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That was actually real?? I thought it was a meme on Twitter. Holy shit.

Barry is super super dark this year. Tokyo Vice shit the bed half way through episode 7. Pity.

I think Punk wins by some sort of shenanigans, not exactly a heel turn but something subtle that ends nice guy Punk for a while. Then have him and MJF avoid each other until Revolution and Max goes over. That or Kenta costs Punk.

Give me Okada at Forbidden Door, give me full on Rainmaker entrance. Give me Okada just drop-kicking fools beautifully. Give me Okada telling someone like Fish or O Reilly they should be on 205 Live (like he did Scu*rl). Give me Okada at the end of the show with a big showdown with someone to set up his next appearance.

Big fan of Tokyo Vice, watched the first 4 episodes and really enjoying it. Ya there’s a few nitpicks like Elgorts character, pacing and the waitress subplot but it looks SO good and feels like nothing I’ve seen before.

They show the JR cosplayer in the crowd again around the 15:10 minute mark of this video and it’s great

Meh. It was a misstep on a fantastic show. But if TK has to sacrifice one show closing spot to keep execs happy/get more eyes on his company/get airtime in a different country then that’s fine and should be fine with fans of the company.

I’m late to the party but I’m bingeing Barry so I’m ready for season 3…. The Ronny/Lilly episode… HOLY SHIT!

Don’t really watch Rampage but i did this week. Some thoughts- AmDrag V Trent was great, Danielson took some nasty bumps to his head. Red Velvet is terrible, Willow looked 10 times better and should have gone over. That finish-yeesh! Speaking of bad finishers- what the fuck is Swerves supposed to be? I do not ‘get’ Danhausen. I do ‘get’ HOOK though so I am a small bit intrigued to see where it goes. Yuta V Mox deserves all the praise and stars.

Odds for The Briscoes appearing tonight?

Logan Paul is a stallion. Dude could definitely make it

Codys promo was good…I guess but some of it came off really forced and maybe a bit disingenuous? I dunno. What I will say is if he cuts that same promo in 2 or 3 weeks time instead of last night when the Mania buzz is gone and casual fan isn’t in attendance I don’t think it goes so well.

Walked in to the set

I am 100% happy for Cody, any man that makes the right decision money wise for his family is a good man. But part of me can’t get over the fact that this is all about Cody’s ego and him going back to the ex-lover whos name he dragged through the mud for 6 years is still hard to believe. That said his entrance and match performance was great but then he cuts the same old long winded promo as above^.

Are people still enjoying Winning Time? We’re getting it in Ireland and the UK on Monday.

I’m open to being proven wrong but I don’t see Vince letting Cody be ‘AEW Cody’, maybe some aspects of it but not all. I also think there will be a big buzz around Cody at WM and Mania week but after that I’m not so sure.

Makes zero sense. All this build up to have his “wrestlemania moment” only to lose to Cody is stupid. Don’t get me started on “the right to face Edge” when he wrestled him at 2 of the companies biggest PPVs last year.

Came here to post it. Absolutely fantastic. Sting had me both tearing up and ready to run through a wall for him at the same time. Everyone needs to read this.

Someone needs to take Edges creative control away from him, what the fuck was that promo.

Good god there is a LOT of Twitter links in this thread. Good to see Redbeard get a response like that. Revolution is STACKED.

Tony Khan is such a geek but I was such a geek for 2004-2008 ROH that I marked out a little when he said he got to buy the company he was a fan of. Good for him.

I think Eddie Kingston has become my favourite AEW talent and I think is a guy who has benefited from the bloated AEW roster in that he’s used sparingly enough. (I know he’s had injuries as well) IMO if Eddie was on every Rampage or every Dynamite I would grow sick of the shtick but ever since he got to AEW he’s been gold. The Cody feud, then Mox, Punk and now Jericho are some of the best promos around. That line where he said what “kind of Jericho” he wanted at Revolution was the rubber stamp for me to order the PPV. My hope is that he beats Jericho, MJF beats Punk and Eddie rubs his nose in it straight after so we get back to that feud.

MJFs promo and the “Is that real?” for some reason gave me the same vibes as the HBK/Y2J/Batista storyline back in 07/08.

Brock; “Cool finisher kid, what do ya call it?” Cody; ”Cross-Rhodes, I used it to beat….” Brock; “Can’t wait to kick out of it”

It’s funny to me how all of a sudden in certain areas in the internet (not here) that all of a sudden AEW has “budgeting problems”, “won’t get a big renewal on their tv deal” and that “Owens and Sami saw what they had to offer and stuck with WWE and have major mania plans now”. I’ve said before that I can’t blame Cody for looking out for himself money wise but all of this is going to be laughable in August when he’s wrestling Steve-O at summerslam.