For Great Justice

I guess the super show doesn’t need stakes to sell out and do a good number, but to me it feels like it needs stakes. Does it need stakes? Like the winning promotion gets a world title shot at the opposing promotion’s Fall PPV or something. And you could allow NJPW to run Okada/Danielson at Destruction as a result of that.

That is sooooo good. Awesome stuff.

Ethan Page checks a lot of the Owen boxes. Good tag guy, good IC/TNT-level guy, Canadian, backstage jokester

Oh yeah, Giulia/Jade is the biggest box office womens match not considering WWE that could conceivably happen

Oh dang. Vs. BCC. Oh my.

Can’t wait to see who BCC’s first real meaty feud is with. Quite a few options given their status as tweeners: JAS, House of Black, Kingston/PoP, Best Friends, heck even Dark Order. Shit now I want to see Danielson stooge for Silver’s hot tag.

Kevin Nash about to come in hot Also, if I know the internet like I think I know the internet, how on earth does Paul Wight have 2.5x the searches of Mandy Rose?

This or something similar would be a good kickoff event for the streaming service. You’d have to figure out how to make it work with NJPW long term, but a bundle of AEW/ROH/NJPW content gets you access to about…a million?…sticky die hard fans. If 75 percent of those subscribe, does 750k subs move the needle enough for an HBO Max (46m current US subs)? WWE Network at its peak was around 2 million at the time of the Peacock deal I believe. AEW clearly gets more out of a clean “AEW airs on NJ World in Japan, NJPW airs on AEW Network in the US” transaction than NJPW does, so they’d have to figure it out.

I mean we’re discussing this topic on a message board. Does anyone under 25 even know what a message board is? Reddit excluded, maybe. Lets face it, we’re all sitting around watching the local news / Andy Griffith Show back-to-back wondering what all the fuss about “the Metallica” is all about.

If OC is healthy you have to run the Yano match. 1997 era Jericho and Garcia vs 1997 era Yuji Nagata (w/ Sonny Onoo) and [pick a young lion] would be awesome too. Time to bust out Starrcade 95.

Jose The Assistant being sneaky jacked was a highlight

It will be fun to fantasy book the super show, but I’m not sure NJPW has the roster to really stack this with desirable matches. Once you get past Okada/Tanahashi/Naito/Ishii/Suzuki/White…..who else do I care about? I dunno. And their tag division absolutely sucks. Miro vs Ishii though please

It’s funny to me that for all the talk yesterday about athletes vs wrestlers that put it into a binary context, the main developmental feud is between a legacy athlete and a CZW guy

I will always appreciate Dave’s exhaustive work and dedication to pro wrestling, but it’s not debatable that his tastes shaped a view of what made good wrestling by the early internet wrestling community that absolutely sucked and led to the Johnny Kickpads generation. Shame on you Dave. Shit, appreciation for Sid / Mark Henry / Bunkhouse Buck / Dusty Rhodes is what drove a lot of us to DVDVR in the first place. Finally, sanity.

I’m not sure what the disagreement is here. It’s completely within the WWE’s right to revert to the formula of training sports athletes rather than poaching indies. It’s worked for them in the past and is a step up from underwear models of the mid aughts. There have always been and will always be veteran Indy-born guys on the card like Steamboat, Goldust, Rude regardless. I think it makes sense to target your developmental recruiting on the athlete types moreso than the Indy types. I unabashedly prefer NXT 2.0 over the Gargano/Cole/Ciampa era NXT though. Vince was 100% right that they product stunk and was contributing nothing to the main roster.

That Ezekiel/Owens/Gable segment was so good. Credit to all three performers for getting this thing over, because they are and it rules.

Amazing. Honestly Naitch could do a run in and hit that corner strike spot right now. That ruled.

Elevation main event was a good ol multigenerational time. Welcome back Angelico!

I also have Belair #1. Never would’ve thought that just a couple of years ago, but she’s like a Lex Luger that actually worked his ass off become an excellent pro wrestler. She’s really incredible. Belair / Hayter please

I didn’t realize Singh is legit from Punjab. They really should have had him debut by throwing a shirt at CM Punk

I had no idea Gresham is that tiny. I’ve met Joe and he’s a legit 6’0. Jeez.

Thank God for that heel turn

AEW really isn’t great at booking women after they lose the title. Riho was left twisting in the wind, Shida twisting in the wind until the Deeb feud and now Baker doing nothing.

I love it that the Acclaimed are in AEW’s post show dark stuff spot. Like, the fans won’t go home fully satisfied without seeing them. Really feels like they are in that still-early heel New Day / New Age Outlaws phase where they are a hot feud and face turn away from the top of the division for a long time.

To reinforce wins and losses mattering, I’m hoping to see Shawn Dean get a TNT title shot on TV soon. Would add more gravitas to these MJF losses.