MoS

So all the reports about her being difficult to work with were clearly true and not baseless rumours. Becoming the only wrestler AEW has ever fired (apart from Jimmy Jacobs I guess) must feel special

I meant in terms of him gaining power backstage. All of this shit started with The Authority after all

I don't mean to blame everything on the man, but some of it has got to do with the rise of HHH as well. He spent most of his main event (poorly) cosplaying Harley Race and Ric Flair, and probably pushes for that model, even though it was a regional, territorial model completely out of place in today's wrestling - after all, most regional territories were anchored around babyfaces.

This is apropos nothing but since you all are watching a cable show: I have been in the US for near 7 months now, and dear Lord, you all have the absolute worst commercials. Forget like the UK, I have watched cable tv in Singapore and those ads are hundred times better even though I do not understand a single word being said. Everywhere there are lush farms and picturesque homes and sagely looking doctors giving advice, as if anyone in the US can afford to go to a doctor. Just the worst

Kofi had the secondary belt and he lost it as soon as they decided to switch Brock to Smackdown. The trend indeed started with Hunter. I think the bigger issue though is that they seem to have forgotten how to book badass main event faces. Drew is an exception, but even his reign got repetitive and tedious at times. As soon as a face gets over and reaches the main event level, WWE books them to start losing again and again until their momentum gets killed. I guess this is inevitable when they have booked the promotion itself as the heel for the past decade.

Yeah, I felt that too. Dunno why Meltzer was crediting Edge's large, sustained pop to his pyro. God knows he is in love with Edge's work, and thinks his terrible acting in the ring to be De Niro-level performances, so it's not as if he would try and dismiss his success

No way was the crowd close to as international or even national as it used to be. There's still a pandemic happening. Tampa does lean democratic though. Regardless, it's just a joke. I bet your hero Mick Foley would use it for a pop

I felt bad for the Bellas cuz they were put in a bad spot, given WWE had teased a Becky Lynch appearance, so the fans booed the Bellas for no fault of theirs. I liked the fact that they put over Roman strong, and I thought the first 3/4th of the match was excellent, but the final fourth was filled with bullshit cringeworthy overwrought WWE melodrama. I wonder if it would have been a good idea to switch the two cards. I liked the second show, but the first show felt more lively and vibrant for whatever reason, despite having a long weather delay and a lot of rain for the first half. Plus, while the Roman match wss definitely the biggest match of the weekend and the main event, they could have used the 2-day format to have the Bianca win send the fans home on a happy note.

The best part about the weekend about the Belair win. The 2nd best was Hogan getting booed whenever he came out, no matter what stupid shit he might be doing. Like putting over the previous night's main event. As someone on Twitter put it, imagine a Florida crowd booing you for racism

This is the kind of stupid shit that happens only in WWE. Nia taunts Tamina. Tamina asks to be tagged. Nattie gets up, and loudly asks, YOU WANT A TAG? Like, what else do you think she wanted. Wrestling is not movies, Vince

At least it was short

You can literally see fans getting up to get snacks in the background

What is that weird "OHH" sound they keep piping in

Hogan having to dress as a pirate is definitely a weird kind of punishment Getting the shit out of the way first, good idea

I have no idea who this singer is, but she looks like MAGA Amy Poehler

She's at her peak right now and might have just had the greatest North American women's match in history (it's amazing how many other contenders involve her too) so hopefully she goes on to have a really great main event run

To be fair, I think people here at least very much hold it against him

Well, this guy has probably changed a lot of our minds since last time. He did a 180 degree for me within like two years

Did Bryan ever work extensively in Mexico?

Do we have any footage at all from Flair's pre-plane crash days? When he was a 285-pound powerlifter? It's interesting how that might have worked out

I would call it a great episode of Raw, enhanced extraordinarily by an incredible main event. I am sure it won't be talked as such amongst the usual tastemakers in wrestling, but I would put it up there with one of the greatest WM matches of all time, and it might very well be the greatest main event of all-time. The rest was good, Bad Bunny did a Canadian Destroyer which would be a holy shit moment if everyone's grandmothers were not doing destroyers at every backyard event

I'm about 5 minutes into Austin's interview with Jericho and he has already asked about AEW. I don't think a lot of people were expecting that, so credit to Austin and WWE for that

This made my heart gloriously warm

Holy shit

Between the main event here and the Britt-Rosa match earlier, we might have seen two of the top 5 North American women's matches in history