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Ten years from now (with a footage perspective) we’re all going to look back with relief that Athena was anchoring ROH for so long instead of wasted on Dynamite. I can see why people are frustrated in the moment though.

Cameron Grimes had the million dollar belt recently, right? I’d watch him feud with the Rock.

Orig Williams is the last person I’d try to tell anything.

Definitely welcome input and info. I’ll loop in @Kadaveri for this side of the posts and you guys can talk it over.

I’m not going to be much help since my review mainly leans hard into the Danielson/Kingston stuff: http://segundacaida.blogspot.com/2024/02/aew-five-fingers-of-death-219-225.html?m=1

I saw all the 86 TV. You were just as likely to get Mad Maxx and Super Maxx as you were to get Maeda or Fujiwara.

I don’t get what’s dark here. Cancer?

Anna Jay was the only one who figured out how to work like a sports entertainer instead of a wrestler. She might have been the only one who even tried.

Whenever he doesn’t hit a Death Valley Driver in the first four minutes of a match, that’s the best decision he’s ever made.

What about Quasimodo? It was always there.

I can confirm that we were mainly searching by the title of the full length TV shows or barring that for full matches. And obviously that bore incredible fruit. Just logically, one would think that if a British wrestler would give you that many clips, a French wrestler (like Ami Sola or Jo Labat for instance, who were featured heavily in the early part of the footage) might get you even more, but who knows. We haven't been in there for a while.

They better have Mercedes in a box at this rate. I was optimistic coming into this one because I sure do like No Elite Wrestling and I was digging the card on paper, but…. if nothing else, this is Eddie’s moment to truly be an ace.

I've written up all of the Kingston and Danielson matches at least here: https://segundacaida.blogspot.com/search/label/5 Fingers of Death

A shame. What do you think the white whale is at this point then?

Not French but I'm putting it here. @Phil Lions You found some Spanish footage it seems? Any chance that we have anything even close to the French collection hiding in a RTVE archive somewhere?

Counterpoint: they just added Tom Lawlor vs Wheeler Yuta to Final Battle.

Edit: nasty injury. Hope she recovers well.

Genetics. Oh wait, that’s no-showing.

Given the drop in cable subscribers over the last four years they’re basically getting the same % of possible eyes over the last few weeks as they were when they were consistently getting more, no? 850k in late 2023 is how comparable to 1 million in 2019 or 2021? So either fans haven’t stopped watching or they picked up new fans as the promotion broadened out to make up for the drift of the BTE fans.

It’s been a solid, well-built feud with good matches week to week and a feel good Serpentico win. Woods’ development getting sidetracked for it was a shame and there needs a better payoff gimmick than that but the show has been stronger for it. Billie vs Athena is three months too soon and without Athena really snapping and doing something vile but better too soon than too late, I guess.

I’ve really enjoyed the last week and a half of tournament-heavy eliteless Danielson-driven AEW, let me tell you.

Every Khan ROH PPV has been like this and every one has been great. The less the build the more random ZSJ or Jeff Cobb appearances we get.

He was probably the perfect Kowalski opponent.

It’d be fun to go back to Day 1 AEW and tell people Joe and Christian would be the top heels.

The most powerful force in AEW is friendship. There isn’t a championship committee. There isn’t a league. There’s an owner. From a kayfabe perspective, if it’s “good for business” and it’s good for the fans, he can be swayed. It’s honestly not a big leap.