SovietShooter

Well then.

I would enjoy the ridiculousness of a "Fonzie vs Todd Gordon" type of angle.

Bucks/Okada/Perry vs FTR/Omega/Hangman? That's a big time match.

If they do it at Wembly or a stadium every year, it will be All In.

If I had the book, the trios titles would be unisex (like in Lucha Underground) and instead of trying to book long term storylines around the titles in a regular basis, they would be the fun opening-match-get-the-crowd-on-their-feet championships that get passed around like candy. I would almost have a secret rule that the titles are never successfully defended. But on the other hand, if I was booking and had the talent roster that AEW has, the show would be mostly trios matches to get all the stars on TV every week. But I digress...

To be fair, Highland Heights, KY is a suburb of Cincinnati. Truist Arena is on the campus of Northern Kentucky University, and is maybe a 15min drive down I-471 from the central business dirstrict. Probably actually closer to the airport than downtown. So, it isn't like this show is in the middle of a corn field. It is is the newest and fourth largest arena in the Tri-state area!

Cagematch doesn't do a good job gathering info on shows in Mexico. From Luchablog:

Well, hopefully the state athletic commission sancions that match official for his failure to enforce the rules. The competitors should be checked for foreign objects before the bout transpires... how do you miss a solid metal ring on one of the participant's hand?

When I got into the business in 1998ish, I knew who Meltzer was, and although the major companies were not booking based on his opinion, the WO and the Torch were widely read by the boys, and to some degree those opinions influenced things. Look at it this way, if over the years it became clear Meltzer liked a certain style, and Dave heaps a ton of praise on a guy like Will Ospreay, then it is easy to convince yourself, as a worker, to work more like Ospreay. Even if that is done subconsciously. So if everyone eventually is working like Ospreay, and those wrestlers are getting booked by the major promotions, then to some extent Meltzer influenced that booking.

Back in the olde days journeymen-type workers would go from territory to territory and work under different names/masks and lose them, so it has kind of always been a gray area. The commissions are legitimate public officials, but they are also in on the act. So they traditionally turned a blind eye to guys remasking when they moved to a different area. A good example of this would be Adolfo Tapia who was working different gimmicks in different areas in the late 80s/early 90s, losing his mask multiple times, including to Hijo del Santo. I've never heard any stories of anyone claiming fraud when he was regimmicked in AAA as La Parka. Conversely, Silver King lost his mask to Hijo del Santo, and wrestled for almost 20 years unmasked. Then suddenly in the late 00s he decided to put the same mask back on again, and work masked in AAA as Silver King - and the commissions put a stop to it. To a large extent, that is what the commissions are. Usually commissions only get involved in a newsworthy way when there is some kind of incident that gets enough publicity that they have to step in. Aside from that, the only real functions are licensing wrestlers, and some don't even really mess with that.

My pure speculation is that they are going to show footage of Perry legit punking out Punk (no pun intended), and then the Bucks will claim, as heel authority figures, that they were responsible for firing both men. And they are doing this in the face of Punk's buddies FTR. TLDR; The Bucks fired FTR's friend.

Since when have luchadors who dropped famous mask matches been allowed to re-mask? I guess another little grain of integrity in wrestling has been swept into the dustpan of history. This was just a special occasion type of deal, Panther does not typically work with the mask on. This was just a throwback, kinda like how Jericho puts on the old Liontamer tights on occasion. A few months back for one of the Halloween shows, CMLL had everyone that worked all wear their old masks, and at the end of the night they all came to the ring and removed them one by one in a ceremony.

Trent vs Nick Wayne would actually probably be really good if Wayne was a Babyface. Trent could just be an absolute dick to him and Wayne could bump his ass off.

Double post...

I think a healthy portion of the criticism of these releases (not necessarily here, but in the wider IWC social media landscape) is being done in bad faith, like many AEW criticisms. TK having said in the past that he wouldn't cut anyone early, was just enough for the stans to dog pile on him for hypocrisy, despite the fact that was never a statement he was going to be able to honor. Even releasing Punk was going back on that, despite that being for cause. The fact of the matter is that AEW doesn't run house shows, and doesnt have TV time to showcase everyone they have under contract. In general, these releases were of folks that never really should've been signed in the first place. Especially since ROH isn't really working out as a separate brand. In reality, there are probably 10-20 more folks that could be let go and no one would ever notice if it wasn't for a dirtsheet reporting it. Remember, we are the sickos that knows who guys like Gravity, the Boys, and Slim J are to begin with... your average AEW viewer has no fucking clue.