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Yeah I liked the angle, although it was a bit corny and predictable. I liked the promos the two cut as well. But then they immediately went from that to the Andrade angle, which meant there was no time for the effect to sink in. It is a constant problem with AEW's big angles. Tony is friends with Bischoff. He should look at how Eric would book the aftereffects of every NWO angle in 1996, and how integral it was in getting it over. And if the Andrade-Vickie pairing was good, it would be one thing, but this. It is a total turn-off.

I think both Page and Hobbs are awesome, and they just had an excellent match. I like Hangman having multiple finishers

Finally light at the end of the tunnel!! Also Omega v. Jungle Boy should be dope

Sasha liking dumbass anti-vaccination posts really bums me out. I don't expect any wrestler to be shining beacons of humanity, but I was really hoping she is one of the good ones. Hopefully it's some silly misunderstanding or something. It rankles for me especially because back home in India, there is such shortage of vaccines available, the Delta variant has already mutated to give rise to yet another variant and people are dying by the thousands every day

That racist QAnon little shit tried to push around a 6'8" 280 pound former high-level college American football defensive end? God, I pray that he keeps trying to do that with exactly such people

The good Doctor clearly sells tickets in her hometown at least. She is fast becoming a real big star. Now hopefully she is not booked to have Jericho-style wacky WWE Raw comedy in-ring segments

I don't know the exact details of the situation, but wasn't the podcast where she made these comments recorded a while back, before she started working? I am sure they had told her that her lack of knowledge was not only not an issue, it was a feature and not a bug. Maybe she shouldn't have talked publicly about it in any case, but it's not as if she was bragging about it. I get the wrestlers might have been mad about the Bobby Ashley line, but any wrestler who works there who still blames their issues on writers and not on Vince probably deserves to be mad

Jericho's post-2016 non-WWE run is absolutely a plus for him and was great until the Orange Cassidy matches, where he significantly slowed and looked older than he ever had. His NJPW run was great, his match with Omega was a classic while his Naito and Tanahashi matches were very good to great. He needed to be the AEW world champion if they wanted to have a shot at actually surviving 2019, and to his credit, he was a great champion. You might not like his promos and his matches were not as good as his NJPW matches, but he was solidly putting wrestlers over, getting complete unknowns to look good in the ring and look like stars. Without him, Scorpio Sky, Jungle Boy, Orange Cassidy, Darby Allin, and Sammy Guevera would have never had a chance to show their talent and to become the next generation of promising AEW stars. That is a huge credit to Jericho, and his AEW world title run was the best US heel world champ run in decades, maybe since Flair himself. He proved himself as a major drawing card who, through his storylines and in-ring work, has managed to be a key player in establishing a major alternative in US wrestling for the first time in 20 years. His last year in AEW has been terrible and keeps getting worse with each passing week, and I desperately hope MJF ends his career and sends him into retirement soon, but what he has done since the last GWE is objectively impressive. As far as a comparison with Windham goes, that's an interesting topic. It's funny because if one were to simply watch a string of Windham matches and a string of Jericho matches, Barry would completely blow him out of the water. In a poll that asks me to pick who is better, the answer is Windham every time without a second's worth of thought. But while actually constructing a GWE list, I place a lot of importance on historical context and larger macro-achievements over an extended period of time. So, depending on what my mood is or how my list is looking in 2026, I might very well say "Windham is much better" while submitting a ballot which has Jericho but not Windham on it. It sounds contradictory, but in my mind it really is not.

Speaking of fresh talent in WWE.. This guy was with WWE, right? Why on Earth did they let him go? Even if he cannot wrestle, just LOOK at him. They'd been able to get at least one good main event run out of him even if he had sucked in the ring

@ohtani's jacket Kane Williamson is a King and Kyle Jamieson looks like he legit could have become a Kiwi NBA superstar if he had not chosen cricket instead. Congratulations to New Zealand, I cannot think of more deserving inaugural world champions of test cricket

People who have been going through the French catch footage can probably expound on how much it helps his case. From reading the excellent Pat Laprade bio, his work was completely different and a real revelation

Yeah, the trend lately has been to blame fans for being "negative" and "entitled" for complaining, because how dare they not automatically like what they see? It has led to some laughably stupid takes on Twitter, like the idea that online fan criticism is a recent, Twitter-led phenomenon, or that, incredibly, wrestlers like Steve Austin and Mick Foley wouldn't have got over if there was Twitter around, because everyone would complain and chant smarky shit at them.

Wait why do you need a crash pad for a bump through a table from the apron to the floor? Is this an elaborate shot at AEW or something

Don't disagree with anything in your post, but from what I understand, Rhea is supposed to be a heel? So yeah of course she will need a bunch of smoke and mirrors to win matches and to retain the title. She is supposed to just be hated by fans Of course, the fact that she even needs to be a heel, given how hot she was as a face in December 2019, is a marker of how much WWE booking has failed her.

This honestly seems to me like someone came up with an idea to incorporate "reality" into storyline, except they did not think of how it would appear when it plays out in real time. Cuz this one just makes Rhea look like an idiot. As it is, she has been damaged so bad in the last year. Do we need to keep doing this to her? Charlotte seems to have actively regressed as a wrestler. She was always the least of the 4 Horsewoman in my opinion, even when she was the only one amongst them who got pushed; even when she was getting a stronger push than the other three combined. She has always been behind Sasha and Becky in terms of being big stars and actual draws, and she is behind Bayley in terms of being a good in-ring general. But she was at least always competent, even though she would always have botches. Since her return though, she seems to have lost all of her timing. She botches basically every big spot she is supposed to do; in fact, her matches are frequently littered with blown spots. Her storylines are not just about terrible booking but with good to great matches, they are now about terrible booking with extremely underwhelming-to-downright bad wrestling matches. I am not sure what has happened, but she seems like she has lost the only redeeming feature she had: being a part of great matches. Thus, now, not only does she look like the least of the four Horsewomen, in my opinion, she looks even worse; she looks like someone actively being an impediment in the progress of women wrestlers much better and with a much stronger connection with fans than she does.

I mean if Drew comes back in a mask and calls himself the Midnight Rider, I would on a personal level mark the fuck out, but overall it would also be really stupid and would only hurt the promotion. A lot of old-time tricks do not work in the modern weekly primetime wrestling. JCP found this out the hard way, when all their "Dusty Finishes" (which had existed long before Dusty was around and was used to draw money in a ton of territories) led to fans getting burnt and no longer investing in the promotion or its matches. Imo the same thing will happen here, except it probably already has happened, becaue WWE has spent the last 20 years that match stipulations do not actually matter

What the fuck is this? Please tell me there is some larger context to this, and this GIF just cherrypicks the worst moment of the sequence. Because otherwise, this looks genuinely embarrassing, the exact kind of shit the WWE Twitter army would give shit to AEW for weeks. You would get behind storytelling that outrightly and explicitly ignores and shits on the exact stipulation that this match, and the entire PPV, was sold on?

I love how Blade Hart is just as snarky as his old man

Tony reminiscing about Phil insulting DEAN made my day

He is literally burying himself when he says he gets tired by attacks from snowflakes. That means that all the fragile crybabies actually manage to get to him. If nothing else, this is basic pro wrestling stuff. For that alone, he should never get booked in any wrestling promotion ever again

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The Mongo parody account on Twitter got taken down/deactivated, which is a shame, because it was evident by looking at a single post that it was not meant maliciously at all, and in fact did a lot of reintroduce Mongo to current fans. We have fucking Disco Inferno talking shit about how that page was disrespectful. Even Disco's mom and his kids would not make a loving parody account for fucking Disco Inferno

Bloodsport is not really "Worked MMA fight" the way this one was, and while the best Bloodsport matches are great, a normal one is just boring. They definitely should not have booked a worked MMA match. If nothing else, you require one excellent shootstyle worker for it to even be close to good, and Jake Hager is no one's idea of an excellent worker

I loved everything Miro did there, that was amazing lol Santana is so incredible

That Omega-JB backstage backdown was terrible and made Jungle Boy look like an idiot. How could he not have seen that coming from a long way