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The angle though is Hangman doing whatever it takes not to necessarily be champion himself, but to stop Swerve from becoming champ. Hangman going full unhinged heel is where the story goes in my opinion.

Two things stand out to me in this story: First, this was in 2020, this isn't "historical" abuse, this was wrinkly old dyed hair Vince. Imagine him during the attitude era and tell me there aren't a million other stories waiting to come out. Second, with the involvement of Laurinitis and other board members as well as potentially some well-known wrestlers too, this could be the unravelling of WWE. You have to think after working with him for 20+ years, a lot of people would know about this side of Vince. If HHH knew, so did HBK, If Taker knew, so did Michelle, if Cena knew, so did Nikki, if Nikki knew, so did Brie, if Brie knew, so did Bryan. (And that's without the whole Laurinitis-Bellas connection) This thing snowballs out massively and would literally take decades to explore fully.

WWE is locked behind paywalls in the UK of either BT TV or the WWE network, + PLEs are extra and extortionate. With this change, a lot more eyeballs will be on WWE product in the UK. And I'm sure this will be a similar story in many other countries. Tony Khan will need to respond by getting better TV deals and slots in those countries for AEW or their impact and momentum will be considerably lessened by this change.

Rosa vs Aminata maybe? As Aminata's on a hot streak of matches.

I'm sure Sting was looking at Darby when Tony was talking about "his last opponent", even after the Bucks came out. I'm hoping it's a bait-and-switch. Sting and Darby can do a 10-minute smoke and mirrors match.

I can see this match being like when 2000 Jericho fought HHH for the title and they did that bait-and-switch win for half a show. It's going to be amazing and the crowd will love it.

Lucky bastard Gordi. Hoping we get BD vs Nigel at Wembley or something similar!

Tony Khan's family are/is worth billions. He's said it before, he could afford to run AEW without any income whatsoever for many many years. It's not going anywhere. It will get bigger as casuals find out there are now two companies. It's hit a soft wall, not a brick one.

WWE Subfolder.... He's your problem now .

That thumbnail needs to be a t-shirt already

Why isn't anyone thinking Callis is the devil? His red forehead scar is pretty satanic, wouldn't be surprised if Wardlow joined the family as a ninja either. Ospreay vs MJF soon?

Two women's matches though! Hopefully TBS triple threat doesn't get subbed to zero hour. 3 interesting characters in it.

It was really dumb. If someone pitched it to Wight it was dumb. Even if Wight came up with it it was dumb. AEW needs someone whose job it is to say no to talent for bumps like that. A backstage spinebuster through a load of cardboard boxes with a drape over it would have sufficed.

I am once again asking for Yano/OC, put Mox in the same block why the heck not?

Funny because I can't stand Wade and his fake TV accent. I'm loving Nigel's heel commentary, it's almost Heenanesque, Schiavone works as a decent Monsoon for him too on the rare occasions they've worked together. Maybe Ricciaboni can fill that spot if he decides to go full-time. And hopefully, we soon see Nigel against that Clamdigger Brittle Bryan Danielson one more time.

I love Butcher because he was old as shit before he even got into wrestling, which I give massive respect to. As for my dislike of Juice, he just hasn't connected with me yet and BCG as a group just doesn't butter my crumpet. It just takes time with some people to find their groove. Kind of like a foreign footballer coming into the Premier League, takes them a season to figure out how things work. Swerve had this for me and now I love his tricky/smooth wrestling ways. To be fair it was really hard to get to 10 I dislike, which speaks volumes to how talented AEW's roster is.

Top 15 Favourites to watch regardless of in-ring ability/promos etc just the ones that my keep eyeballs glued to the screen: Andrade Angelico Bandido Bryan Danielson Christian Cage Claudio Castagnoli Eddie Kingston Jamie Hayter Lance Archer Miro OC PAC Samoa Joe Sting Swerve The bottom 10 that I skip the most when they're on: Adam Cole The Gunns Jay White Josh Woods Juice Robinson Kyle Fletcher The Young Bucks Matt Sydal Scorpio Sky Tony Nese Top 3 Commentators: Excalibur Nigel McGuinness Tazz

One of the ninjas is noticeably bigger than the others, could easily be Wardlow.

Nah I think you're right, and that's partly why they haven't got over with some viewers, he's still present in our minds and this guy is the Wish.com Temu version of him. Doesn't mean he isn't talented, just probably wasn't the right time for him to be featured prominently yet.

What do you think of the idea of a Collision world championship? An increasing issue they have in AEW is that there are so many championship-calibre stars that are idling around in cul-de-sac feuds because there is nowhere higher for them to go. MJF is having an all-time great run and looks to be continuing his turn with the belt until at least Adam Cole is healthy or until this 2024 contract storyline comes to fruition. Miro, Hobbs, Malakai, Andrade, Samoa Joe, Bryan Danielson, Ricky Starks, Christian, Wardlow, Darby and many more could be vying for a world title or having a turn with it. Whether Bryan or Joe wants to have the belt is neither here nor there as I am a proponent of a belt having prestige, by having such names win it thus increasing its prestige further when a Jack Perry or Kyle Fletcher wins it in the future. I think it could be important in the future to say someone like BD or Joe were your brand's champion, not to mention Joe deserves to win a major world title at some point in his career.

KOTFM was indeed one of the best movies I've ever seen as well. The only two negatives are the length, while it didn't feel like there was too much filler it could have been 30 minutes shorter without losing much context, and secondly, the ages of Leo/DeNiro were wildly wrong. You'd probably only know this if you'd read the book. Still, again DeNiro looks every bit 80 years old in this when Hale was actually only in his 50s during this time meaning Leo could've realistically played him, who did not look like a WW1 veteran in his 20s either. Other than that it was perfect in tone, colour and acting all the way through. The secondary characters look like they had been cast by the Coen's casting director and if it wasn't for the camera being in constant motion a lot of this movie felt like No Country at its best moments. Brendan Fraser in his very small role stole the courtroom scenes and his talking down to Ernest was so convincing I felt personally attacked when he called him a DUMB BOY as the camera was almost POV. Whilst Scorsese has been quite meta in his last two movies I would say this is better than the Irishman and I loved that too. Confident that this will easily hold up against his most well-known and acclaimed works.

Both BD vs ZSJ and again vs Swerve, I had to physically stop watching the show and go have a break for 20 minutes to just decompress from the awesomeness of those two matches. We are eating so good right now I feel like a wrestling GLUTTON.

I think we can all agree on that. If TK was on this board still he definitely would've been banned for being a gimmick poster by now.

Ex / Tazz / Nigel would be my favourite combo with Tony / Mox / Menard / Jericho coming in to do bits too. Can see why they spread the work load out over Dynamite/Collison fair enough, but for PPVs we could get this.

Chav is actually an acronym standing for Council House, Anti-social behaviour order (asbo), Violent. But yeah it's antiquated a bit now. ZSJ sounds like a middle-class southerner, and I should know because I'm also one...