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It hit me during the main event that this Dynamite had three guys on it that are considered by quite a few fans to be the best wrestler of all time. Danielson, Flair and Okada would all get a lot of first-place votes if you polled wrestling fans on that. Hell, you have to think in some circles, Omega would get a few votes too. So maybe four?

I think at this point, there's one for pretty much any and every piece of pop culture.

Yes. It's on all the socials and graphics and whatnot. Technically, it's not that random since Orange and Cassidy are stablemates.

There HAD to have been a "loser wears a dress" stipulation at some point in Mid South, right? That just screams Bill Watts.

That's the jib camera.

This is just anecdotal, from my own brain, but I feel like there are a ton of injuries now in not just pro wrestling, but all major sports. I think it may be one of two things (or, most likely, a combo of both): 1. Today's athletes are stronger and faster than ever. In wrestling, this is true, and you have to add in the fact that the fans demand more action, maybe more "danger" in their matches than in the past. 2. I think today's athletes are less likely to play through an injury. I personally don't see this as a bad thing at all.

Agree. That, and a different haircut.

DAMMIT, GORDLOW!

Putting new people to the promotion in squashes used to be useful, too, in that you could show the audience their moveset. Show them what they use to win, then, when they're in a more competitive match, it means more to see that move blocked or kicked out of. I suppose nowadays, by the time someone makes tv (especially in AEW) the audience has already seen them wrestle somewhere else and know what they do.

If I paid for tickets to a show, I would be fine with a squash depending on the wrestler. I'd be cool with seeing Wardlow just powerbomb a dude a bunch of times or seeing Keith Lee yeet someone across the ring. I'd be pretty disappointed, though, if like Brian Danielson had a three-minute squash, though. I guess there are some guys where I'd just rather see their cool spot and others that I want to see do more.

The second I saw Andretti getting flirty with CJ, I knew it wouldn’t end well for him.

So, yes. Sabre/Danielson is as good as advertised. I’m not big on long match write ups, but I’ll say that a technical wrestling match, worked mainly on the mat, had my six-year-old living and dying by every little change of momentum. Same kid who asked to fast-forward through the Swerve/Hangman match because it was “boring”. Am I living with a tiny @Matt D?

Well, damn. I was planning on finally getting to Wrestledream this weekend. I guess I need to make that a priority now.

Why do any of you engage with Vile? He’s just going to post the same old shit and react to your response with the laugh emoji. Rinse, repeat. Shit is tired.

Same, but maybe if you're already bringing Casas in for a QT match, you go ahead and run that Danielson match?

Let me see if I have this straight: Mistico (who is facing Romero on Rampage) is the original Mistico from Mexico that we all went nuts for around 2006. He went to WWE as Sin Cara. Dralistico is the guy that became Mistico in Mexico when the original Mistico left for WWE. Hunico is the guy that became Sin Cara in WWE when the original Mistico left WWE to go back to Mexico. I feel like there's a fourth Mistico I'm missing here. Was there one that got the name after Dralistico in Mexico?

Picturing Punk being Ted Knight backstage at AEW is making me laugh.

I don't have any tattoos because my body is a temple and I shant desecrate it. (Shoves second Hostess cupcake into my mouth)

You have a great point there. I went to a Collision and a Smackdown within a couple weeks of each other. Now, I had my son with me at Collision and he had a blast, but it wasn't a kid-heavy crowd at all. He didn't come with me to Smackdown, and it was so full of kids, and they were really into the stuff they saw in the arena. Now, that was the Smackdown after Bray and Funk passed away, so a lot of the show was video packages for them. You could sense the kids getting a bit antsy during those, but they were way into like Cody's entrance and the LA Knight promo (also concur that he's very not for me). Collision had much more action in the arena, while Smackdown had something like four matches in the two hour show. But, just the presentation of everything, from the merch to the lights to the video screens, everything at WWE was geared "younger" for sure. Recently, my son "discovered" some recent WWE stuff on youtube and has been into it. He still likes to watch AEW, but he has more fun mimicking WWE guys like Knight and Cena. I've seen a little lately with him, and I can see how the presentation would be more appealing to him. It's still not my thing, but I definitely see the appeal. I mean, it definitely makes sense for WWE to target kids. A lot of us got hooked when we were young and became customers for life. Personally, I'm still glad there's something like AEW that caters more to my personal taste in what I'd like pro wrestling to look like. But, generally, it's cool that the options even exist right now.

We've seen what happens to Punk in real fights. He wouldn't last one overnight shift at Waffle House.

I don't know about that. The trailer doesn't give "happy family" vibes at all.

Yeah, I think the company needs to release a statement saying it was stupid, we fucked up, we're sorry and then never mention the quarter thing again. No fixing storyline-wise, just drop it.

Yeah, there's a fine line you have to walk when you give your performers more freedom to do their own stuff. I feel like there's a good middle-ground between how Vince ran things and how Tony's running things. I'm not a fan of overly-scripted stuff, but there needs to be an editor there to weed out stuff like the quarter thing that's just better off not to do.

Just based on a few short shots in the trailer, the Freebirds look to be well-cast, too.

I'd settle for Bill Mercer asking one of the boys, "Wouldst thou like to live deliciously?"