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There is absolutely room for Liv, Ruby, Dana Brooke & Mandy Rose to be elevated & for Naomi & Carmella to resume their prior spots on the card. They have 5 hrs of live first run programming a week. The problem is the repetitive writing that doesn’t allow for multiple focuses in a single show.

It's entirely possible it was just a show for the cameras, but I hope for their sake it's a real thing. Life's too short to carry around hate like that for someone who hasn't wronged you in any real way. Anyway, like I said, I truly hope WWE is serious about running with Bianca as a top draw. I've just been burned too many time to believe that by Summerslam she won't be taking a back seat to Becky's return and whatever Charlotte's running into the ground. Vince gonna Vince...

Apparently they've patched things up in the last year or so. They've appeared pretty chummy during some UUDD stuff in the last few months. Good for them if true.

Charlotte and Becky were each other's best match. I'd take the Evolution one, personally. For Nia, I can't remember which one, but I liked the one where she broke down after bc she couldn't beat Asuka no matter what she did. I enjoyed the Alexa Great Balls of Fire match bc Sasha legit hated Alexa at the time and it gave me great joy to watch her have to put Alexa over. She was fantastic last night, though I think y'all still drastically overrate her ability level.

It reminds of the pubescent arms race at the glorified POW camp I knew as "Camp Kaleo" summer camp. Guys (myself included) would create these instruments of suffering where we'd twist a towel and duct tape the section just before the end for maximum carnage. The impact sounded exactly like Bianca's hair whip. I know that hurt like a motherfucker.

You think Natalya/Tamina was the right call? Just curious...

Bad Bunny is now my second favorite celebrity at 'Mania ever, after Lawrence Taylor. Props to him for doing FAR more than was required. Pretty fucking stupid to break up the Hurt Business if Bob Lash was going over at 'Mania, but that match ruled ass. Poor tag turmoil ladies. I have no fucking idea what story they're trying to tell with Tamina and Natalya, unless it's a "Good Soldier" run for Tamina, who's been on the roster since 1973 and done very little of note to this point. I find Seth Rollins so unwatchable that even the goodness that is Cesaro couldn't redeem this for me, but I get why the people that liked it liked it. New Day went out of their way to make Omos look like a star, and they accomplished their mission. Well done. Bayley deserves better. There were probably 10-12 future Takeover main events in the Bunny costumes. That main event was everything you want in a sports entertainment. Just absolute masterful storytelling. Bianca BelAir is a STAAAAAAAAAAAAR, and props to Sasha for bringing her working boots. I still think she's overrated but she did a nice job here. I'll be curious to see how Podcast Prichard fucks up the latest in a long line of "can't miss" future stars.

I would love to volunteer for that responsibility...

Thunder Rosa is still under contract to nwa. Now that they’ve started back up she may not be available to AEW right now..,

Yeah, Bunny looked legit loopy. There were parts of this show I really liked, but the whole time I was watching the main event all I could think about is how much better this company would be without Omega and the Young Bucks, and this self indulgent horseshit is the exact reason why. Ugh.

Bayley also had her relationship with Aaron Solow end a few weeks back. It wouldn't shock me if she needed some personal time and then missed the window to have something booked for 'Mania.

The awesomeness of Lucha Bros and Hangman cancelled out his lameness, but I want the record to show it took 3 awesome wrestlers to cancel out his tap dancing bullshit.

I was at that Dynamite and it was the best fucking night of wrestling I've ever been to. Every single thing on that show was phenomenal. The atmosphere was fantastic, and the Jon Moxley & Darby Allin entrances were the two loudest pops I've heard live since Goldberg pinned Hogan, and I've been at every tv wrestling show in Atlanta since Hogan/Flair on 1/1/96.

YES....

nXt has been unwatchable since Undisputed Era became the focal point of the show. It's become this pretentious mix of everything wrong with pro wrestling in 2021. I despise it with every fibre of my being. The first year Jon Moxley was in AEW I thought he was legitimately the best wrestler over 200 lbs. on the planet. I still think he's really fucking good, but it seems like now that he feels like he's proved that he isn't the goofy dipshit they wanted him to play in WWE he's gotten a little complacent. He's still the best English-speaking promo on Earth, and I only issue the caveat because I don't speak any other languages well enough to know if Japanese guys or Spanish speaking guys are cutting good promos. Kenny Omega ruins every segment he's on with his pretentious aura and his business exposing work. The tap dancing, the gesticulations and gyrations, and the faux-epic garbage garbaging up his matches. It's all awful. I also believe he's the reason AEW's ratings have slid since Mox dropped the title. Sasha Banks is painfully overrated. She still isn't a good worker and she's propped up by a rabid online fanbase that slap down any criticism of her in-ring performances. I'd go so far as to say she's the weakest of the Horsewomen in-ring. Alexa Bliss is nXt's greatest success story to this point. Cody Rhodes would be better served not trying to be a brand ambassador and instead getting back to whatever it was that gave us those "un-goddamn-deniable" promos. His program with Jericho was legitimately fantastic and he should be doing more serious shit like that. AEW's women's division is closing in on WWE for second-best women's division in wrestling (Impact). Getting Statlander back puts them in the ballpark. Thunder Rosa signing full time, and she will, eventually, would inch them within a car length or two. WWE's women's division as a whole is stagnant and stretched way too thin over two brands. Seth Rollins is actively bad at every aspect of his job.

They should absolutely sign Tommy End and Andrade if they get the chance, but you're right. It is different.

Yeah, I think Jericho probably becomes a "special attraction" when his current contract is up. As long as we get the sweet, sweet dick kicking fiesta of violence that will assuredly be Inner Circle/Pinnacle.

I'd watch the shit out of that.

I need to go back and read that again, but there was also a promo sequence with main event guys based upon "pimpin' aint easy" where Austin popped all his coworkers with a story that ended with "shrimpin' ain't easy." There was also a pantomimed fellating incident where everyone involved broke character, including Austin I believe. I need to read that book again.

Dijakovic. He was 5.

Ali, Ricochet, Cedric, and Murphy. I was off by one.

Damn, Nakamura deserves better. Shit, like six guys on that list could be top guys if podcast Prichard had any idea what he was doing...

Yeah yeah yeah.

Also, I forgot, but it’s worth noting; I saw @Stuttsyuse an expression on Twitter once about Alexa Bliss looking “hotter than doughnut grease.” Penelope Ford had it all going last night, and she looked, in fact, hotter than doughnut grease. It’s crazy how poor a job wwe’s makeup department does for as long as they’ve been in the business. Sorry. I know we aren’t supposed to objectify, and I truly don’t mean to. I guess I’m trying to say that when it’s noticeable how much better the competition is doing at an aspect of your product that you’re supposed to prioritize, it’s a problem.

Man, I've got a brand. I've gotta uphold my end of the bargain. I thought this show was really good. Cage didn't look like he'd been inactive for seven years. It looked like he'd taken the summer off. Pretty good. I'm about half in the bag so I don't remember everything that happened. Mrs. Drew and el hijo de Drew are out of town, so I'm obliterating Silver Bullets. The Mox promo was money, but that's nothing new. He's the best promo in North America, if not the solar system, so it's to be expected. Cezar Bononi isn't "it," but his personal situation is heartbreaking and I hope the best for him. Team Tazz promo was what it needed to be. The Pinnacle/Inner Circle thing was dope as hell to me. I popped HARD for MJF just closing the bathroom door after he opened it and saw the Inner Circle guys. I'm a sucker for delayed reactions for stuff like that. Made me laugh a lot. I still wonder if they'd go Stadium Stampede for IC/Pinnacle and save Blood & Guts for another angle. The QT thing was cool. They picked the right guys for his faction for sure. I'm a big faction guy and I think it's smart to feature several of them when you have a roster as expansive as AEW's. Fuck Kenny Omega. I know he thinks he's being entertaining with his heel schtick, but he's actively repelling people from watching him. It's funny that with all the talented folks in nXt, that it's Kenny that seems to get the most people to switch to the USA network. Omega is TRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASH. When Don Callis was on commentary, he talked about how "there hasn't been a wrestler that could do all the things that Kenny can do" and I guarantee that the list I made in my head isn't what the Jackyl had in mind. Dug the women's tag. I wonder if NWA starting back up has effected Thunder Rosa's availability. The main event was cool AF. I'm a big Statlander fan, so her return popped me, and the Trent return was cool, even though I'm 100% team Mabian. This show set up a ton of good shit. It's pretty cool that there's at least one wrestling company in America that gives a shit about putting on a quality weekly show.