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We all spent the whole “Swerve on the table” segment looking for you but he was right in front of you so I only saw you before hand. also, blaming you for this.

I don't really give a shit how it affects business or bringing in new fans or whatever jackoffs who get paid to stir up angry clicks think. I'm just glad it happened.

Nothing good comes of paying attention to Bix

Mox gave up a well-deserved vacation in order to keep shit stable when Punk (-ass bitch) crashed out, and never got back around to taking it. Unless you count rehab. Mox is legit the MVP of AEW, for real. As someone else said, if AEW has a HOF, he is first ballot.

Please don't tell Jon Moxley that.

If somehow Shawn Spears does actually have some kind of clout and used it on getting his wife hired instead of on 'not getting booked to look like a total dipshit' then he should go in some kind of wife guy hall of fame.

Preach it. One show "elevates babyfaces" by having the heels take 90% of the match, only to lose by interference. The other show sends their heel world champion out to get fucking obliterated clean as a sheet by the upcoming babyface in under a minute. Another reason why I love MJF's work: he gets it 100%. He could give a shit about being a "cool heel," because this is where the money really is.

Loved Dynamite but only thing on my mind is Brody and the chant. Him standing there with that going on was fucking king-sized. I appreciate that TK is not reactionary on things and MJF will likely win so the story beats keep going on. But fuck it give him the title, let him go on shows and see if other crowds follow suit. You can still find a way to have the other contenders factor into everything and it'd also be nice seeing a mainly tag wrestler (in AEW) work his way up to this spot. EDIT: Didn't want to make a new post so I'll just add it here. I know they're not perfect and it almost feels like it doesn't need to be said. But I can't say enough how grateful I am that AEW not only exists but allows this to happen. They don't need to make company statements or branding or whatever and it feels like it just organically happens that way. I love that. Also, if you got a group that's working on things to help this country I'd recommend sharing that clip with some context to them. I did that just now and it got a good reaction.

Most of us here at the DVDVR have been watching wrestling long enough to see what is going on, but to people raised, only knowing WWE style booking, what is going on in AEW must be fascinating and hard to understand. To be one of AEW's main event level top guys, you have to be able to go out in that ring an put over other people. You have to "make" others. It isn't about "looking strong" constantly. If you're going to be a top guy in AEW, you're going to get squashed by Brody King. You're going to tap out to Kyle O'Reilly. You're going to put over Andrade. You're going to put over Red Velvet.

Gabe Kidd is the character in a Guy Ritchie movie who never shuts up and ends up getting headbutted by Vinnie Jones.

I just got home from the show. It was " FUCK DON CALLIS!" "FUCK ICE TOO!"

Have fun. I hope Mark Davis uses you as a melee object.

Keep an eye out for me. I'll be third row ringside behind the announcers desk.

Clearly, the solution to all of this is for fans to just chant that every match no matter who is wrestling.

Yes, that Intercontinental Championship is awful. Bring back the classic Intercontinental Championship design. Penta is made for WWE with all that you say but he still annoys the fucking piss out of me with the taint spamming. I'm keeping that autocorrect in.

I’ll write more later but it was a blast in person. Immaculate crowd vibes. Also Daniel Makabe texted the guy sitting next to me to say how cool my Alexander Otsuka shirt was so I am king of nerd prom

My 15 year old nephew just got home from baseball tryouts and he's now officially a High School ballplayer. He's been playing in Little League and competitive leagues since he was six. I coached him for seven years, starting with coach pitch. He spent the last few months going to school early every day for voluntary strength conditioning training, and tryouts were every day after school the past week. When he walked through the door an hour ago in uniform, I burst with pride.

There's a difference between being a sicko and being a piece of shit. As an AEW fan I consider myself a sicko. Would I harass a wrestler on social media? No, that's piece of shit behavior.

I went to the Smackdown? where Eddy Guerrero won the battle royal that led him to his World Championship win during a snowstorm. So few people showed up that they let us move down to the floor. After the show, Eddy walked down the aisle, shook our hands, and thanked us for coming out during the storm. That's probably my #1 live show moment. I was also at the Dallas Takeover where Shinksuke Nakamura debuted against Sami Zayn, which is probably the best match I've seen live. I've been to two Wrestlemanias, Atlanta and Dallas, Summerslam in Brooklyn, and quite a few Raws, Smackdowns, an AEW taping, and an NJPW America show.

This. There's absolutely a difference between "I hurt myself in your ring, that shit shouldn't count against me" and "please don't count these dates against me as I go back on the road with my vanity project Stryper tribute band to keep my never-ending midlife crisis going."

Come on guys, don't be so down on it. What if Hangman loses, wins the TNT title, claims there's really no #2 belt and that the TNT title is equal to the world title, and then Hangman gets his own storylines, totally separate from the rest of the company? I await Hangman getting a horse head tattooed on his neck and cutting promos about how he ended sexism.

The Continental title should just be a damn trophy that's presented to the winner of the CC, just like the Champions Carnival or the G1.

Cassie Lee and Jessica McKay debuted at the House Rules show in Brisbane today. Posted by the AEW Twitter, and apparently post-match it was announced they’ve signed with AEW.

It's all subjective, but I'll say I feel the Bucks put on excellent, fun matches every single time. I have no desire to try to convince the anti-Bucks crowd of anything, but denying these guys are super talented is wild to me. I mean hell, Sting chose them for his final match. He probably knows something about wrestling.

I’ve been thinking about the TNT title switches and decided that not only do I like it, but I think having one belt that changes hands somewhat frequently is a good idea. There are too many long reigns, and especially for something like the TNT where it’s sort of the upper-midcard/main eventer in waiting title, there should be a group of a dozen or so at any time who can win it as their next step up the ladder.

I’ve survived nearly 30 years of trans discussion on the internet, so if there’s one thing I know how to do, it’s tap out for my own mental health when things get too absurd.

That "Fuck ICE" chant warmed my heart. No mic cutting, no announcers being told to talk over it. AEW crowds should make that a permanent thing, and not just when Brody is wrestling.

First wrestling event I went to was tail end of 74. I was 5 months old. Parent's dropped me off at my paternal grandparents place. It was Saturday which meant grandparents were going to the Gulfport Armory for a GCCW show. First one I remember was that first time Mid South ran Biloxi. So 81? Been to 1 WM. 2 WCW PPVs,Beach Blast 92 and 93. All I really want to do now is a trip to Mexico for a lucha event.

Quick random-ass thoughts I loved that one leg kickflip dive by Clon. If they wanted someone to do superhuman, crazy shit and get cheers, they picked the wrong guy to play Hologram. Nothing against the artist formerly known as Aramis, but the artist formerly known as Arez is just that much better. I could tell the gimmicked quarter gag was coming a mile away and it didn't matter. That segment was pro mahfuckin wrestling. Missing: Roddy. Reward: $15 gift card. Ah man, Penelope Ford can't catch a break. That sucks. But it does give us the female Skyscrapers, I guess. Team name: Death by Snu Snu. Swerve just being like, "fuck this shit and all my character growth, I'm a bad guy again" is a little lame, unless the payoff is him catching one more, monumental, final ass whooping from Hangman and coming back to his senses, triumphing after one final temptation by the dark side. That main event was tremendous. 8 stars, no notes. AEW is just so fun. This shit is a joy to watch. "Fun company where they have insane matches, cool stories, and ICE is not tolerated" vs "the company where the booker's wife was seig heiling at a fascist rally clapping along at the State of the Union this week.?" No choice at all, dudes.

I was front row for Samoa Joe vs Necro Butcher at ECW Arena and in the stadium at Wrestlemania 39 when Shane McMahon blew out his quad against The Miz, I feel like with even with everything else I have also witnessed at live wrestling shows, I've experienced the two greatest things I'll ever experience attending live wrestling. Oh, there was also that time I went to WCW World War III '98 and the biggest crowd reaction during the DDP vs Bret Hart main event was when someone in the upper deck unleashed a six-foot-long inflatable penis and that started getting passed around the entire upper deck for a good 2-3 minutes before security got to it. I've gone into detail here a few times, but I also made the Northern Michigan indie show where Terry Funk kept his commitment on the same night he was booked for a WCW PPV in Ohio, where he opened the show and then hopped on a plane down to Ohio to be live on PPV less than 3 hours later. Between getting to that one WCW PPV, attending multiple Midwest RAW/Smackdown tapings from 1999 through 2003, and original ECW any time they made a Michigan trip, I am pretty sure I damn near caught everyone significant American wrestler that wrestled between 1990 and 2003 on a major promotion level. And before I left Michigan in 2003 I had gotten out to some of the Detroit based indies during the time where future TNA stars like Chris Sabin, Petey Williams, and Eric Young were all getting their footing on the indies. Got to some PWG shows during the Reseda days, got to the first ECW One Night Stand and adjoining indie events that weekend in Philly/NYC, have been to 9 Wrestlemania weekends (both the big show and adjoining indies), have gotten out to AEW and GCW a few times since each started coming out to Los Angeles, and lots of random stuff here and there in-between, so have caught a lot of today's biggest names in the American scene, both currently on prime-time television and today's independent scene. I still need to get a Japan trip in some day, and I still need to either get down to Tijuana or fly over to Mexico City for some lucha someday, and somehow in all of the above I never actually got to see Hulk Hogan wrestle live (closest approximation is the Muhammad Hassan angle at Wrestlemania 21) but it's been a damn fine run. Oh, and my very first live wrestling experience was a Michigan indie running a high school gym in 1987 where I got to see Bobo Brazil wrestle. I feel like I have to be in a very small group of people that have seen both Bobo Brazil and Miu Watanabe wrestle live.

I got to see two transitional WWF World Champions defend their titles at the Pittsburgh Civic Arena. The Iron Sheik vs. Jay Strongbow in 1984 and Sgt. Slaughter defending in a cage against Warrior in 1991.

SRS sez that ROH is moving to doing tapings at a studio in Jacksonville as of this Sunday. Hell yeah studio wrestling!

That is exactly why we love Owen Hart so much. Looking at the envelope for a second and then just putting it in his jacket is *chef's kiss*

The best part of that gimmick was "Two Time Slammy Award Winner" Owen Hart didn't actually win the second one, he just showed up and claimed it

Nothing in puroresu is cooler than winning a tournament, and being handed a big ass brass trophy and a bouquet of flowers.

Davis absolutely gigged his hand. He actually set up Mox for that spot on the post earlier, but there was slight miscommunication, and Davis stopped short of hitting the post. Then they went right back to it, and Davis hit it. When he came back up, he was bleeding. I'm fully on board with him, push him to the moon.

Wrestling needs and Elon Musk manager gimmick. A guy who recruits stars and then makes them change their finisher and other things to because he says it will make them better but just causes them to lose all the time. Also will promise things will happen in the future but then nothing happens

One of them is married to Shawn Spears, so I've seen talk from non-reputable sources that he was headed back to AEW. People just like to shit on everything Coach Tony K does even when he makes a good move like a signing an established female team to beef up the women's tag division. I think it's jealousy because Tony Khan is living his dream owning his own promotion.

There's something about AEW Heel World champions, it happens with MJF now, and was in his first reign too, and it was happening with Moxley for most of last year. When they defend the World title in the main event of a show and win, the feeling you get at the bell is "Well, that was a waste of time". Like, you don't get that feeling that it was a lucky escape, you don't get the feeling that they're getting closer to losing the title (well Moxley you kind of did towards the end there, but there was months of defences that felt rote before that, all of the Cope stuff and so on). Brody winning the world title, holding it for a month and dropping it back to MJF would have been more satisfying than him just losing.

This is where folks need to adapt. If Quen cannot do that fast paced flippy style and stay healthy, then he needs to change how he works. Either get better at being a base, become more technical, more of a brawler - whatever. Wrestling is all about adapting.

To the questions "why was the white criminal with braids lumped in with the mostly minority heel group?" and "why was Farooq cutting a promo calling Savio a Mexican?" If you just stick to "Vince is a bigot," for those and many other answers, you'll usually be correct

I'm just trying to help.

And for my Jubilee debate prompt, I’ll start with, “Excalibur is the best commentator in pro wrestling and has been for the last 6 years.”

Wait, does this make Tommaso a "Transitional Ciampa?"

MATT FACT: Matt is a good egg.

No, that's what the product on the field is. Ba-dum-tiss.

If enjoying clips of talk show hosts being smug about wrestling being fake getting dropped by wrestlers makes me a bad person then call me Henry Kissinger because I love that shit.

He looks like a penis with ears

I’ve pondered this too. TK is allegedly a dyed-in-the-wool radical Lib. Like, how Phil was before he auctioned off his scruples. Anyway, I’d pull the trigger on this. Even if MJF wins the title back with the quickness…