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Any show at 10PM on Fridays is going to be a B show. They'd probably get more viewers 6:05 Saturday night.

Kross isn't the worst, he's just entirely unremarkable in every way once the bell rings. His entire aesthetic and whatnot also sucks, and his super push in NXT essentially killed the black and gold version of the brand.

I can't imagine being low on Takeshita. That dude has been fucking awesome every instance I've seen him in AEW.

Yeah but he sucks once the bell rings. Even in WWE, you can't be just an entrance in 2022.

The return of Killer Kross was the worst case scenario of a HHH takeover, and it has happened in the first month.

Christian is a great pro wrestler. Being a great pro wrestler doesn't mean 5 star matches every time out. Christian's main value to AEW is as a coach. His in ring stuff is a bonus. Cant expect anyone to have a great match with Matt Hardy in 2022 under any circumstances, though.

Yet

I must say, since this post the gimmick has been tweaked to all the nonchalant comedy stuff being mind games and psychology, and as a result, OC feels like a much more complete wrestler and character.

I have no idea who Shodate is. There are hundreds of examples of late stage capitalism in the dystopian hellscape most of us live in, but a youtuber you don't like getting booked on a wrestling show is not one of them. Lmao.

Alright now we're just getting silly about it

That's not what's going on here, though. What's going on here is more like there's a festival and on one stage is a band of some celeb. It turns out they're actually really solid and the audience enjoys them, but you (in the royal sense) aren't interested and go to a different stage or to piss or whatever. Then you (in the royal sense) start telling people that the band didn't deserve to be there and they were taking stage time away from a real band. And then when it turns out the audience that did stay to watch enjoyed the band and thought the celeb was actually pretty good at this music thing, you (in the royal sense) get more angry because even if the celeb band was good, they're just doing it for fun on the side and it isn't fair.

Being precious about New Japan or something is whatever, but WWE? In 2022? Lol. I'm sure Miz and Corbin's careers are finished now that they lost to "not real" wrestlers.

He should be disqualified for the rebound lariat and its legacy of usage through today

Some real "it's still real to me" vibes in here

I just find it bizarre there are some fans still upset at the sanctity of THIS BUSINESS or some shit over outsiders coming in and being good or entertaining. Because they aren't REAL wrestlers, they didn't pay their dues in THIS BUSINESS or whatever. It's lol. Obviously the Bad Bunny/Pat Mac/Logan Paul types are true fans with true respect to train as hard and take as seriously as possible what the "real" wrestlers do. The Knoxville WM match was also extremely entertaining. It's 2022, no one in WWE, WWE itself, or the pro wrestling genre itself is going to be harmed by a celebrity coming in and looking like they belong. Particularly when it is guys that look and move like real athletes.

Bianca/Becky was a bit sloppy from the start, but things definitely got wonkier after Becky fucked her shoulder up early on. I'm surprised there hasn't been any update on that, there's a pic that looks like a separated shoulder or broken collarbone.

I can not believe in 2022 that there are people getting tight about celeb matches in WWE, which has been doing celeb matches since 1985, and especially about the celebs actually being good.

Wrong: Drew has a sword and swords are legal in castles

Hunter has to give him his first name back. Theory as just a name is super stupid, but also makes his entrance music and gear make no sense either.

Mayweather vs Paul did over 1M buys on PPV

Also, it worked. Crowd was 100% behind Logan Paul by the end of the match. It's really astounding WWE's booking has been so trash for so long yet they were able to get LOGAN PAUL over as a face.

Edge still trying to do this spooky and twisted dark guy when he's a 50 year old Canadian who got over playing kazoos is even more sad than Taker doing it all those years because at least he was grandfathered in to that stupid shit

I'm pretty confident that ugly ass Glam Slam towards the start of the match will be revealed to have a torn labrum or rotator cuff tomorrow.

They're running a 70k+ seat stadium. It will likely be the second biggest show of the year, just behind WM. There's no way Roman isn't on that show.

The super piledriver is the first time that I can think of in US wrestling where someone just deaded a mf with a super ultimate finish that isn't actually their finish.