MoS

Definitely looked like Orange got shoot injured and they were not focusing on him at all, but even so, I am not sure booking a triple threat is a good idea. AEW has been bad this week

Is this an audible because OC got legit injured?

Fuck

Did they need to do the Mox/King angle immediately after the match, when the moment belonged to SCU and they - and the fans - should have been allowed to soak it in? It's a problem with AEW booking: they don't let stuff breathe

Wrestlemania 24. Flair retirement match. Right before Shawn put him away, he said "I'm sorry, I love you" and then superkicked him and retired him (..before TNA came calling)

Matt just mocked the Shawn-Flair "I am sorry, I love you" spot and somehow, someway, he managed to become even more uncool and dorky than he has always been

This is my babyface in this feud, sorry

I don't even get it. How is the American Dream different from the American Nightmare. He's going to throw elbows and I dunno, wear polka dots?

Holy shit this is the most tone-deaf thing I have ever seen on AEW TV ever. I am legit stunned that he is sincerely uttering these words. How on Earth can someone have this little self-awareness? This is surreal. Even some fans booed him

Cody instantly turning into a heel and making Agogo a mega-babyface with this "RUH RUH LOVE MURRICA" promo

King

As long as we are going back to basics, can you remove neck tats

Wait which one? The Revolution match itself was excellent I thought. The sparklers dud wasn't really Mox's fault

This theme is really perfect for Mox. Excellent match too. Mox is busted hardway. That's how you know it's a good match

WILD THING!! Tony Khan has the best music taste of any wrestling promoter in the last 25 years. Discuss

Starting with the King. I like it

Well in that case, I mean I will honestly be perfectly fine if WWE never ever produced a documentary on anything or anyone ever again. Their documentaries have never been the most accurate or the most balanced, and now, with more and more non-WWE outlets getting into making wrestling documentaries, there is simply no need to ever care about a WWE release ever again. And yeah, including Bubba The Love Sponge on a Savage show, who used to regularly shit-talk Savage along with Hogan back in the day, was certainly holding a grudge. I forgot about that repulsive dude being on it. I am not a Bischoff fan, but to quote him, "Fuck Bubba. Go Kong. I hope she drew blood."

I've always thought that Aldis rips off Flair way too much, and his shtick just doesn't work in 2021 NWA, especially when he is acting like Ric Flair circa 1982 while his promotion is booking stip matches indicating that top wrestlers are basically being held in NWA against their will. As if that wasn't bad enough on its own, now we also have a 3rd grade Horsemen ripoff stable? I don't see how any of this can be interesting.

I was thinking, with Omega-Cassidy not being a marquee main event, they might decide to have Mox/King v. YB or even Shida v. Britt go last at DoN

I hate the Acclaimed's rap gimmick, but I have to admit that the Boondocks reference got a big laugh out of me

I really don't get this logic. How was it a hatchet job? Apart from the crap about them not knowing he was going to turn up in WCW, nothing they showed was incorrect. In fact, they barely skimmed the surface with his abusive relationships. Sure, they didn't do that with Austin and Piper, but shouldn't the argument be that they should have been this honest with Austin and Piper, and not that they should have released a puff piece on Savage as well? Like, Savage is obviously a legend but he also did a lot of really shitty things. Why is talking about that a hatchet job?

I think both of us are remembering correctly, actually. The big buyrate was February 1999. By mid-1999, everything was crashing spectacularly and everyone, including Flair, was stale and had fatigued the audience

The fingerpoke of doom did not really hurt business at all; in fact, it briefly gave it a shot in the arm. If they had done a decent follow-up on it, they could have made something of it. They fucked up the follow-up and the rest unfortunately is history. Flair was a big ratings draw in 1999 and as mentioned, popped the large big buyrate WCW ever did. He obviously was not the future and should have been utilised sparingly and to get a new star over. But to say that no one really wanted to see him on TV is not entirely accurate imo. While he had been booked like shit in the previous 24 months, he had not been hogging the main event spotlight continuously, so I don't think there was a lot of fatigue about his presence. But he still was a big asset. It is one of wrestling's greatest tragedies that the promotion Flair is synonymous with had no idea how to use him for a majority of its existence.

I was actually rewatching Starrcade 1984 the other day, with the lesser-remembered Flair-Dusty main event, and it was funny because Flair got cheered more than Dusty the entire match, including after Joe Frazier stopped the match due to the cut. I am sure Dusty booked that finish to let Flair retain while giving himself a lot of sympathy, but it did not seem to work out that way because the fans loved Flair, and loved the fact that he won, and kept cheering for him. They did not boo Dusty at all, but it seemed to me that they liked Flair more. I am sure Dusty did not appreciate that at all when it happened; that was a direct challenge to him being the pre-eminent super-babyface of the promotion. It didn't help that Dusty's complaints post-match came across to me as him being a whiner and sore loser, since blood stoppages in wrestling main events had been happening for years prior to that, and Flair had opened the cut fair and square in an even fight by throwing him against the ringpost and then flipping a switch and attacking the cut like crazy. Flair's post match promo was classic "Phase 2 Flair", where he paid due respect to Dusty and put over the match, but let everyone know that he didn't care why Frazier stopped the match. As far as he was concerned, he was there only to win the match and get the $1 million check, and that's exactly what he did.