C.S.

Yeah, what should have been a blood feud was approached by Pillman Jr. with an aww shucks earnest babyface routine. All wrong. He's still greener than grass, but I do see a sliver of potential him. I see more in Griff Garrison though.

Agreed. I thought that would be considered a hot take, but it shouldn't be IMO. They've been building up Jade for over a year, and Ruby was - as much as we love her, let's face it - a WWE jabroni. Much better and more compelling story to be told with Ruby falling short in both of her major AEW title matches and seeing how she can come back from that.

This AEW fan thinks it's boring and pointless. I don't want to get into a deep argument with the owner of the board we all love, so I'll just say I'm not sure that's the reason why wrestling was at its hottest. Plus, what seemed "cool and edgy" 20 years ago has been done to death. I'm not a WWE stan by any means, but it takes me completely out of the show when they start shoehorning in "Wrestlemania" references and the like when they don't fit at all. It made sense for Punk's first promo back. Time to move on now... Probably not, but it's distracting as all hell (IMO). Of course, so is Jericho's faux Attitude Era throwback character, or whatever the hell that's supposed to be.

No it isn't. It's a WWE show. A few non-fans probably do know it as a catch-all term, but you're deep, deeper, drowning in the bubble if you think it has anything other than the barest mainstream recognition these days.

They can reference the past without blatantly promoting another product.

Why the hell are they mentioning WrestleMania over and over? Totally bush league.

Are you asking if Hangman is the 2nd wrestler to kick out of the knee? Wasn't sure...

I did too. Went 30+ minutes but didn't feel like it. As good as the first match was, you felt that hour.

Shorter but much sweeter match.

Is that even his blood?

This match seems a lot quicker paced than the last one. Between that and the underwhelming judges, I'm now questioning whether this one actually goes 60.

That pop-up power bomb looked NASTY.

I honestly thought Jerry Lynn was Road Dogg or another Armstrong for a second. Where did everyone get their Max Caster news?

Never should have left YouTube in the first place. Glad to see they're course-correcting from that catastrophic error in judgment.

Regal managing Anthony Ogogo could be fun.

No surprise here, especially after the advent of NXT 2.0, but he had no prayer on the main roster either way. Out of the cuts we know of so far, Regal is the only one AEW should jump to sign IMO.

Does this boring ass black singlet mean he's winning gold and he wants the black and gold belt to look good, or that he's losing and wearing black in mourning? (Billy Graham did the same thing with boring white gear when he was set to lose the title.)

They keep trying to make Bloom Beverly a thing, and I'm not sure it's working.

Brian Cage has to be the dumbest meathead imaginable this side of Ryback. TK must be counting the days until he can get rid of that imbecilic dead weight.

Wonder if WWE is having second thoughts now about getting rid of superior big men Keith Lee and Bronson Reed (JONAH) now that Odyssey Jones is a clear liability likely to be Khaned in a future roster cull.

Is that still only available through his website and not anywhere else or digitally?

And Megha Parekh, who is apparently TK's second-in-command.

WWE has nothing but contempt for its audience. That much has been made clear over and over and over again.

The super-worker Riddick Moss carried Drew McIntyre to a nice little match, preparing Drew to presumably re-enter the title picture.

The Brit? That's not Sam. Sam wasn't there. I just meant in general.