MoS

Fun fact: Bollywood blatantly ripped off Final Countdown, but used it in a romantic/seductive context. I use that loosely, cuz this was late 80s Bollywood and pretty much no intimate touching was allowed. I believe Europe has never got a dime out of this. You win some, you lose some. Anyway, enjoy:

If this is the new direction NXT is going in, then I am glad Hunter lost power cuz this rules hard

RIGHT after I make a big post about how Vince clearly has been high on him throughout and will try his best to keep him signed. Ah well, Vince will probably do that anyway. January is a long time to offer a deal, and Owens doesn't seem to strike me as someone who would leave. I am sure he will use his connections to leverage a better deal from Vince, but I cannot see him leaving. Do people really think he would be pushed and featured more prominently in AEW than he has been in WWE throughout? I honestly cannot see that.

Sting used the words Mucho Respect on live national TV. Can you ever imagine HHH being a cool enough dad to say that on live TV. No, he'd be incorrectly using based and lit

Speaking of.... Look who is 'liking' in a clear example of passive aggressive behaviour, a tweet mocking his booking on a show Coach Tony K has explicitly stated is also the A-show

I remember one early spot copied completely from the Bret-Kid match, including Punk's facial expression

This event is awesome just because it got Jimmy Redman to whip out one of her legendary long recaps. They are always awesome. I think Punk was winded but managed to recover and get going by the end. Christian has always been much better than Punk (at least mechanically and in terms of consistently good matches) so the appropriate current analogy is probably Edge. I thought Edge looked better at his Rumble return, but returning in a Rumble is different from a singles main event in the show of the year. Then the pandemic hit and Edge didn't have a true big singles match until just now this year, and he had got some reps in by then. I think it will be crucial to book him in a story-based feud with a lot of character work and promos, as everyone else has also said. MJF v. Punk wouldn't be a bad feud. He can help fine tune MJF's character too; make it more focused and give it some proper motivation.

Also, you know who else thinks Wyatt is a midcard act? Something tells me Windham Rotunda won't be running roughshod over this roster anytime soon

I had the same feeling for the Mox and King entrance at Double or Nothing this year. One of the greatest experiences of my life

I think WWE would make a strong move to keep Owens. Unlike a lot of Hunter's indie signings and NXT callups, Vince has always seemed to like Owens. He has always been pushed and featured prominently. Vince took shoot headbutts at a million years of age to get Owens over. He also got numerous visual victories over Roman in their feud this year, which indicates that they want to protect him. With Sami, I don't think WWE tries that hard. He is certainly stale and overexposed, but he has the advantage where he can just put on his mask again and instantly change his look. El Generico has never worked for WWE after all.

I also don't know how to rate Allin-Punk from a conventional wrestling match perspective. The first few minutes, the crowd seemed so excited for everything Punk did, and also so scared that something might go wrong, it's very difficult to rate for me.

Are you calling Bryan Tom Bombadil

Omega-Danielson will be amazing and god I hope Omega discards the goofy comedy for the greatest of all time. I would run those two big matches the next two months and then culminate with Hangman beating Omega at the PPV. How bad was Fozzy's guitarist tho

So do they go with Omega-Punk? Or do they go with Omega-Danielson first? If so, what does Punk do then? There are so many possibilities in this promotion right now, so many players, it's tremendously exciting.

Apparently Bryan's (it will be so weird to refer to him as Danielson again, the last time I did so, I was literally a teenager) post-show speech is amazing

Hoping Hangman beats Omega soon and then beats Cole as his first title defence. Although to be fair, Cole's best use would be as Britt's minion, Victoria-Stevie Richards style

If it means he remains a midcard workrate guy having great (and for the love of God, SHORT) matches with the young faces, I am cool with it

By some distance the best PPV AEW has ever done. In fact, one can argue it's the first truly all time great AEW PPV. They have done amazing matches on PPVs before, but this has never been a great PPV promotion.

Wait but he did debut last

Yeah I thought that was perfect. I wish they had got Final Countdown, but it looks like they spent all the music licensing budget on Wild Thing and Pixies

Lmao I guess Europe were asking for too much money

The crowd was tired but they did manage to get them back in the end. I thought the match was very solidly worked. One of Omega's least annoying matches for sure, right until the fucking Good Brothers came out

That table spot looked brutal

Omega recovered from that railing botch quite well, credit to him

Yeah, really surprised they are not building Mox-Suzuki more