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I never even found Saraya to be all that good in the ring, tbh. I remember thinking she wasn't as good as AJ Lee & I really liked the AJ Lee/Kaitlyn feud. I still hope TAFKA Paige has a good showing because I think a lot of fans are going to misremember her ability, not to mention the ring rust & it's going to have that hard-to-watch, impending doom feeling like when Bryan Danielson returned to the ring due to the health issues. I also don't think Britt is very good at all, so not exactly the safest person for her return match to be against.

The amount of replies to this thread pretty much sum up how much AEW has fallen lately. It seems the majority of the interest in AEW is gone & certainly their honeymoon phase is over. The JAS Vs. BCC never-ending feud is not doing them any favors. Consistently using Wheeler Yuta, Daniel Garcia & Sammy Guevara, I think, is really hurting them. The ROH stuff is hurting them. Obviously losing Punk, Omega & The Young Bucks isn't helping. I think they've burned a lot of goodwill from the fans. That spark is gone. I don't know how they get it back. There was a lot of hype & excitement around AEW for at least a couple of years. The crowds were rabid & forgiving. Now, well, it just kind of feels like WWE Livewire.

Wasn't the big issue last time WWE did it is that no one watched it? It's hard to build up that interest for an all women's PPV. That was, of course, before they had women main event a Wrestlemania but still, you have to have reasons for matches to happen. You can't just be like "oh, well, we need to fill out the card, so here's three matches with no story or heat." WWE certainly have a ton of women with talent. With how WWE Network works, you don't even have to try to sell PPVs anymore either. I think that big thing that WWE needs to stop doing is bringing back people like Trish Stratus & Lita all the time. Your current group of women are infinitely better - don't make them play second fiddle to old stars from yesterday. Also, don't put Stephanie McMahon's name & fingers all over it. No one gives a fuck about her. Speaking of WWE women, where the Hell has Charlotte Flair been? Seems like she's been gone forever.

My whole demeanor has thus far has been both sides were at fault but I lean more in favor of Punk because I think he can bring more to AEW than the Bucks/Omega can. Of course, I've always thought the Bucks were awful, so your mileage may vary.

If some dude wants to give me ten million dollars to give him a gimmick belt & call him his excellency, I'm down. I don't care who you've killed or what people on the internet say about me. C.R.E.A.M. Wu-Tang is for the children.

Cabana as Jericho's mystery opponent & Jeff Jarrett of all people showing up & people on social media are celebrating lol.

I remember when AEW first started & they were doing that press conference & Chris Jericho was there. To me, and I get I'm not the average wrestling fan, he felt washed. The big "oh shit" moment for AEW for me was at the end of the first PPV when Jon Moxley showed up. THAT felt like that big moment, not AEW getting Jericho.

Is Jericho even a big enough name that TV people would recognize him? That's surprising to me. It's not like he's at Austin or Rock levels. Jericho is a big reason they got onto TNT? That's insane.

Someone should make a missing person poster for Miro at this point. Put him on some milk cartons.

Iron Sheik about to break backs & make people humble again for the old country!

I think the NBA enforced their dress code in 2005ish, so I wonder if WWE did it because the NBA did it? I've never thought about it. I do remember a lot of shit coming out about people thinking the NBA dress code was racist because they were trying to get people like Allen Iverson to not be themselves, with a lot of coded language on TV about "thugs."

At this point, most ideas I hear sound better than bringing in The Rock to face Roman or doing another Brock/Roman or Drew/Roman or Lashley/Roman or Goldberg/Roman. WWE needs some new talent at the top for sure.

He looks more like Kerry facially too I feel. Like outside of the massive weight he's put on, looking like WWF era Texas Tornado.

I don't know what he even has left in the tank at this point, but Nakamura going back to Japan full-time would probably be what I desire the most as a fan. Dude has been invisible since coming to WWE outside of his NXT debut & the one promo where he said he doesn't speak English after cheating. And we know Muta has nothing left. He's been washed for at least a decade. He's got less knees than poor ol' Terry Funk.

In this day & age, it's entirely possible that even if MJF himself & AEW/Khan wanted Maxwell to remain a heel, the crowd might just ignore that & babyface him anyway. Would make for some awkward TV when MJF is cutting a promo shitting on a wrestler or town & the crowd is losing their minds cheering & chanting his name while he does it. Like when Toronto absolutely refused to let Hulk Hogan be a bad guy against The Rock.

I was really impressed by Willow when she got up for Jade's finish because that was all Willow.

I'm not as pessimistic as this as I feel they've been successful thus far, certainly. My biggest complaint is that they still just feel like an Indie. Like the show comes off as bush league on TV. The gimmick commentator, the picture-in-picture, the old WCW Saturday Night style entrance... It doesn't feel big enough. Even with the good crowds & big PPV numbers, it feels amateur. That's not even getting into the majority of the roster, which I feel isn't ready for weekly TV. Tony Khan is a money mark. Or, a money Smart Mark as it were. And although he does have a lot more money than most, he's still just a wrestling fan blowing through money to fantasy book. He doesn't know anything about episodic TV & it shows. The new car smell is gone & with it, a lot of the hype & expectations of the company. I think everyone had their own vision of what AEW would turn into but it didn't really turn into anything. It stayed what it was, which is a super Indy, only it added a bunch of bloated ex-WWE people to the roster & started fading out their homegrown originals.

I just watched it last night... yeah. Glad I didn't go to the theater for that bullshit.

I don't think it really helps Corbin if they're planning on pushing him to go 50/50 with Ziggler in a match that goes through a commercial break & is that long. You wanna put him over, have him squash someone or have him cheat his ass off.

They're giving this match way too much time, admittedly.

I don't hate Baron Corbin but that outfit is doing him zero favors.

LMFAO JBL is a goddamn legend. He got me. loool

That's really mean teasing me with JBL returning & then making me sit through this long ass women's match.

oh... oh myyyyyyyyyyy THE WRESTLING GAWD!

Mustafa Ali I have no problem with but he just came out to complete silence too. Where are they at tonight?