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  1. 9 minutes ago, Technico Support said:

    They had Roman unify the belts, but then made a new belt with brand new lineage because Roman didn't work that much, right?  I hope I got that straight, I don't really watch WWE.  This whole thing is nuts and I just want titles to mean something and make sense, in general.  Anyway, what title has lineage back to Bruno?  Or is it none of them? 

    I believe the title Cody has now has the WWE, WWE World Heavyweight and Universal lineage. It’s all of them. 

  2. I don’t think the crowd will turn on Cody for the same reason they didn’t turn on Bryan: they witnessed the struggle, the departure, rebuilding himself and climbing back to the top. It’s the same reason the crowd never turned on Austin or Foley.

    With Roman, Cena, and eventually even Hogan, there was never that initial struggle for the fans to build their support behind. They got turned on.

    I don’t think they have to worry about it with Cody.

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  3. Is it weird that I’m actually far more captivated by what’s next for Roman than I am Cody? He’s Thanos after he’s retired and is now living as a farmer. He has to now know that the Shield breakup a decade ago is at the root of all of this and he has to get right with that, somehow, or he’ll never truly be at peace even though he has conquered it all. How does that happen? I’m fascinated by how his next stage translates to wrestling. 

    There’s like an Old Man Logan arc in there. They have to figure out how it translates to the ring.

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  4. 2 minutes ago, _MJ_ said:

    I'm not a big Cody guy but considering the old school babyface he's playing, I think a lot his run is going to be determined by the quality of his rogues' gallery of heels during his run. If they aren't interesting and doing interesting things to him, his act could get stale. I wonder who they have lined up (minus the Rock).

    This is a great callout and something they have really struggled with in similar spots in the past (Bryan getting Kane immediately comes to mind, but there are other examples). 

  5. Roman/Sami is the best one

    It’s kind of interesting. The title run and Bloodline stuff ran from 2020 to 2024. I’d argue that Roman and the group were at peak powers at Wargames 2022, which is almost exactly halfway through. So it almost really was a four year long tale of the rise and fall. A nice bell curve there.

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  6. 5 minutes ago, odessasteps said:

    If someone from the other company was going to magically appear, shouldn't it be Dustin? 

    That’s who I thought it was at first when we saw the glimpse of the tattooed arm under the ring (looking back it was obviously Solo). 

    But yeah not in the current situation. Waters are too hot. In an ideal world they do it and throw AEW a bone of getting a Ricochet/Ospreay match or something 

  7. 5 minutes ago, Craig H said:

    I fucking love wrestling. When it’s good there’s nothing better (except my Cubs winning it all and anything with my kids) and when it’s bad, all you want is for it to be better. Pro wrestling motherfuckers.

    Here here, in all its glorious forms.

    How blessed are we that we get these big budget Hollywood summer action epics (WWE), prestige television (AEW) and Indy A24 type stuff (indies, puro, lucha) all at the same, widely accessible time like this.

    Like I mean shit between Mania, Dynamite and Rampage this week I got to watch Endgame and two episodes of Shogun. Shit rules.

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  8. Just now, blitzkrieg said:

    If you're a social media star and Logan Paul invites you to a WWE event, just say no.

    If putting streamers through tables is the new Pete Rose bit, 1) I am game for it and 2) that goober MrBeast needs to be taking a stunner next year 

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  9. Hey man we gotta talk about the absolute geek of the millennium Seth Rollins though. Between the build up, the tag match last night, his own match, his big main event run-in being a comedy bit non-starter where he didn’t even get a move in.

    Holy moly. My man Seth is down bad.

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  10. Now THAT was more like it. What a giant heaping helping of sports entertaining. Hell yeah. 

    This whole thing ruled. Snoop’s commentary. Speed in the suit. The cash in. And yeah that main event was the epic Avengers Movie spectacle it was supposed to be. 

    WWE at its best right there. No one does this kind of stuff like they do. 

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  11. Just watched. 

    Man, I wasn’t feeling this one at all and I hate that. Last year’s Night 1 was one of the best, most entertaining wrestling shows I’ve ever watched. This was…not.

    Everything sans the IC match felt run of the mill. This was missing all the fun of stuff like the Jackass match.

    If last year was 14, this was 15. If last year was 17, this was 18.

    15 is a good comp IMO. A miss of a show during an otherwise hot run. Philly curse?

  12. It’s a shame they combined the Continental into a single belt, because the world needs the aesthetic of Okada walking out in a boss ass suit dripped out like Ultimo Dragon, while Matt and Nick channel their Cutler and stooge their ass off for him.

    I wasn’t sure about debuting him as a heel but I was dead wrong. This act rules, and then just imagine the (hopeful) Omega confrontation leading up to Wembley. Oh man. 

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