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Tbh more sub-10 minute matches is exactly what the G1 needs at this point. There's no reason why a monster like Keith Lee couldn't beat a lot of the announced guys this year in 10 minutes, other than the Gedo fetish of going long for the sake of it.

Putting Okada in a triple threat is actually the best way of protecting both his body limitations and his inability to work an original singles match, I much rather prefer that to having him work his same old shit 40-45 mins big match with [insert AEW top name here]. It gives us something new and fresh for him, the one thing he desperately has been needing since 2019. Anyway, Hangman vs White is the best IWGP Title match they could run right now. Not only it would be a great match, but also Jay can win dirty to protect Page even more in defeat.

I don't understand the O' Reilly hate around here, dude has been a really good wrestler for a long time now and never had a strong main event run which he deserved some time ago in ROH, I'm happy he's been booked well in AEW. Mox's victory was obvious anyway, so just put him against a fresh match up for him that can be great, and KOR delivered. I admit the battle royal itself was kind of a mesa, but overall no problem with that part of the show... ... But them making another fucking title is so stupid, man. I've always hated the concept of an "intercontinental" championship, like, is it supposed to represent the best outside the US? And therefore the WORLD championship represents the best in the US? And you tellin me the first has less value than the last? Doesn't make sense at all, and never has. And I'm one who thinks that secondary championships as we understand them do not make sense at this point anymore, but hey that just might be me. But seriously, championships should have a strong concept behind them in order to exist. World title? The best guy, got it. Tag titles? The best at that kind of wrestling, got it. Development title? The one for young and promising rookies in order to rise to the bigger leagues, got it. Women title/tag titles/development title? For ladies when you don't want to make your product intergender, got it. But, the TNT title? The one for the TV shows? But the world champ is already on tv every week. This new Atlantic title? The one above every other wrestler in the countries around the Atlantic ocean? That sounds a lot like a WORLD champion to me but whatever... Really liked Wardlow's motivation to not go for the interim bullshit. The champ is Punk so until he arrives, he doesn't give a fuck. And that's exactly what I think about all of this. Didn't watch the rest of the show yet but wanted to give my thoughts with all this stuff. AEW is having some (each time more frequent) weird booking choices and I don't like the tendency I'm appreciating.

Mox has become this kind of weird workhorse that you can trust to put over younger/not as stablished wrestlers just by killing them, and it's so great. Since returning from alcohol he's been on a great run, maybe his best ever when it comes to week to week performances.

I'm addicted to this new Era of Krakoa for the X-Men, been this last month catching up since House of X/Power of X and right now I'm in the middle of the Reign of X run. Sadly, readcomiconline doesn't have the last volumes, where can I read the rest?

I would love that too. Just give him a full summer in the US to face every dream match opponent and let him drop the title to either Punk (if he returns in time) or MJF/Kingston. Fuck it.

Build MJF/Kingston as soon as posible. They're the ones as over as neecessary + they have some previous story with Punk, so when he comes back it'll be a hot storyline for him. That said, I HATE the interim stuff. Either you're the world champion or not, there should't be any grey area for that. If Punk's gonna return sooner than later, I would have the title vacant until his return; it doesn't make sense to crown a fake champion to just make the job to Punk at one of their first title defenses.

I don't care about realism in that way, if the worker is selling a limb and that's adding to the match/a long term story, that's all I need.

Them being good is just another thing, though.

NJPW has been slowly and subtly on decline since 2018. I still strongly believe Naito not winning at WK 12 was the beginning of the end: Gedo prefered to give the historic Okada reign to Omega, in all his "outsiderist" glory, instead of pulling the trigger on the biggest phenomenom they had in a long time. Priorizing both the american market and Okada as the ace to beat, have cursed the product.

The Owen tournament has been a huge disssapointment (specially the male one, but there are awful things common to both genres). Hell I enjoyed the "tournament qualifyers" more (even if I dislike that concept a lot, just put them all on the freaking thing!). Too short, questionable names and victories, unexciting (Johnny)/wasted (Itoh) jokers, and an overall feel of "this shit isn't important enough and they are doing it just for good wrestling marketing or whatever". Why aren't any champions competing in it? What are the personal connections most of these guys have with Owen to want to win it? It could have been handled much, much better and make it unique. Right now, it reminds me of one of those rushed KOTR WWE made sometimes when they couldn't give a shit about that stuff. If the Owen tournament becomes an annual tradition, for the love of god give it a better presentation and more attractive names. I'm not liking the whole PPV build up, tbh. Page/Punk is going surprisingly slow; BCC were lost for weeks and now will work with the weakest stable of the whole company, just as anchors for a feud that should already be finished (Jericho/Kingston); the TNT scene has become garbage; the tag scene feels like in hiatus until JE lose the titles... There are programs I'm kinda enjoying like MJF/Wardlow or the stupid Hookhausen stuff, and it's not like the matches don't have potential to be good: all of them have, my criticism is with the road to them, because I don't feel nearly as much excitement as I was feeling for the previous PPV.

This one is wild. Both are two of the best ever at just being themselves at any moment. They could simply be on the apron watching tag partners wrestle, and they'll be interesting just for their mannerisms alone, for example. Both feel larger than life. Park's consistency is one of the biggest in any wrestler, while Savage didn't have that. He also beats him at output of great matches (something Savage strongly lacks, for me).

Been rewatching a ton of Orton recently. Man I did dirty on this guy. He really shines through most of his career, with exquisite selling and iconic offense, and he's a master of little details. He also hace a lot of underrated/hidden gems: the Benoit match, the WM Punk match, the WHC Henry match, some of the Cena matches (I specially like Breaking Point 2009 and HIAC 2014), a random RVD match in fucking 2013 at SmackDown, the great Cesaro match in early 2014, the very first Reigns great singles match, and even carried motherfucking KANE to some of his best stuff ever in 2012 (one of Orton's weakest years). I even rewatched some of his considered worst stuff (the HHH Mania main, for example) and most of it wasn't even that bad, it was actually kinda decent, at least for his part. I don't see Gordy having a chance at basically anything. I don't even like the 88 RWTL finals as much, I'd put some Orton matches above it with no doubt.

I think Rey wins this one pretty easily just by consistency alone. Even if he doesn't have as many elite stuff as you would want for a project like GWE (and Steamboat might have him beat in that regard for a lot of people), he's just been too good for too long, and has as many good to great matches as anyone else ever. Steamboat doesn't have that, even though he was pretty good for a decent amount of time as well, he wasn't as consistent through the 80s. If I find myself in a random Rey match, probs are I'm gonna like it more than a random Steamboat match. And Steamboat's greatest hits, for me, are even fewer than Rey's... Althought I would rank his Ironman with Rude and WrestleWar 89 higher than any Rey match ever, but those are just two matches. At this point in my list, Rey is still a top 25 contender, while Steamboat struggles to remain at the top half.

How is a ten year old peak considered "short"? I think Hash and Ogawa did show some chemistry, but only on the few moments of their big matches that weren't heavily marked by booking. If they let them had usual wrestling matches, I'm sure they would have been at least great. And yeah Nagata > Hash isn't anything crazy at all. I'm not sure I'd rank them that way on GWE, but I don't have any problem with it, think it's pretty fair. I can buy the argument of Nagata having a clearly higher floor than Hash.

Jeff Hardy going over Darby is stupid. Also, I guess It makes sense for Eddie and PnP to join the BBC, but I expected the stable to be more like "Mox and Bryan recruiting young guys to make them violent enough" as promised since the beginning. If these three guys officially join, now they would be too many and no room for more Yuta-like wrestlers on it.

Some would say it's too early for making a GWE case for her, but she's already 33, and has been active for six years. Right now I wouldn't rank her, but if she adds four excellent years to what she already has... By 2026 she could be a lock for a lot of people. She has all the tools, as explained above, and she's one of those young wrestlers who just seems to "get it", and is so satisfying to watch. She's a natural.

Two of the greatest White heel performances must be the G1 2020 Ishii match, and last year's Tanahashi NEVER title match (which is the only pandemic era match I'm considering all time great, and the only japanese one that made me forget the crowd couldn't do shit 100% of the time). But yeah, any match since his 2019 G1 run serves you to see how much of a prodigy he has become. Already one of the best wrestlers in the world, and probably the best heel in pro wrestling in at least the last five years.

They could start their rivalry as soon as possible, have UE dominate for a while, and then Omega returns by surprise, cleaning the room and equalizing things before the ultimate showdown. They don't need to wait for Kenny to start the whole war. BCC still rocks obviously, but now that Yuta is formally in it, they need to move to another storyline. It's time for Bryan and Mox to go for the tag titles.

I think it was clearly a botch. Mox even smiles at the end after hitting the ref like wtf dude.

Don't get the Sammy heat. He was becoming a natural heel during his babyface title reign, so they made the right move and turned him heel to regain the championship and start what should be a very enjoyable heel title reign. And he's a very good young wrestler so, again, why the hate?

If WWE failed to exploit a market in India, what the hell do AEW think they can do? The product is better, for sure, but that alone doesn't mean much (sadly). WWE is a globalized monopoly and still India didnt gave a fuck about wrestling.

Punk/Penta bothers me. It sounds too good to be thrown randomly at this Dynamite, in a moment where I don't think is a good idea to make neither one of them lose. That match up deserved some build up and higher stakes.

They should make an angle about the TNT Championship corrupting his holders like it's the wrestling's version of the ring of Sauron or something.

His best tv matches are the ones worked like a big ppv match but in RAW (vs HBK, Punk, Rey, his best US title challenge matches...), so I'm not sure those count. I'd say he's a mediocre tv worker because he always did the exact same match with any random opponent and just filled time for the finishing sequence and/or overbooked finish of the week. Cena's case is all about big matches.