sek69

Jersey Girl being a decent enough movie that had the bad luck to come out at the exact moment everyone officially was sick of Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez is a hill I will die on. His worst movie in retrospect was Chasing Amy and he's even admitted that "lesbians just need the right dick to come along" was a bad take. To get back to AEW related matters, I have to say the show was pretty much what I hoped it would be. It wasn't perfect, but it was what they needed for a first show running up against stacked competition. Great action, hot crowd (kind of sad how weird it seemed seeing a crowd up for every match), even the commentary was solid. I agree with the idea that it seemed that Tony was the missing piece in the announce team, having someone familiar for JR to work off of helped both of them and Excalibur was again excellent as the play by play guy. They set up a lot of storylines, introduced someone new, and dare I say it was New Japan-like how you can see where things are headed and are excited to see it happen. I don't blame anyone who wasn't pumped to see Jake Hager, but I admit I'm intrigued to see what he can do in a company aiming for more of a real sports build.

His movies aren't always winners but he seems like a solid dude.

Finally something CS and I can agree on!

Cody really wants to do a War Games match to honor his dad, I think we might have just got the teams for one set up.

"TV time remaining", I love touches like that coming back. And then JR just echoed me thinking that.

Not in this thread please.

Riho is such a perfect babyface, she'll gain sympathy vs anyone.

Nyla is green, but big person vs tiny person is one of those things that almost always works, especially when the smaller person can work.

Also lucha dudes in suits is always money.

I wasn't expecting Scorpio Sky to do a good Obama impression, but here we are.

Dinner at the Cole/Baker household must be fun. "Good luck on USA, dear" "Hope we run you out of business honey"

....and a 15 minute overrun at the end too!

If anything, working for CMLL makes him a greater candidate to leave for AEW (or anywhere else for that matter).

The countdown show was pretty awesome btw. Introduced the important players, ran down the history of the company, and really brought the point home that they want to offer something for fans who are looking for something different.

I really doubt Enzo and Cass were ever in the plans, and even if they were ever in consideration surely the reaction they got at MSG would have torpedoed that idea.

Yeah I'm thinking AEW will get the first watch at least for the first few weeks. At this point NXT is a known quantity, AEW is something unknown as a TV product that will probably be entertaining for all sorts of reasons.

Since my work week is Tuesday-Saturday, I'll either watch both on DVR when I get home or watch one on my iPad at work and the other when I get home. Speaking of, when the next day ratings come out and the fanboys start claiming victory, remember most networks go by the live+7 where its the live viewings plus any DVR viewings within a week.

So apparently the Brock/Rey stuff was a backdoor angle if they are able to sign Cain. Beating up the Mexican legend so he can be the hero defending his honor, and also the promo Paul did later where he said there were a lot of fake tough guys in MMA was another part of that.

It's really hilarious that no one seems to have the nerve to tell Vince that DVRs exist in 2019 so all this mid 90s level maneuvering won't mean dick today if people want to watch both shows. This isn't 1996 where you have to deal with pain-in-the-ass VCRs to tape one show while you watch another, or flip channels constantly.

That's usually how it's presented: In theory the mask/hair is so valuable it's important to escape ASAP.

That would be Survivor Series unless you count Blood Money in the Bank.

That'll show him for thinking he could marry above his WWE sanctioned level. Also Seth at least got attacked by the Fiend instead of crying in the corner, so that's.....an improvement?

The older Ric gets, the more he looks like Freddie Blassie.

Watching on a bit of a delay, just noticing that switching from a singlet to trunks makes Otis look like a deranged Dusty Rhodes.

Apparently the ambulance company stated someone called them that morning and told them the show was cancelled so their services would no longer be needed. If NJPW wasn't aware of the regulations there wouldn't have been anything to cancel.