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When is this ever not the vibe for a WWE ppv

Lou did a "why I otta, you dirty rat" flustered spot that got a laugh from the audience and announcer in almost every match I've seen out of him. It gets a laugh every time so in my view it's a comedy spot and is used as such.

"Working to project for the cheap seats" is the weirdest complaint I've ever heard about a wrestler. Literally every single one of the greats of every style and era work to project for the cheap seats.

Yeah Lou Thesz is a great example because his matches are actually full of sports entertainment theatricality that borders on comedy spots.

I disagree that Omega is bad about that stuff in the ring (for promos yes certainly), and also that Bryan hasn't engaged in that stuff in all stages of his career as well.

I would vote for Malakai Jackson over Jimmy Valiant

I feel like the talk about Kenny's over the top mannerisms really hasn't been the case since his Cleaner run in NJ, where he was absolutely very cartoony and corny and over the top at all times. But that stuff mostly went away once he moved up to heavyweight and has been extra toned down since leaving Japan all together.

Show was pretty flat. I get that they didn't want Christian or Jungle Boy to be doing the back and forth and then get beat thing, but lmaooooooo at how ridiculous it looked with Lucha and Cole doing that shit. Luchasauraus ain't Johnny Gargano, bro.

Lmao at the Luchasaurus/Cole segments. Seemed tailor made to get Cornette's blood pressure up.

Hear me out What if they did Steinerized but with a trap beat under it

Dude is legit a freak of nature and mentally questionable. I remember seeing vids of his lifts prior to showing up in NXT and that dude is legit wild.

Everything was EVIL for attendance and interest

Honestly Arn being Cody's manager has always been fucking stupid and for it to have lasted this long without one of them turning on each other is also really fucking stupid. Cody is all about the respect my father's legacy and JCP/WCW history shit and then he's had an Anderson be his manager for the past year. The fuck.

With American wrestling, I prefer to watch full shows. With puro and lucha, individual matches, unless it is from something like SWS/WAR/UWF and then I want to watch the whole show.

Surely they did, otherwise they wouldn't have made him an annoying heel

I would imagine he'll be in a holding period until they see what the reaction to the reality show is. If people aren't watching it and there's a lot of negative reaction, I can see the heel turn rolling out of that. But if it is popular and grows the audience in the way they want, they will probably not turn him for a while. However just the previews make Cody look like a super unlikable manchild so we'll see.

I don't think there is any character work or anything going on with Cody's gear at all. It's just a follow up reference to the American Dream thing again from the Ogogo feud, but you might remember he dressed up like a fucking Revolutionary soldier when he faced Aldis for the NWA Championship for the same reasons. I think the dude is just one of those homers for the flag types.

His best in ring work in my experience is prior to 1980, of which there isn't a ton of easily and readily available stuff. Basically a couple of msg wwwf shows on the network, a couple of NJPW matches on World, and a couple of AJPW matches in the archive of you can track them down

I thought it was probably the best night of a weekly tv show all year and prob in the past 2-3 years. Bryan/Omega was great and I don't think that was even them going all out. The fight forever chant is what it is, but that easily could have gone on another 25-30 minutes and been completely engaging. Maybe not fair, but compare Bryan's first match in the company to Punk's first match in the company. Lol. MJF/Pillman was whatever. I don't think either guy is particularly good, nor am I interested in this being based on DSOTR episodes. Black/Cody was lol as well. Cody looking paunchy as hell. Needs to bring back the weight belt to hide some of the love handles and gut jiggle. Also lol at how the crowds have fully turned on him no matter what he does. Also lol at how this mf is doing those weird Jarrett in TNA style fuckery finishes for every match now. At least the right guy won even if the manner of victory wasn't impressive or really even very fitting for Black. Sting/Darby vs FTR was great. Sting is like the complete negative of Taker/Goldberg/Flair/Hogan and it's really wonderful to see him not only looking so impressive in all of his matches in AEW, but actually doing more and more each match and still looking better each time. I had never considered the coffin scorpion death drop as a team finish for them, but now that they teased it I hope to see it some day because that's actually fucking rad. I think this is actually the best match FTR has had in AEW and I hope it isn't followed up with weird twitter drama and then them doing nothing for 3 months. Sting is actually OLDER than Taker, older than Hogan was in his last matches, 8 years older than Goldberg, and the same age Flair was in his TNA run. Yet he's looked better in his AEW matches than he did the last couple of years of his TNA run, which was 8 years ago now. Granted, he's been handled and protected in a much, much better way than any of the above guys were at the end of their careers. It probably would be a bummer if he was put in a 15 minute singles match but he's not and so what he's doing has been great to see. Ruby vs Baker was a mess but most Britt Baker matches are. I feel like every match of hers has at least one portion that completely falls apart because she gets stiffed and or a spot goes wrong and she gets a mix of lost and pissed and then things usually get real stiff and taken up a notch right after. The crowd was tremendous and really can't be overstated how important a crowd is to a pro wrestling show. That's not to say there weren't some really great wrestling matches in the pandemic area all across the world, some directly enhanced by the lack of crowd (like Dragonov/WALTER last year). But god damn a huge crowd actually excited and happy to be there enhances everything so much.

Hope sometime they actually do the coffin scorpion death drop, because that's a great team finish I hadn't even considered. It's amazing how great Sting has looked in comparison to Flair/Hogan/Taker/Golberg at younger ages. Granted he's handled a million times better and put into positions to look as good as possible and has more than held up his end of the bargain every time he's been in the ring for AEW.

Honestly a draw is the only thing that makes sense with the two involved and their respective characters in their first meeting.

Not a lot of times where a draw is still satisfying, but that was pretty awesome and no doubt has to be the TV match of the year.

Surely elbowing people in the traps while the announcers claim they're hitting the head is safer than doing the diving headbutt every match

Yeah I like Eddie, he's great at being Eddie Kingston, and pro wrestling always needs guys like him but I've never come away from an Eddie Kingston match thinking, "man what a great match" or "this man is a great pro wrestler".

Bryan didn't even come up with it, he stole it from Diego Sanchez, who was doing it to psych himself up during fight walk ins because he's mental and a weird