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I loved everything about that match. The way Mox worked the arm was fantastic. Popped for Darby's return as well. Really hope he goes over Cage.

I feel for Renee. You have covid and feeling sad and you turn on the TV and your husband is there taking a german suplex on a guard rail.

Taz has made this match feel so much bigger. It's the first time Taz has been cutting weekly serious badass promos since what, 1999?

I was really hoping for Abadon to come out and squash all 4 women.

Lol how exactly did JR take Jericho "under his wing" in SMW. Is Jericho just confusing Jims.

The match was fine. I am here for heel Omega, but this seems to come out of nowhere with no explanation.

While I love Jericho ranting about ratings and demos in his promos, these Raw-style skits are a turnoff for me.

Really good match. Weird to see FTR doing flips though. I liked the finish. Babyface FTR giving Omega his just comeuppance

This truck bullshit is nonsense

Really enjoying this match so far. Cody's reign has been a success for me.

Sweater Arn is the best

You need people to eat losses as well. I agree that Punk would have been a better investment than them, but it also depends on how much he asked. It's possible that he thought the company would inevitably sink, and thus gave a preposterous number. Even a year ago, the idea of AEW seemed like a pipe dream

Funny thing is doing career retrospectives on Edge, Orton, Show, etc, would help their current programs as well, since the most pushed guys are still from previous eras. It's been 5 years since Steph invented feminism and started a women's revolution, and predictably she appeared on The Bump and spewed the usual empty clichès and corp buzzwords.

The much awaited comeback is finally here! I of course, speak of Brandi's return to wrestling action on TNT

Is it possible for Seth to cut promos that are less than 5 minutes long, or is he too much of a millennial HHH and just cannot help himself. Discuss.

Poor Hiromu doing his best to make the most of this storyline

Clearly, one of the reasons all of us nerds posting here love Sasha is that she is a fellow wrestling nerd.

It would honestly be pretty boring if Okada is the one who ends EVIL's reign.

Wow I was NOT expecting that result.

Sad Himoru definitely needs to be a meme

Both Mox and Renee apparently tested negative for covid, so that's good news. As far as the actual title match, this situation might have turned out to be a blessing in disguise; giving Taz the chance to cut weekly pissed off promos insulting Mox has made the match feel bigger than it previously felt.

Definitely. I mentioned Dusty finishes, but even the ones he did win, he would win weakly. He got away for a long time with it because he is Ric Flair, but it was definitely a factor in their eventual decline.

Even with all of that, JCP still made tons of money in 1985 and 1986. It's not a sustainable model though, and ultimately, fans get tired of seeing their heroes constantly getting screwed over. Some of it is booking, absolutely, but world champs feeling credible mattered a lot then and even now, is a big factor, and while Flair was untouchable because of his promos, ultimately, fans would think of Hogan being the more "real" world champ. In today's world, there won't be the constant Dusty finishes that definitely played a role in JCP declining, andof course, good heel runs when done properly are money, but as a long-term model, I much prefer the babyface anchor model. Ric Flair could have had excellent matches as the top face as well.

Yeah. With hindsight, if I were booking JCP in the late 80s, I would have turned Flair face in 1987 and let him have a long run as champ. He could have always turned back heel when it was time to put over the next generation of faces.

I think it was @Jimmy Redman who articulated why I feel long face runs being better than long heel runs, everything else (booking, characters etc) being roughly equal: face title reigns are just a nicer experience. It might be predictable, but at lesst it's a happy prediction.