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I never liked the Attitude Adjustment as a finisher. The bump is too soft looking. Weird Dynamite. Enjoyed the two tournament matches and the MJF promo, but everything else was decent at best. I think they're gonna put the belt on Danielson because MJF will "injure" Mox or whatever (so he can have his vacation), and then do a Bryan/MJF storyline and a MJF/Mox feud right after MJF wins the title.

I don't think there's an endgame. The Rock match at WM seems pretty clear, but there's no way Rock's winning that. I just don't think they're long-term booking after that, yet. It's hard for me to believe Cody Rhodes is HHH's choice. There's no way he's putting an "AEW star" over the big face of the company, that's exactly the opposite of what Triple H has always done. Trips is a huge mark for those symbolisms.

Is not like they were doing something with Cabana to begin with, though. Why are people surprised he was one of the talents sent to ROH? Why does everyone believes Meltzer and/or the vultures known as wrestling journalists when they say the Elite arent their sources? That's exactly what somebody whose sources are the Elite would say. C'mon guys. This whole thing is extremely hilarious to me, but I can't avoid being just a tiny bit bothered about the hate Punk's getting. Suddenly, the Bucks and Omega don't have any toxic stories anywhere they went. Suddenly, Triple H (Triple fucking H of all people) was right when he did that cool promo against Punk a lot of years ago. Suddenly, Colt Cabana is everyone's favourite wrestler, deserving of prime time tv time, and he only doesn't get it because Punk hates him. The roster being mostly pro-Elite means nothing to me. They're literally their bosses and founded the company, of course they have more people on their side. Punk is an asshole because he has no problems getting dirty with people who is dirty against him, but that doesn't mean he can't be right. He's almost never being wrong in previous stuff back at WWE, iirc. Also, Tony Khan is the main responsible for all of this. He just doesn't have what it takes to control a wrestling lockerroom. But he's surrounded by people who does (Arn, Henry, Lynn, etc) so I hope more discipline is forced, everyone gets suspended, Punk drops the title as soon as possible to MJF, and the Elite loses their EVP charges. None of that it's gonna happen (Tony will just send them to a coach or something like that, and then he will try to make it a storyline), but something needs to change around Khan. Maybe Tony himself.

Man Mox/Punk was fucking awesome. What a delightful little story they have told in just four weeks, finishing It with an absolute banger of a fight. Maybe my AEW MOTY right now.

He's a worse version than Kenny Omega's worst version. I actually really enjoyed his early NJPW run as a Jr from 2016-19, you can see him learning to find an accurate balance to his style over time. I will even say he was NJPW's WOTY for 2019. But as soon as they pushed him to the moon in order to find another Kenny, he went back to being this insufferable attention whore kind of wrestler that I hate, with double the ego. Everything about him cringes me nowadays. Oh and his pre-NJPW stuff is hit or miss.

Jon fucking Moxley, ladies and gentlemen.

Not a fan of Jericho beating Kingston just to put Moxley over (again) in a low-stakes, transitional title defence, but gotta admit man, Mox really sold me on that match with just two minutes of mic work.

Man, the Regal and Fuji matches are soooooo good. Probably top 5 for Hash. Hyped for the Flair match.

I don't think he was bad at WWE at all. Like, at any point. The FCW stuff is awesome. His Shield run we all know is one of those career-making runs for all three of those guys. Then Rollins turned heel and Ambrose was the hottest guy in the company during that rivalry, with very good matches (their whole saga is great, love all their matches but I'd specially recommend the 30 mins Ironman match, the Montreal RAW match and the Ladder match). Then he was relegated to Roman's second and couldn't shine much, but his 2016 is awesome. The Owens LMS match and Rumble performance. The freaking Reigns/Lesnar TT. The Triple H match. Yeah WM with Brock was dissapointing (100% blame Lesnar), but then his SmackDown Live run in the second half of 2016-early 2017 is very, very solid: you have the AJ saga (and I will die on this hill: at least, as good as the Reigns matches), an incredible carryjob to Ziggler (didn't like the match, but sure as hell loved his performance), cool comedy stuff with Ellsworth, the Miz rivalry is really underrated (great matches in a January 2017 SmackDown and the Extreme Rules PPV)... In 2018 he has the Rollins tag run with stelar fights with The Bar and Drew/Ziggler. Yeah his heel run was bad, he obviously was done with the company at that point so is understandable, and he still have some months or whatever where, if not given anything, he won't be as good, but overall I think he has been far better and solid in WWE that most people think, even if he was clearly an output guy instead of input. I still can find some pretty hidden gems in random tv matches with him like a US title match with Rusev, the first Braun Strowman singles match where he managed to look believable against him, a kinda stiff Bray Wyatt brawl (qualifyer for the MITB at may/june 2015 iirc) that is strangely much better than everything they did later together, an Owens/Ziggler triple threat for the IC title... I get he wasn't presented by the company as one of the most interesting guys to follow, but believe me, he's almost always been one of those under-the-radar good workers.

Honestly the weirdest thing for me is Naito not having anything to do with this. Like, both Shingo and Hiromu are there, but not Naito? Seems super weird to me. Why does Ospreay/Orange exist when you could have had Naito/Orange instead?

This G1 feels everything but special. I cannot believe they could bring guys like Lawlor, Archer or this Jonah guy to fill spots, but they still decided to include guys like Fale, Tama Tongaw, Henare, Yujiro or Yoshi Hashi anyway. Like, I got it when the pandemic was at its peak and they just had to work with what they had, but this year? C'mon man.

I strongly disagree. He shines a lot in that setting, his matches with guys like Killer Kross, Barnett or Biff Busick are a delight. He's obviously not a classic shoot style wrestler, as he doesn't have the background, but his "rabid dog in a street fight" attitude brings something fresh to the usual sport-like approach of shoot matches and is so cool.

Any link to the Lawlor?match ? Needless to say I'm interested.

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).