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Corny has said that Vince pretty much ignores new movies and pop culture, so it would be very funny to me if EWS is one of the few newer movies that Vince has actually seen.

Lol CW picked up NXT instead.

This is why the first Goldberg/Brock match of Brock’s second run ruled so hard at the time, THE BEAST put down in two minutes.

I appreciate that AEW puts actual wrestling and not “TV wrestling” on their TV shows, but there is something to be said for a “big fight feel” for a first encounter between major stars. It not only makes the match more impactful, it makes subsequent matches more impactful by seeming a part of something larger. That one Punk/Cena match on Raw before WM29 felt bigger following in the wake of the marquee Punk/Cena matches that had happened in the past, for example. It doesn’t have to be on a PPV, though. Dragon/Page I felt suitably big by following in the wake of Danielson kicking the shit out of Dark Order geeks for weeks on end. Given we don’t know how long MJF is going to remain in AEW, however, this may have been a “now or never” type of thing, it’s hard to say. It’s kinda clear that TK is either burnt out or panicking, I’d say. Wembley maybe being a glorious peak instead of a coming-out party has to be weighing on a lot of the upper brass.

Home invasion angle reeks of WWE. Apparently the solution to WWE getting hot and your company getting cold is just to ape them. Edit: Also, I know we’ve already blown past this with the last match fiasco, but Ric Flair was implicated as a sexual assailant on national television. We have plenty of wonderful Nature Boy memories that we can cherish and watch clips of on Youtube, there’s zero reason to glorify him in the here and now.

Big Bill is a terrible ring name compared to Big Cass, which is great for some reason, but I quite like him as Ricky Starks’ Diesel.

Honest to God Christian would be on more top 10 lists if McMahon had followed through on his impulse to digitally insert a blue dot over his face in the 90s. That’s one of my favorite Crazy Vince anecdotes.

Brock Anderson was not re-signed. Think he goes to NXT? Arm’s gotta have a favor or two to call in.

I wouldn’t underestimate Punk lowering his asking price just out of spite. Honestly, though, I don’t think this will really work. Maybe if they bought out MLW, but otherwise, doesn’t seem like the roster could sustain a weekly TV show.

If WWE passes on Punk in perpetuity, seems likely NWA would try to convince CW to foot the bill to bring him in.

Englebert Edgerton.

Maybe Edge conspired to keep Griff Garrison off of TV and Ricky subtly referenced it somehow

Hunicara was actually pretty alright, iirc.

Women’s divisions and video game design, my two Achilles heels.

Eh, I don’t buy that the door is closed on Punk. WWE don’t *need* him, but there’s a lot of money to be made there.

AEW is just ice cold right now, there’s no way around it. All In may have been their peak for a while. Tony needs a booking team, fast. This weird hybrid where he has these meticulous long-term storylines but is also basically just scribbling matches he’d like to watch and letting the wrestlers freestyle the actual content is not working anymore.

Lol at someone discovering a picture of people watching NXT on TV in the skybox at the arena where Dynamite was happening. Brutal stuff.

Cornette’s cohost is Jewish, I suspect this will not escape unscathed from him, either.

The genesis….. of McGillicutty….

I think it’s perfectly possible that there was a mutual altercation of some kind that this guy went nuclear over, in terms of what kinds of allegations he was willing to fling around. Road rage isn’t sexual assault, there’s no downstream oppression of half of society you can reinforce by publicly asserting incredulity. The sequence of behaviors he accused Wheeler of engaging in make absolutely no sense even by twisted road rage logic, so at a bare minimum, there’s something missing from the story we’ve gotten thus far. Wheeler doing bath salts, the guy poisoning Wheeler’s well, something.

Innocent until proven guilty, bubba.

I just want to see Punk, don’t really care which company it’s in. Punk vs Seth, Punk vs Cody, Punk vs Reigns, Punk vs KO, Punk vs Sami, lots of good bouts for him to do. If he wants to do the “build young talent up” thing, Punk as a foil for Bron Brekker’s first main roster feud would be fucking killer. Punk vs Ilja, Punk vs Hayes, Punk vs Theory, Punk vs Dirty Dom. Plenitude of possibilities for a 1-2 year final run.

I wish some company would take the MSW trick of having someone who’s not wrestling that week doing color for the whole show, instead of just sitting in on individual matches. Gives the guy a chance to grow on the audience in a different way, prevents the dynamic of the fixed announcers from getting too stale, allows storylines to develop without endless in-ring blather.

I didn’t realize Jeremy Allen White was Kerry, that’s actually awesome casting. I have trouble imagining this being as good as The Wrestler without the weirdly good combo that was Aronofsky directing and Siegel writing, but I’m still interested in this.

Gunther vs Ilja on the main roster will absolutely bang. Ilja kind of reminds me of NXT-era Sami Zayn, someone who’s kinda offbeat but just gets the crowd behind him.