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I was thinking that, having someone doing mostly the same gimmick with Giula's in ring ability would be bad for Tiffany.

I like that idea other than the part where Logan has the belt that long.

IMO all the matches delivered in ring, only the women's 5 way didn't really do it for me but even that match had Shanya locking in three different submissions on three different people at the same time so it had that going for it.

I thought he held up pretty well, he had the crowd believing he might actually pull off the upset. He didn't look like he didn't belong by any means. Even the commentary was putting over how he proved he belongs at the top when it was over.

Even funnier, apparently Billy was the one who was pushing that to be on the PPV and it probably just fucked his new TV deal.

Show wasn't bad, mostly predictable. Kairi making her return here was a surprise to me but we knew it was happening at some point.

lol this seems like a rib

Cole and MJF were hugely over when Cole's ankle exploded. Their chemistry had goofy shit like Kangaroo Kick and Double Clothesline getting mega pops from the crowd. The whole story of MJF finally feeling true friendship was silly but at the same time had heart behind it that made it easy to get behind. IMO all the stuff with Roddy and AAAAAAAAAAAADAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAM is funny but that IMO started things down the path of no longer being compelling since it's a one note joke being stretched too far. The Kingdom guys are working their asses off to save it (the NeckStrong song was great) but its still going nowhere.

This is a bit unfair for a couple reasons: after 20+ years of a monopoly there's TONS of "WWE lifers" because there was nowhere else for them to go, and also I don't see how they are constantly pushing WWE lifers other than Edge (who I assume probably signed a big money deal). Billy Gunn was used perfectly to help get the Acclaimed over, and the only one who would fit the bill is Chris Jericho which you can make the case is finally running out of gas after being one of the top ratings draws for the first 2-3 years of the company, and even he was putting over the young guys. This isn't like TNA where all the ex WCW guys squashed the homegrown guys to the point where it became a meme.

I suppose AEW may be a victim of its own high expectations, but I didn't think the show was as dire as everyone else seems to think it was. No it wasn't setting the world on fire, but I don't think anything was *bad*, just not at the level other shows they've done. It's not that they didn't try to advance any angles, you had Matt flipping out over Hangman bailing on them, you had the next beat in the Skye Blue/Julia Hart story, and you had the payoff of MJF finally agreeing to team with The Acclaimed. Was it Okada/Danielson? No, but it was Perfectly Acceptable TV Wrestling which may not be enough for AEW after the bar they set.

Ilja and Melo tearing it up

I want to go do crimes so I can be arrested by Officer Rhea

lol looks like Isla Dawn made the classic mistake of being a ginger and going out in the sun. I feel her pain.

Jesus the Creeds were certainly not looking to take it easy on the way out.

Halloween Havoc night two, lets go! One of the houses on my street had a cooler of beers and White Claws for the parents of trick or treaters so I'm in the proper frame of mind.

So the word is the Danielson injury happened in the match with Andrade the week before on Collision and the Okada stuff was just an angle.

It was weird, if it was just an angle to make Xia look like a bad ass, it didn't work since it came off disjointed (as it would if it was legit). If it was legit like you said it would be weird for them to do the backstage segment. Maybe they were just trying to make the best of a bad situation?

I popped for Chelsea and Piper as the Hart Foundation

So I'm guessing Candice getting rocked was legit, which iirc isn't the first time Xia has knocked someone loopy.

Between the Creeds and #DIY its like Raw is NXT 3.0

Ivy looking so happy when they came out was so heartwarming to see

I think the fact that Ric Flair's character for like 40 years was basically "womanizing piece of shit" when it came out that he was that IRL people were more or less like "well that tracks" and just kind of shrugged. There was more outrage over Hogan being racist because that hadn't been a central part of his character on TV all those years. Not that I think that's right mind you, just what I think the thought process behind it is.

I thought OC was going to hit the ceiling of the arena when Claudio tossed him in the air for the finish

...and Nick Wayne's dad. He could have said Reid would still be alive if he had Christian as a dad

Ric Flair did an angle on national TV where he was stalking and sexually harassing Precious so that's pretty much been part of his deal forever.