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Dave Meltzer reported the popular star, who just returned from a lengthy absence due to injuries and a medical issue, was either suspended “for either one or two weeks and fined by the company’s disciplinary committee.” It’s unknown when the suspension is up, but Baker was absent from this past Wednesday’s Dynamite. While the details are light, Meltzer said that something happened at the 250th episode of Dynamite on July 17th where Baker allegedly said something about MJF which Atout heard. She then told MJF who then confronted Baker about it. Ibou added the incident happened right after MJF’s match with Will Ospreay that opened the show with Fightful reporting that the Baker/MJF argument “resulted in MJF punching a wall before his hour long match.” Fightful’s report also stated Baker “exercised frustration” about MJF within the women’s locker room. The outlet also reported that they had heard there was a confrontation between Atout and Baker and that Ospreay even talked to Baker at one point. The conflict was apparently due to unresolved issues in the past and that, according to Fightful, the two former friends had a falling out at some point over the last year. AEW HR then launched an investigation in an effort to settle things quickly and talked to people on July 24th. Meltzer was unsure as to what Tony Khan’s involvement was as “everyone was attempting to keep this under wraps.”

What experience does Shane McMahon have in dealing with streaming services

Dynamite has fuckin rocked for months now. Really interesting because there was a long stretch where Collision was the way better show but now feels like an afterthought

Hell yes they're running Bryan vs Double J

Dbryne's seizure and paralyzed selling, which he's been doing since 2015, is easily the thing I dislike most about his work. 1. It is in poor taste 2. It also isn't believable because he's done it so often over the past 9 years, and it seems like he's leaned on that quite a bit more in AEW than he did in his second WWE run.

Maybe if the stuff with Vince hadn't happened and come out, there could be a shock and surprise of a McMahon in a different company, but post Vince crimes...

Shane The Man Shane McMoney McShane Tony yelling IT'S SHAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNEEE Final Nitro: Shane McMahon buys WCW Final Dynamite: Shane McMahon buys AEW Poetry, rhymes, etc

I don't know why you would want to associate your company with the McMahon name, especially since WWE won't even associate with it anymore. Shane sucks and would add absolutely nothing to AEW, but it would be funny if he popped up with a bad TNA name.

Someone with a tweetsies ask Kenny Omega if he's a fan of Danny Kaye.

It's not hard to understand, but the majority of OG War Games are uneventful brawling and blading. Cage matches in general to me in all eras are hard to buy into as some ultimate brutality getting thrown into a fence. At least the old school bars WWF cage was like yeah you'd get fuck up if you got slammed into those no give bars.

JCP/WCW did a million of them, even before they were a yearly PPV thing no matter what, they just ran that shit on tour. Story and work wise, they were almost always just aimless brawling and blading you'd get in any cage match. There wasn't some big "finally the heels get what is coming to them" type story. Even before War Games made it to specific PPV event, it was just what cage matches had become in the 90s, or HIAC had become post 2005 or so. Everyone loves the concept and the visual, but there's a reason people only talk about one or two War Games as being memorable (usually 1991 and 1992, I might argue 1996/1997 as well). There's rarely any kind of story in the match beyond general heels advantage.

I think we're all mature enough and long enough viewers or at least historians enough to acknowledge both WWE and AEW War Games are better than JCP/WCW War Games ever were.

Bruv/MJF could have gone another 20 minutes imo. Excellent chemistry. It's going to be real hard to match or top that at All In.

A Hangman/Jarrett Texas death match blood bath at All In would probably rule. Actually, run Bryan vs Double J while we're at it.

Shitting on Boston because one of the members of the match was from Boston. Otherwise they would not have been shitting on Boston. Vaquer made a very positive impression with pretty much everyone in the crowd and who watched the show, and obviously enough for WWE to immediately swoop her up. Vaquer came off way more impressive than Mercedes in that match, and had she not, the crowd wouldn't have started shitting on Boston mid match.

The crowd completely turned on Mercedes halfway through the match. She was working face before that point in the match.

Late to it, but Hanger/Switchblade absolutely ruled, which is lol because I remember NJ running Page vs White at the first big US show of their current US attempt (Golden Lovers vs Bucks main event) and thinking both guys were so bland and unmemorable.

She just had a a match with Mercedes Mone Banks at Forbidden Door and immediately won over the crowd to the point of forcing a Sasha heel turn. Very aggressive of WWE to swoop her up so fast.

It's great WWE is so hot and crowds are so wild, but man anytime I actually watch WWE shows these past year or two is the sloppiest, weakest looking shit since the 80s.

This show ruled. I fell out of keeping up with the weeklies, not because of quality, but just life, so this is the first Dynamite I've watched in a couple of months probably. Bryan/PAC ruled. Might be the best singles match PAC has had in AEW imo. Willow/Stat ruled. For sure best match either have had in AEW. Heel Stat with Stoke is such an improvement. Really enjoy Willow and her catching on the way she has. Hanger vs Double J ruled. Tbh my favorite Jarrett run in his career was as the old timer Southern babyface in TNA, which was what like....15 years ago? Lol. The double fakeout Buckshot into sharpshooter :lawd Violent mean ass Hangman is going to rule, and the crowd chanting Swerve's House at him is perfect for running that back (maybe at All In?). Ospreay/Garcia ruled. The dick thrust Kawada kicks lmao. I really like the Joe/Shibata/Hook trio, and it really is making Hook look a lot better than he is, although that dude has the weirdest bumping style. The match was good, but the Learning Tree "gimmick" is basically the same meta satire gimmick the Bucks were doing 2 years ago (and still, kind of), and Jericho himself has done basically the same gimmick at least twice in his career. I'm sure he thinks it is real smart and reading the room to "reinvent" himself yet again, but this is actually worse than what he was doing before that got the please retire chants in the first place. Baker/Banks immediately feels big time and heated. Sasha is always best as a heel. Bucks/Okada in a War Games with Mark Briscoe/The Acclaimed is random as hell but interesting to see where that goes. Billy Gunn vs Okada in War Games lmao. Would be extra lol if Tana ends up in the match and doing War Games spots with Okada in 2024 in America. The end angle is where MJF shines, not as a top babyface, not as a top heel, but that upper card heel absolute piece of shit that can get some real heat. Garcia getting such a big main event match and angle and presumably big match for All In is good to see. Really feels like story wise, everything is hitting and interesting and fresh except for Jericho shit. His entire AEW run is forming a stable and feuding with a younger guy to "make them" and it doesn't do shit for anyone and usually actually takes the other guy ages to recover whatever momentum they had before Jericho got involved, and his stable dudes usually don't do shit for ages after either.

God I don't know what match I saw, Vaquer did look great and very impressed with her upon first viewing, but the match was full of so many miscommunications and awkward resetting to get back into some kind of groove. Sasha looked like she either got rocked or hurt very early on and was struggling to get out of it the whole match to me.

Great show, but boy did Sasha/Vaquer and Mox/Naito shit the bed. I'm willing to believe Sasha got injured very early on and had to keep going because of the Britt Baker return after the match. As for Naito...dude is cooked. He's in the same spot Tana was 5-6 years ago where he's clearly old and broken down and a shell of himself, but can pull out a few miracles per year. That match definitely wasn't one of them. Speaking of Tana, that match was the best usage of him I've seen in ages. Miracle the crowd was still so molten for Swerve/Bruv after the back to back duds, but god damn did that match rule. So did Shingo/Bryan and ZSJ/OC.

Downtown Indy is basically built around huge gatherings and conventions, an international airport with direct flights from all over the world, huge stadium with a retractable roof so weather isn't an issue.

Broken Hardy stuff def had a ton of online views, not sure it did anything for TV or attendance, but that stuff was the most viewed and talked about TNA stuff in probably 5-6 years, and nothing since has had that kind of buzz for them, either.

Lol what. Dbryne taking falls because it can't hurt him and can only help whoever pins him being selfish because he doesn't want to be the top guy in the victory lap of his full run career is some peak smark nonsense talk.