May 19, 20223 yr comment_5981480 Lol Storm's theme is a Jimmy Hart version of Barracuda? That's awesome. AEW is three years old already? Oh my.
May 19, 20223 yr comment_5981481 What is this what's happening why do I always end up watching the worst segments?
May 19, 20223 yr comment_5981482 2 minutes ago, KawadaSmile said: What is this what's happening why do I always end up watching the worst segments? What was wrong with the Deeb segment, Bubba? She's hardly a natural on the mic, but the content was good.
May 19, 20223 yr comment_5981483 1 minute ago, C.S. said: What was wrong with the Deeb segment, Bubba? She's hardly a natural on the mic, but the content was good. I dunno bubba it all just felt so awkward and all over the place. Hardy towering over Cole boggles me
May 19, 20223 yr Author comment_5981484 Deeb talking about what she had to do in order to satisfy perverts is a hell of a line when you consider she's in a relationship with Marty "lol I'll pretend u said 18" Scurll.
May 19, 20223 yr comment_5981486 4 minutes ago, KawadaSmile said: I dunno bubba it all just felt so awkward and all over the place. Here's the promo for anyone who didn't see it: She's not a natural on the mic by any means, but she spit straight fire.
May 19, 20223 yr comment_5981488 2 minutes ago, C.S. said: Here's the promo: I watched it in its entirety, bubba. I found it was messy. Like Stro mentioned, the content was alright, but her delivery was akin to that one Ken Patera promo. Not good.
May 19, 20223 yr comment_5981489 God damn I do not want to see Sting going toe to toe with any member of TUE. "WE'RE OUTTA TIME" the feeling is back, fans
May 19, 20223 yr Author comment_5981490 I legit lol'd at Sting bonking the chair off Kyle's head like the dork he is.
May 19, 20223 yr comment_5981491 The crowd didn't get Maki Itoh at all during her entrance, but by the end they were chanting her name. Score another point for my argument in the Mercedes Martinez GWE thread...
May 19, 20223 yr Author comment_5981492 Clearly no one was expecting it to be her, so there was a little bit of letdown and confusion, but she got the crowd back quickly because Maki Itoh is awesome, motherfuckers.
May 19, 20223 yr comment_5981493 Also, Takeshita is definitely someone i can see showing up in the next GWE poll after this one. Enjoy the "beating Uncle Jun & inheriting King's Road" arc he's been on
May 19, 20223 yr comment_5981497 Johnny having a million names is one of my favorite things in wrestling. Excalibur kinda ruined it by explains the joke .
May 19, 20223 yr comment_5981499 I loved the Wardlow/ MJF segment. It told a great story and it was an amalgamation of the old Midnight Express straight jacket gimmick and the old ten lashes gimmick. If Cornette shits on this then he's completely lost all relevance, right?
May 19, 20223 yr Author comment_5981501 Apparently something happened during the Rampage tapings where Bryan's leg got stuck between the ring and the rampway deal and it took 10 minutes to get him out. No word on if he's hurt or not but he was limping after they got him out.
May 19, 20223 yr comment_5981502 Based on this clip, looks like AEW dodged a bullet since Danielson is probably doing more selling than anything. But after that, I'm not sure they're gonna opt for that setup again, just to avoid something like this to happen again.
May 19, 20223 yr comment_5981507 CM Punk's T-shirt >>>>>> everything. In Texas no less. Speaking of Texas : 10 hours ago, funkdoc said: Fuck Texas crowds & their "WHAT" chants, just sayin Yep. Steve Austin really ruined it for everybody when he came up with that. We're in fucking 2022 already. I fucking called Johnny Elite is the AAA Thread ! Apparently he's gonna be Johnny Game Changer in GCW too . Cool that he's there. He's like an RVD, he's a guy you can do a lot with because of his abilities. As long as no one sells his shitty finisher, that's cool. Plus, another one of the Lucha Underground gang ! When is Ricochet's contract ending already ? I for one thought Regal underwhelming on the mic. That comeback was pretty weak. Mox & Eddie saved the segment on the babyface side. I did find the Serena Deeb segment pretty intriguing, more intriguing than most of what they did around the Women's title for a long while, including Rosa elbowing Dustin by accident. Good stuff there. Fénix vs O'Reilly was awesome. O'Reilly's counter of Rey's cutter was next level kinda work. The idea that O'Reilly is a dork is amusing, since he's basically totally out of the Bryan Danielson mold. Page vs Takeshita was awesome. You know Page is one of those guys who wants to do the G1 again. I had not seen any Takeshita before he showed up, because I really don't watch DDT, but the guy has been impressive. When you think NJPW is still pushing guys like EVIL, yikes... Wardlow no selling the lashing I did not see coming and it was a brillant idea. Great execution too. They have totally sold me, especially in the last few weeks, for a program I did not give a shit about. That's good work. Speaking of getting over to an uncaring audience : 10 hours ago, funkdoc said: The crowd didn't get Maki Itoh at all during her entrance, but by the end they were chanting her name. Score another point for my argument in the Mercedes Martinez GWE thread... This. Itoh is an interesting case because it makes you question about "What getting over means ?" in a context that has nothing to do with a promotion strapping a rocket on your ass or using promotional high weaponry, nor having an already strongly established status. She shows up and gets over. Always good to have people like this. 11 hours ago, KawadaSmile said: Britt selling her head for a headbutt to the midsection is yikes. I thought it was odd too at first, but actually she was kinda covering her face because she was *that close* to cracking up, you can clearly see it. Made my day. On the other hand that promo by Statlander was yikes. Can I get my alien back ? That certainly was a Jeff Hardy circa TNA 2011 match or something. Even Adam Cole can't work miracles when there's no ladders involved. Tag match should be fun though, because Young Bucks are the GOAT team (and no, I don't throw that acronym as a meme, they legit are). 10 hours ago, KawadaSmile said: Lol Storm's theme is a Jimmy Hart version of Barracuda? That's awesome. AEW is three years old already? Oh my. It is. And it is too. Amazing when you think of it. Three years is more than peak Nitro (which lasted about 2 years and a half, really). Three years is the entire Attitude Era. Three years is more than peak ECW. And without even having to think twice about it, these three years have been the best US pro-wrestling TV ever in term of match quality and consistency. By a wide, wide margin. Booking wise in term of big angle, I wouldn't say anything got close to the early nWo or Bret vs US, or even some of the best ECW angles (which really were very niche but also incredibly fresh, visceral and different). But really, in three years, they have accomplished so much more than anyone could have dreamed of when it started both in term of getting competitive with WWE (which they should not be, not with the Coca Cola of the industry) and in term of attracting major names and working with so many promotions around the world. Coach TK, hat's off to you, really, made my last few years way easier than they would have been otherwise, best years of my life as a pro-wrestling fan since 1990.
May 19, 20223 yr comment_5981508 Page is terrible and they can't get the title off of him quickly enough. His ring style is absolutely detrimental and is actively counterbalancing all of the good Punk's doing in trying to make things matter again.
May 19, 20223 yr comment_5981509 The craziest thing to me was Wardlow didn't even BLINK when hit with the belt
May 19, 20223 yr comment_5981510 34 minutes ago, El-P said: I for one thought Regal underwhelming on the mic. That comeback was pretty weak. Mox & Eddie saved the segment on the babyface side. I agree, but I wonder if that was by design. We all know Regal is one of the best mic workers ever. He's also old-school. As a manager, he would not want to overshadow a current worker (Jericho) or his current allies (Mox and Eddie). What he said was was a cute introduction, and then he set up his boys to do the heavy lifting, which they should since they're the ones in the match.
May 19, 20223 yr comment_5981511 I didn't think about it that way, but it makes sense. He did call Daniel Garcia "flower", so there's that. I liked how they teased Stadium Stampede but interrupted it in a way that made sense character wise. A blood brawl is what we want.
May 19, 20223 yr comment_5981513 1 hour ago, El-P said: Wardlow no selling the lashing I did not see coming and it was a brillant idea. Great execution too. They have totally sold me, especially in the last few weeks, for a program I did not give a shit about. That's good work. Glad you are warming up to WARDLOW.
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