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https://www.theringer.com/2022/2/25/22951217/bryan-danielson-opens-the-masked-man-forbidden-door Good Danielson interview, he even talks about being interested in the french catch footage.

Shiiit. Even better, Claudio, one of the best (if not THE best) bases wrestling has ever seen working with even crazier highflyers than in the 2000's? My god.

When did Kofi, Xavier and Big E sign their latest deals? I have the impression it wasn't long ago but I could be way off.

Mike Johnson is reporting that Cesaro is gone from WWE as his deal has expired and no deal was made to renew it. Oh boy, if there's one guy that could have a ridiculous run on the level of Danielson and Punk....

I actually think Page and Cole would be hurt if they main event the PPV. By that point of the night the crowd will be tired as fuck no matter who closes the show, there's just a ton of stuff that will give them big moments to pop for. So Hangman having a "cold" main event to close a big PPV would probably do more damage to him than being sooner on the show and getting a big reaction and probably a match that would be better received than if it's the last (even if it's worked the same). I agree that Punk vs MFJ feels like the biggest match on the card, and they have the best chance of bringing the crowd back to life eventually with violence and storytelling. edit: MJF's promo was outstanding. I completely took it as him doing mind games though, like Terry Funk used to do with the audience before turning on them

The matwork we got in Danielson vs Garcia was so fucking gritty, gimme more of that please. That final reversal of the dragon screw to kicking his head in was so damn unique too. Revolution is gonna be a bloodbath with Punk/MJF, Mox/Dragon and it's a real possibility it happens in Jericho/Eddie and Page/Cole too

Danielson vs Garcia booked for tonight. I was actually going to skip this week live but TK didn't let me.

Feel more curiousty about Fujinami and Fujiwara working a six man tag for the anniversary show with Okada and Tanahashi than the 48 man New Japa Cup field. Hopefully Togo actually wrestles a real match and gives us something worth a damn after the last couple of years. CIMA being the only "outsider" in such a huge field is hilarious. It's like NJPW is trolling us or something.

Yeah, kinda surprising so many people didn't translate from one week to the other considering last week was a damn good show and I thought it did a good job at making you want to watch this week. Completely agree. I'm puzzled by wrestlers continuing to go into "work the leg" mode when nowadays is so hard to pull it off in a compelling and satisfying way. There's a lot of body parts to work a match over and most of them are easier to buy into the other person being able to withstand pain and execute a move than the legs (specially on high flyers, were not only the move but also the execution has to look good/"pretty".). I do think it's kinda lazy, in the sense that there's others ways to go around a match if you feel you HAVE to work a body part and make it a relevant factor throughout a match. People working Nakamura's legs in New Japan was the thing that broke me. It was so frustrating to watch awesome wrestlers do awesome shit and at the same time, continue to do the things they knew they wouldn't put much attention to (the consequences of hitting Nak in the legs to make his offense less deadly). Nakamura never sold shit, it was so evident he wasn't going to, and they kept going to the same dwell every time, specially Tanahashi.

Is it fair to say that Stardom has been the most successful Japanese promotion during the pandemic? It kind of feels like it but I don't follow Joshi beyond results/gates so I'm very on the outside looking in. Kairi coming back should be a nice boost for them too.

Dragon working shop for the name of his stable...Danielson Dojo?

Not big news for most here but WWE fired Carlos Cabrera today. He was the latino play-by-play announcer for 29 years and certainly the voice of wrestling for a whole bunch of generations of wrestling fans. Atangana! and Por poquiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiito are two of the GOAT wrestling calls. If Tony reunites him and Hugo Savinovich in AEW he might bring a good number of latino fans with them

That cutter was perfect.

I hope so, it would be a huge mistake to not give the fans Rosa beating Baker.

Tag rules in AEW make no cotdamn sense.

So glad Eddie is back, need to see more of him weekly.

Cole can't even spray tan right. LMAO at those hands.

I keep saying this but the best formula for Dynamite is giving Punk and Dragon the first 40 minutes of TV time and the show will always be worth a watch.

That was a great fucking promo by Punk, dude is hitting on all cylinders right now. Legit excited to see him work around a dog collar match.

Wow, that would be a huge disappointment, lol.

I don't really care about Austin wrestling again. But if this means he has to get into a feud and he comes back with his character turned up like he did in Tough Enough, I'd for sure watch every week to watch him cut promos and do fun segments. If he comes back doing "what" and three catchphrases, no thanks. But I don't see Austin coming back and doing such a lazy/lame job, he cares too much about his character and performance to not sink his teeth into a feud (this is not 2002-3 when he was checked out). Booking him for the nth time in an interview segment were he does an appearance, stuns a guy and catches beer is whatever and same old, same old. So of course that's exactly what they want to do with him

I also don't see what the "work" from this would be about? Ok, you trick the fans into thinking you are leaving but you are not. But there is no big angle you are involved in, nor a big angle within the company for Cody to get involved in as a surprise. There's no big swerve beside his music hitting on Dynamite and him getting a big pop (and then big boos). Would it be for him to finally turn heel? It would honestly be one of the dumbest ways of turning heel I'd ever seen if that's the case.

I'm a newbie to AEW, only been watching since September. Though I do recognize his contributions to the company and the business in the last 3 years, I was bored to tears with Cody and his "Codyverse", so him leaving is a welcome development to me. Specially because it liberates 20 minutes of TV time to wrestlers I'm much interested in watching. If this is a work I'ma be disappointed as hell, lol.

Didn't Rey try to challenge them in court because WWE didn't want to lose him so Vince try to pull that fucked up "you spent XX days injured so you owe me that time and your contract doesn't end when it says it does""? IIRC they ended up granting him his release and avoid litigation.

Yeah, good week for Tony and Hangman.