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Hopefully Athena gets a match on the show. Especially if that was originally what was penciled in Im really hoping for a Women's Casino Gauntlet Match. I imagine there'd be a pretty loud reaction for her if she was a surprise entrant with it being in her hometown. I'd put her over too. Athena vs Mercedes ROH title vs AEW title at All Out or Forbidden Door. Lets add as many titles as possible to this gimmick.

144 in a 25? If that's accurate that should be an instant 3 months in jail in my opinion. You have no reaction time to adjust if something or someone runs into the street. They don't set streets at 25 unless its a residential area with a high chance of that happening.

Everyone has their preferences but I think old school battle royals like that are mostly phased out these days. Probably because its 20 minutes of punching and kicking. Or at least the first 15. Not much room to bump or hit any moves with 30 people in the ring. Everyone loves The Rumble, but how many people love The Andre Battle Royal ya know?

Three weeks from tomorrow Resurrection comes out. The trailer looks pretty fucking good too. Will be interesting to see how it plays out. Looks like the Batista / Dexter reunion / confrontation is happening episode one, right off the bat. The trailer sure makes it seems like Harrison is dragging a dead body and chopping it up. But I think its creative editing and he's butchering meat. Ill be posting thoughts on it here, wonder if anyone else is planning on watching.

I'd love to see a women's Stadium Stampede and get more of the women on the biggest PPV of the year. Id put the captains as Willow & Marina Shaffir, would make the most story sense. Or maybe do a Women's Casino Gauntlet instead if theyre not doing a men's one. That might actually be more fun.

I thought for sure FTR was gonna work Cope & Christian at All In but there's been no movement on that. So now I think they get a win with a Cope appearance after. Then a Christian save one they overwhelm him? Since All Out is in Toronto that's a likely spot for that match. Maybe they save the Christian turn for Forbidden Door? As for who FTR work at All In, I don't have any idea.

Comparing it to the OG Evolution they did what like 18 months before the turn? Something like that. I really do think 10 months is too short. By the time Rollins gets the belt (July at SNME / August at Summerslam) that only really gives you about 4 months to run with that group domination / top of the world feeling. I personally don't feel like thats enough time to make the audience start to feel bad for Bron when Seth starts belittling him. I also think waiting until the follow year's Mania would be too long. Thats about 22 months total. Sweet spot might be around Summer Slam next year. Would give it a slightly different feel than the Batista winning a Mania too.

Gonna have to assume its a neck injury from the finish of her vs Mercedes right? That roll up had all her limbs tied up and she spiked herself bad on her head with no protection at all. Straight DDT style. No one's fault, but even in the moment I was like fuckkkkkk that was a rough landing.

I also think the goal is to get to Bron pulling a Batista on Seth. But its too soon for this year's Mania. I know stuff moves faster these days. But Triple H loves that old school fill the balloon with heat style booking. You just keep building and building that heat and the bigger it is the bigger the star you make when he pops it. You just have to be careful because if it pops on its own because you go too long and people lose interest you just wasted a few years of programming. For that to work you kind of need a long period of dominance from the group. You also need enough time for them to go from top of the world to Seth belittling him behind your back. You need the fans to want the turn so bad they can taste it. And you only get that by heating Seth up for a longggg time.

Its not that deep. It isnt about who could or would be a good foil for Goldberg or who would better suit a title run. Not even about Netflix numbers. Its about heat. You really heat Rollins up by having him cash in and steal the title from Goldberg in his retirement match in front of his hometown and family. Im of the opinion that they are getting ready to really treat Seth like a big deal and get behind him. Heel leader of an important stable. New music. Heyman ranting about being the one to retire the man with wrestling's greatest streak just like his other client took the greatest wrestlemania streak of all time. Just a theory and totally could be wrong. But thats how I see it playing out. Triple H is from that old school NWA build the heat mold.

Is it not like super obvious that they're gonna put the belt on Goldberg as a shock feel good retire with the belt moment, just to get snatched away by a Rollins cash in? Then Punk vs Rollins 2 at Summer Slam can be for the World Title. Seems to me thats pretty likely, if not a total lock.

I dont think its a rights issue, I just don't think they want to copy WWE. When MJF renamed the International belt he used American Champion to avoid being United States Champion probably for the same reason. There was a Triple Crown for 3 months. Thats about the same amount of time I give the Unified Title. Unless they go full brand split (which I am in favor of), and use The Unified Title as the Collision top title. Otherwise, the title gets renamed probably by Forbidden Door.

I love AEW but man why does every single decision they make about titles make me cringe? All-Atlantic was a dumb name. Then they changed it International and that was a pretty good name. Then changed it again for story reasons to The American Title. Then back. Now merging it with this. The Continental Title was originally one of three for a triple crown. 3 months into that they go nah dawg split them. It's a belt for a tournament that happens once a year and seems redundant and out of place anyways. Now I think The Unified Title design is fucking dope. It's miles and miles better than the Continental and International designs. But fuck man, what is with that name? Ya know if they were doing a brand split and The World Title was on one show and The Unified Title was on the other show, I'd be okay with it. But if everything is staying all one brand it's gotta be one of the most confusing and illogical names in awhile. And especially the talking point that it's equal to The World Title now or whatever. It's just so muddy. You can't have two first place trophies for first and second place. That's just not how it works. Imagine The Olympics just saying hey everyone silvers are equal to golds now.

It feels like the booking is building towards the same finish as Cody beating Reigns. Escalation of run ins with the babyfaces finally having Hangman's back and legends pitching in to rid the company of the big heel group. Ospreay's been leading the charge. He's out first to counter Yuta interference. Surprise return of Pac. Surprise return of Darby. The Bucks out. Surprise Sting run in. Claudio out. Eddie Kingston surprise return. Gab Kidd out. Swerve out. Stare down with Hangman. Go win this shit back for AEW. Big nod. Swerve moves Hangman out of the way and takes the bullet for him (Mox chairshot or some shit). Mox grabs the briefcase and backs to the corner ready to swing, there's Bryan Danielson up on the apron and takes the briefcase away and cracks Mox. Hangman does the big babyface look around sell as Danielson points to Mox. Ref up. Buckshot Lariat. New champ. Literal climax for the entire audience and everyone watching from home. Locker room is out to celebrate the big win.

Thoughts on how TK is handling all the counter programming? Im not sure which tact is the right one to use. But clearly WWE is putting the pressure on. Objectively a smart business move to try and run the ECW arena the week before AEW does 7 straight shows there. Philly is a strong market so Im not sure it'll hurt as bad as the weaker markets would. But even if its a smart business move its still a dick move.

I'm expecting to be ridiculed over this take, but I'm gonna drop it anyways. I couldn't pay attention to the main event because of their decision to do weird mood lighting for it. It just took me out of the match. Why did they not bring all the lights back up after the main event intros? You're a billion dollar company. You have some of the best production of any pro sports. Why would you reduce one of the biggest matches of the year to 'less than' by not giving them 100% of your production capabilities? Any and all mood lighting in wrestling is dumb. Kane's red light. Sin Cara's orange light. When TNA did their ECW tribute and purposely made it all dark and moody. All of that sucked and takes away from the match, not adds to it. Even the videos they're sharing on social, they look bad compared to every other match on the same show. In much the same way I couldn't concentrate on a bunch of All In matches because of the stupid streamers stuck in the video board above the ring, I assume this is a me thing and no one else cares. But it sucks because Hangman vs Ospreay was the match I was looking forward to the most. And almost none of it even registered for me.

The money & rub is in him losing the title in his last match. Someone "saving" the title. Saving the title in October or November doesn't thematically work. It literally has to be a last minute thing. Bottom of the ninth. Last possible second before the big bad heel leaves forever and ruins the record books or whatever. And because of that I'm of the opinion if they get cold feet and back out on that plan, him losing the title before his last match makes this a failure of a run. The money, the catharsis, the pop is in that win in his retirement match. He doesn't need a month of gee shucks love me love me before he retires. He can still come back & do appearances and tell stories of that nature without matches involved. All that rehab can be done afterwards. He needs to be heel and champion right up to that Saturday Night's Main Event in Boston in December. Cody slays the dragon. Huge celebration. Cody leaves with 10 minutes of TV time left. Cena gets a ridiculous thank you Cena showing of love from the crowd. Maybe even they do the Ric Flair all the wrestlers around the ring thing and let him baby himself in a promo right then and there. But either way, him losing the title before that moment makes the entire heel turn a failure. In my opinion.

I think youre missing the narrative purpose of that scene. Joel's father wanted better for him. Joel wanted better for Ellie. It forshadows the choice Ellie makes at the end of TLOU2 to let Abby go and do a little better for JJ. It supposed to make the viewer think, hmmm is this revenge tour even what Joel would have wanted for Ellie? Is what she's doing right? By extension that means what Abby did was right because she's just did what Ellie us doing. Projecting our own traumas is something we all do. So no judgement from me on that post. But I don't think youre analyzing it from a clear headed pov.

If Darby doesn't return by repelling out of a helicopter at All In like Sting did at that one Nitro then what are we even doing here? Not to cost Mox tho, only to counter act Deathrider interference.

Im glad The Lions rescinded their seeding proposal. Divisional rivalries are so ingrained into football. Taking away the home game for winning your division is dumb. I dont care if other people have a better record, the division games need to matter.

That's actually good tho isnt it? It means they're taking their time and not surpassing the source material. I think we're all assuming there will be a TLOU 3 game. By 2029 I would think it'd be out and season 4 or 5 of the show can pick up where the third game does.

Looks like no Triller for The US. Not up as of now and Meltzer made a Tweet about PPV.com Amazon or YouTube. Not the biggest deal on the world. But Triller let you import your B/R Live purchases when that went down so slightly annoying to not have everything in one place. With HBO Max getting all the PPVs up eventually that wont really be an issue too much longer to not have your back log.

At least we get to see what Paintbynumbers looks like now

To put it in easy terms let's pretend Hooters is WCW and this is January of 2001. If you just buy the IP you don't have to buy the equipment or the debt or existing contracts. You just get the name WCW & all the other names owned by WCW. They're going to go out of business by March 2001. You're just trying to buy the easy to monetize part without assuming the business aspects that aren't working. It's a pretty good business play if it works. You can franchise out new restaurants with that name and logo, or as has been mentioned already license it out for condiments and shirts and whatever other retail items. But the company may prefer to not take a short term cash influx to lose all that stuff and just let it go down with the ship (more like ECW in 2001). In which case once they go bankrupt they could try and buy the IP out of the bankruptcy sale like WWE did with ECW. But that would be up to a judge's discretion at that point. And they'd probably end up paying more vs buying it now before the ship has sank.

Kingston's was specifically one I had in mind as supporting evidence. Lucha Bros AEW music was better than either of thier WWE musics. Willow's music is perfect for her. I know they're carried over from New Japan, but Osprey & Jay White's music are great. Hayter. Julia Hart. Lots of really well done stuff.