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Every CC so far has been an absolute banger. It's been my favourite thing in wrestling every year it's ran. With this roster I see no reason this year will be any different. Can't wait!

I think the Bucks are absolute masters at that type of high octane party match. The best to ever do it. They never disappoint when it comes to big matches. However I find their weekly TV matches pretty awful for the most part. I don't think they've ever worked out how to do their schtick in a normal TV match. I think it’s the one thing that holds them back. It's either all the fireworks or none at all with them.

Turns out Rush's visa expired and his new one won't be ready till January hence why he's not been around.

I also liked how Copeland was mostly outperformed by his younger more athletic and powerful opponents throughout but managed to get two quick sneaky pins near the end - played into his "ultimate opportunist" thing he used to do. Very well done

I think as a proof of concept Clockwork Carnage worked and a B-level PPV main event with only 1-2 weeks build was the perfect place to debut it. Going forwards though I definitely think it's better suited as a Blood and Guts style Dynamite Special Episode though. At the same time they shot themselves in the foot a bit because Okada/Ospreay is an easy PPV main event that they kind of threw away on free TV. Though again I can understand why they did it - a big title match in a new foreign market makes total sense.

Yeah it's a shame how Rush's run has gone. I think he's fantastic. Whenever they've actually got behind him it's been great but a combination of injuries, visa issues and presumably personality issues means it never lasted long. I think if they stuck with the tag team with Beast Mortos it could have been a good run. Being associated with Dralistico always seemed to drag him down too.

Dralistico is fucking shite, that cunt should count himself lucky Tony Khan is willing to pay him to stay at home.

What if the 400 people venue has one entrance and the 40,000 show has fifty entrances? I'm not sure how you're doing it but I managed to turn up to Wembley 15 minutes before doors opening and be seated with time to spare at every All In.

Fun B-show. Clockwork Carnage was a good laugh with a thrilling final few minutes, Bucks/ProtoJet was the perfect version of that kind of match and Mox/Davis was unexpectedly epic. One thing I noticed a lot was lots of long sections where the camera shot wouldn't cut and they would stay close to the action and it resulted in some thrilling sequences. There was a bit outside the ring during the Bucks match which felt like an incredible single shot take from a martial arts movie. The talent level of this company that they can stay for so long and so close on their work without needing to hide gaps with camera cuts shows how good these guys are in ring. Overall it feels to me that AEW this year have settled into a pattern of reliably consistent and almost guaranteed highest quality matches on every show. However they've also not really taken any creative swings or done very many big stories either. So it's been a year that I've really liked but not loved.

Not just cheaper, it extends the shelf life and uses less plastic packaging. Big wins for the 10 seconds it takes to seperate it all.

I thought it was X-Pac at first.

I don't even think he's particularly over outside of his entrance and he's made no difference to attendance or TV ratings. Hard to get excited about a singles run when he's not at the level of the vast majority of the roster who are way faster, harder hitting and exciting in ring than he's ever been. I think Omega/Copeland would be boring as fuck. Omega working a New Japan main event style vs a 2008 WWE main event style will be brutal. To be honest, I've always found him pretty dull.

I think Copeland is just a bit boring and rubbish so don't really care about this retirement run at all. Not a single match he could have interests me.

Yeah Jericho hasn't been too bad since his return. They've kept him away from all the top acts/stories, hes not on every week or PPV and he's been mostly doing short snappy feuds rather than dragging everything out painfully for months and months.

Presumably they're running Andrade/Ospreay at Winter Is Coming in Mexico.