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Oh for sure, but my point is that Dragon probably wants to have that test first instead of waiting till after him and Ospreay do dumb shit (to our delight) for 30 minutes in April, lol.

Considering Ospreay is probably gonna be the most dangerous one Dragon is gonna have this year, make sense he wants to have the Shibata one out the way ASAP just in case.

i get that, but at the same time, there's more prominent matchups than that one to chose for a main event spot for a show like this one.

The start of the show had a slightly higher start (it's been in the mid to high 900's since late January). The Young Bucks continue to be ratings death. Okada gonna have to do some heavy lifting with their carcass. Main event did horribly as expected too. It will take a long ass time for a match like that one to not make AEW fans chance the channel.

The only number that mattered was the attendance, which was at the very least 7.7k paid (probably ended up at 8k) and close to 10k total in attendance. Ratings were never going to move for something that was never advertised. This is not 2021 anymore, AEW is cold as fuck when it comes to weekly TV, they were not debuting a new show and even the not announced return of Punk was better promoted with waay more wink wink silly stuff (plus, him coming back after 7 years + all the drama during his time out was bigger than Mercedes simply debuting in another company).

The 2024 Royal Rumble winner in attendance tonight What a time...

Ospreay's promo level as a face is a welcome sight for this show.

Oh come on, you can't be THAT miserable

Wardlow is worthless as a heel. And without his streak he was worthless as a face too.

Doesn't feel like it. She's been one for a long time now.

That entrance theme is ass but I gotta give it to them for making such an easy thing to chant (C-E-O) over in less than a minute

Gedo's had the book for 18 fucking years. He's 8 years past the point of letting someone else try new ideas.

"Show me the Mone" was right there breh, come on

Danielson vs Taylor was really good, loved the story. Would've liked Dragon to try the head stomps to make it full circle though.

I think it's cool as fuck the crowd is so into the angle. As entertaining as Rock is -to the point he gets cheered no matter what he says- they all are fully behind Cody and Seth. It really is a home run of an angle.

I never liked Kelly's play by play. I actively looked for the japanese commentary for New Japan shows because I couldn't stand him, lol. He's a non screaming version of Joe Tessitore to me.

Yeah, Tsuji seems like the one that could make the most of an out of nowhere title reign. But Shota could also get the belt and at least have a short "sink or swim" type of run were he at least learns some stuff. It worked with Jay White. It's just deflating how uninterested New Japan is in building these young guys. They are acting like they have years to pull this off when reality screams otherwise. It also feels way more aggravating when acts that don't really deliver in the ring and have a bunch of middle of pack wrestlers are getting the spotlight.

This felt like the best "reset" episode of AEW TV I've ever seen (following since mid-late 2021). A lot of good video packages, promos to either start programs or build up to next week. And even the big debut came with not only an immediate heel turn (that suits Okada perfectly btw) but also a big match set up for the future in Kenny vs Okada in U.S soil. Plus you end the show with the tease and set up for AEW Dynasty in Danielson vs Ospreay. Now I wonder how they handle Mercedes debut next week. Would be funny if Britt comes back to set up that match from the get go.

That sounds like 2025. If anything, the money program for the belt this year is gonna be Swerve vs Ospreay.

As an MJF fan, this is sad but true. It also feels weird how Omega's absence isn't felt either. I guess him coming back last time and having a weird run of hot and cold runs downplayed his importance in the company but I still feel he should be able to help push the company to higher levels if given a bigger role when he comes back.

If this was 2010 I'd say yes but he's too fucking old (I mean, in 2010 too but these last 14 years he finally started to age and slow down) to start from scratch and he's too much of a control freak to just be "the money guy". So thankfully, I don't see him coming back to the business.

To be honest, I'm kinda upset Darby doesn't seem to be in the list of Danielson's bucket list of opponents this year. I've been wanting that match since he got to AEW but I don't think they've even interacted in a tag match

Darby said they had only 3 more minutes of PPV and was giving Sting time cues, so there was no way the whole thing was going air live. It's gonna end up on AEW's Youtube channel asap if I had to guess.

Jason Voorhees Sting in da house!

Nah man, Darby what the fuck! This crazy motherfucker is gonna try to do a Coffin Drop from Mt. Everest, I'm convinced.