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Black should have 1000% challenged for the world title by now.

https://handwerkreviews.wordpress.com/2022/03/25/triple-h-vs-roman-reigns-wwe-wrestlemania-32-4-3-2016/ I have been following this blog for a long time and the timing of this review is so unfortunate

Ask and ye shall receive -

Man your standards for AEW booking certainly are extremely high. They are literally different teams in the Dark Order. 5 and 10 are the lowest in the pecking order in the various Dark Order teams. I caught the main event and they have turned Keith Lee v. Team Taz into a pretty hot feud, almost entirely due to the charisma and personality of all men involved. Looking forward to Powerhouse v. Lee and I think the goal eventually is Starks v. Lee.

I mean Austin outsold them all. Pretty sure Rock did too. 1998 DX's place has really been mythologised by subsequent hagiographies. They were a really cool midcard act in an era when midcard acts were given the space to shine, but they were still midcard acts.

His greatest contribution to wrestling is being the subject of this epic PWO thread -

Remember when he shoehorned himself into having a feud with Brock, had the worst Brock match in history up to that point, and post-match tried to sell his arm injury as possibly career-ending and was crying as he looked out at all the fans....who were changting "nananana eh he, GOODBYE!!!" at him? So many of these wonderful stories for the King of the Kings.

I enjoy being a hater, what can I say. Plus this angle has been going on for quite a while. I know you said you like this elongation, but I think AEW sometimes teases and stretches angles a bit more than necessary.

Might be awkward for you, but I am sure you can deal with it. He is not my friend, I don't care about his personal struggles. He is probably the mosy overpushed talent on the AEW roster given his talent, and he jumped the shark when they had him feud with Malakai Black and waste so much of Black's time on a jobber. I do like Griff Garrison though, think he has potential.

Props to Julia Hart for staying around BPJ for an extended period of time, listening to his promos, and not losing control and slapping the fuck out of him

No argument from me on the Sammy-Tay and Vickie-Rosa stuff, those two segments stuck out like two sore thumbs. As for the Jericho Appreciation Society, I would argue that is very self-aware and tongue in cheek and is probably going to end with the wrestlers beating the crap out of the sports-entertainers who call themselves stupid. I would call their segments a parody of sports entertainment more than anything, although with Jericho, it is very easy to switch between parody and the real thing being pathetic.

Wrestlers cutting promos and doing entertaining out-of-ring stuff is not automatically sports entertainment. Vince did not invent entertaining wrestling. Would you call Memphis studio segments or JCP Jimmy Valiant feuds sports entertainment? Because I personally associate that term with 20 min back and forth promos where no one interrupts another person, they take turns delivering stilted dialogues, etc. I guess that is not entirely fair because the Attitude Era certainly had sports-entertainment stuff, but I would say that Austin would have certainly hated his stuff being called sports-entertaining?

Yeah I call bullshit on this. The first hour was far far from sports entertainment, it was proper high quality pro wrestling.

You all can hate on Jericho's latest faction if you wish, but it is really putting a spotlight on Danny Garcia and letting him showcase his charisma and personality, and it's undoubtedly worth it for that reason alone. TK clearly sees something in him, as he should.

So I know I said that I was actually surprised by how above-average Cole-Lethal was, given how mid both of them are, but having watched the first hour, which was some of the best wrestling TV that's been put on so far this year, I retract my opinion. Watching the match live must have veen a flat experience. Also, Sting and Darby HAVE to get a title shot soon, don't they? They were arguably the US tag team of the year for 2021, and 2022 if anything has been better for them.

Fantastic tag match, love everything Bryan and Mox are doing. My only complaint is that BPJ got way too much offence

Has Brian Pillman Jr. ever not botched that top rope springboard?

FTR is the clear face against the Gunn dorks imo

That Texas tornado was absolutely bonkers. Sting is a mad mad man, and we already knew Jeff is crazy. Once again I recommend the Fite version.

lol Matt is riding the coattails of Jeff so blatantly

Yeah it wasn't a good segment. Dan Lambert actually was the best part of the segment, and he was hardly great. Catching up on the show and Punk-FTR Bald was an excellent excellent match. I am so happy CM Punk has come back to pro wrestling.

That particular belt was retired and given to Brodie's son. I don't think the TNT championship is supposed to be a stand-in for Brodie.

TK heard us all say how the women have no dynamic storylines and went "Sure, I will book the next world champ in an angle of immigrants shitting on each other!" Rosa-Rose should be a banger though.

Kirs Statlander please step on my neck and judo toss me too

Swerve has a lot of personality and charisma. Hopefully he is systematically pushed. Red Velvet's strikes are so soft and barely connect.