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  1. Bowens is fine. Caster's the one that belongs on low-end indies.
  2. I hope Airica gets a chance to do some more matches in ROH. She showed some good fire and some fun reactions, and takes a beating well. Still heavily a work in progress, but someone who has improved a lot in the past few months, and the strikes look better than many in AEW already.
  3. They might Llave it out. I think Titan's matwork is pretty good, and would keep Jericho from blowing up.
  4. They need to do a loser leaves AEW for X days to cool off Hangman/Swerve feud, just have Swerve say "one of us has to go so the other can be champ". They're kinda speedrunning a great program dry- it's too much of a great thing too quickly, and Swerve needs the belt this year. I'd have Hangman lose by his own stupidity, leave, do the G1 (NJPW would love Hangman in the G1, especially if you let him do a program with Naito where Hangman learns to be tranquilo)- then come back as part of LFI (perhaps with another new member or two) Hangman gets to come back at Forbidden Door because it's a NJPW/AEW joint event as a technicality, so he could pull something there.
  5. Comedy is just as important as Tekkers for any technical wrestler. There's a reason I'd rather watch Catweazle than Roderick Strong.
  6. I saw it as Hangman thinking a draw meant neither of them got the shot, and Hangman's stated goal is to make sure Swerve never becomes champ, because that's how he hurts him the most. Hangman's bitterness towards Swerve and the fans is what is fueling his justified heel turn.
  7. Johnny and Taya are really nice and sweet so hopefully this is really good.
  8. Swerve/Hangman needs a stip where the loser is banned from AEW for 45 days.
  9. Collision was pretty fun. Enjoyed OC vs Komander going with the lucha matwork to first. Danielson vs Nagata was as awesome as it could have been The cage match- I hate escape rules, but they worked the best possible match under those rules, and made it make sense, plus really got DG over at the end. Bravo to everyone involved in that, really well done. They need to strike now with DG I think, this is his best chance to get over- maybe even have him beat Christian- Cope/Christian doesn't really need the belt.
  10. MLW had a Caribbean title at some point. Florida wrestling had a Bahamas title at one point.
  11. They've admitted that they try to pick more local folks for TV, that's why you see lower-card folks pop in and out of rotation.
  12. Hardy is washed at this point, throw in the legal issues and I really don't want him around AEW period. If he has to be around, using him as a good hand to get other talent over with his name while getting a nostalgia pop is the best use for him.
  13. I think AEW realized only the super-wrestling folks who want to see the wild world of wrestling are going to tune in regularly to Rampage, so gotta give the people what they want, and that means matches you don't get to see anywhere else, including Dynamite and Collision.
  14. I feel the same way about Kris, like her as a wrestler, but as just a wrestler, she's not as special to me the way folks like Willow and Julia are. What was good about CHIKARA/LU style was you got both , and that's what I want more of in AEW, with a few serious dudes like Eddie and Mox for folks to bounce off of. I love this version of Jay White for example as an obnoxious funster more than I liked NJPW Jay White, and I loved NJPW Jay. It doesn't have to be a lucha-esque style too, Southern-style the way Eddie or Hangman does it works for me as well, as did Kenny's more emo artsy style.
  15. This is Hook's make or break tonight. I really hope Hook does well- I think he's got real potential, though I do think he's gonna have to probably change his style to something more athletic given his size. I'd love to see HOOK work NJPW juniors.
  16. I know I've seen El Phantasmo be part of this, I think it was with Ishimori. I'm glad Joe has the belt, even if it's just to keep it warm for Swerve most likely. Joe vs HOOK is going to be a big test for HOOK and whether he has something beyond the packaging.
  17. AEW needs to see what it actually has in HOOK right now. He's over, but his gimmick and his look don't fit- he's too small and too cute to be such a badass face. That said, if Hangman is going down a darker path- Hook as like the cowboy fighting for what's right with the HOOK signal might be a good use, and a way to slowly put him up the card, take the occasional loss, while gaining credibility. He's not beaten enough pushed talent to be seen as credible to Joe, and the match should be HOOK does well for a while but is out of his depth, and Joe drowns him in the deeper waters. Maybe run a Hook/Eddie Kingston team next where Hook learns how to be tougher. Either that or have Hook do a BOSJ tour.
  18. I've seen Airica on the indies- she has potential, but still very green and young. Her strength is striking, the other stuff is a work in progress. NWA might be a good spot for her given that. For someone with a superhero gimmick, she doesn't do any top rope moves that I've seen, but given her size that's probably a good thing. Also she and her dad (who goes with her) are very nice.
  19. The question is what next for the Devil- MJF's likely taking time off to heal, Cole needs to heal. Does he just manage and have the devil goons run roughshod? I'd be fine with Wardlow just squashing Eddie to make the faction look threatening, with Cole managing, and the Kingdom stooging. Bring in KOR for more firepower eventually.
  20. On the Jericho stuff- I hope it isn't true, but I wouldn't be surprised if it is. If there's anything to this beyond "he said, she said", Jericho needs to be suspended at a minimum, and preferably fired the way Punk was. One uncorroborated allegation shouldn't be sufficient to hurt someone's career. If TK knew about anything that corroborated this , and swept it under the rug, that's a very, very bad look. I think that's unlikely though. It's also possible they knew about the allegation, investigated already, and decided there wasn't enough proof to go public/do something with it.
  21. They mentioned a few times that anyone not in the match interfering would be fired. That's an incentive not to cheat.
  22. White/Eddie is a good story for NJPW fans as well, and I'd rather see Jay as champ than anyone else. Let Jay and OC keep their belts until May, then Double or Nothing their championships against each other on the PPV to make a real triple crown. Same story could be told with Mox and OC and continue that feud down the road, but OC vs Jay would be an incredibly good contrast of styles.
  23. I think a cooler idea would have been a Devil busting Swerve with a beer bottle (with REAL GLASS) during the CC, then getting out before anyone can get to him. Everyone thinks it's Hangman, but Hangman was just wearing a devil mask while not being the actual devil, doing it to screw Swerve. Save the beatdown of Hangman until after that. MJF and Joe can get paranoid as well, with more justification, and Hangman can't admit he was just pretending or he gets fired for interference in the CC.
  24. If they really wanted to make Hangman a super red herring, have Hangman dress in the Devil's goon outfit and screw Swerve during the Classic, to make sure he doesn't advance. Hangman is not the Devil, but dressed up buying a hoodie at ShopAEW.com just to screw Swerve. The actual devil is someone else. Jay then Advances by beating Mox and having the tiebreaker.
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