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Ian Riccaboni is so much better than Kevin Kelly, and has significantly better chemistry with Nigel. Kevin Kelly was a weird choice from the jump considering he had no history with AEW and he's full time English commentator for NJ and it is G1 season.

Why doesn't Scott Steiner have a No Sympy shirt on PWT that is in the style of the No Mercy box art

MJF is a pathological liar and will lie about anything at any time if it gets him an advantage in some way. All problems solved.

Fuck you, pal

I recently watched a match from Nitro or Thunder in 1998 where Brain talked about a guy seeing a dive coming but it being like when you see a pothole way in advance and try to avoid it but run right into it anyway.

You'd have to get real detailed in the prompts to get something like that.

It's all melodrama, my dudes

All of those are pretty reasonable to me. Bucklebombs and moves into the buckles almost always look like shit anyway, unless someone gets completely folded up and lands on their head, which is also not good. All the crowd stuff should have been implemented a while ago. MJF in particular has really been pushing the limits on that kind of stuff for quite some time.

It's lol that Roddy has been coming to TV in a neck brace for a couple of weeks just to ask Adam Cole about MJF. Also lol at Tony shitting on every second of screen time MJF and Adam Cole have together. Perhaps it is just me projecting my own disinterest in him, but Sammy has seemed very checked out in the ring for months now.

TK said he tried to use ChatGPT to book a show but it had too much going on to be useful. A few examples of ChatGPT booking a show in the style of various bookers Dynamite by Bill Watts Raw by Eddie Graham Wrestle Kingdom by Vince Russo Something a little more specific: an 8 week Punk vs Starks program with the intent of making Starks a main eventer.

I would say it's actually the opposite. usually when something isn't working or doesn't go according to plan, they over pivot the other direction and make sure you know they're doing so.

The game had me kind of wanting to revisit some of the early classics in AEW canon. Cody vs Dustin. The thing that stuck out the most is my god JR's decline is aggressive. At DON 2019, he sounds so full of excitement and energy, probably like mid 00s levels. It's also interesting to have Excalibur in the Tenay-esque color man, fighting his instincts to be the play by play every 30 seconds. And JR just speaks louder when he doesn't give a shit about what Ex is saying. Cody's presentation and poise and just feeling is so much better as a face in WWE. Part of that has come with age and experience, part of it is that it just feels so much more natural for him to be that almost 70s style earnest babyface. The throne thing is still so lmao. Has that ever come up in a post show scrum or one of WWE's webshows? Banger of a match, though. Dustin's head just straight pouring blood. Wish they'd bring back the mat logos. Having Cody/Dustin followed by Bucks/Lucha Bros is really AEW in a nutshell.

Couple of ideas that should be easy to update: Allow at least color editing for gear of the AEW roster. So much of the roster is out of date in appearance due to how long it kept getting delayed, at least being able to manually update would be nice. Allow editing of stats Allow some of the arenas used in mini games to be used in create an arena Actually show the branching paths in RTE like No Mercy Fix table stability so they don't collapse if someone breathes near them

Tbh, Macho had bars

Rock Hard Juice Robinson fucking sucked in NJ. He has not in AEW. Juice's face run was great but Gedo gonna Gedo.

This is Joe's what...3rd wind of his career? Looked completely washed for the last couple years of his TNA run, goes on to have a great NXT run. Sporadically good run on the main roster, but frequently injured, to the point where he was an announcer for a year (this mf was calling WM in the rain 2 years ago) Gets released, then hired back for that one NXT match with Kross where he looked absolutely finished. Pops up in AEW and has been fucking incredible since day one.

I think everyone likes Ricky, but he has not been shinning in these long matches. FTR vs Bang Bang Gang banged and will bang next week. Joe vs Punk also banged. Kind of a bummer this Joe couldn't be involved in the meat wars of Drew/Sheamus/Gunther.

Opening tag was hella fun. Darby and OC work great together, Keith Lee looked better than he has in a long time. Orange Cassidy is truly the ace of AEW. This stuff with MJF seems very below the world champ, but I have to say I find it a lot more entertaining and palatable than the edgelord screamy guy. I think it'd be real interesting if Cole actually turns on MJF. Jericho getting himself involved with Don Callis is yet another shameless shrewd move to soak up heat from someone else's program. I would assume this leads to Sammy being The Elite's final guy and then a 9 month Sammy/Jericho feud which sounds like death. Gotta respect how much Kenny gave Yuta, I just wish Yuta was someone else. He's just....so there. Kenny vs Takeshita is going to bang so hard. Women's division really needs Hayter back ASAP.

AEW's whole thing is PPV quality matches on TV every week. It'd maybe be a bit different if they were on the monthly PPV schedule, but they aren't.

I dunno, sounds like a good fucking deal to me.

Juice/Ricky went way too long and ran out of steam in the back half, but that's gotta be the first time I've seen a drop down trip spot that wasn't comedy since the 70s. Joey Samoey just non stop bangers in AEW, Joe/Punk 4 should be real interesting. Whole show for next week is looking :whoo: Joe vs Punk Hobbs vs Starks FTR vs Bang Bang Gang Athena vs Willow

I think for both Brodie and Big Show you need to lose every match. For Brodie, eventually the Dark Order asks you to join and through that you can unlock him. For Big Show you do have to beat him but you can cheese it with a count out pretty easily.

The only wrestler you really have to grind for is Owen. The other unlockables are beaten in RTE (Big Show, Brodie) or easily purchased in the shop after a few matches (Cody, Aubrey).

It's definitely closer to the WM x8/XIX side of things than Day of Reckoning. A good base with room for improvement. All the No Mercy talk was a bit overblown, as it is much closer to the Gamecube games, which were a mix of the N64 and Smackdown games.

Greg Valentine in Battlearts made me look him up on cage match, and he did a tour of Big Japan, including a barbed wire death match with Kendo Nagasaki. The fuck.