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Also as someone who grew up on JCP and saw about a million commercials for the VHS of this show, finally getting to see this show is a personal holy grail.

It is, but it made me wonder why they don't ever promote this stuff like....at all. Cody is the so called QB1 of WWE but they can't ever say "wanna see his dad in action and find out why he's so great? check out the vault on youtube!". This company is such a big fan of multi generation wrestlers, then act like they were all hatched from an egg.

Rush actually has been around recently with Dralistico and Mortos as Los Ingobernales again, he wasn't on the last few TVs since he's on CMLL's banned list and there was no chance he could get on the Arena Mexico show (CMLL did do TK a solid and allow Mortos to appear for the first time in 14 years tho).

Similar to our discussion about Jade, Lyra just isn't working. She's good in the ring, but she has the personality of dry toast. Maybe she would be better as a heel? Certainly couldn't be any worse at this point

Is it me or does it seem like she's getting noticeably worse as she goes? Was AEW that much better at hiding her shortcomings, because she went from someone who looked green but with the possibility of becoming something to looking like she had to relearn how to walk properly. I know they did the angle with Naomi partially to cover for a real injury (and also allegedly because Shayna Bazler wanted to beat her ass), is that possibly the reason she's deteriorated so fast?

Apparently they are going to spell it "Tala Tonga", I guess Talla was too on the nose for the 6'8 guy. Still better than Hikuleo. Fits better with his brothers' names this way. Also I guess people are mad about Fatu losing, but Solo needed a win and it took 3 other people helping so it's not like Jacob got made to look like a geek or anything. .....and yes, Jade is just absolute trash in the ring. I get WWE wants to get something out of their investment since after Cody she was the first big AEW star to jump but it's just not working. If they try a title run with her I'm almost certain at this point it's going to get rejected by the fans.

Bucks vs Ospreay/Swerve at All In? Don't mind if I do!

It took Mercedes a long time to get rolling after her injury (understandable since apparently it was pretty gnarly), but she's closed the gap pretty quickly in this build. I would say Toni is still the clear ace of the women, and possibly all of AEW honestly, and knowing how TK books I would assume the whole belt collector gimmick Mercedes is doing is to set up her losing to Toni at the big show

I'm sure Punk got an ungodly amount of money when he came back, since WWE wanted to stick it to AEW so he probably doesn't care about looking bad at this point.

Man, Jade is still really rough in the ring.

I don't know what was the bigger surprise, Kota Ibushi's return of that he looked like a functional human being for the first time in years.

They are totally doing a MJF-Mistco mask vs hair match, All In maybe? You don't do an angle like that without followup.

Brody King and Lance Archer hossing it up in Arena Mexico is a sentence that would have been complete gibberish until about 3 minutes ago.

Atlantis Jr getting the Dirty Dom treatment out there

It must be weird for the luchadores to be in Arena Mexico and not bumping on that hard ass CMLL ring.

Also this match is totally TK sneaking a cibernetico on to US TV and I love it.

LOL at the ladies squealing when Daniel Garcia's music hit, that was some 80s babyface shit.

Hangman cutting the open promo in (pretty decent) Spanish was an unexpected surprise. It won't go unnoticed to the Mexican fans that they sent out a gringo star who was respectful enough to address them in their language.

This is so wild seeing an American promotion doing TV in Arena Mexico. Coach Tony K from DVDVR must me marking the fuck out right now.

Allegedly, at some point, yes. He's still been using Burn It Down right now.

So on my Hulu live TV guide, for TBS between 8-10:30 it shows "To Be Announced" instead of Dynamite. Anyone who dvr's the show and watches later is going to miss it.

Yeah as great of a song it is, it was completely wrong as a heel theme. You can't boo that kind of funk.

So after watching Seth on Raw and Trick Williams on NXT, it's making me wonder why is WWE having heels retain their babyface theme music that encourages crowd participation? Especially in Seth's case when he's supposed to be leading a faction that wants to take over Raw and crush anyone who gets in their way, yet he still has the whole arena singing his song every night.

It's nuts to consider the level of talent in one building on Dynamite tonight. Kenny, Okada, Mistico....three of the best ever at what they do.

MJF vs Mistico is such classic lucha booking, top star vs gringo heel. Should get great heat in Arena Mexico.