Infinity Land

I think it might be a new American Triple Crown situation until it all falls apart by defending individual championships.

With these occasional World v secondary title match ups. If someone ever wins do they also get the Unified Title?

1+2 World Singles 3+4+5 World Tags/Trios 6+7 TBS & TNT 8+9+10 International/Continental/National Still room on an AEW PPV for a few more

1) World - 2) International - 3) National Follows a basic understanding used in other sports. I'm fine with that. TNT Exists because it's a business and wanting something for big names to do that have fallen out of World Title contention but seen above the developmental track of the lower titles. Continental can just be reduced to the Owen Hart Cup belt. The tournament win is the triumph it doesn't need to be something that's defended. We've seen AEW's booking for years now that titles are a crutch. The Women's Tag Titles in the past year may not have led to a tag team boom but helped to round out the division as a whole. Most of the titles end up having some moments in any given year. The National title has done alright for Ricochet who was becoming a bit of a joke, Mark Davis and Andrade. Could have done without Jack Perry.

Talent cuts and residencies. We've seen some of the things that can happen when the booking spreadsheet gets put to the side for accounting. That's why the media deal does matter because it will be felt even if you're just watching from home.

Skydance does need to cut the debt. It does also need to feed the beast of constant new content. One of the good things is that the WWE international rights are wrapped up in the Netflix deal. Skydance might see the bargain in "here's the same money but for the global rights" (Paramount+, potentially things like the UK market moving to TNT sports or 5 channel when the ITV deal is up).

Who says anyone has to change their minds? Chances are both could have above average ratings because the passive AEW audience turn up for Blood & Guts and the passive WWE Raw/Smackdown crowd turn up for NXT.

US Elections the day before pushing NXT head-to-head with Dynamite in the Wednesday time slot. Cena and Cody turning up already confirmed for NXT appearances. Blood & Guts is a proven ratings winner at this point and being overshadowed by the WWE C show isn't going to be a good look with all the Skydance changes going on. There's already plenty of fear mongering going on.

Grew up with Next Generation. So he was my Captain. Loved everything he was in. He was amazing as the villain in Green Room. I'm not sure I can watch that anytime soon knowing Patrick Stewart and Anton Yelchin are no longer around.

If they bring back the Continental Cup without it being held at Wembley. They should just do a one night tournament or in one week where Dynamite/Collision are Wednesday/Thursday.

Dynasty is pretty much sold out. The first count for the o2 Dynamite is sitting at under 4,000.

The cynical take on the timing this year is that it is the US midterm elections are the day before. NXT is likely to be moved to a head-to-head with Dynamite and regardless news channels will be pulling in more people than usual talking about the results. As its two weeks before Full Gear, the matches becomes a placeholder to keep the PPV feuds ticking over.

I am surprised AEW haven't done before now. Chikara helped popularise the cibernetico format to those that follow American indie wrestling as they held an annual tournament.

In terms of departure it might spoil it as an example, Stu Grayson's return to AEW. Pops up again when they are in Canada if I remember right, gets the #AllElite graphic. Almost immediately dropped down to ROH for some shows where he turned on the Dark Order to join The Righteous. Then presumably sat out whatever was left on his contract.

Frankie "I'm not getting a haircut" Kazarian's summer of 2005 that was exclusive to Velocity.