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So then that 2 feet bump did not deserve to be sold like Wardlow basically murdered him? He took plenty of kayfabe dangerous bumps in the SS match after all, much worse than this one

The arm injury that did not stop him from doing a kayfabe brutal Stadium Stampede match killed him dead on a 2-feet bump to the floor?

It used to be hilarious when he would come out in foreign countries and would try to not get booed by saying that actually, he is a patriot for every country. It would never work, he would still get booed, but props for trying. Rest in peace. That flag match with Bret wasn't half bad

RVD was someone who, from his interviews, actually gave a great deal of thought to selling, psychology, etc. I remember being stunned years and years back when I read an interview he did where he said that for him, a great ladder match is not one where ladders are used just for stunts and pops, but where it is just a means to an end in winning the match. Your mileage may vary on how successful he was in actually practicing what he preached, but some of his interview quotes make me feel he'd be right at home here at PWO discussing wrestling and psychology with us

I forgot to mention, Miro's new music and his God's favourite champion gimmick are all solid gold. Miro absolutely rules The main event was excellent, but it's chicken coming home to roost time for AEW as far as bullshit interference finishes go. In theory, the finish keeps Sammy strong, puts him over even in defeat, and allows MJF to get even more heat. Except every single match in AEW in the last 6 months has had a ton of interference, nd thus as a result this one just lost its bite. This is even before Jericho pulled a Taker-HHH WM 17 and acted like a two feet bump from the crowd to the floor was instant death

I think it is obvious that he despises AEW much like he despised NJPW when he called the action there, and he is only working here to get Vince's attention, in the hope that Vince has mercy and takes him back

I just got done with the show, and a lot of things happened, but I am very surprised that they did not give Sammy the win. I don't think he has received a single big singles win ever. Also, the booking of Britt's title reign has been awful so far. They start with the corniest of corny WWE-esque in-ring segment, then they book her in a heel v. heel feud with Nyla, and they decide to build to that match by having them in a tag with Rebel and fucking Vickie. Of course someone got injured; what the fuck were they thinking? And I am not sure this was a face turn by Britt- it seems like a continuation of her title reign being booked terribly so far. Really hoping they end this feud quickly, put this feud behind them and start booking their biggest homegrown star like the world champ that she is. Loved the Elite porn staches and Dark Order motivating Hangman. That was really good booking

I won't be watching live cuz my friends and I are going to watch the last great wrestling draw in Fast 9. Hopefully the main event is great. Sammy should go over, he is a terrible promo but is hugely over as a face, and it is time MJF put someone over

Weren't Bret, Diesel and Taker doing triangle matches on house shows between Survivor Series 95 and WM 12, after Bret won the title? From what I remember, it was a big box office hit and elevated the house show business, which remained at a high level after Shawn won the title

He looks like he has a face mask on. Still a big improvement from when he comes on WWE TV though, where he looks like a cadaver propped up Hangover style

Yeah but the flipside to this was that someone like Hogan, who only wrestled the big cities, often had to criss-cross the country, especially as he was the battering ram Vince used to break into so many open and contested territories. The C-show circuits featured just terrible cards though, yeah. I guess they got away with it because there were several generation of fans who were just used to going out and attending a wresting show once a month, no matter how bad the card was. Wrestling was just more of a way of life for a far bigger number of fans than it is now

How many Florida dates did Jack Brisco continue to work after he became world champ? Because combine the NWA world champ schedule and this Florida schedule and it is easy to see why he was so burnt out as champ, he flat out refused to keep holding it after a couple of years. WWF 1985-90 has to be much worse just because of how they worked the entire country and did not really tour in loops, so they could literally work all timezones over one weekend

I say this every week, but Miro rules so hard

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.