Garth

Endo has vacated the KO-D Openweight title due to being unable to compete in the King of DDT. Winner of the tournament will be the new champ. What a bummer for Endo. Masahiro Takanashi, Endo's first round opponent, gets a bye into round two.

Just more Take on Dynamite/Rampage generally, please. He's so, so good and seemed to get over with the audience off the back of the Hangman and Lethal matches, they just gotta keep that ball rolling.

My podcast just dropped an episode where we interviewed Go Shiozaki ahead of CyberFight Festival '22. Thought there might some interest here! If you listen, hope you enjoy

Watched this with some buddies on Monday night and had a grand old time. I don't get to watch a ton of wrestling in company, and I definitely think it changes how I view the show vs. watching alone. Watching it in this fashion, I most enjoyed were the Anarchy match. As others have said, loved the little nod to New Jack/Sandman with Wild Thing looping. There was a part of me that hoped it would keep playing until Moxley finally made it into the ring, immediate finish and then starts back up for him to make his exit. Loved what we actually got though. The other real stand out for me was the House of Black vs Death Triangle. Great breathless action. The only thing that really bothered me was Cole and Baker winning their respective matches. Neither of them needed it, and Cole is probably my least enjoyed consistently pushed act in AEW. For what was Joe's first loss since joining the promotion, it felt so unceremonious and also doesn't really do anything for Cole? Need to go back and watch the Deeb/Rosa & Hangman/Punk matches as we were talking all throughout and definitely felt me attention wane at points.

Was lucky enough to speak to GHC Jr. Heavyweight champion Daisuke Harada on my podcast this week. Think it's a real fun listen. Spotify Link or https://linktr.ee/wrstlingpod for links to all other places