Seeing aew bend over backwards for cm punk is souring me on the show as a whole.
I was ready to give up completely when they made him champ the second time. But with the gripebomb I thought I was in the clear.
What a joke.
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Funnily enough, I think of Cody and Punk switched places but were basically booked the same they would be happy.
Cody is treated as the actual main eventer that Punk wanted to be treated as.
I get why he made the decision, but Cody booked on the level of a Main Eventer, MJF as a central rival, and given Collison a more sport based old school show all sounds perfect for him too.
I want to live in this alternate timeline.
Probably more of a "warm take" but when Mark Henry says "It's time for the main event!", the main event needs to fucking start. Or he needs to say "It's time for 2-3 minutes of match announcements, then the main event!"
Edit: Did TK follow us here? Because it was actually time for the main event this week.
AEW's Battle of the Belts has been a colossal failure for those of us that like character building and not just bangers because nothing ever happens on the shows since BotB I when Sammy became Interim TNT Championship and BotB II when Sammy became TNT Champion. Since then, the champions always win and the matches are telegraphing the winners based on opponent choice.
I can't comment too much on your takes (I'm not too familiar with the older WWF/WWE stuff) but here's mine:
The most important thing in wrestling isn't wrestling. It's character and promo work.
I totally agree with you it's why I love Eddie Kingston.
For all the negativity it gets, I really like Rampage. The hour tends to fly by, and JR is a good fit here compared to longer shows.
I was at Wrestlemanias XXV and XXVI. I agree with Meltzer's ratings for both Undertaker/HBK matches.
Oh man, I want anthology videos for every wrestling org. I can't keep up with every story line and I tend to dip in and out.
You should check out Wrestle With Andy on YouTube he does some great work of you haven't already.
The Ryback should have come out eating local foods when his catch phrase is "feed me more".
If they want him to be a face he can bring extras and hand them out to fans, if he's a heel the takes a bite and throws it in the trash every time.
No idea how hot these takes are but here goes:
Roman Reigns has always been good.
I don't get why everyone loves Andrade so much, at all.
Bray Wyatt left unattended in any promotion would go about as well as Broken Matt did in pandemic-era AEW (saying that as both a Bray and Matt enjoyer).
Completely agree on Keith Lee. Same goes for Ciampa!
Jim Cornette is right way more often than he's wrong.
I also strongly agree with you that DX wasn't that good once you got past the intro whether it was the theme song that actually seemed modern (for the time) or the Road Dogg. Everything after that was meh.
I do have to disagree about Bret though. Careless Goldberg (he was often) took the thing from Bret he loved most which was wrestling. It wasnt a bad bump or anything complex, it was a boot.I think Bret Hart loves pro wrestling more than almost anything. If Goldberg and kicked him in the throat and somehow severed his vocal chords so he could never speak again it would be water under the bridge because Bret could still do what he did best and loves most. He lost a revenge match against Shawn or Vince, a late 2000s nostalgia run where he put on a five star match with a young up and comer, and who knows what else. I'm not saying his level of bitterness is justified, but I see where he's coming from. Bret who still got to wrestle is a much happier person today
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