MoS

I don't think it was like a 2010s WK main event at all. There were barely any chain reversals for starters. I just wish they had toned down on the strike exchanges towards the end.

Punk definitely seems like he has shaken off his ring rust. He is ready to be in a proper program now.

Love how disgusted Taz was by Punk's show of respect for Bourne

Danielson is excellent at injecting character work in his matches. He's great at making you think what he is thinking

I thought this was a very good match that could have been great with 3 mins less and one dozen strike exchanges less. I mean I get it, it'sMiSu, this is exactly what the crowd wanted, but Danielson is clever enough to keep them invested without giving himself unnecessary trauma. Especially because the technical exchanges were superb.

Yeah this has definitely gone way overboard. I much prefer nasty mat worker Danielson to stupid strike exchanges Danielson.

It fits with Suzuki's character though, and I completely buy that Danielson would be stupid enough to try and go toe to toe with Suzuki and get absolutely massacred for it.

I think they prolonged the striking exchanges so the crowd got their little chants out of the system before they settled on the meat of the match

Man I am loving this opening Greco lockup sequence

Moriarty v. Fish was solid. I don't know about so many kick-based finishers in a promotion like AEW, which was built on superkicks and V-Triggers.

I love Tay. She has a great connection with the fans. I wish she wouldn't do some moves whiich look sloppy or obviously rehearsed and cooperative. This match was fine apart from a couple rough spots.

I love those Terry Boulder promos

He was clearly dressed up for the all important shooting of Rhodes to the Top, has to set an example for his newly born daughter #DoTheWork

He is sitting here comparing himself to Woody from Toy Story; he is clearly doing this on purpose.

TK has also been taking direct shots at WWE, something he consciously avoided doing for the first two years. I dunno if he feels like WWE has upped the ante and that has pissed him off, or if he has become a true wrestling promoter and is snorting coke 5 times a day.

Do you also hold your pad strategically so it looks like you're covering what you've written but conveniently all the important details are visible to the eye.

People, both fans and wrestlers, are fighting over shoes, and like, this is so beyond my understanding, I don't even want to try and figure it out. I keep hearing about sneaker culture, but I am totally uninformed on the topic, but it seems to me like Dynamite being pre-empted from its usual mid-week slot got people really bored cuz there was nothing to talk/argue/discuss, and they just wanted to fight over something lol Also, potshots at opposing wrestlers and promotions are good and fun and one of the enjoyable parts of being in a wrestling war. They can be lame and unfunny but they are never problematic or something to avoid. Dorks who complain about it are weird imo. It's the best time to be a wrestling fan in 20 years, why do we care about wrestlers insulting each other.

Kerry was so bad in all the World Class footage I have watched. He barely had any good offence, whenever he bumped it looked like shit, and his idea of babyface fire would be running around like a headless chicken. The Flair matches are very good but that's Flair basically wrestling himself. Credit to him, he was over like a million bucks and the matches wouldn't have worked without that, but as a worker, he was just so bad. None of the Von Erichs were very good imo in the footage I watched, but Fritz had the best look and presence despite being older. I need to check out his Texas Death match with Baba.

Also, there's no way someone took a photo of his from that close without him realizing that they could see what he was up to. I firmly believe Coach Tony K worked this leak to hype the PPV

I don't follow American football, but from everything I have heard about the Jags, if I were connected to them, I would be (fantasy) booking wrestling instead of watching them too.

Didn't Shawn use the Heart Punch as a finisher for a little while, as a pun on his nickname? Or was it Taker?

What a time we are all living in. Legitimately the best time to be a wrestling fan this century.

How do we even compare GCW and PWG in terms of who the bigger promotion is, given PWG runs fewer shows and never stream them?

I don't plan on ranking Sabu, but I would say the answer probably is because Sabu and ECW would mostly do chaotic out-of-control fights which were very much marketed that way; where the sloppiness was not just acceptable but probably needed to be a part of it. I don't think the DK-TM matches were ever sold or hyped that way: I could be wrong, but they were sold like amazing high-flying technical marvels, where precision and smoothness becomes more important. I guess another reason would be that few Sabu defenders would consider ranking him in their top 100 GWE while most DK fans will probably want to rank him very high.

I don't think the Dynamite backlash was as much about the workrate/MOVEZ criticism as much as it was about his sloppy execution in the TM matches. He and Tiger Mask were so fast, so wiry, that they would end up missing half their moves. In that respect, while DK is certainly influential, I am not sure how his work would look next to modern wrestlers like Rey Fenix, who try crazy moves and actually hit them. I prefer the Bulldog tags to his junior heavyweight work, but I have always appreciated how grumpy and pissed off he would look even missing moves. He had a lot of personality and that always helps.