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It's wild that 2 matches in as an AEW talent, Okada is more interesting than he's been in like 5 years.

Bryan vs Shane Taylor fucking ruled Dickhead Okada demolishing jobbers on US TV rules Man wtf that Briscoe buckle to floor on chairs bump.

I believe the thing that got Vince caught up was that he was using his personal money for the pay offs that should have been expensed to the company and on their records for filings. Which is also :what:

Finally, some good AEW news

Remember all the "they're wasting Eddie Kingston" crying for months. Meanwhile, TK made his own G1 built around Eddie, gave Eddie his own Triple Crown, had him go over the entire BCC (and Bryan twice), and now it appears he'll be feuding with EVP Okada for the Triple Crown.

Starks vs LA Knight with a My Way video package would be legendary

The Four Pillars of AEW: MJF after a year+ title reign, he's been gone for months and his absence has not been felt at all. Sammy: How many times has he been suspended or missed time for injuries or hurt someone doing stupid shit now? Jungle Boy: Suspended to fighting with Punk, Punk has already returned to WWE and been injured and yet Jungle Boy is I guess working NJ now instead of returning to AEW? Darby: The only dependable mf keeping the company on stable ground

When is this coward TK going to book Low Ki vs Joe/Bryan in 2024

Absolute top tier PPV Storm vs Deonna: Quite good Scramble: Messy but pretty good Christian vs DC: Quite good Joe/Hanger/Swerve: Quite good Eddie vs Bryan: Ruled BCC vs FTR: Ruled Ospreay vs Takeshita: Fucking ruled Roddy vs OC: Ruled Sting/Darby vs Bucks: S tier sports entertainmenting from opening video to end of show. AEW when it is peak and with a full arena mega hot crowd is the ultimate early-mid 00s smark promotion. Like this entire show is absolute peak for wild shit you could not have possibly imagined to be happening in 2024 if you were a fan in the early days of the indies explosion in 2001-2002. Tbh, if AEW only existed for the Sting run, it would have been worth it.

Dawg this card is fucking stacked. Certainly has potential to be an all timer.

No one wants to see Sting lose. The Bucks aren't getting the rub, just like KO beating Austin at WM was something no one wanted and it wouldn't have even helped KO. I do kind of hope Flair swerves him one last time, for funsies.

I have no idea why they brought Kevin Kelly in to begin with. They have so many people doing commentary already. It's not like he's some big respected name that brings some prestige like JR or even Tony. He's most known for that fat announcer/interviewer The Rock used to call a hermaphrodite and doing English commentary for NJPW for 6000 fans. And was real fucking bad at the end of his NJ run, then heads to AEW and has zero chemistry with anyone (even a dude he did commentary with for years???), and seems like he has no idea who any of the talent or storylines were. He was very bad as lead pbp. I guess he's tolerable as secondary color guy, but I'd much prefer anyone else in the AEW commentary roster to have that spot instead.

That dude is on TV every week, what is he talking about

That's what I've been thinking. Seth's involvement in all this seems pretty loose and weak. Stone Cold popping up on Cody's side seems like the real mega pop holy shit moment. No one needs a Rock/Austin rematch in 2024, but the glass shattering and Austin coming out to hit a stunner on Rock with massive oversell would be all timer mega pop for sure.

Skye Blue gotta be pretty top of the pile of most improved

I would be very stoked if TK somehow tracked down Blitzkrieg and now he was a a 50 year old fat guy wrestler

There's probably an argument that UWF is the single most influential wrestling promotion to ever exist.

I had a flight from Italy to the Mid West US and was totally fine a day or two after I got back, but then when the jet lag caught up a day or so later, I legit slept for 20 hours :lawd

Haven't seen Bryan/Akiyama yet, but I'm inclined to agree not even 3 months into the year. Hook kinda sucks. Dude desperately needs to work the indies or even go into the NXT system. Yeah sure he can hit his couple of spots and moves fine, but the most basic everything else looks so bad. Not sure how he got memed into popularity, although I guess a solid number of AEW talents got over that way. All of his strikes look bad, his selling is bad, usually his bumps are bad and first year looking unless his opponent can force him into a real bump. I'm not going to say he's David Flair level, but outside of being able to hit his couple of spots and having a look, I'm not sure at this stage I'd put him much higher than David Flair. Obviously he's much more of an athlete than David Flair was, but dude needs a lot of seasoning still before being in multiple tv main events.

Christian's dead dad hater gimmick might be the finest heel gimmick of the past 25 years.

Just a thought I've had floating around for years now: Charlotte Flair has both the worst Flair/Fargo strut and WHOOOOOO of anyone who had adopted them even in a mocking fashion. You'd think that Ric would have pulled her aside and showed her how to do them over the past decade or so.

Just wish they'd replace Yuter with anyone else. No surprise that BCC has been way better with Yuta out of action and just having the main 3 wrestle and fight the world.

HBK adapted as he got older to the point where he could come back and do everything he used to do a decade later albeit a bit slower. Tana is just a physical wreck and has been for the past 5ish years. Dude can't even do the slingblade anymore. If he's going to stay working in the ring, I feel like he should embrace being old and his body going to shit and stay in mid to lower card stuff where he doesn't do much off the mat. Maybe he could even gain some extra weight and become a fat guy wrestler in his twilight.

I didn't realize he was 47. Thought he was a bit younger than that. It's wild that the NJ dads from the previous generation can go harder in the ring than Tana at this stage.

Bryan/ZSJ 2 ruled. Okada vs Tana 37 did not. God damn does Tana look like shit. But imagine if somehow he had a 2001 Mutoh resurgence after looking completely washed and broken down for years. Wanted to give the cage match a chance, but I just have zero interest in any of the BC/War Dogs guys or the UE outside of Ospreay and Aussie Open dudes who I don't think are even in the group now.