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@MoS Ahh, that makes more sense.

The love he has for Vince is the most amusing part to me. What kind of conversations would those two have?

What's this about people leaving the building after the Bliss segment and not coming back to the building? da hell?

https://www.theplayerstribune.com/posts/bryan-danielson-wrestling-wwe-aew it's not about the empire crumbling, but didn't know where else to post it, lol.

Takuya Nomura is FINALLY the Big Japan Strong Heavyweight champion. Haven't been this happy about a wrestling result in I don't know how long

Yes

If that's the case you should get the shock and outrage at Dreamer's comments because most of people who showed those emotions never saw much of Dreamer in ECW or watched the RF shoots...unless you were just referring to PWO. And in that case I wouldn't say there was any outrage and the shock mainly comes from him saying that scumbag shit purposely on a documentary of this nature in this day and age.

Abe continues on his quest of having horrible brain damage before he reaches 30, dear lord. A strike fest between this two, with some nice counters and some drama sprikled in thanks to Abe being an awesome little shit. Definitely worth a watch.

As we all know, draws are hard to get invested in because there's only so much you can do drama-wise, specially in Japan were the crowd knows they are about to see them reach the time limit the closer they get to it. But these two managed to have a great slowed paced match worked very smartly. It's a very simple story of both guys working a body part and committing to it and as always with the added plus of actually working for holds and struggling to get he upper hand, something that to me is key to keep me invested in these types of settings. In retrospect this is obviously worked as a preview of Nomura actually winning the belt (hopefully on 9/20), with Nakanoue barely scratching by and being saved by the bell. Young Gawd's selling was top notch by the way. You can tell Big Japan fans want this kid to get the damn strap because they were very invested in everything they did, even though they can't scream and chant. They bought into some nearfalls and were constantly clapping, giving this a proper atmosphere for a title match.

They did a good job shifting focus to strikes instead of holds and matwork (like the Nomura match). The first 10 minutes are mostly carried by Abe, and even though he doesn't go into his usual stick until the finishing sequence, he basically keeps your interest with everything he does. The last five minutes are a little too over the top for me but I know I'm in the minority when it comes to that kind of stuff.

What does this has to do about anything? No one here has used the word rape to describe Flair's actions. This makes no damn sense. You are acting as if both things happened at the same time and shrugging off what actually happened in both instances. Just take 30 minutes of your day and watch the damn thing if you wanna comment on it.

At first I saw the Twitter clips and even though Dreamer was a fucking scumbag I thought it was made to sound even worse that he intended. At first I thought he was just making a generic defense of Flair in the typical way friends justify toxic/abusive behavior of their closed ones, and that editing made it look even more repulsive by making him be the one to "respond" to the flight attendant testimony. But then he directly talks about her and how she shouldn't have taken settlement money and went to the full extent of the law to put Flair in prison if she was so offended. Fucking hell, way to show you are a piece of shit when no one asked for it. I'm also with @hammerva, Terri's quotes paint the best picture at how wrestling truly is/was.

I thought this was a very good episode made great by the crowd. I'm only two weeks in so Lamber's schtick is hilarious to me. Jericho being Jericho didn't bother me that much. I liked the segment but almost solely because the crowd made it something entertaining. Same boat with MJF's stuff, I'm kinda impressed by him trying his hardest to make Pillman Jr more over. He's throwing every cliche in the book but again, I'm so new to Dynamite that I don't particularly care. Love Hobbs getting this kind of spotlight. Danielson and Kenny gotta go to a draw and Page gotta comeback too. NY would go nuts methinks. Thought the segment itself was meh but whatever, they basically dragged the match for two weeks so it can get to Arthur Ashe. Miro's promo was fucking aces. Cody vs Black is the epitome of a feud I could give less of a fuck about. Rosario Dawson getting in the middle of it was so random that it was least funny to watch. The in ring action was fine. Next week should be fucking flames though, can't wait.

WWE can always learn the wrong lesson and blame the wrong people but the evidence is there that hot shotting wasn't the worst idea they could come up with (without Big E the rating would've been abysmal, as the last hour usually goes to shit). As everyone has said, they key now would be to build on the moment but this company just goes back to normal and tries to find whatever shock value (or nostalgia) they can come up with when they feel they need to pop a rating and nothing else. They should try to come up with a huge angle for the Draft so they can actually get rid of the brands in the short term. Build up SS as the "brand ender" or Night Of Champions if they are still doing that show. I also wonder what kind of panic they will have if the Arthur Ashe show does a big rating and AEW beats them in the demo.

I'd love for him to go back to El Generico, get a big pop and like 1 year run out of it. Then he gets into a heated feud were he loses the first apuestas match in AEW and has to take off the mask.

First black to black WWE champions too. That's also pretty fucking dope.

New Day having two world champions is fucking dope. Big E winning is fucking dope. Even though I wanted him to beat the one to vanquish Roman, I'm just happy he got the belt. So RAW becomes the New Day show for a while or do they swap E with the Tribal Chief? would FOX allow that?

The commercial was put there so people would have time to tune in to the cash in? So was Bobby having an injury to make it "obvious" he's losing?

This feels weird on so many levels

Yeah, I just don't care about anyone on this fucking show. I'll be back for the last half hour and see how everything unfolds.

No doubt. I always found ridiculous when guys like Randy were in the ring cutting promos with a t-shirt in their underwear

Since when does Randy wear shorts? That legit shocked me, lol. About damn time Randall. And wow, Charlotte looks different from WM and in WM I could barely recognize her.

At least they got my attention, might be my first RAW watch in years, just to see if they fuck up the layup they have with Big E.

I also lean towards that. Bryan can't beat Kenny at Full Gear because of The Elite and when he's about to get killed, Page makes the save. I'm just too ignorant on AEW to grasp how a DQ/non-finish for Omega/Dragon would be received and if Page showing up would make up for it. From what I've read in this board, it certainly seems like it would though. I struggle with this too. I know Dragon can recover from any loss, specially in an environment like AEW. But drawing wise, I don't think he'll ever mean as much as he does right now. So would beating him clean hurt that? Not sure, but going the safe route and having a non-finish seems like the better option. Specially if it's to build to Page coming back and getting the job done once and for all.

If he's 2 months away from coming back. Do you still wait for him and keep the belt on Omega so Page can finally win it from Kenny? Honest question since I know very little of AEW's kayfabe and what the fans that have been following the past 2 years feel about this kind of thing. I know Omega vs Danielson is a huge match but it kind of opens a bunch of problems if it's made for the title. I guess it's a good problem to have but if the end goal is Page getting the main belt, then I'd try to delay Dragon vs Kenny till after Omega drops the strap. I also have no clue how "damaged" would Page's character be if his own coronation gets delayed 6-10 months because of the new arrivals/circumstances. What if Tony Khan pulls a Gedo and punts his title win till All Out 2022 or something?