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Already in my top 5 Hey’s of all time

Never has someone’s stock fallen so low from such a high position as Caster. great on the mic, good looking, decent ring work, all gone pretty much. Off ye pop to NXT please. Phenomenal looking card. All killer no filler so far (yep, even Roddy v Kyle I’m looking forward to). When you look at Mania night 1 and 2 you’re scrambling to make a whole decent event with some of those matches, and this will be another PPV missed by the masses of wrestling fans because it’s the other fed. Insane. It could be an all timer, especially as you pointed out that gimmick matches like ladders are few and far between. I’m very much looking forward to it. Will swerve win? I almost feel Page interfering is the way they will go and have Swerve finally win at double or nothing, which doesn’t give him a long run before the inevitable Ospreay/Swerve at All In. But I would love to see him win here, as much as Joe’s run has over delivered, it’s time for Swerve.

@Chili I think you nailed some crucial points (although WWE and AEW have the same amount of weekly TV and same amount of titles, it just feels worse on AEW). But the roster is bloated. Normally a great problem to have, but the spending spree he went on in 2020 due to WWE’s roster cuts ment that even with ROH as a satellite brand, too many people. Although at times that’s helped. When you’ve lost people like Kenny to long term injury you had people you could replace him with a the top end. And with people like Adam Cole, MJF, Miro, Kenny and Darby all out injured and they still have top talent, it shows how vast it is. I mean can you imagine if Seth, Cody, Roman, Drew and Priest were all out at the same time. Who’d be stepping up for the ’E? But he can definitely trim the fat and I think you either need to make ROH its own thing with no crossovers (unless they are being called up permanently to AEW), or just start not renewing contracts. Especially with people who don’t appear to want to be there anymore. They could lose a good 20/30 people across the company and still have a great roster (and even free space for people to step up).

The perfect antidote after putting on a critically panned show is a banger. And in that regard, this was a pretty great episode. Love me some Daddy Magic so enjoyed him sitting in for Nigel this week. Thought House of Black v Top Flight Ish was a good opener, ran a bit long but still a good match to open. Shibata vs Moriarty was almost too short. Just as it started really going it was done. Does Anthony Ogogo have the weirdest British accent? Where’s it from? Garcia vs Angelico was as fun as you’d expect. There’s something I like about Angelico, he’s never gonna be a top guy, but I enjoy him more than most lower card people. Not familiar with AZM, but thought she was great and gave Toni Storm her best match in months. A delightful surprise. I like Thunder Rosa, but I find her a bit bland usually. Until tonight, great babyface promo and got me excited for the match next week. Job done. FTR vs Young Bucks in a ladder match?!? Tony Khan you son of a bitch. BCC Vs Hobbs and Fletcher was a great main event, hard hitting, exciting, pushed the story with Danielson and Ospreay. Yeah, this was great. Collision does a really good job of taking an average card and over delivering. It’s come a long way since those early months when it was Punks mates and it was all quite samey.

@RedRooster Re: Kylie Rae. That’s a completely speculative situation. The details have not been confirmed as anything more than speculation (and I’m not trying to defend Jericho, not really a fan, just trying to go on what we do know). The journalist who made the allegations said he did so because he had a personal grudge and not long after quit due to other statements he made which were called out. I’M NOT SAYING IT DID OR DIDNT HAPPEN, I’m just saying all we have is speculation which I don’t think is helpful. Back to Flair, he wasn’t getting booed like a Dominic Mysterio level, because some wrestling fans will always cheer for the old boys, but he basically stopped appearing after this because of the backlash, and he had suggested before he would be by Stings side for every appearance. Would I have done it if I was Tony Khan? No, and regardless of the whys I still don’t agree with it and it was a mistake. I even hate they still have shitty Wooooo Energy as a sponsor, maybe that’s an indicator of the level of sponsorship they are getting offers on over WWE.

Are you saying you’d rather he paid for Flair himself because he can afford it? I think this goes to Tony being a people pleaser. He wanted to give Sting everything he wanted. He should have turned around said Ric Flair ain’t coming in because he’s a dirty old man who should be blackballed from the industry. But he instead asked what Sting wanted to round out his career and checked it off. It pretty much backfired, Flair was booed each appearance and no one seemed to be for it.

TNA, after getting screwed fairly recently on a toy deal, now have one in place from Powertown and they look great

Of course, one of those things that didn’t copy the link properly. But when I go back and find the tweet it’s been community noted and from the comments I think he was just engagement farming. Not that the statement wasn’t great, but it has nothing to do with recent events.

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He was named during speaking out as sending inappropriate messages to a 13 year old. But I’m glad you got to reuse your joke from the other day. So in that spirit, Something something bus, something something bus wanker.

That’s not quite true, although optics. Flair was supposed to be signed and once the Darkside of the Ring episode aired. Sting wanted him to come in during his final run and AEW did a deal with Woo Energy which they would pay Flair to appear. And he only appeared 3 times. Optically, still looked shit to have him in, but I guess they weren’t paying for the privilege. Jay Lethal is probably the best (worst) example

Austin Theory is supposed to be an irritating character but he’s also an annoying twat outside of that.

It’s someone tiny. Not much demand for that in gifs

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I just looked up his record this year on cagematch and thought it was funny, it’s not that deep, or even important. It’s wrestling where we suspend our disbelief frequently. An edit just for you @SuperBacon. The line was rightfully shat upon when Brandi used it in 2021 for being cringe. Although she’d top it later on when cutting a promo on Dan Lambert used the line, “You might be a Black Belt, but I’m a black bitch”. Sure, not offering Brandi an extension of her talent contract is probably what cost AEW from keeping Cody Rhodes, but it was the right decision, especially as WWE have also not hired her back. But if you think it’s cool, go you!

His justification was that loses have consequences. He’s had 24 matches in 2024. Drawn 1, lost 23.

Been some good discussions in here last few days* and for me now having let the dust settle (and stop taking his to seriously), I think it was a stupid decision to air the footage on Dynamite. I’m not apposed to the footage being out there, but I do think it outside of the ratings bump, they should have released it to an outfit like TMZ and had the storyline follow up on TV (because I do think that part of this worked well. Certainly gave a reason to care about the match which was pretty ice cold in terms of story. I also heard the reason punk did the interview was he was told the footage was going to air and wanted to get ahead of the lead (but that’s dirtsheets so pinch of salt). He has done some great things. Brodie Lee, giving talent time of when there have been bereavements or births (and I mean more than a week). I certainly think on balance he’s done better things than WWE have done in the past. But I don’t think he’s infallible or not due criticism (although the Swole point is tricky. She has medical issues and I thought he gave her lots of time off when needed. She’s an awful wrestler though so he wasn’t wrong, but definitely said the quiet bit out loud. She definitely did warrant a new contract.) and I’m sorry but I’d love D’amore to be picked up by AEW. I’m shocked he’s not been picked (unless I missed something. He didn’t. But he was asked about signing free agents and he made a comment about talking to people who decided they didn’t want the grind and were happy to work one day a week and he’s glad he didn’t pick them (Not understanding if you offer someone a contract and they take a different one, they didn’t pick you). Of the recent free agents, apparently they only made offers to Will and Mone, and Will had publicly discussed that the WWE offer was good, but AEW allowed him to keep his family living in the UK and not needing to relocate (and we obviously know why that was really important to him). So it’s reading between the lines but also pretty obvious. Anyway, I’ll try being less of a tit.

That Kevin Owen’s backstage bit was phenomenal, even knocking off CM Punks shirt. This was not If you don’t know the reference

I’m not sure I actually do understand the manner it’s intended as the first thing after that is you look like a tit. And me posting a load of tweets or comments of posts on facebook of some of that discourse from a few hours ago, isn’t fun or wanted by anyone. But my twitter feed was awash with Vince chat, I guess because that was the popular counter point to why AEW needs to die now they have shown the footage. Its really upset me actually, which probably wasn’t the intention or maybe it was, i dunno.

I don’t think you realise how many AEW fans don’t like Tony Khan. Even here on the forum that’s the case. But it’s the internet wrestling community a place where many WWE fans openly support Vince despite the allegations so I shouldn’t be surprised.

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Punk fans are like Trump fans. He could shit on the entrance stage and they’d cheer him. @RedRooster not sure what you mean about the chants following the bucks around, that pretty much happened after Brawl Out anyway.

Whilst you all just want to watch the juicy bit, I recommend the whole segment to at least give some context As to the rest of the show, Copeland vs Penta was a real surprise in quality, he’s really got his work boots on now he’s in AEW. I’m going to watch hour 2 in the morning.

“ Sometimes you can’t let someone get close. I didn’t punch anybody I just choked someone a little bit” If you thought/think Punks a saint or that he’s the man, you probably still do. If you think Punk is unprofessional and a man baby, this confirmed it. It also confirmed he lied about Jack Perry’s actions. He tried to sucker him, he failed to choke him for more then 2 seconds and Jack never squared up to Punk. Now we know, now we move on. I thought both the Bucks and FTR did great work here weaving it into the PPV match and I assume the next blood and guts with the return of Jack Perry.