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The more telling sign to me was that the announcers were way less enthusiastic about Lee than they were before, that's often a tell that Vince is no longer as interested in someone.

They brought up Keith Lee and then don't have him do Keith Lee things in the ring, so I wouldn't be surprised if Vince is already over him.

To me it speaks to the cult mentality that goes on there. Someone on the WO board pointed out that you never see anyone from any other company Dave covers lash out at him other than WWE people. The most I've seen is him getting into a few debates with some dim-bulb UFC fighters over COVID denial theories, but you never see anyone from literally any other promotion in the world come at him like WWE zealots do when it comes to his coverage. Funny how dude covers practically every real and fake combat sport company on the planet, but he's only a lying liar to people associated with one particular company. Some of that obviously is due to the Bischoff/Russo/Cornette fans buying in to gimmicks designed to get podcast numbers, but when you see people who were treated like shit by a company still leaping to blindly defend anyone who points out that things are not all rainbows and unicorns there.

That makes sense, looked like he got a stinger the way he was shaking his arm, but if it was something that serious then just ending it like that was the best call.

The FIghtin' Mysterios!

I would laugh but at the same time not totally be surprised if Angie started hitting Murphy with some hurricanranas.

Does attacking during a Nia match make Retribution babyfaces?

....and moments later Ivar apparently hurt himself and the ending of the match got screwed.

Fat guys flying will always be entertaining.

This company doesn't deserve Asuka.

As someone who remembers when Rey first got the tattoo on his stomach in honor of his newborn daughter, I feel very old right now.

Imagine looking at the Iiconics and not thinking Billie Kay is the bigger potential star. Even on the smallest details, I'll never understand Vince's brain.

Let's break up all the teams!

Angel Garza is a great cowardly heel.

Cedric finally seeing the light!

Also I will always expect Scott Steiner when I hear a siren on a wrestling show.

Drew should come back with one of those face guards hockey players wear when they return from jaw injuries.

Its even more insane when you think about it. If Ryback's correct and Dave is 100% spreading lies about fake fighting, how the fuck is that any justification for saying he should be dead?

In other news, Ryback tweeted that the world would be a better place if Dave was six feet underground, which regardless of your feelings on him is kind of a scary thing to say about a guy who already has a gang of obsessive loons devoted to trying to bring him down.

Matt Sydal was doing shows for ROH (he's in the Pure tournament I think) so at best he's not exclusive to AEW.

The Britt thing did suck, and not sure which tag match you were talking about but both Private Party/Dark Order and the 8 man tag were good IMO. I'm not usually a fan of battle royals but I thought this one was very good...except all anyone will remember of it is the botch.Which is understandable, but it's a shame since the Casino gimmick put a new spin on a tired format and has produced good results. Shida/Rosa, Orange/Jericho, and Mox/MJF were all great and IMO it's kind of unfair to shit on something when you admittedly didn't watch the best parts. I get it though, the Matt Hardy deal was a scary situation and I don't blame anyone if it soured their outlook on the show. If you want to make the case it wasn't up to AEW's standards I could see that argument and probably even agree with it for at least the first part of the show. To say the entire show was bad is honestly just factually incorrect and comes off like an emotional kneejerk response.

I fully understand the anger and upset, but Reby really is doing herself (and Matt probably) screaming at people on Twitter. No one really is looking good here, Tony said he initially called for the match to be stopped but the doctor told him Matt was okay enough to do the finish which it was allowed to continue. The doctor was out there with Matt so it was probably some combo of Matt not wanting the doctor to stop it, and Tony probably being naiive enough to believe he was okay when he was obviously out on his feet moments before. Assuming for a moment everything said was true (I know), the doctor is either really bad at his job and not able to determine someone wobbly AF after a blow to the head was not fit to go on OR Matt's Broken Powers are real and he somehow managed to Jedi mind trick the doctor into saying he was okay. Or.....everyone involved realized they fucked up and there's some ass covering going on. Honestly I'd probably wager that the doctor really didn't want to be the one to call it and asked Matt if he was OK before telling Tony "he's okay to do the finish". Then we all saw him nearly falling off the lighting rig and everyone panic'd. You see it in (American) football all the time, in theory the team doctors have the authority to sit someone down but they all know in reality there would be a shit storm rained upon him if it was someone of even medium importance getting pulled. Hopefully it's a learning experience for all parties, and everyone will do better the next time an obvious head injury takes place.

This was like when NXT was having their run of great Takeover shows then finally had one that was still good but not as good as the prior ones.

Appropriate that in the end, MJF was right and Mox did need his move to win after all.

Seems like he wants to create a signature call like Tony Chimel did with Edge and the "Rated R Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuper star" bit.