MoS

I am sure a lot of Omega fans will praise this promo to high heavens, but I thought it was a weak, lame promo. The idea that this is the new Bock-Heenan is genuinely insulting in my opinion. Callis was still fine, Omega was just bad

I like Abadon but this is the 2nd week in a row they have booked their world champ to be scared/unnerved. Shida is so awesome but has been booked really badly. It's really an absolute tragedy. I think the best thing to do for the women's title is to put it on Britt ASAP, cuz she is the only star in the women's division right now

I think it's the heel turn that was not really a heel turn cemented her as a top face. The promos she cut as a supposed heel pushed her to the next level, and then the happy accident with getting her nose busted pushed her to the highest level. I guess you can say that it would never have worked had fans not resented Charlotte as a face, but I feel that's a different argument and indeed, it reinforces my point.

I assume they tried to do something like "match follows promo follows match follows promo" but there is a reason these are not hard and fast rules. The Cody-Sting segment and the Shaq-Brandi segment should have been a lot more spaced out

Agreed with this. But this Inner Circle segment is really good

Why can Brandi not decide whether she wants to be a face or a heel? This is so annoying. This is the worst Dynamite episode in a long time

That Sting segment was so pointless

Is the show live or taped? If taped they might have sweetened it

I would say, yes, it's a fact. Also the big 4 came up simultaneously, so it's really unfair to say that they wouldn't have got over as much without Charlotte. Hell, I think Sasha would have been much more over much more quickly if Charlotte had not beaten her like a drum in every important match. Becky was also getting over with the groundswell of fan support with or without Charlotte

The Tony Khan heel thing was absolutely deliberate. Khan is a big wrestling nerd and I am sure he was paying tribute to Vince's excellent heel promos in 1993 Memphis

I know I pick on Charlotte a lot, but seriously, can she ever in good faith claim she does the same with the people she works with? Sasha and Bayley absolutely can.

Sting, Omega, Don Callis, all going to talk

Tony Khan doing his best Memphis Vince impression was great

LOL

Charlotte would be another interesting case whenever she becomes eligible. She has all the kayfabe accomplishments, was pushed the strongest out of the big 4, and Meltzer has never been as harsh on her as he could be. But she has never tangibly popped numbers the way Sasha does regularly on Smackdown, she was the distant 3rd wheel in the WM main event, and she never felt like the company ace the way Becky did when she was the champ. BTW, do we know when she is expected to return? She's been gone for what, 6 months now?

Also, on one of the latest WOR, Meltzer and Laprade put over Ronda really strong (something I completely agree with), and they basically implied that Ronda was the only star and becky got over cuz she waas along for the ride, and the only reason she was there was because "Nia Jax broke her nose." I would actually like to publicly apologise to @rovert here. I argued with him publicly and very nastily about how Becky would be treated in the HoF discussions, and I definitely think I miscalculated here. II think Meltzer is being really unfair to Becky in this regard. I don't want to take anything away from Ronda who is absolutely a big superstar, but this is so dismissive of Becky's appeal and her connection with the fans, and I didn't really think he would imply this. Maybe it is me misunderstanding Meltzer and I am getting it wrong. However, in my opinion, it most definitely felt very dismissive of Becky, in a way which felt disrespectful of her and her accomplishments.

Fitting, cuz you need to have really thick skin to be able to tolerate the dad

I have been a Becky stan/simp forever, but wtf is that name lol

Honestly don't see an argument for Shawn being better than Mark Henry in the late-2000s to be honest, but that is neither here nor there. Shawn might have had higher highs in that period, but he never had a consistent week-to-week run that Henry had in, say, early 2006. And there were plenty of days when he was really bad. This is despite him getting the benefit of all the bells and whistles in the world in his feud with Vince. Taue really should be in the Hall of Fame. The way I see it, even if you consider him the 4th best wrestler of the 4 Pillars, the 4th best guy of most successful national promotions is in. Whether it is 80s WWF, 90s WWF, hell, even WCW.

That was legitimately hilarious.

That 0.42 demo rating is actually really cool. One can only hope that they were intrigued by the Impact angle, and not completely underwhelmed like I was

Would you say Hase is more known than Rikidozan in the present day, given Hase actually served as a government minister in relatively recent times? Also, this is apropos of nothing - and I know cricket is just a nerd sport for most - but I know you are from New Zealand, and the Kiwi fan and cricket fan in me wants to say that I hope Brendan McCullum and Kane Williamson are celebrated like national heroes in New Zealand, cuz they damn well deserve that. Oooh and Dan Vettori too.

Yeah but it should not be AEW's job to rehabilitate Impact. This feels so underwhelming to me. I will give it a chance but I dunno, this was not something that thrilled me. And yeah, Mox could have very easily pinned Omega and then beat him up. Or even got himself disqualified so he retained his title. This made him look like a stupid babyface, as @Dav'oh said, and it is my least favourite trope in modern wrestling. I know covid has destroyed all plans, but if they had to do an interpromotional angle, surely New Japan is 10000 times better than Impact, which will, fairly or unfairly, always have the stench of TNA attached to it?

Omega is taking so many crazy bumps on his head, he has to be winning. Especially because commentators keep giving Mox an out by saying he had the match won "but for..."

I actually had forgotten. Googled him. I stand corrected. Man, what the fuck was the point of that Shida interview? It made her look like a complete chickenshit heel. That was so unfair to Shida, who has been such a good world champion. Is Omega still booking the women's division? Cuz it makes sense that he would book the big stars to be dorks, given he himself is the dork of dorks