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It's one of my biggest pet peeves in wrestling today, although it's been prevalent since at least the 50s and by many of the greats in all eras. If you're going to have a match structured around limb work to prevent key moves from being done, at least have the tact to do modified versions. You don't have to do your spots or signature moves in every match. It's okay to use random moves that you might never use again when it makes more sense in the match you're working than doing your big move but wincing or limping before/during/after. Dudes want to get so creative with moves and sequences but not structure.

I think Cody played himself. He should have seen being able to bring Bryan and Punk in as a benefit for everyone instead of as a threat to him. I'm sure he'll secure the bag with WWE, but he's going to be working a lot more and be miserable. AEW would almost assuredly not exist without Cody spearheading All In, so that he saw things in terms of "am I the top fucking guy or not" instead of looking at the bigger picture of the growth of the company is showing the whole thing was an ego thing for him from the start. For a guy who is young but talks about "legacy" all the fucking time, he's not painting himself in a great light jumping back to WWE after not getting paid the most of anyone in the company.

Not a fan of that finish. Also not a fan of doing leg work the whole match but Sammy still hit all of his jumpy, flippy, and knee strike based offense anyway. That's not really a criticism of Sammy as much as the idea of what psychology is in most of wrestling. People don't have the courage to not do their signature spots.

Can't imagine Eddie vs Jericho would be a good match unless it's a very short brawl that ends in a KO shot or something

Keith Lee, Wardlow in the ladder match, Hobbs in a qualifier, would be pretty rad if they do a hoss battle ladder match. I'm not really sure what other big meaty men are on the roster off the top of my head, but they should just put them all in there.

I think this is the first time Jericho hasn't looked like a bloated middle aged drunk in 4-5 years now

Once it was pointed out to me, Adam Cole's verbal tic is driving me insane

You know what this show is really missing? Cody Rhodes.

Brandi is definitely not good in the ring at all and it seems like promotors never wanted to just tell her that due to her being a package deal with Cody. I think she does have value as an on screen character, but in ring it's like if Stephanie McMahon decided she was going to be a full time in ring talent. Anyway, I feel like a Cody return to WWE is going to be 2 months of decent booking and big matches and as soon as the hype of the jump from AEW dies down, he'll be a slightly better booked Bobby Roode for the rest of his run.

Seems like that's something that should have been discussed and put on paper before the company even started up. But also lol to literally all of that.

Can't wait for the Cody tweets and interviews about how he'll always love AEW but WWE is the home of him and his family's legacy and other such bullshit

Buzz Sawyer's catching powerslam was so much better than Rick Steiner's. Ricky should be ashamed at his weak ass tribute.

What are you talking about? WWE continues to influence the world, breh.

No. I mean he peaked in WWE in 2011.

Bring back an old, established star who peaked in a previous decade

Well Cody walked away from WWE and is an EVP for AEW and he's seemingly going back so they could probably shoot for the stars for anyone except probably Punk and Moxley.

So his response is to leave and go back to WWE where he'll have no input at all. Makes sense.

I would probably want the place where I had control of my presentation, promos, matches, and input on the rest of the company as well.

Vince wants him back not because he's an AEW star, but because he saw the HHH throne entrance and loved it

MLW is about to pick up, fans

Would truly be hilarious if Cody walked away from his own company to go back to WWE because the fans were booing him and he didn't want to turn heel

Cody Rhodes vs Steve Austin for WM

Boy do I really hope Austin doesn't come back for a match. He's basically legitimately the only top guy from the era not to come back and embarrass themselves. KO doing the KO Show at WM talking shit about Texas and Austin comes out to hit him with a stunner would be okay, though.

Likeability or lack thereof has never been much of a concern for MMA drawing. Many if not a majority of the biggest MMA draws throughout the years are absolute garbage people.

They announced his contract expired, not that he was released. I think they just held him on ice for whatever that time injured was until the contract ran out.