MoS

Good match but a lame finish. Quite weak tbh. This post-match angle is..interesting. Face turn to bring in Flair?

The Askren PPV numbers have been massively inflated as per Meltz, for what it's worth. UFC's buys are listed here - https://www.tapology.com/search/mma-event-figures/ppv-pay-per-view-buys-buyrate It is ordered per descending buys and not in chronological order, which is unfortunate. The UFC also no longer shares the PPV numbers of events that do real bad, so there are some gaps there.

Trish was also a great promo and used to do excellent character work, and would get over angles really effectively. I struggle to think of a single thing Nattie does that isn't painfully average.

Tony Khan has officially said it cracked 200k buys, although he hasn't given a concrete number yet. I am guessing he is waiting for the numbers of the last-minute cable buys and replays to come in.

Imagine if one day, Rock buys the promotion from Vince and lets Hunter's contact expire due to a 'clerical error'

It would be foolish to delay Hangman's coronation for too long, so I hope the long-term story involves Kenny losing the title to Hangman and spiralling and hitting rock bottom, and Hangman doing his old friend a favour and helping him get back on track by reuniting him with what all the gold he had collected was a mere, poor, inadequate substitute of: his golden lover

He is a guy with a lot of big moves but with limited structure or sense of transition. The first time you see someone of his size and build do those moves, you're blown away, but it quickly gets old. It explains why he has actually been less over than his push. I mean he was the first Team Taz member and one of the very few in AEW with a pinfall win over Hangman. Yet somehow he is the least over Team Taz guy, behind the son who just wears really tight-fitting clothes and mugs for the camera.

Dude has been on the Road Warrior diet for years now. I was thinking that it wouldn't be a bad idea for him to be the first high-profile jump from AEW to WWE, given Vince will clearly like his body, but there's no way his body survives the WWE Wellness Policy, no matter how much of a joke their testing might be.

He was not even the best body guy in Team Taz

They'll also get a better lead-in from Big Bang Theory reruns than some of the shit movies that come on TNT before Dynamite starts

Women's matches have generally done well in the quarters for a while though from what I remember. I do get that it's a stacked roster and there are only so many spots. I mean there are some people on Twitter right now complaining that Brian Cage isn't getting featured enough, when I would argue he is being featured more than enough for someone who was not even the best body guy in his previous stable.

While this is true, I don't see why that needs to put an asterisk on modern PPVs' success using streaming platforms to buy PPVs. Sure, this means there are more options to purchase PPVs now, but it's not as if the ones who wanted to buy one 10 years ago couldn't find a way to order one. I am sure there were such cases and there were some PPVs which were affected when WWE would occasionally have a dispute with cable companies. But by and large I don't think that number was statistically significant. The question is whether those who purchase on a streaming platform today would have bought it on cable 10 years ago and imo for a show like this, they would have.

The biggest quarter obviously was the Elite/Danielson segment, but it is instructive that the second was Soho-Hayter. Ruby clearly is over and has a lot of interest, and Britt is a superstar. Their women's division has some legit stars now, it's now only a matter of better booking where there are more than one big storyline running in the women's division and consistently featured on TV. Swole and Diamante having their own feud on YouTube is a good start but they have enough good workers and over characters to do the same on TV as well

I am not a big fan of Adam Cole, but he felt ten times cooler and bigger of a star yesterday than he did in his entire WWE run. Maybe it's the big hot crowd, but even his promo was better.

Kingston should talk about how he headlined in Tijuana every time there's a masked wrestler in the ring

The idea that the Good Brothers suck comes from the fact that they suck hard. There has not been a single match in AEW which has not been dragged down by their useless asses. They also get zero reaction when they walk out on their own, so they are also unover as fuck. Thank God they didn't sign up for AEW initially and chose to fuck over their friends. Them being a featured act from the first show like the original plan was would have ensured that the show sank immediately.

Goldberg shoot injured himself punching the non-gimmicked car window, but I remember him working some injury angle with the Steiners prior to that too, when Hogan and Flair were having their drama. I had absolutely zero memory of Rodman wrestling Savage though, like literally none lol. Looking at the WWE buyrates of the 2010s is interesting. Unless headlined by a Lesnar match, most B-show PPVs were struggling to hit 200k, so if All Out does crack that number, that's a gigantic success. It would also be poetic if this outdraws Money in the Bank 2011.

(Also, interesting that Road Wild that year was so successful, outdrawing Bash at the Beach and Halloween Havoc. Was Road Wild when Goldberg returned after his injury angle?)

I checked and 22 years and 4 months would be Slamboree 1999, which did approximately 195,000 buys - https://wrestlenomics.com/resources/wcw-pay-per-view-buys/ Looks like the PPV definitely cracked 200,000 buys. It would be interesting to see how many WWE B-shows were getting 200k buys in the last few years of the PPV era.

He is young and handsome, it's a meme more than anything, he's barely had two lines to say in the show's history. But he usually stands there looking mean and handsome as his dad talks trash

Nick Jackson's nose ring was like perfect heel shtick. He in particular has really won me over in this heel run. It's made me realize that the things I find most annoying about the Bucks are usually Matt related.

Also, while I loved Mox being adored by his hometown crowd, surely they could have cut a minute of that and given that to Suzuki's entrance instead?

Mox v. Suzuki was rushed and I can never forgive them cutting off MiSu's song, but what an episode of Dynamite. Apart from the great matches and segments, I loved how they managed to shine a spotlight on their young talent. Feels like such a hot promotion and a hot show, just great to watch.

The guy who looked like he picked his outfit from the local Walmart near the arena on his way to the show looks far better dressed

Not even kidding, AEW should book Suzuki for one more date just so the crowd can chant that without the music getting cut off. It's a small thing but this is a promotion whose big selling point is giving fans things they want, and like, this would be a nice makeup gift.