For Great Justice

So, are we saying a time traveling heel went back in the past to stop his past self from the ramifications of a babyface turn? Tony watched Lightyear?

Funny, I have a similar situation. I have to travel to Jersey City somewhat regularly for work, and I guess there’s a very particular cell tower that some dearly departed Cash’d individual used to post from, right there by the Hudson. I pop out of the PATH and, boom, I’m IP banned, every single time. Then by the time I’m 200 yards away at the office, it’s all good. All I can think every time it happens is that there’s Spanish restaurant right there by the train exit…

So it’s like there’s putties, but then the JTTS-tier henchmen Goldar and Finster challenge for the tag titles. Devil is Rita, and we haven’t seen Zed yet. Like MJF said, there are levels to this shit.

I really dug that little bit of world building with the announcers discussing all that. It reminded me of Disney parking lot-era Nitro, and just isn’t something WWE does. More of that please.

Does anyone look like a bigger hamandegger than Wardlow right now? I can’t take that dude seriously. I wasn’t prepared for Great Value Robbie Rage

NXT was tremendous again. That four way was fantastic!

See my thing with AEW right now is that if the passion is gone from the viewer, it’s because a large chunk of the soul is missing from the show. Yeah this G1 is going to produce a dozen matches that slap, but to me it’s like The Owen. I just really, really have no reason to care and it feels inorganic. I think this is one big one where myself and DVDVR brethren Coach TK disagree as fans - tournaments for the sake of tournaments absolutely sucks as a pro wrestling construct. Tony can’t get enough of it, but I’m out. It just sucks. AEW at its best is Best Friends having wacky blowoff matches, Orange Cassidy doing character stuff moreso than five star classics, Danhausen cursing dudes, HoB being spooky, all the good shit. AEW’s trajectory with my buy in kind of follows Kris Statlander’s character arc, actually. Late 2023 AEW needs less generic hoss, more alien. Embrace your alien, Tony.

I feel about a Punk/Rollins feud the way some would feel about a Davey Richards / Ospreay feud, or how Natural would feel about a Hogan/Penta feud. Just…nope. Fifth circle of hell stuff. Zero chance. I’m good over here watching NXT. Elsewhere though, as somehow who has always been the high man on Orton I absolutely adore this “beloved legend” run. It’s awesome. Give that man his flowers.

I think these returns have changed Punk’s legacy as a promo, to the mass audience, from “guy that says shooty stuff because it’s what he authentically believes“ to “guy that says shooty stuff because he knows the marks will react to it.” I mean he’s a pro wrestler so that’s always been the case of course, but we’re basically in “hide your wives, it’s Edge” territory at this point.

I’d use Punk as a vehicle to put Logan Paul over at Mania Thats about how much time you have before he implodes again

My favorite dude in AEW. Needs the rocket ship. I need Daddy Magic and Eddie Kingston to get into a personal issue.

Swerve as the next champion in the next 6 months feels as certain as anything else in wrestling right now, and in a while. The only question now is how we get there.

Oh yeah, that Rampage tag match is 100% must-watch for me. Athletic babyfaces vs base heels southern tag is scientifically proven to be the best kind of match.

A fun reveal would be FTR, Wardlow and Spears as the ninjas. But none of those are a big enough headliner to be the devil.

Struggling to find a worthwhile use for Flair. Maybe as head of the “Championship Committee”, presenting the title to champions after big wins and announcing future marquee title matches. Similar to what they did with Bret Hart That isn’t what they’ll do though.

OC/Claudio sounds amazing and all but more than anything I am heavily pro-Daddy Magic getting notable matches.

If you’re not watching NXT you’re really sleeping on a tremendous little show. It’s the best it’s been since it’s pre-AEW heyday.

Yeah Creeds/AA was 100% my kind of jam and wow that ruled

I guess I’m the opposite on the last page, as I prefer announcers that are more passionate than analytical. We should probably cal this the Gus Johnson Test (and I’m on Team Gus)

Joe makes a lot of sense as Joe/Omega is one of those dream matches we haven’t seen in AEW that would look real nice at Full Gear

I’m sure Bruce is already pitching a cinematic match in the catacombs Spent a lot of time in Paris over the years and never saw a big wresting fan presence like you do in the UK and Germany. I agree it would be really cool to take a look at what we have there. Gable/Sami French Catch tribute?

Y’all know I love some Best Friends but I completely blanked on Hook being BF/CHAOS-adjacent. When did that happen? JeriShow/ShoMiz-era Big Show is top 3 of that dude’s career: WCW run, 2007 from his return with Mayweather through the amazing Undertaker match at No Mercy that fall, and then the tag teams. That’s the list.

I was a big JeriShow fan. Not that interested in putting the band back together but I presume this is all toward Wight putting Hobbs over clean with some kind of feat of strength spot that will be on video packages forever, so I’m down with that.

I wonder what was supposed to happen there at the end. That obviously went sideways; really awkward I was concerned that Christian was going to go to a certain topic with Flair, and they didn’t, so good on you AEW. Anything Outcasts related is X-Pac heat

It’s pretty bad. This current version of Wardlow and his Haas-Tier charisma make Miro and Hobbs look like prime Sid and Vader. Not trying to pick on the dude but he went from “the slam dunk prospect we think WWE should trade Sasha for” to the other guy in the Master Blasters