Coffey

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?

No comments since Wednesday? No one watched Smackdown!? The Nia Jax entrance was gold. The Bloodline stuff with Roman & Solo continues & Jacob Fatu doing a beatdown in a walking boot was somehow more terrifying. He's so good! The Afa video package was nice.

There was so much good on this show! Orton hitting Gunther with the RKO, then the Drew/Punk brawl which looks to be setting up a strap match. The Dom/Liv/Rhea stuff, leading to the Damian brawl. Carlito was the shits, but whatever. The Bron entrance & the 2/3 falls match with Sami. Another Bronson murder. Those crazy bumps that JD took for Damian. WWE is just a lot of fun right now & they're doing it with a lot of new & a lot of young faces. They're using vets, like Truth and Orton, the help put over & establish those new & younger faces. It's just really entertaining & feels like pro wrestling again.

Wow. Shows how out of the loop I have been. That's awesome.

There should be a case study done on Jeff Jarrett, man. Like, he was just in the midcard during his WWF run & I couldn't stand him. He was boring during his solo push in the IC division but he was fine during his tag stuff with Owen Hart. In WCW, when they tried to make him a top guy, to me, it didn't work at all. To be fair though, most shit in WCW at that time wasn't any good, that wasn't just Jarrett. He's always been fine in-ring but outside of a catchphrase, his WCW run was pretty forgettable, but in smaller promotions, like TNA iMPACT or AEW, he really kinda moves into his own lane & becomes quite entertaining. His Double J Double M A stuff in TNA was a ton of fun & I've really liked his Last Outlaw stuff in AEW. I've never really liked The Stroke as a finish, regardless of who was using the move. The one in this match with Danielson was particularly bad but it's like, with all the issues he's had with concussions, I don't think anyone is blaming Dragon for not taking a better looking bump on the chair. I wouldn't be opposed to Jarrett going into the WWE HOF tbh.

It feels like Charlotte Flair has been gone forever. What's the timetable on her return? She's been gone since last December? I know that Charlotte has already pretty much done everything in WWE but the current champions being Liv Morgan & Nia Jax had me clamoring for her return.

The Big Dog

Wowwwww

The Bron Steiner Era