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I wish we got so many more Miro matches. I still am waiting on Miro vs. Hangman.

That's incredible. Also, Fightful on the Kingston/Sammy drama:

Fightful reporting they're hearing Full Gear will be in Newark, NJ and when they've run there in the past, both times were at the Prudential Center so it would make sense to do it up there again. This isn't official or confirmed btw. Why does AEW hate the west coast so much, particularly the PNW? They have Danielson, you could run Key Arena np with him in a featured match.

Great post. 100% agree and everything is riding on this.

What does TK mean by this? If Ibushi is at All Out, I am going to be coomered to the max.

The ladder promo is one of the greatest moments in this sport's history. Wildest. Avoid, avoid, avoid.

Only three matches announced and a whole lotta PPV to sell, so this is going to be hella angle heavy and it absolutely should be. Trios should go 30.

So this means more stealth and less action adventure gameplay? I'm for it if that's the direction they're going. Definitely agree with @supremebvethat, like all Ubisoft games, they could do without the filler.

No way. I loved the Klingon tweet after Smackdown.

Absolute best use of Blake Christian is a breathing heavy bag for Rush to throw around the arena.

I think that's fair. I love a tournament, particularly round robin/league formats, but yeah it's a bit much especially when there should be heavy focus on big picture character development and long-term programs. Nice thing with this tournament is that they're building up multiple programs that will go beyond the tournament, including Omega vs. Ospreay and Hangman vs. Elite.

God, I hated their first match with a passion. Please no Cringeston with the Japanese mannerisms.

How has the trios tournament sucked the fun out of tv lately? We just had a worldy of a spotfest last week and this week we're getting Omega vs. Ospreay in a tag. There haven't been a tonne of angles for it, so it's not overstaying its welcome that way either.

I'm surprised Shida didn't turn heel after carrying the division through the no audience era only to be discarded for Britt when the fans were back. Seems like a built in turn and would allow her to be more aggressive, less cutesy in the ring which would only help her. I'll check out the Hoshi match when I get a chance over the next few days.

The producer at Gamescom said the new moves were handcrafted, not mocapped. If they're serious about not doing annual entries (if it even sells well enough) and instead relying on dlc, I would really hope they include features in dlc packs and it's not just content they cut from the fucking base game 6+ months prior to release.

I cannot get over how awful that logo is lmao. It has to be up there as one of the worst a major(ish) company has ever repped.

AEW was more fun when Riho was champ.

So DLC then.

Kevin Nash is the coolest.

Soooo... I was thinking about this while I was in my crawlspace surrounded by spiders and dust, AEW has a roster big enough for... a brand split. I know they wouldn't and shouldn't for many very sound, good reasons, but it would be a way of solving quite a few of their problems especially if the backstage politics bullshit between some of the major players seems like it can't be resolved. Mainly, it would help elevate guys like Andrade and that pocket of the AEW universe into a more prominent role. Would, ideally, also help feature more women on TV than currently happens. Hypothetically, if they could upgrade Rampage to a 2hr, better timeslot, would that be unanimously a bad move? I feel like you'd need to rename Rampage at that point because it's basically WWF Heat as is and would not be worth the effort to rehab its value. Easier answer is just to extend Rampage to two hours and in a better slot and book it in a fashion similar to Dynamite. You'd need to go live too to avoid crowd burnout, not that it really impacts ratings as much as many myself including think (at least that's what Meltzer always said when I still listened a couple years ago).

Speaking of the game, FTR are not in the game as of right now Missed the part where it said it wasn't their decision and they were pissed.

Don't think anybody has ever criticized the consistency of the in-ring quality. Most of us who are critical consistently point to it as a reason to stick around. No matter the bad decisions Khan makes, he is still letting some of the best wrestlers on the planet do their thing in an environment conducive to great wrestling.

Sure, it's nothing to do with the quality of booking the past 9 months.

Yeah best sports/racing game at Gamescom but the competition didn't seem too stiff. Was there seriously no handheld footage captured beyond the clip of Punk hitting Wight from day 1? Damn.

That is awful. What is going on with Japanese wrestling? Why is it down so badly?