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I get the feeling that Cole is such a polarizing figure that if you weren't down with him in the main event before, there probably wasn't going to be anything they could do to change your mind. The tag team battle royale was fun and it set up the three way at the PPV, and now with the ROH news it's pretty certain the Briscoes will show up soon.

Literally laughed out loud at Spears' "well I just fucked up" face

I don't remember him in ROH as part of the Bullet Club, pretty sure that was only in New Japan

Whoever the "finish guy" is in AEW, they're very good at booking the finish of battle royales.

I believe Tony has said or at least made illusions that he felt AEW didn't quite have enough in the vault yet to warrant a streaming service, so this certainly fills that void. Also I guess that means they have All In now too? Any collection of AEW history would have been missing a very key piece without that.

The people who were in ROH when people cared about ROH are in AEW though, and the ones in the last incarnation of ROH can show up via the Forbidden Door since they still have good relations with Impact.

From the way Dave has been talking (namely that UFC proved people will pay for a streaming service and also pay for the PPVs), I would highly suspect any AEW streaming service would not include PPV if they can avoid it.

It seems like the word in the locker room is that there is some kind of streaming deal with HBO Max. It's all part of the same family so it makes all the sense in the world for both parties to make it happen.

Baby Uso and GOONT-AIR with a nice little veteran vs newbie match.

Love how WWE decides it's a good gimmick for a young babyface (?) team to portray them as losers who can't get women.

She didn't seem to do anything wrong, there was no obvious botches or stiff shots, I think this was just one of those things that happens.

Watching NXT now, lol'ed at Ciampa in Steiners gear. Also LA Knight has always been a guilty pleasure. Like I don't need to see him in a main event role, but he's being used well in this role to help the young pups. I do want to know however if they have some kind of secret lab full of giant Indian dudes.

It did make their TV partner happy, so it wasn't a total waste. Total Divas/Bellas did apparently drive female viewers to WWE so I can see how it would be worth seeing if worked for AEW. It didn't, and accepting what works and moving on from what doesn't has been a major advantage they have over WWE.

Did he need to get it removed or was it just lacerated? His tweets from the hospital seem to indicate it was a serious but not eye threatening injury.

Inside baseball aspect aside, it makes Eddie look like an over sensitive baby to have a grudge over something like that so many years later. So the guy didn't put you over, sure I guess that's a dick move, but you don't still get mad about it forever.

Fightful reporting Orton got the wind knocked out of him on the frog splash from Montez, and that RKBro was supposed to win but everyone called an audible when Randy couldn't continue. Thankfully they also mentioned there was no heat on Montez and everyone just saw it as a "shit happens" moment.

So does Kingston have legit heat with Cesaro, or was he just trying to set up an angle if/when he goes to AEW? Cause if it's real and it's for the reason Eddie stated (Cesaro refused to put him over on the way to WWE), it seems incredibly petty to hold a grudge over.

I know it makes me sound like The Old Man of The Internet, but it has been amusing to see the current generation of fans losing their minds over the idea of a top star from one promotion leaving and possibly going to the other main promotion. This is how wrestling worked from like the 1800s to 2000, the last 20 years were the anomaly. Granted, the Cody situation is a little different due to the EVP stuff, but it seems more and more than the only thing he was EVP'ing anymore was the Codyverse.

I can get down with Edge vs Styles at Mania, but I don't think I can handle a month of Pained Acting Faces from Edge.

Well I suppose since Paul Bearer is no longer with us, Kane is the most logical choice to do it. Unless they throw a curve and have Brucie do it since Taker's first manager was Brother Love.

This might be an unpopular opinion, but I always thought Kane from the introduction to like the DX stuff was actually a pretty good character. Good in ring? No. A good character (especially for the time period) and one of the best non-luchadores at conveying emotion while masked. I thought the initial angle when he debuted was pretty well done, and it was the thing that took the Undertaker from his cartoon era to the Attitude Era version of the gimmick. Now once he took the mask off (which even at the time I thought was stupid to do), it was all downhill. The only thing after that was entertaining was the Corporate Kane stuff where he was leaning in to the absurdity of it.

The China stuff was not great but if Cena wants to do movies then you have to PLAY THE GAME and kowtow to them or else they'll cut your film off from a billion paying customers. Sucks, but at least you can say it's business. The Total Divas/Bellas stuff was just weird since every clip I've ever seen of either show with him in it made him look like an uncaring dolt and that's even after it was probably edited to hell and back.

I shouldn't complain about Vince actually getting behind a young talent, but I wonder what it is he saw in Austin Theory.

Yeah it was pretty much required to know card games to fit in the locker rooms in those days. To me, the complaining about the younger generation is one part normal "old generation things the youngs are doing everything wrong" type bitching and one part "older generation sees the youngs not doing the destructive things they did and feel called out by it".

It's a shame really, a healthier Waltman would have been amazing in the crusierweight/lucha filled era of WCW,