MoS

Why do GCW wrestlers like AJ Gray spend all their time fighting randos on Twitter and making a fool of themselves? It's one of the more off-putting things I have seen on Wrestling Twitter

Joe Rogan says a lot of things. Wasn't that just one promo that relied a lot of using shoot elements and hoping Bryan would sell for it, only to immediately get outshone by Bryan?

Miz throwing weak kicks, botching the leapfrog - and the rollup at the end - and taking the turnbuckle bump like he was moving through quicksand was absolutely not on Cody

Dude is one of the worst wrestlers on national TV today, the idea that he is as good as MJF simply cuz he makes stupid faces is comical.

https://wrestlepurists.com/aew-backstage-atmosphere-is-reportedly-chaotic/ A bit late, but the VOW guys are pals with some of the AEW wrestlers, so I think this report is credible -

Yeah Page's reign has been great and I think it's the opposite of people agreeing he is bust as champ. When he started his riegn, everyone doubted him cuz the money is in the chase and the story was him reaching the top, not staying there, blah blah blah, but he has consistently delivered, and he absolutely felt like the babyface ace when he told Adam Cole to look at him and to get his affairs in order. At no point in time does he look like he doesn't belong in the ring with Punk, and the Takeshita match just showed how good he is as a wrestler. There are only so many hot matches you can have, with business doing well, without being a legit champ. His quarters always does well with the younger 18-34 demo - outperforming Punk v. MJF in the quarters btw - and for all the complaints about his feuds being cold, his matches always have a lot of heat. He is going to beat Punk and draw another big number at Double or Nothing, cuz he is great. You are going to like BCC if you do not like Mox. As someone who loves him, I have found everything compelling. BCC v. JAS is a natural feud, simple and logical, and it works. Bet it makes the crowd go crazy too.

I was drowning in work and couldn't get around to it. Everyone please feel free to start a weekly thread when I cannot. Getting around to watching Dynamite now.

Meltzer says on WOR that there were some major contractual issues that were a big factor in their walking out, that it wasn't nearly due to what was planned yesterday night.

Has WWE ever released a statement regarding backstage shoot stuff like this? They had put out a bunch of stuff on their Confidential show and their site when Austin had walked out, and of course buried him on air in a vague shoot way, but never anything as explicit as this.

This men of the year angle with Sammy and Tay is the absolute pits. None of them are over - at least appropriate to the story and context - none of the booking makes sense, they are all characters with go-away heat at this point

Okay but when was the last time Charlotte did TWO TV jobs in three straight TV matches, including killing herself with mad bumps to get Rosa's title win feel special?

Is it me or does the build to Double or Nothing feel uncharacteristically lukewarm for an AEW PPV? It's like much of TK's attention has been on acquiring RoH and the new Forbidden Door PPV.

Eddie Kingston cut the promo o the week on Rampage on a phone

Yeah but Santana this time gave him the middle finger while he had the camera and then stunned him, straight out of the Backlash 99 main event. I remember the spot vividly cuz it was one of the first I had watched when I was first becoming a fan

Watching the Jericho-Santana match, and they do the Austin-Rock camera middle finger-stunner spot from Backlash 1999, and it makes me think, at his heart, Jericho is just a wannabe Rock isn't he

This House of Black stuff is really putrid shit. Just irredeemable, everyone looked stupid there.

She didn't even get the last word in the segment, this is comically, absurdly misplaced

She didn't even get the last word in the segment, this is comically, absurdly misplaced

Lol why would you not follow up on Scorpio Sky's big win but would pay off the Varsity Blondes angle. No one in this world cares about Brian Pillman Jr

Intrigued by the Hangman promo, although I really dislike the "masturbatory Bret Hart matches" - he isn't even wrong, but I hate shoot stuff in my promos, it never ends well. A lot will depend on how Punk responds to him. People are saying this was a heel promo, but AEW has not shied from faces blurring the lines on occasion. Punk himself was quite heelish in his promo against Kingston, for instance.

Hell he literally wrestled Bret Hart the night Rocky debuted, and the buildup sure as hell wasn't The Ringmaster challenging Bret as to who the better scientific wrestler was

I love Serena Deeb

Well Eddie Kingston cut a tremendous promo where he threatened to literally murder Jericho, and called him a bitch multiple times, and it was awesome.

Wow Wardlow DESTROYED Archer there, the latter's contract must be running out

Clearly building to a Jungle Boy-Christian match, maybe at Double or Nothing