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Coach Tony K has to be smart enough to realize that all of this positive momentum they’ve had the last few months is due in no small part to the Hangman redemption storyline and the payoff. Anything other than Hangman winning clean at All In could be catastrophic unless booked absolutely perfectly.

Imagine being a kid and your parents having a turntable that still had the 16 rpm speed setting! Sometimes I like to think that DJ Screw’s family had one of those and that’s how he got the idea.

Holy shit, for once Mortos might not be the designated pin-eater!

In a Canadian tuxedo no less.

I like Hot to Go, it’s catchy and has a very 80s pop vibe. That’s about where I stand as far as Chapelle Roan, but I’m glad for someone like her to have pop success.

Sweet shirt, RIP Dave Parker

I really could not get into the Big Bill and Bad Apple vs. Patriarchy tag match at all. Two angles/factions that are running their course, and the match really did nothing to establish either as a challenger to Hurt Syndicate. I know they had to have Nick Wayne on the Seattle show but they could’ve done better. Overall, though, a very solid Collision. I actually really enjoyed the Josh Alexander-Adam Cole match, and I rarely enjoy Adam Cole matches. As for the main event, it was a fantastic match, and Fletcher really did a good job of stooging off of the chants, especially before and during the commercial break. I thought it was mostly, if not entirely hilarious, and it did start to get old at a point that mostly coincided with the match action really gaining steam and the crowd paying more attention to the action. Every Toni Storm promo has something that has me shocked and dying from laughter.

I agree with the last part. And I think maybe I’m mixing up Deonna and Taya? I really though Deonna was who Jade beat before the surprise Stat title change.

I guess Deonna Purrazzo has gotten openly upset online about her role, or lax, thereof, in AEW. In some ways, I feel a little bad because at the time she was a big free agent signing, and she got a lot of mean shit said about her body. At the same time, it feels like she’s been there for almost 3 years now, but I don’t remember any really outstanding stuff. She was partially brought in to be a bigger name to carry Jade Cargill after a few catastrophic matches with younger talent (since big names couldn’t work Jade’s streak). She showed no chemistry with Toni Storm in their angle, despite a real life friendship. Her best moments in my head were her tag team with Deeb where they were constantly trying to show up the other. The mafia angle always felt WWE and went nowhere. It’s fair to say that they should make more time for women’s matches in their programming. Names like Deonna, Deeb, Riho, Shida, and Nyla (and her massive online fan base) are nowhere to be seen. There is debate whether Athena should’ve been brought up to the main shows sooner. At the same time, homegrown talent like Willow, Stat, Skye Blue, Anna Jay, and Julia Hart have worked hard and improved, and are over with the crowds. Then you add in Mercedes, Mina, and Megan Bayne, plus the ascension of the Timeless One as the face of the division. Would Deonna be happy if she got TV time to put over Skye, Julia, and Anna?

Dynamite was great, felt like all the matches were solid to excellent and made everyone in them look good, and all of the promos and storytelling are on point and leading to meaningful places. Ibushi did not look like his old self, but he also did not look like a shadow of his former self like last time. Mark Briscoe is channeling the spirit of Dusty Rhodes right now in all the best ways. He just gets wrestling, and he’s basically impossible to root against (my wife loves him). Using him against MJF is a no-brainer. Mox’s promo was his best work in a while, and really got to the heart of what the Hangman story is about. I don’t see how you can do anything but have Page get the big win at All-In, doing otherwise might kill this hot streak and good feeling.

Hope you didn’t pull anything making such a stretch.

Fantastic work

It’s really also something that AEW is letting Brody wear that on a major televised program and sell a shirt on the side, given the dark political climate and threats from the government regarding such things.

But maybe wrestling-related given Mariah May’s NXT character?

Next level Dusty finish