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White vs Darby was fucking great man.

I sweat to god, the only thing that's genuinely interesting me about WWE's product it's Gable's story against GUNTHER so if he's not the one who gets the singles match at WM (and obviously win the title there, duh) I'd fully give up. It's been such a soulless product for so long now. I would just keep RTing McIntyre's troll tweets I guess.

It was an historic farewell match, with memorable moments that we will remember forever (including one of the most insanse spots we've all ever seen), drama, nostalgic acts and the happiest of endings. It's an unique match, to say the least. It totally delivers what I want from one of the best matches ever.

It will also help him that he had one of the greatest matches of all time as his retirement match.

I see it more as another case of Jericho wanting to engage with whatever hot act/wrestler of the moment, honestly. They can talk about the lore all they want, but in reality Jericho's universe has been painful to watch since (at least) the MJF feud, so whatever. I think it's more important the fact that Jericho is not entertaining anymore than him wrestling in México 30 years ago.

Tbh that's how they've always been since PWG and that has never stopped them from being over. The Elite's key to success has been doing a lot of moves per match and convincing the fans they're smarter than they are with their meta bullshit. I really like that the BCC is in a lot of open fronts now. They're against CMLL, Mox and Claudio just started business with FTR, Bryan just recently ended rivalries with Okada an ZSJ, now he has Kingston again, Mox has the eye on Naito for next month... They feel like the soul of the company and give so much sense of interconectiveness to the wrestling world. It's quickly becoming one of the best stables I've ever seen just because you can put any or every member in any program and it will be much better.

You just gotta look at the Kaito rivalry, which would have been awesome... If it had a payoff. But It didn't, it was just Okada burying him and then refusing to work with him again. That was seriously Triple H stuff. He also suspiciously wasn't put on the same G1 block than the younger guys, despite the Kaito stuff and Shota also having some beef with him previously.

Noz that's just his big ego.

The CM Punk WHC match is a great example of him selling for a smaller guy without losing any of his big powerhouse aura.

Bron Breaker was the only one that moved and acted like he really was trying to wrestle in that match. In both matches, actually. Which makes even more hilarious his lame booking.

Burn this company to the ground and throw salt in its ruins so it never comes back.

Edge/MiSu rocked. Best Suzuki AEW match ever alongside the Darby one. Edge has better forearms than 95% of NJPW and AEW rosters combined.

They'll do a three way at Revolution, which is a clever way of both doing another Hangman-Swerve match without wasting another singles too soon, and give Swerve an early title shot without actually crowning him while still not making him lose (Hangman should get the pin). There's no need to wait for the next big ppv to drop the title, either, it can be done at a special Dynamite or whatever. They know how to make those moments feel ppv-worthy on TV.

My guess is that Okada is retiring at mid term and wants to do a free agent last tour anywhere doing whatever the hell he wants.

Great opening and great main event, for sure. Also, both were completely different matches and two kind of matches that I wish we had more often. This company can be really good when they want, man.

Fuck Jack Perry, everyone go watch Mox vs Shingo. That shit rocked hard.

Ohhh RPG3K. Memory unlocked. Man, this company has become a joke now.

An impressive beatdown that resets Takeshita into the prodigy monster everyone should be afraid of. Next step should be getting him away from Callis and let him kill anyone in his way.

Naito is by far (and has been for a while) their biggest star, and because of Gedo's stupidity and a pandemic (but Gedo's stupidity first and foremost) he never had a proper run on the very top of the company. Now that they're back to having full crowds that can actually make noise and things really got reset into pre-covid, it's the smartest thing they could do in order to try and regain (and even surpass) the popularity of the 10s: putting the belt on their biggest star. However, its gonna be funny when they keep pushing SANADA (he basically got his WK9/12 defeat here, so be ready G1 34 and WK 19!), when the guy keeps underdelivering and doesn't even look like half the star the new Musketeers/Uemura/War Dogs are looking. ZSJ should be their top foreign star, but they're gonna push Finlay instead (which is a not a bad wrestler, but the midcard is his limit). Their top heels are HOT, a stable that should only be a comedy midcard act, if anything. They killed Suzuki Gun in order to create J5G, the most generic stable I've ever seen, only carried by Taichi (who should have been a main eventer for years, now). Hell, the fact that they took away the IWGP Heavy title should tell you enough. Idk, it's just that the priorities feel wrong in this company. And that has happened even before the pandemic, when they kept pushing Okada and Omega ahead of Naito. So we'll see. At least, I think Gedo should stop being the booker considering his desastrous work all these recent years, and while I don't believe Tanahashi will have enough time to book other than the most general routes, they have to let a new team cook. There's no point in changing management if they let the booking guy do the same bullshit as before.

Nvm, Rush is still in if he beats Swerve and Mox beats White: triple tie at 9 for the second place between him, Swerve and Jay, with no tiebreaker (Swerve defeated White, White defeated Rush, Rush defeated Swerve). Don't know how that could be resolved though, neither of them has a victory over Mox and all of them have victories over Lethal and Briscoe.

Rush is technically out as well due to White getting 9 points. While Mox already being in the finals is not what I would have booked, there's still a lot that can happen. Swerve doesn't necesarily need to win, but he 100% needs Jay White to lose. Jay needs to beat Mox and Swerve to lose/draw against Rush. A draw with Mox if Swerve loses works for him, too. If both Jay and Swerve win, it's a tie at 12 with Mox, with no clear tiebreaker: Mox won against Swerve, Swerve won against White, White won against Mox. Maybe they do a triple threat for the semis, or maybe they just say that, because Mox was already in either way, its only between the other two and they argue White should go above Swerve, because he did defeat Moxley. But I can't see them not putting Swerve on the finals, let alone the group finals. It's interesting though, because both Swerve/White and Swerve/Moxley ended with a tricky roll up, setting up a possible rematch. And Jay will probably cheat to beat Mox, too. Any possible group final has had seeds planted, and, in that way, I give the booking of the gold league a lot of credit.

Keep in mind I've always been a higher guy on Rollins than a lot of people in these kind of IWCs. Rollins is frustrating to me because I believe we are never going to see his peak. When he had the athleticism he didn't got the right character work, and now that he has a character that people get behind of (although a very bad one, to me) he's slowly falling apart because of injuries and being fifteen-ten years older. I look at 2012-15 Rollins and I see a great promising wrestler. He's still good, just not what he could have been. I believe the WWE style doesn't do him any favours either, as he would have been awesome in 2010s New Japan for example. He feels fake, character wise. Doesn't have the personality and aura of Moxley, tribal chief Reigns or other guys of his generation that found themselves as wrestlers. He's always going from gimmick to gimmick, wrestling the same although worse because of injuries, and while he has some great matches from time to time... I don't think that's enough in a top 100 wrestlers ever project, when there's a huge lot of competition. Right now he's my lowest of the Shield guys, and the only one I'm not having in mind for my list.

Eddie is in It? I thought the winner would face him. The prize is stupid, but we are about to see an instant classic of a wrestling minirrun, like it happened with the first Cruiserweight Classic back in the day.

Was amazing in Lucha Underground and became super annoying anywhere else. Both him and Fénix definitely hurt each other by teaming up instead of following singles careers.

His Collision run has been excellent. The Darby matches and the Bryan match have been great additions to his catalogue. What are the best pre-TNA Christian matches not counting the ladders stuff?