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Dax is such an internet drama queen, dude knew the type of response the tweet would get.

Bryan/Fletcher was a banger. Real neat using ZSJ's clutch to get the win. Fletcher's hair is so 1998 high school photo, shit kills me.

Of course, but would it have mattered if you didn't feel like you had to fit in an hour of Rampage with some...idk, random Hardys tag, a Kiera Hogan squash?

Not that Punk has a lot of credibility left, but he would be a legendary sell out fraud to go back to WWE.

Dawg, it is okay to not watch wrassles

FOMO on Rampage is about the same as FOMO on Thunder by the summer of 1998.

I think AEW has been quite a bit more focused since the debut of Collision. I agree there were too many big shows so jammed together with All In, All Out, and two Grand Slam Shows, WrestleDream in what...a 6 week period? However, the issue of CONTENT is never an issue unless you make it one for yourself. It's the same with pretty much any company that runs multiple shows, even ones that don't have TV like GCW. No one is making you watch Rampage or ROH, or Main Event and Level Up, or all the NJPW Strong show or Road to shows. I would say this also applies to other media franchises like Marvel or Star Wars.

Go all in on the Bang Bang Gang baybay

BCC isn't that weird of a grouping of guys, it's 3 dudes who had a connection to Regal and train in catch bullshit, plus their young boy. Edge would not fit into that in any way whatsoever. If the BCC is going to expand, they very much need another young talent, not another ex-WWE guy who is 50 and has zero association with the style or really Regal either. I wouldn't mind Yuta either graduating and going solo, or having his own young boy kind of deal.

There's always the TNA syndrome (or perhaps WCW) fears of bringing in WWE exiles, but also Edge is 50, has always been injury prone, and a lot of people weren't all that interested in Edge's return to WWE, either. I will say that for the most part I thought 2021-22 was some of the best in ring stuff Edge had done. However, I also thought his stuff with Orton, Rollins, and Balor was trash and a lot of Edge's stuff was the worst stuff in WWE for much of the mid to late 00s. The idea that AEW needed Edge, or Edge is some kind of savior for them is weird. I don't think Edge is going to make much of a difference in the sense of tickets/buys/ratings, because really outside of Punk, none of the big debuts really did any sustained metric boosts, and it seems like audience size for TV seems to do higher numbers when it features non-WWE talent in bigger roles. It will be interesting to see how Edge works, as unlike all the other big name WWE talent in AEW, he doesn't have any non-WWE history and has only worked that style for 25 years.

I'm not into face MJF, who is 100% schtick, in the same way that he was 100% schtick as a heel. It's over and crowds seem to love it, it just isn't for me. I think the biggest problem is this whole thing with Cole has felt like the title is very secondary and disconnected from the rest of the shows. Two PPVs in a row where a secondary title main events as the actual champ is in tag matches in the opener against goofs with zero chance. Barnett vs Claudio ruled. Eddie vs Shibata ruled. Eddie Kingston becoming the American Ishii rules. Bryan/ZSJ ruled. Moxley on commentary ruled. FTR/Aussie Open ruled even with the injuries and sloppiness. Christian/Darby was....something. There's no way that stairs spot could have gone well even at the safest possible way to take it, but then have it be so fucked up heading into it and that might be the most disgusting bump I've ever seen that didn't have someone paralyzed or visible bone break like a Sid. Christian is the heel MJF thought he was, just an absolute unrepentant piece of shit to everyone. Edge's debut was lmao. Imagine how much cooler and hype it would have been if the music and smoke started without a 45 second vignette that fucking Darby and Sting have done many times...to do a run in to save Darby and Sting.

Julia Hart has the heaviest moonsault for such a tiny person. Hard on the knees.

Tofu analogies are not torching someone They actually are not. That got retconned around the time Christian won the WHC and started being referred to as "Edge's best friend".

I do not want Edge in AEW, but it would be pretty funny to have Roddy screaming for ADAM ADAAAAAAAAM and then Edge comes out

I very much hope Edge does not show up in AEW. Or Ziggler. Of the recently released, I think I'd like BOOGZ because you could pair him up with a lot of different talents and get something real fun out of it. Also hope that TK doesn't sign free agent Sami Callihan.

White-O/Andrade ruled. It's funny how much better Andrade's back elbow is compared to the Judas Effect. Also, White using the ropes to pull himself up while holding Andrade in position for the Bladerunner was such a simple and common sense bit of selling that you never see.

Sting and Darby finally hit the Scorpion Death Coffin Drop :lawd

Riddle vs heavyweight Ospreay rematch :whooo

USA throwing huge money for SD but not Raw doesn't make much sense to me

Actually there isn't much talent in the nWo. Especially post split, when Savage is gone, Hall is drunk, Norton is in Japan, Buff is hurt and not working most of the year, Steiner is doing schtick all year. Depending on what you think about Bret being an actual member or not, I think there's an argument that can be made that Nash actually is the best worker by that point until Sting joins the Wolfpac. Maybe Lex. Hennig was not having good matches or promos. Everything was Rick Rude interference and truly bad promos with them.

There are still a lot of good-great matches in 1998 and into spring of 1999. Summer of 1999 is when shit starts really getting dire and that leads directly into Russo so..

Nash went blonde in early 1998 so that was pretty much the peak of the WCW talent roster.

There is zero chance that Jade is at the PC to try out. She would be there like an orientation, to see the facilities, to see the differences in the ring/ropes/cameras, and so on.

She sucks as a face but Hayter's injury and the Outcasts angle really got her in a terrible limbo. With that angle ending but a heel champ, she's probably still going to be in that limbo for a while unless she goes after Statlander, which would be good for both of them since they both need an actual feud.

In terms of quality and entertainment value, Hollywood Hogan's run is the worst main event run of all time. The worst promos The worst matches The worst angles I'm not sure there is even a decent Hollywood Hogan singles match in the WCW run. Any angles or promos that are any good are because of the other person involved, not him. Anything that requires "acting" is so bad. The absolute most groan and ugh worthy person on the entire WCW roster anytime he appears on screen in any capacity in 1996-1998. It's somehow even worse than the 1995-pre turn 1996 run, which is also absolutely dreadful.