Jmare007

I get the HBK comparison, I don't take it literally. Michaels has a huge portion of wrestling fans that legit consider him one of the greatest of all time and smaller number of us that think of him as overrated (varying from "!he's good but not all time great" to "he wasn't that good after The Rockers"). Cole certainly feels that way. He gets very big responses by the paying audience and has a reputation by (I think) the majority of fans as a world class worker. And then you have a smaller number of us that find him overrated and overpushed. I continue to say I'm an old man yelling at clouds when it comes to him because I just don't "get it" with him, while at the same time admitting I'm in the minority feeling that way. RE: O'Reilly. I think he's fine but personally I can't get into anything he does in the ring as a singles. His strikes are mostly cringe worthy to me so when he's supposed to be this weird mix of badass and a goof I'm left very cold with him as a performer as I don't buy him as a badass at all (early 2010s Eddie Edwards effect) and his goofy stuff is not very interesting. His match with Darby was the first singles KOR match I've really enjoyed in years.

I felt the battle royal was booked the way WWE would. Basically get rid of fan favorites/bigger stars early or don't even include them (Jericho, Page, PAC, Malakai). Then stack the odds against a babyface so he can put a valiant effort before losing. Didn't feel hyped about any of the Final 4 winning either. Not great, Bob.

Eugh, KOR. Enought Dynamite for tonight for me.

smh at eliminating Eddie so early smh at them missing Eddie's elimination on camera lol at Andrade being the Joker

WWE also suffers from the same people going in and out of main event programs for god knows how long so there's a staleness factor that isn't there at all with AEW. I do agree than on the women's side WWE has AEW beat by a wide margin even if Becky, Charlotte and Rhonda are played out at this point.

After all of this, they actually have someone that can dethrone Roman and be made a big(ger) star. Cody gotta pray that 1) Roman doesn't get injured either. 2) Rock doesn't comeback for one last enormous check and 3) Vince panics and books fucking Brock AGAIN

Is everything a work nowadays? I swear in the past 2 months any news story that ends up being legit is followed by another story that someone gotta ask if it's a work

I'm a huge boxing fan and interim belts are sadly the least of the problems when it comes to issues of world titles and how promoters take advantage of them.

So here are the official "rules" for the interim belt So it's gonna be Tanahashi vs X at Forbidden Door. Mox has been building to a match against him for years now so it would make sense to culminate it in this kind of match. But TK has a lot of scenarios to play with. The least likely is MJF as that requires a fuck ton of explanation and writing to make sense, so my first gut feeling of who should get the interim belt was, as other pointed out, wrong. Who do y'all think faces Mox in next week's main event? Miro? Wardlow? Cole? Danielson? Jericho? Eddie?

I think this is before Dynamite? Mox got another singles W against García so that could've given him the push? How the hell is Cole 2nd after getting beat twice by Page??

Not sure what your argument is here. MJF wouldn't be ending up together with Punk again, Punk is out of the picture. And MJF is their 2nd biggest TV draw after Punk, I think.

Yeah that's a good point. They'd have to come up with a believable reason for him to be in a title match/tournament and then not take the title from him once he won it and decided to fuck off

I mean, if the plan is a workhorse champ then of course it's Dragon but doesn't this set up MJF having a huge angle perfectly? sneaking in and taking the belt and doing what WWE chickened out in doing in 2011? PS: I'd take ANY star they have as the new champ except Adam Cole, please don't let it be Cole.

What's the timeline for a broken leg? a year?

That had to be on purpose.

The Punk stuff is a perfect example because the "pipe bomb" worked wonders as it built to a WWE title match. After that it continued into nonsense or stuff nobody wanted to actually see, like "Phil Brooks talking to Paul Levesque". This MJF stuff is basically someone bitching about not being treated fairly and wanting out of the company. That does not sound compelling at all to me nor something that's very new. Who could come to AEW's "rescue" and face MJF that could make all this worked shoot stuff worth it? I honestly have no answer.

That's a stretch, specially for guys like Punk and Danielson who so far have worked a number of different wrestlers on TV that they haven't interacted with since and were just there to have a new interesting matchup on TV.

I'm way more upset about Danielson not being booked for Dynamite (and it seems Rampage too) than anything involving him at DoN. I think we should've gotten an confrontation with Eddie before the Blood and Guts announcement. I guess the "drama" will be if Dragon actually joins the team for the cage match but him missing this week on TV doesn't sit right with me.

Los Angeles wasn't that into Wardlow, interesting.

I think he put his hands and was able to roll through.

That replay of how Cole beat Joe...yikes, it's as bad as I remembered.

Well shit, did Punk injure himself??

MACHKA

Well that was a miss.

I almost shut this shit off after "minute for minute draw". What the fuck.....