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RIC FLAIR!

JFC Azul just saved Pagano's life on that dive.

FYI Sam Adonis is Corey Graves's brother if you didn't know.

Team AAA Defenders vs Team Legally Distinct From CMLL Invaders time!

That was a great match, Lucha Bros reign of awesome continues.

Tirantes and Faby have been feuding for years.....but yes that was protecting Faby and hopefully setting up a match in Impact.

NGD using their same names/masks is interesting because Sofia is the one stated to own those.

We need a forbidden door segment where Mr. Iguana runs into Luchasaurus.

Also Brian Cage is so awesome as Thanos he needs to find out some way to do that in AEW.

Tito Santana (not that one) entered the Copa Triplemania, keeping that joke alive for another year.

The Marvel match opened things off starting with Arachno (Vikingo as Spider Man) doing the HBK zip line entrance and it ended with LUCHA HULK (probably Murder Clown) doing a run in. Lucha is the best.

Bumping since the show is on tonight, 8pm Central time/9pm Eastern on thecubsfan's Twitch channel, unless you want to use a VPN to pretend to be in Mexico. Will Kenny have 2 amazing matches in 2 days?

The quick overnight numbers just show what TVs were watching Fox during 8-9, 9-10, etc. NFL games would have aired 8-11 EST so it's safe to assume a larger than usual amount of people were watching Fox at those times but not Smackdown.

Saw it mentioned that Rampage had 28 minutes of wrestling while Smackdown had 27 this week. I wonder if it ever occurs to Vince that wrestling fans might like to watch wrestling matches once in a while.

Watching Smackdown right after coming home from Rampage may have been a mistake, but I love that Pat Mcafee has become this generation's David Crockett just marking out having fun watching a wrestling show.

You know I have to give the devil his due @C.S. both my #1 and #2 "best matches I watched in person" are Christian in world title matches (him and Orton from 2011 was the other). Fucking fantastic match, and it's crazy to think Kenny has a main event in Mexico tomorrow (today!) for Triplemania. Also Kenny is the greatest at near falls, he gets the crowd to bite every single time One thing that was very different than the last time I went to an AEW show (like the third or fourth Dynamite was the last one I went to) is how they made Dark feel like something that matters now. No one gave a shit at the last taping I went to, and people were just as hot for it as they were for Rampage. People went nuts for the Wingmen vs Varsity Blondes/Jurassic Express match since they didn't expect to see Jungle Boy. Also they had a match between Dante Martin and Lee Moriarity who is the top indy star here in Pittsburgh. Seeing Dante in person is wild, dude is playing a whole different game than everyone else. Also no one knew who Jamie Hayter was, but the crowd was basically "well she saved Britt so yay for her". Britt did to a promo after the show to introduce her to the crowd and you could feel the collective "ohhhhhh! that's who that is!".

Somehow Tay Conti is even more attractive in person, I didn't think that was possible.

Also Aubrey is super over so far

Tony Khan came out to announce Thunder Rosa as guest commentator for Dark and the ring announcer called him "the man who saved wrestling " lol

I get how that could be bothersome, but he generally reserves the all time great tag for folks who were great at all aspects of wrestling, in a way it actually is praising Bobby even more by saying he was so great in the ring it made the fact that he barely spoke largely irrelevant. I suppose there's a time and place, but Dave's gonna Dave.

So cubsfan was mentioning that NGD was leaving CMLL on their own, the company got wind of it, and put out their announcement tweet saying it was a mutual decision. I suppose "we agreed our most talented trio should leave" is a slightly better look than "anyone not politically connected to the family is fleeing the company".

Not saying it excuses any harassment, but I seem to recall the story being at the time that Mia had COVID and people took that to mean since Keith was missing he must have gotten it from her. Sadly wrestling fans acting like shitbags isn't surprising to me anymore.

Funny thing is that unless something changed, Scott D'Amore isn't an employee of Anthem/Impact and is basically an "independent contractor" executive.

Yeah running your supposed PPV title match on TV ahead of time seems very unlike AEW and makes me think something is afoot. I'm thinking the Elite takes out Christian on Rampage and Kenny's all WHO IS LEFT TO FACE ME AT ALL OUT? before Cult of Personality hits to blow the arena into outer space.