MoS

Oh there definitely are a lot of chants like this one that are not piped in, which is making the piped in noise stand out much more

Just turned on the match to massive WE WANT BECKY chants. This is the downside to the superstars teasing fans about a potential comeback, especially in a match where the two wrestlers are not particularly over

Not watching this match: how over are these two? I am guessing we can tell by the kind of chants piped in which one is supposed to be face and who is the heel?

This show has been pretty bad tbh

I was NOT expecting Drew to get booed

I think Drew's in-ring work has been overrated for years now, since he was regaining buzz as Drew Galloway, but he's a good promo

That's what I thought at least. Styles is over but that MitB match killed the crowd a bit. Even Omos is not as over as I would have thought. He has an amazing presence though

Styles is truly carrying this match. He is truly a generational worker. Him not leaving TNA earlier is definitely one of wrestling's biggest What-Ifs of this century

EDIT - Double

They basically joked about Jimmy's DUI and implied Roman got him off

LMAO WHAT THE FUCK HAHAHA

Are..are they turning Alexa face?

LMAO at them cutting from Nikki's big spot to a shot of a kid looking completely bored. Shame cuz the fans actually liked the spot, cuz she is so endearing and easy to like

Funny how the two most over wrestlers in the match, Asuka and Naomi, don't need wacky out-of-ring bullshit

This shit is embarrassing

Some of the crowd noise definitely sounds piped in. It's especially obvious when contrasted to the times fans are actually being loud

I love how even this really hot crowd had no idea how to react to the Alexa supernatural shit lol except some of them cheering for her skipping lol. That shit was embarrassing. Asuka is by herself elevating this match into something watchable though. And Liv is definitely over

It's remarkable how Naomi is always more over than her push

If they need a face win to send the fans home happy, I would rather they do it with Lashley-Kofi. Kofi can have another transitional reign before Lashley takes it back. When Roman finally loses, it needs to be to a fresh singles face like Big E, not a relic from the past

I'll do it. Giannis really elevated his game in a way I was not expecting and reached indelible greatness. Speaking of undisputedly great performers, Becky is trolling fans again It's always the hope that dies that hurts the most, as Bane told Batman. Last time she did this, the poor Bellas got booed cuz they were in the wrong place at the wrong time

Even without the injury, that match was laid out terribly imo. It was perhaps the first big-time WWE main event match that consisted almost entirely of finishers and kicking out of finishers

He had a bad habit of deciding to sit in chinlocks randomly out of nowhere in his TV matches in 99-00, which would suck the heat from his matches. Of course, he didn't exactly have an issue with getting the crowd to get popping again when he wanted to. His general work would always be very loose, but he was excellent at feeding off crowd reactions and his comebacks would be usually hot. Seven years ago in this thread, I wrote that he would be in the lower sections of my top 100. I think that's still where I stand on him, although he will drop like 10-15 places. What do people think of his comeback run? For me his first promo back was an all-time classic segment and it basically went downhill since. The first Cena match is fine, and I like the Punk matches, but the 2nd Cena match is pretty bad. More tellingly, he just did not seem to really fit in the 2010s WWE landscape. Of course a part of it is that his character was outdated, but I think it's more than just that. Someone on this board said back then that they never thought they were watching The Rock in this run but instead were watching Dwayne Johnson play The Rock, and that seems a perfect way to describe my issue with it. He was getting destroyed in promo battles with Cena and Punk, terrible and lame zingers on Vickie Guerrero, it was just a mess. The best thing to come out of it was a random promo where he was clearly high out of his mind and was talking about how there's a lot of great weed in the city. That was genuinely entertaining

The fact that it's NYC is what makes the apologists mad. NYC is WWF territory. It has belonged to the McMahons since before there was a WWF. Couple that with WWF's history in MSG and it makes for an embarrassing situation. It is strictly symbolic, but symbols do matter. Plus, Vince Sr. used to say "The way the Garden goes, so goes the business" and it was a dictum that Vince honoured till the attitude era at least.

God the What chants are the worst

More than the rating itself, the fact that AEW consistently sees viewership increase through the two hours is the best news. Ratings pattern for the last 5-6 years for wrestling TV has been the exact opposite