Coffey

This fucking crowd is the drizzling shits.

I agree but WWE were even able to mend fences with The Ultimate Warrior, of all people, at the end there, so I wouldn't count it out. Maybe they could get A.J. Lee to come with him so Rhea could rag doll her a bit too. That could be fun. It's crazy to me that AEW had guys like FTR, Bryan Danielson & Samoa Joe around in the locker room, that Punk gets along with & is good friends with, and he still couldn't stay out of his own way. If he couldn't make it work in AEW, he's not going to be able to make it work in WWE again either. The pipe bomb was never some shoot shit on the microphone, it was always how long until his temper blows up & he burns another bridge.

Man, feels crazy to think of saying this since I wouldn't have never thought it just a few years ago: Dominik Mysterio is the future of WWE, y'all. He's only twenty-six years old, too! He's only going to get better & he's already so good. Taking from his dad, Eddy, Art Barr, etc. He gets it, man. Also, Dragon Lee looked great & WWE just signed Jade Cargill to a multi-year deal? Plus The Rock & John Cena both just came back & WWE still have the big Roman angle to pay off & they made Jey Uso a star. Plus Cody & L.A. Knight are on fire & there's still Gunther. Man, WWE is on fire.

I'm curious how much NFL Thursday Night Football being on Amazon Prime video live might change the perspective as it pertains businesses looking at streaming services. I know I read not too long back that AEW was looking at streaming on MAX.

There was still a lot of talent in the nWo, like Hennig, but I'm not sure how many of them got much chance to display anything. Bret?

Keith Lee's problem is that he's a huge nerd. Which wouldn't be a problem if he was able to put that to the wayside when he's in character. Instead, he's just a giant nerd while also still in character. So it's really hard to take him seriously.

I've heard a rumor that the WWE/UFC merger will go through on Tuesday. If that does happen, do we anticipate a lot of layoffs?

This women’s cage match is a banger goddamn Edit: the interference really takes away from all Becky/Trish did, don’t think they needed that but still a great match

I think there's some miscommunication here. I was talking about who the guys like Jungle Boy probably looked at in the way that Punk looked at Smothers or Piper, not who they could get along with. I feel like their influences were probably more high flying wrestlers.

Have a good time, Sek! Hope they give you a good show.

If I were a betting man? Jeff Hardy, Rob Van Dam, Rey Mysterio. Guys like that. Small guys or high flying guys or high flying small guys that got over but weren't necessarily great on the mic. That kind of feels like the direction pro wrestling went, at least for the likes of AEW talent. Not to say that RVD was small, just those names popped into my head.

Unbelievable. Totally & completely. Some various thoughts & rambling. I feel like I should have probably seen the writing on the wall when Cody Rhodes left AEW to go back to WWE, citing that his decision was largely based on a differing opinion of what he wanted professional wrestling to be. He wanted a more storyline driven, Mid South style wrestling & AEW is apparently a more in-ring athletic competition promotion. I have never been a fan of the Young Bucks style of professional wrestling & I realize that from the jump, that's what AEW was. I was excited for another U.S. based promotion that could lead to competition in the wrestling landscape that would, hopefully, lead to both companies trying their best to put on the best show possible. AEW doesn't happen without The Elite, so I get it. C.M. Punk was the biggest star AEW had. To date, I think his AEW debut was the biggest single moment in the company. It's lunacy to me that they would fire their biggest star... but I get it. He's a headache. They're choosing the likes of The Elite & Jack Perry & that style of wrestling. I do think that maybe this could have a domino effect & we could see other people like FTR leave AEW as well. With it almost all of my interest in the company too. I thought that Collision was going to be more my speed. The more old school wrestling, with the likes of guys like FTR, Punk, Joe, Miro, Andrade & Brody King. With Punk gone now, it's only a matter of time until it's just another Dynamite with Garcia dancing, Mox bleeding, Orange Cassidy existing & Young Bucks flipping. But I'm sure we can get another Canadian Destroyer off of a ladder through a table for a 2-count & the crowd chanting "this is awesome." No thank you.

Nevermind Freddie Mercury as that man is fucking untouchable vocally, but Jericho singing his own goddamn song instead of just letting crowd sing it made it worse. I was cracking up.

That match had several insane bumps, for sure. The Scorpion Death Drop on the coffin. The Coffin Drop on the coffin outside the ring where Swerve missed & Darby ate it. The finish Coffin Drop with Swerve half way out of the coffin. Hell, just Sting flopping on the coffin with Swerves hands out was nuts! The second bump when the table didn't break was also gross. It was definitely a lot more fun than whatever the fuck that Moxley mess was.

I just marked more for Sting in 2023 than probably anything else wrestling related this year. That was awesome. And Metallica too.

Missed the first hour. The tag & the hardcore match were both sloppy as fuck. Women's match was the best that I've seen so far but strapping Paige seems like an odd decision... I know she's the hometown girl but... c'mon.

Terrible few days for the professional wrestling world.

I am so sad. One of my all-time favorite people to ever live.

Eh, I don't believe any of this shit. It's all hearsay from unreliable wrestling "reporters" just like always. I'll just watch the shows on TV & ignore all the backstage nonsense as I'm sure a lot of it is fabricated to try to add "heat" to shit in AEW anyway.

So what, they build to Jimmy Vs. Jey and Roman Vs. Solo?

I mean, from their own storyline that they replayed on this show this doesn't make sense.

Alright, that was cool. I didn't see that shit coming.

I haven't enjoyed this women's 3-way to be honest. Just kind of feels like it's in the cooldown spot.

I mean, I can hate on Seth Rollins all day with the best of them, but his frog splash is the truth.

Fucking MEGA rub. My god.