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For the love of god, keep it 1 hour. Also if I'm Fox/WWE, I stay away from the same timeslot/competition as AEW. You don't want to be putting on a shitty WWE product like they do and then have people flip channels knowing something better might be on the other show.

Here's hoping that second weekly show is just Dark

Please no Just be a weirdo guy talking this shit like OG Bray Wyatt, not The Fiend

One of my dream matches just because Vince wants to crush Rampage

It's the obvious choice, and he may be the only one that can make that goofy bullshit work Wait, I got it. What if it's

>All Out >Royal Quest >Takeover Cardiff >Khabib back in UFC Fuck this weekend

Punk took "Best in the World" from Danielson in the first place (who used it in RoH). After Christian's hype, I think Tony Khan could actually make that mistake

And AXS TV though it's not live (I think they're close now, though).

God dammit Chuck

Moxley's off of All Out with an MSRA infection that requires surgery, PAC's taking his place vs Kenny. Mox should be ready for AEW's TV debut (and more importantly, Josh Barnett's Bloodsport 2)

Moxley vs Pentagon Jr happened at an NEW show the other night

I more or less had the same reactions as the previous shows. Cody Rhodes' segment booking is best, matches are still too long but it mostly wasn't as egregious as last time (I'm still giving them the benefit of the doubt because they're maybe shooting footage for video packages and titantrons and shit but once this hits TV, I hope they start scaling things back), show has too many matches on it, some of the wrong people won. I do like the booking directions are at least firming up. Tag division especially, even with the Dark Order, looks really good.

I don't get why people hate Josh so much, because those same people will watch WWE and listen to every other atrocious Michael Cole clone and their insufferable partners (Graves, Byron etc) and even Michael Cole himself and say nothing about it (Tom Phillips p. good as a Cole clone tho)

AAA is throwing Kenny vs Rey Fenix up on their youtube channel at 9 PM Pacific tonight. Channel's called "Lucha Libre AAA" just in case I forget to post the video

Last-three matches and ending angle were great and it makes me excited for the future and wanting to watch the big matches at their next few shows. That fucking advil blade-job by Dustin, god damn. And it was so bizarre seeing Moxley in the ring with Kenny Omega at the same time. Like KO in the ring with Cena alternate-universe shit. Criticsm-after-the-fact time though: Awesome Kong being on the show was a fun surprise, but there's also like 3-4 reasons I didn't like how they did it (took away from Nyla Rose, Kong has a bad back and can barely move, changing matches randomly on the fly looks minor-league even when they do it in the WWE and it implied evil authority figures could be a thing in AEW) I think there was too much indie shit in-a-potential-bad-way on the show and I think the wrestling and match lengths in the non-main-event matches should have each been cut down by 4ish mins each. A lot of indie wrestlers know two speeds, fast-paced moves with no-selling and then suddenly over-dramatic selling because it's near the end of the match, which leads to their matches peaking too early and then they just keep going and going and going and "it should've ended already." It really stands out because I'm also watching the NJPW BOSJ right now, and they have 10 singles matches every night but they're all done with guys who know how to pace it so that they don't overstay their welcome. I'm mostly being nitpicky, but two things I absolutely hated: - That they mentioned that tag team matches will feature a 10-count for illegal wrestlers leaving the ring after tagging out and then the referees never bothered counting and the wrestlers ignored it anyways. - That the plan is to feature Japanese women in a similar fashion to the WCW Cruiserweights in the mid '90s before they got buried as a way of standing out from other companies, but then they throw six women into a tag match and maybe the hardcores in the building have heard of Aja Kong from reading Meltzer Star-Rating lists and everyone just kind of gets lost in the shuffle and no one gets over (I used to wonder if Cornette complaining about the multi-team Junior openers at Wrestle Kingdom was just him being too much of an old man, but I do get it now, it's hard to follow what's going on if you aren't familiar with the people involved and you kind of just forget about them afterwards.). Buuuut I also can't tell if this was a dry-run for the future product or just working to the audience they knew was at the show. Feel like it's the latter because they do work their audiences.

Well goddamn, pal

There are elements of the Elite fanbase that I really don't like, and the Jim Ross disrespect is definitely one of them

Samoa Joe hasn't been ruined yet and Tom Phillips feels more like a Gorilla Monsoon type to me where the pre-programmed WWE announcer skillset doesn't diminish his personality at all. The rest are "STEEL STRUCTURE" and "CHAMPIONSHIP OPPORTUNITY" and "IT'S BOSS TIME" pre-programmed robots. >Forced as fuck It think it's because his voice is higher pitched so he sounds like Cole's little brother. You can't listen to Graves, Saxton, Vic Joseph or anyone like that and tell me they're not forced as fuck either. Graves especially, every other thing that comes out of his mouth is from the JBL school of "we're supposed to bicker like a married couple to get over the heel's point of view"

Road To Double or Nothing Episode 8

As for the show itself I skipped the Battle Royal and the Stadium Stampede. I thought putting the Mox/Kingston vs Bucks match on second was a mistake because they did every false finish under the sun and killed the crowd for the middle of the show. I think the Cody vs Ogogo match was a good match but the wrong crowd, I don't think the AEW crowd in particular was ever going to fully buy into the patriotism stuff. Looked like Dr Britt got blown up partway through. Miro vs Lance was awesome, especially when Miro Sting/Darby vs Scorpio and the Taxman was probably my favourite match just because The World Title triple threat Also most importantly: Kenny didn't appear to get hurt during the match, so the match I want to see the most, Kenny Omega vs Moose for the Impact title, should still be on

It sounds like from what Meltzer's been told or hinted at that AEW is planning to run 100-120 shows per year. 51 episodes of live TV, a weekly Saturday house show, and some PPVs. Also they might be planning to tape TV on the Jericho Cruise.

I was a) Really hoping they weren't going to repeat that ending and b) if they were, to not botch the explosion