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For my UK peeps: https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.hjqJdZmDeugczRWEL4kOrwHaDt?dpr=1.3&pid=ImgDetMain

Funny enough, @AxB, seeing Storm got me wondering about Biff, too. Last I recalled seeing him was I. His AMAZING. Bloodsport match with Mox. Looked him up and was also surprised to see he’s currently employed by WWE. However, I think he’s a coach in NXT, and his wiki says he’s retired from the ring.

Are we totally sure it wasn’t on purpose?

(stole this off Reddit) lol

Without knowing exactly how the process works, I’d think it’s more down to Last or the artist. Although the thumbnails are usually based on the audio. But given his history, most people are not going give JC the benefit of the doubt. disclaimer: haven’t heard said audio. I usually don’t listen to the AEW recaps.

Speaking of which, yeah Corny got some explaining to do with the latest thumbnail he used to talk about Swerve Strickland Even if he had no idea about it or even was complementary to Shane, it REALLY tells what he thinks about his cult that THAT was needed to get your attention

So, the Parking Lot Fight, it went short (10 minutes) and was the least impressive of the three, but the way it ended made it pretty clear why. Chuck is still injured. So they did this as a way of explaining why he's not around to make the save for Orange for the next few months. So bearing that in mind, it was super impressive they did as much as they did. Bloodiest match in AEW since Swerve vs Hangman maybe? Certainly the bloodiest match on TV in a good while. But just when it was getting ready to kick into a higher gear and go from good to great, it ended. It does have me wondering, did they delay/ cancel Kris Statlander turning heel on Willow because they needed her to be the other babyface voice in this feud? Or are they going to set up Willow vs Kris as a face vs face match, where she admits to having felt jealousy, but says that seeing how devastating Trent's actions have been, she's NOT going to go down the same path? Deonna vs Thunder, again it got a little bit more time than AEW usually gives the ladies, and was all the better for it. Thunder looked rusty in her first couple of matches back, but having matches like this is a great way to work herself back into form. And Purazzo going heel is pretty much where she should have started. If the Mariah/ Deonna double debut had happened anywhere but New Jersey, perhaps both would have been on the more fitting sides of the face/heel divide. Daniel Garcia's selling of the big Shane Taylor chop, that was a thing of beauty. Getting hit by one of them and immediately slipping into a raging, uncontrolled fury (but then losing control of the offence right away), that's exactly how people should be reacting. His facial selling of moves, of damage, of who he is and where he is in the match, that's an underrated aspect of his game. So he made a hell of a Ricky Morton in this match. I'm loving how much Shane Taylor we've been getting on AEW TV lately. When he was first picked up with the ROH acquisition, it felt like there wasn't really a place for him in the company. The fact that he was the only member of STP that they kept says it all. But now, he's become one of the real workhorses of the company. It certainly seems like Shibata and the BCC guys can't get enough of him as an opponent. All in all, 3 hours of fantastic Wrestling television. AEW rules the fucking world et cetera.

Arkady Aura is the new interviewer. She signed with AEW a while back.

When Raven first broke in and was just wrestling on the weekends, his 9-5 job was being a Male Stripper (and he claims he used to bang women from the audience). When he was in ECW, his 9-5 was DJing in a strip club, which is where he would recruit girls to be his ECW valets. Vince would LOVE that shit. You don't even need to get into his drug habits to make it a juicy Dark Side.

Darby tops my list of guys I’m least surprised to hear getting hit by a bus. Of course he did. Even if he walked away without a scratch. He ain’t okay!

It's like the universe is trying to tell him something...

Collision started earlier than Fite was expecting it to, because the Basketball went short. So it randomly got a 7 minute overrun (that was actually an underrun if you think about it). Swerve getting the opening segment makes sense with the NBA lead-in. Basketball fans might see Swerve with the World title and think it's cool that he's World Champion and give the company a chance. Bit less embarrassing than that one year when they sent Jericho out there first, and thousands of NBA fans thought it was funny that he had gained weight. Jay White was a heavyweight in NJPW, and he wrestles more like a heavyweight weasel than a flier. But it's still jarring to see that he's physically smaller than the Brothers Martin. On the other hand, the Brothers Gunn hopping the railing at Daily's to pay tribute to their previous AEW life as the pandemic era superfans was a lot of fun. There is a reason (beyond nepotism) why they're the only guys from that era who are still here. Godspeed Pineapple Pete et cetera. Tony Schiavone saying move names that were originally in Spanish is unlike Excalibur saying the same words. Feels like Tony has only ever heard them said by English speakers. Fenix's comeback match being dominated by Beast Mortos' offence, and Rey barely keeping his head above water, that was a nice touch. There's a lot of narrative potential in a guy coming back from injury and being a step off, being rusty, not being able to put things together right away, but it's often a thing that commentators talk about but isn't incorporated into the actual match story. This time it was, really well. Martin Stone (Danny Burch in NXT) showing up in AEW as a jobber was unexpected. He was underutilised in WWE. If he and Biff had hit the indies as a tag team, they would have made waves, but Martin had a lot of injuries to recover from, and Biff went back to WWE* before Martin was back in the ring. I can see him potentially doing things as a singles guy, but AEW've already got two Martins, and it's hard to establish your own identity as your own man when you have Bobby Roode's exact face. Mariah May comes to the ring, and soon thereafter Tony Schiavone says "Settle Down, Nigel McGuiness-etico". And then the match went longer than most AEW Women's matches on TV go, and was much the better for it. I have seen people saying that Anna Jay hasn't progressed as a worker and is still the same rookie she was 4 years ago; If that's the case, then this was a hell of a carry job from Toni Storm. Which is good, because although she is a wrestler with a really strong gimmick right now, we shouldn't allow that to let us forget that she's a great bell to bell worker. The fact that she can incorporate her character into the story of the match, without making it a schtick match that consists of the fans waiting for her to hit her character spots so they can pop for them (which there's nothing wrong with that, some wrestling fans LOVE that style), it gives a whole other dimension to the work. This might have been Anna Jay's best match, actually. If the Grizzled Young Veterans are unsigned and available, AEW should pick them up. This match hits two recurring themes from things I've already written about: British Wrestlers being underutilised in NXT, and gimmick based wrestlers who have signature spots they want to get to. The Acclaimed had fallen into that trap... they had those handful of tag spots that were over, and they would just do those and go home. Here, they didn't. This was the best Acclaimed match in months, and I'm not attributing that to it being a simple Caster/Bowens tag with Billy back to standing ringside instead of being on the apron, awaiting the tag. I'm attributing it to Gibson and Drake being such good wrestlers, and such great heels, that they dragged The Acclaimed out of the comfort zone and into a great match. Claudio vs Swerve was great too. There wasn't a bad match on the show, the opening trios might have been the least good one, and that was still excellent. Claudio's great strength and athleticism means he can do things in the ring that most wrestlers simply cannot; Swerve is similarly a guy who can move unlike most other humans can move. So they probably could have created something especially esoteric out there... which they didn't. They had a really good, solid match, started Swerve's reign off with a great defence against a great opponent, established him as a fighting champion who'll take on all comers right off the bat (as opposed to one of those babyface champions who only defends against heels, or vice versa). You spend all of your life waiting for a wrestling show in which someone stands on top of someone else head (who is also standing up) and it never happens, for years... and then it happens twice on one show. Incredible. So yeah, Collision was really good. On to Rampage! * That was confusing, he had a couple of indie matches where he made the "I'm so glad to be back where the real action is, working for WWE messed with my mental health & motivation, finally I feel like myself again" promo, and then re-signed immediately. Perhaps the rah rah indies promos are a work; Perhaps he's willing to live with Depression if it brings financial security with it. Who knows?

Post AEW Worlds End 2023, AEW Revolution 2024 and AEW Dynasty 2024 update: 30. Minoru Suzuki vs. Samoa Joe. AEW Dynamite, 13th April 2022. 29. Sting/Darby Allin/Shingo Takagi vs. Matt Jackson/Nick Jackson/El Phantasmo. AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door, 26th June 2022. 28. Jon Moxley vs. Mr. Brodie Lee. AEW Double or Nothing, 23rd May 2020. 27. MJF vs. Darby Allin. AEW Full Gear, 13th November 2021. 26. Trent/Chuck Taylor vs. Santana/Ortiz. AEW Dynamite, 16th September 2020. 25. Anna Jay/Tay Conti vs. The Bunny/Penelope Ford. AEW Rampage, 31st December 2021. 24. Toni Storm vs. Jamie Hayter. AEW Full Gear, 19th November 2022. 23. Kazuchika Okada vs. PAC. AEW Dynasty, 21st April 2024. 22. Bryan Danielson vs. Kazuchika Okada. AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door, 25th June 2023. 21. Cody vs. Mr Brodie Lee. AEW Dynamite, 22nd August 2020. 20. Jon Moxley vs. Bryan Danielson. AEW Revolution, 6th March 2022. 19. Adam Page vs. Jon Moxley. AEW Revolution, 5th March 2023. *****. 18. Mr. Brodie Lee vs. Cody. AEW Dynamite, 7th October 2020. *****. 17. Kenny Omega/Adam Page vs. Matt Jackson/Nick Jackson. AEW Revolution, 29th February 2020. *****. 16. Dax Harwood/Cash Wheeler vs. Matt Jackson/Nick Jackson. AEW Dynamite, 6th April 2022. *****. 15. Bryan Danielson vs. Minoru Suzuki. AEW The Buy In: Rampage, 15th October 2021. *****. 14. Cody vs. Dustin Rhodes. AEW Double or Nothing, 25th May 2019. *****. 13. CM Punk vs. MJF. AEW Revolution, 6th March 2022. *****. 12. MJF vs. CM Punk. AEW Dynamite, 2nd February 2022. *****. 11. Thunder Rosa vs. Dr. Britt Baker. AEW St. Patrick's Day Slam Dynamite, 17th March 2021. *****. 10. Sting/Darby Allin vs. Matthew Jackson/Nicholas Jackson. AEW Revolution, 3rd March 2024. *****. 9. Dax Harwood/Cash Wheeler vs. Jay White/Juice Robinson. AEW Collison, 15th July 2023. *****. 8. Adam Page vs. Bryan Danielson. AEW Dynamite, 6th January 2022. *****. 7. Bryan Danielson vs. Ricky Starks. AEW All Out, 3rd September 2023. *****. 6. MJF vs. Bryan Danielson. AEW Revolution, 5th March 2023. *****. 5. Adam Page/John Silver/Alex Reynolds vs. MJF/Santana/Ortiz. AEW Dynamite, 30th December 2020. 4. Adam Page vs. Bryan Danielson. AEW Winter is Coming Dynamite, 15th December 2021. *****. 3. Will Ospreay vs. Bryan Danielson. AEW Dynasty, 21st April 2024. *****. 2. Kenny Omega vs. Bryan Danielson. AEW Grand Slam Dynamite, 22nd September 2021. *****. 1. Bryan Danielson vs. Zack Sabre Jr. AEW WrestleDream, 1st October 2023. *****.

He's okay. Not a ringing endorsement, I know ;).

Darby Allin got hit by a bus when crossing the road. Thankfully he's okay.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NcJvi5TYEk&ab_channel=KeithRichards I'm waiting for my man

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What a night of wrestling! Mortos was definitely the breakout star of the evening, I'm looking forward to seeing more of him. Claudio again showed why he's one of the best currently and possibly of all time. Serena is a gifted storyteller! Literally nothing she mentioned in her promo actually happened. It was almost as if she was reading a post from r/thathappened. Nigel is such a scamp! He had the best lines of the night, but I was worried he was going to get fired later on in the night (during the Shibata/Garcia vs. STP match). Speaking of which, who was that new interview lady? I don't think they even told us her name.

In the NHL Playoffs? As many times as they like.

Phil Salt didn't do badly either in that game, and Buttler's hit a couple of centuries himself. Some of the England batters have been going; but it's been rough for the bowlers. Then again, it's been rough for any bowler not named Bumrah.

Hot start going straight to the Americana/Santana vs Jessie with Abilene tag. No longer a mention of Amber still. Fun match that looked like the heels would end up not getting along but Abilene still gets the win anyways. Babyface Holidead rules and made a nice team with Chantilly. Chainsaw always finding a way to try and kill Foxy Fierce, made for a great post-match angle introducing Foxy's sister, Roxy Fierce! Really dug the build up for Kandi vs Aussie. Saw them going back and forth on Twitter earlier hyping this up so I was looking forward to it. They delivered a good match as expected. Great main event with Penelope Pink one of the few who matches up somewhat even with the Beast and can hang for a longer match like this. Awesome looking finish with the super powerbomb.