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I don't want to get into the weeds on this; I find the dialogue around this feud becomes too divisive for my tastes. For me, speculating about whether this is all real or not is as much fun as trying to figure out who would sit on the iron throne in GoT, or what the island was in Lost, or who killed Mr. Burns in the Simpsons. Basically, I treat wrestling no differently than I do a scripted program. It's fun to speculate where things are going, and if I'm wrong I don't care, as long as I'm entertained.

If you guys want to argue about this go nuts. I'll just be listening in the shadows, making sure you all stay kind to each other. BUT before you get your claws out, give this anthology a read. It's a damn good time if you have an open-mind.

Random thought: I wonder if Punk ever talked about the rocky movies before the Mox match and subsequent interview. That could be decent evidence that at least part of this is indeed a work.

Honestly, if this turns out to be a work, I will be simultaneously super impressed and genuinely baffled at the effort put in to make me thoroughly put off by this storyline.

The reality, to me, is that this shit may be incredible if they pull it off, but it won't change the fact that a lot of the shit they did in the 6 months scramble to put the show back on track and "fix" the shitshow that was left after Brawl Out made me unsubscribe from FITE and switch to following TJPW and sporadically DDT, over AEW, because the quality of the content had severely declined.

It's that whole "I was just pretending to be a moron" thing. Doesn't change the fact that you looked, acted, and got treated like a moron.

If it's a work, it's the dumbest work of all time. It's not intriguing me at all. I actively avoid Collision because I see it as "the punk show", and if I'm honest it's taken the shine off aew as a brand.

The first couple posts have some decent weight to them, and I think I am willing to buy TFM Tony Khan thinking this was a good work to pull, like the days of old.

But half of this shit devolves into numerology that requires "Vince McMahon actually owns AEW" to track logically. It compares things like the start date of AEW and the day tickets went on sale for an event (not even the event, just ticket sales.) This is some full Charlie with a corkboard and red string vibes.

Interesting to note: 944 days before All In, AEW published the Road to Dynamite featuring the very first Ryan Nemeth promo for AEW.

The promo made a lot of references to WWE and being passed over or ignored.

Additionally apparently Nemeth has heat with Punk, of late.

I still can't figure out if this is just human pattern seeking gone into overdrive or legitimately some of the most convoluted foreshadowing I've ever seen.

"Brawl Out was a work" is gonna be this generation's "The Montreal Screwjob was a work", isn't it?