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Hear me out though, Sami running in fear from GOONTA so he doesn't get the soul chopped out of him would be great too.

The thing with Kane is by all accounts he was a really nice guy and everyone enjoyed working with him, but that was when he was just a weird Libertarian. Now I don't see how anyone can support him.

It's been hilarious seeing all the baseball players not able to travel to play the Toronto Blue Jays this year. The Kansas City Royals pretty much had to play their AAA team since so many of their players were not vaxxed.

I don't know if he gets any bonus out of it, but (ironically enough) he's AEW's John Cena in terms of being the #1 person to move the needle when it comes to TV ratings and PPV buyrates. Pretty sure he is the top merch seller as well.

The pipe bomb was clearly Punk letting off some real steam in the context of a worked promo that advanced his character. I think he may be doing this again. I don't doubt a crusty asshole like him is legit bothered at Page not listening to advice, and is using it in a way to potentially do business. I just don't see him, even as grumpy as he can be, flushing away a situation where he's a top draw and most popular person on the roster.

Also the only reason having Mox-Punk on TV instead of on PPV is to do an angle. Whether that's getting Hangman involved for MJF making a return, all of AEW's booking history to this point suggests something major is going to go down.

I did see it pointed out that Punk being the veteran who doesn't think the young kids give the proper respect dovetails nicely into the promo MJF did during their feud where he told Punk that he became everything he hates.

To be honest, in the moment I just thought he said what he did about Page to cement to the crowd that he's back to being asshole heel Punk and not lovable rascal babyface Punk.

True, but since the MJF deal did happen, it's odd to me that no one seems to think it's even a possibility that it could be what is going on now. Despite TK having a pretty clear track record of sticking to the same gameplans if they prove to work. (just to be clear I'm not saying this dust up is a total work, just that I don't think we can discount the possibility of that)

Interesting that literally no one seems to think this is all just some storyline to work Hangman back into the title picture, I suppose it's sacrilege to suggest Coach Tony K would work the sheetz. Despite the fact that he basically just did that with the MJF deal (yes it was a shoot at first but I 100% believe "WILL HE SHOW UP TO THE PPV" was all a work).

in before we find out Vince was using NXT UK as some sort of tax write-off to offset all his sex crime payments.

Kenny said repeatedly he did not want to come back too soon and get injured again, and even pushed his return back to make sure of that (it was hoped he would be on Forbidden Door) so this is definitely a "guy returning from injury is trying to regain his footing" story like when Bryan came back.

DON CALLIS!

Dragon Lee is here to terrorize @The Thread Killerwith his tiny trunks.

Billy Gunn back with his real sons like nature intended.

Hell, give me Team Dragons (Danielson and Steambot) vs 2.0

I love asshole Punk, he's 1000% better in this role.

Conrad on his own seems like a harmless enough carny we've seen hundreds of times in wrestling. His biggest legacy however is going to be creating the current Wrestling Podcast Grifter economy where has beens and never-weres rail against whatever company they're not trying to actively get a job from. That's going to have more of a long term negative mark against him than anything else IMO.

So the digging in to Vince's payments showed he gave $5 million to Trump's org off the books, it showed that he had his people make sure it was in the WrestleMania contract that Vince couldn't say he had to shave his head even if his wrestler (Lashley) dropped dead in the ring. Between this and him calling the day after the "Vince explodes in his limo" angle to make sure he was okay, it seems like Trump 100% believes wrestling is real.

She bounced Stark's bad knee off the table so hard she went flying, it was kind of more comical than violent IMO. Also the picture going black seems to happen in women's matches a lot, I assume it's to prevent any wardrobe malfunctions from making air.

To stay with the Punk comparison, they did the same thing with his debut. Get the Big News out of the way off the bat so it doesn't overshadow the rest of the show.

They are doing with Omega what they did with Punk, never outright say he's coming but they pretty much say he's coming.

Santos is gonna be money on the main roster.

Melo vs Vinci was a banger, the swerve teasing Diamond Mine imploding leading into Gallus was unexpected, and once again Roxanne Perez made Jade look like a million bucks,. NXT hitting on all cylinders tonight.

Also someone like Hunter has a vested interest in keeping the image of Saint Vincent the Great intact, lest people keep digging and look into things like Trips turning a blind eye to his boy Hugh Morrus doing weird shit in NXT training camps.