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This was the best wrestling moment/visual in ages and I demand it be made into a reaction gif ASAP.

Darby may be my favorite wrestler on the AEW roster... but you don't build around a guy who takes off several months to go climb a mountain during an important stretch for you. Treasure him when he's around, don't bury him or anything pissy like that but IMO he's probably gotta be out of "top guy" consideration for a while now.

If I am honest... I thought Continental champion Kingston was basically the worst version of him. Breaks my heart to say it but it showed that he really never should be the guy or be the dog that catches the car, without that chip on the shoulder he devolves into a tribute act and I don't need to see any more wrestlers doing shitty machine gun chops in the corner for the rest of my life. ...I really hope he comes back from his injury grumpy as hell.

So the only wrestling my dad catches is Monday Night Raw, mainly so that he has something to talk to me about (monday has been wrestling night since my childhood after all). Of all the wrestlers over the past decade or so, his favorites were Bray Wyatt and Braun Stroman likely because they remind him of different aspects of his all time favorite the Undertaker. He was bummed as hell when they both got fired, he was happy as hell when they were both re-signed if kinda annoyed they were on SD. Obviously very sad when Bray died. Braun gets traded to Raw, immediately gets neck surgery and misses a year or so, is in and out with injuries before getting traded back to SD. When I told dad his response literally was "we still have the big guy with the red beard, right?" as Rowan was part of Bray's group, and having the Wyatts Sicks around was the closest to having him back around. Now they still have this poorly explained non-draft around and the second actual move after moving Braun to SD is moving the Wyatts there as well. I just really want to know what WWE has against my dad and would like to ask them to please stop.

I feel I always come here and have to mention the one thing on the show that irked me... but the Death Riders running in at the end to jump both FTRCope and Team Jericho, only for the Outrunners to run in and have one attack a Death Rider and the other go after I think Bryan Keith really sums up why the main angle isn't working right now. If them being involved in a show closing brawl isn't AEW vs the existential threat but them as simply one group out of several, if the show itself doesn't treat them as a special extra-dangerous threat then why should anyone else? ...Hobbs wrecking fools was pretty cool.

I do sorta wish it was possible for Rush to be on team Death Riders, I think jumping people and making the beatings look unprofessional would play to his strengths tremendously.

This poll really needs a middle option. I'd have went yes earlier on to trending no now, but truthfully it's always been fluctuating around in the middle.

For whatever reason both Vince's WWE and AEW both felt like Black in a dark room backstage talking in riddles was a good use of him and... it wasn't. TBF at this point I believe his back is just damaged so whatever you get out of him you get out of him, and my gut feeling is that while he's a smart creative guy a certain percentage of his ideas aren't good, but for years in both places there was enough good there that they both did a poor job capitalizing on what they had. Here's to Hunter's WWE maybe figuring it out but again I wonder how limited he is now. Also IMHO the Dark Order is simply too damaged to rehab at this point.

My fear after she beat Starkz again last ROH ppv is that she's gonna be stuck in ROH until her title reign is at least a day longer than Roman's for the longest "major" title reign of the past how many decades as... well I'm not saying Tony is that petty but I wouldn't be shocked if he was. The thing is ROH has no real audience of note (my gut feeling is the random variance between AEW show's ratings each week is likely larger and is only considered statistical noise) and Athena getting as hot as she did while stuck there was a minor miracle in the first place yet there was already less excitement around her come Final Battle 24 then there was at 23. If she gets out by Mania week she'll be fine, if we are waiting another year or so I worry.

I guess I'll drop this here but... it was odd to end Athena's 2+ year unpinned (unbeaten?) streak on a NJPW preshow match, right? Like I know it wasn't clean but it was the first time I pondered if she's being kept down in ROH because they don't see as much in her rather than to anchor the company.

I mean Liv has clearly been elevated a great deal this past year, one can have issues with how the division has been booked (I do) but don't be silly about it. Was not looking forward to Hulk on this show at all but that was about the most enjoyable thing he's been involved in in years. Was a fine enough "event" show with the good and bad that entails but glad to be heading back to more regular ones next week.

Not a big Yota Tsuji guy I take it then.

You see you are looking at this sideways: this is clearly a Nana deal that Swerve went along with. Prince Nana dealt with Jimmy Rave having TP tossed at him for ages and would know how much it (kayfabe) drove him mad, so he gets to pay a bit of tribute to his fallen friend while also really ticking off Ricochet.

Billy Gunn too, although in that case I think it was just because he couldn't come up with anything else nice to say. But yes, it was a running joke in my friend group that every single black wrestler in WWE had great natural athleticism according to JR.

I just want to put this on record: I am waiting for Max to claim like 3 million views for Dynamite and Netflix to claim 10 million or so for Raw, streamers always claim the most absurd numbers so I am curious to see just how kooky they get.