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Okada has literally nothing else he can do in NJPW, since they've done such a piss poor job building up anyone new there's no major matches he can do there that hasn't been done a million times Also as much as him in WWE would be intriguing, I'm not totally sold that their presentation of Japanese wrestlers is really that much different. Kairi came back and was immediately put back with Asuka as the Kabuki Warriors, Tozawa is still the childlike Asian stereotype, and Nak suddenly started the Asian Mist gimmick out of nowhere. If anything they just sanded down the edges and made it slightly less overt, but they are treating Japanese talent essentially the same as they always has. I'm not sure they're doing the amazing sell job to Okada they think they are. Hopefully I'm wrong, I'd like to see them dropping Rainmaker bucks from the big screens at Jerryworld in a big Mania match.

Joe has a presence that draws people in. I'm sure Vince was puzzled by it because Joe isn't jacked, but you see him marching toward the ring you feel like you're about to see a murder happen. Just listen to DJ Whoo Kid (who was backstage at Wembley as part of Swerve's entrance) describe the famous Punk-Jungle Boy fight: Whoo Kid: Punches? Like it was wrestling back there. Like DDT, everything... alright, I’m exaggerating, but the shit that’s crazy is there was a yelling moment where he was like “Yo, fuck this shit! This is our moment, everybody get the fuck out there and do your shit. And I was like, I don’t know how to wrestle, but I was about to go out there... It was very intense, man. I always respect wrestling after I saw that... He went on to clarify the person doing the yelling was the "big...Hawaiian looking guy", Joe had that man fuckin' believing so you know he can make the ratings go up.

I think that was a pretty solid episode of Dynamite, everything was building something and I'm here for a Private Party-Top Flight feud.

Popped for Toni Storm bring back the "man in the mask" bit with Excalibur.

The Bucks leaning into all the Punk stuff by doing a whole anti old timer gimmick is hilarious.

Honestly, I wouldn't say HOOK isn't good just super green. He probably should be doing more in ROH since that's basically their NXT nowadays.

Depending on who you believe, that was done either due to Buddy's heart ailment or Bruno giving him the "we can do this the easy way or the hard way" speech. Also never realized how much Vince Sr liked the Scott Special finish. Thinking about a potential injury for Seth, obviously it sucks for him if it's serious but it sucks booking wise since his whole deal was being the workhorse champ who keeps on going even while his body falls apart around him. Having it end due to an injury quite the wet fart of an ending to his story.

Dying at R-Truth making bank selling bootleg Judgement Day merch

Goddamn, Woods and Kaiser having a banger

I never noticed that Dom rocks the Perro Aguayo furry boots.

Thing is, Rock was always supposed to be the endgame for the Head of the Table stuff. A big part of why Roman ended up with a Hoganesque run with the belt is because the timing kept getting messed up to finally have the match.

I'm interested in how their deal with AAA works out. They've been trying to get a foothold in the US forever, and even TNA's limited reach is miles better than anything AAA has been able to muster on their own.

You know what, on reflection that wasn't the best term to use. I don't know if there's a blanket term for folks who don't know TNA hasn't been the mess Russo and Dixie left it in for a long time, but then it's been so difficult to follow them on the series of Z tier channels they've been on it's hardly the fault of the viewer. TNA has been a constantly entertaining product for a while now, and it's nice a place like it exists for people to be able to refresh their character/get a change of scenery. I feel like it was taken for granted that you could do that in the territory days to keep people from getting stale, and it's nice to have the modern day equivalent to David Von Erich getting to heel it up in Florida.

WWE brain is a helluva thing my dude. I watched most of the show last night, and it was easily the best looking Impact/TNA show I've seen in years (to be fair I haven't exactly been watching every week). The production seemed a lot better, and all the talk of Anthem investing more money to make them not look so indyriffic seems to be legit. A lot of the show seemed like a reset booking wise though. Some of it was inevitable (Trinity leaving), but putting the title back on Moose seemed like them doing a DC Comics level retcon.

The AOP are cool, I always have time for a tag team of big dudes tossing people around. Precious Paul obviously is awesome, hell I'll even take Scarlett as well since she clearly brings something to the act. Karrion Kross just sucks in every possible aspect of pro wrestling and any attempt to prove otherwise just screams sunk cost fallacy.

Couldn't we just have the Street Profits and AOP doing cool shit without having to involve Karrion Kross?

This show was a nice reminder how fun shows at Daily's Place can be when it isn't used as a pandemic shelter. I like when you get shows at different looking places like when WCW would do Spring Break shows and those post-nWo formation Nitros outside at Disney.

They were booked as tributes to Brodie Lee, so at least for this week there was (somewhat) of a point to them.

I wasn't following joshi too closely at the time, the infamous letter Asuka/Kana wrote back in the day calling out the joshi scene for catering to men too much her working herself into a shoot or vice versa? I've seen both sides being claimed where either she was just setting up a new heel character or was legit shooting on the amount of creepers that were hanging around the scene.

Also he's not wrong for pointing out the WWE drones look kind of silly talking shit on AEW giving Hook a title shot when you have Jinder out here getting inserted in the mix again (I know everyone ironically likes him now, but c'mon does anyone buy him as a credible opponent for anyone in the upper/mid card of 2024 WWE?)

He literally can't help being a shitposter, but "billionaire being kind of a dick" is pretty popular on the Platform Formerly Known As Twitter right now so at least he's in the right place to be doing it

I want Axiom and Nathan Frazier to go have a crazy spotfest in Arena Mexico at some point before its all said and done.

Tiffany and Fallon doing their best Jimmy Garvin/David Von Erich impressions was amusing, I'll say that much.

Dude has potential to be money, might as well see what you have now.

Also when did Ava become HBK's second in command? I love how she just posted up outside the office and suddenly she's the booker now.