Phantom Lord

I thought tonight was a pretty good show. I thought Hangman's opening speech was pretty good. It was nice that no one interrupted it. But this is all he should have done tonight. The Death Riders should be no where near television right now. The trolling of The Young Bucks was great. Making their new entrance video look like a mid 90's screen saver was funny as hell. The eight man was solid though and I liked the teaming of The Bucks and Don Callis even though they said they would never join the Callis Family. Why did the 4 way women's match need a stip? This random $100k stip Tony Khan likes to do is just dumb. It's good for once in a while on a big show, but this was just so random. Okada's new presentation was cool. Looking forward to him vs. Swerve. The main event was good, but it should not have happened with at least Moxley and Hangman in the match. Set up that next feud with Hangman and MJF all ready. But it was cool to see Moxley scared of Darby. He survived Mount Everest so whatever Mox can do won't be enough.

I thought RAW was good tonight. I liked Heyman's answer to Jackie's question about Seth. "He's got till June to cash this in...". In the past they would just hot shot the briefcase off someone if they got hurt. So I guess Seth gets to stay Mr. MITB for the time being. Lyra vs. Bayley was a really good match. I like that the Lyra vs. Becky feud will continue. Nikkie Bella looked pretty good in the ring. Found it funny that she almost did the rack attack move that destroyed her neck. Even on twitter someone pointed it out to her and she was like it was muscle memory. The bit with AJ Styles praying had me laughing my ass off. "Don't listen to him God" The gauntlet was pretty good. I would have had Penta run the table only to run into Bron, but it worked with Bron beating everyone but Punk. Didn't think Roman would actually show up after the crowd was chanting for him. That was a nice surprise.

I wonder if Moxley does the old trick of loading up on aspirin. When he got him with the fork, that blood came out like water.

Triple A put the whole match on Youtube. I forgot how funny Santino was with his little mannerisms. But that part of the match had me rolling in laughter. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9S7kfPVHKaM IGUANA y LA HIEDRA vs SANTINO MARELLA y LOLA VICE

This was a very good show. I can't believe it went as long as it did. When it hit 8pm Eastern I was like "damn, this is a long show". But it didn't really drag which was nice. The only match I thought that made no sense was the tag title match. All though it's clear that was now just a set up for the post match stuff. Kenny vs. Okada was good. Not as great as their previous matches, but obviously they are older and Kenny has his issues. I figured Okada would win so it should be interesting to see where they go with this Unified title. The Texas death match for the AEW World title was everything i hoped it would be and than some. The main thing is Moxley lost and I hope this is a great reset for AEW and they can make positive strides. I hope Moxley is off tv for a while. Let him just recoop and relax for a few months at home. No more Death Riders...no nothing. Hangman should be a good champion this time around so I'm feeling positive about AEW for the first time in ages.

Yeah it's sad. The women deserve better than being the throw away show on a weekend of counter programming. Also didn't they know they were up against a Beyonce concert across the street when they booked the venue?

I'm rewatching parts of the Ozzy/Sabbath farewell show. I'm up to the Steven Tyler appearance and man does he sound good. Just a shame he can't do a full on out tour anymore. Halestorm delivered a really great version of Ozzy's "Perry Mason". It always surprises me how Lzzy Hale doesn't blowout her voice on some of the notes she does. Yesterday in the live chat people on the back to the beginning website people were shitting all over Axl's vocals. I thought he did well on Never Say Die. He picked a couple of hard songs to do in his limited range. Ozzy sounded good in both sets which was a plus.

I would like to see someone who hasn't gotten a shot at the Women's title win the battle royal. Those always make for the best story.

I watched RAW after it was over which was great since the replay has no commercials. I thought Sheamus vs. Rusev was the match of the night. I could watch them hit each other all day long. Judgement Day vs. New Day was good, but the heel vs. heel dynamic made it weird especially with Judgement Day wrestling as faces for most of the match. I was surprised they won though. But it's not like this New Day reign was setting the world on fire. Can't wait to see Gunther recreate Lord Steven Regal's match with Goldberg in a week. The El Grande Americano bit was great. I love how Ludwig has at least five inches on Gable which makes it even more ridiculous. I like the idea that maybe American Made were not in on it with Gable. Well, Ivy might have been but Brutus sure wasn't which made it funnier. Main event was also good. I love that the Sami/Kross feud will continue and Sami is always good as a face in peril. Overall a good match. Like I said, watching the show on delay is great. I saved an hour tonight.

El Grande Americano is too good to give up on just because Gable is hurt. I hope this show goes off without a hitch though. It's not a super great card, but I'm glad Karrion Kross is getting a big match on one of these things.

I thought RAW was all right last night. Penta vs. Bron was really good including that spear to end the match. Jade vs. Roxanne was all right. Roxxy is a slippery heel when she's stalling for time. I was a little confused by the ending when Jade powerbombed her and then was like "oh yeah gotta do my finisher". I'm looking forward to Sheamus vs. Rusev when that happens. GUNTHER cut a great promo against Goldberg. Dare I say we might actually see Goldberg get destroyed in his final match? Cody vs. Jey was good. Cody vs. Orton just seems like a blah kinda final though for the King of the Ring.

It sucks about Liv's injury. I don't think Kairi is at fault. It was just a freak occurrence when Liv planted herself on the mat. Man, I really hope Goldberg vs. Gunther doesn't go long. Goldberg was winded walking to the ring and it's pretty clear his knees are shot by the way he sauntered to the ring. Let Gunther destroy him and that will be that.

Hangman has to win. I mean I just might be done with AEW if Moxley were to retain somehow. It's almost a given that Toni is losing to Mone, but I just can't see Hangman losing this match.

The version of "What I got" Reprise version is infinitely better than the radio version with the shitty solo. This one has a much better solo in it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfxK0KX_ewM As for Dynamite, I thought most of it was a good show tonight. Didn't expect Okada to swerve everyone and join up with Don Callis. The Don Callis family is getting to Jimmy Hart Army in Memphis levels of membership. The new name for the Unified Championship sounds dumb...especially for two lower card title's. Swerve vs. Osprey started off slow but really picked up as it went along. I did like the post match beatdown even if Moxley is phoning it in right now. Later in the show the beatdown of Hangman Page was good. But again Moxley is phoning it in. They should change this world title match to a Texas Death match just to give them an excuse to use a lot of plunder and blood. I only made it up to Toni Storm's match. God I hope Mone doesn't win but I fear she will.

I just finished watching the show. I thought it was pretty good. Was annoyed with youtube putting random ad's into match, but aside from that it was fun to watch.