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Admittedly did not bother with this show live. Saw IYO SKY roll across my timeline and hard rolled my eyes. Remember when people complained about "Butch"? Rather be butch any day. Don't understand why the need to downgrade absolutely everything.
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It was a tad unbelievable that the Bucks were surprised by the announcement. I was, "How do you not know?!? You're Executive Vice Presidents!"
They're heels.
Real news is that they ran scared from FTR. Know they can't keep up with them anymore.
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He was clearly set up to be the top heel in the promotion as the top guy in the top heel faction. If that isn't obvious then I don't know what to tell you. Also, I have no idea why people think being featured on weekly programming is a bad thing but whatever.
He was put with guys who didn't have anything to do, and got an angle so people would care about Claudio beating him more. TK's booking tropes are well known at this point.
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First Tony puts on Main Events to open the show all the time. Could they have set it up a little better sure, but I felt it was apparent when Gresham was calling himself the best technical wrestler in the world since Claudio beat ZSJ in a match to crown "the best technical wrestler". I don't know how losing to a much bigger star than you, in a competitive match, while getting put over huge on commentary by a legend like Regal is getting "buried 64 ft under". Gresham is the one who was apparently acting completely unprofessional.
No. He was very clearly being discarded for a new toy. This is classic Tony Khan, we've seen it for almost 3 years now. He bigs you up and then you're on Dark for a year nobody calls you until your contract is up, and then they all put a lock on the door. That was going to be Gresham's fate and everyone knew it.
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Supposedly Gresham blew up on Tony Khan during the PPV.
He was buried 64 ft under, can't imagine why. I would have walked out and not jobbed if you came to me and said. "Your World Title Match is jerking the curtain, I'm cutting the time, and you are jobbing in this match we threw together 5 days ago."
That's disrespect. I literally said when it went on first, it's gotta be a DQ to set up an angle for later because they can't possibly swap it now. Then they swapped it, and it was the only time in the night I grimaced, felt really bad for Gresham. Tony Khan really not helping his not a racist case with the black community here either.
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It sure felt like Vince was still in charge, especially during the "ImPaulsiveTV" segment.
Rome wasn't built in a day. They've got a booked PPV already. I wasn't expecting HHH to do his football spike promo or anything. The big thing to take away here was No Steph, No HHH, No Taker, No Bruce, No Rock, No Cena, No Titus out to job clean to Vince. Not a word about him all night. No chants, and the stock projections went up.
Extrodandarily good news if you want to see a clean break.
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Meltzer also reported Levesque is now in charge of creative. Prichard's time lasted three days! Looks like Levesque will indeed be running talent relations and booking, which even SRS is calling "surprising."
I'm pretty surprised he won the power struggle too, but I'll believe it when I see him making major changes.
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I see what you're saying, but I do not believe Triple H has been named Head of Creative. In fact, yesterday it was reported that Bruce Prichard is Head of Creative.
For instance, in AEW, Tony Khan is the booker and Christopher Daniels is the Head of Talent Relations. In TEW, Tony Khan is correctly set as Booker.
Pritchard should be booker, Nick Khan should be CEO. Pritchard is Vince's lapdog, and he'll keep the company on course for a while until they sell probably. I don't think they're making any kinda smokescreen on the sale anymore either, it's just the who and the how much and the when at this point.
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Rampage was skippable aside from Dante vs Moriarty.
ROH card looks interesting.
It turned out to be a fantastic card. Very weird that they went with the World Title off the top of the card. And then changed it. But FTR-Briscoes was maybe the best tag-match of the last 35 years. I'm almost sad they didn't swap the belts to set up a trilogy match. Everything else was pretty non-offensive. Rush and Dragon Lee was quite good.
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Tay insinuating that her dating Sammy is why she's getting more screen time is super cringey.
I get it, she's a heel, but gross.
Main event was stellar and Claudio vs Hager was must see wrestling.
It's also not true, she was getting more time before this in the TBS title hunt and was getting better in the ring. Now she's just Sammy's trampy blam target, stuck in a dead-end angle going nowhere fast.
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I think Jade just needs to wrestle more. 35 matches in the 16 months of her career so far doesn't sound like nearly enough, especially when you factor in the match times. She's okay at what they ask of her but she's been pretty exposed in the longer match format because she has no experience in that environment. I have no idea what goes on behind the scenes but I think she needs to get out of the AEW bubble, go to Mission Pro, go to CCW, see if Beyond will book her, try and get some bookings from Zelo Pro. Get some reps, work with some different styles, get under the learning tree and come back to global television with a more diverse skillset.
The problem here is she's worse than 90% of the girls on the indies right now. It would expose her working there. AEW is doing everything it can to protect her, and she's still forgetting spots in 4min squashes. I don't know what you do with her. The worst sin in AEW is to be boring. And god is she boring.
She can't get in with Rosa or Britt, that would have to be a 15min match, and she'd absolutely forget her spots and botch like crazy. You can't keep having her squash all of your much, much better talent. Because that destroys the pipeline to Rosa and Britt.
You're just stuck now. Maybe you do a feud with the Dork Order or something for a few months and hope for the best? I dunno. But it's become untenable watching at this point. She's instantly fast-forwarded on the DVR right now. And you can tell its eating up feud time that should be going to Rosa.
If anybody needs to jump to Vinceland, it's her. It's the only place she makes long-term sense to me.
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and then Sasha will botch five million times and complain about losing.
At least she'll do something worth botching, and remember her spots in a 5mins match.
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Honestly, it's probably a mix of that and being able to present her as a big draw for Rampage.
It's because Rampage doesn't pull viewers so no one can see how much she sucks on a regular basis. Hopefully, they sign Sasha, come up with a new character for her, and let her slap Jade back to Dark where she belongs.
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It wasn't even a swerve in the slightest if you pay attention to the shows and interviews. This has been brewing awhile with subtle little things here and there.
If you don't like it, cool, good for you, but for you to tell me my opinion is wrong? Ridiculous
They were put together to split up, built it for a year, and set it up to do it at Revolution. For some reason they aborted it and that put the tag division on tire spin for 3 months plus. The triple threat matches have been fine, but they have the exact same layouts and you could tell they were trying to do the thing where they get you to think Christian was going to turn and then didn'tm in every Jurassic Express match since. It kinda took the sting out of it.
If they just did it when they were supposed to, reDRagon is hotter The Hardy's and YB match at DoN is for the title, etc. Ruined the flow.
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according to sources, Steph is basically just going to be his figurehead on the board, and he's still in charge of creative.
I expect nothing to change but "optics"
Yep. It's a scam, same way he got around it with Linda forever ago. Make no mistake every decision is still his, he is still running that company, and the investigation is internal, so expect it to be a giant coverup operation that fully exonerates him.
It's up to the Sean Ross Sapp's and the Dave Meltzer's, as well as investors to get this in front of real media outlets who will run this stuff down.
I am not optimistic.
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It's been a slowburn story arc for quite awhile. One of the better long term bookings in awhile.
It's been one of the worst actually. Swerved themselves into the turn being far less interesting than it could have been. My main issue with pulling the trigger here is that Jungle Boy doesn't seem anymore ready to enter the main event scene than he was this time last year, and that was the whole point of this.
If anything, it's shown he's much more comfortable doing his tag-team matches with Luchasauras. Which I think is where he belongs. He's still in his mid-20s the time will come when this roster gets very long in the tooth and you can pull the trigger then.
See this ending poorly with Jungle Boy cutting some Jumpin Jeff Farmer level promos, and them having a very good match with no heat in the mid-card.
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TK loves him Cole and the boys.
like I enjoy Adam Cole as well, but jesus. TK is pushing him and Red Dragon down everyones throats.
Like did we really need him and Britt to win the Owen Hart? I hated that. Should have been Joe and Someone other than Britt, the one super made women on the Roster, she didn't need that.
And Ruby really did need to win that match. Would have helped her a ton in a time when neither Women's champ has a viable rival atm.
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Eddie Kingston would be amazing, especially with his built in feud with Punk.
I'd be totally fine with this, but he's earmarked for Jericho for a least Blood & Guts, so I don't even think he's gonna make the field.
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I hope they don't make it predictable and go with Mox who has already won the title before. I can't imagine they will fast track MJF because he's got an interesting story running. Miro vs Tanahashi would be my preference and I'd be happy with either winning.
Mox already has a storyline going, he doesn't need a belt to tell it. Actually hurts the angle because if he wins the title it puts him on a step above Regal and Danielson and that would kill the whole thing. So I hope he's just the guy that's getting MJF in round 1.
The way I'd book this is TK decides against firing him and instead freezes him out. So MJF gets front row seats to the TNT Hockey Games, he gets camera time, and you buy adspace in the New York and LA markets for Smackdown and have MJF cut promos on WWE guys with the ads being formatted like political ads "this ad was paid for by someone Better Than You" and you let the internet spread them around. Finally you have MJF buy the front row tickets, until TK has enough and cuts the promo on MJF, turns heel.
He books MJF in a 3v1 match against Jurassic Express and Christian. If MJF wins he gets into the Tournament, and if he can win the title, he gets his extension, if he loses, he's the janitor for the next year. Christian turns on Jungle Boy, MJF beats Luchasauras 1v1, TK has an aneurism. MJF tells the fans that he's gonna win the title, and then walk out to WWE and throw it in the trash on FOX television. But he'll make sure Cody gets to touch it first. Cuz he's a mark for it.
MJF is made the last seed and the bracket has him having to wrestle Mox in R1, Miro in R2, and Wardlow in the final. Writes itself from there. By the time he's facing off with Punk he'd be the biggest babyface in wrestling since Punk going into Summerslam. If you do it all right, you'd have MJF vs. Punk with Punk in the Cena role.
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I forget specifically where I saw it, but it was sometime during Cody's time in AEW where he was talking about the good career advice he was given as a youngster. Things like "you're going to wrestle hurt, but you should never wrestle injured" was one thing that stood out to me at the time.
The irony.
Mad respect to him for being able to have that match, that took toughness and guts to do. But at the same time, I hate the precedent set by doing that and he absolutely shouldn't have had that match.
I understand entirely why he did it. He really didn't have a choice here. He's an expensive act, Vince is a fickle guy. The surest way to get out of favor and get put back in the trashbag is to pull out of a ME match, 3 days before the show, on an event that is already missing Roman, and is having to rebook smaller venues. If he pulls out of that match, even with that pec. Vince is gonna say to himself "See, I was right about that kid all along." and that's the end of this run.
So I don't blame Cody, I would have shot myself full of pain meds and I would have tried to get through the match too in his spot. He's out of chances. He can't go back to AEW with his tail between his legs. He has to make this work, he's 36 now. He won't get another chance to make himself a star on the level he sees himself. There really was no choice.
It's up to the people behind the curtain, guys like Triple H, guys like Seth, guys like the medical staff to protect him. And if that fails it should be the athletic commissions job to step in. Everyone failed here.
Cody shouldn't be under such pressure to perform that he feels he needs to do this. But he was, and he was right to be.
Vince shouldn't have his roster in such a state that he is booking Becky Lynch to be pinned by the 24/7 champion. But he does, and his nipples are rock hard right now.
The boys shouldn't live in a world where they aren't even employees, but they do, and they will continue too.
And Athletic Regulators shouldn't view this as anything different from an MMA event, or a boxing show in terms of health and welness... but they clearly do.
And the fans lapped it up. Was Seth vs. Cody the first WWE Meltzer 5-star match? Embarrassing.
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Maybe it's just me but I can't help but feel uncomfortable when athletes with clearly visible, serious injuries are working through them and risk further injury for something as trivial as a sports entertainment match.
P.S. A lot of people thought it was a work because of how pink it still was. No, that's him actively bleeding, probably from warming up/ taking the cortisone injection. Commissions need to step in.
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This whole interim world champion tournament is needlessly complicated.
I hate that TK seems stuck on the idea of interim champions, but they made it even more convoluted with how the champion is going to be crowned.
They're clearly doing it to get around record and ranking considerations so one very obvious worker with a poor recent record can backdoor his way into the thing and more than likely win, unless he decides to pull a Major Tom again, randomly.
What they've set up here, it's gotta be Punk vs. MJF III, for the unified title, with MJF's AEW career on the line, and he has to be the babyface when the bell rings. I don't see any way around it now.
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There were 13 matches on this card, ??? someone else.
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Gotta be honest, Double or Nothing was a difficult watch. Long, boring, way too many TV matches. Not enough happening. If it wasn't for Wardlow-MJF, and Punk-Page this would have been a flop.
Getting worried that this is going to be the norm going forward. Too many guys in the company, and too many of the TK favorites are shit. Jade, The Hardy's, The Giant guy, Sammy, etc. I think the peak of this company is past us now and we're all watching the slow transition to this becoming 2012 TNA.
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It's almost impossible to book a tag division, a trios division, 2 women's divisions, 3 singles divisions. In 3hrs of TV a week. Somethings gotta give eventually.