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So apparently CM Punk is being CM Punk and creating more drama backstage. This is reaching Hogan levels of politicking. I'm so done with all that that it's starting to sour the product for me. This quote in the report is particularly embarrassing:

The promos yesterday were really good. Starks is amazing, Toni Storm has shown more character in this promo than ever before and even Joe's quick promo after the squash was pretty good. Christian has become one of my favorites since turning heel. Hated him as a face, love him as a heel. Unfortunately Arn and his son showed up and I turned the TV off. Collision's pace is perfect imo. Less matches and more time to breathe. On Dynamite everything feels rushed all the time.

Arn Anderson's son getting a tv match when the biggest show ever is in two weeks Come on I refuse to watch the rest of this show

RVD looked really good. The show felt really rushed though, the women only had like 9 minutes for the main event.

Swerve's segment was the high point of the show for me. Just incredible. This storyline just went up a notch. It's good that they took the belt off Toni Storm. She's a good wrestler but this Outcasts thing is just not working. I hope that they try something else instead of just erasing her from TV for a while like they usually do when someone loses their belt. And finally All In is on Fite!

Is there any workaround to not have people leaving for politics? This is ruining my game right now.

Good show tonight. The ladder match was my MOTN, great work by both guys and Julia. FTR retaining was the right call, and damn I was glued to the screen until the very last second waiting for someone to attack lol wish they had given more than 20 minutes to the main event. Fun trios match + Jay White in a cartboard lmao. I'm loving BC Gold! When Punk was talking about being the world champ, I wish MJF would've come out to say anything. Someone else is claiming to be the world champion and the real world champion is backstage and there's no response? It's not like he wasn't in the building. Dynamite's card next week doesn't excite me. Might just skip and get the results later.

Terrible news about Hayter. She's one of my favorites. It's a shame she's not wrestling at Wembley.

I do like AR Fox. His moveset is pretty unique. But to put it in TEW terms, he's Recognisable at best. Meanwhile The Elite, who won last week's Blood and Guts, were nowhere to be seen.

I was not expecting much from the card and tonight was just not good. All In is in a month and they are using Dynamite to turn AR Fox? Well, at least Collision is gonna be a good time. As a matter of fact, I don't think All In was mentioned once. I saw a graphic about Grand Slam but I don't recall any mentions of All In. As the second biggest show in history, you'd think everyone would be trying to get a spot in the show somehow.

Good show tonight. I like the pacing of the show, minus CM Punk getting 30 minutes every week. Oh, and Paul Turner being an abysmal referee. Starks with the Kevin Nash pyro lol Jay White is incredible. I'm really getting into BC Gold. Miro is still as over as he was. I liked that Comoroto attacked Miro during the entrance. HOB's presentation is the best one right now. The lighting is amazing. Daddy Ass possibly retiring. Taya getting a match with Britt lol Next week's Collision looks better than Dynamite on paper. The Tag Title match and on top of that we are getting Buddy vs Andrade in a Ladder match.

The Women's Division was always steps behind and that's okay. AEW was founded because of the perfect storm with The Elite, Jericho and Mox being available at the right time. The idea was to feature more joshi talent, but then covid happened and they had to scrap it. But we're four years in and there's still no clear direction. Nowadays is not like the 00s, because there's actually skilled women out there and it should be easier than ever before to create stars. Still would be impossible to compare to WWE's Women's Division, for example, because it's been 10+ years now that they shifted from models to actual wrestlers and they're reaping the benefits. Let's look at Taya, for example: Debuted in March, four wins on Rampage, three being squashes, then lost a TBS title match against Jade. One month later, beats Lady Frost, gets another TBS title shot, loses to Jade again. Two weeks later, beats Trisha Adora in 3 minutes, another TBS title shot, another loss. This time to Statlander. Next week, loses to Shida, then squashes a jobber and gets a World title shot, which she loses. Four months in and she lost four title matches. She has a match on Collision tonight against Skye Blue. How is anyone supposed to take her seriously?

That's the biggest problem in Tony Khan not acknowledging ROH what it should be - AEW's developmental company. It's the same thing as when he tried to convince everybody that Rampage was not a B-show yet the card was always really weak. The women's division is in a terrible state right now, even when you count the ones that are out of action. If they started trying, the maybe, just maybe, in six months it could be passable.

Knox I find funny, because he's so bad that it's crazy. They call him the tag team specialist and he's always completely lost. -- That dance-off had me dying laughing. People think Cole will turn but it's MJF we're talking about here, he's always one step ahead. Curious to see where Sammy and DG go now that JAS is dead and Jericho is joining Don. The Britt match made no sense. Just a quick squash with no beatdown, no promo, no follow-up, no direction. But I guess that's just the AEW Women's division. Just gotta get that one match on the show somehow. Blood and Guts was good. It was the first time I saw Ibushi wrestling, I was not really impressed tbh. Pac vs Claudio will be a banger, but I'll wait to see if they announce something else that I like or I'll just not buy the PPV and get the results later. BCC has three defeats in a row against The Elite. Time to add one or two people and move on for a while.

I swear Paul Turner is the worst ref in the history of the business. EVERY match he's in there's a ref bump or distraction. It's getting old now.

This tag match is awesome and it's not even over yet

It's just personal opinion. I don't like some of the wrestlers so I just can't enjoy some segments they are in. OC is the prime example. As soon as his theme hits, I mute the stream and just do whatever for fifteen minutes.

Kinda meh show tonight. No bangers in-ring and the segments were average. Really great to see Pac back though.

It's hard because they made it hard. They were trying to protect a lot of people at the same time and also have a bunch of people farming wins against jobbers on Dark. How can you explain Scorpio Sky having 50 wins in a row on a youtube show that nobody is watching? You don't. That's why they got rid of it. The same goes to Marina Shafir, who was a lioness on Dark and a little cat on Dynamite. The rankings are a good idea but you can't be afraid of having people winning and rising up in the rankings. FTR stalled a bit last year (or the year before, I don't recall exactly) when they were #1, no recent losses but couldn't challenge for the titles because they couldn't win at the time.

The tag match was very good but it did have too many false finishes and the actual finish was just flat.

Besides the main event, which was great, none of the other matches interested me. Lol at the Nitro ending when the feed is cut off during the run ins. I love Don Callis just being a heat magnet. MJF is just amazing. Swerve vs Nick Wayne next week! Takeshita has such a great look now. Cool use of more vignettes this week. They are trying to mix up the format a bit.

Omega vs Ospreay was just incredible. Okada vs Danielson did not live up to its hype. The Elite match was good and everything else I couldn't really get into.

I don't know anything about their relationship or history, but business wise this would be extremely dumb. If you can get your brand on one of the biggest wrestling shows of all time, you do it.

Last year a bunch of top guys were injured. This year, Omega vs Ospreay and Danielson vs Okada are already MOTY contenders. I'd love to see Ospreay winning and then a third match at All In.

Andrade vs Buddy was my MOTN. I did went to bed before the Acclaimed promo but I don't see how the main event would be better in my eyes. Overall an okay show. Nothing spectacular.