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Well TNN didn't fear this satire, they just cancelled the show because they wanted Raw instead.

People talk about how petty Tony Khan is. Paul Heyman basically ruined a years worth of TV with that shitty storyline just to publicly complain about the TNN executives.

So the mother-in-law is comig on Sunday and I've been given the afternoon off, I want to go to the cinema. I'm currently deciding to between either Monkey Man or Civil War...what say you UKFF? I rarely get the chance to go to the cinema these days so I have to get my picks right to avoid crushing disappointment.

The first 40 minutes is the build to the rest of the movie when everything kicks off so maybe keep going with it. I haven't seen it in years but I remember it being pretty fun.

Mid-90s Shawn or mid 2000s Shawn? Because they would be two very different lists for me.

That's what I was thinking. I'd be fine with that if the Don Callis Family had been consistently pushed as a big deal and a major threat but they've been regularly forgotten about and ignored since the summer to the point they barely feel like a faction let alone a real threat. Me personally, if they absolutely must do these annually then some kind of Team Hangman vs Team Swerve in Blood & Guts would fit the bill better. Fold in a bunch of singles feuds into one big bloody extravaganza.

Considering that title will likely be defended in the main event of Forbidden Door in a couple of months I'm fine with it being put over as a big deal, just not when there's a PPV a couple of days later.

I thought it was a pretty decent and solid, if unspectacular, show. Some thoughts: - Mox coming out to the big babyface pop with a major singles title just feels right. Great promo and the best type of "rah rah" speech. He's the man and the heart and soul of AEW - imagine wanting to see him back in the 'E? Awful. My only problem with this is that it didn't build up Dynasty which should have been the sole purpose of everything on this show. They should have left his return to next week, post PPV. - Mixed tag was fun with the clear highlight being Willow attacking Brody. What a star she is. Good bit of chaos at the end, but they should really of had the rest of the House of Black and Kingston and Mark Briscoe involved too. Nothing is better than when you overlap different storylines into one nice bit of TV and hit multiple goals in one segment. - I think what we're seeing with Mercedes we are going to see more and more with ex-WWE people in the next decade. Wrestlers entirely trained in the Performance Center with absolutely no idea how to be realistic, natural or believable outside of the WWE environment. The PC prepares wrestlers perfectly for WWE but without getting that proper "get over on your own" experience that working indies and overseas tours gives you - they're going to be fucked. - Look, we all know that Jericho is shit and needs to fuck off. We all know that the Hook/Jericho storyline is a terrible mess. HOWEVER. If you just watched this angle on this show as a singular bit of television it was pretty fucking good. Sometimes you have to give credit where credit is due. Good angle and Jericho was on point throughout. I have no interest in this rematch though, this feels like an angle they should have done a few weeks ago before they had their first match. What a mess. - The EVP's bumping the FTR video package was hilarious and incredibly creative. More of this! - I think every match on this show had a post match heels attack babyfaces angle. Not great. - Shane Taylor vs OC was a great match and I'm glad to see Shane Taylor getting more TV time. Imagine if OC still had the International Championship, this feud with Trent would have even more juice (and also would mean Roderick Strong wouldn't be having his pointless nothing of a reign). Cool ending with Trent but again, they're not having a match at Dynasty so why is this on this show? - Toni Storm is a heel but it's impossible to boo someone so hilarious. The heel/babyface divide in AEW is a bit of a mess right now actually and I think it's effecting the heat going into matches. Lot's of tweeners, the heels aren't heelish enough and that's affecting the babyfaces. - Predictably great Ospreay vs Claudio match. My only change is if they could have had Danielson on commentary with Don Callis - that would have been a nice extra bit of spice to things. - Swerve/Joe stuff felt like proper main event stuff. Not much cooler than Swerve stomping on everyone then still landing on his feet. Though I really think the contract signing angle from a few weeks ago should have been the final go-home angle before the PPV. Feels like they put the angles in the wrong order. - Overall, decent enough show though perhaps they didn't do quite enough to get me excited for Dynasty. This felt like the show they should have had last week before pulling out some bigger guns for the final sell before the PPV.

incredible.

No, she's still there.

It'll be tricky for them. They don't have any monster heels on the roster for him to stand up to and he can't really do the every man under dog thing because he's kissed managements arses and he's very publicly the company favourite to lead the shows going forwards. I'm not really sure where there is to go with him that can maintain his current popularity.

I doubt he'd go back into wrestling but I can definitely see him getting involved in some kind of live events promotion, concerts and the like.

The biggest problem with the Hook story is that they've already had a singles match and Hook beat him so what the fuck are we even doing here? The story they are currently telling only works if a) they haven't wrestled yet or b) they have and Jericho won.

With Jericho these days it doesn't really feel like he's building anything meaningful up or adding to his body of work. It just feels like he's coming up with stuff week by week as an excuse to desperately cling on to TV time.

I'm sorry but someone being Champion of the universe while also having someone who's "only" Champion of the world is just so insane and stupid I can't get my head around it at all.