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Bad bunny was awesome. He sold like crazy and clearly spent a lot of time training. Main event ruled. Awesome match. There was some crap in between but I really enjoyed the show overall.

Presumably if things don’t get worse again we aren’t far away. The governor of California announced today that June 15 is the target for California to be fully open without restrictions. Kevin Kelly tweeted to a reporter if that applied to wrestling as well, who responded with a Daniel Bryan yes gif. Fingers crossed. edit: just got my Johnson and Johnson single shot a couple hours ago. Let’s do this people!

I’ll be watching. I watched fast lane too (I get peacock free with my cable). I’m really looking forward to the women’s singles matches, plus some others. Really liking the 3 hour main show times too. And seeing the crowd reactions. Hoping for a fun time.

Like when the wcw fan base was runoff, those fans simply disappeared. Think the same happens with wwe. After all this time aew isn’t gaining any new viewers. In theory both shows should get a bump but we’ll see how much.

My favorite episode of Reno 911.

Awesome promo.

Building up a legit seeming title fight between two top competitors would be better than the tired tag partners thing, but I’m looking forward to this more than any other match and it’s the semi main event. I think it will come across like a big deal.

@NikoBaltimoreRicky Marvin. I hope she makes 1 million dollars because she seems like such a good person and she’s struggled so much. Really rooting for her.

“A few weeks ago, I played it for him, he said he loved it. I asked if he wanted to me to try to license it, he gave me his ‘thumbs up,’” AEW CEO Tony Khan said in a statement to Pitchfork. “I signed a multiyear agreement to use the song, and every use of the song in AEW will live in our content library forever in perpetuity.”

Yeah he even straight up said “I have no idea what their finances/budget is for that”. He was just thinking out loud, and If it was up to me I would definitely slow way down on all the signings so you have the space when an unexpected gem becomes available. It’s been discussed a lot on the aew threads but having a new debut every week is also really not the way to do it.

Oh snap

There was a vacuum of sound after this happened. I was watching live and you could *feel* the energy get sapped out of there. It was a really shitty, not good in any way moment. Anyway I’m looking forward to Sakura genesis.

“Tops the dud explosion” and “fart in church” is “off the charts hyperbole”? I disagree. I thought the death match was a great match with a huge wet fart ending. I thought this was a great match with a shockingly bad ending, that was worse. My opinion.

It was a really good match. I almost stopped watching before the post match promo, if that happened I would have gone to bed with a totally different feeling. Also worth mentioning Jay white challenged tanahashi for the never open weight title, so that will probably be at Sakura genesis. Do we really need the spoiler tags after the shows are over? If I want to watch a show and don’t want spoilers I won’t click on a discussion thread about it.

Still here? Also hope Keiko can still do something on dynamite even if Kenny’s done with the cheerleader entrance.

That’ll put asses in the seats [/extreme sarcasm] I’d say this tops the dud explosion. Talk about a fart in church.

When they announced the first 5 or so matches I thought that was the show, and they seemed like they could be more storyline driven and it was implied it would be a tighter more focused show. Then they dumped a ton more matches that are no different from a typical week of dark. I guess we shall find out shortly. Edit: my friend gave a translation for when Maki stormed off on bte. Basically “you are the worst ever” “shitty dancers” “I want to kill you”

Women’s main event for first Elevation and for the first time women’s main event for dynamite.

Riho vs Maki Itoh will be main event of first episode of Elevation.

All it will take are awesome promos from Moxley and Kingston and everyone will easily move on from this. It is sort of amusing how they killed the gimmick dead in the much heralded debut. Just gonna need to move on.

Thinking back for bright spots, silver and jungle boy came out of that match great. They must’ve been stoked all evening. Can’t wait for bte tomorrow (please maki and silver - and whatever they have new to say about the finish).

The pre show match had shenanigans, opening tag match had shenanigans although they didn’t lead to the finish. Since all the negativity is coming out I’ll just add that the street fight was entertaining, but I don’t need two years of these sting matches. I’d rather just see the other guys have a real match. That said the show was good, but nothing really memorable except the ending unfortunately. Hope Maki is here longer than just Wednesday. That was a genuine nice surprise.

Tell us how it is. Have fun.

Kane has donated all his paydays from wwe appearances as mayor. I don’t see him signing a contract. Think it’s gonna be angle/foley/Christian. I think cm punk would pay for itself easily but I’m not getting my hopes up. Cormier is doing commentary for ufc tonight, it’s not him but that was fun to think about.

@NikoBaltimoreseries 6 is apparently Hager, Jericho, MJF, Shida, Penta, and Fenix. I’ll double dip on lucha bros and I want shida but not interested in the other three. From series 5 I’m only getting jungle boy so my interest is definitely slowing down (although there’s still a number of unreleased people I want). Series 5 is coming out in late may and there aren’t even photos of the figures yet so we all should have some time for series 6. Seems like this is the earliest reveal yet.