The King Of Swing

Fair play to Kip, I thought he made a decent panelist on the buy in. 

Oh and Sue got a new Van and a Wembley payday.

Was that skin hanging off of Mox? Disgusting.

Having the ROH tag title match on the buy in, was a smart move imo. Gave fans an actual reason to arrive early.

MJF breaking down post match when Cole chucked the ROH Tag belt was tremendous. When he's not going full shooty bollocks, he's untouchable imo.

With AEW announcing All In London 2024, I'm guessing they are hoping to make the show their own Wrestlemania.

Be interesting to see if they can pull it off again. 

Cracking show that even Saraya winning couldn't ruin.

The main event was a little over booked for my taste but the crowd ate it up and I can't deny that I srill really enjoyed the match. 

I'm guessing Better Than You Bay Bay Vs. The Kingdom, going forward.

Women's match was decent. Saraya can fuck off, hopefully a short run with the title.

So Mercedes Mone is clearly coming in by the look of it. I'm fine with that. 

Jericho Vs. Osprey was fine but another case of Jericho looking his age with some ugly spots.

Stampede was basically just Anarchy In The Arena. Was fun but lacked the magic of the real Stadium Stampede matches and both Eddie and Penta pissing off for a break was really awkward. 

Golden Elite Vs. BCG and Takeshita was decent but I didn't really care. 

Tag Title match was a bit of a disappointment for me. Good effort but I struggled to get into it. 

Coffin match was a blast. 

Punk Vs. Joe was really good and Joe was clearly having the time of his life.

Trios Title match was fun with the correct result. Didn't expect King to eat the pin.

Pre show was fun.

Oh and rumour is Jack Perry tried to give it the big one with Punk and got choked out. If true then maybe that's why Punk and Joe had some extra pep in their step, during their match. 

Well if those reports are true then Perry is a pillock.

Decent enough show. 

Happy to see the Renegade Twins back, hopefully not a one off. Robyn looked good.

Not feeling the Ricky and Big Bill pairing. 

Joe is great and has carried the feud with Punk, imo.

Sting still blows my mind. 

It's on FITE. Ordered it a few days ago through their app. 

Pains me to say this but I think OC's title reign has finally run out of steam.

Was a bit shit this week. 

Literally just found out that Persona 3 is getting the remake treatment. Guess that explains why they re-released P3P over the OG game or FES. 

Looks nice based on the trailer. 

Edit. 

It's coming to Game Pass. 

Fucking hell "White knight" is still a thing in 2023?

The booking of the women is one thing AEW absolutely deserves to get shit for.

Sakura is obviously great but it's pretty obvious that she's seen as little more than a solid hand to help put others over.

Considering some of the people currently not announced for the show, she had no chance.

Sucks but that's the way it is. 

She should at least be mixing it up with the Collision crew. Stantlander Vs. Sakura would be a blast. 

5 hours ago, RedRooster said:

I've been playing the Xenoblade Chronicles 3 DLC, and it might be the best DLC I've ever played. They've essentially released a full game, it's quite impressive. It's not one to play if you've not played the base game (and you may also want to at least familiarise yourself with XC and XC2 first - it acts as a sequel to both) - but if you're a fan of the series you really should get yourself on to this. 

I've been slowly making my way through XC3 again in preparation before playing the DLC. 

Forgot how ridiculously big the game is. 100 hours in and still have loads to do before I finish the main story.

Rarely boring though. Probably my favourite game on the Switch. 

24 minutes ago, RedRooster said:

I find harder to invest in after his unceremonious disappearance while he appeared to be in full flow. It feels like there’s no guarantee that it won’t happen again. 

Yeah the absence certainly didn't help.

For the record I enjoyed the initial Redeemer run. 

Now it's just Miro on repeat with less and less people giving a shit. This weeks promo being received with silence for almost the entirety.

14 minutes ago, Merzbow said:

Didn't he head off to go acting but that went nowhere, then cried about storyline ideas and pretty much refused to come back for a while?

There were reports that he was turning ideas down which if true probably means that all the Redeemer bollocks is his idea. 

No wonder TS has stuck him in a dead end feud with Hobbs.

Enjoyed the episode but yeah the weakest yet. 

I actually really liked BCG Vs. Iron Savages but was imo obviously thrown together to kill time. Guessing it was to make up for no FTR segment. 

The women's division having a mostly consistent direction is a good thing. Hopefully it continues.

Christian Cage is ace.

Miro is done isn't he? Crowd didn't give a fuck about his promo other than one line. Hobbs isn't far behind Miro in the 'no fucks given about him' category.

Hobbs Vs. Miro shouldn't be anywhere near a PPV. That's a Rampage match at best. 

Got a feeling that All Out might be a Collision heavy show. Be interesting to see how it performs so soon after All In. 

I wouldn't be shocked if The Outcasts implode at All In.

I could see Saraya winning the title and then quickly dropping it when back in the US but that wouldn't be a good look after Shida only recently won the title. 

Saraya and Storm fall out to give Shida an opening, I reckon. 

I think Britt will probably move onto the TBS Title in an attempt to become the first wrestler to hold both the world and TBS championship.

Poor Rudy though, can't even win a match with Skye Blue on the opposing team and ate the pin.

What a fall.

That was by Kommander's best match in AEW and I fully agree that Fenix and Penta are much more interesting as singles wrestlers.

Overall another enjoyable hour of wrestling. 

Shida/Blue Vs. Storm/Soho was a decent main event and I enjoyed the post match brawl to close the show. 

Last I heard of JP he was mostly having meltdowns on twitter. 

Well I certainly wasn't expecting this news when I clocked out of work. 

Looks like something MJF would tweet. 

9 hours ago, Merzbow said:

Don't worry, Bayley has already taken over as the right wing idiot on the roster.

Oh no. What's the story? 

3 hours ago, Snitsky's back acne said:

Oh, it's absolutely no less true than it was 2019 but the public narrative has certainly changed from 'These guys really want to make the business better for everyone' to 'These guys are clearly just bilking this clueless billionaire of as much money as they can'. It was ALWAYS the latter, it's just less people were inclined to say/believe it in 2019.

 

Unlike other promotions run by money marks though, AEW has actually been successful.

So I honestly don't give a fuck how much Sniff is paying out.

2 hours ago, d-d-d-dAz said:

I think I’ve decided the funniest end to all of this would be that it actually is a work, Omega calls him out tonight at Dynamite, they have a match at All In/Out and… they just don’t gel at all and the match is an utter damp fart disappointment. 

Match ends with Punk's knee crumbling to dust after attempting a V-trigger.