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I’ve been talking tonight about the current Cassidy International title reign and where it goes/ends and all I can surmise is that the “final boss” of this run has to be a big marquee match opposite Omega, right? I assume it’s the Moxley match at All Out and once you’ve beaten him, it’s only really the likes of Omega or Punk left. Feels like it should end at the hands of Miro down the line but it does feel like you’ve run out of “good matches” for OC to have in this run and you need to position a lot of these defences as big matches opposite other big stars since he’s been so fucking good in 2023.

There’s still a week for more things to go tits up ahead of Wembley too.

At this point, I can’t tell if Punk is going into business for himself in order to force PPV matches down the road or that he just can’t help himself over whatever perceived slight he’s experienced that day

I think that match sounds pretty good to me even if you could run Golden Lovers vs Bullet Club Gold as a straight tag attraction. You’ll probably get a good 5 minute spell in the match where Omega and Takeshita go back and forth to build the All Out match and there’s plenty of history and first-time teases you can play out and milk with a huge stadium crowd. I’m more disappointed that AEW is seemingly snakebit with injury timings as we’ve been robbed of Danielson/Nigel, Hayter’s triumphant return and a heroes welcome for PAC. All three of those would have been big moments and worthy of the occasion Though, I do think if All In doesn’t have a big Omega single match, it should definitely have a big Orange Cassidy singles match. Run the Mox match with Kingston and Claudio in their respective corners

It probably does make sense to do it but what I want, is Coach TK to build up the show with the people we see every week. AEW has so much talent at its disposal that it doesn’t need a token Ospreay match just because he’s English. You have Pac right there, find something for him to do. Why not build him Vs Claudio up for All In instead of throwing it out at DBD with hardly any build?

Dude is unrelenting. Seems strange to put Ospreay on the show anyway tbh. If I’m going to All In, I want to see the AEW guys I watch every week. Unless they would do Ospreay opposite Danielson or even Cassidy again but a match where he has to drop to Jericho’s speed sounds like torture

I don’t know why he doesn’t just hand the reigns over to someone on that creative team, do an Impact style taping schedule in a smaller venue and try and make something more of it. I had visions of guys catching fire in ROH and moving to AEW with some heat behind them but that just hasn’t happened. Unless Athena comes up to beat Statlander

They’ve added ROH World Six-Man Championship: Brian Cage, Bishop Kaun, & Toa Liona (c) vs. Master Wato, Ryusuke Taguchi, & Leon Ruffin Fight Without Honor: Evil Uno, Alex Reynolds, & John Silver vs. Vincent, Dutch, & Stu Grayson Komander vs. Gravity which, outside of the FWH, don’t add much appeal, even if I’m sure they’ll be perfectly good. I have a feeling that it’ll be a show that will deliver on the night but I’m not sure the card will sell any more tickets to help fill that building up

I wish we had got more of CIMA in AEW. Dude should have got a proper US run at some point in his career, in general

Hook casually cutting a promo on Jack Perry while drinking his wine was money

I watched the last two weeks of ROH and, after reading those, that feels like an AI booked show

To be fair, it’s not even the actual cost of the ticket, it’s more the hotel and travel that will knock the price up. I have a feeling that TK has something wild up his sleeve for Wembley so I think I’m going to bite the bullet and head down for it. Even if I have to watch through golden binoculars

I can get a pair of tickets to All In for about £27 each but I’ll be in the nosebleeds. Anyone had experience of watching wrestling in a stadium who can say if it’s even worth it?

Just think of the hot angle when Omega and the Bucks show up on Collision to cost CMFTR the trios belts in a couple of months

Thought it was strange that Punk didn’t take the title out of the bag by the time the main came around. He’s definitely going heel though and I’ve got a feeling that Owen Cup winning babyface Starks will be opposite him

Nigel in the booth gives me a bit of hope that they’re going to continue what seems like the simmering build toward Bryan Vs Nigel. Nigel has went out of his way to mention Bryan a few times on ROH and vice versa so if Nigel is up to it, book it for All In, Tony

Ending brawl fucking ruled the world. Kingston coming back, teasing a feud with Moxley and them interlocking about 4 different feuds is the kind of thing they haven’t done for so long. With how inconsistent Dynamite is, we’ll probably revert to frustrating next week but this week was great

The problem is that he’s 10x the worker than he is a promo but the fucker never wrestles

Also, why does MJF hype up that he was in “the greatest iron man match” and “the greatest dog collar match” instead of hyping that he’s beat Danielson, Punk and Cody Rhodes? Dude needs to get his priorities right

Willow Vs Storm at Forbidden Door?

Jarrett, Lethal and FTR running through the Memphis back catalogue is so great. Run it back! I’d bet Jarrett hasn’t even scratched the surface yet

My other assumption is that they need the table for a spot during Anarchy in the Arena but, if otherwise. let’s try and stop the WWE-lite nonsense creeping in before it fucks everything more than it already has

This crowd is dead for, what has probably been, the weakest build for an AEW PPV so far. Also, why are the announcers ringside now?!

Never mind that. The AEW pre-show now has four prediction making talking heads. I watch AEW to avoid this shit!

Feel like Shida and Britt teaming up after their rivalry should have been a huge deal and maybe would have been a huge deal a year ago? Having it thrown on Rampage is pretty underwhelming. And Dynamite felt really WWE-esque this week. Right down to the contract signing and not to mention Hangman being shunted into one random backstage interview after the awesome closing segment last week. As much as I blow hot and cold on The Bucks and Omega, they should have been all over the show as the hot thing. AEW is appointment viewing for me but man, they are bouncing wildly from week to week right now. The Young Bucks helping the Lucha Bros after all they’ve went through should probably be focused on too, come to think of it