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I'm not sure how BPJ can engender any type of passionate response in any direction.

Yes.

Theory: No selling is completely valid if a person takes a horrible bump and is actually able to get up and continue like nothing happened. How can you complain it isn't realistic if the person really is able to get up and continue? Checkmate, marks.

This Sammy/Tay thing sucks on screen. Sammy is such an unlikable dude, and it makes Tay less likeable by extension. Eventually they might make a good heel power couple, but it's never going to work with Sammy as a face. I have to imagine Sammy/Tay is a replacement for Cody/Brandi in this angle, which is also lol.

Al Snow being such an angry DON'T EXPOSE THE BUSINESS guy when his only successful run was as a comedy guy and has spent most of the past 15 years doing shoots exposing every aspect of the business is lol. Cornette making his living off of doing the same thing while complaining about all the new crew not protecting the business, too.

Luckily for Cody, WWE booking is such that Codyverse will be a thing there too

Yes.

Would love to have Regal slap Sting again

It also was a direct catalyst for both the HBK/Batista feud and then Jericho/HBK.

Jericho continuing his tradition of "reinventing" himself by just outright taking someone else's gimmick and/or look/nickname. Boy the Hardys look bad. Matt looks ancient and fat and like he can barely move, Jeff is slow as hell and looks to be in absolute agony with every bump.

All natty dawg

I don't know if this is a hot take or not, but Jericho to me is basically the original version of Dolph Ziggler. Hyped as this great worker who was clearly a level below the actual great workers that were his contemporaries, solid dependable performer who once in a while would have a great performance or feud and otherwise is 25 years of making me groan whenever I see him.

I think Jericho's reinvention factor is wildly, wildly overstated. Outside of the slow talking suit character change in 2009, he's been the same corny buttrock guy since 1999 with the only tweaks being hair and smarminess/lameness of insults depending on if he was heel or face. His "reinventions" post WWE run have literally just been taking his opponents' nicknames/looks and using them for himself or leaching off of younger guys' looks/gimmicks.

Could it be that he hadn't had a singles match on TV since March 10th, 2021?

I can only imagine how much of a mutant late stage Eddie (and Benoit) must have looked next to normal sized humans

The Panama Sunrise is actually what bothers me the most. Even by wrestling logic, the physics of that make no sense. It's especially dumb when he does it on the floor/stage/ramp where there's not even semblance of spring from the ring. Not only does it look stupid, but there are a dozen dudes doing Canadian Destroyer variations on AEW shows.

It's not that he's not a star. He does come off like a star and has everywhere he's been. The people that don't "get" Adam Cole I think it primarily comes down to he works that "my spot, your spot" back and forth style even against guys much, much bigger than him and it looks silly.

It's not about big = being tough. It's just visually Adam Cole controlling Keith Lee with side headlocks or doing hockey fights with Luchasaurus looks silly.

I think you're looking way, way too deep into this. The issue people have with Adam Cole is that his size and psychology are at odds with each other. It just plain looks silly when he's going toe to toe with guys much bigger than him. It's not that he isn't muscular enough or manly enough, it's that his psychology sucks. It's very weird for an undersized heel to wrestle like he does and it throws a lot of people off.

I would say that 2.0 and Garcia seems more natural for a Jericho stable than LAX/Sammy did, but it still feels completely out of the blue

Jericho with 2.0/Garcia seems random because it was just a few weeks ago that 2.0 were doing beat downs of Jericho, and Bryan was scouting Garcia for his possible shooter stable. I'm sure there will be a promo to explain it but it feels out of nowhere.

Sammy's reign has been a dud but I think it's less the reign and more that he's not a likeable face at all. The swap with Cody was a pretty weird detour that didn't make sense at the time and makes even less sense with the hindsight that Cody was leaving.

This felt like a WWE show in the worst of ways

Sammy sucks as a face and making Sammy/Tay an on screen thing is going to suck because they're an aggressively annoying and obnoxious couple.

Shane's issue with Flair always seemed so pathetic when it was clear all he wanted to be was EXTREME Ric Flair.