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  1. 1 hour ago, Matt D said:

    Outstanding work Matt. I couldn’t have summed it up any better: this belongs on THE comp. It reminded me of the WM 17 main event in how the storyline beats were baked organically into the execution and production of the match. Maybe even more organically than that. Truly an all time classic, in the top 0.001% of matches ever wrestled 

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  2. Storm/May was one of the 20 or so best matches I’ve ever seen in my life, the MOTY and the best feud ender since…shit, I don’t even know. Most wrestlers spend their entire careers dreaming of telling a story and having a match like that. My biggest congratulations to everyone involved in that masterpiece (in the very literal definition of the word).

    Elsewhere, Swerve has been so non-adjacent to the Death Riders thing for so long that I think this IS the start is the pivot. 

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  3. 15 minutes ago, hammerva said:

    Now that we are here who should win between Cena vs Cody.    We know that this isn't Cena's last match.  If he stays to what he said (which as a heel he doesn't), his final match will be around 2025 Survivor Series.   Do you give him a title run for about 6 months and then have either a Reigns or Cody win it back.  Or have Cody win and maybe create a Hogan vs Rock moment where Hulk was supposed to be the heel but he crowd wanted nothing of it and eventually Hulkamania came back at the end.  

    Yeah I think that’s the move. Cena drops it back to Cody in the Fall and we get a two month epilogue as babyface Cena culminating in a Cena-themed December PPV in Boston (or a stadium somewhere else) for the send off 

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  4. 2 minutes ago, Stefanie Sparkleface said:

    I'm on the verge of complaining about why building aesthetics have no character anymore, and why the simplistic sets of WCW's walkthrough entrance/diamondplate WCW Nitro set or WWF's neon tubing walkthrough or R-A-W cutout walkthrough were superior to anything in modern day because you could set those up and let the distinct characteristics of the building tell you where you are. But now everywhere is a soulless grey box if it's not covered in LED displays, so it doesn't matter.

    Oh yes. 100x yes.

    And this problem is bigger than just wrestling - indoor arenas of the 2020’s are the soulless, heartless stadiums of the 1970’s. 

    Yea, I understand standardization and how that benefits leagues and touring groups. But the world desperately needs the Camden Yards of arenas to kick start a revolution. Maybe the Sphere and the new Clippers arena are the start of that.

    Its awful. 

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  5. I will be very interested in seeing what they do with May after, presumably, Storm wins and this feud is over.

    The track record here is NOT good. Baker, Rosa, Hayter all fell off a cliff after losing the title and never successfully transitioned to a next hot story/feud.

    This happens on the men’s side all the time, too, though it isn’t as glaring. TK can write some killer chapters, but successfully transitioning from one to the next and having a full-blown book is very rare. 

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  6. How much fun was this show? Austin was red hot for everything! MJF/Hangman, the Harley video, a Baybe/Stat tease…this show rocked.

    My personal new favorite thing is the crowd singing the Hurt Syndicate’s theme song throughout the match while they murder dudes. And I haven’t bought a wrestling shirt in years but that yellow one is fire (and Buck Robley approved).

    They seriously have that vibe of “baddest ass dudes on the roster, for real” right now….which makes the whole Death Riders nonsense even more hilarious 

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  7. 2 hours ago, just drew said:

    I mean, I wonder if the price of talent has just gone up in general. Look at starting pitching in baseball; Guys are getting grossly overpaid relative to their output because that's what the market demands. I think salaries for wrestlers have gone up. We gotta re-calibrate how we judge what's "worth it" and what isn't.

    I agree. And Okada has been generally available. To keep the analogy going, Okada might be Kevin Gausman (not what he used to be, but healthy) while a guy like Adam Cole is Stephen Strasburg. Cole main evented Wembley / Strasburg won a World Series, so I think that analogy works. 

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  8. The thing I really like about Jacob Fatu is that he has that authentic dangerous vibe about him that someone like Sabu or Abdullah the Butcher had.

    You can’t teach it, and I was worried the glossy WWE production would ruin it, but it hasn’t so far. He’s one of those guys that sort of sticks out above/beyond the worldmaking of the show as a violent, dangerous dude.

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  9. Different tastes and all. I mean, agree Jey needs to deliver in a big singles match, and that’s a huge deal, but 2025 Arn Anderson just won the Royal Rumble. I think that’s awesome. 

    (Maybe Jey couldn’t lace up Arn’s boots, but Arn never yeeted with 60k people either…)

     

    (…though that would be amazing)

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  10. 13 minutes ago, blitzkrieg said:

    Is it crazy that Nikki Bella's return has gotten zero mention? Honestly I kinda want a Nikki/Roxanne match at Stand and Deliver.

    We probably should talk about this more given that Nikki turned into Shibata by the end of her original run. Not sure who I want to see in the ring with her but I’m in on a Grumpy Old Man Strong Style Bella run 

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  11. I’d be all for the Hurt Syndicate mercy killing the Death Riders, by the way.

    Like run a show long angle on Dynamite where to start the show somehow DR costs them the tag titles (Yuta stooging, e.g.) to [whoever]. Then run a flash angle where they clearly don’t know who they messed with, world title challenge accepted, flash title match for Lashley later that night, Lesnar/Cena Summerslam squash, new champ, Death Riders go away for a couple of months, Syndicate are your new top heel act with Swerve, Hangman, Omega chasing

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  12. Beating a dead, buried, exhumed and buried again horse here, but I have no idea what Tony is doing with this title / main event picture. And I can’t fathom the idea of having “time traveling cyborg returning from the glory days of AEW yore” Omega returning and….immediately assimilating back into a feud with Callis.

    Like what are we doing here?

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