MoS

Cutting Best Friends is tricky cuz they come with Orange Cassidy, who along with Darby Allin, MJF and Hangman Page, is one of the biggest home-grown stars and draws AEW have developed. I agree with most of the names discussed to be cut. AEW needed some jobbers when they started simply to establish hierarchy. There's no reason that complete trash like Luger are taking up spots on the roster now.

I get the comparison, but when Reigns loses, he should lose to a fresh hot guy like Big E

This match, dumbass dialogues aside, was great until the Uso interference, and then it quickly became usual terrible WWE tropefesta. Edge giving a throwback to his hilariously awful, terrible, so-bad-it's-great facial expressions of 15 years ago was funny though

I like him but he does not fucking shut up. Like, stop talking PLEASE

There's too much stupid talking in Roman's matches

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/fighting_words https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/959/fighting-words A couple of easy-to-read primers

2021 hasn't been great for WWE women, but nothing in AEW women's division history can match what Bayley and Sasha did last year. All the Reginald stuff going on right now is putrid though

He is like 4 inches taller than MJF and somehow still looks like a dorky flunky next to MJF

The women saved the show. There had been some good stuff on the show like the Pinnacle segment and the Mox/King promo, but there had been a lot of middling-to-bad stuff too. But that main event was tremendous, Britt has completed the old "to-be NWA champion goes on a territories tour putting over multiple people to have fresh feuds waiting for him" round, and now deserves the title. Love Shida, but it's Britt's time now. AEW is certainly in an interesting period right now. I feel that failed explosion shattered the honeymoon phase. We have discussed at length the issue of having a coherent sense of identity, and personally I hope they find one soon, cuz they really feel like they are on the cusp of breaking out and reaching the next level. Just a few missing pieces left.

This match has been great so far

Even Schiavone could no longer say "IT'S STING" with any enthusiasm

Why is Archer a heel again? He was just turning face recently. It's the kind of inconsistency with AEW's booking that's so frustrating

Going toe to toe with Mox and Kingston definitely seems a mistake. Having them and Christian get featured so much feels TNA-ish. Also, holy shit the Bucks need to figure out what their character and alignments are. It's absolutely beyond parody right now.

Christian is suffering by being booked for an interview right after an extended promo by Mox and King, the two best promo guys in wrestling today. Makes him look 2nd rate right off the bat

Mox, you're my man, but basically nobody loves the Good Brothers

Agreed on both parts. MJF definitely does what he does really well. Makes me think he is honestly one AEW young star who would have thrived in the WWE culture - their style seems tailormade for him. Spears is as bad as Tully is good. Watching Tully spike fools, I might just pick him over Spears as a wrestler as well

I like MJF but he feels very performative to me. Like, his insults are the exact opposite of the kind of insults his idol Roddy Piper or another young charismatic wrestler with a meteoric rise The Rock used to make: all his clever burns seem rehearsed. Like he asked a bunch of interns to come up with 5 great burns for Jericho. Tully as the modern-day JJ is great though

J.R saying "woman-handle" like he's the first one in history to ever think of that term, the idiot

Wasn't a fan of the match. It was way too "my turn your turn blow off all work to do your shit" for me. Plus, the finish was bad, with one of the weakest rollups this side of Owen-Austin

Really don't like Mox and King being paired with the Dork Bros. Feels like a significant step down for both Mox and Eddie. On the other hand, really looking forward to the main event. Dr. Baker is the biggest star of the division and your and my role model, and Thunder Rosa is extremely charismatic with star presence. It should be a great match

Taker between 2008-10 was actually fairly active, which probably helped him have such great wrestling conditioning in those epic matches

Roman is the biggest star, but he is locked in a deadweight WM feud with Edge - unless somehow Bryan gets inserted - and Sasha is suffering from WWE being terrible at booking faces. Lashley v. Drew is their best main event, for good or for bad. I also understand that the original plan was to give Drew a big title win in front of the fans that he was denied last year. However, circumstances have changed and Lashley is the big hot guy with all the momentum, and a very good worker to boot. I would absolutely book Lashley to win their WM match and retain.

To add to this, their first matches actually drew well on the house show loop. But since Flair was treated as just another guy, a fraud loudmouth, the program just didn't have legs. By November, Hogan was actively burying Flair on promos. Come Wrestlemania season, their feud had no drawing power. Plus, one of Vince's promise to Sid to get him to jump to WWF in the first place was a WM main event. Wasn't he released cuz he failed a drug test? This was around the time they had really serious drug testing.

Completely agreed and as I said earlier, it's thd booking equivalent of laying out a match as a spotfest with nothing but spots designed to pop the audience

If he's doing adderall, he was presumably also doing adderall this time last year, when the booking was much tighter and better than it is now. That's not really an adequate explanation