Perfectly Straightedge

All Elite Wrestling! Prologue This project will start in the year 2021 and the first event will be Full Gear. Now there are some changes to this card compared to what is going down in real life. This is my card for AEW Full Gear and the changes to the card will have a brief explanation to go along with it. The rest have the same storyline as real-life leading to the match. AEW World Championship Kenny Omega (C) vs "Hangman" Adam Page AEW World Tag Team Championships The Lucha Bros(C) vs FTR AEW Heavyweight Championship Number 1 Contender Finals Bryan Danielson vs Brodie Lee {That's right Brodie Lee who THANKFULLY never passed away and was able to make the finals of the tournament. Bryan's ascent was the same he defeated Dustin Rhodes in a hard-fought first round and then defeated Eddie Kingston in the Semi-Finals. Brodie's run was also a hard-fought one. He defeated Jungle Boy in the first round and then defeated Orange Cassidy to get to the finals. These two are on a collision course and what a battle it will be.} CM Punk vs Eddie Kingston Darby Allin vs MJF Falls Count Anywhere Six Man Tag Match Adam Cole and The Young Bucks vs Christian Cage, Jungle Boy, and a Mystery Partner {Luchasaurus was in this match but due to the attack on Dynamite. He was rendered unable to compete. Christian and Jungle Boy promise that they will have a replacement for him at Full Gear. The Superkliq doesn't care in the slightest and will meet them at Full Gear in this Falls Count Anywhere Six-Man Tag!} Tag Team Match The Rhodes Dynasty (Cody and Dustin) vs Malakhi Black and Andrade El Idolo with Chavo Guerrero Jr. {Black has made it his mission to destroy The Nightmare Family. Cody has been on the wrong side of these attacks and now Adrande has joined in on the attack as well. Black and Andrade are a team that not a lot of people would see together but they are allying to put an end to Cody. When all hope seemed lost. Cody's brother Dustin has joined his brother's side. The two men are now set to do battle with this new alliance being formed.} FTW Championship Match Ricky Starks with Taz vs Orange Cassidy {Ricky Starks has been on a tear after ridding AEW of Brian Cage who decided to leave the company due to creative differences. Starks has held onto this FTW Championship and now looks to put his title on the line against a man who honestly doesn't care...Orange Cassidy is the next challenger for the FTW Championship. Taz wants nothing more than to make sure his championship is as far away from Orange as it can be.} Coming Soon!

I just view it as they would probably have been on The Buy-In. So just put it on Rampage as a filler. Which I have no issue with. You have the big PPV the next night so no need to stack this Rampage plus they are following it up with a Road to Full Gear special. So no reason to completely stack this as well. I do wonder what's going on with Starks. I think his neck must still be having issues. Cause it's strange to me that he is on commentary and not doing anything. He must still be hurt.

B/R is weird. I bought Double or Nothing and All Out and I still have both of them and was able to watch both and still can. So the three-day thing throws me off as well.

^^^^ I agree 100 percent. I was actually going to type basically the same thing. So now I have no reason to. I just find it amusing we cancel SO many things but yet WWE somehow gets away with all they have done. Katie Vick, the VERY racist angle leading to the WM 19 Title Match as just 2 of many many examples. Just so much crap that I can't believe they haven't been canceled yet. It's so weird that in this cancel culture world they get a pass. Weird....

That's the way I remembered it as well. During the whole X-Factor gimmick. I love FTR updating their theme music.

How do you feel about the commentary in AEW? Jim Ross & Excalibur specifically. I feel Jim Ross sometimes phones it in but at the same time the man is getting up there with age and brings name relevance to the promotion so I get why he is there. He makes the networks happy and keeps AEW present in the mind of people that watched while he was announcing. He does stumble on his words, he does sometimes struggle but at the end of the day he is a legend and it would be hard replacing a legend like that. I do really enjoy Excalibur. I have zero issues with him. He is growing each week and a solid play by play guy. I have no issues with any of it. I feel commentary teams move around so much that you can never grow chemistry because it changes so often. So AEW actually having a team that doesn't change often I enjoy. So I have no issues with either of them. I will probably be alone in that but it is what it is. How do you feel about the ring style or the look of the show/arena? This one is kinda tricky to answer because of the pandemic. I mean the stage and arena looked fine and felt like a big show coming at you when they ran arenas. I really loved the ramp and everything from AEW Double or Nothing. I think their ring style and looks are just fine. They look like a big promotion and not a small rinky dink. What are your thoughts about the talent that AEW has been bringing in like Jake Hager, Shawn Spears or more recently, Mark Henry & Paul Wight? Absolutely NO issues whatsoever. I mean these guys are talented, they have been at the top and can teach the newer guys. Spears is someone that I feel they never really gave a chance to. I mean they gave him the Cody match but after that he was kinda forgot about. He had a very forgettable run with Scorpio Sky. I will say that he has a nice look and gimmick. So him being in the Pinnacle is a really good thing for him. He is perfect in the role of being in the stable but not the lead of the stable. Big Show, Mark Henry...I have no issues with they give the networks names to work with and they will be great in the long run. Henry has proven to be an excellent scout and Big Show has the name appeal that the sponsors love. Hagar has had some solid matches and promo work with The Inner Circle so I have no issues with any of these guys being brought in. I feel wrestling twitter ruins a lot of things. So I stay away from anything negative. Like oh this is a WWE guy or here we again another WCW. So I feel bringing in guys with name value and can help build the brand does nothing to hurt it as long as you don't bring in guys with a shady past. None of these guys have that stigma attached to them. So what's it hurt. Do you think that AEW relies too heavily on comedy? That's a hard question to answer cause at the end of the day it's an entertainment show. I mean what's exactly comedy? This is a question that will be asked for eons. What I consider amusing others may not. So in short answer no. I don't feel they have relied too much on comedy cause at the end of the day it's an entertainment and you have to try and grab as many as people as possible. So you can only be so serious for so long before people get bored. What about their abundance of factions/stables? I mean The Attitude Era had a TON of factions. It's a staple in wrestling. So grouping guys together to get everyone TV time. I have no issues with. I mean if you were to break off every single stable in AEW. I mean how can you jam pack that show with all the talent they have and guys they want to build. So I have no issues with it. Even back in the 80's you had a slew of stables. So I don't have any issues cause it gives people things to do and if you can get guys on tv or over with a stable then I don't see the big deal. Managers/Valets? Managers are something that has been missing in recent years. You need managers, valets, enforcers. You need people that can speak for someone that can't speak for themselves. Look at Team Taz. I love the addition of giving him guys like Hobbs, Cage and even Ricky who they do let speak because he can. Then others like Matt Hardy for Private Party, Vikki for Nyla. Tully for Spears. I mean it brings that credibility to the person. I LOVE that Tully is back in wrestling. A very good speaker and putting him with someone like Spears made him actually feel special and the connection with FTR was just smart booking in my opinion. Managers are something that has been missing in WWE. So I am very glad that AEW realizes how valuable that is in wrestling. How do you feel about the decisions Tony Khan has taken, or how Dave Meltzer seems to give AEW the constant benefit of the doubt where as Jim Cornette will barely acknowledge when something is good? It's social media. NOTHING will ever be praised 100 percent. I take people's opinions on social media with a grain of salt. Cause at the end of the day. Everyone is selling something to someone. Jim Cornette is a carny. He knows it. I mean if you hate the product so much and everything why comment on it ALL THE TIME. It's like some weird type of torture. I hate pickles with a passion but I don't go around eating all types of pickles then blast it on twitter and say pickles suck. Like everyone gets it you don't like pickles. So you move on. Dave Meltzer, I don't honestly care in the slightest about. He is entitled to his opinion like everyone else. This whole notion that everybody is going to agree on everything is stupid. People like what they like in the end. So trying to get everyone on the same page is next to impossible. Are AEW presenting the women well? How about the tag team division? I mean that's a hard question to answer. I mean they don't have them parade in bra and panties matches. They don't have them on the cover of Playboy and trying to sell them as objects to look at. So I mean in that sense yeah. I mean they give the women a lot of time in their matches and give them a proper showcase of PPVs. I mean women's wrestling is actually being taken serious. I don't care about it but I mean I don't think they are doing a bad job with it by any means. I mean they got Britt Baker over into arguably their most over star on TV. So I think they are doing just fine with it. Is AEW relying too much on gimmick/stipulation matches? Compared to what exactly? I mean a gimmick match is something you use to sell your show next week. I have no issues. it's not like where WWE has made the hell in a cell a complete joke and destroyed whatever made it special by dedicating a PPV to it and putting people in the match that just don't make sense like this PPV where we get Roman/Rey in a Hell in a Cell. Like wtf...anyways this isn't a WWE bashing thing even though I could do that all day cause the thing is terrible but anyways I don't feel they do cause I mean who can really say when the right time to use a stipulation is. Like it's just to pop a rating. I mean how many cage matches have we had in AEW? Ladder Matches? Street Fights? I mean the thing I can give them is when they use the stipulation of something along those lines at least they have a story to kinda make it make sense. So relying isn't the best word I would use cause it makes it feel that they use it every week but they really don't. I also want to add that something I LOVE that AEW does. Is they give some episodes a theme to them. I think that is something that needs to be praised. It's something different. I mean doing the same show every single week isn't good long term business and doing something different that what others are doing is never a bad thing. So I just wanted to add that anyways those are just my opinions. I am by no means an expert or whatever. I just think AEW is doing a find job in making their place in the business and we honestly haven't seen a promotion get this much steam that isn't WWE in a while. So I am a fan and will keep supporting the product.

What a great signing. Andrade is going to be something special in AEW.

I will say I enjoy this side of Miro a lot more. Just a complete ass kicker. Uno looks pretty good in this match. He has a fun twitch stream to watch as well.

I really enjoy Dax on the microphone. He has that kinda personality where you believe everything he says. I also have to say if we get LaX and FTR out of this that’s a big win.

I don’t know what it is about the good brothers on AEW but they might just be the most useless people on the show. They do absolutely nothing and never say anything. It has to be cause of Impact though. I enjoyed that match though and I like Kaz being the elite hunter. Pretty cool stuff.

ahhh I missed that part of the stipulation t. Okay, that makes a lot more sense then. Thanks for the clarification. I don't know how I missed that.

It doesn't help that The Lucha Bros keep getting hurt. The report came out today that Rey Fenix has been hurt which explains his absence. I don't really like the loser breaks up stipulation cause I mean its basically saying The Pinnacle wins right? I mean they just got together so why break them up so soon. So I assume they win and the Inner Circle breaks up. Which I am alright with. LaX need to move on actually go help out this tag division. Same with FTR they need to be the champs. I was not happy with Bucks going over and especially when they gave that stupid stipulation of if we lose we break up that had no more build too it cause they said it like a week or two before the match. Just weird booking. Speaking of I don't really care for The Bucks or this whole Elite angle. I feel The Bucks ruined anything meaningful on their end with playing the tweener too much. I don't care for them as heels now cause they should have done it from the start and as faces they were very MEH....I do wonder what the plan with Omega is. I mean this triple threat with Pac/Orange at DoN is obviously a filler match. It will be fun to watch but no doubt who wins it in the end which takes away from it. I thought I would care more about The Good Brothers but they haven't done anything besides just interfere in matches and that's really about it so them even being apart of this angle is just Meh in my opinion. I don't know really how this angle changes to become interesting. The only positive out of it is Mox/Kingston being great together. Also this Impact/AEW working thing can just go ahead and end now. It has lead to nothing of note. Kenny being Impact Champion is a complete waste of his time and ours.

I think the main issue is people watch wrestling to disband reality. So when you get to watch the sausage get made as the old saying goes it takes away. I have ZERO issues with anything to promote safety. Jericho is 50 years old...I mean he doesn't have to take that bump by pad or anything. The fact he did just shows he bought in. Also after what happen with Matt Hardy I wouldn't care if they threw him into a pit of teddy bears. Cause that Matt fall was completely UNECCESARY! It's all about safety in this day and age. Hate all you want but it's true. Look at sports in a whole. Everything is taking away NFL, NBA, Baseball they are all promotion safety. So what if the crash pad could be seen. I knew the bump was coming the whole time, but it didn't hurt anything in my eyes. Yes, they could they have shot it better of course they could have but that's just how it goes in hindsight. Look at the deathmatch with the sparklers. People freaked out, said it was going to kill AEW's momentum and made fun of it but AEW moved on and that's what will happen here. They will just move on and if they smart they will pay NO mind to twitter or anyone else. It's like the old saying goes all the people will remember is the last moment. Everything being complained about is hindsight...I mean of course things could have went better but I am sure Foley wishes he had a crash pad when he was thrown off the cell. I just think most the complaints are just non factors and AEW will be just fine. I mean how many murders has WWE had in their time? If anyone honestly is soooo upset they decide to ditch AEW cause they protected a 50 year old man. I have no clue what to tell them. I thought the match was great. It had everything I wanted from it. I wasn't a fan of some things but hey that's wrestling. Nobody likes the same thing which is why the business has lasted so long. Solid show and very excited for Miro/Darby next week. I also thought Bully Ray mentioning that Impact should be upset that Nakazowa was carrying their belt and not Omega should be a punch in the face. Impact even being mentioned on AEW television is a god send for that company. So who cares if Nakazowa is holding the title cause they get free Omega matches. I mean why would Impact care if they get Kenny Omega on their PPVs. Also I don't care for the build but another Omega/Pac match sounds awesome to me. Same for Orange he has won me over and I think he would be just fine to face Kenny.

I have been saying this for months. I am glad someone is with me. How that man has NOT been hired is a travesty.

Kenny Omega has such a weird style of promo. It's like he is playing a part in a crappy "B" level movie. It's really weird but sometimes it hits and sometimes it misses. I love Kingston that man should cut a promo every single week and I will be happy. Talk about someone who changed his entire career. AEW was smart to sign him. I still don't really care about the stable with Butcher, Blade and Bunny but it is what it is. I am digging this ladder match but I really hope Cody doesn't win it. If anyone needs a heel turn it is him. I really want Scorpio Sky to get the victory so far before they announce the other participants. I popped for Sting taking that Powerbomb.

ahhh that sounds about right. Like the old saying "If it's too good to be true, it's too good to be true" lol

I randomly found a PDF of it online. So I am reading it now. I know some people like Ross had nothing but high praise for it but the price of the book is insane to me but I guess since it's not in production anymore just makes it super expensive.

I have heard nothing but great things about the book but I have heard that it's very hard to find. Has anyone here read it? or know of a place to find this book?

I always heard that Vince is why so many people do bearhugs. That it was like his favorite move for a stronger worker to use. Is that truth or just a farce.

Yeah I wasn't a fan of it. Like I get breaking all these striking records in that fight but wouldn't it mean more if he actually knocked the dude out instead of going to decision? Shows how much heart that kid had though for sure. I honestly haven't kept up with the sport in years. So it's hard for me to get excited about any fight anymore and stuff like that doesn't really help anything especially with no crowd.

I think Mark Carrano just looks like a douchebag. Like if you see him he just screams I am a jerk.

I don't know if anyone saw but they added a Best of Luke Harper to the network that has the guys talking about him before their matches. They have pretty much the matches you would expect them to have.

Not really shocking....kinda what I expected to hear.

That's what I was thinking. I will say he was very fast at untying those shoes as well. Like I am talking one pull and had them unlaced. Which also brings to question why R-Truth didn't double lace his shoes and if Harper was able to untie a double loop that fast than he needed a prize just for that. lol Actually at the same event was Stardust vs Goldust which wasn't their match in 2019 by any means but you could see they had chemistry though.

I would like to see any of the fires back especially for JR and Eric. I think it boils down in what you actually want to type a review for. I am okay with anything as I have ZERO desire to shell out any money to Conrad. So I am just thankful for anything. Also I think the Brisco mailbag would be a fun listen and the same for Chioda. Who I still can't believe got the boot from WWE.