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TBH I think at this early stage of the game the smarter move would be to have Jade herself as someone else's muscle ala Chyna, so she can learn from the apron every week, but we may be past that point

I'm wondering if Andrade only agreed to it knowing there's a chance ADR might be away by then - in any case, it's still pretty baffling unless he knows something we don't (which is... c'mon, now)

Also, count me in as one of those shocked by the Cage/Hangman finish. The pile driver looked so damn good that at first, we thought he was hurt and they went right home

Sonny Onoo taking selfies or we riot!

Great, great list man. I've seen every one of 'em, and I got no qualms. My heart wants to argue to put Best Friends/Proud N Powerful higher, but you really kinda can't, that's a hell of a top 9

You know what I'd kinda not mind seeing? I hate the idea of a trios belt, it's too redundant to the reg tag belts - they ought to double down on the Freebird rule, and say that the tag titles can be defended in any team configuration from 2v2 up to 4v4. You could not only protect the two man teams by having their weaker third eat the pin from time to time, but you could also use that to set up a bunch of different issues. For example, JX are champs but lose the belts because Marco begged to make it a six man "to prove himself" or something.

https://www.blabbermouth.net/news/smashing-pumpkins-guitarist-jeff-schroeder-records-theme-song-for-nwas-when-our-shadows-fall-pay-per-view/ Puff piece about the NWA's upcoming PPV on a metal news site, kinda cool to see em mentioned "in the wild"

Yea there's a link on the last page, also a huge bummer.

The last few pages really highlight the importance of and need for more facepaint in modern wrestling. Look at Sting, man - visually speaking, he's like 85-90% the same dude as he's been since '97, just with sleeves. Like, if Abaddon's body holds up, she can probably work til she's in her 60s if she were so inclined

I'm sorry, man! I didn't mean anything about your comment, I just gotta reply that to any and every Nick C. post.

That's Nick Commoroto and he is the future of this sport.

It was the whole ensemble, really. He was dressed like when Ice Train changed gimmicks to M.I. Smooth

Maybe MJF beats Darby for the TNT title first, and we stay the course for Hangman/Kenny, with MJF eventually beating Hangman for the World title in like a year or something.

Wow @Craig Hthis is actually the first I've read the MLW/Vice news. I have to say, good on Impact and NWA for getting involved with AEW out of the gate, because to me, without the whole "forbidden door" thing, this shoots MLW right up to the default #3 position (I understand ROH is likely in more homes due to Sinclair's wide reach, but 1) it's broadcast syndication vs. a full on cable channel, and 2) it kinda sucks)

I'm dying at that Riddle segment, even if it went perfectly what even is this conversation "You think they like scooters in Japan?" lmfao

I'm very late to the party, but sign me up for the Samoa Joe revenge tour ASAP

Im torn on whether or not I liked Ogogo doing the Mickey Ward finish on the same show Tyson knocked Cash out. And BIGGEST SHOUT EVER to Cash's fencing response sell!!! I was huge into that.

Like, isn't that implied by "Backlash" on its own though? Fuck, man, if you can't trust your audience to make that connection without holding their hand...

I'm probably yelling at a cloud here but these WWF/E signatures have been awful since the late 90s change away from "For over 50 years, the (revolutionary/#1 force) in sports entertainment"

@EVAStrongly agree on these points. This show just fucking meandered - I don't really know how else to put it. Maybe they knew NXT would do a number, who knows.. It just seems kind of weird to both rush things in certain respects, and to remain in what appears to be a "holding" pattern for others. It's not like there's a PPV or big Dynamite to build to other than Blood and Guts which is still well far away. Just a very strange tone this week, would be the best way of describing it.

Yup, that was the last one as far as I'm aware.

This week was mostly a swing and a miss for me, honestly. Enough interrupting promos!! I'd watch USA if I wanted that shit. Nothing was terribly offensive, but this show could have been much, much tighter. Darby/Drake brought it though, big respect to Drake. I went from "Why isn't this on Dark?" to "Holy shit!" pretty quick, so kudos to those guys.

I'm actually feeling incredibly anxious about returning to real life. If AEW ran my town tomorrow and TK was giving out the vaccine at the door, I'm still not sure I'd be ready to go. On a deeper level, I think our society was handed a golden reset button with this pandemic, and we completely fucked it up. We learned a five day, 40 hour workweek makes no sense. We learned it makes no sense to be herded into disease infected cubicles to do a job you can do from your bedroom. We learned that a UBI might make more sense than we originally thought. We learned shaking hands is silly as shit. And collectively we went "No thanks! More of the same, please! And by the way, hurry it up!" Just a massive disappoinment on every possible level. We could have taken this thing and changed our world for the better, and we'll (God willing) never have that chance again. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

Ah man, I'm pretty torn on that. Christian is one of my favorites ever, but I think it's still too soon for Omega/Christian. As a matter of fact, personally, I'd hold off on that match until Kenny drops the title and maybe make it a #1 contender affair. Anything sooner is a little TNA for me - YMMV!

That's a great point, but it also makes me think Nash was just bullshitting in the story @Ziggyis referencing. Many have referenced Taker as THE backstage presence. Hall/Nash & co. had pretty sweet deals going on down there - I have to wonder why they would want to disrupt that with Taker's presence. The only thing I could see, as others have mentioned, is just feelers sent for leverage, but I don't see a world where there are serious Undertaker to WCW talks in late '98.