MoS

Mox-Allin was excellent. Both Mox and Allin came across as stars and Mox looks like a complete badass now. Maybe he feuds with Jericho next. Loved this episode. I would have rather the women's match was followed by Kong killing both of them instead of a Dark Order promo - and I bet that loses a shit-ton of viewers, especially given how loaded NXT was tonight - and a bit less of Billy Gunn, with MJF getting some promo time instead, but overall, this was an excellent show. AEW are doing a good job of every match having consequences and actual stakes.

I watched the overrun after Dynamite ended. I would have rather it ended with Lee and Rollins going blow to blow, but that was wild. NXT has some excellent guys on the roster. I can't wait to see Becky-Rhea.

Good promo for Omega, but I do wish they would have more interviews in the ring and on the stage. Interacting with the live crowd makes it feel better, especially if the crowd is hot and the crowd tonight has been really hot.

Not sure what happened there, but that kind of sucked the momentum out of the match.

I also like how Dynamite flows. Luchasaurus was next in action but he did not sit back and let the heels beat up faces, and came out to help, and then quickly squashed someone to get even more over.

Yes a squash!! Luchasaurus is awesome

Jericho is such a star. He has no problems looking vulnerable, or even getting clearly manipulated by the face into giving a title shot - funny how wrestling is better when faces outsmart heels- and yet you absolutely buy him when he says he is the greatest of all time. He is having the run of his life here.

Should have given MJF the mike after the end, so he could go crazy on the Elite and Billy Gunn.

That stapler thing.... I really wish they don't do stuff like that. At least not on TV.

This match is much longer than it needs to be. I thought AEW had learned about having more variety and promos/interviews last week. And Britt Baker is really not someone you want to put in a position of having a long match.

Starting this show with arguably the biggest star/draw in the world (Becky's quarters are consistently amongst the highest rated and from what I have read, she sells a lot of merchandise) shows that WWE is absolutely not fucking around. The problem of course is that such angles inherently cannot be long-term, so I hope they use today's episode to massively put Riddle and Lee over, because those two rule.

This match is too go-go-go for me to really get into it, but the crowd has been hot for it. Is there a reason J.R keeps picking on Schiavone? I know they had heat in the past but like, it's been 25 years.

Here's hoping they keep giving MJF an open mic every week and let him go crazy.

Also fair, yeah.

It's a very reasonable request/demand, though, in my opinion.

I remember him being criticised for calling a fan the n-word in some kind of altercation in the mid-90s, and he wrote a long letter about how it's unfair, so it was really my bad for expecting any.

Yeah, was just coming to post this. https://www.f4wonline.com/other-wrestling/jim-cornette-resigns-nwa-297786?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

It was definitely far more than they had done before though, and they almost beat AEW by casually letting people know on social media that Styles was going to be there on the day of the show.

Looks like Vince got tired of hearing about Dynamite beating NXT in ratings.

Is it too much to hope that Cornette will put forth an unequivocal apology where he says he realises he was wrong and should not have said what he said, and that he is "man enough" to own up to his mistakes (if he wants he can go on a rant here about how Russo never does) and that he will not do this again? What's the point of obstinately fighting and holding your ground when you said something stupid and problematic and there isn't a whole lot more to say about it?

Co-signed

Someone please hack Seth's account and delete his Twitter

The argument against Sting always was that he was the face of a company that always lost money and never drew apart from a brief period when Hogan and NWO were on top and Sting was waiting in the rafters. People's mileage varies regarding how much credit he deserves for that huge Starrcade buyrate. But the aftermath was botched and Sting never settled into the role of the franchise champ of the promotion. The next year was WCW's most successful year on top, and Hogan, various celebrities and ultimately Goldberg were more important than he was. The aftermath is not his fault, but the hall of fame cannot be used to right historical wrongs. If Shawn had botched Austin's coronation at WM 14, who knows what might have happened. Sting then went to WWE, had a perfectly unremarkable run, yet was voted into the WON Hall of fame subsequently. I would not put Orton in the hall of fame personally. I think a hall of fame should always reflect the strength of the industry it honours, and there is no doubt that as far as watching wrestling and paying money for it, pro wrestling is overall in the worst shape it has been since the 2nd world war. It stands to reason then that the modern wrestlers should find it much harder to enter the hall of fame. Again, it's not about penalising them, but about not using the hall of fame to right historical wrongs. I think John Cena is the only slam-duno first ballot hall of famer in the last 17 years. Please bear in mind that I do not have much knowledge of how the business in Japan bottomed out in the 2000s before the current revival, so I am unsure how the resurgence helps wrestlers like Tanahashi and Okada to get into the hall, since I am not knowledgeable enough to analyse their drawing power and box office success.

I am a 26 year dude from India and even I know that talking about fried chicken in this context is an absolute no-no. Surely Cornette knew as well. Maybe he was trying to be controversial and thus get views. I don't know much about Canadian politics but you all have a huge Indian immigrant population so I am sure you have good music at least.

Jericho's run as ace of AEW is up there with the best ace runs I have seen in the last 20 years. It's been a lot of fun to see him run with the ball. Jericho absolutely losing his shit and acting as if his entire world has come crashing down after Scorpio Sky pinned arguably got Sky as over as all the high-flying matches, because not only did he lose, he acted as if the loss meant a huge deal. He's like the anti-HHH in that regard.