Coffey

I still use pro wrestling as escapism from real life. I still frequent PWO because I feel like I've been attached to wrestling forums, in one fashion or another, for over 25-years now & it's hard to give up. I still enjoy talking about wrestling & WWE, but coming on here anymore, is just kind of depressing. I don't know what I get from here anymore other than guilt from being a fan. I don't need to constantly be reminded of how billion dollar companies are full of real life pieces of shit. So is Walmart. So is Amazon. So is Apple. So is Chic-fil-A. Like, I get it. I can't abstain & boycott every company in the United States. I didn't vote for Donald Trump. I didn't vote for a single Republican. It's not my fault WWE sucks or our country is going to shit. It doesn't need to be said in every reply in every thread. I would rather just go on Threads or Bluesky & actually talk about the shows with people that want to talk about the shows. Not constantly be beaten over the head with how the sky is falling & I'm a terrible person if I watch the Royal Rumble, like I some how condone that awful shit that goes down outside of the TV show. There's not even a lot of active people here anymore, so blocking one of the few remaining people gets me nowhere. I work a lot. My body hurts a lot. I'm surrounded by people in all walks of life that are the living embodiment of doom-scrolling. I don't need more of that shit during my leisure time.

When I used to watch MLW every week, there were two guys that stood head & shoulders above everyone else: Jacob Fatu & Alex Hammerstone. Both moved on from MLW. I'm surprised that Dario Cueto & Salina de la Renta never went to a bigger promotion in the U.S. but talent wise, MLW leaves a lot to be desired. Like Mads Krugger isn't selling tickets. Sometimes a big fish in a small pond is still a big fish when you put him in a big ass lake. Sometimes they get too big (physically) & just don't seem to be super interesting anymore. We've kind of seen both sides of that with Fatu & Hammerstone. Jeff Cobb is 42-years-old now & wrestles in New Japan. Not doing too much, really. That Lucha Underground run was back in 2014-15ish. I'm sad that I won't get to see him tag with or wrestle against Chad Gable as I feel like that would be a certified banger. Seems like they would mesh really well with their styles.

I genuinely don't get how Jey Uso is so over. Just from the stupid "YEET!" shit, I guess? There's not a ton of appeal to Gunther Vs. Jey to me but Saturday Night's Main Event is looking pretty good on paper. Sheamus Vs. Bron Breakker is going to be nuts!

I’m not a fan of the RAW announcer.

Admittedly don’t love the ad breaks but the show has been great otherwise.

It's actually pretty crazy how WWE have managed to get the briefcase & the cash-ins so over. To the point where other companies even started having their own briefcases & cash-ins. It has made for some crazy pops in the past too. Like when Dolph came out. I went from being annoyed by it to genuinely enjoying the ride of where the story is going. Tiffany was no exception. They did a good job with the Nia story imo.

I've already watched this video three times! I'm so monumentally pumped for the show tonight. My wife & I will both be watching live. We'll both be home from work & we're making an evening of it. Probably order pizza & not have to leave (the weather outside here in Michigan is terribly cold but so far all the snow/ice has missed us). I expected Cena, I expect The Rock. I wouldn't be surprised to see Charlotte Flair return & maybe someone else like The Undertaker to make an appearance. I'm most intrigued by what the closing angle will be, as I'm sure it'll involve The Bloodline. There's going to be so many new eyes on the show tonight & I fully expect WWE to go all-out in a way that they haven't even done for PLE's lately. It's going to be a big, huge show. I'm really excited. Most excited I have been for a show since maybe the AEW debut of Punk? Everything is going to feel so new & different being off USA & the new ring with ads & everything. Let's go!

I think my favorite thing about the show was that matches... just ended. It wasn't a lot of false finishes, or 2-count kickouts. It was... hit my move & go home. We you don't get that for so long, you forget what it's like! Drew hit the Claymore & the match was just over. Clean in the middle. I was like "what!?" It was great!

Man, the future of women’s wrestling in WWE, judging by NXT, looks really bright. Sol Ruca impressed the hell out of me in Deadline. I know Giulia & Vaquer have a lot of hype coming in too but I’m unfamiliar with them.

Ain't Bully Ray the one that took a fan backstage at an ROH show to try to intimate him for booing/heckling at a show too? Dude is soft as fuckin' Charmin.

Also a very true and valid point. At least in the States.

I know & you’re right but my wife wanted to watch it and I’m curious about the Bloodline match. Also, just to add onto my misogynistic-sounding comment earlier & attempt to better explain myself: I have seen great women’s wrestling. WWE themselves currently have some really good female talent and have in the past but for whatever reason, their revisionist bullshit wants us to pretend that Trish & Lita were great & nowadays if it’s not Alexa Bliss it’s Liv Morgan… the same kind of shit. Bianca is great. Rhea is great. Iyo is great. They could have a great division but they never want that & it’s like you’re not allowed to be critical about it online when it’s not any good. Same with AEW. How long did people pretend Britt Baker was great?

They have no reason to improve. This match has been the drizzling shits, full of botches, terrible psychology, awful plunder… but they do a couple high spots and get two “this is awesome” chants, so what are you gonna do? The bar is so fucking low.

This is one of the worst matches that I have ever tried to sit through live. I feel like if I can’t fast forward I have to stop doing this to myself. I know that there’s this big trend now of everyone pretending like all the women are great, but half of these women can’t work at all. AT ALL. How the fuck is Liv Morgan the champion? Why is Raquel back at all? Why are we trying to push Nia again? Where did all of Bayley’s athleticism go? Just a terrible both fest.

My wrestling lately has mostly been ECW Hardcore TV on WWE Network on Peacock however I am looking forward to Survivor Series. I haven't been watching whole weekly shows but I have been keeping up with the Bloodline stuff. I'm pretty sure the first wrestling show I ever watched was a Survivor Series in the 80's, so it has a special place in my heart.

I feel like the bigger issue is that AEW created a giant hill for themselves via previous booking. Like, I think doing serious angles is the right way to go. I think serious angles are how you draw money - people can suspend their disbelief & buy into the story. The problem is that AEW has been so non-serious for so long that they first have to convince people that *this* part of the show is different... and trying to do so with Orange Cassidy, of all people, I think is going to be a tougher sell. Obviously when O.C. is trying to avenge his fallen brother, he's not going to be doing hands-in-pocket shin kicks & shit, so maybe it'll be a good way to let him change character.

I haven’t cared about a second of these matches post HiaC. Nothing is grabbing me.

The Hell in a Cell match was great with a terrific finish. Good storytelling and blow off!

All the previous shows will be available on MAX ala the WWE Network on Peacock, yeah? So like you can go back & watch all the previous shows in order? This is incredible news for AEW & pro-wrestling as a whole, really.

I was under the impression that this was a documentary about Vince McMahon & his lawsuit shit. My wife & I are through four episodes and it's just a fuckin' history of WWE rundown? Why the fuck are we talking about D-X & Monday Night Wars????

At this point, AEW feels like a lot of the wind is out of their sails. Sending Jericho out there to die on Dynamite isn't really helping anything. I don't think a Becky Lynch or Kevin Owens is going to show up. I'm not sure what they can do to get momentum at this point. They just lost The Lucha Bros, whom they never even really did anything with. The Toni Storm/Mariah May feud had some intrigue. So did Swerve/Hangman. Moné has been a complete whiff & I'm not sure how many people are still clamoring for Main Event Moxley. It's wild that two of the more fun things lately have been Christian & Jarrett. Kind of feels like they're just going through the motions as a promotion.

Being completely honest, that Hangman/Swerve angle was the best I've seen in awhile. Part of it is because I fell for that shit. Nana & Swerve buying the house felt like a real, genuine moment because I've seen multiple pro athletes in other areas of sport do the same thing previously. Obviously I've seen something similar in wrestling before, like when Orton/Wyatt did it but I didn't see this one coming because it was well done. Almost maybe because I'm not a weekly viewer & consume a lot of my wrestling content nowadays via clips but yeah, well done. Good shit.

Well, I hated Cody/Owens. Don't know why it opened the show anyway, but yeah... There wasn't really any drama, it was just trading finishers back-and-forth & the forced attempt at drama, with the Cody knee injury, just led to bad acting. I thought at least KO would turn at the end, but we didn't even get that. I hate when they do something like 2x Crossroads, third countered into a Stunner after no selling the Crossroads. But then another Crossroads (the fourth in the match?) just ended the match. OK...

And also Jericho & Hook are here...

Are we going to get a Bloodlines War Games match? Roman & The Usos (with a fourth?) against Solo, Jacob & The Guerillas?