MoS

I found it an entertaining trainwreck, except for Omega was who just terrible. I actually prefer unscripted trainwrecks like this to scripted promos and segments, which most of the time range from banal and boring to awful and irredeemable in my opinion. What happened yesterday I can live with, cuz like I said, I find it entertaining to watch, even if the entertainment is not intentional.

Danielson had my favourite Andrade match in years, the GOAT. Starks and Bill should squash the "Golden Jets" in 5 seconds with a double pin

Collision was awesome. Pretty much everything ruled. I remain irrationally invested in the feud between Miro and his hot flexible wife

Man. He is so so fucking good. At every aspect of pro wrestling. He really is the greatest wrestler to have ever lived.

I just think they have caught lightning in a bottle with Swerve, and now they need to go all the way with it. If it means that this tournament drags for a week, then so be it. I don't think any of us expected Swerve to get as over and as good as he has, but now that he has, I think you tear up the conventional playbook and elevate him even if it puts a spanner in your other plans

I think Swerve absolutely has to go over Mox

Coach Tony K, you better understand just what a gem you have with Eddie Kingston. And push him accordingly. I have said this before, but he is way too good to be the loveable loser Tony Dreamer of AEW: - his ceiling is several kilometres higher. Along with Starks and Swerve, he is the guy who should be in long-term booking plans for winning the world title in a couple of years

I get the context, I understand what you are saying. I still think it is a gross thing to say for a 75-year old halfway between human life and cadaver. But it is no surprise that Flair said it, given that, as you pointed out, he has been saying shit like this since 1976. Which is why I think it is on AEW and Tony Khan to not realise and understand this, and to still give him a live mic for a promo, knowing, if nothing, his history of promos. TK knew what he was getting into, and he chose to do so anyway.

AEW is amazing, just on account of matches we saw today alone. And given the ticket sales for All In 2, it is not going anywhere, much as that might disappoint some people with parasocial relationships to WWE (all you need to do is browse Elon Musk's Twitter to understand what I am talking about)

Jesus CHRIST Bryan. What a fucking match

Swerve and Starks both need to be world champs by the end of 2024. They have been asked to step up this year, and they have done so spectacularly. Just compare how they stepped up their game when asked to be big boys to how badly Sammy fizzled and tanked when asked the same (let us not even mention Brian Pillman Jr.).

The Copeland-Christian segment was really good. I continue to remain conflicted about Copeland being in AEW. Apparently Flair invited women between the ages 18-28 to his hotel room. I would have considered this to be weird and creepy as far back as 1993, and this is 30 years later. This is on AEW and Tony Khan, tbh. Not to excuse him at all, but everyone who knows Flair knows this is who and how he is, this is how he would behave, this is the promo he would cut, he has been saying this since like 1976. You knew what you were getting into. You were just desperate for a ratings bump.

But he has still been active to semi-active for the past 22 years! It's one thing for him to come back with a jacked body, the worst that can happen is what happened with Hunter in 2002, when the obscene added muscle mass made him severely more limited than he used to be, but didn't leave him extremely vulnerable to injury (apart from paper-thin quads that couldn't handle the roided muscles). Rock is a separate case. He got severely injured last he tried to wrestle in the main event (and the expectations of quality that carries) and since then, he has done nothing but make his body look cosmetically better for Hollywood (which he should, it is his primary job) by continuing to add ridiculous muscle mass. Combine that with his age, with his zero proper match-time experience in 11 years almost, and what happened to him last time he was in an actual match, I am 100% sure that while Rock likes stoking fires by talking about how his return was basically set in stone, upon reflection, there just is no way he is committing to a full-length WM main event, with all the quality that is expected in such a position. And I am 100% sure WWE, Vince, Hunter and Roman recognise that.

Winner sticks a needle up the loser's ass?

I think he is just worried his intestines will burst like Diwali fireworks, once again 30 seconds into the match. The man is 51 and has a ridiculous amount of muscle mass on his body. Surely not conducive to having a WM main event-quality match

I think it's actually Hunter who said that at the conference, not Punk. I don't think Punk is the kind of person who would admit to changing too much. In his mind, it is probably akin to Bret returning to WWE. Hunter did address Jade at the conference. He said they still have big plans for her, but basically implied that she sucks in the ring and that it is AEW's fault for not developing her in-ring skills properly.

Yeah, this is his first major win, props to him, it was a genuine great moment

Drew walked out before Punk came back apparently. Seth is just angling for a match, like he has transparently been doing since Punk came back on that Fox show, but who cares what Seth thinks or wants

They had his music and video loaded, and within minutes were selling his merchandise on their website. There is no way more people didn't know than is being reported

They really should go all the way with it. AEW Asia-Pacific title, AEW Commonwealth title, maybe bring those for ROH too

Darby Allin is a crazy man

They booked these arenas a long time back, at a time when the promotion was really hot, and now if they try to cancel and move to smaller venues, I am guessing it will cost them a significant chunk of money (deposits and all)

The tournament being in India does not explain why New Zealand and South Africa are both doing so much better. Although yeah, you are right, underestimating the Aussies, especially during the knockout stages, would be one of the stupidest things one can do. Watching England suffer and shit the bed after all the talk of revolutionizing and changing cricket makes me giggle in joy

@ohtani's jacket it is really amazing beating your annoyingly great asses after 20 fucking years. Fucking top of the world @Dav'oh LMAO you all lost after getting us 3 wickets down for 2 runs (both extras). Virat Kohli owns you all @ButchReedMark what can I even say, man. Sucks to suck, please don't permanently cripple Stokes in all of this

Mistico is selling tickets like crazy!