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Good. A few of them aren't bad (I actually like the Judgement Day druids thing for some reason) but I'll gladly give them up to get rid of the other awful ones.

The Aubrey bit is exactly what you said but... the fact they removed the footage from their own youtube vid would require the copyright strikes not coming from inside the house to be one hell of a coincidence.

You may not believe this but I legit only looked up one WWE guy and one AEW guy, based on who generally seems to be wrestling the most. If I happened to guess the person who worked the most for each company then... well then I watch too much wrestling but that's neither here nor there. If anything that means my feel is probably about right, that the typical WWE guy in a given spot is working a bit more than the equivalent in AEW. Neither of them are working the old WWE schedule thank god (or a current lucha schedule apparently), but the AEW guys who aren't working a bunch of indies are working a bit less and that's fine. That said... since the comparison was brought up before and it seemed fair I looked up Rollins and in 2023 he worked just over a hundred matches, if Ospreay hits that number in a year in AEW even working the occasional NJPW show I will gladly say I'm completely wrong

I just wanna know... last week was Switchblade/Daddy Ass, this week was the All In footage, what segment next Dynamite will turn out to be an impossible to comprehend bad idea? >_>

This sounded suspect to me so I did an experiment and picked a random WWE and AEW wrestler who seem to be fairly active in each company (Dom Mysterio and Orange Cassidy) and checked how many matches they have worked since the start of 2023. Dom worked 135, Orange worked 86. Given that Orange worked basically every single AEW house show, the Jericho cruise and a few indy dates to get to said number that's probably close to the AEW upper limit, so while it isn't nothing it is still less than 2/3 of the alternative. Granted this is very unscientific but a busy WWE wrestler seems to clearly be working more than a busy AEW one, and I see no reason Ospreay wouldn't be busy unless he negotiated very well. EDIT: Also unless I am confusing this with someone else Rollins apologized to Will years ago re: the twitter stuff and they've been complimentary towards each other in the years since.

I think it was the wrong week to do so as it really added to the whole "jeez AEW cares more about what's going on in WWE Land than their own" feel of things they had going tonight. Anyways hopefully AEW realize this was a moronic week and learn from it.

I feel like I'm gonna get some pushback for saying this... but Evans seems to actually be what AEW keeps telling me Nick Wayne is.

It is amazing how much better they got by ditching Edge and bringing in a then floundering, green as hell Dom Mysterio. At the time no one would view that as an upgrade but wrestling is odd like that sometimes.

I mean... even odds that they'd love to buy out all his shares even at an elevated price.

I feel silly having to say this... but y'all realize there is a high chance Hunter was just working with that statement, right? He's on a media appearance and he can't just straight say "oh yeah, there's good reasons why some people would rather work elsewhere" so he responds in a way that deflects away from that. You can argue that it didn't work, but I think taking it as something he 100% believes and is honestly glad they didn't sign is a touch naive.

Someone pointed this out to me years ago, but I don't know that I've ever seen Thatcher run the ropes in a match. He's worked enough matches that it's had to have happened at some point but he may do so less frequently than just about everyone else currently working.

See I thought the Edge promo was pathetic but this? This level of petty I'm willing to go with, just fully commit to it beyond all reasonableness.

I just have to say... do you know how hard it is to make me towards Punk's side on anything nowadays? I don't want to get lost in the moment and call that opening Edge bit the most cringe thing AEW has ever done, but jesus christ you don't respond to an ex-employee saying mixed things about you (he was often positive towards AEW in the full interview) on your live tv show, particularly to lead off. Kingston and Schiavone had this figured out, this actually felt pathetic. (I mostly wrote that to distract myself from that absolutely WTF White/Gunn match >_>) (The rest of the show was fine)

To poorly rip off a well worn quote, if you have multiple #2 titles you have zero #2 titles. Tony has been so concerned with establishing the various belts credibility that he never worked out their identities and that's also rather important.

Yeah I think one has to understand that in terms of wrestling games released in the US... Warzone was one of the better ones at the time of its release. None of the other WWE games beforehand were rather good aside from maybe Wrestlefest (which was arcade only), it had possibly the first real Stateside create a wrestler and WCW/NWO World tour just beat it out (and while better the AKI games didn't become truly great in the US until Revenge came out). The controls while overly complicated make more sense in historical context as for the previous five or so years fighting games were king and hence one became used to having to memorize a bunch of button presses to perform moves. That said it has aged wretchedly and there is zero reason to revisit it.

If they cut Henry and not Drake A.) that sucks for both of them, and B) makes it seem like they cut him for getting hurt (on an indie show, albeit by another AEW talent) which... is a real bad look.

I mean they sort of touched on Rhea's house show spot during the face to face confrontation Rhea and Becky had on Raw last week, it is now part of their story/feud so I think it is fair to touch upon. I also think whatever Becky's thoughts are (they are likely this) she is gonna hold this line until the match is done because of this.

There is no one in either WWE or AEW who needs to jump to the other more than Starks. He's heated up multiple times in AEW to show that he is that guy and they just always lose interest in him through no fault of his own. All he needs is to be on tv consistently and I think he can manage the rest and even Vince's WWE could have probably managed that thanks to Raw being 3 hours long. I can see those who mainly watch AEW or think ill of WWE wanting him to stay but it has become clear that the company is just never gonna be consistently behind him, he was ready to be a star two years ago now. Right behind him is Hobbs BTW.

I have to ask... am I the only one getting flashbacks to WALTER/Starr/Devlin in this whole Gunther/Gable/Sami deal? I swear I can see Gable seconding Sami at Mania, Sami close to pulling off the win and Gable yanking him off the pin at the last second as he swore to his daughter that he'd be the one to beat Gunther, that this just means more to him.

I do worry what'll happen when GuerrillaMonsoon catches the other 3+ seasons worth of this show as man, if he had issues with Foley then there's another few dozen people he's gonna end up rather angry/disappointed with

I feel like WWE realized quickly that while Sasha Banks had great presence and could cut a solid brief promo she did not have big show opening monologue talents (TBF most don't). For whatever reason AEW seems to have unlearned this and like... I know there are some people who have a real hate on for Mone, I think she's one of the best american women wrestlers out there atm but I don't think you can book her to just talking like this for another month before letting her wrestle.

The Creeds are both awesome and really need to be pulled aside before they end up hurting someone bad. I don't think it is so much disregard for their opponents as it is youthful naivety, but there is a point in many of their matches where they try something that would be perfect if this was all real but generally isn't done as you aren't legit trying to kill your opponents. I assume they'll get it at some point, I just hope they figure it out before something eventually goes wrong.

I recall reading discussion somewhere about how many modern wrestler themes, particularly in WWE land, are basically designed just to pavlovianly train the audience to chant or whoa or whatnot on command, Mone's theme is the most that ever. Thought it was a better moment than promo but these big intro/welcome back promos often suffer from being a bit rote (see: CM Punk's WWE one). Will is a much more confident promo right off the bat than I expected. It's a bit mean to say... but can you imagine signing Okada just to put the ROH or NJ Strong title on him?

I don't think that the Indi/Candice vs. Ivy/Maxxine match was supposed to be comedy, but that didn't prevent it from being hilarious.

Given that Miro was one of the people rumored to have asked for his release/been approached by WWE and seemingly turned down... how can I put this: you have the legal right to make him stick around but you can't really force him to care or try if he doesn't want to. One can argue whether he should or not but ultimately if he's only there because he is made to (again because he signed a contract of his own free will) there's really nothing to prevent him from slow playing things the rest of his time there. Even in WWE, where this happened a lot to people we were generally sympathetic to, things generally hit a point where if the wrestlers still wanted out they decided it was no longer worth the effort and just let them go and... well if the rumors are true this has been going on for about 18 months now, if it's not getting better by now it likely ain't gonna.