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[SHAQUEEFA]

Imperium was better as a four man group, it just looked more imposing and Wolfe was a bigger guy so he looked better than the other two. I was actually kinda bummed when they came back without him.

Love Kaiser though, his cadence and delivery on promos is great.

Holy shit I guess it was only a matter of time before Tony started booking himself in angles. Dynamite was kinda wild.

I wasn't feeling the gauntlet match at first but man it was a cool concept. I just needed to wrap my head around what was actually happening.

I watched NXT for the first time in a long long time and holy shit how did I not know about Lola Vice. I actaully want to watch this underground match with natalya even though she pretty much sucks these days.

[Atiba Applebum]

Imperium was better as a four man group, it just looked more imposing and Wolfe was a bigger guy so he looked better than the other two. I was actually kinda bummed when they came back without him.

Love Kaiser though, his cadence and delivery on promos is great.

Holy shit I guess it was only a matter of time before Tony started booking himself in angles. Dynamite was kinda wild.

I wasn't feeling the gauntlet match at first but man it was a cool concept. I just needed to wrap my head around what was actually happening.

I watched NXT for the first time in a long long time and holy shit how did I not know about Lola Vice. I actaully want to watch this underground match with natalya even though she pretty much sucks these days.

I hear he’s keeping kayfabe for the NFL draft, so maybe he’s learning from the Montreal Screwjob and leaning into press about him to boost his wrestling show.   God knows in retrospect that VKM becoming “Mr MacMahon” was probably the most important creative decision in that company

[Mr. Kamikazi]

Pretty silly Swerve wrestled against Fletcher. Why? It made zero sense. A ripper, yes; but after he just won? When Samoa won, we had a suited villain come out & talk about how he was calling the shots. Loved it. I guess it was more important to get Khan ready for a bad punch by Jungle Kiddo & a weird high dive front flip tombstone….. Which was practically a botch.

[Atiba Applebum]

Pretty silly Swerve wrestled against Fletcher. Why? It made zero sense. A ripper, yes; but after he just won? When Samos won, we had a suited villain come out & talk about how he was calling the shots. Loved it. I guess it was more important to get Khan ready for a bad punch by Jungle Kiddo & a weird high dive front flip tombstone….. Which was practically a botch.

I can’t tell if you’re kidding or not.   The meltzer driver is their finisher.  They probably use it a little less these days as compared to the BTE trigger, but they still use it a lot

They’ve announced swerve is talking on the weekend shows.   I don’t see the problem with him facing an up and coming ripper.   AEW just likes to have good matches

[Mr. Kamikazi]

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Pretty silly Swerve wrestled against Fletcher. Why? It made zero sense. A ripper, yes; but after he just won? When Samos won, we had a suited villain come out & talk about how he was calling the shots. Loved it. I guess it was more important to get Khan ready for a bad punch by Jungle Kiddo & a weird high dive front flip tombstone….. Which was practically a botch.

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I can’t tell if you’re kidding or not.   The meltzer driver is their finisher.  They probably use it a little less these days as compared to the BTE trigger, but they still use it a lot

They’ve announced swerve is talking on the weekend shows.   I don’t see the problem with him facing an up and coming ripper.   AEW just likes to have good matches

Got it. Didn’t know that but again, it looked sketchy & not well done. I’m saying Swerve should’ve came out & then we see a new challenger step up….

[Atiba Applebum]

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Pretty silly Swerve wrestled against Fletcher. Why? It made zero sense. A ripper, yes; but after he just won? When Samos won, we had a suited villain come out & talk about how he was calling the shots. Loved it. I guess it was more important to get Khan ready for a bad punch by Jungle Kiddo & a weird high dive front flip tombstone….. Which was practically a botch.

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I can’t tell if you’re kidding or not.   The meltzer driver is their finisher.  They probably use it a little less these days as compared to the BTE trigger, but they still use it a lot

They’ve announced swerve is talking on the weekend shows.   I don’t see the problem with him facing an up and coming ripper.   AEW just likes to have good matches

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Got it. Didn’t know that but again, it looked sketchy & not well done. I’m saying Swerve should’ve came out & then we see a new challenger step up….

Pat McAfee was keeping kayfabe and naming the move when he saw Tony in the neckbrace on the draft which i was pleasantly surprised about

[Mr. Kamikazi]

WWE is the Harvey Weinstein of pro wrestling-Tony Khan.

Geez. And AEW is the Pepsi of wrestling? Is this a cry for CM Punk?

[Atiba Applebum]

Apparently the reason they delayed the Swerve 1st promo for the weekend was because the NBA would give them more eyes as a lead in


Makes sense - do the angle for the draft bc it’s more timely, then save Swerve for the eyes, but I get the optics

[Big Baby Jesus]

Love keeping kayfabe going at the draft.

Saw the new Darby figure on ringside has a board in it with his name in baker font. Interesting…

https://www.ringsidecollectibles.com/aew-wrestling-figures-darby-brody-king-aewrex-026.html

[Atiba Applebum]

Love keeping kayfabe going at the draft.

Saw the new Darby figure on ringside has a board in it with his name in baker font. Interesting…

https://www.ringsidecollectibles.com/aew-wrestling-figures-darby-brody-king-aewrex-026.html

Hah that’s rad.  He’s usually supporting the Deathwish side of things

[franquietits]

It's always super interesting learning about past moments in wrestling. Here's a blurred line between kayfaybe and reality moment. A Canadian NCAA amateur wrestler, John Tenta, turned sumo competitor, then pro-wrestler was matched up against a former sumo athlete & hothead named Koji Kitao. Koji didn't want to sell and or cooperate as things got tense based on some kind of sumo pride/rivalry in Koji's head.





Apparently the Hulkster — ya know, the guy that was supposed to be in Metallica — claims Tenta covered for him that night, cause he knew Koji was gonna put him in some shit: https://youtu.be/AukVofRrSP8?t=1551

[Mr. Kamikazi]

It's always super interesting learning about past moments in wrestling. Here's a blurred line between kayfaybe and reality moment. A Canadian NCAA amateur wrestler, John Tenta, turned sumo competitor, then pro-wrestler was matched up against a former sumo athlete & hothead named Koji Kitao. Koji didn't want to sell and or cooperate as things got tense based on some kind of sumo pride/rivalry in Koji's head.





Apparently the Hulkster — ya know, the guy that was supposed to be in Metallica — claims Tenta covered for him that night, cause he knew Koji was gonna put him in some shit: https://youtu.be/AukVofRrSP8?t=1551

Tenta/Earthquake/Avalanche/the Shark was the sickest. Had he been a tad more agile i.e Bam Bam Bigelow, I think he would have been pushed more as he was main event status.

[Bobby Peru]

“AEW is like the Pepsi of pro wrestling; WWE is like the Harvey Weinstein of pro wrestling” is an incredible diss. I don’t know if he wrote that joke or someone wrote it for him but bravo.

[Atiba Applebum]

“AEW is like the Pepsi of pro wrestling; WWE is like the Harvey Weinstein of pro wrestling” is an incredible diss. I don’t know if he wrote that joke or someone wrote it for him but bravo.

Yeah he killed it all draft.   

[Mr. Kamikazi]

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“AEW is like the Pepsi of pro wrestling; WWE is like the Harvey Weinstein of pro wrestling” is an incredible diss. I don’t know if he wrote that joke or someone wrote it for him but bravo.

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Yeah he killed it all draft.

Hah, him calling on CM Punk was good. Meanwhile Jericho is the FTW champion & none of his allegations are apparently a concern. Yeah! Go Tony Khan!

[Bobby Peru]

My man, I think you’re missing the joke. It’s probably because Tony Khan is not a great talker but that joke was great. The Pepsi reference has nothing to do with CM Punk. It’s a misdirect joke. It’s set up to sound like he’s about to say, “AEW is Pepsi and WWE is Coca-Cola,” talking about their competition of similar products. But instead of “Coca-Cola,” he says, “Harvey Weinstein,” which is, one, bold and unexpected on national god damn television, and two, not really wrong.

I too am weirded out by the Jericho accusations but sometimes you gotta sit back and appreciate a good diss. No need to pick sides as a wrestling fan when good (and bad) stuff is coming from every angle.

[Mr. Kamikazi]

My man, I think you’re missing the joke. It’s probably because Tony Khan is not a great talker but that joke was great. The Pepsi reference has nothing to do with CM Punk. It’s a misdirect joke. It’s set up to sound like he’s about to say, “AEW is Pepsi and WWE is Coca-Cola,” talking about their competition of similar products. But instead of “Coca-Cola,” he says, “Harvey Weinstein,” which is, one, bold and unexpected on national god damn television, and two, not really wrong.

I too am weirded out by the Jericho accusations but sometimes you gotta sit back and appreciate a good diss. No need to pick sides as a wrestling fan when good (and bad) stuff is coming from every angle.

I certainly appreciate the gentleness in your explanation, but I completely understand. I just think it’s ironic because CM Punk is called Pepsi Phil. I understand what he’s doing. I’m just saying it really comes off as tasteless & desperate. And I’m just critiquing. I watch AEW every Wednesday. Rampage is very hard as it’s generally a waste of my time, but collision has proven to be pretty good.

Matter of fact, I just bought the new AEW/target Bryan Danielson figure. Love it.

I just think it’s a tad funny when people are defending some wrestling such as AEW where there’s a lack of storylines & the owner basically incorporate his actual mental breakdown into the storyline.

[WPG]

When Kenny sounded like he was retiring people around me were breaking down in tears, boyfriends consoling girlfriends, kids hugging their parents, felt like the end of an era

[Mr. Kamikazi]

A tad worried about what AEW will do with Samoa Joe….his title reign was pretty underwhelming….

[SHAQUEEFA]

I agree with you Mr. Kamikaze.

I think Joe should have won and they could have done more after to cement Swerve as a babyface and continue the chase until the next PPV.

I mean, it was seriously like 5 months ago when Swerve was breaking into Hangman's house as a vicious heel. I think the turn was decided by the fans and that is all good, but i think he needed to do a couple more "good guy things" before he won the belt as a face. He still walks and talks like a heel, he is just saying babyface shit in a heel voice.

I wonder if they will do Swerve v Okada or Jack Perry next because Swerve keeps calling the elite bitches for what they did to Tony. They gotta be setting something up.

[Mr. Kamikazi]

I agree with you Mr. Kamikaze.

I think Joe should have won and they could have done more after to cement Swerve as a babyface and continue the chase until the next PPV.

I mean, it was seriously like 5 months ago when Swerve was breaking into Hangman's house as a vicious heel. I think the turn was decided by the fans and that is all good, but i think he needed to do a couple more "good guy things" before he won the belt as a face. He still walks and talks like a heel, he is just saying babyface shit in a heel voice.

I wonder if they will do Swerve v Okada or Jack Perry next because Swerve keeps calling the elite bitches for what they did to Tony. They gotta be setting something up.

This is an accurate assessment @SHAQUEEFA . Swerve vs Okada would rule.

[Billy Bitchcakes]

I like Swerve and think he's a main event level guy for sure, but I have to admit the only thing that's made me feel like he should be champion right now is other people saying that he should be champion, and I think a lot of the people saying that are also just parroting other people. Felt like he was rushed to being champ quite quickly. It's whatever though, a lot of times world title wins are too much about the journey to it and then the actual reign becomes underwhelming (see hangman page)

[SHAQUEEFA]

I do think Swerve is a main event talent, but maybe they pulled the trigger a little early.

He skipped all the other belts and went straight to world title which is weird because they just strapped Okada with the 3rd or 4th level belt in the company and Ospreay is about to do the same thing.

I will say this. When I get excited for something at home, the Prince NANA dance comes out. My wife said she accidentally busted it out at work once and the whole cubicle block went nuts.

[Atiba Applebum]

I’m just happy Joe got another long run.   He was so injury prone at the Fed and I remember him coming into AEW and looking pretty gassed.   He has definitely shaken off the rust.   

My guess for him losing the belt is he has to go film Twisted Metal S2 sooner than later and Swerve had enough fan support that they wanted to pull the trigger and see if he could be the top guy.