Casey

Real cowboys smoke Winstons.

Looks like Dustin & Sammy are wrestling twice tonight. That's wild.

I'm personally hoping for a nice little TNT run from Dustin, but I'm sure it'll be Fletcher. Cole has had terrible luck ever since Forbidden Door 2022.

Adam Cole isn't medically cleared, and they actually stripped him of the title. Dustin Rhodes versus Daniel Garcia versus Kyle Fletcher versus Sammy Guevera for the TNT title now.

From a "where does the story go/where do each wrestler go after this" perspective, my top three are Hangman/Mox, Storm/Mone & Bucks/Swerve & Ospreay. From a "this match is gonna fuck" perspective, my top three are the same. Okada/Omega will probably also be fucking awesome, but there's not much story there besides "we're fighting for a new title and we also feuded and had legendary matches almost ten years ago". Which is fine, sometimes you don't need Hangman levels of character work and story, but I love shit like that, so. Cole/Fletcher will probably be the sleeper match of the day, IMO. Women's Gauntlet is a little more interesting after last night. Men's Gauntlet is whatever, honestly. I'm fine with MJF until he starts to sniff the World title scene, then I'm not interested in him. This is purely a me thing, but my ceiling for tolerance of MJF is Unified title level. I hope we get some surprise entrants in one or both of these matches. But I still don't like the concept for some reason. I don't really care about the Tag title match. JetSpeed don't have a chance, Hurt Syndicate is okay I guess, and I'm just so completely over Christian as a heel doing this Father stuff. Let's fast forward to the E&C reunion. Opps/Death Riders isn't doing anything for me. Add in Gabe Kidd and my interest gets even lower. Zero Hour matches are just filler, besides maybe Outrunners/FTR 2. I haven't seen the Collision match, so hopefully this one is better since I'm actually watching! I'm on Twitter (yeah I know) and the online discourse of AEW fans hating Jelly Roll probably wrestling at SummerSlam (I hate it too) versus WWE fans saying what's the difference in that and the Costco Guys is funny to me. They usually specifically point to the Rizzler, which, I mean... he's a fucking kid. WWE had John Cone's kid win the Tag titles at WrestleMania and then made an action figure of him. Big Boom AJ is also a former wrestler, lmao.

I'm on S2E7 and if they can keep up this kind of quality then it has a good chance, for me, to knock off The Wire. I do like that there are shades of grey to Vic, it felt like everyone in the Wire was either good or bad with very few people walking that line. Which I like how the Shield does it, because it feels more realistic in a sense. I don't remember ever going from liking McNulty to hating him back to liking him within one episode, whereas I do that constantly with Vic. I know it still exists even today, but them doing what they're doing with Julien right now is a bold move. I feel like that's something that wouldn't even be touched today. Maybe I'm wrong, who knows.

https://shop.wwe.com/en/mens-black-solo-sikoa-my-family-tree-t-shirt/p-247714573164516076+z-98-3632352335?_ref=p-SRP:m-GRID:i-r0c1:po-1 https://www.shopaew.com/catalog/product/view/id/79456/s/mjf-thumbs-up-comfort-colors-soft-heavyweight-tee/category/5702/ Things that make you go "hmmmmm"

I'm not convinced the gauntlet battle royale is even a good idea to begin with.

As far as Jazwares goes, I contemplated only collecting the female wrestlers but I don't have the space to do that so I dropped it. But the Big Rubber Guys are fucking awesome, so AEW branded ones is really hard to pass up. Jazwares attempted it early on with the Cody, Punk & Darby figures. If the Okada is limited to 3000 then the $50 price tag makes even more sense. EDIT: actually I think you're just paying a premium for ordering it from the AEW website. I think the biggest complaint everyone has with Jazwares is that they take too long to put them out. But they're easily the best wrestling figures on the market (that are sold in major stores, anyway). I have a few Mattel & Jazwares figures of Punk and the difference in quality between the two are noticeable. They really need to make more Supreme figures.

It was yesterday lol but thanks man!

The video I saw of Okada reacting to seeing the figure showed it with a limited to 5000 sticker, so there's that at least.

AEW & Big Rubber Guys announced a partnership at Starrcast today. Haven’t announced the full lineup yet for Series 1 yet, but Toni Storm was confirmed. welp, guess I’ll collect these too.

That's MJF's ex-fiancé, actually. In other news - Jelly Roll versus Logan Paul is probably happening at SummerSlam.

A Power Rangers fan on BlueSky alerted everyone that the MMPR: The Movie Funko Pops had been restocked on their website so I waited a week, used my Disney+ Funko perk coupon, and got all six for like $80. Hell yeah. And Entertainment Earth has the CM Punk pipebomb Funko up for preorder so I grabbed that too. I’m still on the lookout for a deal on the old one he had when they first got the licensing deal with Funko, it regularly lists on eBay for hundreds of dollars. TLDR: I bought a shitload of Funko Pops for my birthday lmao

Pretty sure Hangman explicitly said his family will be there but not at the show, though.