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I’d assume they hurt one of Wardlow’s limbs after the cage match.

Reading back through the thread, I’m baffled he made it to 130. We’ve gotten a couple of Georgia matches since which really do help his case though. The Bart Sawyer match feels like the promise of Jake fulfilled.

Page is terrible and they can't get the title off of him quickly enough. His ring style is absolutely detrimental and is actively counterbalancing all of the good Punk's doing in trying to make things matter again.

Sure but there are still differences. If I had to insure one opposed to the other based on what they're going to do in the ring, I'd pick Lawler. I wouldn't insure either of them out of the ring.

Ancient Lawler matches have him sell in the corner and throw punches and pull on heartstrings but not actually bump. Flair will insist on getting tossed off the top.

I feel completely the opposite and don’t really ever want to watch another Adam Page match (though I don’t fault people who do) but love all of Punk’s comeback run so far. Also, I assume Lethal and co. screw over Joe in the tournament.

The WWE camera changes/presentation really doesn’t do Cody any favors. I saw way more strings/little positioning flubs than I remember from his last six months in AEW.

Theoretically they only have to be over with one person, right?

I finally updated the last year and a half of the New Footage Friday/Found Footage Friday Master List so now all 200+ entries are there. This isn't a comprehensive list of all new potential footage for non-active GWE candidates since the last poll but it does give you a pretty good sense of what's shown up, a SC review, and quite often a youtube link if it's still up. It doesn't have the French reviews which is a different list I'd have to update. http://segundacaida.blogspot.com/2019/09/new-footage-friday-master-list.html

Let me put it this way. I'd almost certainly rather watch a complete 2022 CM Punk match, even though I'd almost certainly rather watch an isolated 2022 Bryan Danielson sequence.

~350 words. I assume Phil will have more on the Ringer.

I liked the Punk vs Dustin match more than the Danielson vs Dustin match. Way more emotionally resonant. Less about Dustin trying to prove he could keep up with Danielson and more about the two of them milking and maximizing every moment.

I wonder if he felt burned by Windham and then Zenk too, warranted or not.

I’d say Conrad should just hire Kris Zellner but really what he should do is make it a big contest for his subscribers to see who will become a host. You have to be a certain level to apply and a lesser level to vote on it, etc. He’d make a mint from people who want to be part of it all.

This is exactly why Malcolm Bivens was placed on Earth, no?

Given how WWE operates, last night was the start of a 2-3 month program between Cody and Rollins, right?

Oh I feel bad for New Day to get bumped, especially after the Big E injury. I'm sure they had some special sort of into planned.

I'm glad you guys survived the night and that things over-delivered. In glancing I caught the Cody entrance (but not the match) and the Austin match, though without sound. I'm not sure if anything drastic had changed, but he could have done that once a year for the last fifteen years and we would have been better off for it. Pretty amazing Owens performance as he made Austin look incredibly strong without it seeming absurd or unbelievable. With all the Bret vs Shawn talk, it makes me wonder what wrestling would look like now if we had five more years of Austin in the early 00s. At 40 now, it's a little crazy to think his big run was when he was 33-38 or so and he was done when he was younger than I am.

I value my time with you guys and most especially during the mutual Mania coping session, but I just can't this year. I might pop in based on something I see online or what not, but I just can't take the production values and hearing the word stupendous every other minute and the weird, weird corporate speak, and a card full of matches no one cares about and with stakes that should matter but absolutely don't. I wish you guys all the best of luck in surviving what you inflict upon yourselves over the next two nights and do apologize for not helping you through it as per usual. Maybe next year.

Super hot crowd tonight.

This is not a top 5. It's just a 5 fairly diverse ones: Greg Pak/Fred Van Lente's Incredible Hulk/Incredible Hercules run (one leads into the other) Jonathan Hickman's Secret Warriors Peter David's Madrox into X-Factor v2 Jeff Parker's Thunderbolts Kieron Gillen and Margueritte Bennett's Angela

I'd have to look more at his actual matches to weigh in. I don't remember him working tremendously differently in his short hair, Bockwinkel-talking run. I can appreciate reinventions in general, but for the sake of GWE, I'd have to see if he reinvented himself in-ring as much, past the introduction of new finishers over the years. I still get the sense that he does what he's always done and tries to reach for physical spots that are slightly beyond his ability to hit, which was always noticeable but might even be more so as he's gotten older and put on more mass and what he can do has been more and more limited.

I really enjoy her teaming with Bunny/Nyla/Diamante/etc. but…

We get a lot of talk about people training with Dustin or QT or (lately) Danielson but I haven't heard a lot about Emi along those lines, though it's a no brainer, yeah.