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I was trying to think of an analogue for Brock Lesnar being brought back over and over to be a super boss attraction for a decade, a decade since his first dominant run, and I'm thinking it'd be like if Yokozuna was popping up every year for WM and Summerslam runs up to like 2014.

Jay White going to WWE to be doing exactly what Seth Rollins is doing on the other show for 5 years and being a 4 time IC/US champ

Has there been a Britt Baker match that hasn't completely broken down and fallen apart? That shit was a MESS, and Tay certainly isn't experienced enough to keep things on track. She's got the gimmick and the attitude and the promos, but everything goes to shit when the bell rings and the only time it has actually benefitted the match was the unsanctioned match with Thunder Rosa. The opening for MJF/Darby really annoyed me. Could not have looked more cooperative and planned out step by step, but it got better after that. I'm not really sure an extended indie respect stand off really made much sense for their characters or the storyline, either. Tag title match was better than their previous matches, although I just don't think Southern wrasslin team meshes with wild lucha team 9 times out of 10. Did pop for the American Alpha shout out. 10 man tag was better than expected. Couldn't have rolled my eyes harder at Jericho doing the Frye/Takayama spot with JDS and actually getting JDS to beg off from it. This man's mid life crisis is just getting worse. Both of these matches should have had some time shaved and given to Punk vs Eddie, easily Punk's best match in AEW so far, but felt short and was in fact the shortest match on the card by quite a bit. Real weird dynamic where fans are willing to boo Punk and cheer Eddie doing cheap shots, but also then ending with Eddie refusing a handshake. Punk reacting in confusion and then getting mad the fans were booing him leading to throwing in a few extra shots was cool and hopefully this is the end of happy to be here Punk going forward. His MOOEY TIE shorts straight up looked like boxers tho. 6 man tag was a lot of fun but I'm truly baffled that they keep having Adam Cole pairing off with Luchasaurus and physically dominating him in almost every interaction these two groups have had. Also where the fuck is Marko Stunt? Dude just got completely phantom zoned as soon as Christian showed up. At least have the Bucks murder him or something. Or maybe they did and I missed it that week. Codyverse tag should have been a TV main event instead of a PPV match. Really no reason for it to get PPV time, and the show being nearly 4 hours certainly would have benefitted from this being on TV and the PPV being a little shorter. Bryan/Miro could have been better. Also prob should have been a little shorter. Miro's leg looks to be in pretty bad shape and I assume that's why he hadn't been in the ring since dropping the title to Sammy until the last second match with OC. Page/Omega was real strong but the crowd was struggling to keep the heat going for a big section in the middle that I feel probably wouldn't have been the case if the show hadn't been 3 1/2 hours long (plus the Buy In) when the match started. Super hot for the intros, super hot for the run up to the finish and the finish and post match stuff, but there was a lot of stuff in the middle they seemed too tired to really keep that energy going. I get that they only have PPVs every 4 months or so, so they want to put on a big super event and all, but 3 hours should be a hard limit for ANY wrestling show. This was close to 4 and felt it by the end. Especially in a company where every match is a "try to steal the show" type of deal. It's exhausting in the same way that a PWG show can be. Which is not a bad problem to have. I'd rather have a long show that is exhausting because there's too much good stuff on it than a long show that's exhausting because it fucking sucks. Should be interesting to see where things head after this. Full dickhead American Dragon torturing Page should be delightful.

Murphy vs Okada sounds a lot more interesting than anything from the G1 and might be the thing to get me to tune into a NJ match since Shingo vs Okada for the belt

I had an idea a few weeks ago about moves that have stupid set ups just to end in a basic move but then ended up forgetting all the moves I had thought of. But it was inspired by the pumphandle powerslam. Just do a powerslam. The pumphandle set up doesn't add any impact or damage whatsoever.

Tony needs to up his coke and steroid game if he wants to be a real player in this game. Answer me this: Why isn't Tony doing 375lb squats at 3:30AM every morning? Fucking coward.

How on earth could the G4 gig count against his WWE downside

I don't think Walter works in the WWE TV system. His style and his match type is not something that can be done on TV every week and still feel like a big deal.

That's weird to me as I've just happened to be putting on Old School shows before bed and am right in that run and besides his hair being a lot thinner I didn't notice any particular difference in how he was working or the quality of it compared to matches of his I'd seen in his prime.

Prayer circle for Eddie to upset Punk

I'm genuinely surprised he didn't get into one of those old school Raw or anniversary Raw battle royals after he made up with Vince and was in insane old man body builder shape in his 70s.

Bret was always right, but was he always right for the right reasons

Needed an exploder off the apron imo

This was the case for WCW even in most of their down periods as well. Be it the pre Nitro era where you'd have Saturday Night, Worldwide, Power Hour, Pro, Main Event (plus Clashes, plus Prime, plus PPVs), or the Nitro era of 3 hour Nitros, Thunders, Saturday Night, Worldwide, plus PPVs.

Surely even from a corporate line of thinking, giving their talent time off for mental health issues as they arise has to be more cost effective than waiting for someone to do something crazy and be a PR nightmare, or all the money they spend on rehab for people that no longer even work for them.

Eddie seems a million times more authentic on every level than Punk, and I hope this leads to Punk returning to being a condescending dickhead who is playing up this happy go lucky bullshit and actually is a duplicitous shit head working everyone so he can swoop in and steal someone's spot.

All those promos about Kross being the end of NXT were the most prescient promos since a lethal dose of poison, but it only took a few months instead of years to come true.

What a great run Harry Smith had. A dark match and COVID.

I don't want to see any interaction between any version of KOR/Adam Cole/Gargano/Ciampa. AEW already has 15 KORs and 15 Garganos. Not interested at all in either making their way to AEW.

Do you think Lambert has better cardio than Jericho?

The real CM Punk would have heeled on Mox for being a weak alcoholic

The Fiend and Alexa stuff is legit the most embarrassing and terrible wrestling shit I've seen probably in my entire life as a wrestling fan. I can not believe how this stuff not only made it to air once, but for like 2 years straight

I can't imagine there being a single person in the back not thinking all those Wyatt/Fiend segments weren't absolute dogshit, including Vince. The idea of Vince throwing a "good shit, pal" at any single one of those segments instead of throwing the headset in disgust as soon as Wyatt came to the back is baffling to me.

I wonder how long Bryan can go without repeating a finisher

They never even finished uploading Mid South stuff at all. They did upload all of World Class they had and basically the whole decade of the 80s for whatever the 6:05 Mid Atlantic show was called at the time although they also stopped somewhere around the middle of 1989 and then went back and uploaded actual MACW shows from 81-85 and never got back to finishing the World Championship Wrestling shows even as they moved on to Saturday Night and then also stopped with that. But for Mid South they just stopped completely around 1983 I think and then have one or two UWF shows and haven't touched it in years.