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My big takeaway from the show is how well the TNT title has restored its relevance from the Sammy/Scorpio days, and even Wardlow’s run. It went from meandering to Joe making it important again and Darby winning it in his hometown and (presumably) having it with him at Muta’s last match. Also, MJF isn’t a great promo but they should probably stop having the roster say so when doing promos with him. While they think it’ll get him “you say you’re great and you’re not” heat, it’ll actually get him “everyone’s right, please go away because you suck” heat.

Abrahantes adds literally nothing to Death Triangle. It’s going to be great when Pac calls him a dork one day and kicks his head off of his body.

This was the way they turned Equinox into Vin Gerard in Chikara. Vin flunked out of the Wrestle Factory then made Skayde lie about being trained by him (if I remember right, he threatened to have Skayde deported or something along those lines) and hid under a mask until he lost it to Chris Hero. He was then expelled from the locker room and had no allies until he turned Shane Storm into Stigma.

I’d be all for Danielson giving Starks the brass knuckles to knock MJF out and win the belt. That feud doesn’t need the belt, especially since Danielson has said he doesn’t want it. Also, I think MJF is the only person that kind of comeuppance can be given to without it seeming like a heel move from the babyface.

It would be great if Regal’s actions were because he thinks the BCC is losing their way (Yuta lost the Pure title, Dragon and Claudio couldn’t beat Jericho for the ROH title, Moxley didn’t even know what day the show was and couldn’t finish MJF off when it mattered) and he helped MJF win to light a fire under the group’s asses to make them killers again. I don’t think that’s what we’ll get, but it would be pretty cool if we did.

Jericho has to be winning here, simply to continue the Garcia storyline by one-upping him by winning a more important ROH title. The pop if Garcia beats Jericho down the road to unify the ROH belts and Danielson comes out to congratulate him as AEW Champion would be HUGE.

I think Starks wins and beats on Danhausen after the match, and then Hook is the next challenger after making the save and we get Taz all conflicted because he doesn’t know who to side with. Hook then wins his dad’s belt, Taz sides with his son and Team Taz ends. Starks and Hobbs should stay together of course, but calling them Team Taz seems kinda silly at this point because Taz is never actually seen with them - he’s just their cheerleader on commentary.

So while all the talk is about Wyatt, tonight is the night that Hangman comes back and gets Dark Order back on the same page, right?

As great as REDEEM DEEZ NUTS was, let’s not forget that Jericho said that Miro was “a cigarette machine with a head,” which was absolutely absurd.

And see, my friends and I couldn’t stop laughing at that spot because we thought the camera angle made it look like Lashley picked Goldberg up onto his shoulders and ran face-first into the post like a maniac, like he was trying to find a way to get out of having to continue the match and that was his master plan to end it.

The one that made me laugh last night was JR talking about how you “never know what you’ll find on aewtix.com”. I don’t know, maybe tickets? Yeah, probably only tickets. That was almost as bad as a few weeks ago when, during (I think) a Jungle Boy/Darby Allin match, he said that neither would “ever be the biggest dog in the fight” when one of them had to be the biggest dog in the fight he was literally watching and calling that exact moment.

That depends, can they use Jerryvision on it?

Keeping it in-ring only, Alex Riley is the absolute worst and no one can convince me otherwise.

I actually just ran an entire tournament on Facebook over the past couple weeks to determine the Most OK Wrestler ever. The finals were between The Warlord and Chris Harris, and ended in a tie.

“I ain’t never done what I did” I remember seeing these Dirty Player promos years ago and laughing hysterically then. I’m glad they hold up for comedic purposes now.

I was just coming on to say the same thing that’s been said by others above - when the show went off the air, Gargano was looking directly at Ciampa’s belt. He’s absloutely pretending to be on the same page with Ciampa and will say that he went in the direction of the NA Title like Ciampa suggested to become #1 contender.

My favorite part of this whole thing is the idea that there’s a shortage of Bob Backlund footage.

They have their own dates coming up in some minor league baseball stadiums the first weekend of August. They could easily condense some of the stuff from the tapings for the next couple weeks of TV and then run those three shows as the tournament and show them. It doesn't solve keeping LAX off TV all that time, or the fact that they spent a bunch of money on taping things that would never air, but it would get them out of the immediate mess.

For anyone in southern NY/northeast PA, Xcite Wrestling is running a show at NYSEG Stadium in Binghamton at 2:00 this afternoon. The main is Greg Excellent vs Sean Carr for the Xcite title with Ricky Steamboat as special enforcer, and Joe Gacy is wrestling Colin Delaney.

I think Magnum and Flair trade the belt a couple times and it eventually settles with Magnum. Flair then takes off for New York with Arn and Tully and they have a Horseman run there. Since Flair was a face for a good portion of 1989 anyway, Magnum easily gets plugged into those spots, like feuding with Funk. The Steamboat series doesn't happen, but maybe they run Magnum/Luger for a little while instead. Flair comes back with Arn and Tully, wins the belt back from Magnum, and then things progress mostly the same as they actually did moving on to Sting. Magnum then does the upper card gatekeeper thing for the majority of the rest of his career. Also, Flair in 1988-89 WWF would have been fun. Maybe there's no Megapowers split, and they pick up a third guy to work with Flair, Arn and Tully for a while after the Megabucks angle wraps up. The belt winds up on Flair for sure here, which Hogan then wins back in late 1989 before Flair goes back.

I could see Brock costing Goldberg the match to anger Goldberg into a rematch at Mania. Goldberg can later say that he was done with Brock, but after costing him the belt, he wants one more match with him. Disregard if the match is already announced for Mania, as I don't watch Raw or Smackdown at all.

They probably have something lined up with Orton and Wyatt where something wacky happens to the ring so that has to go last.

Way late to the party here, but I saw The Pietasters for the first time in ages back in May - they used to come to Wilkes-Barre once a year, but that stopped like 4-5 years ago. They were just as fun as they had been in years past. Also, just got tickets for Blink 182 last night through the Ticketmaster settlement gimmick. Yay to pretending to be 19 again!

Well he IS a drifter - it wouldn't make sense for him to stay in one place. It also doesn't make sense that he has an announced hometown, but that's besides the point.