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  1. I think we already have a winner in that one... I'm so sorry
  2. This drives me bananas. Why are there 5 or so different channels that 80-90% of the time all show the same thing!? The worst though, as a non-baseball guy, is when the Blue Jays are in the playoffs and it's on all but one channel, and you make the specific choice to watch that one non-Jays channel and then they cut in with Blue Jays highlights like "Hey maybe you didn't NOTICE are other four channels but the Blue Jays are playing!" ( I'm sure they do this with the Leafs too but I am a hockey guy so I've never noticed!) There's only one Roughriders now! But definitely agreed on the latter!
  3. Them showing all the Canadian=based shows then pulling it after they got back to the States irked me even more than if they had just said "We don't have the airtime" and never shown it at all.
  4. I still maintain Dana Brooke could have worked out but her NXT stay was way too short. She was a heat magnet with that weird armpit rubbing flex she did and she's obviously ridiculously athletic (that flip thing she does (did?) in her entrance was super impressive). But she was just starting to lean into a muscular heel bully role in NXT and get a little less clumsy in the ring when they nonsensically rushed her to Raw to be Alexa Bliss's muscle. This was set up to fail as Brooke wasn't experienced enough or noteworthy enough to be seen as a big deal. Coupled with the fact that women like Charlotte and Nia Jax dwarfed her which kinda negated the muscle part. I thinking she'd been given another 6 months or so in NXT she might have turned out well. Evans is somewhat similar though she had more charisma than Brooke. She was pushed too far, too hard, too fast (Those endless appearances where she strutted to the ring in weird millennial updates of old-fashioned Southern clothing, while they played her annoying theme and Michael Cole repeatedly yelled "THE SASSY SOUTHERN BELLE!" haunt me!). Like when she was shoehorned into that feud with Rollins/Becky by wearing Rollins name on her tights but she had neither the stature not the ability to be at that level. But I still think the natural thing to do was just go "She's a mom, she's a vet, U-S-A! U-S-A!" and the crowd would have cheered and you could have more talented heels look down on her and basically play her as the female John Cena: cheesy but still kind of cheerable.
  5. You would either get grumpy old JR mocking it as it went along or game JR trying to explain it as it went along and failing. Either option would have been amazing.
  6. I hated this show. Hated it. Cassidy-Yuta was fine. You knew full well where it was going. Omega's interview was pretty silly, and then he gets attacked by two guys who have absolutely nothing to do with him in AEW, just so they can shoehorn in a nonsensical multi-man match. This smacks of when WWE comes up on Survivor Series and teams would randomly attack other guys so they could put them in a multi-man match with no real backstory. Jericho-Callis was just long and stupid. So Jericho agrees to join Callis because he's a mastermind, but said mastermind already had a photo set up because he didn't think he would join? Then why go out there? To set Jericho up to get beat up by Ospreay...you could have saved us many weeks of shitty segments if he had just beat him up to begin with?! Plus, Callis was just going to walk away with Jericho after all? So did he want him to join the group or not?! Was he trying to trick Jericho into thinking he wanted him in the group so he could be blindsided by Ospreay? Or did he actually want him in the group and was just going to text Ospreay "nm" after Jericho joined the group? And then Jericho berates Callis for being an idiot and a scumbag for like two minutes...two minutes after agreeing to join up with him? Is this supposed to make me want to cheer Jericho? Because he is ostensibly the face in this match, right? So, you're telling me the guy who formed group to worship him, betrayed said group, then agrees to join the most hated man in the company (No, not Punk), then turns around and berates him..that's the guy I'm supposed to cheer for? This is the worst, most poorly-executed AEW storyline in a long time. Just bafflingly, stupendously bad storytelling that makes everyone involved look incredibly stupid. Darby/Allin-GOA was fine. Darby's stuff is always almost great. Sting's kidnapping of Nana was fine. Did Sting genuinely forget the date of the show or was that scripted? That was weird. Speaking of bad, who did Roderick Strong tick off to get where he is today? I wonder if he would have stayed on as Diamond Mine's overbearing boss rather than be turned into the whiny, neck-brace-wearing cast-aside who INJURES his foot kicking the tire of the ferrari his best friend was driving. MJF's promo was okay but this whole thing mostly sucked, too. The Texas Chainsaw match was one of the worst things I've seen. Probably the worst AEW match, maybe ever. It's like when WWE does those Christmas or Halloween hardcore matches where people meander along and get hit with wrapped cardboard boxes, except those usually have one great spot like someone being thrown into a Christmas Tree or something. This just had guys standing aroudn, meandering waiting to get hit and an ending that made Robocop's apperance look good. (So Jarrett says he has an in with Leatherface is really stupid, and Leatherface coming out is really stupid, and chasing off Karen Jarrett is really stupid but in the stupidest part of all, somehow this distracts everyone except Jarrett who wins the match!). I wish I had two more hands, so I could give this four thumbs down. Baker-Bunny was okay. I think Bunny and her entourage would have freshened up the 4-way way more than Baker but AEW is going to shoehorn their top guys and gals on that UK show whether it works or not. Excalibur trying to get Baker over as a dentist when it failed once is really funny. Remember when she was first pushed as the face/ace of the women's division and JR would blather on endlessly about Baker's dentist credentials as if everyone is going "Man, I love dentists! She's kind of a mediocre wrestler, but her being a dentist changes my mind entirely!" Also, AEW taking Rebel away from Britt because she's a face is the kind of bad booking WWE is known for (Like Smilin' Brock Lesnar). I notice I'm mentioning WWE a lot here and that's cuz this was like a bad Raw. Like a bad, Anonymous GM-era Raw(And I kind of liked the Anonymous GM for a while!). Bucks-Gunns was whatever. The Gunns are much more interesting than most of the teams above them. AEW almost needs US Tag Team Titles, really. FTR helping the Bucks overcome the odds is a plot point I feel AEW have done a hundred times. WWE likes to put their main eventers on the same team and win the tag titles and fight over it. AEW likes to have tag teams who are feuding help each other out because of "RESPECT". Man, do I miss Collision (I am no paying TSN extra money to watch it though)
  7. I remember being so confused by this angle as #1. I had no idea Gary Spivey was a real person (Well as real as a TV psychic can be!). #2. Why he seemed to have a tennis ball on his head and #3. How this whole thing was going to tie into Danny Spivey (whom I had only seen once or twice and thought was amazing) because they wouldn't introduce a character with the same unusual last name as a wrestler and not draw attention to it. Also, a quick Google finds he is still alive, still working as a psychic and his "hair" has gotten even more ridiculous https://garyspivey.com/about/
  8. I REALLY want to know who yelled "High spot!" when Jannetty crashes into those guys with the bike and knocks one into the fountain.
  9. Apparently one of the matches he produced was that sweet Big Bill/Cage vs Trent/Sydal match
  10. I actually do think, even as a not-so-much-a-fan-of-the-Bucks, that the Bucks would blow WWE audiences away. I know a good portion of WWE fans know them, but I think the first time the Buck did that thing where one of them hits the one guy with the move then backflips through the ropes onto the apron and flips onto the guy at ringside (or any of their other big moves) that the WWE Universe (yeah I went there!) would be BLOWN AWAY. Kinda like my favourite moment when they brough Tajiri in as Regal's bodyguard whatever and his first match he just busted out his standard ECW offence and the crowd was FLABBERGASTED. I'm not sure how long or sustained their push would be: I could see someone(...cough Vince) get their dander up about guys who are so small going over strong andI could also see some guys getting annoyed with them. But I could also see them puting their ego aside for the last big payday of their lives, doing a few years and a few tag reigns in WWE before a Reunion Tour in AEW or settling down and doing something in California. Roman Reigns hiring "the best tag team in the world" to take out "the best tag team in the world" would be pretty interesting to say the least. As would Cody and the Bucks vs. the Bloodline
  11. I don't dislike the MJF and Cole stuff (Though I do not like it NEARLY as much as some of you...) but I do feel it's kind of a waste of your World Champion. I guess if you're AEW, you're going to have to weigh whether ticking the crowd off in the short term by having MJF turn on Cole, or making Cole the biggest heel in the company by having him turn on MJF just after he'd won him over is the better choice. Because if you keep them together (Which is CLEARLY what the crowd wants), you're kind of stuck with a goofy dance-off world champion because you can't really get the belt off him and keep MJF as Cole's goofy buddy. The biggest loser out of this whole angle is Roderick Strong, who looks like a complete dork following Cole around in a neckbrace and going "What is going ON?!" while not actually caring so much about the guy who put him in the neckbrace. B&G was okayish. A little too deatmatch-y for me. I thought the order of the competitors made no sense after Kenny/Claudio (The guy who wrestles long matches vs the kind of cardio), and, of course, Ibushi at the end. I like Takeshita (Though I liked him better as underdog young guy better) but him coming in as the last guy didn't really do much for me. Didn't care for the walk-outs either. Not sure how Pac goes from full of rage to take out the Elite after so many months off to "Eh, I'm out of rage and don't feel like being told what to do" in one week's time except for it needing to be done to build up the ROH PPV that they may or may not have forgotten about. I almost feel like they should've just delayed the match a few weeks (or whatever) and waited for Kingston and Danielson because it would have been a way better match with those two and subtracting the two who really had nothing to do with the feud. I liked Perry-Hook, but it seemed almost like AEW forgot about Hook's win streak because it was a rather lame way for it to end (belt shot) and Excalibur added almost as an afterthought "And ended Hook's undefeated streak". I like Perry's new classical theme but he almost should have just stolen WALTER's, he can't use it anymore. I think he also needs to be Hollywood-ed up a bit more. Maybe involving a limo in his entrance, put Anna Jay on his arm. Also a Mr. Hughes-style bodyguard...hey you know, he is still alive!
  12. I'm probably the least-enthused FTR fan on the board and even I have to concede that's the MOTW
  13. Speaking of Mandela Effect, did Warrior put Goldusts wig on and run around with it? Or am I conflating it with Goldberg and the wig?
  14. To be fair, do you think Disney can honestly prove that it's NOT Brian Knobbs?!
  15. I saw one last year that proudly trumpeted an appearance by Seth "Franklin" Rollins. Which both makes me laugh thinking about a wrestler looking for a tough nickname and somehow settling on "Franklin" and also the idea of Seth Rollins having a Franklin puppet a la Arrested Development
  16. Of all the AEW this week, so far, I probably enjoyed Big Bill/Cage vs Trent/Sydal. It was basically a squash with the occasional hope spot, then built to a 'do they have a chance small guys vs big guys'-match back into a big squash ending and a very hot crowd.
  17. Brother? They have different last names! That match was great. Mean, stiff, felt like a genuine fight. Best Thorpe has looked, now he just kind of needs a gimmick outside of earnest guy who works hard. Kemp is always good, despite never really winning his big matches. I half-expected a Kemp/Steveson tag team. Steveson was good in the corner, but looked like a doofus wearing his medal. The guy randomly getting into the ring to fondle his medal was even sillier. I figured out what my problem with Jacey Jayne is and that's that she's basically playing a hybrid of Tiffany Stratton (Pretty girl who brags about her looks) and Cora Jade (mean girl) but isn't as good at it as either of them. She needs some sort of hook: evil witch, vegengeful vegan, pirate... I missed the last stretch except the end of Creeds/Dyad. Is the guy in the mask just Gacy? Or are they introducing someone else into it?
  18. There's a really fun Katana Chance-Emma match on Main Event this week which is fun because Katana Chance is so small that Emma gets to be Scott Hall, They talk about Emma being disenchanted with the new crop of superstars not respecting her and she wrestles that way, bullying Chance as if she's WCW-era Rey Mysterio. Lots of disrespectful-looking kicks and Emma busting out offence you never see (A wheelbarrow suplex) and Chance cutting her off with some pretty spectaculr high-spots (A handstand on the ropes into a headscissors! A standing shooting star press off of Emma's back!).. Ending is a little abrupt but Chance's 360 Codebreaker is pretty nuts.
  19. Jinder Mahal's transformation was pretty nuts.
  20. Is there any reason they stopped calling them the Gunn Club? I feel like they were the Gunn Club, Gunn Show and now seem to be just the Gunns. I think the Gunns is the worst of those three, there are so many Gun-related names they could go with (Gunn Club, Gunn Show, Gunn Fire, Gunn Violence, Gunn Control (the latter would really work for heels in Southern states!) that it feels like they settled on the least interesting one. I'm not crazy about their finisher (It just looks like FTR's) which they don't always hit that cleanly, but I really dig everything else about them. I think they should have kept the tag titles as FTR really doesn't need them (FTR are like the Bucks or Usos in that they're basically above the tag division, and teams can get over just wrestling them without the title being involved). I know everyone loves Billy Gunn being with the Acclaimed, but I still feel like he should be back with his boys.
  21. BTW, I HATED the end of the OC/Shibata-Sabre/Garcia match where they all held onto the belt. It was stupid when WWE ended a Raw with Reigns and Lesnar playing tug-of-war with the belt, it was stupid here, too. I'm supposed to believe that these guys who just punched and kicked each other in the end, stand next to each other holding onto a corner or a belt and don't touch each other, just pulling at a belt long enough for the camera to get a shot?! Drives me BANANERS
  22. Taz DID say something along the lines of "Condiments are a pain, but you have to wear them" tonight, right? Right?!
  23. Man if Miro is back, back. Like seriously back and not going to disapper again, have him show up at the first post-Cole-MJF feud and take the top title. The crowd reaction from him, his physical presence and charisma are like few I've ever seen. Like, everything from the first note of his music right to the ad break after his match was the biggest sustained heat I've seen since...Rock? Maybe Lesnar's return? It was just this unending crowd heat and Miro being awesome. Is Andrade not part of Rush's group (I don't feel like googling the spelling so that's what you get!)?! I thought the lights would go out, HOB shows up, then the lights would come back up with Rush and Vance standing behind Andrade. I guess that's my biggest gripe with the show: the matches were good to great, the performances were good to great, the crowd was hot. But there was no real storyline advancement: you got a bit of teasing from Punk (But how much of that is actual storyline possibilities and how much of it is just Punk adlibbing?!); you got HOB attacking Andrade and the rest was just AEWCW Saturday Night. I think a good big angle would have made this seem more like appointment viewing than Rampage 2. A heel turn. A run-in. A group formation.
  24. Not sure if it was mentioned on here (Last time I checked the thread it hadn't been, and I waded through 3 pages of nonsense about Elton John somehow not being awesome?! before giving up), but is it known on here that Collision will be on TSN2 in Canada and not just TSN+?! I'd wager it's probably a one-time or sporadic thing (Wouldn't be shocked if they show the Canadian dates as well), but as someone who is not paying for TSN+, I'm excited to watch the first show.
  25. I will say I THINK that Bret wasn't able to work at Starrcade with his broken hand/wrist that he got from punching Vince McMahon. I'm not excusing the tepid "Referee Bischoff and Zybysko" storyline, but I don''t think he was quite healthy enough to have an actual match. The better play would have been to have the NWO teasing him as their secret weapon against Sting, ref bump, Hart comes out and nails Hogan after teasing like he's going to wipe out Sting, Sting wins. Then you can still do the Hogan revenge tour because Sting didn't beat him clean.
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