El-P Posted Friday at 09:49 PM Report Share Posted Friday at 09:49 PM Forget it. I loved pretty much everything about this week's show. Smaller building (which is the way to go), hot crowd, excellent matches all night, cool vignette and backstage interviews, good lead-in to PPV matches. Nice ! Toni Storm coming back as her old self is an interesting bet. I much prefer this version of her anyway and after the while, the gimmick, as fun as it was, was only gonna go in circles. Not to say they can't bring it back eventually for special occasions, Cactus Jack style. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El-P Posted Saturday at 12:46 AM Author Report Share Posted Saturday at 12:46 AM Gotta say, Willie Mack being pulled off from the GCW shows but being booked out of nowhere to Final Battle is a hoot. Good for him. Use Willie Mack more ! Also, Athena is going to the Tokyo Dome. Well, now, that's a legit "you deserve it" moment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blehschmidt Posted Saturday at 01:05 PM Report Share Posted Saturday at 01:05 PM When is AEW going.to realize that they have a huge babyface just waiting to be unleashed in Harley Cameron. She's attractive, she's charismatic, she's hilarious. She sells really well, and her offense is getting better. I truly think there is major potential there for her to get over really well as a babyface, and they certainly need it, cause right now they have two heel champions and almost no contenders. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El-P Posted Saturday at 02:22 PM Author Report Share Posted Saturday at 02:22 PM Harley Cameron is awesome. But it's tricky. She's basically a rookie. She's had 52 matches in two years. She needs reps. But AEW doesn't have a developmental circuit (some might argue ROH kinda is, but not really. Maybe it should too). So they have her work reps on TV and loose a lot. Which hurts her perception. And the whole "It's your turn now" booking is the laziest and less effective and compelling thing ever (see Private Party, which only worked because the Young Bucks are just that great inside the ring). She needs to win. Not being protected in a ridiculous fashion like Hook (or Jade Cargill), but certainly win quite a lot more than she does now. Also, babyface eventually, but the whole wacky character is more conducive to heel work at least at first. To me she kinda is a case of heel-that-people-love who eventually turn babyface organically. The last tricky part is that she may be too funny for her own good. Then again, she's not Chelsea Green of IIconics in that she actually shows a shitload of potential already as far as in-ring work goes. I would send her to Stardom not just for a tour, but for 6 months, sign an extension with her and then bring her back as a star. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El-P Posted Sunday at 11:07 AM Author Report Share Posted Sunday at 11:07 AM Ok, so Toni Storm is 100% doing Mick Foley. And if done *right*, and Storm has proven before she can get over any kind of crazy shit, it could be pretty entertaining. And of course the payoff would be the actual return of Timeless Toni Storm. Some people are gonna hate it because it's not "realistic" or "serious enough", but nothing about Timeless Toni Storm ever was (which never was an issue when it was time for blood angles either), so that actually fit the long arc of the character. Also, Thunder Rosa getting a PPV title shot at Mariah May doesn't make any sense, but Thunder Rosa vs Mariah May in a street-fight, yeah, whatever, I'm sold. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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