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I'll play... Match of the Year: Cody vs. Dustin Rhodes - AEW Double or Nothing Best Major Wrestling Show: AEW Double or Nothing Best Promotion: AEW (Yeah, I know, I know... Only two standalone shows so far, no TV until October, etc., but no other fed has created the undeniable excitement this year that AEW has.) Best on Interviews: The Miz (as hated as his Shane feud may have been, The Miz transitioned into a tough guy and family man convincingly) Feud of the Year: Daniel Bryan vs. Kofi Kingston Most Improved: Cody (genuine improvement - no one else put all the pieces together as a persona and in-ring performer the way he did this year) Wrestler of the Year: Dustin Rhodes (from WWE afterthought to MOTY, all in the span of one match - an incredible achievement and even more impressive at the age of 50+)

So, uh, Enzo and JANELABABY apparently got into a "fight" at a concert.

How does that not break his non-compete though? If anyone could debut before their non-compete was over, but in a mask and without being named, everyone would. I realize Impact is a nothing fed now (I don't mean talent-wise), but I can't imagine the heavily litigious WWE letting this slide if true.

I don't think it's a mess at all - I think it's actually one of their best feuds - but you are right about Bayley. I'm not sure if she's acting like an asshole as much as it's a case of the writers not knowing how to script anything other than "catty" for the women and Bayley herself being a notoriously poor actor and mic worker (easily the worst on the female roster). Nikki has done a phenomenal job and this has made her a star, so that's why I don't think it's a mess or a disaster.

This is crazy if true...

That was actually a decent little match between Reigns and Ziggler.

Non-title matches are fucking useless, and a crutch WWE overly relies on to set up title matches that are no longer fresh. Enough already!

I lost interest in the first place because I got paired with shitheads who never responded to the matches I gave them (no offense if you were one of said shitheads). I'm also more limited now because I no longer have the WWE Network, NJPW World, etc. With all of that said, I'd definitely be interested again.

Am I the only one more worried about the condition of KO's Porsche?

You guys, he's actually right. But forget about the announcers... Shane and Drew believing it made even less sense. Why would the janitor suddenly need to wear a mask? Edit: Apparently Shane asked the janitor to wear the mask? I completely missed that. Also makes no sense.

Ouch! It's a shame, because weren't people predicting this guy would win the Royal Rumble and headline WrestleMania? Since then, he's been positioned as a Mike Kanellis "bitch" character for Baron and now Shane, with loss after loss to go along with it. At this point, Drew defeating Taker would not be remotely believable.

Hopefully neither. But I could see Taker turning and become one of Shane's kiss-asses. His run in the same role with Vince was underrated.

Cedric Alexander saved the show.

AJ becoming an arrogant schmuck in the course of one week feels so fake. I realize wrestling and heel turns have always been that way, but still.

This show has been an enormous pile of shit. So much for "the Heyman touch." We're back to business as usual already.

WTF was that shit?!?! Rey is probably regretting not signing with AEW.

I wouldn't want to drink that beer after Shane and his Scottish crony spoke and sweat over it.

I'll laugh if Gallows and Anderson re-signed for more money than The Usos and The Revival.

Corbin and Lacey are winning, y'all.

Andrade > Seth

Hopefully AEW will learn from all of these early growing pains - most involving Spears, ironically - and not repeat them.

I really like Silas Young, but holy shit, this is a bad look for him and ROH. He's lucky he's in what has quickly become an obscure indie fed. If a WWE or even AEW wrestler posted anything like this, they'd be fired within the hour. Because it's ROH, it won't gain any traction and the few ROH fans left who do see it will be sycophantic apologists (as you can already see by the gross Twitter replies). Plus, ROH has a bad history of looking the other way - RF, Bully Ray fan incident, homophobic comments by Briscoe, and I know I'm forgetting others.

AEW reportedly pulled Spears from an indie booking. Wonder what happened there?

Was the "comedy" from the last pre-show anywhere near the level of BTE though? (I've never watched more than a few minutes of BTE, so genuine question.)

Well, part of it, too, is that the world has changed. You could get '80s Hogan now, booked the same way against the same opponents, and the reaction would still be very different. It's probably not that Vince doesn't know how to manage that fine anymore. It's more likely that Vince doesn't know how to change the way he manages it and update it for the times we're living in now.