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Have him win to get released from his MJF contract. Have him sign an AEW contract, only to learn that Mark Sterling secretly inserted a clause that Wardlow is not allow to compete for a title belt in AEW. Wardlow says "fine" and challenges Samoa Joe for the ROH TV title, and wins. He then interferes in MJF's AEW world title match, costing MJF his title win.

The other day I was vaguely remembering that WCW, in their later 90s desperation phase to copy/counter the Attitude era, had a Chyna ripoff. Guess that wasn't a stress-induced delusion. Weren't 3 or 4 people legit injured in that junkyard brawl?

I legit forgot that Pillman was in WWE, I've always assumed that when he died it was not too long after "I respect you, Bookerman".

What I would like to see is the BCC-HOB angle a lot of people are mentioning, but I want it to be Regal and BCC talking about how all of them are individually very talented, athletic, violent fighters who are caught up in some gimmick that is holding them back, slowly leading to the end of HoB as dark magick warriors.

I just want to say that many of y’all are ok with a dude who dresses, acts, and talks like he’s in some shitty black metal band, magically appears in the ring, and spits a mystical evil black mist that turns people evil but have a problem with Danhausen?

At least with the Cole feud, you could involve the Dark Order and the Bucks/ReD and have a 6-man. The rest of his feuds so far have been against lone wolves (Danielson was at the time). The nice thing about the Dante-Page match was it was Page wanting to be a fighting champion and give young guys the shots they don’t always get. More of that would’ve worked for a while in my opinion, and then eventually you have someone interfere and there’s your PPV angle.

I think he’s clearly using at least some of his AEW TV time to try and sell ROH to his audience...and more so to a network.

I don’t have the energy to rewatch but I will say that BCC is getting stuck in a bit of a formulaic match except the Moxley wildcard. Agreed about Wardlow, I guess he’s been in the business for a while but lately he’s doing eye-popping big man athletic shit like Dante is doing eye-popping skinny guy athletic shit. speaking of Dante, he should’ve gone over in that match, even though he still got a good rub in the loss. It’s time for him to have a push and Fenix has other shit (and I mean shit literally as I hate that angle) going on. Definitely needs to be in a super juniors tournament. Noticed the same thing. I had low expectations for that match but I forgot that Jeff Hardy will bump and sell like a freak. Thought the exact same thing after seeing Hardy’s shirt and thinking about FTR’s tribute, someone needs to do Blue Blazer. Too bad Dante lost. Morrissey was pretty impressive, Wardlow gave him a lot of offense. That power bomb was damned impressive, that’s why it only took one Skeeavone. MJF-Wardlow is the hottest feud they have by far. Let Christian secretly cheat to help JB win the FTW title. Send Hook. Let Hook have that title. Let Ricky Starks move on to bigger and better things. Bowens needs to heal so The Acclaimed can finally get their push. They’re one of about 8 tag teams right now more interesting than JE, YB, rED... Rest of the show was ok to fucking awful. Yeah, Pillman is terrible and the Julia Black thing makes no damn sense but maybe, just maybe, House of Black isn’t adding much to the shows either... Adam Cole is so boring and wanting to be a tweener that he even sucked as a heel guest announcer. I personally didn’t think the women’s main event was all that but I also lost a lot of interest in this episode after Hangman’s weird semi-heel turn and that interminable VB-HOB segment. Deeb-Rosa was a good confrontation, that was a fight I wanted to see.

And they’re building the tournament around fucking Adam Cole blah blah blah

Surprise is that that countries that use the metric system makes an exception for pizza apparently. I guess having a large pizza be advertised as 35.56 cm would be weird. (disclaimer: I'm not mocking the metric system, in my line of work we use it for all of our scientific measurements)

They use inches for pizza sizes in the UK?

Baron Bespoke

NIL is very revealing in the sense that, like so many other situation, you see free market warriors freaking out when the free market doesn't actually work to their advantage and start screaming for regulations.

He's basically fungible with his Dark Order teammate Angels.

He needed the change of scenery, and he wouldn't have started ahead of Bijan Robinson this year so I would say no because he wouldn't have been drafted if he stayed at UT. And yes, we've had more bad/not-so-good years than bad since 2010.

Defending your trademark probably costs them a lot more than registering it, but I'm sure they have a legal staff on retainer for just those reasons

AEW opens the Forbidden Door to... KAIJU BIG BATTEL

No Longhorns drafted, hopefully the last time that happens.

You missed the obvious “purdy good” pun.

Damn, something involving his forearm or his elbow?

So when she shows up as a #1 contender with a 10 match winning streak are they just baffled?

Probably hurt his crack too.

Trent has almost perfect timing on taking moves, makes them look extra large. He really is sneaky great.

@DEAN I started dreaming about a Samoa Joe-Keith Lee match near the end of that main event.