Kevin Wilson

Yea that was more my point earlier. Not that it would be worked, I knew it wouldn't be, but if they had a unspoken understanding to stay on their feet for a few minutes to give people a show. I didn't think it was likely at all, that's why I bet $100 just on principle due to the obviousness of the result to win a cool $18. But if anything that was all I thought was a small possibility, that they'd stay on their feet for a minute or two. Either due to an unofficial agreement or Rousey wanting to "prove" to people that her striking game was good. But regardless the result was never in doubt, one of the more lopsided matches they could have possibly booked, which says a lot when considering what else was on the card.

Yea, I turned to my brother and told him if this fight is real, and they didn't decide beforehand to extend it by circling each other, it won't last 30 seconds and it'll end via armbar. I'm kinda glad it did as if anything else happened I'd have been highly sus of the entire situation.

Official Overview Trailer for Yoshi and the Mysterious Book: As a grown man with no kids, I always have to determine with Nintendo games if they are uh more targeted for kids or gamers more casual than me. Not that I'm a super hardcore gamer but I do like some sort of challenge. No issue at all with the graphics/look as I loved Super Mario Bros. Wonder and still like playing the retro games, the trailers just seem to imply this one is more for the younger gamers. I'll probably check reviews.

I say that as sometimes when someone posts a longer message and just two non-connected sentences are taken out to respond to, it could appear like taking a comment out of context/ignoring the broader point. Which wasn't my intent of course, as you mentioned my goal was just to make it easier to see which part I was responding to, not playing 'gotcha' or something.

Apologies for taking your paragraph and just singling out two sentences, I know that's a bit rude. But for these two points I don't know if I necessarily agree. New Day is a great act, I think they are popular enough and would get a big pop if they showed up in AEW. But the rumor was they were on 'seven figure deals' in WWE (hence the request to take a pay cut) which is a lot of money to pay a team that is in the twilight of their careers and to your second point, I don't think Xavier and Kofi are necessarily great in-ring wrestlers. They are 39 and 44 respectively and Xavier was never really a high-end wrestler (very good but never a work rate machine). Kofi was/maybe still can step up when he needs to but the last few New Day matches I watched both just didn't seem to have the same step they used to have. Which is understandable but I don't know if they can step up their work rate at this point in their careers but so much. Its not that I don't think they'd be a good fit in AEW but I think it would have more limited appeal than some may be thinking, I think their best bet would be to go back to the New Day of old and focus on their personalities/promo work which is top notch, and have a few dream matches with Young Bucks, Omega, etc. but not necessarily be in the title picture or wrestling weekly on Dynamite. I think they'd have value for sure and could get some eyeballs on AEW which is the goal, but just that expectations should be realistic in regards to where their value is, which to me would be in their popularity, reach, and dream match potential more so than their in-ring ability or having long title feuds.

Did they ever patch the issue with the Mercury Towers Penthouse items all disappearing after a certain event? At least did they patch it so the items are in storage somewhere and not literally gone? I know it sounds silly but on my OG playthrough the thing that soured me on the game more than anything else was losing all the cool setup I'd done in my Penthouse and a few items that disappeared weren't replaceable

The failed New Day heel turn was definitely the nail in their coffin, word is the issue was TKO wanted them to take pay cuts and they balked. They probably were, on a spreadsheet, over-paid for being their current role but creative is who put them in that role. They were very popular and well liked before the turn, and from everything we know great backstage/well liked by everyone. But turning them heel just to do nothing with it, it was only a matter of time before someone high up thought the current output and their salary didn't line up. I think we'll see more of that, wrestlers they gave big deals to along the way to keep them and later realize they over-paid and move on. I assume its the same story with Black and Cobb. Royce Keys better hope his Aight gets over or next Spring he could be in trouble.

Funny enough I think the only 'color' we got all night was Steven Borden in the opening dark match (that I could see from my seats), his back isn't "wrestler tough" yet so he cut his back when he was thrown into the guardrail. Not gushing blood but enough that the ref put on the black gloves. He was fine of course. If there were limitations due to the commission, they wrestled around it really well in the main event to make it brutal but not really use "weapons" in the traditional sense.

Isn't part of his thing is he's legitimately borderline insane. Along with the injuries and visa issues in the past. Probably internally seen as someone that can put in good matches against anyone but perhaps not to put a title on.

As someone that has been a Shida fan for a long time and was happy to see her live, something definitely wasn't clicking in their tag match. When Kris was tagged in, she was fantastic and the match got back together but Shida just wasn't on the same page as everyone else and it brought the match down overall. Impressed with Lena Kross though, she's fun. I haven't watched the broadcast but the crowd live was really into just about everything so hope that came across. Final ticket sales had them almost 1,000 more tickets than when they were in Fairfax two years ago, course having four title matches no doubt helped but seeing an increase is always encouraging for a promotion's long term health.

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As I've joked before (although its not a joke) I will only go see live wrestling if the wrestling promotion goes to one particular arena and AEW was nice enough to visit that arena for the second time for Dynamite this week. So I'll be there, Dynamite has been killer lately and per usual they are stacking the card so should be a pretty great show.

I don't mind people talking shit about the Young Bucks but disrespecting Papa Shango is unacceptable.

And keep in mind that Cody Rhodes, my favorite carny, at least had the courage to admit that in a roundabout way. That the WWE is like the New York Yankees (his words) and he didn't mind WWE disrespecting him because of their status but he wouldn't let AEW disrespect him. His situation was a little different since he saw AEW as his baby but other wrestlers feel the same way about the WWE/AEW dynamic and those are the wrestlers TK should avoid. There are plenty of wrestlers that don't see WWE as on that high of a pedestal available, no need to reach for those that see your promotion as second tier. I have no issue with AEW signing former WWE wrestlers but I do think they should look at the situation and consider more than their potential draw/in-ring ability.

The bigger thing to me is that Kairi has shown zero interest in ever signing with AEW. She's had chances to do so and didn't, not even rumors or anything. My assumption is she will go back to Japan and be a semi-active Freelancer like she did for years before re-signing, maybe focusing on Marigold since she is close with Rossy.... she may just be a wrestler that dreamed of wrestling in WWE and that's the only promotion she is interested in working for in the US. Which of course is perfectly fine but of all the wrestlers released I'd put her as the least likely to go to AEW, even below Black.