MoS

This is not Twitter. He had some excellent matches, great feuds with Kingston, MJF and Mox, got AEW to start hitting 1 million viewers on a regular basis, cut numerous great promos, and made Chicago an AEW city. Roman Reigns would sacrifice his firstborn to have a year as great as this one.

The pre-sale for the next Chicago show is actually doing better than their last few ones, despite it being known that Punk isn't going to be there. This might be temporary, but right now, somehow, the suspension of Punk and the Elite lads have had no negative effect on their business at all. In fact, it's actually been up across the board, better than in months.

Excellent match, better than their first one, which I had also loved, but I disagree with the result. Mox is my guy, love him, but the belt should have gone to Danielson.

I am loving this match

Man, Danielson is SO SO SO good. He really is the GOAT

Cuz she rocks

She very obviously is. Why would you do all your big angles on one show. It makes sense to delay it a bit

Paige/Saraya blew the roof off with her debut, so great to see her

And Athena's power. The women's match has had better agenting in the last few weeks

It certainly worked here

MUCH better promo from MJF compared to last week. I think we will get MJF v. Yuta, and Cass will interfere and help MJF win

Lol Billy's kids have grown on me. Ass Boys v. FTR sounds like a good way to start building FTR for the tag championship

I wish I was in that crowd, this feels like a special moment

Yeah the Acclaimed need to win tonight

Some rough spots but overall I thought the whole was greater than the sum of its parts. Good pacing, Claudio had some great power spots.

It looks really good. This might be the best set/stage AEW has ever put up

Excellent match, Jericho's best since the King match. Result is being sold as a surprise on commentary but I was expecting that. Imagining Claudio and Bianca being a mixed tag and just doing power spots on fools and trying to hard to manifest that into existence

Yup. Thankfully he always has his crazy superman strength to wow you. Deadlifting Jericho on the top rope is ridiculous

During the break right now, Exaclibur said "Claudio has the same dressing room as Roger Federer, the two greatest Swiss athletes of the past 25 years" Martina Hingis gonna kill him

Probably hoping for a big first quarter with the TBBT lead-in by putting on Jericho, who is one of their biggest draws. Speaking of, "he wants to be ocho" huh. Jericho has been catching up on Better Call Saul

Some good news for TK after many weeks of bullshit

Meltzer says Omega has himself told him that he's never had an MMA fight. MMA records are notoriously unreliable.

Someone should tell JR that

On the Voices of Wrestling flagship, Lanza said that he had heard second hand that Punk might actually be an employee of AEW and not just an independent contractor, which would mean that firing him is more complicated than what would usually be the case, especially after he got injured on company time.

He needs focused booking. Left to his own devices he would probably just fuck around with Nakazawa doing random nonsense. For all the talk of how Punk's position is untenable and how there is nuclear heat on him, it's ben nearly two weeks and the Elite have not had their suspensions revoked, unlike Nakazawa, Christopher Daniels, Pat Buck, etc. It makes me think that Punk and Steel's version has at least a modicum of truth to it. These things take time, but not THAT much time. Whether he realises or not, I think Meltz has also been played a bit. He first denied the reports of the Bucks talking to someone in WWE, then later said that this happened, but a few months back, and it was just a conversation and not them asking to speak to management. He also did not report the "8 out of 10" dig that Omega took at the meeting, but when it got reported by others, he says Omega said that as a joke while taking a shot at Ospereay, and most of the locker room took it in that spirit, except a few who did not find it funny. The only thing funny about this so-called "joke" is that the two he would actually hire are, like, Nakazawa and Cutler. Of course it was not appreciated by his peers, and I think Dave's version is someone attempting to spin it as a minor thing. Meltzer also reported that Punk would get frustrated when the rookies would not take his advice, but there is clearly more to that as well, since a recent interview had multiple young AEW talent like Hobbs praise Punk for his attitude and for how generous he is with his time and advice. Meanwhile, I have never heard of the Elite being praised for their locker room behaviour. I get a feeling small details like this will keep percolating for months.