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Nailed it. Listen, I'm not a "YOU MUST LOVE EVERYTHING AEW DOES OR YOU'RE NOT A REAL WRESTLING FAN!" guy. I'm also not against anyone liking what WWE is doing right now. I, personally, myself, only speaking for me, just prefer the style of wrestling AEW puts out and I prefer the way they present it. That's it. But, goddamn, I could do without all the "sky is falling" posts. Every. Single. Goddamn thing that happens has the same couple people yelling about Khan losing control or the company closing down or whatever. That part is exhausting to me. Somehow, it's gone from Punk being in AEW would lead to their downfall! Then it was Punk leaving was the end! Now it's Punk being in WWE is the end! Somehow, having Danielson as a sort of talent liaison or whatever is the end! It's all the end! Ok, fine, we get it.

Let's sum up the last week, because it's just insane how these news cycles go.. On Sunday they signed Ospreay. Also, everyone was grumpy about the MJF match. Then... Last Tuesday: People are frustrated about the tournament since no brackets were announced. Wednesday: They do the tournament show and people get really excited. Dynamite happens with some fun tournament matches and more announced for Collision Saturday: Punk comes back. Everyone says the sky is falling. Monday: Punk cuts his milquetoast promo and everyone says things are probably fine; Dynamite beat Smackdown in the ratings. QT posts that he's leaving as everyone else is posting rah rah AEW posts. MJF reveals he's more injured than we knew. People freak out. Tuesday: Danielson news comes out. QT thinking AEW is becoming like NJPW actually makes everyone feel better. Initial All In tickets are pretty good too. Today: Collision rating is going to be very very bad. People will freak out. Dynamite will probably be very good leaning on the tournament matches. Tomorrow: Who the hell knows? It's just exhausting, right?

Look, you let me have my daily 3:45 cry whether I need it or no- Oh, you mean about AEW. No. Carry on.

QT could have contributed a lot more as a Bobby Heenan type manager who can wrestle and he decided that he wanted to be a wrestler who can manage instead. There were a number of things I thought he did well, like getting clowned by -1 in Dark Order vs Factory 8-mans. There were other times where he didn't maximize an opportunity, like the Orange Cassidy match that should have been a lot better. He never figured out how to transfer his go away heat into actual drawing heat, but being one of the few guys in the company that fans actually disliked instead of just ironically disliked, he at least had the opportunity to do so. It sounds like in some ways, he couldn't get out of his own way. He was able to leverage his work ethic and connections into a mid-30s gig that probably should have been beyond him relative to the career he had so far and then leveraged that into something bigger and more corporate. I guess it's good for the guy to bet on himself at 38. He obviously was able to position himself as a slightly bigger deal in Mexico. He could be a top guy in a TNA/NWA/MLW level promotion probably or he could be an agent in WWE which seems to defeat a lot of the purpose. So long as he stays classy, he can probably come back, if not at his previous level, then with some meaningful gig in AEW.

Tony may have had a committee to decide on Punks future because he was directly involved in the incident and didn’t want to leave Punk any room for suing for it being a retaliation firing cause we know CM Punk can be a litigious fucker. This gives AEW security, even if Tony was going to fire him anyway

Imagine being such a towering douche canoe that you leave "sad" reacts on people's posts where they enjoy AEW - that's where these conversations come from, so I'm assuming there's just people who have yet to ignore this total fuckwit.

The sentiment might be because I was specifically away from the internet from Thursday to Monday, so it was a bizarre trip, and I will stress that I don't necessarily mean here. DVDVR is a bastion of reason in a sea of quick takes and people trying to get themselves over whether they realize it or not just due to the inherent nature of social media.

I know in my Union for discipline you have to have some one from the union present. I'm guessing as a sports guy he wants labor to feel represented

Thank you Dragon!

Tons and tons of round robin matches this week. PLUS... we get BD vs. Eddie on Saturday! Woo!

The 3:45 cry, easily the most important cry of the day. Then, afterwards, the 6:30 cry and the 10:15 cry when it sets in you have to go back to work in the morning.

Wait. We get breakfast if we watch AEW this week? You crazy bastards, I'm in. Someone get me a waffle.

The most Davies thing to ever Davies. At one point we thought that Who could be better, outright demanded it to be, but after years of Chibnell, this dumb shlock works fine. Tennant was lovely and older, more subdued Donna was at least a temporary improvement.

Zack: "I hope Chola's doing well today"

I totally forgot it was the soccer board that finally got FSW banned. Honestly as a DVDVR in-joke the best reveal ever for the AEW Devil would be Antichristo recreating his classic promo...

Punk being aware of FSW will always be my favorite DVDVR lore.

I'll always find it impossible not to like Punk for the secret best bit of meta weirdness in internet history. I just love the idea of him researching the history of Liverpool FC and spending hours posting in the footballsoccer thread just so he can go undercover as an Englishman living in Canada to troll himself on a wrestling forum for months on end. If Tony Khan was a real DVDVR guy he'd pay Rafa Benitez to unveil himself as The Devil and cost himself millions driving away confused fans just for the sake of the world's greatest possible, multi layered in-joke.

Apparently God's Hate had a show the day after Full Gear and Brody's patched wounds opened back up and he played bleeding all over and I just imagine him with a crimson mask yelling out the lyrics to "Finish The Job" while people are going ape shit in the pit and suddenly I feel like the world ain't too bad really...

The "Emi makes the champ look like a million bucks" tour continues against Julia Hart tonight.

That's what we're here for Curt. Board's here. We're here. This thread is here.

Please, his imaginary COVID booster would be higher on the depth chart.

On multiple teams!

Another great piece from Mel

Answering this as "I use a Mac" just feels snotty, so I'll say "I haven't thought about doing that, admittedly".

He's really really green

Is it? People say stuff is exhausting that kind of just rolls off my back. Like a news cycle with devastating real world implications is mentally taxing. But this is just wrestling stuff. The ratings stuff is whatever, people always have their ratings takes and the sky is rarely actually falling. The QT and Danielson stuff is fine from a gossip POV but little else. They washed their hands of Punk months ago, so who cares from an AEW perspective? The only thing slightly troubling is the MJF news, but all I can do is wish him good health, not a lot of mental energy to spend there. I don’t know. Seems like it’s just wrestling. I don’t mind a busy news cycle if that’s as bad as it gets.

I'll definitely cop to being a 'sky falling' guy on occasion, including earlier this week - but it's born out of an intense desire for AEW to succeed, not the opposite. It's more of a "WCW sale/ECW bankruptcy derangement syndrome" thing for me - I know I can be hypercritical of AEW at times, but I'm hopeful everyone understands that it's well-meaning.

I just put him on ignore yesterday, but no matter the tone or situation, calling anyone a douche canoe will never fail to get a hearty laugh out of me. Thank you haha.

Seems to be the same few people over and over, at least from what I've seen.

If Danielson is some kind of talent liaison, where’s Blue Panther already? Or at least Negro Casas.

I think the announcement was Danhausen being back.

Never gotten the love for Donna. I thought she was the most annoying companion by far(I've only watched NU WHO), though a few later ones have come close. She was much better in this ep, I agree. Too bad they didn't do Martha Jones instead. .

She looked incredible when she went into the WWE Hall of Fame back in 2011. She cleaned up, got back in shape, looked and sounded great. It sounds silly now but I was really proud of her knowing how low she'd fallen even back then in the 00's. I always thought that that not leading to her getting another run or a job with WWE contributed to her further downfall because she was back to being a mess pretty quickly after that

The committee as originally comprised was three members: Danielson, AEW’s general counsel, and an outside attorney. No idea if they’ve maintained that composition, I think Danielson’s the only one reported as currently being on it. And let’s be honest, we all only care because it’s Danielson.

An aside but... Summer 1999 David Flair was actually one of the most fun takeoffs on the whole "promoter pushes his son" concept it's just that David Flair actually did suck in the ring and he really wanted to be a Highway Patrolman instead of a wrestler. Also it was 1999 WCW and basically everything they did was doomed to suck. Bruce Prichard being a rules stickler calling himself "The Cowboy" would easily be better than the weekend he spent as Reo Rodgers before everybody decided "let's not do this anymore" because it's possible to be too shitty for the 1993 WWF.

"WWF President Gorilla Monsoon fell behind on his taxes and i've taken his job until then"

Good old Ron LeFlore. The man that got picked off second base in Montreal because he was reading his stats on the video screen

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=T2E3wsXu0G4 Rey Mysterio vs. Jushin Thunder Liger at WCW Starrcade 1996. The two best Jr Heavyweights/Cruiserweights of all time.

I SWERVE WHEN I DRIVE MOTHERFUCKERS!!! YEEEEEESSSSSSS!!!

I was a bit checked out over the weekend, but I managed to catch up on Collision over Monday and Tuesday. Eddie vs King was quite good, and I'm gonna rewatch it having read Matt D's write up of it. I had a feeling Brody was gonna go over and it feels like the right call. Got a feeling the meet again in the group finals. We'll see. Garcia vs Claudio was solid. Very, very excited for Switch vs Swerve tonight and Eddie vs Bryan this weekend.

Don't get me wrong, I'm psyched as shit for this - but I'd be a liar if I didn't say that part of me is still holding out for a "Champ Emi makes her challengers and self look like a million" tour. Side note: speaking of joshis, is Yuka still under contract? I was thinking about her the other day when I was reading Gord's video game post (she's one of the few women in it, and I always thought that she was an interesting inclusion).

It’s funny she was in at least 3 Stephen King projects, either film or Tv. I also remember her in Outland.

Yup that would have been the Texans I think the backlash when it leaked out was the only reason it didn't happen

NXT was tremendous again. That four way was fantastic!

Tony/Stacks vs. Los Lotharios was damn good. Loved the brawl to open the match, how Garza and Carrillo took control, and how Tony continues to use Stacks as weapon to throw at people. Kelani/Kiana was solid though the finish was kind mediocre as an idea to give Roxanne some revenge. She should have stopped Kiana from her usual cheating. Bron/Thorpe was a wonderful slaughter of Thorpe. It spoke both the difference in levels and took Thorpe's injured ribs well into account. Thorpe got to show his passion and fire trying to hang in despite the odds being far too against him. Good match. Ilja/Frazer was another slaughter like the above but way faster paced with Ilja so fired up and Frazer just being himself. Pretty fun match though it was more about Corbin clearly getting in Ilja's head than giving Frazer a nice showing (he still did well for himself). The post match made it even more clear with Corbin's promo. Grace/Petrovic was decent and probably Karmen's best showing yet in NXT. Still was happy to see Arianna Grace come away with the win. She just feels further ahead as a complete package. The stuff with Gacy was just weird. Lexis/Jensen was solid. Feels like King is slowly growing more and more accustomed to his current gimmick each week. He felt far more natural in his segment with the Briggs/Jensen/Fallon than he did his first few weeks. The finish with Hayes worked well. Wes Lee vs. Johnny Gargano vs. Bronson Reed vs. Cameron Grimes was fucking awesome. Reed was beast and looked amazing the way he ran through the other three. I loved everyone having to team up to take him down every time. Ivar coming down to pull Reed back in their brawl from last night and out of the match was a necessity by the end. The finish with the remaining three was nice and well done. NXT had a pretty strong night match wise. The opener and main event were the best matches, but most everything is was worth watching as well. The segments weren't super standout, but they were generally decent and helped move things a bit further be that for Stand & Deliver or just NXT tv. Good show overall.

If they had just asked the real Chris Tabar - yours truly, with the name spelled correctly - instead of the special teams guy they just promoted, they would have drafted Stroud. HIRE ME. I AM READY TO BE AN NFL GM OR COACH. I LED MOFFAT COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL FRESHMEN TO THREE WINS IN 1996. I AM QUALIFIED.

You need a new shtick.

leaving the company because you don't think you're getting enough TV time is actually remarkably direct compared to some of the passive aggressive stuff that can go on with promotions and people who just hang around instead of leaving wonder how many of QT's entertainment ideas involved things other than "get QT on TV more often"