Jiji

You're going to talk that good shit and not expect to get hit? ?

Have you seen Ace Steel's eyes? He's got the eyes of a man who will bite you no regrets.

Danielson has a history of those disappointing matches on shows that are too long. I remember a really boring Styles match at the outdoor rumble that also had a great Asuka and Lynch match. He should know to shave time off his matches in those situations. Maybe jericho would overrule him but it didn't happen with Moxley or Styles either.

Way too long and not the type of match the show needed at that point. I thought it sucked. No Garcia resolution either. Hard fucking pass. Danielson is 1 for 3 on ppvs this year, as I thought the Moxley match was much the same as last night. Edit: I will say that it is king sized of Danielson to eat a loss so Garcia can go on and be the one to beat Jericho.

Re: the elite being nu kliq... they're the good guys this time. Fight me if u disagree. What is Omega's contract status? Isn't he a free agent in January? And the Bucks re-upped last year long term. I am sure he'd like to stay with them but I could see him peacing out if this gets worse before it gets better. I watch where he goes. I'd still watch aew but certainly not like I do now if Omega is elsewhere.

I am working on getting my pc up and running again tomorrow, so I sincerely apologize for the url instead of embedded tweeet but I reckon at least one person around here will appreciate the prophecy of Brother Cody. https://twitter.com/slate_s42/status/1566809486538448896?t=RH1ZZDCPU7qJOg_Ls-KAYQ&s=19

Hate this for you.

Not sure how you carry forward with CM Punk as a babyface after that. We will never have to hear another awe shucks, do you still love me promo. If he does embrace being a heel, though, it would actually be funny if he still did the pandering but to massive boos this time.

Sheesh. Fans at the show talked about how Malakai was really emotional after the match. And now observer said he took a bow. Khan gave a no comment when asked about his status. That does not sound good. Meltzer in very Meltzerian fashion said he's gone. Damn that fucking sucks. Nothing confirmed or official but taking the L, blowing a kiss and bowing to the fans, and Khan not confirming his status? Yeah, that sounds like he's gone. If it's purely a push thing with him, why not work with him on it and meet him halfway? Hopefully there's more to it than just that because it'd be ridiculous to let somebody that talented just walk. Better yet, he takes a break.

And even then I thought JR was the least ornery he's sounded since the first show coming back after his cancer treatment. While the masks and mass run in felt very TNA it was a fine call because they didn't interrupt anything worthwhile and I generally like ladder matches.

If you thought Jungle should've won last night, injury aside, that's some baby brain stuff. Not wanted him to win, but thought he should win. You need Christian to evade him for as long as possible to build heat and gratification for when he finally lands on Christian, and takes his vengeance. That was 100% the right move. I forgot to mention there has got to be a happy medium behind the over choreographed, contrived bullshit ladder matches wwe has been doing for the past decade and the gigantic turtle green shit messes AEW churns out (beyond Young Buck tags). What the fuck was that match? Andrade and Rush come off as dumb asses. Claudio a dumb ass for not calling an audible. Just terrible. The one that Hangman won for #1 contendership was good or at least better than the rest by a country mile. Just awful.

I reckon they lean into it even more at Grand Slam. They could turn the champs if they wanted to. I wouldn't mind a nastier version of Keith Lee. Ross comparing him to Vader (I was so scared it was going to be a Black wrestler lmao) was interesting because Lee has so little intensity. Taz's Bigelow comp was way more accurate and I struggle to enjoy a lot of Bammer because he was so soft especially outside of NJPW.

I am legitimately concerned that Punk may just quit and relatively soon before we get to him even "working with pricks", which would be a tragedy. He made it clear he threatened to drop out of DoN over a vague line that most people did not connect the dots to Colt. He just roasted the Bucks and Omega explicitly for 30 minutes as well as Hangman. Is he going to be able to take any of their barbs in return? People wanted CM Punk back and this is what you get with him when he doesn't have a boss that will keep him in line. This I guess is how you re-establish kayfabe for people our age. It's fun not knowing where we are going, thinking stuff is actually volatile, and there are real emotions involved. I just hope they're able to harness it for good and not let the toxicity destroy what it's set up. I need to see Punk (or "CM", lmao at Excalibur calling out Marvez on air several minutes later) vs. Hangman 2, Punk/FTR vs. Omega/Bucks, and the Omega singles. I will pay money for those. Edit: for as shitty as he came off last night, he was not wrong at all about Page boasting about not taking advice from his seniors. That's ridiculous and I feel like something he got from the Elite guys who've always struck me as people that feel like they're above constructive criticism in how they talk about wrestling.

Yeah, I agree 100%. The crowd were definitely in a "there's too much filler on this show and we came here to back CM Punk" rest mode after the tag titles match and even before. If it was Swerve's idea to question Bowen's durability and say he let Caster down and then ACTUALLY WORK IT INTO THE MATCH he is going to be a great wrestler because that was the key of getting legitimate emotional buy in from the crowd past the scissor me meme shit (which is fun but does not make for a great match). The crowd was muted even during the pre show. The Jade match was really good too, def her best that I can remember and I really enjoyed Athena going for it right away. Execution still rough in spots for Jade but she's coming along nicely. Edit: Matt beat me to it more succinctly.

Yeah it's not working for me on da phone same with the next/previous page. Thank you for saving me brudda.

Agree 100% with the tweet.

I think his comment about wrestling being a unique atmosphere for coworkers hating each other being sometimes beneficial is absolutely fine and accurate. He just doubled down on it tonight. Punk has massive money matches now more than he did a couple weeks ago.

Tony talking about not going into business for yourself just minutes after that Punk tirade. Get. Out! ?

I love it too. While he does have the money, he doesn't have the network sway yet so what's he going to do? Still can't believe he didn't say anything about Punk shitting on the EVPs but TK doesn't want to get on Punk's bad side.

There were some good matches and two fantastic matches on this show but the most entertaining thing was Punk at the scrum. He is the King of Hating. Holy shit. Fightful reporting that Omega and the Bucks were threatening to walk out over it. Incredible stuff. This is who Punk has always been from all we've heard through the years. Now you've got two massive money matches in Punk vs. Omega and the Hangman rematch. I get that people get bonuses for being on PPVs and you want to keep talent happy (lol), but these marathon shows are a drag. Way too long. 6, 7 matches tops.

If he's like this now, it's going to be hilarious when he's not employed by AEW.

So Kingston got a match at the PPV but Sammy does not, is that right? Well, you want heat? lol

Was a glorious basket at least. That one show they did indoors with explosions and nobody could see through the smoke was 10/10 stuff.

He himself said he didn't get tased. Jose The God of this Shit was just keeping him at bay. The angle, while it felt a little shoehorned accomplished two things: getting Uno outta there so Hangmin can replace him and setting up Andrade not so subtly wooing Preston Vance into the fold. Why would they taser the guy they want to join them?

I'm enjoying Chris Jericho being on the front foot here with his NXT slander.