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Scarlett's all but announced that she signed with WWE at this point though. Like it's a done deal but they're in that "WWE doesn't want anyone to know yet" period. I would love to see some luchadoras from AAA show up and make AEW's women division the female version of the first hour of Nitro.

The Crash is quickly coming to a point where if they want to step up and become a big promotion or just be the place guys go in between US indy gigs. CMLL seems intent on shooting itself in the dick as a promotional mindset, and AAA is gonna AAA, so this could be their chance.

It seems like they are trying to work Ronda back in by having her on Total Divas, and she's done videos on her YouTube where it seems she's getting the itch to come back again, but they've not come out and said she's 100% coming back yet. I wonder if her time away counted against her deal or not (it absolutely would have been frozen for anyone else other than Brock).

He still was a main part of them getting the biggest crowds they've had in 20 years, so continuously painting him as just the guy who worked with a 9 year old is disingenuous. As such, Cornette is much better suited in roles like this that play to his strengths, rather than throwing out hot takes on a podcast in an attempt to try to work programs with the guys he trashes.

If nothing else, I'm glad AEW exists to give Tony a second chance to be remembered as one of the better wrestling announcers instead of the guy fresh out of fucks to give in 2001 WCW.

Yeah baseball would have put a dent in both shows.

TNT was reportedly going to be happy if AEW brought in 600-750k, so they have to be pretty stoked for the numbers so far. Plus the deal they brokered for TV meant the more viewers the more money AEW got from ad revenue so everyone's a winner here.

Dave actually talked about that on the last WO radio show, Kenny and the Bucks are big on not wanting to come off as office guys who put themselves over everyone to the point it's hurting their potential to be big stars. He specifically mentioned it being the big reason Kenny has way less of the aura he did in Japan and how the Bucks wanted to lose every match they've been in so far.

Is it me or is Ciampa coming back really fast from major neck surgery?

Assuming the photo of that shiner AEW posted was legit, looks like Bea stiffed Britt again.

I'd be interested to see how these first to weeks of excellent TV have done to move the remaining tickets that haven't sold for upcoming tapings.

My goodness this is so great.

AEW just stunting on them now, Mox vs Spears with PAC on commentary.

Not unless they try to make shirts or something. "The List" is a generic enough term that there wouldn't be anything they can do.

He looks like he's thinking "just be cool, no one can tell how high you are".

I would argue there's probably a case to be made that Shawn was such an unredeemable shithead from 1996--97 that it made Vince determined to never let a top guy have as much sway as he had during that time. Lest we not forget that the reason the Rock goes by his real name in movies is that Vince was demanding producer credit for the Mummy movies he was in because he owned the "Rock" name.

Baseball playoffs are on TNT and TBS, if the afternoon game runs long, AEW might get bumped. You can never tell with baseball, if it goes into extra innings it could be an all night affair.

If they had done the exact same show in the same studio with a more modern set, people would be saying how stupid it is to do studio wrestling in Atlanta with modern trappings.

Cosplay would mean the wrestlers are dressing up, not the set. Is AEW cosplaying WWE because they have a ramp and a Titan Tron? None of the wrestlers were any different than they would be on any other show they'd appear on. No one was dressed up as the Road Warriors or the Midnight Express, there weren't masked jobbers, no managers with tennis rackets. Being all "lol cosplay" because a studio wrestling show has a set like a studio wrestling show seems like people reaching for criticism because they want to dunk on Cornette for saying stupid things.

People are throwing around "cosplay" here in regards to the NWA show to the point I wonder if people know what that even means. Was anyone pretending to be anyone else other than maybe Nick Aldis (his opening promo was pretty on the nose aping Ric Flair)?

The idea was to bring back 70s/80s studio wrestling. I think it's a case of if you didn't grow up watching it, you don't get what the deal is. If you did grow up with studio wrestling, the show was awesome to watch, and nailed the asthetic they were going for. I do think there's an audience for it, since a lot of people are able to be exposed to studio wrestling due to YouTube these days. Will it beat out WWE, AEW, or even ROH? Probably not, but I think there's enough people out there for them to have a niche market. I've seen a ton of rave reviews on Twitter, of course that goes along with the whole echo chamber/bubble argument, but it seems like folks who gave it a chance generally liked what they saw.

Arn seems like a guy who's show would either be legitamtely fascinating or downright annoying based on how close he sticks to kayfabe. If I'm remembering my history correctly, Crockett was offering the big money deals to guys the WWF was trying to poach (or at least guys he thought they were trying to) and The Horsemen weren't on that list. I'm sure Vince just figured those guys would never leave JCP, and to be fair he was right. They never did until the bottom fell out and the new management pissed everyone off.

Also now that she's using the mist, it makes the Kabuki Warriors name seem less "casual racism" and more taking on the legacy. They should go all out and say she's the Great Kabuki's granddaughter (since American kayfabe was always that Muta was his son).

Austin Idol's commercial for his wrestling school was the best thing I've seen on any wrestling show this month.

So I'm guessing people's opinion on this show will hinge greatly on their opinions of Jim Cornette. He's definately in his element here, it's unfortunate if people let his views on modern wrestling color how they look at this show. I felt it was a fine little wrestling show, they did a good job introducing characters and setting up angles.