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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.

I kinda dig it, but I grew up on this kind of wrestling so it hits me pretty hard in the nostalgia feels. Besides, I don't know if it's fair to bash them for pretending it's 1985 when other sports are always harkening back to the good old days. I don't think it's the worst thing in the world to go back to your roots. The show *is* the NWA, for whatever that means these days. Hell, I kind of wish they went all out and had skinny fat jobbers and masked guys in enhancment roles.

Watching the NWA show, so far they've done a really excellent job recreating the 70s/80s studio wrestling vibe.

The saddest thing was watching all the WWE diehards out there Well-Actually'ing everyone by pointing out it was a ref stoppage rather than a DQ. As if that makes it any less lame. This show reminded me so much of 1998 era WCW before it completely went to shit, the undercard was pretty decent but the main event was so mind bendingly awful it tainted everyone's view of the whole show. You saw that a *lot* in that era.

i believe I've heard both Matt Riddle and Ronda say at different times the hardest thing about going from MMA to pro wrestling is trying to ignore years of training telling you to hit someone as hard as you can.

It's clearly trying to redo the Tyson/Austin angle, but I kinda dig how they played up that Braun and Fury were too much for the usual security geeks to handle and actual wrestlers had to come out to help. Fury's going to have to learn how to do worked punches though, he was clearly trying not to make contact out there. Which isn't the worst thing since I'm sure those indy guys didn't sign up to get KTFO by a world champion boxer.

Also is it striking anyone else as odd they are framing the draft as USA vs Fox?

Even if the PPV wouldn't have been a complete disaster, this was probably always set to be a lame duck placeholder since the draft starts Friday.

If we could like posts, this post would get all the likes.

Dave was talking about how WWE sees Brock, Seth, Becky, and Charlotte are the tentpoles of this new era of WWE. Seth being an absolute disaster so far has not seemed to shake that plan.

Once they renamed the Cruiserweight title to an NXT one, I figured it was just a matter of time. I suppose this was the best move for all sides. One less show WWE has to produce, gets more people to fill 2 hours of NXT TV, and now Crusierweight title matches can be held on Takeovers where they'll get a response rather than being heatless affairs on WWE PPV pre shows.

Apparently the crowd was chanting "refund" after the show went off the air as well.

Killing gimmick matches like that is some WCW 2000 shit.

A DQ? In a cell match? Fuck this company.

LOL at the crowd booing hard at what they thought was a finishing sequence for Seth.

Does this need to have the red Kane lights on the whole time?

Is there anyone who needs to get out of WWE more than Gable at this point? Every time he's on TV I can just hear Vince's voice "HA HA, SHORT JOKES THAT'S GOOD SHIT PAL"

A Hell in a Cell match ending in a non finish is as weaksauce as it gets. (Your're probably right though)