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March Wrasslin |OT| Wrestling Has More Than One Royal Family
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Roman, because I don't give a shit what happens over there.
Rosa should have won.
Guess instead of $50mil for a match, Austin's settling for something like $10mil to cut a promo and hit a stunner on KO.
Sure, it'll be a glorified Raw segment, but Austin's last one (the Eric Andre show segment with Byron during the first pandemic Raw) was excellent.
Sure, it'll be a glorified Raw segment, but Austin's last one (the Eric Andre show segment with Byron during the first pandemic Raw) was excellent.
Yeah but that comedy jobber is getting paid 3 million so therefore the shit I'm watching is good.
I mean hey get that bag Kevin! I'll just be somewhere doing literally anything else.
Remember when Vader told everyone he was dying in two years and ever if there was a time to induct the time, that was the time?
No one will miss Vince McMahon when he's worm food.
YOU MEET US AT THE ALAMO
No one will miss Vince McMahon when he's worm food.
YOU MEET US AT THE ALAMO
It's incredibly funny to me that we've potentially gone from "Cody and Austin will have matches at Wrestlemania!" to "Actually, Cody might not be signing at all, and Austin is gonna be part of a talking segment and will hit one stunner."
Yeah but to who? There's no one with enough credibility to take the belt anymore. If he beats Lesnar at WM, Roman will probably hold it for a year or two more
I'm three days behind in wrestling time, shit, we're talking raw now?
I only just checked Revolution.
Quick lapsed man thoughts
- 4 hour ppvs are too much for me right now, I gotta pick and choose here
- Enjoyed the triple threat tag match, the match gimmick is inherently flawed, but they made it work and even tried building something of a story piece around it, I mark for the express so yay
- as a filthy ladder spotfest connoisseur, that was solid. It reminded me of 2010's smackdown MitB match (christ, that's over a decade ago now) which had a hoss element and was structured to make the big man winner (in that case Kane) look strong. This match followed similar trends and not just because somehow Christian was in both.
Wardlow got the RUB, and it was good, he looked strong in victory, that's what you want obviously.
Having half the field be big meaty men was fun, it led to some creative little guys clambering up big guys spot in multiple ways, Orange's gimmick can be a bit tired for me seeing the same tropes pretty much every time I tune in, but it was fun seeing it applied to a ladder match.
Only real blemish was that one awkward bit where Wardlow cleans up and then...leaves the ring to slowly punch down on Lee n' Hobbs to set up the rather plodding movement to the stage spot.
- Call me a carny motherfucker, but I not so secretly love that AEW keeps the blading alive, Punk looking absolutely ravaged out there with Moxley not far behind, assuming that blades were involved
- Even as a fairweather viewer, seeing the long teased Wardlow turn finally go off was gratifying, yeah, that's the good shit
- Disappointed by Baker/Rosa, just felt like a kinda plodding tv match...a WWE tv match with all that "the ref is dumb as fuck" interference
- Absolutely marking out bro for William Regal, we are AENXT.
I don't know what the fan speculation is here, but I'm thinking it'd be fun if this does lead to Danielson's team up with Moxley dream, with Regal along as mediator.
- Oh fuck no, no, not Adam Cole main events! hopefully they got this out of their system and silently shift him back to upper midcard where he can have the much needed time cap on his matches. Cole for 12-15 minutes? I'm in! Cole for 20 plus? I'm so far out you would not believe it.
Actually you would because I've bee saying this since he first won the NXT title like two years ago or something.
Now, to read a Raw report and laugh
I only just checked Revolution.
Quick lapsed man thoughts
- 4 hour ppvs are too much for me right now, I gotta pick and choose here
- Enjoyed the triple threat tag match, the match gimmick is inherently flawed, but they made it work and even tried building something of a story piece around it, I mark for the express so yay
- as a filthy ladder spotfest connoisseur, that was solid. It reminded me of 2010's smackdown MitB match (christ, that's over a decade ago now) which had a hoss element and was structured to make the big man winner (in that case Kane) look strong. This match followed similar trends and not just because somehow Christian was in both.
Wardlow got the RUB, and it was good, he looked strong in victory, that's what you want obviously.
Having half the field be big meaty men was fun, it led to some creative little guys clambering up big guys spot in multiple ways, Orange's gimmick can be a bit tired for me seeing the same tropes pretty much every time I tune in, but it was fun seeing it applied to a ladder match.
Only real blemish was that one awkward bit where Wardlow cleans up and then...leaves the ring to slowly punch down on Lee n' Hobbs to set up the rather plodding movement to the stage spot.
- Call me a carny motherfucker, but I not so secretly love that AEW keeps the blading alive, Punk looking absolutely ravaged out there with Moxley not far behind, assuming that blades were involved
- Even as a fairweather viewer, seeing the long teased Wardlow turn finally go off was gratifying, yeah, that's the good shit
- Disappointed by Baker/Rosa, just felt like a kinda plodding tv match...a WWE tv match with all that "the ref is dumb as fuck" interference
- Absolutely marking out bro for William Regal, we are AENXT.
I don't know what the fan speculation is here, but I'm thinking it'd be fun if this does lead to Danielson's team up with Moxley dream, with Regal along as mediator.
- Oh fuck no, no, not Adam Cole main events! hopefully they got this out of their system and silently shift him back to upper midcard where he can have the much needed time cap on his matches. Cole for 12-15 minutes? I'm in! Cole for 20 plus? I'm so far out you would not believe it.
Actually you would because I've bee saying this since he first won the NXT title like two years ago or something.
Now, to read a Raw report and laugh
The time for one last match was against CM Punk like a decade ago, no I dont need to see anymore old wrestlers have matches.were they go over guys 20 years younger than them.
TK's intent on building AEW lore that has significant dates and locations. (One year later! In her hometown! At the same event!) If the cage match does happen next week and is awesome, most people will forget all about this in the retelling 5 years from now. But yeah, right now it feels disappointing to a good number of people, myself included. (Still think they can salvage it)
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I'm with you. I was just engaging in some schadenfreude. It's been a rough morning.
Punk gouged himself really hard two times, the first one right in front of the camera and the second time with his back to the hard cam (everybody sitting around me gasped when the blood came out by the buckets…).
Rosa tweeted it's happening. (and then deleted it cuz spoilerz)
I saw him do it from the top of the arena. Lol. It looked like he punched himself (with the blade) real quick after a hit, then he was bleeding so much.
TK loves that shit. I agree.. if the cage match rules then no one will remember.
My issue with the match was the length. If you know that is what you are doing you can tell that story really fast. That match should have been 5-7min tops. No need to drawl it out and then it end with a screw job. They will get the proper time with the Cage.
It kind of reminds me of the All out and hangman situation. The delay in him getting the title was quite frustrating at the time but he came back and they followed through and it was fine in the end.
Good promo, sounds like it can be some sort of "match" or brawl?
No, it's a KO Show promo segment that will end with a stunner, nothing he hasn't done several times in the last 19 years. They are being slightly vague with some wording that it will be more for promotion purposes, just like Brock's mystery opponent at MSG. This whole 19 years thing is just the newest Happy Corbin is undefeated and Charlotte has never tapped out
Yeah, no idea why he mentions his match with The Rock and living with 19 years of losing when he's been back loads of times for appearances like this. Almost feels like this was filmed when they planned some sort of match.
WWE desperatly wanted a match, this silly wording is the best they could get, so they are going with it
He's not doing anything he hasn't done several times since his final match
Eh, it's his 8th (I think) WrestleMania appearance in the 19 since he retired.
Seeing WWE acting like this is Austin's return match despite very obviously not being the case, I know it's promotional spin but it comes off as so desperate, like if they say it enough times Austin will change his mind and have a match. Same with how much WWE pushed for Rock at Survivor Series and he never showed up, it's so pathetic.
Brock vs The Tribal Chief at Wrestlemania: only 54 times in a lifetime.
Rock/HBK dream match goes back years and years of fans hoping. They could throw them both tons of money for a 1.5* match in Saudi Arabia.
I thought the promo was cameo tier, but the dude implied a match throughout and is he carny enough to deny fans that in his home state?
He really is pretty great. Only started wrestling this past year but feels like he's been wrestling for ages. Also helps to have Rick and Scott Steiner as your family and main inspiration.
Look up some of his NXT matches on Peacock if you're able.
Benoit shitty-ness aside, the main event for XX was fantastic, and had one of the greatest PPV endings with him hugging Eddie who had also won the Smackdown championship.
The original smart mark dream fulfillment WM Main Event before Bryan winning 10 years later.