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When I mentioned (over in the AEW News thread) how the announcers never specified when the casino gauntlet winners would get their title shots, the thought did occur to me that it might because they were going to handle them MitB-style. But I didn't mention that, because I didn't want to put such a horrible thought out into the universe. So, you know. Thanks, Dolfan.

The problem I see with that is I don't think Thekla is established enough to do that. I mean, she had all of one match in AEW before facing Aminata. As I may or may not have explicitly said a while back when discussing Anthony Bowens's match with Blake Christian and Kenny Omega's earlier match with Alan Angels - in my opinion, if you're established as a top act, giving a lot to an lower-tier character is a great way to help build that character up. But if you're not established and the office is trying to build you to a higher level, then doing the same is just counter-productive. In this specific case, my assumption from her debut was that they wanted to establish Thekla as a big deal quickly. Giving her a much more one-sided match against Lady Frost than most of the women get against Frost contributed to that. But then having her go fifty-fifty with somebody who's well established as a bottom-carder kind of puts the brakes on it. (I mean, I know Aminta has beaten Julia Hart once. Does she even have a second win in AEW?) If they wanted to build Aminata up, I think having her stand up to Megan Bayne (with some success) would be a better way to do it. Megan's not in the top echelon yet, but they've done an excellent job presenting as an awesome force even after she lost to Toni. She has enough credibility with the AEW audience that she can afford to give Aminata a rub, whereas Thekla in my opinion doesn't yet. (Bayne also regularly annihilates jobbers, sometimes two at a time, so having Aminata credibly fight back would provide a good contrast, leading the audience to conclude that Aminata is not just a jobber.) I hadn't seen anything of Thekla prior to arrival in AEW either, but I must say I was pretty impressed by her debut. She looks cool, has some neat spots, and oozes charisma. I think her ceiling's pretty high. So if you want to take my earlier analysis with a grain of salt on the basis that I'm something of a Thekla mark, well, fair enough.

A thought I just had: not that WWE Speed means anything, but that belt's lineage just got wacky with Gable on the shelf and Kaiser walking around in the gear. Do they have him drop the belt to the next tournament winner, or have him hold onto it?

Cool seeing OVW's J-Rod as Nikki Nashville. I believe she's one of the American Gladiators as well.

I suspect the hesitancy with Aminata is her perhaps too snug at times offence. It’s hard to see any other glaring flaws. She looks and carries herself like a proper star. Reactions are good - especially considering her win/loss record. Having a mouthpiece could help.I think she’s far more ready to be elevated than many of her greenhorn contemporaries-Julia, Sky, Anna, Jade etc. I like the caution with mega-pushing another stardom signee. Not to say Thekla ends up in WWE at the end of this, but who knows. Whatever the case, I hope they never allow a wrestler in the last year of their contract to directly shit on an entire division in their promos while defeating everybody in said division ala Mariah. I wish they would have let Willow handily defeat her on the way out.

Very interesting trios match that's suspiciously quick after Hangman's big win. Feels like there has to be a big story pivot coming with Hanger, Mox, or both.

I starting to get the feeling Swiatek may be pretty good.

If you're a Channel 6 subscriber you can read Spencer interviewing Samoa Joe about Warhammer 40k https://channel-6.ghost.io/samoa-joe-talks-warhammer/

Yes! Thank you for establishing that right away. Bob Seger rules and I won't be hearing otherwise.

I like Aminata a lot and to me that's 100% what this is doing. She's needed something like this, and because she's already established a bit and over with the AEW diehards while Thekla is brand new I think it's helping Thekla too as an initial program to get off the ground. It elevates Aminata while establishing Thekla. Definitionally good booking all around, as long as nobody gets killed in the matches!

Are they all coming back to Hawkins for their 10 year high school reunion?

https://sportshub.cbsistatic.com/i/2021/08/04/e8cb8f7a-34f7-4e61-90a2-900708824554/aew-pizza-cutter-dominos-nick-gage-1277449.jpg?width=1200 I remembered.

First teaser for season 5. First half debuts November 26. Second half debuts Christmas Day. Yes, Eleven looks like she's in her 30's in this thumbnail.

Should note, Google is saying that there was an over 500% increase in searches "adopting dogs near me"

After the Hunt Directed by Luca Guadagnino Julia Roberts, Ayo Edebiri, Andrew Garfield, Michael Stuhlbarg, Chloe Sevigny

On a long and lonesome highway, east of Omaha, you can listen to the engine moanin' out his one note song. You can think about the woman or the girl you knew the night before... You know, sometimes these threads can be hard to write, especially on inconsequential weeks where nothing really happens... I mean, I can't even see how they filled that video! Good job on the editors! But your thoughts will soon be wanderin' the way they always do, when you're ridin' sixteen hours and there's nothin' there to do, and you don't feel much like ridin', you just wish the trip was through... I kid of course. The biggest show of the year for AEW delivered in spades! And diamonds, clubs, and hearts! As you needed everything in the stadium to finally end the Mox Reign of Terror! And the end of several other big streaks and factions as well! (Poor Christian... at last he's on his own. ) At the end, we were all Swerve: That said, I never want to see Swerve smiling again. Here I am on the road again... There I am on the stage... Here I go playin' star again... There I go, turn the page. As we now enter AEW's Era of Good Feelings, let's see what's on tap for today as we begin to look at a certain door again. One they said was forbidden... With MJF winning Money in the Bank or whatever AEW calls their briefcase, I'm sure his goofy ass will show up to. But, the page has been turned... (Note - arguing the Metallica version is superior is a bannable offense.) Enjoy the week!

that is a pretty glorious rant and i enjoyed it a lot. I don't know how somebody could miss the entire point of every character and scene, but i did enjoy his exasperation of how much this movie was "bad". he doesn't use the word "woke", but expresses all of the hallmarks. Some highlights of his rant: But his biggest complaint is that Superman gets beat up. He thinks Superman should dominate every fight and flirt with Lois and be coy about it, and that's pretty much it. No other superheroes, either. He wants the 1955 Superman TV show back.

It does make you wonder what kind of remuneration CMLL is getting to allow such uncharacteristic behavior by the company.

HOT STOVE~! The Royals are trading to get Adam Frazier back from the Pirates FEEL THE RUSH~!

Let us not forget that the pizza cutter was used during a picture-in-picture ad break for Domino's Pizza (or was it Papa John's?). Hilarious.

Boy I thought half of this movie was pretty awful and the other half was really cool. Honestly it wasn't until Jimmy Olsen's part was unleashed that I started to enjoy myself. I haven't read any online discourse about it until coming to this thread. Loved the cast though. I think this may be one of my favorite characterizations of Superman/Clark. It felt a little like Clark from Smallville but he went to college and got cooler. I think it felt more akin to the 60's Batman show in terms of tone and I'm not really against that - I just wish it was smarter in executing some of its gimmicky moments.

To follow up on this - Mara Junot confirmed on Twitter that she would be returning as Ikora "very soon"

That's right, Chris Jericho vs. Nick Gage was on TV. A pizza cutter was used and yes, you remember rightly, a pane of glass. It's the only TV match I can remember using a pane of glass. I think the only other AEW match which involved a pane of glass was Sting's retirement match with Darby Allin vs. The Young Bucks. No others come to mind.

More specifically the ending of the match and that his speech was cut out so early. Which I don't know is really WWE fault unless you want to blame them for not telling NBC that there will be a 5 to 10 minute overrun. Which they probably can't do I thought the whole "I had to apologize to Gunther for laughing at his chops" was more interesting. I can't tell if Goldberg basically exposed that Gunther chops aren't as horrible as we thought or Gunther kept it lighter than usual and Goldberg thinks that he works his chops