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Or maybe AEW just isn't for you? I don't mean that to sound as condescending as it does. But me personally, I can not stand how WWE beats their viewers over the head about every single thing as if we're all first time viewers. So I love AEW not doing constant replays and doing things in hopes of keeping someone new that just clicked the wrong number on the remote. Plus we're in the digital age now. If you wanted to know more about Suzuki, take 10 seconds and type his name into a google search on your phone. At this point you not knowing about him is due to your own laziness, not AEW's presentation. The TV industry does a quick episode recap at the beginning episode. AEW did that. They did the quick recap of what happened at All Out. Beyond that if you have a question it's not out of the realm of possibility to assume you're smart enough to do a google search. Just like if I tuned into Breaking Bad season 4 episode 1 for the first time and wanted to know who Gale Boetticher was (like I just had to do to get the correct spelling).

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I was trying to not clog up the thread with PWI 500 talk because I am too lazy to make its own thread but Meltzer saying there are some wrestlers who take the 500 way too seriously and then two minutes later losing his mind because Tanahashi was behind Braun Strowman is the reason I can never stop listening to the radio show.

Ah, gotcha, I hadn't seen it before. E: OK, yes, Suzuki-gun vs Mox and King please.

All these old farts talking about getting heat but how many of them got such good heat they induced labor ?

No, it's actually this

Why would you want us to cater to people who don’t like Powerhouse Hobbs??!!? This man is against your religion.

Sky and Page attacked Lance Archer a few weeks ago, so I guess there'd be some kind of follow up to that. Give me Archer and Minoru Suzuki vs. The Men of the Year with Dan Lambert eating a Gotch-style piledriver.

I know where Don Callis got that suit idea from:

No, that's a pretty fair shot I'll allow it lol. All I'm saying is this is a wrestling bubble talking point that doesn't exist in regular episodic TV. Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad, The Wire, Sons Of Anarchy, Dexter... whatever the episodic TV show is they reward viewers that pay attention. They don't hold anyone's hand and explain why you need to pay attention to whoever. Like Game of Thrones didn't role a clip show to people tuning into the last season to explain who Gendry is while Arya is trying to bang him. They did a recap before the show. If that isn't enough, it's on you to figure it out. And I'm in that boat as well. Sometimes there are things I don't remember and I look it up. AEW already did that opening video. They did a recap of All Out. They did show Suzuki. They talked about him being a multi time world champion. Punk put over he was trained by Karl Gotch. JR put over how surly he is. His name plate had 4 time world champion and New Japan legend. If you need more than that then this isn't the product for you. They aren't gonna slow down to the slowest person's cognitive function (that's not you, I'm meaning in general) and make everyone go at that pace. If that's what you enjoy you won't find it in AEW.

Speaking of Suzuki-Gun, how long until AEW can make a move for Zack Sabre Jr? Dude is wasting prime years of his career shackled to a dog turd in New Japan and is stale as hell there. A move back to the States would be good for him and be another big get who isn't an ex-WWE guy.

Make him Keith Lee's manager.

Damn u

Jim Ross made it perfectly clear that Malakai Black's preferred Martial Art is Kickfighting. And that's not hyperbowl.

Tony Khan on Twitter (later, maybe): “I apologize that Kaze Ni Nare was cut off too soon. It was an outside contractor at the controls, and the whole song sounded great at rehearsal. We will never work with them again, and I will now be personally handling all music cues from this point forward.”

Oh I just read that the reason Excalibur missed the show is because he’s getting married. HE DID THE DEAL! EXCALIBUR IS A BIG BOY!

Britt still needs a mascot in a giant tooth costume.

Dammit, why do the Creed brothers have to be in the wrong promotion? Because Dan Lambert managing THOSE GUYS with their Steiner Bros squash shtick are an infinitely better fit than Sky and Page in this role. As it is, I love Lambert but I’m not sure where this is going. Who is getting that heat here and how does that get resolved?

Omg it's true. We love Wardlow. They've been so patient with this turn but it does feel like we are in the home stretch.

"So, his heart can't handle the roids and coke? I knew he didn't have it in him." "Vince it was a genetic thing." "Bad genetics??? That's it fire everyone in NXT, Bruce we're taking over." "Yes, sir." "And while you're down there see if you can find a working vein between any of my toes to stick this into."

So with all this talk of cage matches, is this a safe space to admit that I thought Kenny Omega and Christian were fighting in a cage on Sunday. I didn't realize Christian's last name was Cage. I read it as, "Kenny Omega vs Christian, Cage" like cage was the type of match.

I don't get why Griff didn't come out with Pillman, do like a double dropkick to Wardlow, have MJF scurry away and have Pillman make the challenge for Arthur Ashe instead of having the prolonged talking segment and having the faces look like dweebs.

There is a picture of Suzuki with (Masakatsu) Funaki from that time period where they look like the Japanese version of Al Neri and Rocco Lampone. Some poor sap probably woke up next to the bloody head of his prized racehorse that day.

New Way of the Blade with Steve Keirn of the Fabulous Ones! Discussing their match against the Moondogs from 6/13/83. Tons of wild stories in this pod, apartment blading with Stan Hansen, shooting on the Road Warriors, almost dying in the ring in Memphis. https://redcircle.com/shows/be34c05b-8483-4797-af55-5ec4bd254611/episodes/9227f245-0fe9-48f6-9991-0a094f6c86e4

Re-watched the entire Matrix trilogy earlier this year because I knew this was coming. All I could do was marvel at how a studio let them make those sequels to something that landed as big as the original film. Mock big studios as we should for the scared shitless bets they're constantly making on bland/safe existing IP, I just think it's wild that those movies exist the way they do. As frustrating as they are, they're fascinating. Been waiting to see what one of these looks like in 2021. Excited.

You are the reason WWE wrestlers can't have surnames, dammit.

Think you will all appreciate this

Fun fact, but Napoleon was not actually short. His height was measured by a military physician as 5 pieds 2 pouces. English political cartoonists took that at face value assuming that the French pouce was the same as the Imperial inch, but the pouce was actually slightly longer than the inch. They went wild with depicting him as tiny and it became the gospel. Adjusting it to Imperial, his height was actually about 5 foot 6 inches, certainly not tall but right in line with the average European male height of the time (about 5'7"). Just goes to show that if something is repeated often enough, it eventually becomes the truth.

I doubt Sabre ever lived in the States - though promos of him moaning about having to live there would probably be pretty funny.

The Michael Cole part is my favourite.

Damn it feels good to be elite. Suzuki-gun vs. Kingston and Moxley would be delightful. Glad it wasn't a one off and he's going to be around hopefully as long as he's stateside.

Seriously though, what is Harbaugh doing over there.

Oh, I know that wasn't their mindset. That's my dig at @NoFistsJustFlips-- hopefully it isn't too condescending. But thinking that the viewer at home should "do the work" is just beyond stupid, since I'm going to do the work during the commercials. Make it fucking as easy as possible for me to watch your show and know what I should expect.

Another thing that really killed the MJF stuff for me, as well as most times a heel is directing insults at somebody in the audience, is that the intended targets completely no sold the barbs. With the assumption that the non wrestlers are in on what's going to happen with them, maybe at least ask them to look upset or pissed off or annoyed? Anything besides mildly smiling...

This was the type of person I was talking about catering to by the way.

Universal tapings begin Saturday. Two three-hour taping blocks with ninety minutes in between.

While watching Elevation, I had another thought about the roster size. Emi Sakura is just there with Lulu, with a clear gimmick, with her music, a dominant force. She's there to train people and to work the up and coming females, but she's also THERE. You can't really see her in with main program on the immediate horizon but you can see them cycle her in a few months from now to wrestle Ruby or Britt or Tay/Anna or whoever and it'd probably be great. And in the meantime, she can just keep wrestling the kids on Elevation/Dark and get their reps in. And the roster is just full of people like that who they can heat up and give some shine to over the span of a few weeks and immediately showcase for a month and then cycle back down until they need them again. Or to keep them cycled up for a few feuds as they cycle someone back down for a while. I guess on some level this isn't all that different from what they do in WWE but with the brand splits and the sheer amount of TV time they have, everyone ends up spinning their wheels instead of cycling up or down to being featured.

Just go read the Wikipedia. That's pretty much what I told my kid to do. Watch the first one / read the wiki on the other two. The first Matrix movie has one of the best endings in movie history. Don't sully it by actually sitting down and watching the sequels.

OMG! WTF?

If I'm not online tomorrow, I'd like to wish @JLSigman a Happy Birthday, my fellow fan of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. Hope you have a good un xxx.

Adam Cole bullying Schiavone was the highlight of the show. Laugh out loud beautiful stuff. That whole Elite segment was pretty fantastic.

Also if we're all going to go and get upset about Caster's poor-taste rap, how the fuck do you let making fun of somebody's mother's drug addiction slide and then top it off with saying she should have aborted her son? Seriously, gross cheap fucking heat.

I know people are going to have thoughts on the MJF segment, but let's take a minute to look at the positives: The Jericho feud is really, finally over!

Magnum and Tully were both twice as tough as the average man back in November 1985

I thought we were just talking about cage matches. The best tag team cage match is some other match.