For Great Justice

Love the pairing of Julia Hart with the Blondes. I can really see that working. Still need that fantasy booking of Steve Austin as their coach Bud Kilmer though.

I’ve been to the majority of the recent MSG shows and, nope, they use the standard set. It’s incredibly disappointing. Then again, post renovation MSG looks the same as any other arena on the inside nowadays anyway.

Came to post this. That ruled.

What promotion is that? Alabama station. Some truly amazing pro wrestling names on that list!

Friday Night Lightning?

Excited to see them back on the road. They need to open the Miami show with Tarzan Boy, even if we all know it's going to be Judas.

Moxley vs. Danny Limelight on Elevation on Monday! Limelight is the 2021 Gambler and this will rule

Jarrett vs. Jay Lethal from that era is Jarrett's best match that I've seen

I know I say this every week but I can't recommend Dark enough as background / easy listening. Crack open a beer and chill. It truly is the modern WCWSN.

We live in a world where I might just get Jacob Fatu vs Matanza Cueto All is well friends

Speaking of commercial breaks, I think the barbed wire was *exclusively* used during the break. That’s impressive. PPV still has a lot of unknowns. The Kenny and Britt matches, the likely tag title match with Mox and Kingston, and...Cage/Cage? Maybe a hoss daddy Miro/Archer match? Thats 5 matches with no obvious, blow away main event. I can’t imagine Cody, Darby, Hangman, Pinnacle, IC, Death Triangle and your other big acts off the card. Are we headed toward some kind of multi man #1 contender type deal?

We need to start the Darby/Miro hype thread RIGHT NOW, daddeh. Do you book it like Cena/Brock at Summerslam? You do, right? Like, there’s NO WAY Darby is gonna pull this one out. Right?

Jesus Christ. That was everything I wanted, even if the commercials were unfortunate. That Spanish fly spot was insane. Ortiz and Santana were stars. FTW bled buckets. The right ending. I need a cigarette after that and I don’t even smoke. And, yet still, next week looks like their best show ever on paper!

If I'm AEW, I'd hold on debuting Bryan until you have full crowds. Could Omega/Bryan sell out a smaller stadium? Give it enough advance booking so that the international fanbase can make plans, put it in a weekend destination location like Vegas, and I'd be curious how many seats in the Raiders stadium they could sell.

That's some Locke, Celes and Shadow taking on Kefka shit and I can dig it.

This might belong in the hot take thread but...Smackdown is a good show! It's definitely caught up in some anti-WWE residuals due to just how God awful Raw is. Raw is...I don't know...just so bad. The worst it's ever been.

So I watched Tenet last night. Really bad movie even if I understand it's ambition, and it got me thinking about wrestling match / movie analogies. Tenet is definitely Orton/HHH from Wrestlemania 25 to me. For those that don't know the film, it has various time travel/entropy elements wherein more or less the action you see plays out in reverse. Reminds me a lot of that WM25 match, which attempted this sort of deconstruction of the main event style with the big finisher reversal sequence at the beginning unwinding to an extended heat segment at the end. Both the movie and that match are novel (arguably pretentious) ideas that were poorly executed, with action playing out 'in reverse'. There's probably a joke in here about Tenet's bad sound mix and the lack of crowd heat for the WM25 match, too. Either way, both flopped. What are some other pro wrestling match / movie comparisons?

I don't know what's better: Teddy Long being with Jericho (which I don't remember at all), or that absolutely gorgeous shot of the Scope ceiling.

They are doing so much stuff that I thought was gonna be on DoN, on TV coming up (Blood and Guts, Cody/QT, etc) that the only two things that feels like a sure thing for the PPV are Britt/Shida and Mox/Kingston vs Bucks, maybe? I like the unpredictability.

Cage beating Hangman semi-clean was the best kind of genuine surprise booking. Loved that, and Team Taz needed it. Warrior tassels!

Oh shit, now the idea of Kenny going after *Allin's* title because he wants all da belts, only for Allin to beat the numbers game at the PPV and win (!) would be amazing as shit. Serves the purpose @Jiji mentioned about making the TNT title a peer, further establishes Allin as a top guy and doesn't impede your Kenny/Hangman world title story over the summer.

Speaking of the TNT title, as we're getting closer to DoN with no clear direction for either the world title or TNT title for the show, I'd absolutely love them to somehow dust off the old Nikita Koloff "the TNT champion is the de facto number one contender" bit and run an injury or double KO angle the Dynamite before DoN, then announce that due to the Koloff rule Allin is getting a match against Kenny. Then just have them tear it right the fuck up. I'm just a sucker for that sort of Bill Watts logical booking stuff.

Dynamite doesn't have the real estate to add/feature another division. Now if you positioned one of the web based shows around another title, that'd be interesting, but it wouldn't be one that pigeon-holes you into a particular size or gender. Like I'd be down with Elevation featuring a bunch of dudes chasing Ho Sung Pak for the Dragon Star or whatever.

Man is Mongo being a good horseman a hot take? We all loved Mongo, right? I think the anti-Mongo crowd is the same early 00's IWC that hated on Sid and shit. Mongo was universally awesome.

Kind of weird how life is imitating art (or vice versa) with this MJF/Jericho feud, right? Like the story is that MJF is the younger, fresher, ascendant, upgraded version (albeit a dickhead) while Jericho is holding onto whatever he has left by surrounding himself with superior talent. And, like, in the execution of what the performers are doing on TV, from the very onset dating back to the show tune bit or whatever, MJF has indeed been that upgraded version as a performer and outclassed Jericho at absolutely everything. If I didn’t know any better I’d think it was very much intentional that he clowned Jericho on the mic last night, as an example. The only two outs I see as viable at Blood and Guts are: (1 - preferred) Jericho goes out early and it’s Sammy as the guy that knew MJF was bullshit from the start that beats the odds and stands tall at the end or (2) MJF straight up beats Jericho, starting some kind of redemption type arc. If Jericho ends the show standing tall, it’d be pretty bullshit IMO.