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Rampage was taped last week already. One update to the card Dolfan posted I notice is Jack Perry has a TNT title open challenge and the BCC Trios match isn’t listed anywhere. My doom-and-gloom reading is Private Party were going to team with Garcia but he’s gonzo.

and there’s Christian looming over everything with the MITB clipboard ready to spoil Darby’s big moment

Give us the ROH Gauntlet - Bryan vs. Roddy, Joe, and then Nigel

Wait, where is this Roddy/Bryan match being announced, I’m not seeing it anywhere

Turn Stoke and then Kamille has a mouthpiece when Mercedes isn’t around and give me all the Kamille-Stat matches and stare-downs in the world.

The last of her dates is tomorrow so this really won’t conflict at all.

Trying to come up with some likely matches for All Out since my crew hasn’t missed one yet. Mostly drawing a blank and without becoming the Charlie Day meme we’ve deduced a possible main event of Danielson/Okada 2. MJF/Garcia is likely if Danny stays with AEW. No idea what the future plan is for Ospreay and Swerve, maybe they have a rematch here? If Darby straps up in London maybe he has a title defense?

Obviously I'll watch Bryan-Christian at some point, but for the first time ever I was actually so turned off by an AEW show (the opening segment) that I decided to do something else with my time. Three former WWE guys doing a WWE segment complete with unfunny humor and references to The Rock. Hard pass.

Also the Texas Death Match last week

Honestly, "The Legend" Adam Copeland has a nice ring to it and sometimes referencing him as "Ledge" is not the worst compromise. Hopefully his creative juices are flowing a little bit better than that though.

To be fair, this episode was the Dynamite go-home show for the PPV, and there have been 2 other PPV's within the past month. It's obviously been a bit ham-fisted and hopefully they find some balance, but I much prefer this to earlier in the year when it felt like nothing ever happened for weeks on end until it was time to hype the PPV.

Tony Khan hyped WrestleDream as the end of an era and the beginning of a new era. He’s most likely referring to the MAX deal, but I think he was hinting at many things, including storyline elements. The era of The Undisputed Kingdom. Cole was under the devil mask and has been working Max the entire time. I don’t think the injury is a work, but that was the catalyst for Adam framing MJF since now his plans to win the title are delayed. So now the idea is to break Max down psychologically, one piece at a time. The first piece is escalating the feud with Jay White and taking the tag belts away in one fell swoop. After Sunday, Max will be at his lowest point since becoming champion. Perfect time for someone to come in a swoop the Triple B away. I think the plan was for Cole to beat MJF but with the injury it may have delayed things, but I have another idea: Wardlow. A heel War Dog with Addddam! in a wheelchair and Orielly, Roddy, and the Kingdom as his henchmen seems pretty well rounded. Echoes of the Bloodline. And then when Wardlow can’t win the big one and it’s time for Cole to work again, the heels can turn on the big loser and maybe his old scumbag boss can save face. (I’m now realizing Sunday is probably too soon to reveal the but I enjoy these thoughts so…submit reply.)

from Reddit

Right, pressure wasn't the correct term, but more often than not your average Dynamite crowd is either hit or miss and it does make a huge difference. It's not that there is or should be some expectation of the audience, but any live performance lives or dies by the crowd that's in person for the show. So it's a variable for sure. And we've heard time after time from workers that the stadium noise functions differently and is another challenge. Safe bet to say the crowd will be absolutely lit, however.

I maintain that the real pressure is not on the talent, the audience, or the booking. This show will live and die on the audio engineering and camera direction. Perhaps also to a lesser extent, sigh, the commentary. I can live with bad booking and matches that don't quite hit, but for an expensive and successful weekly TV show to sound like dogshit every week and constantly miss important spots and moments is absolutely inexcusable 5 years in.