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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

Dirty Dom! Lmfaoooo

He def got pipes.

I resubbed to Peacock for SummerSlam. So I guess modern WWE is more of a draw for me than the Olympics. Although admittedly, there's things on Peacock, like The Office, that my wife wanted as well, so it's fine. I'm hoping that Roman Reigns returns tonight. That story is enthralling to me. Priest/Gunther & Punk/McIntyre should be fun, too.

I kinda get pumped every time their music starts. It's fun. And honestly, I'm glad to see Nikki Cross doing something new. She got pretty over & was really fun with Alexa Bliss during the CoVid shows & was showing a lot of personality & then just... went away. Like her reward for being fun & dependable was getting buried. It was fuckin' odd, bud. Rowan has always had a pretty bad ass, intimidating look.

"The Immortal" Hulk Hogan was such a huge & instrumental part of not only my professional wrestling fandom but my childhood as a whole. Then, almost as if it were planned & lined-up purposefully, when I was a rebellious teenager years later, suddenly here is "Hollywood" Hulk Hogan playing the bad guy as the top dog in the coolest stable in wrestling during the next peak of the industry. THEN AFTER THAT we got the nostalgia Hulkster return run in WWE & his WrestleMania match with The Rock. Mainstream professional wrestling & WrestleMania as we know it was built off of his back. The man entertained me so many different ways for so many different years & it's all for naught. Not just for the racial tirade that pretty much made him dead to me & was absolutely unforgivable & enough for anyone & everyone to completely write him off forever. Not just for the awful comments he said after his son killed someone in a car crash. Not because of his star dimming & him scraping the bottom-of-the-barrel & doing shit like Comedy Central Roast as the "hey, remember him?" joke appearance. Not for all the lies & finding out as I grew out of childhood about all the drugs & excess. It was that every time I heard anything about the man, outside of the wrestling ring, it was always some negative "hey, this guy is a total piece of shit" news. Hell, now even the stuff you read about his time IN the ring, you read about all the "it doesn't work for me, brother" politics & shit. The Donald Trump appearance isn't exactly shocking - two shit peas in a shit pod - but it's still another paper in the file of The Unfortunate Hulkster. I'll always have Terry Funk.

Jacob Fatu is that guy. I wouldn't be surprised if when Roman returns, Fatu either joins Roman's side or replaces Solo.

Well, the professional wrestling industry must have finally passed me by. I am completely out of the loop. I have no idea who Stephanie Vaquer is. Never seen her before, or heard of her before & certainly haven't seen her work.

I really hope they take the cuffs off Jacob Fatu, especially when WWE gets on Netflix, and just let him go crazy. I've been waiting a long time for a bigger audience to see him. He has that same Samoa-Joe-ROH aura about him where you believe every single word he says, too.

How on earth did Indianapolis of all places get Royal Rumble, SummerSlam AND WrestleMania, all three? I used to live in Indiana, that's crazy. I hope some of my friends from back in Indiana get to go to any of these shows. This will be after WWE is officially on Netflix, too.

Tony Khan as an on-air character was inevitable. Shame.