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  1. My tell for that was calling a reverse atomic drop a Manhatten drop.
  2. Chris Jericho vs MJF No Judas entrance and Jericho can't use the Judas Effect - Is this an opportunity for Fozzy to debut a new song!? OMG! Booking logic would say that Jericho should go over having gone through all the steps in order to get this match and blow off this awful, awful feud. MJF's stock seems lower than ever to me where they've already blown off this feud a couple of times and done a terrible job of building up anyone but Jericho who is the last person who needed it. World Tag Team Championship: The Young Bucks (c) vs Jurassic Express - Would be a pretty cold time to swap the belts but doesn't feel impossible since The Bucks have already beaten the JE a couple of times and they can't keep being gun shy with Jungle Boy forever. Texas Tornado Tag: Sting & Darby Allin vs 2.0 - Feels like such a waste of a Sting match to have them wipe out two lower card guys for the third week in a row. Sammy Guevara vs Shawn Spears - Spears has been quietly putting together a solid string. Sammy will probably go over and that's likely the correct call. And a "major announcement" from Sammy Thunder Rosa vs Penelope Ford - Feels like random match generator to me. Rosa will likely go over in a match that will be too long. Ricky Starks vs Brian Cage - Too soon to get this rematch or for Cage to get revenge unless they're moving on from Cage as the act that he's already been demoted to. I would like to see Team Taz to continue to roll and get away from Captain Beige as soon as possible. Britt Baker, D.M.D. in action - The heel who gets face reactions is fine as a character. They need an opponent for her toot sweet.
  3. I’m personally a snob so I find it to be a bit juvenile but it’s clearly a reach for 20-30 something males as opposed to WWE trying to hook youngins.
  4. While there might not be a riot, it will absolutely burn that town out and screw up a ton of the goodwill that AEW has developed with its audience. The crowd will absolutely ruin that show from beginning to end.
  5. MDK Gang doesn’t stand for Magical Disney Kids. Obviously AEW tries to be more violent than the standard WWE product with the more frequent blading, weapons and crazy bumps. They also enjoy using the word shit once an episode and throwing up middle fingers whenever they can. They’re just on the typical American standard of violence is fine and sexual references are bad. To say they aren’t trying to be more ‘adult’ is frankly crazy.
  6. Good news is Mark Henry doesn't have any tattoos.
  7. Of course HHH should be blamed if he's running the thing. Who else should be blamed? You shouldn't blame the talent since they didn't hire themselves, even if you as a promoter don't think they can produce for you. If he wasn't being blamed, I would claim nepotism and I think most people would as well.
  8. My apologies but my understanding of THE NARRATIVE was that 2.0 were being super wasted in NXT and now they're in the awesome arms of AEW and now they're being used better. But it's really just the same thing with a larger audience near as I can tell.
  9. So the difference between how they were used on NXT and AEW is that they get a bigger audience working with Darby and Sting?
  10. I'm guessing somehow, someway Cody Rhodes would be involved.
  11. I'm desperate not to have to look at pages of people talking about JR so I am going to pick as many nits as possible in the hopes anything else can come up. From a storytelling prospect, I'm not how being delusional losers is going to draw any heat. They are going to be putting other people over constantly so the fans would either be in a perpetual state of catharsis or they will start to route for 2.0 which means you're already setting up a face turn two weeks into their run. There are ways to get around this through mic work but my understanding is that they normally go for yucks rather than drawing ire. The closest I can think of historically is Stevie Richards working under Raven in ECW and that worked because Stevie was a lickspittle toadie who wouldn't stand up for himself.
  12. 5 Labors of Jericho: Chris Jericho vs Wardlow -- Already talked about it but boarders on the absurd of Jericho popping back from so much offence. It would have probably protected Wardlow more if they didn't add to the baseball bat for the finish. AEW has a bad New Japan habit of beating a guy with multiple stuff that leads to diminishing returns. It happened in three matches this week (this was the least egregious of the lot). Impact Tag Team Titles: The Good Brothers vs Evil Uno & Stu Grayson -- Was about what I expected with lackluster action and the heels going over. Scott D'Amore on commentary was almost shocking but how high his voice was in comparison. They didn't do a great job of explaining who he was and why he was there. He didn't add a lot to a four man booth so I'm not sure why they bothered to add him. If this was a WWE show, this would be more about the Dark Order being buried but "they're teaching Hangman how to lose" which is dumb. Darby Allin vs RED DEATH Daniel Garcia -- Most of Garcia's heat got eaten in commercial which is a really bad idea when you are in theory trying to get him over as a new talent. As it stands, he's another guy on a roster of guys. I know everyone seems excited about 2.0 but they come off as jobbers who Sting and Darby are going to beat up every week which is what is happening. This 'feud' cannot possibly have any heat as the heels are obviously out manned. OC, Chucky T, & Wheeler Yuta vs Hardy Party -- Too many false finishes for a meaningless 6 man. No one needs to see Isiah Kassidy kicking out at 2.9999. Finishing stretch went too long and needing multiple finishes to beat Wheeler is overkill. Wheeler continues to have no presence and no chemistry with the Best Friends. Cassidy is still over but he's on a treadmill. Nyla Rose vs Kris Statlander -- Have we seen Statlander do a 450 splash before? If not, Excalibur already having a gimmick name for it is terrible. Quick match but still looked super awkward. Kenny & The Bucks vs Dante Martin & The Sydal Brothers -- Dante had the crowd so they squashed him dead and made sure to beat him when nothing happening Mike Sydal is right there. They're pushing Dante like they're pushing Brian Pillman Jr. by having the stars going over him decisively and never letting him get over on anyone. This could honestly be the start of something if they follow up but its far more likely we won't see Dante for another 2 months on Dynamite.
  13. I usually watch AEW on mute but JR sounded good this week. He did a great job putting over Kenny and the Bucks in the opening match (much better than Callis who seems like he’s on a dialogue tree).
  14. Where did the idea that big guys can't work get propagated? Wrestling history is full of guys who were big ex footballers who were awesome. For every shitty big guy who was a look and nothing else, there's a little guy who could do moves but no one would care about if they came to the ring giving away gold bars. NXT clearly got too in the weeds of little guys with beards who no one cared enough to actually watch even if they had good matches. Diversify! You can't have only one type of wrestler or everyone merges into one mass of Adam O'Gargondunns. You've managed to miss the same argument 200 times so let's see if 201 is enough. WWE sucking eggs doesn't mean AEW is good at everything and they never make mistakes. The Cody stipulation when anyone talks about it (which is never) is something they didn't need to do since they could have booked Cody exactly the same as they have without bothering with it. Wardlow jobbing to Jericho with a baseball bat is... okay I guess... but it doesn't help anyone but Jericho overcome the odds like John Cena on steak sandwiches. This may shock you but WWE didn't invent DQ endings in order to protect talent. No one is asking for a DQ finish to 99% of the matches on AEW, just this one. The concept behind that was to put Jericho in jeopardy so when he gets to MJF, we are worried that he won't survive. Instead we are going to have Jericho go through four guys winning each match with his finish. So I'm not worried about Jericho in narrative and really don't care that he is finally getting his hands on MJF because MJF is too incompetent to be taken as a serious threat.
  15. I don't pay any attention. Here I was hoping for a wrestler in a box at the end.
  16. 5 Labors of Jericho: Chris Jericho vs Wardlow --I'm sort of assuming that MJF should be arranging this so Jericho gets through but will so be so beaten down that MJF can pick up the pieces at the end since why wouldn't he want to do that? This is one of those times when I would advocate for a blatant disqualification finish (like Wardlow powerbombing Jericho through a table) since jobbing Wardlow seems so counterproductive long term. Here's hoping for Miro being the last labor with the stipulation that Jericho has to live through the match to progress. Impact Tag Team Titles: The Good Brothers vs Evil Uno & Stu Grayson -- Yuck. Good Brothers are the Brian Adams of the Elite. I don't really expect much of anything from them. I would rather they put over The Dark Order but I don't expect it. Having The Elite win all the time is a bummer to me so I just don't have interest in their matches anymore. Darby Allin vs RED DEATH Daniel Garcia -- Really weird booking to put a new heel in a jobbing situation against one of your top babyfaces two weeks in a row. I don't see Garcia breaking out so I'm not sure I see a point to it. This is such a step down from the Men of the Year feud. I actually miss them. OC, Chucky T, & Wheeler Yuta vs Hardy Party -- I will buck @Technico Supportand say Isiah Kassidy is actually a pretty decent undercard bumping heel figure in the style of PG-13. He's way better at that than he was being a face. Marq was better as a baby. Matt is good at impregnating his wife. I've yet to be impressed with Wheeler who is generic good wrestler man. I was thinking the Best Friends - HFO series was blown off with the Blade-Orange match. Or maybe I was just hopeful. Nyla Rose vs Kris Statlander -- Predicting Statlander goes over. Hopefully Nyla is getting cycled out for newer talent. Kenny & The Bucks vs Dante Martin & The Sydal Brothers -- "Good match" that does nothing for anyone but fill television time.
  17. I think they were also part of the tag match where they threw Nyla on top of Britt and hurt her leg in the process.
  18. Public Enemy are like the greatest slight of hand Paul ever pulled off if it wasn't for The Eliminators who I think people still think were really good.
  19. I totally agree with this. While Raven was never the best worker, he had presence and a character and look that really resonated that felt like the main event. I would totally be happy if you talked about Raven forever. Just a chapter on the Raven-Stevie relationship would be awesome considering how their characters bounced off each other so effectively. I love ECW's weird undercard with all the characters that were definitively, in storyline, morons. YES. Double yes. Can we talk more about Mikey Whipwreck?
  20. Andrade El Idolo Last Time: New Signing Since Last Time: Came in with an association with Vickie Guerrero which was transitioned to Chavo Guerrero Jr. and an unnamed assistant. Has worked one match against Matt Sydal and started an angle with the Death Triangle attempting to start an association with Rey Fenix and Penta. Has had numerous opportunities to cut promos that are subtitled because people seem to have trouble understanding him in both languages. What Now?: Having Andrade cut promos is extremely counter productive as it is the one part of the wrestling game he's terrible at. Chavo has managed to improve the presentation and has served much better than Vicki as a mouthpiece who was an extremely bad fit for Andrade. Andrade's presentation requires a level of professionalism Vicki's annoying character doesn't fit. One match in 2 months seems like a waste of a really good in ring talent who would improve his standing with good outings (assuming there isn't some injury or some other reason we aren't being made aware of). I love Andrade's suit and mask look but we've only seen it once. Matches with The Death Triangle should actually be good when we eventually get there but I would have liked to see them hammer Andrade over before having him work competitive matches. I would have liked to see a last name added to the branding and having "El Idolo" be more of a nickname than a title.
  21. If I were Bray, I would radically simplify my presentation down to barebones to get away from some of the more outlandish stuff he's done and focus more on his internal madness. I would have him take more of a grindhouse approach rather than over the top horror. I would personally think it would be good to pair him against Black and frame Black as a reflection of his former self. Bray would make a great out of nowhere surprise with Black's entrance darkening the arena and just having Bray be there when the lights come up. Since you already have so many things in the pipeline with CM Punk and others, I think it's okay not to heavily promote one of the debuts you have coming.
  22. AEW has too many redundant belts at this point. They should strip out the titles from other promotions to clean up the presentation.
  23. I would have been fine with a rewrite where the Dark Order runs out to make the save and in the aftermath, Page shoves one of them down or something and leaves them hanging in the ring. You follow that up with a 15-30 second segment in the back of Page telling Marvez that he wasn't kidding about keeping away from him. Later on when he needs help, you can do a variation on this segment.
  24. My thoughts went right to Cena’s first FU on Rikishi being the most Death Valley of Drivers before it became the flat back bump we all know and … accept?
  25. Which one is the Children of the Corn? Have no fear. I’m just dumb and confused the old timey evil names that no one uses anymore that start with M.
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