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I keep seeing talk about AEW being in a slump, and I disagree completely. I've watched Dynamite just about every week this year and am always sports entertained. Yeah maybe the booking has been scattershot lately, but Dynamite is the only show I would even consider watching weekly in the year of our lord 2022.

Smart for Triple H to swerve Double J before Double J swerves Triple H

Schiavone does seem like the perfect guy for that role, but what happened to Chris Daniels being the head of talent relations? All these stories about different guys just getting ghosted, or all these personal conflicts backstage, why hasn't Daniels' name come up in any of them when he's supposed to be the guy taking care of that kind of stuff?

The idea that Punk is pissed enough to threaten no shows or quitting because younger guys aren't taking his advice is incredible

What the fuck could Punk possibly be pissed enough about to make multiple threats of quitting

Could also be that Punk is an asshole who was completely out of the industry for 7 years and came back for way more money with way more hype and killed what had been a 3 year storyline with Adam Page since the very first AEW show. I could see a number of guys that have been around the entire time Punk was gone having a bit of a "fuck this guy" attitude. And I'd say they're right if Punk decided to air his grievances on live TV when Page couldn't respond.

Have you not noticed that Rush also has the tiny trunks

Hoping Kenny wears all the gear and pads for the next 6 months like DDP

Christian as a heel wearing turtlenecks every week is delightful

Mox's punches and often kicks have always been dogshit

Seemed like a dick move to do it on TV instead of in the back unless they're going to make an angle of it.

Seemed weird to me too, but fuck the world Punk talking that shit was what I've been waiting on for a year now. That whole thing was delightful.

The only time I've been impressed with Eddie Gilbert was with Lawler, and the list of guys with less skill and talent than Gilbert that King made look great is impossible to calculate.

It isn't a modern thing, though. That's been a talking point online since the late 90s/early 00s if not earlier

I've never understood the quiet Japanese crowds deal. Going back to even the JWA days are some of the hottest crowds anywhere. Maybe a more respectful crowd in terms of jeering and heckling, but not quiet.

Yeah the Mortis/Wrath vs Glacier/Cat feud is one of those undercard feuds that seem like they should be stupid waste of time (and especially how it fit into the nWo era landscape of WCW) but turns out to be a lot of fun because the matches were surprisingly good.

Both routinely would go on so long being as glass gargling as possible that they'd be losing their voice by the end of the promos. Every week! Shit was brutal on both shows. Unrelated, WCW should have kept up with the fledgling "martial arts division" they were testing out in 1998. There were some nifty little shootstyle matches for a couple of weeks. Certainly the best Ernest Miller ever looked.

I have to wonder if there is a single good match or promo during the entirety of the original Hollywood Hogan run. Off the top of my head, the only one I can think of was against Macho at HH 1996. He's consistently if not the worst, at least bottom two-three segments of every show every week. Just straight up comically bad, which could be enjoyable for lulz if he wasn't positioned the way he was and given those weekly rambling promos about nothing. In fact, I might go so far as to say that quality wise (in terms of promos and matches), the 1996-1998 Hollywood Hogan run might be the worst major heel run of all time. Really felt like Hogan and HBK were seeing who could outdo the other with the longest promos without saying shit.

I'm nervous for Sting/Brody interactions

The complete absence of MJF chants is interesting. Fans moved on immediately.

I don't think he looked particularly big and imposing in NXT against Gargano/Cole/KOR/Balor guys. Jeff Hardy looked bigger than him and no one is ever going to say Jeff Hardy is some imposing big guy.

My issue is he's real fucking dull in the ring and in promos, and so is Bray Wyatt, and all the spooky shit WWE has done is fucking terrible. So you know if Bray is brought back, that's for sure going to be a program and it is going to be top tier Wrestlecrap.

The Kross vs Wyatt prolonged feud of spooky bullshit is going to be an all timer for worst feuds in history

He didn't come off as an antihero to me specifically. I know fans were cheering, but to me, he came off like a bit of a shithead who obviously was going to get a giant contract when reup came and tanked it for himself out of jealousy. I would compare it to a rookie NBA/NFL contract for a guy who ends up becoming a superstar and parlays that into a massive contract for his second deal. I don't think real sports renegotiate contracts mid season, either.

I don't think MJF comes off as an antihero at all in that whole situation. MJF's "pipebomb" was ultimately bitching about money against a face promotor/company, unlike Punk's which was about a lot more than money and was against a promotor/company that was heel.