Dolphman 3000

I think tomorrow night's going to be closer to Great American Bash 1991 where Flair was heavily advertised but then skipped town for WWE The caveat being there's 0% chance the ROH crowd turns on PAC-Claudio like the WCW crowd turned on Luger-Windham

Kenny implied during his post-show promo for the live crowd that he's following the Bucks in leaving the territory If the last we see of The Elite in AEW is this and then Kenny putting over Ospreay at Wembley, that's pretty cool. I can't see them showing up for The Phil Show at All Out.

I thought Perry's music was a subtle reference to Shawn Michaels using "Rhapsody in Blue" for a bit in 1992 before "Sexy Boy" was recorded

I've gotta wonder if Hannibal doesn't file lawsuit against WWE and Abdullah, if he eventually gets in with WWE a few years later - the Harvoni "cure" for Hepatitis C became widely available by 2014 He would have only been 31 then

This may not be the promotion for you

Tony confirms he wanted to charter Eddie on a flight back from Japan to work Claudio: https://411mania.com/wrestling/tony-khan-changing-everything-death-before-dishonor/ “I was hoping maybe even some possibility that Eddie could fly back to participate in Death Before Dishonor and then go back to Japan, and I certainly would have accommodated the travel if that was possible. It wasn’t possible."

Rush/Dragon Lee/Dominik forming a trios along with Rhea, and then Rush vowing to take Rey's mask would be good Rush vs. Rey in Mexico is a license to print money

Kingston could in theory make the 17-hour flight from Sendai, fight Claudio, and then make a 14-hour flight back to Nagano for his match on 7/23 I'm not sure if "you're winning the ROH title in New Jersey" is enough motivation for him to do that, but stranger things have happened

They've apparently licensed his likeness for a product line called "Savage Size"

Living Dangerously 2000 famously had nothing announced until the TNN show a couple days before

This might be the closest we've ever gotten to 3 continents having a 5-star match on the same day

Eddie Kingston has called out Shingo for a rematch at either All In or All Out

Ian Riccaboni Signs Multi-Year Deal with AEW Fightful Select reports that Ian Riccaboni has signed a new multi-year contract with All Elite Wrestling. Riccaboni has been calling the action for ROH and last night worked Collision and Battle of the Belts VII. He will continue to work Collision while Kevin Kelly is in Japan to cover the NJPW G1. He may also call episodes of Dynamite and Rampage when Excalibur needs time off. Riccaboni reportedly got “heavy praise” backstage for his work last night. He was actually offered the job full time when the show was announced, but didn’t want to do it full-time for family reasons and recommended Kelly.

Does Tony produce the commentators directly like Vince? Last night Ian shifted between sounding natural, and sounding exactly like shouty-Excalibur, and I'm wondering if that's because Tony's in their headset and they're just repeating what he's saying. The "Instant Classic" lines 10 minutes before the match had ended were annoying. Kevin Kelly was under JR's learning tree and would have been taught "ignore the idiot on the other end of the headset, but take into consideration what he's saying before rephrasing it" which is why Kevin sounds 100% natural in comparison.

Kingston-Shingo was fun

If you stick Ricky in Bullet Club Gold, that might actually freshen him up a bit He's got an Orton aura where fans are going to like him regardless of his face/heel dynamic

Tag match was amazing, Willow match was decent, Punk match blew Can't believe Liger flew over for a 20 second appearance David Benoit enjoying himself at ringside was cool Nigel channeling Heenan at the end of the tag match and frantically trying to call out the remaining time to the heels was great Ian/Nigel vs. Kevin/Nigel is going to be a big debate in the coming days - pros and cons to both