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Honestly I think people bitching about a $50 show "only" being solid is more of an indictment of the person saying it than the show itself.

I'm reading people saying FTR wasn't any good in their match and it has me wondering if somehow I got concussed by proxy.

I get the Hardy thing left a bad taste in people's mouths but I'm not understanding the hate this show is getting on social media. All the matches have been solid so far.

Reby going off on Twitter over how irresponsible everyone was letting the match go on (to be fair Aubrey *was* trying to stop it), and Bryan mentioned Matt was being sent to the hospital.

Brodie Lee vs Dustin? Sounds fun.

Shida with another great match, and kudos to AEW by positioning Thunder Rosa as an actual threat and not a fake champ from a second rate group like most promotions would do.

That table spot did not look fun at all.

That was a pretty decent battle royale, Matt Sydal's Shockmastering notwithstanding.

I was just noticing how hot everyone looked, according to weather.com the "feels like" temp in Jacksonville is 95. Lotta sweaty guys out there. Sucks for Matt Sydal.

That 10 second interaction made me really want a Darby vs Rey Fenix match.

Reba is the real MVP here

Cody should really introduce Jake Hager to whoever the coach was that helped him get rid of the lisp.

Lana also has a vested interest to keep the heat off herself too, considering she's signed one of those keep-away-from-AEW deals that seem to get you fired the moment the company gets annoyed about something you did.

So Thunder Rosa mentioned she turned down a WWE tryout in September (she was in the middle of training for her MMA debut at the time), but noted they weren't interested in her as a wrestler but a referee. Adds another level of irony in her having a top notch match on Dynamite vs Serena Deeb (who got covid fired by WWE). It definitely had elements of a segment being padded out to fill time, but by the end it was awesome enough to cancel those parts out IMO. Overall SD was a pretty solid show, having a clear #1 like Roman back was what they needed to regain their focus. Him vs Jey is not only a match they haven't run a million times, it has the additional family intrigue angle that gives it a feel that has been largely missing in WWE main events.

Roman gets to murder family in his first PPV defense, seems interesting.

I was just thinking she's very Seth-like in that being in WWE style tag matches forces her to not do the things she's not good at. Also if Bayley wanted to cement that turn on Sasha she should have snatched her wig.

So I saw someone making a good point elsewhere, is Brucie going to have to give up his podcast side hustle along with everyone else losing Twitch/Cameo money? (of course he won't)

Then he's going to attempt to bully Woods into handing over all the rights to it.

If they go ahead with this plan, they''ll lose whatever under 30 fanbase they have left. Meltzer's mentioned repeatedly that his son (who I think is a teenager at this point) and his friends know Xavier Woods more as the guy with the video game channel rather than a wrestler. Another thing that makes some sense of all this would be if Vince's talk about the next step of WWE's rebuilding process involves WWE launching their own Twitch channel. That way WWE gets to control the money and also gets to force talent to close down any "competing" channels they run. It would both be extremely scummy thing to do and completely on brand for WWE to do such a thing.

Woods has mentioned that he purposely uses the name "Austin Creed" there because it's his real first name and his pre WWE wrestling last name. He built it up so he didn't have all his eggs in the WWE basket. WWE did let him promote it, but I don't believe for a second Vince won't include it in this ban. I would love to see what Vince thinks is "detrimental to the company" about folks who are supposed to be independent contractors having the gall to start side hustles outside of Papa WWE. Last time I saw the boilerplate WWE contract language, it pretty much said that exclusivity was only for wrestling exhibitions and promotion of said shows. Trying to ban talent from services like Twitch is some Darth Vader "pray I don't alter the deal any further" bullshit.

The best WWE can do is trademark someone's real name so they can use it in stuff like video games, absolutely no way they can legally copyright someone's birth name and they know it. That's why folks get put through the NXT Random Name Generator so WWE has something they can own. Xavier Woods built up an entire brand with Up Up Down Down that has done very well, and he should straight up tell Vince to go fuck himself if he threatens to fire him over it.

He's Kurt. And he's Mad. FWIW the new Editor in Chief of PWI did a multi tweet thread apologizing for the Marty Scurll thing, said his intention was to not leave out any mention of #SpeakingOut allegations but in practice the limited size of each blurb didn't really allow for them to do that properly.

Apparently Cody has some kind of acting gig going on, which is why he was written out for a while.

I heard he was battling issues, but 26 is just heart rendering sad. I think the best testimony to the work he did was seeing women wrestlers from pretty much everywhere posting their condolences with stories of how he was supporting them from the start of their careers. He may have only lived a short while, but he certainly maximized the time he had.

MJF's lawyer wearing Jim Cornette's old wrestling gear it looks like.