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Just Dave

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  1. I really enjoyed that show. I'll go into more detail later.
  2. I get the sense that Keith Lee getting medically cleared from week to week isn’t a given. Covid did a number on him.
  3. After getting some sleep & sobering up, the layers to this cm punk return are massive and fascinating. It doesn’t look like any of wwe’s talent were smartened up, and while I think Seth was working at the end of the broadcast, there’s a lot of bad blood to be worked through. I know Cody has said several times that he didn’t leave AEW over cm punk, but Cody’s also the guy who told the “locker room leader” story to a room full of wrestling fans. I don’t think there’s any love lost between those two guys. WWE is clearly a different animal than AEW, in that they have the corporate structure necessary to insulate themselves from the trouble punk is gonna bring eventually. There’s no downside for the Fed, other than annoying their top guys.
  4. The Alma Mater fought their tails off against the #1 team in America. It felt like one we could've had. Ma Tech is proud of her sons tonight.
  5. That would depress the shit out of me, because then I'd have to pay attention to WWE's product.
  6. Of all the viewpoints, this is one. Tony improved his team when big name free agents were available. That's what competent sports GMs do. Black thanked TK later for not releasing him when he asked. I don't buy that tons of AEW guys are unhappy. Maybe Andrade. And that dude is never happy. I give Phil a year before he's storming the Impact Zone because he ran afoul of the wrong people in WWE. You can't reward bad behavior like WWE just did. A pop in Chicago isn't worth taking a big creamy shit in your own locker room. Tony should sign Mustafa Ali and bring Mercedes and Ronda around the women's division. That's a trade that's more than worth it. Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck Phil.
  7. Trust me, if you could get in trouble for that here, I’d be on death row…
  8. I’ll review the actual ppv later, but right now I just want to say that in 1996 my dad took me to the Omni for my first wrestling show. It was Nitro. Sting wrestled on that show. Last night, my dad, my son and I sat together and watched Sting on pay per view. My son, who’s 3, loves to yell “big boys fight!!!” during the show. It was a blast.
  9. I think the issue is that the overarching melodrama only works if you give a shit about the characters involved, and I question whether or not the appetite is there for a Kenny & the Jackson’s as Roman and the USO’s tribute. I think there was 4 years ago, tbh. Now it doesn’t really feel like the company is built around the Elite anymore. But, if it’s choosing between this or having them hold all the belts for another year+ and driving the show into another season of “pretense wasteland,” I’ll take this 10/10 times.
  10. Moxley books his own stuff, presumably. Can't remember him doing anything that stupid. Yeah, parts of this show were great. The EVPs (?) getting to book themselves as Bruiser and the Brodie's wasn't one of those parts. That street fight really needed Ospreay or Guevara to bring something different. That Hangman/Swerve segment is an example of shit you won't get anywhere but AEW in a good way. I dug the opener and that Mariah May segment, too.
  11. I was coming here to post that. I don’t think that was the original plan but Cole’s extended IL trip would facilitate an audible. I think the worst possible outcome (but maybe also the funniest?) would be the members of Retribution that aren’t under contract anymore. Ali, Shane Thorne, tafka Mace, & MMart…
  12. Joke's on you. I used the shutters to start the bonfire I lit when the Jacksons lost...
  13. You know if you're my HOA president you have to say you are, right? I'm pretty sure that's how the law works.
  14. I really wondered for a second if the Jackson’s were gonna get to book themselves to go over 2 on 3 vs. three of the scariest looking dudes I’ve ever seen. Seems there is a modicum of Justice in this world…
  15. I would've never thought of this, but now that you've said it I'm gonna be livid if we don't get it at some point.
  16. I can tell you what it wasn't; Wrestlemania 27. The first AEW Dynamite in Atlanta was pretty dope. The energy felt more like a rock concert than a wrestling show. AEW was new enough that everything they did still had that counter culture energy. I am, at heart ,a contrarian, so I loved being amongst my people. The fact that it was an absolute banger of a card also helped. Tag Team battle royal (even though it was won by the Jacksons), Omega/Hangman vs. the Lucha Bros, Jon Moxley vs. Jeff Cobb, and Cody moonsaulting Wardlow off of the steel cage... all dope. Mox came right by our section on his entrance. Everything about that show ruled. The return trip to Atlanta (Gwinnett, but close enough) sucked ass. I shouldn't say that. I got a Punk match and a Danielson match. But Cody was fully on his bullshit by that point and he insisted upon going over Andrade in a street fight. Just nowhere near as fun. I did get to boo Adam Cole, which was great. There was a handful of guys in the next section over who looked like they were gonna post very angrily online when they got home because some guy called Adam Cole "black and gold bitch" in front of them. I won't venture an actual guess as to who on this board I think that was, but we all know I'm thinking it. I'm looking forward to AEW's next trip through here. Honorable mention; Indy Megashow "Come Hell or High Water" here in Atlanta. First time I saw "Stroke Daddy" Starks. I got to see Mil Muertes live, who is a favorite. Met Tony Schiavone. Saw Matt Cross. Thunder Rosa. Hangman Page. Was a good time.
  17. Really dug the part of the show I saw. Will finish tonight. I also really like the “MJF reaping what he’s sown” thing going on. I always hate when a heel turns babyface and all the other baby faces magically forget what a piece of shit the turned heel used to be. MJF still doesn’t have any friends except adam Cole, who may or may not be plotting against him. Nick Wayne looks like the dude who sang that “Rise up Ting Ting” song that was in every movie trailer for like 4 months. Or Matt Rife’s equally mundane brother.
  18. I do wonder why Matt Cross didn’t get picked up for the roster. That dude was on the run of a lifetime when AEW started…
  19. I was really looking forward to seeing FTR beat up two of the guys from the Key & Peele “football player names” sketch, but HOB coming back was good, too.
  20. Will be ordering. So, since my search function is being a shitheel, and since this is about more than just a merch item, I'll post it here; TK has figured out what to do with the surplus Nyla Rose and Hangman figures warming the shelves across the country. His "1 million dollar toy giveaway" is cool, because needy kids getting stuff is never bad, but it's also a way for him to write off an additional million dollars in donation rather than just liquidating them. Just made me chuckle. Also, be on the lookout for fresh AEW toy product on the shelves. I've scored several new ones in the last few weeks. The top of my want list is; Adam Cole (need someone to job to my other figs) Samoa Joe Danhausen Hook Shawn Spears Brody King The Bunny Kip Sabian Butcher Blade They should all be hitting shelves soon. Good hunting.
  21. I guess I just differ in my fundamental desire for what a midcard title is and should be, because my first thought when I read this was; "so?" Like, is that what the IC Title is supposed to be? I've always thought that if every title were equally as prestigious as every other, there's no point in challenging for one over the other. Gunther is awesome because he's awesome. He didn't need a midcard title to legitimize him. Idk, maybe I just don't have the sentimental attachment to that title that some others do. Like, not every title needs to be prestigious.
  22. Is there a separate AEW merch thread?
  23. I dig the squashes, fwiw. We’ve been conditioned as an audience for so long to think every match has to be between two stars, yet at the same time get upset when there isn’t a clean winner and loser.
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