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How is the head of talent relations getting banned from the building? And why is he the head of talent relations at all at that point? Punk gonna get CD fired so he can take his spot and force the Bucks to interact with him.

Peak KENTA and peak NOAH is wrestling kino. Strangely, his 205 Live run had his best matches under the WWE banner.

Yeah well....I like Bret more so I don't care that he's a bitter fuck. He also has actual brain damage so

I think Bret has a number of more valid and serious reasons to be pissed at all those guys than Punk does for a guy saying something he didn't like in a promo.

If Naito doesn't win at WK with the stardust press, water we even dune here

AWA stuff got mentioned from time to time in general due to Bischoff's association with it. It certainly became less common over the Monday Night Wars, but still would get brought up for Norton/Hennig/Hall, even Enos/Bloom.

AWA and Bruno did get mentioned quite a bit in 1996-1998 stuff, though it was usually by Larry himself to put himself over.

Poor Tana gonna have to add a broken neck and brain to his broken knees. Natio absolutely murdered him with the tornado DDT good fuck.

Those aren't the kind of headbutts I'm talking about. I'm talking about the kind that end strike battles and are usually to the jaw/neck/collarbone area and get a double thigh slap that looks like garbage every time in every company. Although really, all headbutts should be illegal. I don't think there is a single combat sport where headbutts are legal.

A sidebar of the thigh slap debate: The super headbutt spot with obscene thigh slap should be banned from the entire industry. It looks atrocious even with camera cuts and angles to hide things, can't imagine how dogshit those look in person. It's far more egregious than any superkick. Examples: Toni Storm, Drew McIntyre, Yota Tsuji, Timothy Thatcher. All very different wrestlers in different promotions all doing the most dogshit spot. Ban it.

Lucha Bros vs BCC might be the sloppiest match by four top tier talents I've ever seen. Besides a single superkick from Fenix to Mox, these dudes whiffed on absolutely everything the entire match.

A big deep family rivalry really needs more violence than kendo sticks and clean table bumps. Never seen a family fight not be the most dirty shit. Not 40 minutes of open hand uppercuts.

Does AEW actually set the PPV price points, or does the provider

Feels like perhaps this angle has peaked and is time to think about wrapping it up.

A LOT of spots in this have had so much air in between competitors. Tighten it up, pals.

Shayna/Ronda might be the biggest disappointment of the year. The promo package was great, they knocked the fuck out of each other in the build up, and then put on such a dull sparring contest with terrible looking strikes and no intensity. All they had to do was come out and do 5 minutes of Frye/Takyama + a few heavy shots from Shayna, then the choke out.

Next 2 weeks of TV are probably going to be nuts. Hard to really predict what the All In card could look like, especially as All Out is a week or two later. Just some possibilities for either show based on what I've seen on TV recently: A Cole/MJF break up angle and match, or Cole/MJF tag match. Possibly for the titles against FTR or even if Big Bill/Cage beat them. Maybe even the break up angle after the match, leading to a title match at All Out. Punk vs Starks rematch for the "real" title. Punk vs White-O is also in the cards. A OC/PAC begrudging, enemy of my enemy style tag against Claudio and Mox, or a defense of the International against one of them. Perhaps OC/Ospreay 2? Joker Sting was super over in the UK so I'd imagine bringing him into the Darby/Wayne vs Swerve/Fox thing would make sense Andrade/Black singles match, or trios match with HOB vs Andrade/Rush/Dralistico or Preston Vance Kenny vs Takeshita, Don Callis on a pole match If Jericho pushing to work with Ospreay isn't accurate, Jericho vs Sammy vs Garcia The AEW roster is so wild that I have no idea what the Bucks, Hangman, any of the women's division, Miro, Lucha Bros, Joe, The Acclaimed, Keith Lee, not to mention any UK talent that presumably will be on the card could be doing. Plus I think Grand Slam is a few weeks after, too.

Cole/MJF has moved from bromance to just romance. Cole doesn't even look at Britt that way

Will Ospreay is probably the best wrestler in the world right now. This mf turned me. He's so immensely better as a heavyweight. Dude is really in that peak Big Match Kenny air at the moment, but for every match.

Sure, but his burying of NOAH goes into how they suck at booking and have no idea how to run a promotion and can't get their stars over, that the competition of the N1 isn't in the same league as the G1, and so on. And then you pair that with how he talks about NJ booking and you get a Sanada/Kiyomiya match where commentary talks about both how shitty NOAH is and how Sanada hasn't had any serious challengers but that's probably good because it gave Sanada some confidence as a champ, but also it would be a DISASTER if Sanada lost and it then took Sanada until the last 2 seconds to put away the guy. But Kevin Kelly frequently just talks shit about NJ booking and promotion, in a very casual way, that I can't believe someone isn't listening to him call shows and be like "hey what the fuck man".

Yeah I like that dude a lot. What I don't like is Kevin Kelly. Do the NJ brass actually listen to his commentary? Dude is constantly and casually shitting on wrestlers, their moves, the refs, the booking, the promoting, the quality of opponents for various people, and man does he bury the ever loving shit out of NOAH constantly. Just very unhelpful and unproductive

Ospreay should decline a program with Jericho. Jericho in no way can keep up with Ospreay, who will have to work overtime to make Jericho look good, which will do nothing for Ospreay, and only serve Jericho's ego of having to be relevant at the expense of talented people who could be working with other talented people to help each other.

Is Sting/his son/his grandson vs Swerve/AR Fox/? (Cage) its way

It's hilarious that Roddy has been coming to TV every week in a neckbrace for a MONTH just to try to talk to Adam Cole during his promos.

OC feuding with BCC could produce some real great stuff