For Great Justice

I think the feedback on Hangman's early defenses and the Archer/Kane comp are interesting. Hangman's run feels different in that there isn't that obvious program for the title going into it. It was always going to be Jericho->Mox, Mox->Omega, Omega->Hangman. Those were multi-month/year storylines and it's similar to how Baker/Rosa is clearly the end game for the women's title. I'm not really down with how Adam Cole got this spot. It doesn't feel organic, as much as it feels like "well the internet says Adam Cole is the next challenger". Hangman really needs an organic nemesis, and I don't know who that is until Omega comes back. I get that the answer is sort of the Bucks and Cole is with the Bucks, but it doesn't work for me.

JFC Tony stop tweeting

Looks like Revolution is starting to take shape now. Hangman/Cole, Sammy/Andrade/Darby, Punk/MJF 2 w/ Wardlow turn, Death Triangle / House of Black, PnP/JE, Kingston/Jericho, Rosa/Baker maybe and something for Cargill.

Oh yeah JR is ALL IN on Keith Lee. That’s his dude.

The transfer portal really is out of control

Seeing Lee and Gargano mentioned together reminds me that they COULD go down the black and gold invasion route that’s been discussed, especially with a rare on-screen TK segment potentially happening tonight to jump start it. With Hangman going over tonight and needing a challenger and with Punk/MJF presumably done, there really is no A storyline at the moment so the time is right to kickstart something like that, with Hangman/Cole and Sammy/Lee or some such at Revolution. Do I want to see it? Not really, I don’t think. But they have the talent capital now with those two + Cole/Fish/O’Reilly/Shafir and easy enough access to Kross/Moon/Scarlett to do it should they desire.

What we’ll get: Keith Lee in the qualifying match and a TK announcement about NJPW interrupted by Jay White or Ospreay What I want: Cody or Jericho sent on a 3 month excursion to WWE to work a Mania program and in return AEW gets Ricochet or Cesaro through DoN

I’d agree with this take. Tony is extremely effective as the internal voice of the viewer (“God I love pro wrestling” or “he just wore his ass out”), but not as the lead PBP guy. Like Tony is watching the show with you and reacting like we all are. He’s so good at that.

Kross is awful. If you want a less charismatic Mike Knox in your promotion just hire Mike Knox

Yep. And Tony quickly tried to cover his tracks after the initial “forbidden door” tweet, thus the rapid tweeting. It’s only not Lee at this point if Tony’s worked himself into a shoot and is feeling pressure to bring in a legit forbidden door talent from elsewhere to appease the masses.

The endgame is John Cusak discovering the portal into the Codyverse that dumps you out on the Jersey Turnpike

Whoever it is, please spare us the cliche “I was overlooked up north Brother” promo. “‘I’m free now.” “The boys in the back up there would be here with me if they could.” “It feels great to join the best WRESTLING COMPANY in the world.” I’m good without all that.

“Here Comes the Money” with Shane and Conrad, sponsored by ChiliSleep

Lee or Kross (ugh) would be most likely Shame he sent that last tweet, as I had visions of sending Jericho or Cody away for 3 months to work a Mania program while getting back Cesaro

We’ll have to wait and see who starts posting breaking out of prison videos on Twitter in a few days.

My man TK's track record on these ain't great. Y'all can go light Twitter on fire with Keith Lee or whatever, but I'll be over here hoping for the Monty Brown comeback

I get why they aren't doing the Hobbs ascent at the same time as the Wardlow ascent, but yeah I agree. He's a main eventer down the road.

you forget how talented Ricky Starks is. So much depth on the roster.

My gosh the Shane / Connor Roy parallel grows by the day. With Steph as Shiv (and not simply because they are females) and HHH as Tom, it really is perfect.

Mox turns Danielson down and starts his own stable with three young brawlers leading to Blood and Guts: Catch vs Combat

Main event was a classic in a way so different from the other AEW classics. That could have main evented the Superdome in 83.

The Rumble match just doesn’t have the joy in it that it used to and this year’s mens version is the bottom of the barrel. Where are the little side gags, the clever team ups, etc? Patterson is missed.

Cena/Umaga is one of the five best wrestling matches of the 2000’s fight me

Cody/Sammy better than any Bryan Danielson match ever until 2021, folks