For Great Justice

I’m out on the Codyverse. Coach TK my man, I get this is supposed to be some sort of meta high art thing where I, as the mark, get mad at Cody (the dude? The character?) because he continues to play babyface regardless of the reaction, because Cody is above you telling him to fix his shit creative. But, dude, you’re the boss and it isn’t working - so like, in real life, tell him to fix his shit creative. Its so off brand for AEW. Just stop.

I am pants free after connecting the obvious dots

I like that AEW has an established hierarchy so that when a guy finally breaks through it means something, but man I really wanted Hobbs to get that win last night

Don’t see how we are getting this match already. I mean we skipped right past the “no easy way out” montage AND the “take it back” montage?

Hangman is Magnum TA. I think I’ve seen that comparison once or twice but I’ve never realized how perfect it is. I’m excited to see what Magnum winning the belt off Flair and getting a run would have look led like!

It’s amazing how Omega and Reigns had kind of lapped the field for wrestler of the year, and then here comes Danielson like a tremendous machine to close the year with 3 months to go. And he’s had incredible matches with both those other guys! I’d like to think that “let’s go!!” hulk up during one of the final strike exchanges was Bryan Danielson, babyface character, but a big part of it is Bryan Danielson, dude, being geeked out as hell that he’s doing this right now.

We have matches of the year, wrestlers of the year, whatever else. This is my leader in the clubhouse like fucking Secretariat for move of the year. The sound!

My God I needed to smoke a pack after Bryan / Suzuki and I don’t even smoke. Holy shit!

If he were booking the Jags I’d like to think it’d be on a laminated Waffle House menu that he holds over his mouth at gorilla

Dead gummit I couldn’t resist and now that’s one of those things I really wish I hadn’t clicked on (Twitter comments especially). Don’t do it guys!

I've always thought that following around El Hijo del Santo in The Wrestler-esk fashion would make a fascinating reality show. Legend, son of a legend, still going at 58 while doing pop up shows at *checks Cagematch* Leonardo's Nightclub in LA and Westminster, Colorado in 2021. Dude's career arc is just crazy to me. And now I'm thinking Coach Tony K needs to book Santo vs. Sammy for the TNT title.

Carmelo cashing in made perfect sense yet I didn’t even think about it. Props there. Good match. Diamond Mine has quickly become a group of shooters that will stretch your ass and it’s great

I am loving all this and look forward to the joy and nostalgia I’ll have as I flip back and forth between both shows during the overrun on Friday night like I’m 10 years old again. That first Monday night TNA show with Hogan did the same thing for me, and that was terrible! Both Rampage and Smackdown are good shows and this will be awesome.

Yes! That’s the one! That’s the summit of Vince Russo Bullshit. It’s incredible.

Agree that CM Punk Is Just Happy To Be Here is right there with Oh Man Jungle Boy Looked Great And ALMOST Won as AEW things that just need to stop. Dan Lambert Thinks AEW Sucks For Real is hovering around here too, and I love the guy.

Right. It’s so cookie cutter low-tier reality TV that I was convinced it was a Bischoff Hervey joint. Especially when Bisch himself showed up. This is right up their shitty run of the mill alley.

Oh man the Nash/Goldberg “that wasn’t in the script” bit from right around this same time was the absolute worst shit I’ve ever seen.

Cody Bellinger Rhodes

Oh man, the next step next week for Hangman is to finally admit to the Dark Order that he needs their help, isn’t it. Shit I’m out of Kleenex

Can the TBS title be Deeb doing a TV champion Steven Regal shtick? Please? It’ll probably be Cargill and that will be great, but sign me up for Deeb giving the Prince Iauk….Skye Blue’s of the roster 10 minutes of hell for months on end and winning via banana peel.

So much joy. They’re giving us the okie doke with the masked guys in the limo and it isn’t Pinnacle, right?

I actually like the new Arn format as a month by month retrospective of his career, but yeah the “Conrad lazily reads the Observer while [SUBJECT] provides anecdotes” format gets very old very fast. It’s all the ESPN First Take of podcasting.

Tony Khan’s big announcements always crack me up in their lack of bigness. I guess it’s because we largely envision TK as “one of us” and maybe “above” carny promoter shit in some way, but dude totally pulls out the carny promoter bullshit from time to time. This isn’t even a criticism - it’s great. He’s a promoter after all.

Strap the rocket to Bron. He needs to go over Ciampa clean as a sheet with the recliner in three weeks.

Well in this particular case the Henry promo is a clear out as “well I guess I’ll win the match” Which reminds me of “he’s gonna TRY!” And man, someone called Best Friends + OC the mascots of AEW a few weeks ago and that’s spot on. If this were 2002 and I was making a Best Of AEW comp they’d be all over it. The heart and soul of the whole thing.