MoS

They started with a legitimate 5-star match on live TV, even if the rest of the show had been booked better - which it absolutely could have been - it would still have felt a bit underwhelming

See, especially with the loose cannon thing, watching the weekly Nitros (admittedly not in real time) it just never seemed like a big deal, more like an annoying distraction in between the important stuff. I am sure it was revolutionary for its time but I am not sure what actual potential that gimmick had.

I thought for sure it was Brody King. Made it anticlimactic

HHAHAHA I don't know if that was a botch or intentional, but that should be curtains for BPJ ever amounting to anything lol

Since this match is boring, it's also a good time for me to state that I find Brian Pillman incredibly overrated, especially his early 90s work.

He comes across as a complete dweeb, especially against someone like Black, who is actually cool

I don't know how you think it was shoehorned when it is something essential to both Punk's character and MJF threatening to start a "bidding war" every week. That finish looked weird but Jade has really good wrestling instincts. She is very green but she has a lot of potential. I actually hope she isn't pushed too much as a power wrestler cuz while she looks tremendous, she doesn't seem to have a lot of functional power the way Kris Statlander or Bianca Belair have.

That, plus Ruby's in-ring work has been really underwhelming so far

I thought this was perfectly set up for Kingston confronting Jericho. A real missed opportunity imo.

It's you who are deep in the wrestling bubble if you think WrestleMania means anything other than "oh yeah the wrestling thing that happens every year, Hulk Hogan and Austin and Rock used to wrestle there." No one is going to check out WWE because they heard WrestleMania somewhere

I can watch Wardlow squash losers all day

Jericho wants to be Rock so so bad

Lol no one in wrestling is "promoting another product" when they mention WrestleMania, it's a pop culture term

They have done it in 3 promotions so far, what's one more

Wow Jericho is so bad at comedy lmao. Eddie Kingston please save us right now

It is literally the one big knock against Punk, that led him to quit wrestling for 7 years. It's not bush league, it is the absolute perfect way to get under his skin in kayfabe. Everything about CM Punk's edge comes from that failure. And it threw Punk off for a bit, so it worked in kayfabe too

I know you hate him, but he was tremendous here

It will probably lead to a match for Dean against Punk. EDIT - Also this is a cool trivia for "first DQ finish in AEW history"

It was the only lariat he actually hit in the match, I have no idea why he was grumpy. But he just beat cancer he is allowed to be grumpy

I might be in the minority here but I actually liked this better than the first match, and it's my favourite Danielson match so far in his AEW run

This is my favorite kind of wrestling sequel. Instead of trying to do a bigger better bader version of the first match, go for a classic in another direction instead. Make it more intense and smashmouth, for starters.

This is a FIGHT

Now THIS is a proper crimson mask

I believe they did a big babyface spot right as some fans were trying to start a duelling Let's Go Hangman/Hangman sucks chant, nipped it in the bud

Danielson doing shitty jumping jacks specifically to piss off good brother NintendoLogic