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This is the first I'm seeing of Cornette seeing the clip & saying something about it, although I had heard he also shit on it. But yeah, I went off about this myself as well & drew a lot of ire from random no-nothing Twitter marks. For what it's worth, that dude & his stable also suck shit in MLW. One of the worst acts they have going right now.

Getting ready for the World Title main event run, brother.

Oversaturation is a very real thing. The length of shows for sure but also the amount of shows a week, too. Especially when you follow multiple promotions like a lot of us do. I had to cut way back on wrestling because I felt I was getting burned out. I now only watch select Pay-Per-View events & NWA Power on Tuesday. And I didn't finish the last episode of Power, despite being only an hour. I don't even have a desire to attend an event anymore because it feels never-ending, without even including travel time, parking, etc. I'm waiting on something different to come around. Right now, a lot of modern wrestling feels very "samey." It's a bunch of acrobatic small guys no selling big bombs & doing flips. NWA is trying to be different from that but their roster is weak & they come off as way too corny. NXT or New Japan are probably the closest to what I'm looking for right now but I would love to see something like Lucha Underground return. It felt a lot different. The presentation was unique. I feel like the luster has fallen off of AEW for me completely.

In my opinion, making it a two-day event is a mistake. I would say the same for Wrestlemania if they were to do it as well. Just make the one day better & stop trying to make it an eight hour thing. It was never an issue in the past, when there were only four Pay-Per-Views a year & Wrestlemania was only three hours long... If I were a fan buying a ticket, I would feel obligated to go both days. Which increases the cost exponentially. If you're in a situation where it's a one day thing then you have to choose which of the two days to go to. That shit sucks. As a business though, I'm sure they'll make more money, so it's probably the right decision. As a fan, I hate it.

If the activity in this thread, or lack there of, is any indication, the ratings are going to be brutal.

A "first time viewer" talking about them "holding back" Britt Baker because she lost the one match he watched? OK..

I think it's more the state of PWO than AEW.

I marked for Nikita. The closing angle was good too.

Someone on Reddit said that Kairi said to Asuka in Japanese "Sis, help me" & that made me feel awful.

6 minute time limits is an awful idea.

It's just such bad writing to have a PPV match turn into a 4-on-1 beatdown in a gimmick match & not have a single babyface give a fuck to help Roman. I don't know what the long game is here but that shit sucked.

The War Raiders open challenge is answered by The OC. Which is about as lame of an outcome as could possibly have been. EDIT: OK, they're apparently the Viking Raiders now. I think I already knew that, I just forgot.

Humberto/Andrade was good. New Day/Revival was good. Murphy/Black is very good. No complaints so far.

It would be a nice change of pace/surprise if WWE did actually put Mandy Rose with him. Like actually have Mandy look like she's charmed by the big galoot. Before he was shit canned, I was hoping they were going to pull the trigger on Enzo & Nia Jax too. I think the odd couple stuff works. Especially if they play it sincere, not like the hot one is secretly exploiting the other.

That match was super fun. I love modern LA Park. He's such a great brawler. And I've been singing the praises of Jacob Fatu for awhile too. It's crazy to me that he's not in WWE making big time money. Maybe he doesn't want the schedule or something but man, he's SO good.

That's some Molly Holly levels of bad writing. Remember when Molly was the heel because she was a sexual prude & Trish was the babyface because she was promiscuous? Or was at least alleged to be or some shit. I remember they did an angle where Molly wore "Granny panties" instead of thongs like Trish, so she was ridiculed for that. I mean, you have to be super immersed in the WWE story to pretend that although Trish Stratus was super attractive, Molly Holly wasn't. Molly was always attractive too, so that stuff always felt like a miss to me. The same Molly that we were supposed to cheer & find adorable when she was with Spike Dudley. But I guess she was blonde then, so it's different! WWE loves blondes... Bayley not attractive? C'mon, man. Look at her body. There's no one in that crowd that looks like that. But, well, Dana is blonde, so I guess Bayley looks like a dude. It's crazy. I get it's just supposed to be cheap heat. "Ha-Ha they're making fun of the heel!" But it's just so low brow & feels exceptionally dated in where our society is at now. Like, these aren't the crowds from the 70's. These aren't the kind of segments you should be doing to get people to want to watch & buy-into the women's angles & stories. Bayley should have slapped him in the face after he said his line.

Show over. I was happy with it.

NWA Into the Fire PPV (this post will be full of spoilers) Good fun show. Felt like a really good TV show. I don't know if that means it was worth a $20 PPV tag but it was worth checking out, I thought. Entertaining throughout.

Open question for PWO: Should Christian go in? Edge is already in. The Dudley Boyz are in. I assume when they're finished, The Hardy Boys will go in. Is Christian going to be the odd man out? Not just the Edge & Christian stuff but he's also a former World Champion & Intercontinental Champion. He's had a lot of great matches.

I'll say this about Joey Janella: I'd take him over damn near everyone that wrestled in XPW & I watched more XPW shows than I should probably admit. Compared to people like Supreme, Joey Janella looks like Terry Funk.

Are the Midnight Express even in yet? They need to put the Steiners in too. Would love to see Scott Norton get acknowledged with the nWo but that's probably a pipe dream.

Don't worry about gaps, TTK. You can only judge what you've seen/experienced. Just like the PWO Top 100. I didn't have like any Lucha guys on my list. I think Cody/Dustin is the top of my list right now but I think the women's Wargames from NXT TakeOver is in my top 5. I guess I'm a mark for storytelling. There's quite a few New Japan matches on my list, some of which I'll have to re-watch: Omega/Tanahashi, Ospreay/Shingo, Ospreay/Okada. I didn't love the Starr/Devlin match, wasn't blown away by WALTER/Bate & actively disliked Cole/Gargano. Gallagher/Gable felt like just an above average TV match to me. I just watched Omega/Dragon Lee yesterday & the camera shit killed the match.

Koko B. Ware was at an unfair disadvantage! President Jack Tunney knew that it was impossible to get Yokozuna into the Ghostbuster! Tunney was in cahoots with Mr. Fuji! Years later, in an attempt to right their wrong, WWE were forced to induct Koko B. Ware into the WWE Hall of Fame to make amends for their wrongdoings.

I wouldn't be surprised if the Acension broke-up with Viktor going solo & Connor being on the outside looking in. He's just not very good.