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Meltz often has a deadpan sense of humour that flies right over the head of many people (many people simply don't get deadpan humour). In that case, he probably did not know about Shane being on jury duty, but the "Vince forgot about him" reeks of deadpan humour... Bryan's reaction was quite funny.

It's easier to praise a piece of trash when he's already dead meat. Well, there was this "Invader I is such a great worker" kinda thread once, but still...

Like they had anything to fear from a AAA show that has failure (as far as interest, not actual quality of the show) written all over it...

A try out... You don't give Scarlett a try-out, you give her a contract... El Hijo del Fantasma is certainly an interesting name to get into NXT. Watch him get wasted like every luchador before him. Well maybe not, since he can also speak english better than most I believe and has a good body for their standarts (that is, if he looks like he did in the first season of LU). Two people I'd rather have in AEW, but oh well...

I pretty much agree with most of the selection here. I do think Duggan is actually a pretty good guest, he's easy going and tells some good stories. I enjoy Sullivan and Nash too (although the later is amazingly full of shit). The Windham Timeline to me was a complete bore and waste of time. And the Francine episode of Breaking Kayfabe I thought was excellent, I love that girl, she seems so adorable for real. I would not recommend any shoot interview involving Sunny.

Yeah, the Corny Timelines are great. Tully is terrific too. I'm sure some of the early stuff, especially some Youshoots, haven't aged well at all. Well, I guess Alberto's is good a for laugh or two, as he was played straight family man then.

Certainly looks much better than CMLL Anniversario show, which is crazy when you think about it. Tessa vs Taya & LB vs ex-LAX basically are two of the hottest IMPACT matches of last year. No idea how Wagner vs Demon will get over in NY though...

MJF. You can quote me on that.

As expected, it was much lighter on pro-wrestling this time, but also considerably darker and deeper. The one criticism I have is that it feels too short and I want S4 already. And I mean, with that ending there have to be a S4. Loved this season, again.

A lot of it is going on with AEW in general. As if they rub a lot of people the wrong way with their success so far. I mean, hearing Cornette, of all people, use the "if that happened in the WWE people would shit on them for that kind of stuff" argument is mind blowing. Really Corny ? You of all people ? That reeks of bad faith and sadly, it makes him sound as much of a gimmick as Brucie does. It's kinda interesting to see guys like Schiavone being much more open minded, as I mean way before he was even involved with AEW, you could feel he had fun in MLW calling some crazy-ass indie style matches (when they still had some good names), just like he would have fun watching old ECW cards on his podcast. And speaking if MLW, what if someone would break down the very mediocre product Corny is involved with right now ? Because they sure don't deliver anything great ever, have zero hype despite being on Being Sports and having their show on Youtube and very often displays the most indierriffic of indierriffic stuff on the undercard (awful spot monkey guys like Gringo Loco and Aero Wolf or whatever his name is) because they don't have a legit roster. If Corny would use the same kind of logic he uses breaking down AEW with MLW, I wonder how that would look...

I quit after two minutes in (of the review, did not listen to the rest) when he said that Excalibur was exceptionnally bad and that him and Goldenboy sounded like two fans talking in their basement and that it got better when JR came in. I mean, when you're that much biased, you're not getting more of my time.

Oh I forgot LAX ! Oh yeah, that one would rule. I would guess Ortiz & Santana are gonna be Jericho's guys too. Too bad they won't use the LAX name and theme though.

Cody has looked like the most over guy on every PPV and he won all his matches (agreed, against guys who haven't won once, but then again, when you only had three shows it's hard to go all hard stats). Makes all the sense in the world. Can't wait to see what they will announce for the Bucks now (I kinda fear for the Dark Order, not for the match, but the gimmick is so not over that it doesn't sounds like any big match).

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Nah. I agree one Youtube channel would be better. But the guy makes it sound like it's sooooo complicated to "follow AEW" when really, it's not. I'm subscribing only to the BTE channel and from there, in a matter of two clicks at worst I found everything I needed thus far. Also, I think they don't want to associate BTE with the official AEW channel because, well, it's not. There's no certainty the Bucks are gonna keep on doing BTE once the TV show starts either (they mentioned it on a previous episode). The younger generation probably has no issue navigating throught the two or three youtube channels, various Twitter or Instagram accounts and whatnot. Old people are still watching shit on Facebook I gather. (and well, WE are still using a messageboard, which makes us vintage as hell and pretty much precursors to the day messageboards will come back in style).

Yeah, great insight from… TeedyHartPussy from Reddit... I mean, really ? Who the fuck is dumb anough not to figure things out in about a matter of a few dozens of seconds ? I'm passed 40, I don't get shit from the social media culture, I don't even now how to embed a Twitter post on this board and I have had zero issues finding BTE, the Road to and the pre-show stuff despite them being on separate channels. It's soooooo complicated. I really think like people are reaching at straws to say *anything* negative about AEW. 'member the neverending talks about how the Librarians were gonna turn people away and how this was a major issue for the company, just like the historically awful terrible pre-shows ? A few shows in (with the latest pre-show that included a Battle Royal which, by all acount, wasn't any good), both of these "big issues" already seem completely irrelevant, because they always were. I can't wait until AEW does something *really* bad (and I don't mean bad like the Dark Order, which is clearly a complete miss of a gimmick and doesn't get over at all, I mean something really fucking dumb on a big time level) and we hear about how the company is dead and all.

No Salina ? Really ? Well, sorry to say, but Jacob Fatu was kinda exposed as an "decent" worker in a long match against Tom Lawlor. Yeah, it does some great spots, but if he was as good as he's supposed to be, he would have a much stronger match than this. Maybe Lawlor just isn't very good or compelling after all. The pulled strikes really look bad, I mean, he kicks like the Miz. I dunno, it was an "ok" match, but considering the average level of matches today on weekly TV. I mean, Fallah Baah and Moose had a match ten times as good on IMPACT TV the other week. Maybe MLW just isn't conducive to have any really good matches for some odd reason. When AEW TV begins, I may have to drop this, since there's so much hours I can devote to pro-wrestling in a week. Let's see if they can pull off an interesting cage match, but at this point, I have zero expectations of it being very good or even fun.

Wow. And me just talking about how Big Daddy sucked ass. So does Ciber. Gilbert is not as good as he was in LU, but his hair look like shit so he would need a haircut. But yeah, what a totally unexciting prospect. Plus that means we see more of those two shitty guys in CMLL shows until then ? Seriously CMLL, you can do so much better than this...

I dunno, hopefully we don't hear much idiotic transphobic shit. AEW doesn't even communicate on that fact. Did they even mentioned it once ? But anyway. In other news, this is so great and old-school : Also, I want Jericho to keep on referring as himself being "le champion" in French with that slight Quebec accent (which would make sense).

Honestly, it makes some cool folklore for the AEW title already. Everyone will remember this. One thing about Nyla Rose that has not been apparent thus far in the product, watching the Starrcast show with the women, she came out really charismatic and she will know how to cut a damn good promo (she also got a background in acting). Allie's personality also shined during this. It was interesting as it was half legit interview half kayfabe and obviously none rehearsed, so the on the fly interactions really helped to get across actual personalities. So yeah, the day they give Nyla a live mic and some issues, she'll probably will be quite good, so that's a thing.

That could work too if the wrestler is good. I love the team of Kevin Kelly & Rocky Romero. Solo can be fine, but I find it kinda dry. It worked in ECW because Joey Styles. I usually enjoy a good chemistry between two people. That's why even though Joey Matthews is nothing special at all, him + Don Callis is actually very enjoyable. Whole > sum of the parts.

Three words from BTE : Hunter Horse Helmsley. Pretty cool backstage footage too.

Wow, that's crazy Jaguar is still active. She must be pushing 60. On the picture kinda Kyoko looks smaller than she was at one point.

The CMLL Grand Prix is a cool idea on paper, but damn if you don't do straight lucha libre at Arena Mexico, you fucking die. I've never heard such a tiedous response from this crowd, who's usually the best all around. I mean, most of the ROH guys died a thousand death, Delirious legit killed the crowd when he was in there. Tons of empty seats too, as I got the impression people were leaving during the match (especially after Rush was gone). No idea why CMLL brings these guys in in this context. Some looked really bad too (that Big Daddy guy was painfull to watch). Taven was pretty ok though.

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