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"We're telling a story." The problem with Kofi is that he was great for the Mania moment. But it made no sense to keep the title on him for much time afterward. It's like Luger winning the title from Hogan on Nitro. A great moment, and it was great in itself, but it had no other use.

Maravilla fucking Hamburgesa over never ever gets old. Poor guy got slapped by Mami too. I love Maravilla's theme music BTW, I wonder what it is (too lazy to search...) Fun match with these guys as usual. Although they don't give a flying fuck about selling, Maravilla got spiked on the apron and she was fine 30 seconds later, but I don't care, she's great anyway. Taurus vs Vikingo was amazing, as usual. Fenix vs Omega was MOTYC to me. Kinda hard to work that kind of match in front of the AAA crowd, but the fact they crowd was going wild at the end is a testament of just how great Omega is (Fenix is too, of course), he can get it done anywhere. Some brutal looking stuff here, and yeah, the busted nose added to the final stretch. How can they deliver such an awful, boring main event after these two matches ? And Psycho Clown's new theme has to be one of the most annoying ever. Then again, what was the last time Psycho Clown was involved in something half-decent ? Tritton showing up was cool. No Rush, no LA Park. Come on AAA, make some move. Also, next time I watch a AAA big show, I'll drink a shot every time I see some goof on the entrance or running down the ramp for some reason. It's like a running gag.

As I'm watching the AAA Immortales show, I just pictured WWE putting giant portrait of Vince and dragging his ashes on every show like AAA does with Pena's. And they could also have an hologram of Vince cutting promos and firing people. Yeah, I think I just saw he future !

The fact they cared enough about his comeback from leukemia to make a despicable angle about it (which played a part in Mox wanting to leave eventually) but not enough to try and make him the ultimate babyface they always wanted him to be before that point says everything about how dumb these people are.

The flipping of the bird/hit finisher on Pac this week was sooooo Steve Austin.

This is so cool. So much to love here, but I think the best part if MJF, actually cutting a promo on the kid, then running after the referee. This is *fun* cosplay.

"Riddle huge for teenage boys" sounds kinda gross...

Omega vs Fenix could be a sleeper MOTYC if they let them have it. Will Lady Maravilla fuck Hamburgesa once again ? Drago vs Daga could be excellent too. The cage match... not so much. I guess lots of blood though.

Glad Rossy Ogawa choose Bushiroad instead of Bullshitroad... (yeah, I know the exit, thanks)

The Heartbreak Grown Up Shawn Michaels says hello. I loved his feud with Davey Mate Smith.

Pretty cool episode this week if only because it was taped at a Crash event. The first MLW match had Hammerstone vs Rey Horus in a good match. Not a fan of Hammerstone, I find him dull in the ring, but Horus really made it work and he's seen as a star there, so it's probably the best match I've seen of him since LU. This guy should really go somewhere at one point. Second one was Dynasty vs Los Parks, which really wasn't very good because of a brutal clash of styles. Dynasty can't do lucha to save their life, so they work Larry Z. style and although they did get heat, the match itself kinda died, especially with an anticlimatic finish. Salina was all over this episode though, with a good promo against Samael (who's good in the mouthpiece role but should just not work) and the best line of the show when she confronted Dynasty outside the building : "Don't get kidnapped"

Cocaine. Don't do it.

Well, no I didn't and so I probably shouldn't. Plus, every time he says "Jungle Jack", I'm expecting Bison Kimura to show up and chop the fuck out of someone. And then I'm disappointed. I loved Bison.

Just kidding of course. Hey thanks ! What happened is that I totally stopped watching any WWE main roster product (and even gave up on checking NXT this week). I would still be a fan of course, I really love her, but since I don't actually watch her, well...

Imagine that, getting diner with his wife after a day's work. How the fuck dares he ? I wouldn't say I am sympathetic toward Bischoff, but WWE people are sociopathic assholes.

Finally got to try it. Listened to the first three episodes. A win thus far, Arn is a really good storyteller, he is a pleasure to listen to and I enjoy the shorter lenghts and the fact we don't get any stupidity about "dirt sheets" thus far.

Why do you hate me ? Because I was an Asuka fan ? Why ? WHY ???!!!!

I'm kinda sorry to say, but not too much sorry because I've never been a big JR fan anyway, but thus far JR has clearly be the one thing I would put in the "miss" category in AEW presentation. I don't think he brings much to the table at all. He's spewing cliches about "being athletic", "being overlooked", "being small", "being physical" and "wins and loss matering", he has no idea how to put over people like Riho. He's ok, he's inoffensive (unlike Mauro for instance, who's a legit turnoff), he doesn't amper my enjoyment of the product at all, but Tony Schiavone is ten times better and could put over the matches and performers a whole lot more if he had more space to do so. I don't feel there's any chemistry between JR and Excalibur either. The whole "Jungle Jack" stuff is just annoying and clearly JR not getting at all what the appeal of Jungle Boy is. It might sound crazy, but Jim Cornette would be actually a terrific announcer for AEW if he put his ridiculous biases on the side. And really, Cornette & Schiavone together would be gold. JR may have brought name value to the company, but as far as an announcing in 2019 goes, he's at best neutral, at worst he's just not very good.

Well, people are just plain dumb.

Well, that's his whole appeal.

BTW, Meltz mentionned it twice, Riho is seriously spiking the teenage girls in the ratings. So yeah, she's getting over and she's interesting to an audience that doesn't watch pro-wrestling. Compare that to the ratings following the heavy emphasis on women during the #Revolution in WWE, when it was proven that women did not watch that stuff. Characters matter and getting over matters. AEW is in the "get people over" business, and Riho is doing just that. In three weeks, they have established more defined people you can begin to care about than WWE in the last XXX years. Way more than NXT is the same amount of time, at the very least.

From ? (yeah, I did the same joke when it was announced New Jack had retired from wrestling)

You seem to forget all the players haven't been featured yet on TV. Allie is a really cool character and a solid worker. The only real void to fill is the great worker/star power spot, and Foxy is neither.

Spike was a Paul E. booking one-trick poney. He also had one move that he was doing a zillion times and the rest was getting thrown around and fall off stuff. He also has a shitty character and was a crap promo. I could't stand Spike Dudley when I was doing my ECW complete watch a few years ago. Like, to the point of irrational hate ! Easily on my all-time least favorite workers ever list (well, then, have no idea how I would take him now). 20 years of not being able to push any cruiserweight to star status, including Rey Mysterio, by WWE will do that, I guess...

Riho has something than you can't teach : she gets over. She's also actually really good (not great, but these days I guess "good" is an insult) as a pure worker, those fucking footstomps she pulls out of nowhere, just a thing of beauty, she's also quite explosive, as small as she is. And every time, she is getting that crowd. That's the main thing. As far as the Spike Dudley comparisons, yeah, to a degree, but Spike Dudley kinda sucked, so, not really.