xbilkis posted:

I’m pretty surprised at how many people think Archer is gonna beat Moxley next week. In addition to how protected Moxley is in AEW, I dunno if NJPW would be eager to move their belt off the big name who’s held it for an eternity for the benefit of a guy who doesn’t work in their company at a show they aren’t promoting

shiksa posted:

I didnt mind the best man run as much as everyone else seemed to and in retrospect it makes his current character so much stronger than if he had just come in like this straight away. "miro is a twitch streamer guy and kid sabians friend" was never long term at least I would hope so lol. but using that as an angle to show miros descent into the terrifying motherfucker on a holy path of destruction that he is now worked pretty well.

like cmon going from being kips gaming buddy to stalking the backstage area looking for kip to "talk" and ending uhhh exactly how you'd expect gives his character more depth than just showing up and being like "ahh!! I am powered by God, dont gently caress w me"

anyway miro was one of my pet "id love to see what this dude could do outside of wwe" guys for years and holy gently caress he way exceeded what I hoped for so far

Pinwiz11 posted:

Hangman is kicking out of the OWA, win or lose. Right?

Ganso Bomb posted:

The feeling that went through the crowd when Andrade revealed he wanted Death Triangle last night was really something. Everyone around us was immediately loving on board for Andrade vs Fenix, Penta, and PAC.

sticklefifer posted:

Someone please track down the clip of Excalibur explaining the Magical Girl trope to Jim Ross.

I'm still in the camp of only ever wanting it to be Ibushi. They've gradually been telling the Golden Lovers story for 10 years. Let them somehow end up in the same promotion again, and let Ibushi kick out again when it really counts instead of that one time way back in DDT before Kenny really perfected the move. It's the perfect bookend to their story. They've never built any context for it to be Page; he doesn't have a connection to the OWA, so it doesn't need to be him.

Vince MechMahon posted:

I thought about it but not for $40.

The Last Call posted:

And that's head to head with the NBA finals.

graph posted:

i thought it was something about not being allelite yet

karmicknight posted:

Lamuella posted:

Cutler feels like someone who has figured out that he is never going to be the Ace of a company where Kenny and the Bucks work, but that a good Fool will always get work. He's genuinely great at it. Little things like not being able to stop spraying are near perfect.

rantmo posted:

In fairness the face mask is because he suffered an orbital bone fracture or something like that, he done got his face broke, though I'm also not sure if that was kayfabe or not.

smarxist posted:

Charlie: ... I'm gonna take 'em out.
Sammy: ... like on a date?!

Sammy has great comic chops lol

edit:
Fuego should beat Aaron Solow's rear end

Lead Pipe Cinch posted:

Controversial take, but Fuego del Sol should just go by Fuego.

Pylons posted:

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

Jordan7hm posted:

they had to keep it off AEW TV because Fuego is going over!

enigmahfc posted:

I was not watching wrestling at that time, so I do not care about CM Punk. Should I?

NutritiousSnack posted:

I agree with people on here that I'm not excited for Punk nearly the same way I am for DB, Tony Khan would be insane NOT to sign his rear end.

quote:

I’ve grabbed so many of Vincent K. McMahon’s brass rings that it’s finally dawned on me that they're just that, they’re completely imaginary.

quote:

The reason I’m leaving is you people. Because after I’m gone, you’re still going to pour money into this company. I’m just a spoke on the wheel. The wheel is going to keep turning and I understand that. Vince McMahon is going to make money despite himself. He’s a millionaire who should be a billionaire. You know why he’s not a billionaire? Because he surrounds himself with glad-handed, nonsensical, douchebag (censored) yes men, like John Laurinaitis, who’s going to tell him everything he wants to hear, and I’d like to think that maybe this company will be better after Vince McMahon is dead. But the fact is, it’s going to be taken over by his idiotic daughter and his doofus son-in-law and the rest of his stupid family.

Let me tell you a personal story about Vince McMahon, alright? We do this whole [anti] bully campaign...

[Microphone cuts off]

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.

Shinjobi posted:

I legit have no idea if you could ever get peak Ziggler again. There was a time when I thought he had a ton of potential, even before he won the big belt, but it feels to me like the WWE stomped that poo poo right out.

MJeff posted:

Do Punk and Kazarian have any kind of history?

Drakkel posted:

To be fair to Dolph, has he ever wrestled in a promotion that wasn't actively going out of it's way to make him look like an utter dork at every possible opportunity? Up to and including having the owner's daughter cut a promo about how terrible he is for basically no reason?