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You admitted like a week ago you're Aaron Rodgers' age and you're out here calling people simp like you're 11 while carrying on your hate mastubation gimmick account so I think I'll take the hardest of passes.

Miro is an incredible promo.

I really liked Andrade’s green suit.

I'll accept your likes and hearts now

Thanks to whoever first introduced the world to the analogy of Penta as your friend in No Mercy who spams taunt to build his finisher meter, because that’s how I’ve gotten through the psychology of every Penta match for years now

OMG they're running an escort service.

And if in doing so you happen to come across 'big girl wrestling section loaded with exciting photos', well, I guess it would be okay if you shared that too. I mean, for educational purposes.

I'll take the bait. Most stories have a beginning, a middle, and an end. Not just a beginning & middle. Act 1 - Heel group wins in dominant fashion (Blood & Guts) Act 2 -Baby face team gets revenge (Stadium Stampede) Act 3 -(we'll find out soon enough) (???) It's fine to not like what you're seeing. It's also fine to express that. But at this point you come in AEW threads just to say this show was "a steaming pile". Intelligent & apt breakdown there professor. ?

"No heat. Cold storage shit." Video shows quite the opposite.

Thankfully, Bret learned his lesson from that experience and Vince was never able to double-cross him again.

Holy shit, I would. Can you imagine how much he'd cut loose if he thought nobody was watching? On a show with more green and preliminary talent? It would be goddamn legendary.

I always loved Bret's lame dad insults during his "I hate America" run. "You know why they call you Stone Cold? Because your stones are so cold you won't come out here!" "Do you have the jam to come out and face me?!" They sounded like stuff your 55 year old next door neighbor would say to an asshole neighbor but even though they were lame, you believed them because the guy used to be in the Marines or something and still sorta keeps in shape and is just too polite to curse. "Oh geez, Ol' Man Wiskowki just said 'jam' and called the other guy a 'nogoodnik', it's on now!"

Yeah, Miro's was so bad it makes Andrade last night look like Kane ripping the cage door off in '97. Not worried at all. Was just happy to see the guy wearing the hell out of a suit and looking like somebody.

Anthony Bowens Pride shirt. His name and the AEW logo are tiny on it though. And here is Nyla's:

Not sure what’s up with you tonight, but I think you need to sleep it off, brother.

LOL at people booing Vickie SO HARD they missed the announcement. That's heat, baby.

Initial thoughts - I wish Comoroto had won. Also, Andrade is big for AEW. I liked him being with Vickie.

And Kawhi took that personally.

"Oh sure it's ok when one of your favorites do it!"

Baker and Nyla had a ridiculously good match during the women's Title Eliminator, so maybe they're seeing that pairing as a sure way to get Baker's reign going off the right foot.

Have you never been on the internet?

During Penta's World title run in Impact, when he was feuding with Austin Aries and Sami Callihan, he seemed more serious.

Lucha Underground Pentagon was one of the coolest wrestlers of the past 15 years or so. Why is it so hard to book this guy like that?

this right here. I miss having guys who were pro wrestling veterans call the action. It gave it a sense of credibility with guys who could give a plausible explanation for what you were seeing at all times. This team is the gold standard for my wrestling commentary booth.

I don't know, man. AEW only has around 7 hours a week to showcase all these guys. How long do you think Ryan Nemeth has left, with Andrade there? Maybe he should have grabbed some of those Big Macs!

Won't SOMEONE say the roster is too bloated for Andrade???

That was incredible to see back then. Still the only worked shoot worth a damn. Damn. Never heard that before. Johnny Ace is back, baby!

"Randy, did you poo in Monica's shoe?"

JMU softball is the best story in sports right now. Their pitcher last night pulled off an all-time play last night in the bottom of the 7th (only 7 innings in softball) to save the game.

Also, reportedly, the "He's a friend from work." line w/r/t Hulk in the 3rd Thor movie was suggested by a Make-A-Wish kid who was visiting the set. I also have no opinion on the topic at hand.

Interesting story about that. They came to that super late in the process. They originally had him saying nothing, and in the editing room the Russos didn't think it played right. Their editor actually suggested the line. Downey Jr didn't film that till reshoots three months before the movie was released, and it's one of the biggest moments of the thing. Fun stuff, that. I have no opinion on the topic at hand. Carry on.

“Well, she was a mighty big girl for her age...”

After Blood and Guts set wrestling back 30 years, never wanting to be outdone, WWE now shooting for 35.

Everyone should be frustrated with modern tag wrestling. If you can’t have a match within the context of the rules you’re not good at your job. And if what you really want to do is think up and perform cool looking stunts, you should probably just go to Hollywood. It’s particularly galling with AEW because they initially said they wanted a sports based presentation and I just saw Tony Khan recently reiterate that in an interview. The foundation of a sports based presentation is ensuring the rules matter. Imagine a fighter leaving the cage or blatantly, intentionally low blowing his opponent in front of the ref in UFC and the ref not doing anything because of so called referee discretion. The AEW tag team division is such a mess that Rick Knox was trending for being an incompetent and useless ref during the ppv. You’d think that would be embarrassing and cause some reflection and changes but introspection doesn’t seem to be something AEW and its EVP’s are interested in doing.

MASTER AND COMMANDER is a fantastic film. Not sure I understand why someone thought now was the time to revive it, but I will be THERE for it.

The one that made me laugh last night was JR talking about how you “never know what you’ll find on aewtix.com”. I don’t know, maybe tickets? Yeah, probably only tickets. That was almost as bad as a few weeks ago when, during (I think) a Jungle Boy/Darby Allin match, he said that neither would “ever be the biggest dog in the fight” when one of them had to be the biggest dog in the fight he was literally watching and calling that exact moment.

Andrade debuted on what will end up being a low-rated Dynamite, with no music, his name got no pop because of Vicki's bad diction and timing, he interrupted an already janky Mark Henry segment, he doesn't speak great English and had a weird line about being "the face of the Latinos". SMG can be a negative lump & this debut can be bad at the same time. I like Dustin Rhodes. I really like the old diving bulldog being the finish.

Their roster is way bloated right now. But, Andrade is someone worth going after. I'm hoping that the new show in August will help out in that regard and let them spread the talent around a bit more. I said it on twitter a month or two ago, there are probably at least twenty people on the roster that could be cut tomorrow, and I'd wager that the vast majority of AEW fans wouldn't even bat an eyelash about it.

I think it's safe to say most everyone they have released and or will release will go on to become a bigger star.

I thought this was a pretty good show. Nothing on it blew me away but I didn't think anything was bad overall either. The finish of the Private Party match was weird but, like, that's every single Private Party match honestly. If that was the low point your show was fine. Kind of an odd main event choice but the match was okay, though honestly I feel like the finish to every bullrope match should just be "choking the other guy with a bullrope". Red Velvet must have seen the face of God on that dive out of the ring, but then she popped up like 2 seconds later and was fine. Nyla Rose saved everyone from getting food poisoning so she's a face now, I don't make the rules. I thought the Sting/Darby/Page/Sky segment was probably the best "promo interrupts a promo" segment they've done lately, which is a thing they do too often but at least it worked here. Really looking forward to seeing Andrade in AEW. There's so many fun potential matches there.

Wait a minute, did Orton RKO Chandler and I somehow missed that?