For Great Justice

Tenta was 23 there

Now that I’ve seen the Super Giant Ninja’s T. Rex arms I can’t unsee them

For a company that ran house shows, Sky to me is your first name out of the blocks house show opener veteran babyface guy. As it is, I’m not sure what you do with him.

AEW has done Hunter/Taka a lot in their short history (I can think of at least Jericho/Allin, Cody/Jungle Boy, Jericho/OC tonight granted you can argue OC is more of a main eventer now, Mox/Allin, Omega/Sammy) Have they actually pulled the upset on any of these yet? I can't think of one.

A few other thoughts: I forgot to give love to the Britt/Swole angle. It's been entertaining and seems to always chart on Twitter when folks list their favorite parts of the show. Also, I mean you can't predict Covid and sure with 20/20 pandemic-predicting hindsight you leave the belt on Jericho at Revolution given he's been the MVP of this entire run of shows, but to me next week is big for both Cage AND Mox. Again of no fault of his own, the champ desperately needs some momentum and direction.

Main event was fan fucking tastic. Tag match was exactly what we thought we were getting, which was great but with a lot of the divisive PWG "go go go" stuff. I admit I popped for the FTW title. Taz is hitting a home run in this role for the most part. Next week is STACKED

Naito when his current gimmick debuted New Day when they debuted Bray Wyatt’s original run lined up right when True Detective was huge, didn’t it?

I’ll submit HHH vs Orton in a straight up wrestling match at 25. Not sure anything gets that crowd back for them, but a bloody arena brawl was certainly the way to go considering the build.

Heath killed it last night, but I don't get the WWE's approach here. If you are going to do the Bret Hart "Monster of the Month" thing with Drew by feuding him with the 2020 equivalents of The Sultan and PCO, then that's a perfectly reasonable strategy while you wait this all out, but Heath with that backstory is a vastly more interesting monster of the month than Ziggler. So either replacing him in this Ziggler feud from the start, or having that be the next feud post-Ziggler makes a lot more sense than what they did IMO. As it is, I don't agree with using this bullet as a one-shot. There was a month story there, and it isn't like Ziggler moves the needle anyway.

OF COURSE the obvious end game here is “the league will be canceled not because of virus numbers, but because of its own incompetence”. I can’t believe I didn’t see that coming.

Or those three in a contest around the world to reel in INTERPOL’s most wanted with big money on the line. The Kayfabin’ Race.

Shit yeah, amazing ad and fantastic card. We even get Sheepherders / Dundee / Valiant for the blood sucking freaks thread.

Jericho agreed with my view that Bleeding Me is a criminally underrated all time Metallica track so I thought the pod was great

Surprised by that height difference. Have met H and while a big dude, isn’t 6’4 or anything.

I am down for Steiners vs Murdoch/Slater

Who knew in 2020 Taz would be one of the highlights of a show every week

Everyone’s intimidated by Harley. Even leg day.

Even still, something like Outsiders/Taker+Kane, Rock/Hogan, Austin vs. HHH title, Angle vs. Jericho #1 contender is a lot smoother IMO.

18 was all over the place man. People talk about Austin/Hall a lot of "tippy toppy guy wasted", but Kurt/Kane is another one. This roster was absolutely stacked, but the card is a mess.

Taz talking shit is great. Other highlights are Britt and Tony's relationship, the return of the Bros (though it seemed someone missed a time queue there) and the final shot.

“If anything goes wrong, Tony Khan will be my Constant”

I was reading an ESPN article on the fall of the XFL and it got me wondering, do we know if Vince has ever considered buying the Harlem Globetrotters or any of the "On Ice" type stuff? I'd think that would fit their traditional business model and logistics better than football. Same arenas, same trucks/lighting, etc.

Bill O'Brien loves it

One of the best and most subtle little storytelling things WWE has ever done was the short segment earlier in the show where Austin LITERALLY looks himself in the mirror, knowing (but the viewer not yet knowing) what he has decided/agreed to do to win the match.