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I think the Dome plan is the champ (hoping ZSJ, although I guess it could be Naito) against a big name outsider. I don't think Tsuji has the juice to main event the Dome yet. (I do think they should put him over for it early next year.)
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And... it's gone.
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I would add there's a lot of great stuff in 2016-2018 if you enjoy the Bullet Club guys. Everything tumbles off a cliff dramatically in 2019.
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I kind of assume it's to set up a bit of a question, which would be resolved by Nana still being on team Swerve. I will say, I think they've struggled to find the voice for Swerve as a babyface and as the champ. He's still over, but there was a sense of purpose there before that feels forced right now.
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Honestly, I can't even remember if any of the rest of the show was good last night - they put Kenny and Okada face to face again. Feed it to my veins.
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Confirmed that TK is an Andy Kaufman fan. Maybe we soon find out the real Forbidden Door wasn't between AEW and New Japan but between Andy Kaufman's private island and the rest of the world. Kenny Omega and Andy and TK against the Bucks and Perry, book it.
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It's apparently Swerve's championship speech. That's why he didn't give one on Dynamite.
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Yeah, that worked. Way more than I thought it would. FTR-Bucks was great, loved that they mixed more violence into it as opposed to the spot-fest types (while still getting in some cool ones).
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I think Swerve as a babyface is really just a fans reacting thing. Put him against Ospreay in Wembley, he'll be fine as a heel and he won't need to change the character a bit.
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I totally forgot about Shingo, who also main evented a Dome show. He's probably a good answer if it's not a Musketeer.
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Who they pick to take the belt from Mox is a fascinating question. Does Mox take this all the way to the Dome? Only 3 guys on the roster have main evented the Dome in the last decade - Naito (old), Tanahashi (older) and Sanada (very clearly not the answer long-term after how his title reign went). Given how they've treated the new Musketeers, no one seems like an obvious choice.
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The answer is both. You run big matches with them quickly but long-term, they can be used to build those younger teams too.
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One thing that really struck me - the lack of Kevin Dunn camera cuts and the announcers getting to talk like humans really made the product so much more tolerable. I didn't think either show was great, but they weren't exhausting in the way WWE shows could be not that long ago. Huge improvement on its own, especially in terms of capturing casual viewers.
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I went to the small one and it was pretty cool - seemed like the patriarch was still working the grill there (although this was 2015, not sure if that's true now). You get the benefit of imagining Hanson and Brody sitting at that counter.
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Curious to hear more on these. Definitely breaks with AEW's past, although it's possible this is just a rash of contracts not being renewed, or people asking out? (Although the surprise from Henry definitely contradicts that.)