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I'm a fair man, so I'll give him credit for mentioning on today's show that just maybe "Pittsburgh is a bad crowd" is just something he's been told by WWE people and that if you put on a good show you'll get a good crowd.

Yeah Cain pulled out of the testing pool and told UFC he retired, so he's going to stick around.

I really want to see Private Party on a AAA show after their match tonight, flippy dudes vs luchadores is a great combination. Speaking of, it was nice to be able to scratch "see the AAA Megacampeon in person" off my wrestling bucket list.

Also after the main event Kenny stopped PAC from Pillmanizing Mox's head, then Hangman came out to challenge PAC for a match at Full Gear.

Just got back from the show, wow was that a fun experience live. Since they don't stop for commercials it was way faster paced than being at a WWE TV taping. There were only two points they stopped, once was before the Cody promo where he was having fun messing with the crowd by getting them to chant different things then saying "you know we're in break, right?". The other was before the main event where Justin Roberts asked people to show off their signs and one was "Sorry about your dead birthday horse". It's also funny how every time WWE is here for TV or PPV, I have to listen to Dave go on and on about how Pittsburgh is a bad, dead crowd. That certainly wasn't the case tonight, people were into every match and it really had the feel of an early 90s ECW show where the crowd feels "this is our show" instead of waiting for the next time the company fucks them over.

The marketplace already did though. They don't have a good record drawing the second time in a market, so running a house show loop seems to fly in the face of what they should have already learned from the shows they've already done. I'm also guessing these shows are going to largely be LA Dojo and Young Lion types filling the card as well, which won't do much to put butts in seats.

Because like it or not it's a major event now since the Saudis want it to be on the level of a Wrestlemania.

The Spiritual Advisor is Jocephus's manager on the indies. I suppose they are going to do a deal where he goes to her to turn things around since James Storm keeps punking him out.

I get that announcing is a personal taste thing, but Justin Roberts always came across as someone who made AEW seem legit rather than a retread. Then again I grew up on the Fink and everyone since has come across as second tier, so it's possible I'm just biased.

I popped for Kingston's "don't steal my heat, Jim" when Cornette tried to speak during his promo. Also Kamille rules as the world's hottest Mike Enos.

Silver King's death seems to have been the moment that finally clued in Lucha promotions to the fact they shouldn't fuck around with having medical personnel on shows.

It's a tough spot isn't it? Sign anyone who's been on TV elsewhere in the last 20 years and they're a WWE cast off. Sign someone who's never been on TV and they get disregarded as an indy nobody. Not just for AEW, but anyone who's not WWE since 2001, it's hard to get anyone who doesn't have some level of WWE stink on them.

So he had surgery on his 4th cervical vertebra so it looks like at best his wrestling career is over, hopeful he's able to have a normal life otherwise.

Seven months of Mid South from 1985 dropped the other day, Rock n Rolls vs Hector and Chavo Guerrero was better than anything any company will put out this week.

For all the crap Dave gets both justified or otherwise, he really does know the business side of wrestling better than all but a handful of people.

Kind of a minor quibble, but since WWE made a trend of false advertising last week, the main event was *supposed* to be a six man. Instead we got AJ in the corner and the mystery partner ending up doing a run in after AJ was already ejected. "They didn't want to take the focus off the Street Profits" I can here people saying, but they didn't have to book it as a six man in the first place if it's not what they wanted to do.

Street Profits have so much charisma, once again WWE has potential stars served up on a silver platter.

Props to Seth for making the kid look good.

Trying to make Humberto right out of the gate is a surprising but welcome move.

Not gonna lie, I'd be down for a reunion of the Minnesota Stretching Crew.

LOL @ Lashley wearing tennis shoes to what is supposed to be a fancy restaurant.

Humberto out here looking like the Black Ranger

That white t shirt really makes Rusev look like jacked Freddie Mercury.

It was, but the post match beatdown was yet again another "babyfaces have no friends" moment that makes all the good guys in WWE look like geeks.

Moose legit saved Ken Shamrock's life, he was about to land head first on the floor but Moose was able to catch and rotate him so it was more of a back bump. I appreciate the effort but old dudes shouldn't be doing dives, the risk/reward is just not worth it. It's not Rush's fault but it's the first time he's worked with AAA La Parka and probably didn't know he has a rep for coming up short on dives. You can see it seems to register about a second too late that he's not going to make it and he has a "oh shit" reaction. Cubsfan mentioned on Twitter that Parka had surgery for what was described as a neck/cervical fracture. Hopefully it's not something that will keep him from having a normal day-to-day life. What really sucks is that he was winding down due to accumulated injury and was only sticking around because his son is about to debut with his old Karis La Momia gimmick. That's why his only involvement on the AAA show Saturday was a promo and a beatdown.