Jmare007

Yeah, if they are gonna make mistakes better make them now than during the TNT debut. Commentary needs more polishing. Marvez sounded like he was doing a podcast, but it was better than I expected. JR and Excalibur could be really fucking good once they figure out who should be leading the call in any given match.

I didn't see the whole show but after re-watching Dustin/Cody I gotta agree that JR was the best he's been in a LONG ASS time.

They are gonna fuck up the timing of the show again. Cody went long as hell - at least the match was fucking great this time though - and the Bucks are gonna have to cut their shit to 10 minutes

That was great. They better make Dustin the main agent of this fucking promotion. Him and Arn could do some really special stuff with this roster.

Dustin is fucking amazing.

Ah, good. So they didn't have a replacement to face Page or was that shown on the pre-show?

How many matches left? I hope they learned from All In and don't have issues with the timing of the show...

Man Allie was useless on commentary imo.

Nice swerve there with Kong.

Fun match. I need Stronghearts vs Strong BJ to happen at some point in the next 12 months. One match in and Excalibur already showing why he's the best in the biz.

SCU are babyfaces right?

Was that a spoof on the Triple H pat in the back opening promo he does (or did) for NXT?

This whole discussion is something else, wow.

Owens attacked Big E backstage (though we were only shown E on the floor grabbing his injured knee) and Xavier sent Kofi alone while he helped the big fella.

Hasn't Dolph done this "it should be me!" shit enough times though? I lost count how many times it was about "I should be doing better/have that spot because I steal the show!"

I think my issue with Dolph's promo is that I just don't care about him at all and I can't get into anything he says any more. It came off as goofy and poorly acted. A jealousy angle is whatever. But I can see how other (most?) people would feel different.

Taker vs Goldberg at parts unknown. MBS the GOAT 90's booker.

That promo was uh, something.

How the hell did this promo not make TV?! This is the only dude on the roster that makes wins and loses matter, put his opponents over and finds a spin to look forward his stuff even with bullshit 50/50 booking Again, give him all the belts.

No fucking words...

Haven't seen it and have no interest in watching the show, but was that spot crazier than the Kalisto one?

They can still do that when he drops it. I still don't see the issue. It's not like they have to rush Omega vs PAC. On the contrary, that's the type of match they can and should take a lot of time building to.

But they were struggling to sell tickets in most shows they did in the US besides the G1 Specials. Mostly because New Japan did a horrible job promoting and scheduling them, the problems continuing isn't surprising or a sign of them missing the Bucks, imo. But the US expansion was always sold like this. A bunch of house shows style events mainly done to give the LA dojo people an opportunity to show their stuff. Meji has made it a bigger deal than Kidani, but it has never been sold like a game changer. It's been fans and reporters that have made it a big deal, specially because some of the shows did great and because they do book 1 or 2 big ones a year, in 2019 they have MSG and G-1 at Dallas, the rest is just meh. Disagree again. At this stage, AEW doesn't have the pull to make the Dream Gate champion job to a guy like Page. If this was Omega, I'd agree with your argument though. Actually this makes even less sense to me. If the problem was "we don't know if PAC is gonna pull this shit against Kenny while he's champ" then save that match for later when he drops the strap. It's a pretty damn big match up and there's no rush to book it. You make PAC beat Page, cut the same promo he did in the UK and save his return for that big encounter against a bigger name were you make him take the L.

Strong BJ 6 man tag at Korakuen, of course this is fucking piff it's basically a preview/buildup of the Daisuke vs Yuji title match in Yokohama, and it has 10 times the intensity and urgency that match had. Both Sekimoto and specially Okabayashi are awesome as the "captains" of their teams, Kamitani did his thing, Nomura was of course dope and vicious when needed, Daichi was seemed more motivated than usual and Hyodo is the newest young lion out of their dojo, and he gets some pretty nice spots as a human wrecking ball. I guess most people would only see this as a "recommendation", but whatever, I dare y'all to not have fun watching it!!

I was searching for reviews of the Bret vs Magee match in the "The Matches" section and didn't find anything. If that's not an indication PWO is in a downtime, I don't know what is.