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I am not a fan of Casino Battle Royales usually but this has been a really good one so far

I will say this. Reggie Miller talking about AEW and Jurassic Express enhusiastically during the playoffs was a nice change of pace because every time mainstream broadcasters are contractually mandated to plug pro wrestling, they make sure that everyone listening knows that they think wrestling is stupid and they are being forced to talk about it. This was a good match but still felt throwaway.

This was less a cinematic match and more of a reallw slow and boring brawl tbh. Wrong person won wtf. Britt was robbed. I missed the preshow. How were the matches?

I had disagreed with you when you first voiced your opinion on MJF but now I think you are right. I don't want to say this feud exposed him, but I think it showed me he is not ready for a main event run yet. It was when he went one on one with Mox on the mic during the contract signing when Mox looked comfortably a level above him that I was first 100% certain they should not be switching the title. I really think he has all the talent in the world, especially on the mic. He can also be nasty in the ring when he is not playing up the shtick. It would be best if he goes to the midcard and really finds his character.

MJF when he is being serious and selling a program is great. The Dictator Jon stuff was really goofy though and him wearing a neckbrace and crying about the paradigm shift made him feel midcard-ish. The lawyer thing was bad and I hope they learned a lesson from it.

I don't think they pull the trigger on MJF yet. Omega has to turn heel on Page. Hopefully the Baker-Swole cinematic match is good, because if they have a bad one after fan complaints about them being on pre-show, there will be an inevitable, unwarranted backlash against them.

Shit like this happens every once in a while and nothing comes out of it. Maybe I am too jaded

Duncan consistently stepped up in the big moments though This Bayley-Banks culmination is the best thing they have done all year. Really hoping the feud is as good

The Bucks are choking so hard. Giannis going to get turned on by fans worse than Roman ever experienced

Vince would 1000% lose a case over preventing someone from using their real legal name. There is legal precedent for this, with Ultimate Warrior. Vince will just count on the fact that litigation is shit-expensive and he has the money.

Baron Corbin is getting another match with Reigns isn't he

You are assuming everyone who started cheering for Page watched BTE on a regular basis. His initial reason for branching off from the Elite was absolutely the reason you laid out, and your description of his dynamic with Omega is correct and is a goldmine, but he did not initially get over cuz he was insecure about his place in Elite, although that was the story initially. He started getting over as a face when he started just killing people and drinking beet afterwards, and sometimes before killing them. Let's not forget that he was supposed to turn heel basically because of his insecurities and the initial booking of his character. But the fans chose him as their guy and he got over as a badass face. After that, there was no way they could turn him heel. For them to go back to his initial insecurity with the Bucks is contrived and convoluted, and is counter-productive to how Page has got over so far. His dynamic with Omega on the other hand has been consistently explored on Dynamite and Omega turning heel on Page after losing the tag titles really is the perfect way to close out the angle. This costing Bucks the tag title shot cuz FTR got in his head but not really cuz they never said anything to him is just making look highly gullible, and that's never a good face trait.

It helps put over FTR. I don't think it helps put over Page. He got over as a badass dude who drank beer and didn't give a fuck. It was really the perfect face character and him going down the route of doubting himself and being tricked and deceived is the kind of babyface booking I think has crippled so many faces the last two decades

Okay but what does that accomplish? How does it help the story or any of the wrestlers? Hangman looks stupid and gullible, something which wrestling faces should never look, the Bucks look like jerks who are terrible friends, and Omega, I don't even know, he looks like a douche who is high and doesn't understand or care what's happening

I am not a fan of the no Paradigm Shift stipulation or of beating up lawyers to advance angles. But the last 10 mins were great and exactly what the feud needed. That's the most dangerous MJF has ever looked

Thst pizza thing was so unnecessary lol. Hope Britt wins and moves on to better things

Yeah, this was excellent. If they have not signed Thunder Rosa they should immediately and make her double champ

Really not happy with how the Page-Elite angle is playing out

Completely agree. Why would you involve a lawyer in your main event build up. We are the most boring people on the planet

That match went too long but those garbage spots were brutal

Excalibur is back. Wish JR would take a break

It does and I think he definitely suffered from that when he first won the world title when he was not sure exactly how to approach being the world champ. I don't know if the wrestlers' name you took were random or intentional, but it is very salient because Mox grew up a Bret Hart fan and later as a wrestler became a massive Terry Funk mark. But I do think he has found the right balance now especially since the Brian Cage build-up. I am not sure which Cage promo you are referring to but I thought his promo work for building that match was brilliant (as was Taz's) and it was the time I felt he really put it together and figured out what he wanted to be/do as world champ. In my opinion he came across as the better promo and much bigger star in his face off with MJF, and I was not necessarily expecting that.

I love almost every post you make about wrestling but you should be squashed on Worldwide for this opinion

Lets try this again

Cuz I fucked up lol