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He looked to be in good shape and moving better, let’s hope he keeps it together not just for his career but for his health.

Three great matches tonight but that was by far the best, easy vote for Free TV match of the week. I still see people online talking shit about Cassidy and like how can you do that after this run?

How about John Silver as the mogwai and Cage as the gremlin?

Good card tonight. What are the odds they actually let one of the Originals that isn't Jayme Hayter get a win? Moving Skye Blue up the card just to have her be the designated job girl for the group is old.

I lived in NYC in the 80s and once we got cable around 1986, I had the MSG network so I got to see the broadcasts of all the WWF house shows and they were so much better than anything else they had going on. Just wrestling and crowd reactions. I usually didn't even bother with the WWF syndicated stuff, just the monthly MSG shows and the Saturday Night Main Events, otherwise I was watching the daily territory broadcasts on ESPN and usually the Muthaship on Saturday night.

I’m with whoever said Swerve should’ve teamed up with Shane Taylor promotions.

I appreciate that context because all I remembered was him as a blue-chip recruit who went on to be a high first round pick.

That very accurately describes me with HBOMax. I get HBO and the streaming free as a DirecTV and ATT customer and the only time either myself or my wife used the app in the past year is The Last of Us. Meanwhile, she is on Peacock and Hulu all the time for reality shows while I'm watching old territories on Peacock or have cable on in the background.

The AEW trio made the DDT youngsters look great, really enjoyed that match and hope we get some of them doing some more matches on an excursion. I thought they might give more to The Renegades, who have improved a lot over the year-plus I’ve been seeing them on AEW shows. I really feel for the wrestlers having to take Shafir’s shooty judo throws. Nyla looked pissed at the end of the match. Dark Order is back in their rightful place on the card, and do their thing in a glorified squash. Lee and Big Bill are getting really fun to watch, even in another glorified squash. Not a bad use of 25 minutes, honestly that’s about the right amount of time for me and the YouTube shows. When I see one with 11 matches and 75 minutes long I’m probably skipping it or leaning very heavy on the FFWD.

Wasn't there an issue with some of the smaller stations reusing tape to save money, thus taping over things like that?

I don't watch much but I said Darby-Moriarty was borderline 5* for me so that got my vote.

I always assumed she's been signed, she's wrestled something like 80 AEW matches? Happy for her!

I’ve been tempted to get a floor seat for Austin since my wife isn’t going now and those things have been my main reason why I’m hesitant. The counter is trying to be along the edge of a row by where Mox makes an entrance or where a brawl might pass by.

I think she’s learning things, but her processing and incorporating of those things is slow because she doesn’t get to practice in real contexts. When she doesn’t have a squash, you can see her looking like a junior high school kid in a play, reciting lines instead of being a character speaking them. Stopping and looking for where their next mark is. I’m not sure if she had done any wrestling training prior to being signed and on TV, but one benefit about coming up through indies is that you learn to bump and sell and work with your opponent before you learn to do big moves. She did show some improvement, if I recall correctly she had a surprisingly decent match with Anna Jay. But since then she’s hit another wall and reverted to mostly squashes where she makes her opponents look like shit. She had a glorified squash with Athena, which was a fantastic learning opportunity. Her matches with Willow are competitive in the sense that Willow gets to hit one big move and get a flash near-fall before the kip-up, pump kick, Jaded.

Decided to watch this and the Shafir match made me uncomfortable, she looked like she was taking some liberties after some awkward early moments. It’s hard to tell since Shafir is so reckless with her throws but also is working that shooter gimmick but she was doing some really hard throws at weird angles and definitely was rubbing her shin hard onto one of the sisters’ face on the ropes.

I feel like he said something even worse and more sexist than “jezebel” that had me wincing but I don’t recall now and I don’t feel like watching either of last night’s women’s matches again ever.

I think Tony is seeing if the juice is worth the squeeze, so to speak. They’ve built him up for years as a special attraction, given him basically everything he’s asked for including almost unlimited promo time and freedom, put him over Punk and Danielson, spent who knows how much for a one time use of Sympathy for the Devil, and now made him the top guy. If it doesn’t pop ratings or PPV buys, there may not be a bidding war of 2024.

Got a bonus from work a while back and decided to splurge on the AEW crate, especially given the names they said would be included in the first box. Just got it today and I’m pleased with it. It’s definitely a great value, the two shirts alone would cost more than the cost of the quarterly crate. Couple of things I don’t want or need that I can trade or give away.

Just watched the March 30th show. Highlight of course was Athena-Emi. Blake Christian and El Hijo de Vikingo had a great match with some mind-melting spots but also lots of striking and grappling. Darius taking the pin in the 8-man tag has me wondering if Top Flight was supposed to win at the PPV and they had to call an audible because of Dante. There’s really nothing interesting about Lucha Brothers being champs other than their history with the Briscoes. Eddie-Daniels made me realize how much I miss Eddie being in TV. Really feels like they missed their moment with him at the PPV, especially if they’re going to have Claudio with BCC feuding with the Elite on the AEW shows. The rest was fine if nothing particularly memorable.

One more drunk post: Orange Cassidy was Wrestler of the Quarter for Q1 2023 and in terms of US TV I’m not sure it was even close.

True and she’s been a little wild in her YouTube matches but it also seemed like Jade was constantly not quite in her spot while also very obviously thinking about where she was supposed to be. Both of the women’s matches tonight were slow motion messes.

Also I’ve been drinking some but Darby-Moriarty is going to get my vote for Free TV match of the week. If I were one to do stars, that would be approaching 5*

Jade doesn’t really know how to sell or bump. The crowd was turning on her some towards the end.

So, I’m thinking Billie Starkz has wrestled more matches than Jade, Julia, and Anna Jay combined?

That's how I was interpreting it as well. The quarter-hours are a rolling average over the 15 minutes?