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I just don’t see Eddie as the guy they want to take the belt off Miro. It would be a good moment but he doesn’t need the win and the belt as much as someone else on the roster might.

The good thing is that 18-49 year olds know how to find shows on TV.

If that challenge is to Mox and Kingston, that’s one I’m excited for.

Give it two days and we'll either know or we won't.

Been working through Elevation. The Tony/Kingston/Wight team reminds me in spirit (if not in specifics) of a Tony/Dusty/Zbyszko sort of team. More references to old wrestlers and playing around with actual names instead of Dusty making shit up, but still that same sort of fun dynamic. I like @Goodear's All Wrestling (No Elite) strategy in consuming A(E)W and the webshows feels the best way to really lean into that.

And Embry!

Only person to get actual heat and not “supportive heat.”

Hansen is entirely dependent upon his opponent for a match to be good. Lawler can make anything work.

Having spent so long in 89 AJPW now, I don’t know if I’d feel the same. I’d rewatch at some point. I will Say that what makes Hansen special isn’t always good for his matches.

More of a Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon gimmick then.

I thought Hardy looked pretty good in there considering what I was expecting. I mean other than getting his face crushed. That match was about my speed.

Hey this is a favorite of mine:

Let me tread carefully as I'm only casually following all of this, but one of the greatest strengths of AEW is the use of enhancement talent on their youtube shows to help build their midcarders and the sheer variety of talent they have either at their fingertips or under contract in order to keep match-ups fresh. If they can afford it, they're much better off cycling wrestlers off in an "off-season" sort of format or using them in non-wrestling/promotional roles (like how Kingston announces). There are probably some other things they could do, like create six-man belts, but in general, they're far, far better off using a large roster to protect talent and keep talent fresh.

This show deserves the commission shutting them down at midnight on the dot.

For the sake of his health, Goldberg should probably only wrestle guys like Rollins, Styles, or Zayn who will be able to really go up for him on everything.

I’d rather watch Edge vs Rollins than listen to a Kane political speech.

I’d rather watch Kane vs literally anyone than Edge vs Rollins

Cutting time from Edge/Rollins as they’re going over is the best thing that could happen for the match.

It’s not about Becky or Bianca fans. It’s about fans who are going to turn on the company for pulling this again. They’re going to turn on whatever WWE will try to feed them.

There are arguments about how this could be the start of a longer story like all of the bullshit we’ve gotten before (and Christian going heel was bullshit) but if they try to turn Bianca heel off of this, they’re going to just turn crowds against Becky and dilute her star power.

There was a moment there where I thought WWE had actually followed up from yesterday. It was the moment where Becky saw someone with a “Man” shirt on the way down and went nuts for it and it was real and awesome and endearing and electric. And then they ruined it like they always do.

They could have gotten away with a beatdown on Carmella and a promo and Bianca reacting and been 100% fine.

Those absolute morons.

This is worth writing hundreds and hundreds of words about.

For every Funk/Race there are ten matches where he gave the whole match. Way more than a 1:1 ratio.