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Holy fuck, Dragon vs Kingston II might take it over Claudio vs Brody. Eddie was incredible in that one, my god.

Claudio vs Brody was fucking awesome. Match of the tourney so far.

Matt, I know you have. But you answering business/drawing arguments with your personal opinion on the product is always quite something

A part of me feels like the crowd that followed The Elite everywhere and spent money on them on a level we had never seen before on a niche product/act had their series finale once Hangman beat Kenny for the belt. I could be completely wrong but I feel those fans that started the wave in the mid 2010's and basically made it possible to create AEW and make it a viable n°2 option in the U.S weren't gonna stay by 2023 no matter what. At least not in a way that could've saved the company from falling to the level it's been at for the past year.

They better fucking pay Austin enough for him to be on a couple of TV shows in the build to cut some damn promos. I was so disappointment he never showed up to son Kevin Owens and do the type of shit he did to Miz and the students on Tough Enough.

Rock did say on Joe Rogan's podcast last week that a party approached him for a presidential run but he declined. Only saw the clip were he discusses that topic but from the feedback I read, it seems Rocky mastered the art of talking for hours and not say much of anything

If Rock is to be believed that wasn't an issue, surprisingly so.

The whole report Sounds like TK doing damage control on some "even Danielson thought I had to fire him!"

RE: Roman vs Rock. Rocky implied in that McAfee interview (I think it was in that one at least) that the reason they could never get on the same page and pull the trigger on the match was because Rock wanted something more long term and not just 1 match at Mania. It seemed to me he presented WWE an idea similar to the Cena year long angle and WWE passed on it.

I guess it depends if the winner ends up having to defend the TC in ROH and other companies. If that's the case I wouldn't give it to Swerve, he should be getting an AEW world title reign soon and a short run with this new experiment would just take him away from AEW TV most likely. If it's just a symbolic thing and the winner is just as the G1 or Champions Carnival, then yeah, give it to Swerve.

The site I got the info from had it wrong, Claudio and Brody IS booked for Collision (had to check a Twitter video from AEW to confirm, lol). Only Danielson and Andrade should be doing double duty in the coming weeks to catch up with the rest. They are doing semi finals on Dec 27th so everything has to be settled by Coliision on Dec. 23rd.

They'll probably fill time with Punk until he can have a real feud with Seth. It's basically gonna play out very similarly to what happened in AEW. It took a couple of months before the Kingston feud.

Yup, the path is right there and it's clear as day.

Continental Classic matchups for this week: Dynamite: Mark Briscoe vs. RUSH Jon Moxley vs. Jay Lethal Swerve Strickland vs. Jay White Collision Bryan Danielson vs. Eddie Kingston Andrade El Idolo vs. Daniel Garcia Claudio Castagnoli vs Brody King Also, it was confirmed MJF injured his shoulder but will still defend the belt at World's End. Considering the amount of steroids the dude is using it's kind of a miracle he hasn't completely torn a muscle. Just put the belt on Joe.

Being The Elite lasted more than 7 years, that's an eternity in wrestling. I think the bigger issue is how the Buck's impact in the products is basically zero. Their matches lose viewers every time, they are not huge merch movers anymore and they make no difference moving tickets (like 95% of the roster). Right now their only real asset is being friends with Kenny and keeping them meant keeping Omega.

I'm all for having fun and laughing at wrestlers being carnies but for some reason Punk being one of them rubs people the wrong way and they have to make a point of telling others how much of a carny he really is. It's not 2005-2010, he's not a rebel. He's just another wrestler finding ways to get people to support him so he can make as much money as possible, lol. And PS: I really hate the way Seth Rollins wrestles, but I do have to salute him for the amount of effort he's putting into this so he and Punk can have a worked shoot feud with a bunch of "pipe boms" promos that WWE fans will lose their shit to.

That was the thing though, Hunter mended fences with the very few people Vince still had in his no-no list. Punk and him never liked each other and had an awful falling out. To bring him back in a time the company doesn't really need him shows a side of HHH I wasn't sure he had. Good for him (and WWE) really.

Also, this is HHH's biggest W as "guy in charge" since he's held this kind of position. I was with the group that wasn't sure he'd ever be like Vince and put business first over very personal (and valid) issues and he did it with the guy he probably had the biggest personal beef with.

Saw the last 20 minutes of the PLE. Punk's return was masterfully done. I hope they squeeze every penny and program out of him while they can before he either gets injured or gets grumpy and starts deluding himself about what his role in the company "should" be. Holy fuck was Orton over, that was dope to see and listen.

Well, they corrected him today so it's a moot point. He's basically putting the belts up for grabs to whoever wins the tourney so they can create this Triple Crown (and there will be three belts). With Eddie's PPV promo I though he was saying that whoever had the ROH & Strong belts had to keep defending them until the finals, which had me believing Eddie was a lock for the finals. But again, it's a moot point. We still don't know if whoever wins the C2 and those belts will be a champion that actually defends it and then puts it on the line during the tourney (like Eddie just did) every year, or if it's gonna be something symbolic like those trophies and belts Tony created for the Owen Hart Cup.

TK booked a CC that will lead to a Triple Crown winner. I guess he's trying to compensate to Baba after all the Inoki love he's done in the past few months? Any way, the tourney matches for this week: Tonight on Dynamite: Jay White vs. Rush Jay Lethal vs. Swerve Strickland Jon Moxley vs. Mark Briscoe On Collision: Daniel Garcia vs. Claudio Castagnoli Eddie Kingston vs. Brody King Danielson gets the week off to keep healing as much as possible I guess (he still gotta work twice in a week eventually and risk it all though ) White vs Rush and Eddie vs Brody look like potentially great fucking matches.

Blue League : Bryan Danielson Andrade El Idolo Brody King Claudio Castagnoli Daniel Garcia Eddie Kingston Gold League : Jon Moxley Swerve Strickland Rush Mark Briscoe Jay Lethal Jay White 20 minute time limit. Eddie vs Dragon II, let's fucking GOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

What Eddie said at the PPV was that he putting his belts on the line on every match he's wrestling in the CC, that's why whoever wins it will have both those belts plus being the "Continental Classic Champion" (lol).

They are announcing the participants (and I'd hope the blocks and weekly matchups) at 1PM ET in a youtube stream. It's gonna be TK, Schiavone and Eddie and I hope Kingston cuts a promo on every single entrant