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In its current incarnation at a trim 40 minutes, Dark: Elevation is finally the perfect AEW tribute to WCW C-Shows. They even have their own programs like the Janela and Kiss break-up. Good stuff

I also wonder where they were going with the Colt Cabana/Brodie story before The Dark Order became the fun loving guys they are now. Seems crazy to think how they changed after Brodie died.

MJF sits and reads Fozzy album reviews to him for 15 minutes.

Hyped for 2.0 debuting. Great personalities and nobody was watching 205 Live but they were good hands on there. Despite having something like 20 teams, it still feels like they could do with another team on top of them though so get that Forbidden Door open. Or give us that Dustin/Sonny Kiss team they teased for like a week. What are we guessing for Jericho’s fourth Labour? At this point, I wouldn’t be surprised if Nick Patrick showed up.

Every time you’d get a random Steiners/Faces of Fear match on a 1996/97 Nitro, it was always a joy. Probably not up there with the Heavenly Bodies match but just four big bastards throwing each other around

Is there a definitive list of who was booking WWE ECW over its years? Was it Dusty who took over from Heyman and how long did he last? As a self-contained (more or less) show that did such a good job of building to TV main events and utilising everyone very well for the last two and a half years of it’s run, it has a lot of parallels with Dusty booked NXT so I was wondering how long he was booking it for.

To be honest, I assumed the plan was to find a way to get to Page/Omega for All Out and put Punk in as the ref. He’d be the attraction but at the end of the night, Page would still be champ. But the Darby Allin promo suggests otherwise.

I really do hope Wyatt is ok but with all these persistent rumours of his mental health and the fact they cut him, Nick Khan really doesn’t care about being the bad guy, it’s fair to say. As for the AEW ad pressuring, I think that’s finally an admission that someone, somewhere, in WWE is a little bit worried with Punk and Bryan coming in

I think they could probably dial it back for a bit considering you had a Texas Death Match and then this back to back. It certainly worked as a one-off spectacle though. Saying that, I can't imagine Cody not wanting to bleed next week considering he'll probably be in white tights.

I’m amazed they went full Gage on national TV and even more amazed that a lot of the gruesome shit really got over. Not too keen on Page being beat since nobody else on the roster gets that reaction and the story is there but I guess the Danielson match is happening since it seems like Punk is going with Darby. Unless they’ve beat Page to go with Omega/Christian which, I cannot imagine even if they were hinting it

Shame about Marc Quen’s performance against Jungle Boy. I hope he’s carrying an injury because otherwise, that was about as sluggish and slow as you can be in a national promotion. Everything looked like he was running through treacle

They got over a million for this Dynamite and beat Raw in 18-49. What are we saying? Moxley? Darby? Fans being back? Sakazaki?!

Great show that flew by. All I can think about is how it must have absolutely sucked to be Ethan Page in that coffin, waiting for Darby to come crashing down on top of you with barely any idea of when it would be happening

Jungle Boy is the real deal, for sure. Could have done without the run ins for the Hardy/Christian feud but I liked seeing everyone intersect again. Was pretty much a one-match show but it was still a breezy watch. I agree that nothing in this Pinnacle feud is sinking in though. At least show SOME recaps to get over what these two factions are doing to each other.

I assumed the first Rampage show would be main evented by Britt beating Thunder Rosa

You never want to see anyone lose their jobs but I’d love a Breezango indie run.

France have been booked so strongly recently, someone going over on them could make them a star

I do wonder where MJF goes after he beats Jericho in the blow off. Both single champs are heels (unless they pull the trigger on Jungle Boy which, I’m not against) and a feud with Sammy is a situation where neither should really be losing.

Jericho loves doing his feuds in 3s. I assume the Pinnacle win the third match but where do you go from War Games and Stadium Stampede? Also, how hard would it have been to debut Andrade after Omega beats Jungle Boy next week? The crowd would do wild and you immediately sow the seeds for the Omega/Andrade match. And it’s way more exciting than him just walking out

That Andrade debut was so flat, my word. Why debut him on a Friday night show? He’s the perfect guy to build vignettes with and then build to his debut. AEW really can’t do debuts right at all.

Somewhere, Tony Khan’s eyes just lit up.

Fuck yeah, Sting. I popped big for that whole sequence; Scorpio's facials were great

Match needs a Rebel crutch shot to heat it up.

Well, that was certainly a booking decision. The KO blow in the figure four would have been a star-making finish

I hope Ogogo cuts an anti-America promo on the dog