Pro Wrestling Discussion

[talltrekkie]

As I said in the WWE thread, Raw ended with Hunter basically asking anyone to show up if they wanted. So for NXT to only get a small viewer count win and still lose almost every demo to AEW(NXT won viewers over 50, which they've done before) would, to me, qualify as a 'Not good, Bob'.

The battle royal was weird, probably because it ended at the last 2 and those guys have a match next week not right there which I think AAA has done for stuff before. I think I had it pegged around 8 left that it was going to be MJF and someone. So maybe that's how I noticed MJF leaving to hide as so many do in stuff like this. Him and Page should be quality, his heavy will almost certainly get involved and we'll see who, if anyone, comes to help the Hangman.

I suspect Jericho will win, but he was definitely a stupid idiot in how he got 'Rabbit Season-ed' into making it a title match.

[Love Buzz]

It felt overly fake watching Jericho get frustrated. I also got the vibe something else was bugging him and he wanted it over with. I got soured with the whole apology thing when they'd do that in WWE all the time at one point.

Page is the battle royale man, which may not benefit him lol, but he ain't gonna be walking around with no ring. It's really obvious. Just like Jericho retaining and Scorpio doesn't feel as relevant as when he was wrestling in his socks. SCU have an old guys still trying to be hip vibe that is kinda shitty. It'll probably all be good but Omega and Pac will probably steal it with a PPV caliber match.

[talltrekkie]

What I'm expecting tonight on Dynamite: Jericho is going to leave champion somehow, MJF is going to win and then have some darn good or better interaction with DDP and PAC beats Omega again in another great match.

Also, I figured out a way to get me to watch AEW Dark. I go to the show and see the matches live. Probably only good enough for 1 week, but it's a start.

[Lando Griffin]

I missed the first hour of AEW tonight, where was Schiavone?

[Love Buzz]

Originally Posted by Lando Griffin

I missed the first hour of AEW tonight, where was Schiavone?

On assignment with Georgia Bulldogs basketball team.

You missed the big opening celebration with Chris Jerigoat and the gang.

Is it me or does Hager look like he belongs in the Mean Street Posse. Wardlow looks like MJF fucked Rhyno on steroids.

The show for me is losing it's shiny appeal. Their women are boring and lame compared to NXT. The talent they bring in nobody knows (until they look it up) and subsequently nobody really cares (regardless of if they look it up), especially when they're balding old dudes. The sudden gimmick changes with no explanation like Brandi and Ally. Dark Order essentially copying what Punk and Wyatt were doing years ago. Main event title match didn't pick up until the last few minutes but did anyone really believe Scorp was going to win. Moxley looking awkward at the end when they misjudged the time so he had to start walking with no intention of getting down to the ring lol. I don't know why the bad stuff is suddenly more poignant. It's still decent viewing though but I guess my threshold for the bad bits is dwindling.

[talltrekkie]

Post-TV Mox went into the ring but Jericho ran first, no promo but he was enjoying the cheers and some PA got in his way telling him the show's over and ate a Paradigm Shift for it. They've also moved Mox to #1 in their rankings, for whatever that's worth.

The downside of being in the crowd is if you don't recognize someone you can't get bailed out by the announce team. Although I did figure out it was Allie after they had a closeup for like 20 seconds. Same with Jericho's dad when they put him in the box 5 minutes before air.

This can be spun all sorts of ways, but the crowd was about half full on Wednesday. Which gets you around 5k people which is still good, but there were a few dark, empty sections behind the camera. Most of the upper deck on that side and the one main section even with the ring being most notable ones.

The matches for AEW Dark were Jimmy Havoc/Brandon Cutler, Shawn Spears/Sonny Kiss and Santana+Ortiz/Jungle Boy+Marko Stunt.

[Love Buzz]

I can't watch AEW Dark anymore mostly due to my displeasure of the release date being so close to the new Dynamite. Since that week, where I watched wrestling everyday, I've had to go into my own personal rehab.

It doesn't help that I have no idea about the AEW PPV schedule and how that is gonna work. So used to a PPV every month with WWE, it's such a drastic difference. I kinda wanna see Mox/Jericho already lol, they're the two biggest stars there after all, it sells itself on that alone. Unsure if I'll care about it in a few months after he's beaten up the Jerigoons for the gazillionth time... We live in a different world now to the 80s.

I watch NXT & Dynamite and that's all I can stomach at the moment. I was bearing with NWA but Cornette got fired and the Camille story is meh at best. Feels like a charity wrestling event.

[talltrekkie]

So AEW put on twitter, during last night's show, a response from MJF to Cody in which he explains that he, MJF, is the reason for the attack from Butcher, Blade and Bunny and that he also picked Cody's partner for the match next week.

Now we got to find out who the partner was when they announced it but my problem is that key story points such as this should be on the main show and not hidden away on twitter or AEW Dark; the latter being where the first Luchasuarus/Jake Hager confrontation was. Especially if it's a promo for a major storyline, which is what anything with Cody has been pushed as.

Now they are bringing more time to the women, which is good. Brandi is in charge of an 'evil' cult which is...less good or at least weird since they have the Dark Order stuff at the same time.

[Love Buzz]

WTF, MJF is controlling that trio? I agree it's absolutely a detriment to be putting main story plot points on social platforms. I know the demo they adhere to the most are more likely online a lot but they need to be realistic here.

Brandi with a cult too, yea... It's gender equality though so that's why it doesn't matter to them that we have a mirroring. The chick in the crowd wanting to join was crap acting turn the channel cringe. NXT I practically watch mostly for the women. They feel years ahead. AEW I now mostly want to skip the matches. They make dumb decisions like put the table spot during a break and now Nyla is suspended and I have no idea why she even did that cos she won... Did Brandi explain why she's doing that shit cos I forgot already if she did and that music is the fucking shits. Allie didn't say anything about her drastic change either. Why are they insulting us with that when we've seen normal Allie for weeks.

What the fuck are they doing... And are we suppose to now care about Jungle when Luchasaurus is getting all the hype. At least I don't think it's for the title so he might actually win. Whiffs of Jericho picking guys he wants to get over.

Also the over begging to stick with them cos it's picture and picture was making me wanna vomit.

[talltrekkie]

I remember seeing a quote from Jericho earlier this year about how AEW needs to sign more 'young beefcakes' like Jungle Boy, who I think is 25 at the most. I'm thinking it could be for the title, but I guess Jericho is being entitled enough that he's causing the ruckus of his 2nd attempt to get a damn clipboard over just because he has to have any match.

OK, so had to find relevant video to help via twitter, but anyways Nyla wins her squash over the book lady Leva Bates(a possible waste of her talents?) and was then attacked by Shanna who Nyla had attacked before last weeks show(can't recall if that got shown last week or was also web only). After gaining control of the situation, Nyla goes full Devon bringing out a table and was going to put Shanna into it but gets 'talked out' of it by the ref. So instead the ref goes through table and Shanna gets put onto the wreckage. Also, they showed Brit Baker looking concerned for teh memes; Jericho loves teh memes.

So the suspension is for abuse of the referee, I suspect we'll have a Shanna promo to setup a match for the Jan 1 show. Whether people will still remember this all by then is something else. Also, there's no new AEW show on the 25th and I thought I read NXT has no new show after the 18th until Jan 8.