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What did people expect? I expected what I had seen in other Exploding Ring Deathmatches. They even had Onita ON THE SHOW! So obviously they were referencing the match existing outside of AEW.

Well, I'll also remember that the ending to the main event Exploding Ring Barbed Wire Deathmatch on a $50 Pay-Per-View was due to a run-in from Karl Anderson & Luke Gallows. The exploding barbed wire bat was cool. The making the ropes blow up to break-up a pinfall was cool. The One Winged Angel on a chair looked like death. I liked those things. But the match had more problems than just the sparklers at the end.

This is what I said on Twitter. If that ring did actually blow up & Eddie sacrificed himself to save his friend, that's some top tier babyface hero shit, man. He would have been MADE.

Man. That's not a good look.

Don Callis is infinitely more entertaining on commentary than Jim Ross. I really like what he's added to this match.

Indeed. It's the little things.

Tony Schiavone covering for it was awesome though. "That's in case medical personnel need to get into the ring!"

Here's your exact post, C.S. How are people misreading what you said? You said he's a "top five Attitude Era guy". That's an exact quote.

C.S., are you putting Christian above The Rock, Steve Austin, Mick Foley, Triple H, The Undertaker, Vince McMahon himself or Kurt Angle for a top 5 in the Attitude Era? Because that's already more than five guys from that era. And if we're talking about just work, then you have the likes of guys like Eddie & Benoit to deal with.

Brian Cage carrying Darby up the stairs in a vertical suplex was the top moment of the entire PPV so far.

He's a mid card guy in a sea of mid card guys. Just like when they brought in Matt Hardy. That's my issue. I'm not touching the Top 5 nonsense. Great worker for sure but AEW isn't lacking in the workrate department. They're lacking in the "why should I watch this?" department on cable TV.

Even in a pre-recorded cinematic match, Sting isn't coming anywhere close to taking his shirt off lmao

For AEW's sake, I hope so.

Great debut for Ethan Page! Comes out to disappointment & jobs in a multiman cluster fuck.

Penta looks like he's put on some weight.

The thing is, regardless of the rest of the card, if the Deathmatch & big reveal both come through, the show will be a success.

Shida prob had MOTN so far but I think it's more been the other matches underdelivering so far than it was their match overdelivering.

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Right as we have the Evil Uno business exposing elimination

$50 jobber tag team battle royal. This is miserably bad lol

Are they really going to let Jim Ross call the entire PPV sounding like that? EDIT: He sounds better now but still rough. Is he sick?

This match is sloppy & the ref, for whatever reason, is fucking counting in slow motion. The Maki surprise was cool but her kickouts have been the drizzling shits. Maki Itoh has a ton of charisma. Her roll through single leg crab was sweet, too.

Honestly, I think they really missed the boat when Zack Ryder caught on fire thanks to his YouTube stuff. I'm old & out of touch with what is current but it seems to me, WWE hasn't really done much of anything to try to hit the non-TV crowd. I mean, yeah, they have social media accounts & WWE Network & whatnot but they don't do like a BTE style show or anything like that. People like Paige or Xavier Woods have more of a finger on the pulse with things like Twitch & I think that's a big area where WWE shows their age. They're making megamoney with TV contracts but like as has been mentioned, TV is a dying medium. So is advertising in its current form: people aren't going to sit through commercial breaks during 20 minute sit-coms anymore. Technology is unforgiving. The speed at which it moves is insane. I bought an $800 video card & literally six days later a newer, better one came out. Keeping up with tech takes being in touch with it, being familiar with it & growing with it, which becomes harder to do the older you get & the more comfortable & set in your ways you become. Hardware, software & knowledge/familiarity. WWE might be ran by people with power & money to throw around but the Vince McMahons, Kevin Dunns & Bruce Prichards of the world will still get passed by, regardless of if they can throw money at younger people or do a podcast. And it's showing. You can literally go on YouTube & watch, in example, a nobody film himself barbecuing in his backyard, with a 4K high def setting, no commercials, streaming live. So like, shit you see on TV isn't special anymore. People are making movies with cellphones.

Probably should have just went to YouTube in the first place to be honest.

I went from not liking Jay White at all, & thinking he was mediocre to average at best, to thinking he's the best wrestler in New Japan & that they should build the company around him. I don't know what changed that made him click & connect like that but it's a night & day difference from a couple of years ago.