MoS

I see MJF-Jericho are ripping off Austin-Rock camera spots

I am HERE for Miro-Kingston. Mox's promo was also very intriguing. Sort of called out both Punk and even Hangman.

Trust Bruti Marshall to bring down an incredibly hot hour. What is this shit.

Jericho looked so uncool and old in that backstage promo. He has never really been able to have a truly great babyface run. I think it's because for a swarmy/cocky heel to also be a great face, they have to be cool. And Jericho has just never been cool enough

Merits about letting a heel shit on your own promotion and its fans aside, Dan Lambert is such a complete natural at pro wrestling holy shit

Very subtle Punk nod huh. That was an okay mindless spotfest, which is probably the peak you can expect from a Shawn Spears match.

Help me understand, Texan/American people, if you are from one major part/city of Texas, are you the hometown boy everywhere in Texas? Not related to Sammy but in general. Would Dallas would consider, say, a San Antonio guy their own? They do have different NBA teams.

That was amazing. 5 stars purely for the table no-sell. I was iffy on Sting coming in initially but he has completely won me over

Lol so why were Mox and King randomly making their way to the ring? That's not how AEW books its openings. The opening is always a fixed segment, whether a match or something else. It's not like Raw with people randomly coming to the ring to open the show. Sting looks great! This crowd is hot for the match, and even the heels got a great reaction

Space Mountain is the longest ride

It is a bit weird how he was fired out of the blue in one of their rounds of cuts, but then was brought back even as more wrestlers got released, and is now challenging for the NXT title. Regardless, I think most of us want him to win the title from Kross

Do they officially announce CM Punk tonight? Or will they just be cute about it until Friday? Also lost amidst the Punk hype and teases is that Bryan Danielson should also be coming in soon? I wonder when they bring him in, and against whom.

I totally get Meltzer's criticism of Andrade, I am just saying his tweet is hilarious because it (unintentionally) implies that he only thinks Charlotte doesn't suck. It's the whole "Are you calling me old and stupid? "No, I never called you old!" thing

This is really funny because you can kind of interpret it as Andrade saying "You think my fiancee and I suck!!" and Dave replying with "No, I never said your fiancee sucks!"

I found that promo cringe, but then I find most of Ospereay's shtick cringe

I think this clip does a good job of showing the spot in the context of the match itself, although there might be any additional context about the rivalry that I don't know of.

I don't know how long and when the games aired, so I can't answer that. WWE's business right now is definitely the hottest it has been since 2019, well before the pandemic, so that is definitely impressive. I just hope they don't use this to try and cheapen Roman's reign by giving Cena a couple of weeks with the belt, before Roman takes it back (at the MSG SD for instance) to pop a rating. The only reason I even think this is a possibility is because Cena has been at Title Number 16 for five years now, and with Flair having been recently released, it wouldn't surprise me if the ultimate company ace breaks his decades old record. I definitely don't think they should do this though. That would be very short-sighted. Said it before, but when Roman finally gets beaten clean in singles, it should be to a fresh main event face like Big E.

Those great numbers are because Smackdown is on network TV and Fox got pre-empted by a lot of local channels showing the pre-season NFL games. The real number will come out later next week after taking pre-emptions into account. This is nothing new, the same used to happen in the late 90s and early 00s, the last time SD was on broadcast and not cable, and would get pre-empted locally in many markets for special sports or news items. The rolling 4-week average is a much better way to gauge how the show is doing. The numbers show that it is doing much better than the last few months of the thunderdome era, but not as good as it was doing late last year. Where Cena has made a huge turnaround is in ticket sales. Tickets were not moving at all before he returned at MitB and after his comeback, the box office has been up and running massively, in some places selling double the tickets they had sold prior to his return.

I honestly think they were trying to sell the shock of her appearance having totally changed. Which does make sense, because when she appeared, my first thought was "Fuck, THEY GOT BECKY?!?!"

Holy SHIT is Britt over like a Goddess

Is Miro the best big-man seller of all time?

Jericho did lots of coke before the show started, didn't he

The crowd is HOT. I had hoped for a more different look from Dynamite though. Cody had said that the logo on the apron might make a comeback on Rampage but not the case as of now.

I really hate feuds built on SHOOT~!! comments and feuds. Hated it when Moxley and MJF did it last year and I hated it when Cena and Roman did it the first time they feuded. It doesn't make anyone look good. You have two stars who are cool and badass, why not just build on that instead of both reminding viewers how the other has failed and sucks

I don't think I'll make separate threads for all Rampage shows, but the first couple should get their own threads