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  1. The link that got put up with SportBet in Australia specifically says Countout or DQs don't count. Even if it's a small, capped limit, it seems insane that we can gamble on a PRE DETERMINED outcome. I know it's been a thing in the NFL for years but this is getting out of hand!
  2. Remember that one year Michael Cole won a WrestleMania match? That's what legalized gmbling will give us. Omos is a 4-1 outsider vs Brock? Let's have wrestler X cause the distraction, Omos hits the Sky High, gets the pin and we all collect. Brock can then hit him with 25 suplexes and F5 him through a table afterwards to get his heat back.
  3. I wonder if we don't get 6 months of heel-ish BCC followed by Danielson returning to try and kill the monster he helped create?
  4. I actually like this a lot. Wight is enough of a physical presence to carry that authority, has a long history in the business, and the WMD/KO Punch is a great answer for any heels who are thinking about taking a swing when he rules against them.
  5. There was a time in wrestling where this phrase could have actually been spoken haha "You see the bump that Lethal took? Rats off to him for that. They'll nurse him back to health."
  6. I think wrestling fandom works in a sort of "Reverse Dark Knight" logic - You either retire a villain or you wrestle long enough to see yourself become the mutually respected veteran. With kayfabe dead people can appreciate the artist as much as, if not more than, the art itself. That you gave kudos to Lethal for the selling on the handspring is evidence of this.
  7. OC yells "Shazam!" Lights go out Lights back on
  8. On a positive note: Bryan's promo was absolutely perfect. That's how you explain a warrior tapping out without losing his credibility.
  9. That was bizarre. The way he kept looping around from "Winnipeg -> Level Up -> Shazam -> International -> Winnipeg" followed by the abrupt ending... massive ADHD vibes. No issue with that at all but damn dude... You hire people to explain this stuff for you. Also: While I've lamented the repeat spots during shows, I've not yet complained about ring gear. Tonight was my breaking point. SOMEONE had to grab Top Flight and put them in a different colour scheme. Wearing long black pants with a gold trim, against the JAS who wear... long black pants with a gold trim, was a small thing but it says a lot.
  10. Even their start in NXT wasn't perfect. Scott Dawson was a job guy for job guys before he started teaming with Dash Wilder.
  11. As negative (and almost nihilistic) as all this is... It's hard to counter argue. I think the turning point was when Punk came in. He went through Darby, Kingston, MJF, Page and Mox in the span of 12 months without ever really putting anyone over. Maybe they had plans for the title run but it was as one sided a run as AEW will probably ever have. Eddie Kingston has great heat with Jericho. The long term story seemed to be that Eddie was desperate to make Jericho tap out, even if it was at the detriment to his team. 6 months of shmozz booking later and we never got the blow off. Jericho in general has been really frustrating. The Inner Circle transforming into the JAS hasn't really presented anything different. I thought they'd be doing a sort of mock style, playing up all the tropes of WWE with a little wink and a nudge but it's really just Chris, Sammy and Hager doing the same thing but with a different tag team to take the falls along the way. They paid big money to PAC to do not much of anything. They bring in Miro, Black and Andrade as 'under utilized' guys from WWE. Now, I've argued the position of "Not everyone has to be world champion" but these three should be doing a hell of a lot more than they have been. Are Miro and Andrade even with AEW anymore? They were building Jade Cargill into a star. I actually applaud the work they did with her up to around 30 or 35-0 but the last few months have been pointless. Why is she not the #1 contender for the Women's title? Why do the likes of Baker, Storm, Saraya etc not go after this title? You have FTR with the AAA, NJPW and ROH titles but never pull the trigger to have them holding your titles as well? Even for a short term run? How do you miss that opportunity? You build Wardlow turning on MJF pretty perfectly. Then what? Buying ROH seemed like an opportunity to create a developmental brand with a bit of history/legacy. Why is it popping up on AEW TV and not as one of the weekly YouTube shows? It seems to be a common theme in AEW - The build/chase is done fairly well, if not excellently, but then there's no follow through. No plan for what happens next. When you have a roster this stacked you want to make sure everyone gets some shine, sure, but at the same time you can't have people wandering aimlessly for weeks/months while you work out what they are going to be doing.
  12. It's something my wife has noticed about Samoa Joe in AEW; The amount of sweat he drips when he puts people in a chin lock. She's joked that it should be his finishing move. Just grabbing them and dripping sweat on their faces until they give up.
  13. Having watched the OSW boys go back over this era, I'm more concerned with the uncontrollable sweat this man produced.
  14. We laugh but Sami vs Logan Paul, or even Sami/KO vs the Paul Bros, would be a huge deal. Casual friends of mine LOVE Logan Paul in WWE. He's getting people to check things out.
  15. Don't know what happened there but can't seem to fix it on my phone... Anyway I think you could have had a Sami v Cody title match that would mean just as much as (if not more than) Cody vs Roman. I have next to no interest in seeing Cody end this run. He absolutely does not need it.
  16. I would have gone with Sami vs Cody at Mania.
  17. Cody winning the title and Roman losing the title are not one and the same story. Sami/KO vs Uso and Cody vs Roman doesn't feel like the culmination of THE biggest story WWE have had since the Yes Movement.
  18. I think that he's cooled off because he is main roster ready. Nobody expected Waller to really be a threat so the investment isn't there Bron probably should have come up in the Rumble and maybe won a spot in the US Title Chamber.
  19. Episode 3 is an all timer. Brilliant from all involved. Re: "1 season per game" I wonder if season 2 is going to be Joel and Ellie between TLOU and TLOU2 and then season 3 is the Abbie arc. VERY interested to see how far they deviate (if at all) from that story given the huge backlash over the game.
  20. That's actually pretty awesome. Single fall matches or elimination style?
  21. I wanna say it was... Gulak? that pitched the idea that the cruiserweight belt being defended in 2/3 falls only. Just to try and give it something other than "little man" belt.
  22. Jeff Hardy is right there for him to see his future if he keeps doing this. For all his influence and power I hope Sting isn't sitting by and letting this happen, or worse, ENCOURAGING it. He needs to be slowing Darby down or talking to Tony and getting Darby re-booked as a special attraction that only works a few matches a year.
  23. This sounds like a very different stipulation for Le Sex Gods...
  24. If I'm WWE I pivot big time and put the title on Sami here.
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