle Boy seems like it would slap very hard.

I love that KawadaSmile vs Shawn Spears is PWO's version of Tony Schiavone vs MJF.