Sublime

Eventually Roddy has to make it to the ring before it ends but gets rolled up and pinned as soon as he steps in cause he’s celebrating to much for making it to the ring.

I was in and out of watching the show, missed most of both Casino matches due to errands and dinner but this was a great show. The bucks match was mostly my preferred type of Bucks match not too much cheeky shit just a fast paced tag match, they lost me for a bit with the double Canadian destroyer fighting spirit spot but brought me back pretty quickly. Dustin winning the TNT belt was great, after Coles hopefully not farewell speech it was the best call to lift the crowds spirits and it was such a great moment for Dustin to have that on this stage he deserves it. other than the egregious kick out of three finishers in a row thought Mone/Storm was very good and that the right person won it gives Mone something new in her AEW run she’s not unbeatable anymore and it also cements Toni as the ace of the division. Okada Omega was very good as well could have done without some of the stuff at the end. If Okada had just kicked out of the OWA the place would have been shocked but I get not wanting to waste that moment with what was coming in the main event. Mox and Hangman had a wonderfully bloody battle that reminded me of classics ECW and 90s Japan death matches in the best of ways. Both men are just top tier wrestlers and were the right guys for main event of the biggest show of the year. This was such a well booked match with everything coming undone for the DRs as the collective of Page/Ospreay/Danielson/Darby/Swerve (and Nana) was too great for the DRs bullying shenanigans to work. And kudos to so much of the little things they did, the color of the gear white vs black, though some of the DRs wisely had white on too for the bloody affair, the moment where Mox wrapped the barb wire around Pages head giving the image of a crown of thorns, this was a battle of good triumphing over the evil that has plagued AEW, a triumph of spirit and new beginnings. Glorious stuff. I also want to just say that the growth of Page over the course of AEW. Before AEW I was not a fan of Hangman, I thought he was a bottom talent level guy in Bullet Club down with Scurll up until his G1 in 2019 where I saw that something might be there. And since AEW started he showed how much was there and has just grown more and more , hes gotta be in the conversation for best in the world right now all around character, in ring, he is a top top guy

Adam Cole is a perfectly fine wrestler who has been over pushed, he’d be fine as a main event we in TNA probably but he’s not main event level in AEW (and wouldn’t be in WWE either) he cooled down Hangman’s run and then the whole devil storyline really hurt MJF looking like a main event guy and he still hasn’t recovered. I think Cole is fine where he’s at as a secondary (or is it tertiary at this point) title holder. Maybe if he worked for his size better he could be more believable higher up the card, he should be either be a Rey Mysterio style underdog or sneaky heel (preferably with a big guy heater) either way some one who has to outsmart his opponent and take advantage of opportunities not standing toe-to-toe with everyone.

I hope Taichi wins the gauntlet to take Gotos spot. And does such a transcendent performance that Gedo decides to scrap all his plans and have Taichi win the whole thing and go on to meet ZSJ at WK when Dangerous Tekkers Explode!!!!!!

The Rock could have been Peter Johnson just so Vince (McMahon or Russo) could write penis jokes for promos

Hangman is just a completely better choice as champ than Darby. I think Darby could be fine as a guy to hold the top belt for a bit but Hangman is a guy you build a promotion around and I don’t see Darby as that at all. Honestly I think the window of making Darby a top guy might already be closed, his whole Mt Everest climb hasn’t helped him cause if he had stayed around they could have built him to be the guy to take down Mox but instead the story has become Pages and has brought Ospreay and Swerve into it too and all these guys are better suited to be the top guy than Darby

WCW was handed Bret with the best possible position to be a player the screw job could have been used for him to either come in as a top face or heel and help wcw break away from being solely nWo focused which it needed to start doing because well we all saw why. bring him in as a walking tall baby face who wanta to fix wrestling after what happened to him in Montreal or have him go even further into the anti us character and be another top heel, but wcw was far too full of egos to let either thing happen and it got them out of business

Danielson coming back for a staggered entrance battle royal with a title shot on the line? I know the prefect joker to debut and win

Make someone come out to some cocomelon tunes

Hulk Hogan, the character, is tan. Terry Bollea, the person, uses sunscreen religiously and has never been tan, brother.

I think 53 years old move was like a northern lights bomb/brainbuster thimg

Danielson has said he had trained on how to work a match without using his arms, I think this was in his time between being active in WWE and going to AEW

I think that book would likely, how do I put this,……..RULE THE MOTHERFUCKING THE WORLD!!!!!~

If Danielson came back and joined the group that took his title after trying to murder him I’d probably be done with AEW.

This post was a great example of what some of us are trying to say. I was coming to say something similar which is: compare the moment ms between the Pitbulls vs Raven/Stevie Richards dog collar match and the main event of last years Mania. One had a bunch of run ins that all made sense and paid off or advanced multiple storylines company wide. The other (as far as I can tell from reading about it I’ve never watched it) had a bunch of run ins by legends to pop the crowd but didn’t really lend a pro the story of the match or angle.