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CAGE VS STARKS 22 18.33%
CAGE VS HARDY 7 5.83%
PAGE VS DARBY 61 50.83%
THE MAGICAL GIRL VS THE BAD GIRL 11 9.17%
MOX VS KARL 13 10.83%
SAM VS WHEELER 6 5.00%
Total: 120 votes
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Pylons
Mar 16, 2009

I really loving love how they're using subtitles with Andrade. Get you reading them while he's speaking English, then he switches to Spanish for that fire and you're used to reading.

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Pylons
Mar 16, 2009

Davros1 posted:

Miro's redesign of the TNT Title is in the colors of the Bulgarian Flag

https://twitter.com/AEW/status/1415480591605194754?s=20



I think this is a good look at it.

Pylons
Mar 16, 2009

I really can't say enough about how much I love Andrade's subtitles gimmick.

Pylons
Mar 16, 2009

blunt posted:

I'm extremely into anyone who holds the tnt title longer than a few weeks getting their own remix

I saw a great idea that it should be number of defenses, rather than weeks. Defend it 5 or so times, you get your own version of the belt.

Pylons
Mar 16, 2009

Shard posted:

Remember when that idiot Kenny Omega gave Eddie Kingston a free shot? I wish I could find that video but nothing on youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bP6ocWyWRTA&t=157s

Pylons
Mar 16, 2009

https://twitter.com/PWTorch/status/1415767923059212294

Pylons
Mar 16, 2009

Rarity posted:

Sounds like that's the peak rather than the average?

https://twitter.com/BrandonThurston/status/1415768846565355526

Average.

Pylons
Mar 16, 2009

https://twitter.com/davemeltzerwon/status/1415792581909172225?s=21

Pylons
Mar 16, 2009

mooseinfants posted:

I wonder what their plan with Yuka is for this little excursion. I think she's only here for a month or so which doesn't feel like a long enough time to me to have a title program with Britt, plus I don't think there's a ton of faces they should have feuding with mega-face-in-waiting Britt right now anyway. I think they should use Yuka to make someone else a heel, as the roster doesn't have hardly any heels right now. Someone like Serena or white suit Shida should brutalize Yuka in a match and then continue it after the match to really hammer home the turn.

Could be they do a tag match at FFTF with her and someone else vs. Britt and Penelope with Yuka getting a pin on Britt.

Pylons
Mar 16, 2009

Grand Slam is gonna be such a spectacle. Seriously cool looking venue.

Pylons
Mar 16, 2009

Per WON, Fenix is apparently cleared to return.

Pylons
Mar 16, 2009

That one is actually pretty good. Captures his anguished expression in the middle of a match.

Pylons
Mar 16, 2009

Atomic Robo-Kid posted:

I'm going to the Houston show on august 18th. It will be my first show.

Really hoping that I will be blessed with an Omega and/or MJF match.

Uhh...any advice? Im expecting the experience to be wild since wrestling fans are loving insane.

From all reports, there will be a LOT of wrestling. Come an hour or two early if you want to see it all because they tape Elevation before Dynamite.

Pylons
Mar 16, 2009

DuhSal posted:

when is ryo coming back? I'd like to see her with a full touring crowd now

Probably not for a little while at least. She's quite busy with SEAdlinnng. I'd bet VENY shows up by the end of the year though.

Pylons
Mar 16, 2009

https://twitter.com/FuegoDelSol/status/1416462373943136262

Pylons
Mar 16, 2009

https://twitter.com/luchablog/status/1416476032748691459

Pylons
Mar 16, 2009

I think the only person outside of the division (currently) that should challenge Britt is Ruby Soho by winning the Casino Battle Royale. Her other challengers are fairly well set up when they want to pull the trigger.

Pylons
Mar 16, 2009

https://twitter.com/AEW/status/1417154479934279682

Pylons
Mar 16, 2009

https://itrwrestling.com/news/atsushi-onita-on-how-britt-baker-helped-inspire-fmw-revival/

Onita posted:

I saw Britt Baker’s match at AEW a while back. It was bloody and gutsy, and it was cool. When I entered CZW, there was a good hardcore woman wrestler, and a few years ago at WrestleMania, WWE also focused on women. If motivated women get together, I would like to do an explosion deathmatch for women wrestlers..

Pylons
Mar 16, 2009

https://mobile.twitter.com/RealBrittBaker/status/1417226490790436865

drat this rules.

Pylons
Mar 16, 2009

I don't think there are any heels I legitimately want to pay to see beaten up but there are plenty of heels where I feel emotional catharsis when they lose or get thwarted.

Pylons
Mar 16, 2009

Town Business is a press slam I think? He should do an Emerald Flowsion though.

Pylons
Mar 16, 2009

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6UV7OwL-FY

Road-to

Pylons
Mar 16, 2009

https://www.postwrestling.com/2021/07/20/jake-roberts-signs-two-year-extension-with-all-elite-wrestling/

Pylons
Mar 16, 2009

https://twitter.com/AEWGames/status/1417615744095948801 This rules

Pylons
Mar 16, 2009

Interesting bit of information from Ryan Nemeth's Talk Is Jericho episode: Christian Cage is the one who had the idea for the Wingmen.

Pylons
Mar 16, 2009

quote:

And I was like, "Alright,'" so I went back and gathered everyone around and I said, "Alright, so we're The Wingmen now," and they said, "What does that mean?" "You know, like when you go to a bar and you help a guy meet a girl. We're just that.. just, all the time. And it's not really ever about women."

This description is incredible.

Pylons
Mar 16, 2009

projecthalaxy posted:

Also I will fully admit to not having a chance to play Elite GM yet but isn't it like a TEW thing? How exactly are they running a tournament of it? Is there... gameplay?

Not quite, you don't book finishes to matches, it's done by the stats of the individual wrestlers you sign and book into matches.

Pylons
Mar 16, 2009

https://twitter.com/milano_mobbbb/status/1417858514626752512?s=21

Pylons
Mar 16, 2009

quote:

One of the biggest stars of wrestling in this century could be headed back to wrestling, if all goes well. CM Punk has been in ongoing talks for a return, sources tell Fightful.

Fightful Select learned last week that CM Punk has been in talks to make a return to pro wrestling as an in-ring performer, with sources indicating that AEW is the most likely landing point. We have no confirmation of a contract officially being signed, a timetable, a set return date, or any creative plans, only that Punk and a company official have had ongoing conversations about an in-ring return.

As with any negotiations, nothing is ever fully confirmed until the deal is actually done and the subject appears on screen.

We have heard of other companies having interest in Punk coming in to work after fans returned, but have not heard of any specific offers or overtures made towards him.

Fightful has not officially confirmed this report with CM Punk himself or All Elite Wrestling officials. We have been told in recent days that higher ups in WWE believe that Punk is headed to AEW.

Punk last wrestled in January 2014 for WWE, and was released later that year. In the years that followed, he pursued a career in mixed martial arts in the UFC, where he officially has an 0-1 record with 1 no contest.

In addition to MMA, Punk has worked in commentary roles within the sport, and made his way into acting. He also appeared on WWE Backstage for approximately six months. Aside from his appearances on Backstage, he's only made two appearances in wrestling since leaving WWE -- both in very anonymous masked roles on the independent circuit.

Pylons
Mar 16, 2009

Punk/Bryan vs. the Bucks would be a fun match imo.

Pylons
Mar 16, 2009

projecthalaxy posted:

I can acknowledge that he'd pop a number but also would on a personal fandom level much rather see guys like Darby, Hangman, etc get time to build their legends than "remember guy from Other Company? Isn't Other Company so cool?"

I don't see why he wouldn't get paired with someone.

Pylons
Mar 16, 2009

https://twitter.com/TommyEnd/status/1417878482068115462

Unrelated to CM Punk, but it makes me happy to see Tommy End commenting on Miyu Yamashita.

Pylons
Mar 16, 2009

Punk convincing Wardlow to turn on MJF would be a fun storyline.

Pylons
Mar 16, 2009

https://twitter.com/ShopAEW/status/1417895478377713674

Pylons
Mar 16, 2009

Evil Badman posted:

For what it's worth, AEW has been really good about their high-profile hires. I don't think any of them (Miro, Mox, Christian, Sting, etc.) have been immediately injected into any title program. They've done starting angles with other talent.

Brodie was, but those are kind of understandable circumstances.

Pylons
Mar 16, 2009

https://twitter.com/TommyEnd/status/1417896440991453185?s=19

Maki Itoh/Lance Archer vs. Tommy End/Miyu Yamashita

Pylons
Mar 16, 2009

Lethrom posted:

AEW doesn't need Punk, sure. But I'd pop so hard that I'd probably get stuck in my ceiling if he showed up at All Out. I'd probably actually go straight through the ceiling if they ditched Cult of Personality and instead used This Fire or Miseria Cantare. So I want him to show up, so long as it doesn't add friction to the locker room, but BBT seems pretty cognizant of that so I don't think he'd bring Punk in if it'd be a problem.

That said, Punk was most over with fans when he was being anti-authority, anti-company (at least IIRC). I'm not sure how you book someone like that, you can't have a face be anti-company, its not like AEW isn't giving fans what they want. Do you book him as the anti-company heel? I can suspend my disbelief for a lot in wrestling but "I, CM Punk, am stuck here in AEW even though I hate them because WWE wouldn't back an 18 wheeler full of gold bars into my driveway to get me to join them again" is asking too much, Vince would send at LEAST 3 of those trucks.

I feel like he'd have to be set up as MJF's nemesis, right? Him (in kayfabe) having Wardlow locked into a contract basically provides the perfect opening for Punk to talk a bunch of poo poo about MJF and convince Wardlow to turn on him.

Pylons
Mar 16, 2009

What are the odds of Suzuki showing up tonight?

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Pylons
Mar 16, 2009

Waffleopolis posted:

Who would be the best feud to have CM Punk do first? I feel like only MJF make sense in this one. He beats Jericho to tie a ribbon in that one. CM Punk comes out at All Out at some points. MJF is the perfect candidate to mock Punk about his absence from the ring and his attempt at MMA. Punk/MJF have a fight and either Punks wions to give MJF a rare loss or MJF wins via trickery. Bonus points if Colt/DO rescues punk from a Pinnacle beatdown (only if Punk & Colt make amends don't force this).

I really think he should be the one to plant the bug in Wardlow's head that maybe this contract he has with MJF isn't worth it at all.

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