MoS

Cody just gets pro wrestling

I am loving this massive hype for the cage and the match

This tag title match will be one of the matches that will get heaps of praise everywhere which has me bored to tears.

Yeah. And credit to them, I don't think Page would have got over in today's WWE the way he has here in AEW.

Darby looked like an absolute fucking superstar there. Also JR said "malfunction at the junction"

Wrestling needs more hosses. People bigger than Cobb wrestle like Eddy Guerrero and sometimes it can be annoying

Cobb would be a good Steiner brother.

AEW are becoming better at inserting vignettes and promos in the show.

Nyla is really over.

Okay, I like Statlander, but I really don't like this alien gimmick, and I don't like her incorporating it in her matches.

I love Cody but who brings their dog to a wrestling event. That also, backstage

Caught the last bit of the Battle Royal. Dunno how good it was but the right team won.

I did not like the main event that much, but I recognise it's a style that has its own fans. I am a hopeless fanboy for him so take it with a grain of salt, but I thought Matt Riddle was the clear star of the night. While I liked him years back when he was a decent-to-good MMA fighter with a weed habit, I never ever thought he would display this kind of charisma. But of all people in wrestling today, he is the one with the most "it" factor imo, and that is including hugely talented prospects like MJF and Keith Lee. Whatever "it" is, Riddle has it in spades.

I just woke up and was scrolling through my Twitter feed. Please tell me this did not happen.

Dunno about the ratings, but I was busy through the week and caught the episode this weekend. It was excellent. Jericho-Mox and Cody-MJF are terrific builds, and I am loving the evolution of Adam Page's character. Also, holy shit is Santana a good promo. I think a storyline of Riho chasing the monster heel and winning her title again will be a huge hit. Riho is a clear ratings draw, and I think AEW have done an excellent job with Nyla.

I don't even like Omega and the YB that much, but are they really worth losing your shit over again and again, about hundreds of times, on Twitter, and getting into pissing contests with basically everyone who disagrees? And please don't give me the "Corny is working you marks" thing, cuz if this ever was a work, Cornette worked himself into a shoot a long time ago.

The Shayna-Becky angle with Becky getting bitten, deciding for some reason to drive herself to the hospital minutes after insisting that she does not need medical attention, and then driving back and cutting a promo was pro wrestling at its nonsensical, glorious best and I loved every second of it. People trying to say it does not make "logical sense" or whatever are missing the fact that often, awesome pro wrestling makes no logical sense. I also happen to think Becky is the best promo in the company, so I was going to like it more than others anyway. But for my money it was awesome.

He is also just 23. Plenty of time for him to develop a more vicious ring-style. Hell, maybe we see that in the Cody match. It's the first red-hot angle he has been involved in, to my knowledge. Much like gordi, I have been pleasantly surprised by AEW often enough that I am optimistic.

MJF is 5'11'', about 215 pounds, and looks jacked and fit. By no means does he look like Joey Janela - someone who does not look as if he can do any damage in the ring. Cody himself is about 6 feet and 220 pounds. We live in an age where we know for a fact that smaller, more skilled fighters can beat bigger, stronger opponents. If MJF's physical stature makes you think he is not credible enough, then we might as well go back to the John Laurinaitis decree of every recruit being 6'4'' and 250 pounds.

Matt Riddle has ridiculous charisma. I know this comparison is a bit premature, but watching him cut his promo on this show made me think of The Rock: had anyone else cut that promo, it would have been ridiculous. But with Riddle, it just works and gets the crowd involved. He has a connection with fans that's rare in wrestling.

- I hope this means the Nightmare Collective is over. This has to be Brandi's face turn, right? - I am loving the Mox-Jericho build. Jericho being a complete hypocrite was expected but funny. I hope they don't blind Mox's other eye next week though; that would be way too much. What does an "eye for an eye" match mean exactly? Like, does it carry any stipulations beyond the fact that both are blinded in one eye? - People shit on Janela but Sabian is worse imo. Bland, no charisma, completely uninteresting. - The 10 lashes was masterfully done. When MJF first came out, there were nearly 20 minutes left, so I knew it would go long, and my gut instinct was to be wary, cuz I hate too much melodrama in wrestling. But they really hit it out of the stadium with this entire angle. MJF did not crack an incest joke, which slightly disappointed me, but he was amazing. To use a cliche, it was old-school heat. I loved everything about it. - You just can't turn a guy who loves drinking beer into a heel. It's just not how it works. This is like a universal thing - as I said last week, even Bollywood has been using this trope for decades. I think Omega turns heel. It would make him more palatable to me, cuz all his annoying motions would come off better when he is being portrayed as a douche. - Overall, another excellent episode imo. AEW has been in excellent form since the new year started. I hope it continues.

Also, what is the #FUCK hashtag thing about

The dementia diagnosis was absolutely unnecessary and C.S has himself accepted that. Cornette might be a lifer who is amazing at working the marks, but he is also someone whose opinion on modern wrestling is looking increasingly out-of-touch and out-dated. Which is fine - I don't like Omega or the Young Bucks. But when the only defence for ranting is "He's just working the marks", then you are basically being Vince Russo on the internet, another person Corny famously despises. Getting into fights with everyone who does not think Omega wrestling a 9-year old is the end of wrestling is immature and juvenile. Saying that he wishes that wrestling would die if this is what it has become makes him look sad. To be fair to Cornette though, while him saying "People in Japan like weird shit, that would never draw here" is ludicrous and palpably stupid, Meltzer acting like anyone who does not realise that Okada-Omega matches are high works of art is just not smart enough to understand psychology or storytelling and is obviously wrong is also annoying. It is still possible to think Hashimoto was a better ace than either Tanahashi or Okada and not be completely wrong or out of touch or blinded in hatred or whatever Dave says whenever someone disses on the NJPW guys. ......especially cuz it is true.. Hash is awesome and NJPW hasn't found anyone close to his level yet.

Becky reverting more to her original tweener character instead of the out-and-out babyface is great imo. This way she can feud with both faces and heels and keeping her fresh.

I watch one American football game a year - the Superbowl - so I am the opposite of an expert, but I thought that Damien Williams guy should really have been the MVP. Even I could make out that he was great throughout the game, even when they were trailing.