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You know how HBK was roided out of his gourd in the 90s but was still an amazing worker? Then he came back after losing his smile, was born again, had gotten clean and was significantly smaller but he was still HBK so you could still buy him against guys like Taker etc. Well, Adam Cole is like the reformed clean HBK, just without having done the 90s era to give him enough history to be that believable. He shouldn't be going move for move with anyone over 200lbs. In his matches, he needs to play the Jerry to the Tom a bit more.

His hate for Bryan transcends Heel/Face boundaries. If Eddie wasn't feuding with Bryan there's no way Nigel would be cheering him on. If Eddie goes into a feud with Christian after this for example I think you'd see a Heenanesque pivot in Nigel's opinion of him. It's all because he hates Bryan.

I'm a big fan of "bad but fun" movies, so I'm probably not the best judge, but I've liked Rock's whole career pretty much, Doom & Southland Tales both mentioned above are standouts for being something different from what he normally does. Shit, I'd even rewatch Scorpion King as a guilty pleasure. Having said that, when he was getting started and Schwarzenegger had that passing of the torch cameo moment in The Rundown, there was this expectation that he would be the next Arnie. But really he's never once matched the peaks of Arnie's career. There's no Terminator, no Predator, hell there's not even an equivalent to Twins, Junior or Jingle All The Way. Maybe this heel turn in wrestling may also work as a creative spark in his film endeavours. I'd love to see him as a bad guy on the big screen as we know he can do it so well in wrestling.

I am about as far from being a mountaineering expert as you can get, living in the flatlands of England, so I don't know if this is against the laws of physics. But I had this idea that a dastardly heel should hire a helicopter, land at Everest's peak wearing an oxygen mask and then hit Darby with a steel chair he brought with him. I shouldn't be hired by anyone.

PSA: Hechicero's theme is Machete by Gvidon if you want to have it on loop like I have for the past week. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaCTaYLsD5g (Embedding doesn't work for me.) It makes me want to play Doom Eternal again same vibe.

Oh yes I want that very much. Only if he totally cleans house giving out stunners to everyone and clearing the ring.

Video going round of Rock on Pat's show calling some of Cody's fans "Cody Crybabies" fully in character. Hollywood Rock 2.0 incoming? ItsHappening.gif?

The angle though is Hangman doing whatever it takes not to necessarily be champion himself, but to stop Swerve from becoming champ. Hangman going full unhinged heel is where the story goes in my opinion.

Two things stand out to me in this story: First, this was in 2020, this isn't "historical" abuse, this was wrinkly old dyed hair Vince. Imagine him during the attitude era and tell me there aren't a million other stories waiting to come out. Second, with the involvement of Laurinitis and other board members as well as potentially some well-known wrestlers too, this could be the unravelling of WWE. You have to think after working with him for 20+ years, a lot of people would know about this side of Vince. If HHH knew, so did HBK, If Taker knew, so did Michelle, if Cena knew, so did Nikki, if Nikki knew, so did Brie, if Brie knew, so did Bryan. (And that's without the whole Laurinitis-Bellas connection) This thing snowballs out massively and would literally take decades to explore fully.

WWE is locked behind paywalls in the UK of either BT TV or the WWE network, + PLEs are extra and extortionate. With this change, a lot more eyeballs will be on WWE product in the UK. And I'm sure this will be a similar story in many other countries. Tony Khan will need to respond by getting better TV deals and slots in those countries for AEW or their impact and momentum will be considerably lessened by this change.

Rosa vs Aminata maybe? As Aminata's on a hot streak of matches.

I'm sure Sting was looking at Darby when Tony was talking about "his last opponent", even after the Bucks came out. I'm hoping it's a bait-and-switch. Sting and Darby can do a 10-minute smoke and mirrors match.

I can see this match being like when 2000 Jericho fought HHH for the title and they did that bait-and-switch win for half a show. It's going to be amazing and the crowd will love it.

Lucky bastard Gordi. Hoping we get BD vs Nigel at Wembley or something similar!

Tony Khan's family are/is worth billions. He's said it before, he could afford to run AEW without any income whatsoever for many many years. It's not going anywhere. It will get bigger as casuals find out there are now two companies. It's hit a soft wall, not a brick one.

WWE Subfolder.... He's your problem now .

That thumbnail needs to be a t-shirt already

Why isn't anyone thinking Callis is the devil? His red forehead scar is pretty satanic, wouldn't be surprised if Wardlow joined the family as a ninja either. Ospreay vs MJF soon?

Two women's matches though! Hopefully TBS triple threat doesn't get subbed to zero hour. 3 interesting characters in it.

It was really dumb. If someone pitched it to Wight it was dumb. Even if Wight came up with it it was dumb. AEW needs someone whose job it is to say no to talent for bumps like that. A backstage spinebuster through a load of cardboard boxes with a drape over it would have sufficed.

I am once again asking for Yano/OC, put Mox in the same block why the heck not?

Funny because I can't stand Wade and his fake TV accent. I'm loving Nigel's heel commentary, it's almost Heenanesque, Schiavone works as a decent Monsoon for him too on the rare occasions they've worked together. Maybe Ricciaboni can fill that spot if he decides to go full-time. And hopefully, we soon see Nigel against that Clamdigger Brittle Bryan Danielson one more time.

I love Butcher because he was old as shit before he even got into wrestling, which I give massive respect to. As for my dislike of Juice, he just hasn't connected with me yet and BCG as a group just doesn't butter my crumpet. It just takes time with some people to find their groove. Kind of like a foreign footballer coming into the Premier League, takes them a season to figure out how things work. Swerve had this for me and now I love his tricky/smooth wrestling ways. To be fair it was really hard to get to 10 I dislike, which speaks volumes to how talented AEW's roster is.

Top 15 Favourites to watch regardless of in-ring ability/promos etc just the ones that my keep eyeballs glued to the screen: Andrade Angelico Bandido Bryan Danielson Christian Cage Claudio Castagnoli Eddie Kingston Jamie Hayter Lance Archer Miro OC PAC Samoa Joe Sting Swerve The bottom 10 that I skip the most when they're on: Adam Cole The Gunns Jay White Josh Woods Juice Robinson Kyle Fletcher The Young Bucks Matt Sydal Scorpio Sky Tony Nese Top 3 Commentators: Excalibur Nigel McGuinness Tazz

One of the ninjas is noticeably bigger than the others, could easily be Wardlow.