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I'll probably say more later because I have thoughts (short version: loved everything especially the deathwatch, but thought Nyla/Baker underdelivered a bit, and thought there was too many shenanigans during what was an otherwise real good Blade/Cassidy match) but the thing I need to focus on right now is JR's love for Hakuloa because it was just so pure and beautiful.

People will always love money more than they hate other people

I had originally suggested a Punk/Bryan/Joe stable when the latter two left WWE, and another poster (sorry I forget which of you) had the great suggestion to add Chris Hero. They could still go with just the three of them, and it would still be fantastic. Truthfully, any one of the three even on their own would be a great signing, although admittedly Hero probably doesn't have that same level "star power" since the WWE machine didn't quite get behind him in that way, but I think a guy like that would win the AEW audience over really quickly, especially back on the road now.

Vince is very rich and his mother's like 105. You all who still watch are in for like 15 more years of this shit. Jerry Jones doesn't even train.

Miro's His favorite champion, so I can only assume God is now #AllElite

I kind of forgot both how insane this was, and how semi-recent this was. Like, this wasn't 1997 or something

Major "How do you do, fellow kids?" vibes

I've seen this come up a couple times now since the match Wednesday. I'm sort of torn on the way I think about it because obviously hey, safety and longevity first, but the flip side is with no house shows hopefully that style doesn't take as much of a toll as it did in the past. Maybe a Mick Foley or a Jeff Hardy or a Sabu doesn't deal with the chronic pain, or sneaks a couple extra years in, if theyre just doing the one TV a week instead of the insane old schedule. Just food for thought anyway (and possibly also just some standard wishful/hopeful thinking)

I was kind of wondering about that. Dynamite Grand Slam is the first event I've had tickets for since COVID, so I was expecting to at least be asked by Ticketmaster or something. The only mention of it really was when they (successfully) pushed the cancellation insurance on me. It was like an extra $17 bucks a ticket, but I said whatever, just because who knows what's gonna be going on with this delta variant by then. Kids will have been back in school for 2-3 weeks by then, could get hairy

I love Ernest Miller. Karate Cat, Commissioner Cat, all of it. I went down a shoot interview rabbit hole a while ago on YT, and found one with (I think?) RF where they're talking about Miller supposedly teaching celebrities karate. Maybe-RF asks him what celebrities, and he's like "One you might have heard of is Usher Raymond. You don't believe me, bitch?" I about died.

Oh whoa, I space cadeted on that one.

Agreed. Darby's money, there's no way they don't eventually go with him down the line. Before we get there though, I think there's a possibility we'll see two things out of him first: being the one to eventually finally chop down Miro and become A 2x TNT champion, and Sting's eventual actual last match (babyface vs babyface, naturally).

I don't see either of them doing anything, but I saw another poster float the idea of them flanking Brock at some point and I thought that was a neat bit of fantasy booking. YMMV on the idea of bringing him in, but you can't say it wouldn't move the needle I suppose.

Just a small dab of Tabasco sauce

Slightly off-topic total speculation: "Game On" and the very similar looking logo to WCW/NWO Revenge makes me think Rampage might be the title of the video game. They have the same person producing it from what I understand.

I'd be into that. I was hoping it would be Best Friends but with Trent out, who knows if they'd wanna go with Orange/Chuck. I just hope they don't do some bullshit "tension with Silver/Reynolds" story if they go that way. You don't necessarily need to Freebird it, but I'm not ready to break those dudes up yet.

TBH I have mixed feelings. On the one hand, I completely agree with you. But it just fits his character so well. It's just a little bit of that added salt and pepper that gives his presentation more of that Sabu or Taker aura. Edit: while this is a lovefest and all, I do just wanna say that I'm a bit annoyed with the seemingly interchangeable Tommy End/Malakai Black usage. I don't know if they're doing like a split personality thing or something, but I'm kinda meh about it.

Great shout. I loved that segment to death too, dude. Cody brought it big and it was *much* appreciated in my house. Plus, I'm an extremely big "storming the announce booth" fan so extra credit on that. Black's promo was weird as shit and i loved every word, especially the "I hoped you'd say that" with the lights. THAT was dope as hell.

I didn't see too much of him before he came to AEW so I was a bit skeptical at first, for two reasons: 1) I didn't see the sense at the time in separating Scorpio from SCU only to put him in another team and 2) I thought he was doing a bit of an MJF lite thing. But that dude brought it hard tonight, he should be in the TNT title picture down the line

Top to bottom just a fantastic show, probably the best one in a while in my opinion. Unreal main event, even Christian vs Hardy was pretty damn good. Mox/Anderson didn't ever really click but it was a pretty decent outing when you consider the time off, and I'm pumped for the Archer match. The Hangman/Kenny promo was great, I really love the direction they're going in Edit 2: just to expand on the Hangman point, when Kenny said "You're afraid of failing in front of all these people" I legit felt that

Yo congrats Craig! That's fantastic.

Matt with the big save AGAIN. Got two for $222 for me and the Mrs. Thanks for the heads up!!!!!!!!!

When I got on the only tickets left were $400 each, so looks like I'll be sitting in space

Oh absolutely, I meant like at her status/card placement though

Trying to think of a '90s analogue to this. Scott Putski being in the WWF LHW tourney while on WCWSN every week?