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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.

L.A. Knight is two years younger than Finn Balor, so he has that going for him, I guess? Granted Finn is getting a title show & Knight is in a random Slim Jim commercial battle royal.

The thing that I will give Triple H credit for - and it wasn't all just him mind you - but due to (at least in part) Evolution & feuding with HHH, WWE got both Orton & Batista as main eventers. Orton has been around for like twenty years now too. World Champions that feuded with The Undertaker & wrestled at Wrestlemania without anyone batting an eye at their believability or position, really. Hell, I would argue that they were both better main eventers than even Triple H himself was. Randy Orton winning the title (I believe from Benoit?) and then HHH & Evolution turning on him & then Batista turning babyface on HHH/Flair & putting him through a table were both big, stand out moments in post-2000 WWE.

I moved to Michigan & moved away from all my friends & family, including Anvil whom I'm sure you remember. This Saturday for The SummerSlam, we're all going to watch it together & chat over Discord (Anvil & two other friends), so I'm really looking forward to that. The only constants through everything have always been pro wrestling & video games. It's how we all met & it's how we all stay in touch.

Well, I mean, he's perfect for a chickenshit heel, yeah? Worked for Honky Tonk Man. X-Pac too, I guess.

It's actually come full circle for me. When I first got online, back at the end of 1998 (after Kevin Nash ended the Goldberg streak coincidentally) I was searching out wrestling video game information. Stumbled upon WrestlingGames.com which started my pro wrestling message forum participation. I've been posting on forums about wrestling for like 20-25 years now... and Sek has been there for a lot of it. Sadly, my biggest "claim to fame" (if you can even call it that) was being the guy that defended Val Venis & thinking he deserved more of a push. Now seeing that he turned out into a burnout conspiracy theory nut, it's a good thing that didn't happen. Back then, we were all playing those THQ/AKI N64 wrestling games in real, modern time. Now all these years later, we're still talking about wanting a game that plays like No Mercy.

This is how I feel about Seth Rollins. Dude's shitty theme song is over so people are pretending that he isn't trash & has been for years.

Almost all of these Jim Cornette has shit on AEW doing in the past.

I found it interesting the talent that the A.I. decided to use. Darby Allin Vs. Jungle Boy in the main event of a Bill Watts show? C'mon...

It's almost SummerSlam. I just want to say that I was wrong on Cody Rhodes. I'm big enough to admit it. The crowds did not turn on him & he is mega over.

Seth Rollins has go-away heat to me & I don't care if his theme song is over. I switched to old episodes of Jonny Quest on Tubi & don't regret my decision! Still holds up.

Happy for Iyo & that finish was pretty innovative.