Supremo

It’s a good watch. Confirms a lot of what I suspected about Tony Khan being too nice to be a pro-wrestling promoter. The bits where Punk’s obviously talking shit are equally as brilliant. Calmly asking Jack Perry to behave? Chinny reckon. Also, how many times does he do that same line, “you better fix this, or else I’ll fix it and you aren’t going to like what I do.” Gave the exact same energy as this. I hope Tony does the mature, sensible thing. Don’t get a bag in. Don’t start tweeting bollocks. Don’t attract the usual suspects to this topic. You’re on a great run of TV, building momentum and good will. Just keep your head down, focussing on what matters. Binning off Chris Jericho.

Clips I’ve seen so far are very entertaining. Looking forward to listening to the whole show. I’d like it if Ariel asked him what the difference is between Hangman improvising against the script on live TV and Punk daring Drew to say Vince McMahon’s name, but I haven’t expected anything clever or interesting from Ariel in forever. Absolute bum licker these days.

The Final Boss has got kids thinking he’s ended Cody’s life. The business is alive and well. Only thing that can make this even better is when Cody inevitably flies this kid to Mania.

Always a big fan of these graphics that pop up. Makes the cards look stacked. A lot I’m excited about. Frankly furious the kids are off for the Easter Holidays and I can’t watch it live. Other than the main events, have they announced what matches are on each night yet? I don’t recall hearing it. Do they usually leave it this late? God knows how many fans are only going to one show, but you have to assume some are. Would be mad still not knowing what matches you’re going to see. Anyway, I clocked this online and was filled with joy. That smug, “what do you guys wanna talk about?” when he’s wearing the belt is going to hit like crack.

Real, “actually, Triple H told Rikishi to run Stone Cold over,” vibes. You hope Roman has a really strong week starting on Raw, putting himself on the same level as The Rock, but does he even have it in him? What can he even do? Is it too late to replace Roman with Jade Cargill in the Night One tag match? Absolute megastar.

Good show, with great action, let down massively by the crap crowd. First time in a while you could really notice how few people were in that massive, dark, empty space. All tight camera angles and forced perspectives again. Like going from playing N64 in glorious 3D for weeks, only to have it snatched away by your big brother, having to go back to playing in 2D on the crap, original NES. Rubbish. Good opener. Will Ospreay continues to impress. I think this lad’s gonna be a good wrestler, you know! However, this was the first time since he joined AEW that I noticed his stupid tattoo with the All In attendance! What a whopper. Get it covered up, Will. You’re making top dollar now. Book in for a sleeve. Further evidence that Will Ospreay might be the best wrestler in the World right now; hitting Katsuyori Shibata with stiff-looking soccer kicks, elbows, flying forearms, Tiger Drivers and Hidden Blades. All connecting snug, like there’s nothing to worry about. Must be a truly great worker to make all that look so good without the seam on Shibata’s skull opening up and his brain flopping back out. Great vignette on Danielson being the absolute best. Not that it’s hard to convey. He is the absolute best. Literally impossible for him to ever receive enough flowers. The best ever. They should have played, “Monster,” over this. Fun match between the Bucks and Private Party, but this tournament has been extremely disappointing thus far. Even worse is that the Finals of Bucks vs. FTR is so obvious. Continental Classic, this is not. Hopefully Mathew and Nicholas can spice it up with their new characters because I’ve otherwise got no interest in seeing them rematch against FTR again. Shame about them screwing up the finish here. They should have hit something else before getting the pin. Snoop Dogg needs to teach these amateurs how to improvise. Disappointing they don’t do BTE anymore. They could have done a fun skit where they buy Nicholas some Addidas Predator boots to stop him slipping on the finish next time. Didn’t they shoot a daft BTE skit to explain Matt Sydal slipping on the turnbuckle that time he debuted in the Battle Royale? Classic! Hopefully next week we see Nicholas firing some ring crew for not wiping down the cavas properly. Okada can throw them out the arena or run them over with his Ferrari. It took less than three weeks for us to get the true Mercedes Mone experience. Looked a million dollars. Everything else was worth about 20p. Spent the entire time at the desk sleep talking. Lifeless mumbling. Has she ever watched AEW before? Was she actually in her seat for much of the show at Wembley? You wouldn’t know it. Seemed as bored as she was clueless as to what to say. Didn’t she supposedly bring in a WWE writer, specifically for her? That writer better worry if she’s still on probation. Job Centre tomorrow morning. Sacked. Good action in the Women’s four way, though. Willow and Skye are great together. Happy to see Willow win. Strap her up at the pay per view. Love her. As much as Butcher vs. Dustin sounds like a fine Rampage scrap, I don’t want to see Dustin in AEW right now. I want to see him at Wrestlemania, for the Bloodline Endgame portal scene. He and Cody can blade together. Leave rivers of blood before overcoming the odds. Do it Tony, or else you don’t deserve pro-wrestling! The balls on Mike Bennet to wear a, “NOBODY CARES,” T-shirt, when he’s in such a Dead-on-arrival act. Nobody cares, indeed. The Bang Bang Scissor Gang literally joined forces for the sole purpose of taking on The Undisputed Kingdom and even they forgot they existed a few weeks later. Poor MJF. Not only has this company instantly moved on and improved in his absence, but the blood feud for when he comes back is against the bWo. Chump central. Santana had a bigger comeback feuding against Ortiz exclusively on Rampage. Good main event. Exactly what Swerve needed. The World Title dilemma remains though. Every week you think Swerve is the man and it’s time to switch the belt, but then Joe inevitably cuts a brilliant, impassioned promo straight afterwards and you’re left thinking, “actually, maybe not.” Worst part of the show is the same as it always is. Jericho continues to Jericho. Urgh. How long has he been wearing that leather jacket, with badges on it? Like he stole it directly off Rick from the Young Ones. Bare chested under the jacket, too! Strong look, Chris. HOW DO YOU DO, FELLOW COOL, RELEVANT WRESTLERS. Whole thing just stinks. It’s not even like Jericho can go any lower. It’s HOOK who I’m starting to resent. Why is this cool, hip, aloof youngster agreeing to hang out with this creepy, fifty something weirdo? Bin this nonce! He should have hit Jericho’s advances with a, “no,” quicker then Punk hit Seth with a, “no,” on Monday. “Maybe we should…”NO.” *Walks off eating some Flame Grilled Real McCoy’s* I’ve seen people suggest it’s all becoming a meta heel run for Jericho, like that makes any difference at all. It doesn’t. Being self aware that you’re way past your sell by date and in dire need of six months off TV doesn’t make it any better. It’s not something you can play into. Just fuck off. I will not feel sympathy for HOOK if Jericho turns on him. Got everything he deserved. This made me laugh though. Shout out to my boy Daniel Garcia. His heart was in the right place, before he decided better of it and deleted the Tweet. You have to let these young lads lose six months of their career to this prick, Danny. They all must experience him sucking the life out of their young souls, like Vigo in Ghostbusters 2. It’s a canon event.

I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. A man setting himself on fire for a random Dynamite match with Andrade. I’ve watched ten thousand seats sell out for an NWA Title match against Nick Aldis. All those moments…will be lost in time…like a blade job in the rain.

Art. I’m fascinated by what this build would have looked like if they didn’t pivot, and stuck with Rock vs. Roman as the Mania match. No heel turn. No FINAL BOSS. No Thanos entrance, walking through the lightning. No heavy heat angle, with the Blade Runner aesthetic in the rain. No blade job. No LOOK AT YOU NOW, BOY. The idea of Roman in his current form, the overshadowed little brother, building towards a Wrestlemania main event with the goofy, babyface Rock we had before the pivot? What on Earth would that have looked like? Just weeks of the Family Tree PowerPoint? Rock and Roman doing a tug-of-war with the belt, like Brock and Roman? Has anyone reported on the original plans?

Definitely wanking.

Couldn’t find that thread about bad takes, so I’ll put this here. Turns out wobbling your head back and forth can give CTE.

Is it too much of a stretch to think the reason Chris Jericho won’t take the hint and fuck off is because he’s trying to work through his AEW contract as soon as possible, in order to make the jump back to WWE? It’s the only thing that makes sense at this point.

Can’t stop watching it. Unbelievable. Appearing like a God from the darkness. The way Pat can be heard giggling with sheer joy. The way the lightning strikes slow down, “FINAL BOSS,” flashes on the screen and then the music slows down to his heel theme. One of the best entrances of all time. Wade Keller reporting that Punk going, “Who chose you? Say his name!” was improvised. What did Drew ever do in this world to have an empty-headed dumb fuck like CM Punk to go out on national television and fucking go into business for himself. Forget allowing people to say, “wrestling,” and, “belt.” Forget allowing continuous camera shots that last longer than a minute. The true test of Triple H as a booker is going to be if he can keep this Punk and Drew thing on the tracks without anyone’s head falling off. I swear half the reason they’re flying Punk in to do commentary at Wrestlemania is out of fear that if he just sits at home rehabbing he’ll work himself into a shoot and lose his mind again.