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Fair. It will be interesting to see if there is any spike in ticket sales for Full Gear after Dynamite, which built the PPV well. Reading the Observer, they had about 1500 tickets unsold as of Wednesday I think, which is not great news.

AEW is still extremely young and I think is the first non-WWE American promotion in the century to get thousands of fans attending their weekly shows. WWE getting only 4000 for the shooting of an American institution like Monday Night Raw is much more problematic than Dynamite getting 4000 for an episode imo.

Reading the Observer, the Dark Order match lost a lot of viewers. It's a bad gimmick that needs to go away.

I think AEW will get a boost next week cuz of the PPV but they will have to book the aftermath very carefully. This is a good chance for them to show that actions have consequences in AEW, for instance. It's why it's a bit surprising that they essentially put themselves in a tight corner with the stipulation that Cody will never challenge for the world title again if he loses to Jericho at Full Gear, although Cody's promo and Jericho's video were so good, no way am I missing that match.

Yeah, using the n-word is bullshit and unacceptable and the fact that racism was entrenched in wrestling is not an excuse. I don't think Cornette himself makes excuses for using the term now - although he wrote a whiny post in the early 90s about how it was unfair he couldn't call a black man the n-word during a fight without getting criticised - so the fact that some of his fans would try and explain it is unfortunate.

822,000 AEW and 815,000 NXT. Clearly the NXT invasion of the main roster and the main roster invasion of NXT led to a spike in ratings for NXT. It makes me think they might have actually beaten AEW had they advertised on Raw that Styles and the OC might be at Full Sail on Wednesday, instead of running a program on social media before NXT started and hoping Twitter would make fans tune in. I think it's a healthy number for both promotions and given how ratings are declining for main roster WWE shows, it's a good sign that both NXT and AEW have a product that fans are willing and wanting to follow. Next week with the European tour, will NXT be taped or live? And will the NXT UK wrestlers also be featured?

I remember Meltzer once saying that Rock randomly messaged him once cuz he was watching old Memphis wrestling and he was really loving some worker and wanted to know who it was.

Really loving how much attention and praise Cody's promo is getting. https://twitter.com/TheRock/status/1192466512222674944?s=19

To be fair to him, he gave Cody mad props on Twitter and has been digging the Jericho-Cody feud quite a lot.

A War Games match might be where they pull the trigger on MJF turning on Cody. It's nice and fun to fanboy all over wrestling again. I thought WWE's years of screwing fans had left a permanent bad taste in my mouth but I've really been digging AEW so far and Full Gear will be awesome.

Love Corny when he is talking about old wrestling. He is a brilliant storyteller and can make basically any incident interesting. His mind is made up on some modern wrestlers though and he keeps losing his shit and screaming about them and would love to cancel them. It is what it is. A pity cuz I I don't think there are many people in wrestling who would be good at teaching how to cut promos, and Corny is definitely one of the best at it.

Mox clearing through the Inner Circle to get to Omega and then the two punching each other to death got me more hyped for their match than all the barbed wire broomsticks. I think Mox just feels like a far bigger star than Omega and I hope he wins at Full Gear.

I think it's between the 2nd episode and this episode for my favourite episode of Dynamite, purely because of how hot Cody vs. Jericho is. I also think today they did a good job of teasing to Mox vs Omega, which was a feud they had perhaps been neglecting in the build.

That brawl made sense and also did a great job hyping the PPV. Basic pro wrestling that makes sense. It might have gone a bit too long but it was still cool to watch and potentially built a long-term program. Loved it and loved how they incorporated multiple feuds in it. It reminded me of WWF in the summer of 2000, although WWF had a much stronger roster.

Page is less over than Guevera and should be jobbing to him.

He mentioned Katie Vick and said "Believe me it was not my idea" and Jericho is the wrestler of the year sorry no counter arguments

Heel teen Bieber would have been absolute money. I think it's commercial time, cuz on FITE, Jericho is interacting with the live crowd and it's great.

I love it. He can go overboard sometimes but he does get me hyped for matches. I really liked the Omega-Mox video. I am guessing Mox will come after the main event is done and they will be fighting as the show goes off the air and the lights "go out" so to speak.

I meant I meant Janela existing and being on TV.

I am guessing this is the "Let's give Jim Cornette something to rant about" part of the show.

I can totally get behind Awesome Kong as the heel world champ with Brandi as her manager. Let her kill everyone.

Riho definitely has a personality and is clearly really over. She also does decently in the ratings from what I have read. The AEW women's division is extremely thin though. NXT has the best women's division in major league wrestling shows.

Call me a mark, but after that Cody promo and this Jericho segment I am ordering the PPV rn. It's cheaper for us in India but that was a money promo by Cody and this Jericho vid was amazing

I would like to argue that Khali was an objectively better draw than Rollins and really made India a lucrative market for WWE in a brief title reign.

I really wish the Dark Order gimmick would die, but I guess them being jobbers in the tag team division is not that bad.