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Nobody cares about stuff like that. I want Mariah May to bash you over the head with a shoe for even posting this here.

Why do you fucking tag him every time? Why is THAT the thing that's important to you? Jesus fuck dude, we get it. We know you don't like her and find his fandom offensive, and we know that he will rise to your hate-tag. And as someone who missed her entire career until the show where she broke her foot, this is RSPW shit. You are doing RSPW shit.

Something I’ve been meaning to talk about is the brilliance of Caster’s rap. I’ve seen people say it was bad and he must have messed up because he just kept ending every line with “bitch”. I thought it was totally obvious that the point of the rap was to call out Okada’s use/reliance of that as his catchphrase. Like “see, I can do it too, and more creatively”

I am gaining SO MUCH respect for Will Ospreay. He put both Swerve and MJF over huge, in ways that make them look great. Guys who made a name on the indies and became well known stars in AEW. That is the SPIRIT of being a Bret guy. Certain dudes are good at Bret cosplay and talking about putting dudes over. But guys like Ospreay and Bryan and Eddie Kingston are keeping the true spirit of Bret alive by actually doing clean jobs in the ring when it serves to do so. THAT is how you enter the Best in the World conversation in my mind. Not by winning every match and refusing to return any favours. (i.e an HBK guy). The REALLY great ones can lose a match and make the other wrestler look great while never losing an ounce of credibility or the support of the fans. I am VERY pleasantly surprised to be including Will Ospreay in the conversation with all-time favourites like Bret, Bryan and Eddie (and Terry Funk...) but he has absolutely earned it!

The match ends as a no contest due to a run-in from a re-debuting, newly-renamed Jinder Halal

Dynamite fucking RULES. AEW RULES THE FUCKING WORLD

FTFY ;).

This is a 100% precautionary message, but since I've seen it mentioned in... other places... If anyone decides to make a joke and refer to the current Vice President as the "Ugandan Giant", or any variation thereof, it will be your last post on this board.

"Oh, you mean Randy Savage the rapper??" Wait a minute..

Everything at Home Depot and Lowes costs a trillion dollars. But I own a house now.

Hope everyone still have all ten fingers

I'm in some store this past weekend with both of my kids. They have some Funko Pops. Daughter (13): "Look, they have Randy Savage." Son (7): "The Macho Man?" Daughter: "No, dumbass. The other Randy Savage. Yes, it's the Macho Man!" After telling her to watch her mouth, I did get a good laugh out of it. The rest of the time in the store, we were coming up with other Randy Savages. "You mean Senator Randy Savage?" "Oh, you mean Randy Savage, the famous neurosurgeon?" "Randy Savage? That guy from work?"

The blowoff for Hangman/Swerve should be the return of the exploding barbwire deathmatch, but actually have the ending look good this time.

Even more than the promos, the Hitman cutting a searing look of pure hatred at the crowd while hugging Owen after making up with him is one of the best things I've ever seen in wrestling, full stop. It's tremendous.

That was the best Adam Page performance I’ve ever seen.

This will not end well.

Toni should switch gimmicks to 70's grindhouse "killer knife fight chicks in fast cars" shit.

I yelled in my empty car while driving during Dave's criticism of Ospreay not wanting to do the Tiger Driver, saying it didn't make sense because MJF is a heel. Motherfucker that's what a good babyface is all about. He doesn't want to injure anyone. Hell yeah I underlined, bolded, and italicized that. Heel or face doesn't matter because he's a decent human being. Have decades of edgy babyfaces and cool heels induced brain rot?

You'd think, being in "Little Rock" you'd want to build the show around Ricky Starks.

The Outrunners accompanying Dalton Castle to the ring and mixing their own shtick in with the The Boys routine put a big old smile on my face. Makes me happy in the same (a similar?) way that Luther finding his niche with Timeless Toni did. Nice to know that there is still space for the entertainingly weird and indie on AEW TV ❤

TK announced on Twitter that Ishii will be staying with AEW for the rest of summer, so Gordi will have at least some stuff to look forward to each week

She could steal Cody's entrance gimmick. "Wrestling has more than one... Stephanie"

I'm going to pivot away from where this is heading and say that AEW is slowly and consistently getting away from an underbooked woman's division. Would I still enjoy more matches, absolutely, but they built a great storyline with Toni/May/Mina while including the Saraya/Harley, Willow/Stat still has more legs to it and I'd argue that Banks/Baker last night felt like one of the biggest segments AEW has had for womens wrestling in a long time. You get Hayter back and build on what is going on, i really could see it growing by leaps and bounds even more post All In. May/Toni(if that's where they're heading) and Baker/Mone are two legit, high profiles matches with stories woven in that aren't just hamfisted slapped together. I really think AEW is finding their stride again.

I'd be pissed off being behind that guy. He doesn't sit the fuck down.

In kayfabe, these guys are awesome athletes who dig deep and find another gear when fighting for the world title. Like maybe when you're in a prelim match or maybe just going for the TNT title, you're like "fuck it, my head hurts and I'm tired of fighting." But when the biggest championship in your company is on the line, you fight a bit harder. You find the will to kick out of a finisher. Maybe a few times, even. That's the beauty of fake fighting, you can come up with logic for this goofiness.

Here's a passage from the Sheik book that I have to share. He had just shown for a tag with Pat Tanaka against Kevin Sullivan and Taz(maniac) for the only time he ever wrestled in the ECW Arena. Couldn't even get in the ring because there was no steps, but brawled on the outside with Sullivan and threw fire twice. Crazy old bastard!

Yep. Anyone complaining about that can git tae fuck. Tremendous main event. Also: Credit to Toa Liona for COMPLETELY transforming their body since playing Amanda Kirby in Jurassic Park! Whose spray? Aw's spray! PENTA WAS BANNED FROM RINGSIDE! He's the Great to see Gates of Agony and Dancy Pants moving up the ranks! I was afraid that having such a STACKED roster was going to prevent anyone from moving up. ISHII!! SUZUKI!! ❤ (winks at Bull Nakano) GABE F'N KIDD!! YASSS!!! f'n HIROMU ❤ TWO DRAGONS! ZSJ vs KOR. This is wrest-ling!! Clap clap clapclapclap, Crowd seemed inadequately hawt until Bruv came out.I Orange discussing strategy was GOLD ah, Forbidden Door season. You get me, every time. Guess I'm just a Forbidden Dork

Blood and Guts ruled. It had everything I could want in some chaotic garbage ghoul match — blood, reckless neck bumps, falls from the cage to ladders, unprotected head shots (that really hushed the crowd), the torture of a man with staple guns and it ends with threatened arson resulting in a future shot at the promotions third highest ranking title. Wrestling is the greatest. One million billion stars. AEW rules the motherfucking world.

I said in the discord I'm an unapologetic Hangman guy, but man, there is something intangible there whenever him and Swerve fight. The crowd is super into it and it is one of the few feuds going that "feels" real and hateful.

Counerpoint: " Perfect Strangers" is one of best entrance songs of all time, and the Triple Threat of Douglas, Bigelow, and Candido w/ Francine were fucking awesome.

Hey, ya know... When you put Suzuki, Ishii, and The Outrunners all on the same one-hour professional wrestling television programme, and toss in a Statlander semi-squash for good measure, it's likely you will end up making ole Gordlow pretty happy. Which is what happened. Plus you toss in Ishii vs Roddy Strong tomorrow (and if I recall Natch's post correctly, f'n DARBY vs BLACK TAURUS as well) then it looks like I won't be able to skip Collision this week either. Don't know how I am supposed to save up any mark-out energy for the G1 or the upcoming PPV or even Blood and Guts plus MiSu vs Jericho... But, what the hell? I am having fun.

If we're not going to get the MCMG challenging the Young Bucks after the Bucks proclaim there is no competition left, give me the Kings of Wrestling re-uniting to take the tag belts off the Bucks.

It's awesome how some people were speculating a Jarrett screwjob (either fucking over Hangman or swerving Danielson) and some kind of screwjob in the women's final, and the finishes were for the most part clean. And now people are wondering how they're going to "get out of" MJF/Okada. Almost three decades of WWE booking has really ruined the way some folks think about wrestling.

Toni is a woman of the world, and Wembley is part of the world.

Well that was a hell of an ending to Dynamite.

taking my friend who has never seen pro wrestling to her first indy show later this week

WWE mingling with TNA & Bloodsport makes more sense when you view it from the TKO perspective. They just paid out MLW 20 million in a settlement they didn't want to go to trial. They just settle a UFC anti-trust lawsuit. They don't want scrutiny on that independent contractor status / antitrust lawsuits. This is their way of mitigating all that. Having something to point to and say hey we aren't trying to monopolize. There's a clear #2 and we're working with the #3s & #4s to help them out. Some of it can be a shift in philosophy because Triple H & Shawn don't see the business in those same black and white 'I need it all' terms that Vince did. But TKO wanting to keep their nose clean is the driving force I'd say.

Dollar Store Wyatt Family Wyatt 6 run in, murders Gable again, Mox walks off from embarrassment.

Their are probably some negatives that could be found in all this inter promotional stuff but wrestling has been so closed off and up its own ass for so long I just hope people will appreciate this stuff now because it won’t last forever.

Watching AEW and then complaining about spotfests is like watching German porn and complaining about too much poop.

I picked up my daughter from the airport, where she was visiting family out-of-state the last month, and we got home in time to watch the Forbidden Door preshow. Without giving away results, my daughter (who doesn't watch wrestling) made her opinions known to me ... -- Thought Gabe Kidd and Kyle Fletcher were "dorks" because they "used their real names" and should be a team called "The Big Dorks." Also said Fletcher reminded her of "the worst TikTok creator ever." -- Enjoyed Malakai and Brody from a distance, as they had "too many tattoos." Private Party reminded her of "those kids from junior high who thought they were cool but no one else did." Ishii looked like a "henchman from an anime." -- Said Willow was "fun" and would be a "cool friend if they were in middle school together." Asked me why Statlander and Watanabe were managed by "the guy from 'Sesame Street'." I said that wasn't Gordon. -- Told me Stephanie Vaquer reminded her of Anya from "Spy x Family" and asked if she's accompanied to the ring by a bow tie-wearing dog. I said that was a great idea, but no. She also said Vaquer would be a "cool middle school friend" as well. -- Loved all the masked wrestlers because "the masks were cool."

Thanks to Bobby Heenan they'll always be "ham-n-eggers" to me.

So you’re saying he’s better than the Young Bucks.

I know the emphasis is supposed to be on Hologram but man Gringo Loco was the star of that match for me. It helps they have worked so many times before. Also there is a reason why Gringo is called the Base God

promo idea for any wrestlers who are on cable/network TV who are reading... steal the Bob Newhart denigrate joke and reword it however "I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'"

Let's take the rest of the Hogan/McMahon/White/Kane at the RNC to the Discord, please and thanks.

Now, more than ever, I'm disappointed in Mr. Hogan, to the point that I want him to fornicate with himself and then expire.

In a world with wrestling barbers, undead morticians, and folks cosplaying as other ethnicities, I think we can have a young lady wear olde-timey tights and talk in 1940s slang without it being that big of a deal.

Can this please be the subheader on the AEW forum here?

Saw Jodie, my mental health nurse today who said I'm doing great and I'm an inspiration. Wasn't at all happy with First Response response.