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[The Thread Killer]

I’m wondering if they are going to address who is going to end up fighting Randy Orton at WM41 tonight. I can’t imagine that he isn’t going to be on the show just because Owens is injured. I guess they could bring back Black or Rusev. Rey Fenix isn’t booked on the show yet. Some people are even speculating based on the RKO last week that it might be Nick Aldis?

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WM cards looking pretty weak to me. Whole build to everything feels like they're happy to coast because they're so hot.

[sek69]

Not everything is hitting, but Cody/Cena, Gunther/Jey, Roman/Punk/Seth are all matches I'm looking forward to. Charlotte/Tiffany will either be a great match or an entertaining trainwreck, and even Naomi/Jade has been built pretty well. I suppose compared to a typical AEW PPV with MOTY candidates from top to bottom it's kind of bland, but I expect a pretty entertaining show.

[The Thread Killer]

12 minutes ago, sek69 said:

Naomi/Jade has been built pretty well. 

Any chance this will be a squash, you think? Let’s be honest…Naomi isn’t really all that great, and Jade is pretty limited too. Lord knows, Jade has done her share of squashes.

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1 hour ago, The Thread Killer said:

Any chance this will be a squash, you think? Let’s be honest…Naomi isn’t really all that great, and Jade is pretty limited too. Lord knows, Jade has done her share of squashes.

Normally I'd say yes but considering Jade hasn't been winning many friends in the locker room I wouldn't be surprised if Naomi goes over. Especially since Jade's been beating her ass pretty much the entire build.

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10 hours ago, strobogo said:

WM cards looking pretty weak to me. Whole build to everything feels like they're happy to coast because they're so hot.

Looking strictly from the outside, reading news and reports and whatnot, apart from a few clips here and there (like Cena's turn and the Charlotte/Tiffany trainwreck), it absolutely feels that way. The reality is that Levesque is still coasting on whatever Vince/Nick Khan had started (Bloodline/Cody + TKO/Netflix/Saudi on the business side) and got handed CM Punk over. He's playing the easiest easy mode ever in term of booker and whenever they aren't that hot anymore (because that's how wrestling has always worked), then it'll get interesting...

8 hours ago, sek69 said:

I suppose compared to a typical AEW PPV with MOTY candidates from top to bottom it's kind of bland

This. I wouldn't watch it anyway, but I honestly look at the card on paper, and there's absolutely zero match that would make me apart from Charlotte vs Tiffany for very wrong reasons (and I guess Jade vs Naomi to see how much Jade has improved with proper training, ya know...).

Also, the Cena heel turn has not bumped Netflix numbers in such a significant way. WWE probably has hit a plateau, which makes sense. They have been hotter than ever in term of selling out big-ass shows (and financially obviously, but for other well known reasons) for a while now. But at one point, you just reach your own limit. 

 

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If WWE has hit a plateau, could that simply be due to the economy as a whole? I've long theorized that external economic factors play a bigger role in how hot a company is than most fans like to admit, so I wouldn't be surprised if all the recent uncertainty causes WWE to cool off somewhat. By the way, the Jacob Fatu/Braun Strowman LMS match is my current MOTY. You can always count on an Anoa'i to deliver in that environment.

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I would think there's no way it can keep it up at this level much longer considering how insane ticket prices are and I have no idea who is affording that shit already, but then extra after the economy is tanked and the price of everything in life doubles.