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Zakk_Sabbath

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  1. I still can't ever tell when Black is hurt, or when it's just not his turn to be on TV. He exists in that weird realm with Miro where one minute they're like "Observe this, brother!" and the next it's "Oh, actually, I've been hurt for like six months. Forget that one match, though. And that other one." If his back really is that bad, then he should be the mouthpiece for Brody/Matthews* for six months while he heals up and they get a legit tag push (it'd great timing w this tourney!). Plenty of shit for him to do with Julia/Skye if they wanted, too.
  2. I loved your idea above about putting Hager with Christian, so he's fresh in my mind - what about teaming Ortiz and Hager as a pair of ex-Jericho guys with something to prove?
  3. Ah, man, I should've known! That's kind cool to play off their history, though. If Scorp heals up I wouldn't hate a mini-Men of the Year reunion (sans MMA bullshit)
  4. Thinking about names for the tag title tourney, and chatting a bit about PnP yesterday has me reminiscing about the early days this morning: where the hell is Scorpio Sky? I cannot remember seeing him since he returned from injury on Collision during the Punk era with the cool snapping/lights out thing. Edit: I forgot to mention, another impetus for this thought was @Go2Sleep mentioning people on excursion from TNA and NJPW - I thought it might be a cool idea to borrow Kazarian (if willing) for a mini-SCU reunion, with them cutting a promo about not having a tourney without the inaugural champs
  5. You're entirely correct here, but how good their team was and how much I truly enjoyed them has me kiiiiinda wanting to say "Uh, sir, Santana is wrong." But that's a total knee jerk reaction. And it's no ill-will or doubt in the guy's abilities, I hope he headlines a WK or WM or whatever he wants to do, I just think they had a lot of stories left to tell together.
  6. I could see that, or maybe something closer to the Hogan '02 title run where there's a bit of hybridization - really, I could see the argument for that when Sting beat Jarrett for the TNA title around '07ish, he had the crow paint but with some more red, no shirt, red boots. One could look at it as the sendoff for that iteration (if ya squint)
  7. Yeah, I've been in a meeting since 8 (thankfully mine didn't involve Goodell) so I didnt get to comment on it yet, but that Sting match was everything I hoped for and more. Just exceeded every wildest expectation. I was super moved by knowing the guy's father just passed, and having his kids in there with him... Special, man. Just really, really special.
  8. I don't think it's necessarily unfair at all, but I'll add the caveat that IMO he's always been miscast as a heel alongside Cole, Strong & co. by both major orgs, when I think if handled right he could be a great scrappy underdog babyface in the vein of a Danielson or Sami Zayn
  9. Off topic, but its gotta be one of the most absurd things ever that they signed Taya and changed her name to Frankie Mone, only to turn around and give this name to someone else. It reads like one of those awful "What's ____ doing in the Impact Zone?" jokes from reddit or something.
  10. Angelica Risk is a good name for her because boy howdy would I risk it all
  11. I had a feeling this was something that happened, and am glad it's been confirmed. Very classy move.
  12. This news along with TK mentioning at this week's press call that they're expanding to 9 PPVs a year (12 counting ROH) has got me thinking streaming deal once again.
  13. I have enjoyed the hell out of him in his current role, but agree he's capable of much, much more. He just hasn't really been presented as a true main eventer enough - the last time I can think of may have been when he was mixing it up with Cole/MJF back over the summer Edit: I just thought of this now but whoever called him (AUSSIE/NZ)** Hollywood Hogan back then was dead on One thing I'm hoping for from this "new era" they keep mentioning, is for White and Ospreay (along with Okada once he arrives) to be more heavily featured at the top of the card - I think those guys, not to mention a returning PAC and Omega, and a plethora of others, have all the tools necessary to bring the house style to a wider audience.
  14. Well said, fellas - this kinda "tonal discrepancy" thing is more or less exactly what I wanted to articulate this morning
  15. Ha I didn't mean it derisively, I just couldn't think of a more concise way to be like, "You guys know the Chucky T/Liger butthole conga line gif from like ten years ago? Like that"
  16. Nope, amazingly Cash has only had three AEW singles matches, all losses: Jay Lethal, Jeff Cobb and Dax himself during the Owen qualifiers
  17. I had that thought too, way back when they first announced it - my thinking was, even if Sting doesn't have enough left in the tank for a singles match, Darby might be a light enough guy that Sting could play the hits both safely, and without getting too blown up. That said, the Bucks aren't exactly Bear Boulder so it wouldn't surprise me if there was a similar thought process at least partially in play, here. Also: don't ask me why, but after the ceiling entrance last night, I've got a weird premonition the Bucks are gonna come out to Voodoo Child or the stock nWo music at the PPV. They're only a few years older than me, and celebrate that era of Sting/WCW hugely. It would be interesting as a low-key nod to '97 being 'another wrong righted' - similarly to what Darby wrote in Players Tribune about Sting's forced 1st retirement having been corrected by ending this run on his terms.
  18. I'll agree with this, particularly the dumb ass "do-si-do" spot. It's funny, they have the whole southern throwback tag thing going, but the second you put those guys into any kind of trios situation, you get a couple of those too-cute, PWG-esque moments. (Though I'm sure the Fantastics or another old school team escaping me probably did something similar as well - I said PWG before but I see the Memphis in it too) On the flip side of the coin: one of my biggest gripes with their whole presentation at times can be the overly-serious nature (particularly Dax's promos, which we've discussed ad nausem) - I don't think it's the worst thing in the world for FTR to show a more lighthearted side in these kind of TV affairs once in a while, I just think it would've worked better/been more enjoyable as a standalone piece with (let's say) Best Friends or the Assboys on a Friday Rampage, as opposed to a PPV go home where they're across from the team they'll be in with on Sunday. From a story perspective, you'd wanna see those guys on BCC like Hanger was on Swerve, right?
  19. I don't know a ton about current lucha outside of what/who's been on AEW TV lately, but El Hijo del L.A. Park might be a cool one
  20. That was the first time my girlfriend saw it live on TV, and she also went from a state of maybe-sleep to "holy shit!" (She had only ever seen it while I was getting high to monsoon classics or whatever)
  21. Yeah it's understandably difficult not to have the thought, but the apparatus they had him in appeared to be super secure at least on TV, it was like a full upper-body vest (as opposed to poor Owen who was basically hanging by a keychain). I have no doubt they tested, re-tested, and tested again
  22. I dig this a whole lot, the only thing is, I worry that another 'unlikely allies/will they or won't they' pairing with HoB involved is a little too close in proximity to whatever is going on with Skye/Julia
  23. I could see an argument for Foley here too when he started taking it a little easier in '99 doing more comedy stuff. Keeping in theme: "Andy Summers is actually an insane guitar player, he just doesn't show off" is kind of the equivalent of our "Hogan always wore his working boots in Japan"
  24. Ive said this before, but my interest in ratings and other metrics (specifically AEW's) are almost a direct result of the 2001-2019 WWE monopoly - I lovingly call it "WCW/ECW Derangement Syndrome." Like, obviously I have no skin in the game from a financial perspective, but as a fan of those two promotions over the WWF in the mid to late '90s, I feel almost what could be described as a small level of "responsibility" in making sure AEW succeeds so no one ever again has to live through stuff like the XWF, WWA, WSX, TNA and ROH's failure to launch on a meaningful level, god damn Wrestlelicious, LU, the WOS revival, whatever WRP was... i mean, the list goes on.
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