MoS

Same here. I honestly thought he was the best wrestler in the world last year. His promo work and character work are stronger than his in-ring work, but his in-ring work is really good too, I like how his matches escalate naturally, and I love how he sets up multiple finishes, something which is a huge weakness in modern wrestling. He was not even an afterthought for me last time and this time, depending on how the next five years turn out, his ceiling is quite high

The colours don't look compatible at all to me. Looks like a mess honestly

The Bucks being established as full-blown heels in the first 5 minutes of the show probably helped. No more conflicting emotions, staring at hands, reluctant tweener bullshit. This was a refreshing development and it is nice to finally have a promotion that actively listens to fans

LMAO

Yeah same here. I thought the match started great, devolved into overbooked convoluted bullshit involving a 65 year old playing a justice-doling cowboy, became plodding with weak contrived spots in the middle, and I thought they were going to lose me. But it kicked up several notches in the last part, had a great conclusion and a legitimate holy shit finish. A much better episode of Dynamite than last week's. Might actually be the best in several weeks now. Looks like they are building Mox and King to take the tag titles off the Young Bucks

I just saw an ad with Ice Cube and Stone Cold talking to Mr. T about laundry detergent and I am super disoriented

I really like Statlander, and she seems to have come back from injury like she hasn't missed a step

Yeah I absolutely definitely like the character they showed tonight. Now if they would just stop talking about having matches of the year, I'll be golden. That's right out of Shawn's playbook

Agreed. Jade also has excellent presence. Just please have a manager cut her promos. Jericho is still wrestling kind of like a heel, although I get this is a blood feud

Tyson is wearing pink shorts....

I usually watch with a friend, but he can't watch tonight cuz he is at the hospital with his wife of 10 years, who is giving birth to a baby. Feels like when this match had begun, he was getting married to her. That finish was great though, and an excellent way of establishing the Bucks as the dickish heel champs

So if we are just pretending that the OMG WE'RE EMOTIONAL thing didn't happen with Matt last week, I am fine with it. Sometimes retcons are good

First Dynamite of the post-War era. Let's see what the new normal is.

Oh yeah sorry, my bad

So all the reports about her being difficult to work with were clearly true and not baseless rumours. Becoming the only wrestler AEW has ever fired (apart from Jimmy Jacobs I guess) must feel special

I meant in terms of him gaining power backstage. All of this shit started with The Authority after all

I don't mean to blame everything on the man, but some of it has got to do with the rise of HHH as well. He spent most of his main event (poorly) cosplaying Harley Race and Ric Flair, and probably pushes for that model, even though it was a regional, territorial model completely out of place in today's wrestling - after all, most regional territories were anchored around babyfaces.

This is apropos nothing but since you all are watching a cable show: I have been in the US for near 7 months now, and dear Lord, you all have the absolute worst commercials. Forget like the UK, I have watched cable tv in Singapore and those ads are hundred times better even though I do not understand a single word being said. Everywhere there are lush farms and picturesque homes and sagely looking doctors giving advice, as if anyone in the US can afford to go to a doctor. Just the worst

Kofi had the secondary belt and he lost it as soon as they decided to switch Brock to Smackdown. The trend indeed started with Hunter. I think the bigger issue though is that they seem to have forgotten how to book badass main event faces. Drew is an exception, but even his reign got repetitive and tedious at times. As soon as a face gets over and reaches the main event level, WWE books them to start losing again and again until their momentum gets killed. I guess this is inevitable when they have booked the promotion itself as the heel for the past decade.

Yeah, I felt that too. Dunno why Meltzer was crediting Edge's large, sustained pop to his pyro. God knows he is in love with Edge's work, and thinks his terrible acting in the ring to be De Niro-level performances, so it's not as if he would try and dismiss his success

No way was the crowd close to as international or even national as it used to be. There's still a pandemic happening. Tampa does lean democratic though. Regardless, it's just a joke. I bet your hero Mick Foley would use it for a pop

I felt bad for the Bellas cuz they were put in a bad spot, given WWE had teased a Becky Lynch appearance, so the fans booed the Bellas for no fault of theirs. I liked the fact that they put over Roman strong, and I thought the first 3/4th of the match was excellent, but the final fourth was filled with bullshit cringeworthy overwrought WWE melodrama. I wonder if it would have been a good idea to switch the two cards. I liked the second show, but the first show felt more lively and vibrant for whatever reason, despite having a long weather delay and a lot of rain for the first half. Plus, while the Roman match wss definitely the biggest match of the weekend and the main event, they could have used the 2-day format to have the Bianca win send the fans home on a happy note.

The best part about the weekend about the Belair win. The 2nd best was Hogan getting booed whenever he came out, no matter what stupid shit he might be doing. Like putting over the previous night's main event. As someone on Twitter put it, imagine a Florida crowd booing you for racism

This is the kind of stupid shit that happens only in WWE. Nia taunts Tamina. Tamina asks to be tagged. Nattie gets up, and loudly asks, YOU WANT A TAG? Like, what else do you think she wanted. Wrestling is not movies, Vince