For Great Justice

Yeah man has anyone in wrestling cooled off more than Wardlow? This is like “Braun Stroman in that one Elimination Chamber to Braun Stroman just before he was released” levels of cooling off. Right now the dude just looks like the biggest jabronie in the world. Like Mark Jindrak is like “damn that’s a generic body guy right there”.

So, every time this thread gets bumped I always think about whatever match it is that caused it to be bumped and then say to myself “…nope, the parking lot brawl is still my favorite AEW match ever” And I wonder why that is, and I think it’s because more so than any other match in company history it captures the essence of AEW: Daily’s Place during the pandemic, Best Friends who are the heart and soul of the promotion, the irreverent humor with Sue and the van, no ex-WWE notables, and the grittiness / reality of doing it all in one cut So yeah it’s still my favorite. Dunno what’s going to top it. Rosa/Baker, Pac/Cassidy and the Bucks/Omega/Page tag are also kind of like this to me and round out my top 4 in some order. Then probably Danielson/Suzuki.

Is Adam Cole the Diesel of midweek wrestling ratings?

Wes Mantooth? Tony needs to chill out. Dude ain’t beating Cena and Taker, in a different day/time slot than normal, no matter what he does. Omega/Danielson for two hours or Moxley in an exploding time bomb piranha match or whatever else he could book isn’t beating it. And that’s ok; this week’s Dynamite was a great show.

One AEW booking pet peeve of mine is unnecessarily keeping programs going after the first match. Tony did it with Hobbs and Starks and he’s doing it again with Swerve and Hangman. Don’t do this Unc, just stop. Let Swerve (or, earlier, Hobbs/Starks) move on. Elsewhere, Toni should crown herself the TCM Champion. If not, what are we even doing here?

I really dug the way OC sold winning the title back. It was like a mix of getting his precious back, but, moreso “….shit, do I really want to go through all that again?” and mental flashbacks to getting his ass beat every week for months. Really well done.

re: today’s Jarrett pod, if AEW isn’t going to film and release a series of Jeff and Karen (in full gimmick) vs Skunk vignettes in the style of the Briscoe Chicken Farm, what are we even doing here?

I, for one, am going to love the nostalgia associated with flipping back and forth. It gets me every time. Even that first live Monday Impact show with all the shitty Hogan stuff got me for the same reason.

One thing I love about AEW is that they’ll throw the shock squash out there every once in a while when you don’t see it coming That ruled

Random thought but with Cena back for a month and the OC around I hope they filmed some new Southpaw

This is perfection

While it will be awesome, what’s up with booking Swerve vs Danielson? Swerve is scorching hot and shouldn’t lose a match in the next calendar year. Yet I can’t see a Christian/Swerve match happening?

“Christian has always been better at pro wrestling than Edge” exhibit 100: the last 10 minutes of this show Also: Burger King and Newports

That really is the list, and if we include non-wrestlers I’d throw Don Callis in there. And over in ROH Athena does an excellent job of working like her character. What Christian’s done this year will be part of a graduate-level course in the performance center 20 years from now.

my god put this man in the Louvre

Swerve/Page was great. Swerve is clearly next in line and him and MJF will be a blast whenever that goes down On Edge, on one hand I’m totally fine if this all ends with like a quadruple retirement Tables, Ladders and Recliners match with the Hardys, but on the other I’m NOT okay with that because while the other three need to hang it up I need Christian on my TV for another 10 years

A super giant ninja, if you will As the Brain said, “he thawed out!”

Jay White has been kidnapped by ninjas are you a bad enough dude to rescue Jay White?

Dug the out of left field ending. Who knows what that was or where it goes, but I’m in.

It’s really hard for me to pinpoint a singular big bang moment. I remember plenty of acute moments in time from my childhood: the first RAW (the idea of a live-live wrestling show blew my mind), the end of Rumble 94, Abby getting fried in the Chamber of Horrors, the Masked Scorpion, Lex coming out of the carriage to attack Sting), but I can’t remember a single entry point. It had to be sometime in 89 or 90. I do remember our neighborhood backyard fed circa 1991. My older brother was Warrior and our neighbors were Hogan and Flair, so I was “stuck” being Macho Man. Looking back I totally won that deal.

I love both but I agree I’m concerned about Hart/Statlander. Pulling off “bigger face vs smaller heel” is a tough job even for 10+ year veterans. Christian is just so good. He’s not 2003 Rock levels of “he’s honestly too good for this”, but I get those kinds of vibes. He’s right there with Starks and Swerve as the guy who should beat the guy who beats MJF

You’re right, that’s wild. We need a “biggest heat magnet trained by the worst heat magnet” thread and I don’t think we’re topping this one unlike, like, Charlie Haas trained MJF or something Dom rules. Him 100% being more Eddie’s kid than Rey’s is some serious long term continuity and it’s great.

Barry Windham Terry Funk Paul Heyman

Surprised not to see Gable Steveson, though I guess there could be a PR element to that one

While I don’t want to see Jericho as a face, I presume we are going to get a Jericho/Omega tag team out of this for at least a while and I think that has potential.