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Juice used the roll of quarters on AEW TV before Max relayed his story of bullying, so it kind of makes sense for a heel who already uses such a thing to use it to bully the champ and get in his head, with MJF eventually beating the bully and healing his trauma. Everything character wise is MJF. The "Jewish stereotypes" are Max being Max and developing that character before AEW existed. There's no way MJF is doing a storyline he thinks is anti-semetic. I think it was supposed to be read as the bullying and mind games, not "we're gonna fuck with this Jew".

Trounced is a little much. Dynamite always loses a significant viewership when moved to a different night, much like SD loses 50% of its audience when it gets bumped to FSN. NXT didn't do much better than their normal or recent numbers even with Cena/Taker/Cody/Asuka/LA Knight popping in. The number Dynamite did on a different night is around the same NXT has done for the past 2 years. It should have been a much more significant blow out. Tony could probably stand to chill out about considering he made WWE/USA move NXT to a different night to begin with.

I support TK being a true message board poster at heart

Also that he's a misogynist because he sucks at booking a women's division. Anyway, Edge should have hit a Canadian Destroyer, imo. When did Luchasaurus grow his thumb back?

Putting Cody and Jade on that show is pretty cold blooded.

TK also is going first 30 minutes commercial free. Dynamite is gonna get crushed. Even if NXT wasn't getting laughably loaded up, Dynamite always does poorly when it gets moved times or days. Line up looks :whew: though.

And thus began @El-P's FOMO syndrome

Yes but not so soon after their last match

Nick Wayne I feel like has a much more logical reason to turn on Darby, and that's the bullshit with AR Fox just a few months ago. Also, I'd love for him to get the broccoli head haircut and start saying bussin' frfr type shit.

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.