If the plan is to frame MJF and cause friction between him and Adam Cole, why would he do that?

It's AEW. Nothing they do makes sense, and even less is serious.

The follow up to this Starks push is a match/programme with Wheeler Yuta.

Also, aren’t they both heels?

Someone has to put over the Uncharismatic Enigma.

B-Show! B-Show! Go, Go, Go!

They shook hands with the faces(?) after Blood & Guts, so they’re good guys now. Don’t ask any questions.

Ricky Starks will hopefully be leaving soon. Him and Cody to win the Dusty Classic together and get an NXT Tag Title run, pls.

Starks will probably be the next AEW talent to jump.

Whooo!

lol. Kenny starstruck

LOL Edge celebrating the 4 years of Dynamite, what a toolbag

LOL xrod celebrates 4th of July even tho he wasn't in Philly in 1776

What’s with this audioooooooo

Roderick is going to put hospital gowns on the map in the world of fashion

WARDLOW

Wardlow!

Wardlow looks weird

LOL, ok fair point

They are playing it again, love it lol

she's TIMELESS

Yessssss Switchblade.

I don't care if I ever see Toni Storm wrestle again, just do this with her every week!

Full Gear. Switchblade vs MJF. SKOOOOOOOOOO.

Joe looks like such a badass with that cigar and whiskey

Miss Blue...mmmm

Is Toni's gimmick Opioid Monroe?

Essentially.

He just tell him to GFY?!

yea

Nick looks like the kid that's always in ISS/detention.

*Chuckles*

WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO WHOOOOOOOW HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO AEW OR NUFFIN MAFUCKAS. BEST FED EVVVVVVVER

Hell yeah, Orange

Hahahaha Toni’s video immediately going to Picture in Picture is a great touch

Not sure we're going to get Peacemaker in Mortal Kombat now :( hehe

Ok, I know Juice has used a roll of quarters as a reference before. We know MJF mentioned in his backstory that he was bullied by having quarters thrown at him as a kid. The tie in is obvious and the announcers sold it as too far. You can also presume everyone agreed to the line and MJF is definitely of the old school “everything is fair game if it gets heat” mindset.

But with all that said, green-lighting an anti-Semitic trope with everything going on feels like a bad look. Sometimes you just gotta drop shit.

FUCK YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. Fuck you, Paige!

SHIIIIIIIDA!

The Saraya title win always felt like it was just TK fulfilling a promise he made to her rather than just following logical, enjoyable booking. So glad that reign is over. Shida deserves a proper run.

Word

I feel really really bad that MJF has to go through all the emotions he's going through alone. He's like the franchise holding the company together when Lex is off doing other things! :mad:

lol. Christian is ruthless

Nick finally ditched that ugly 1994 sweater from JcPenney

Tony...really? You started with 20 minutes no ads but didn't save it for the end?

could be what he's working with, tho....Copeland kinda looking like Undertaker out there.

COPELAND. Finally hits some fists to skin

In seriousness... a lot of neck spots tonight. TK throwing fingers at WWE?

Only saw NXT. How was Dynamite?

I love a good ‘OL pier six brawl to end a show. Fun times.

Eh, it was alright. No major audio/video problems I noticed. Warner should put Dynamite on Monday nights if it's going to conflict with something.

It was cool seeing the stars of tomorrow interact with the stars of yesterday. Bron Breakker is going places.

wrong thread, mate

Spoiler, NXT was better.

I wouldn't say every week. I admit, this shit is great, but there's a danger that AEW will overexpose it and run it into the ground. Better to want more than have us saying enough of this.

You think that now, but when the day comes that Rex Steiner shows up in AEW, Ben Rodrigues can totally say he called it!

So true - thanks Tom!

Is there even a NXT thread!?

*cough ..clears throat.

Waiting for results to appear on the main page, but Twitter is mentioning there was an anti-semetic angle with MJF?

Jew has money thrown at him, more at 6.

Juice Robinson pulled out a roll of quarters with MJF's name on it. It's a double whammy so to speak as Juice has used a roll of quarters as a weapon before, but it's also an anti-Semitic reference and something MJF's brought up in promos before.

Again it's clear everyone was on board with it but when you do such an angle you're setting yourself up for some possibly bad PR.

At least MJF's parlaying it into a speaking engagement for a good cause

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Tonight that piece of shit, Juice Robinson decided to bring up a story from my childhood that has left me scared. <br><br>I’m glad he did. He brought awareness to something we’ve all gone through in one way, shape, or form in our lives. <br><br>On behalf of anyone who’s ever been bullied for… <a href="https://t.co/wc1oba4YFG">pic.twitter.com/wc1oba4YFG</a></p>&mdash; Maxwell Jacob Friedman™️ (@The_MJF) <a href="https://twitter.com/The_MJF/status/1711975937703616853?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 11, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Weird. Wasn’t making little kids cry part of his whole gimmick just a few months ago?

They’re going full super hero with MJF now, it seems

lol "its ok that its a racist trope because it brings awareness!"

That's some galaxy brain spin right there.

Cant wait for someone to come out in a white hoodie and imply Swerve is a thug criminal next time a black person is murdered by the police. IT'S NOT RACIST IT'S AWARENESS!!!

Boo fucking hoo.

MJF brings up being Jewish constantly. It only makes sense that a heel would do something antisemitic at some point. This juice Robinson rules

Lol, should the nWo have beaten Goldberg with giant dollar sign sacks? Come the fuck on anyone defending this as being anything other than tasteless and stupid.

Timing matters though, does not take a lot of thought to realize that they should nix the antisemitism the week 1000 people are killed.

So from what I've gathered, TK gets a free a pass on bigotry because he has a metric fuckton of good cocaine flowing through his veins?

Wrestling has not ever been and will never be deep enough or nuanced enough to tackle topics like this.

But since we're excusing this kind of shit now, I'm gonna need some closure on the Muhammad Hassan angle. Also need Ahmed Johnson to come back and go through with the lynching angle. Want to see where they were gonna go with those. Just remember it's all for awareness so it's a good thing.

Aside from his extremely Jewish name, I don't think he's ever brought up being Jewish in a promo?

But also yes, they should have

So I just saw the Adam Cole “skit” where he goes to Roderick Strong’s house. Holy shit, so fucking bad. :rofl:

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I guess this thing is on TV rn or something. Anyone watching?

Yeah, and Penta is so wasted in this company. But hey, at least the random match generator got us a first time ever matchup! That is literally the story, they have never wrestled each other before. How does Tiny come up with such unique ideas???

Now Penta is taking clothes off so they can trade chops lol

lmao that was a good match but it was obvious who was gonna win

So if everybody is supposed to know Edge and all his backstory, so much that he kept everything but the name Edge, then why do we need a sitdown interview with Renee to tell us the same story about him and Christian that we have known for 25 years?

Wardlow is the new Outcast segment, same exact thing every single week.

Wardlow to WWE kanefirmed

“Dragging his opponent Barrett Brown to the ring…” :lol:

Sting officially retiring at Revolution 2024. Gonna miss that man

I suggested March 20th as his retirement (65th birthday) but figured he’d have his last tag match with Darby at Revolution a few weeks earlier.

Suppose it makes sense to put a match like that on PPV anyway.

over/under on Ric Flair wanting in on that right now.

Really appreciate having a "let's establish character motivations" week for Dynamite.

Adam Cole looks old AF all of a sudden

LMFAO the YUUUGE announcement is we have the privilege of buying tickets :rofl::rofl::rofl:

Holy. Shit.

I can’t imagine they’re going to fill Wembley again.

Also, they signed another luchador?

They didn’t fill it last time.

It will be even more tarps and empty seats, yet "somehow" they will break.their own record for.tickets sold.

Unrelated, Shad Khan is gonna wonder why 25,000 people charged tickets to his credit card come September 2024 :rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

I thought there might be chance of a “there’s no way they let us down twice” crowd for Wembley, but AEW has lost even more momentum since All In. It might end up being really embarrassing.

Hahaha the black and white filter going on the second either Luther or Toni are on screen

Vito. Post on Smeet's wrestling thread in Casual.

Adam Cole is doing old man Edge better than Adam Copeland and I love it lol

You have to love Adam Copeland with his amazing creative freedom coming up with the idea to give somebody a conchairto!

Show was p good. Christian was great, as usual.

Also this was tremendous haha

Also I love that Samoa Joe is going to be MJF's bodyguard for the next month. That should be some fun shit.

I watched a couple of segments on Dynamite. Holy shit, was it bad.

Actually liked what I saw or Swerve and Lethal. Jay carried it, but I don’t give a shit about Swerve now, so who fucking cares?

Mark Briscoe is amazing. Fuck Mox for looking bored being out there with him.

You get dizzy just looking at the charts for this tournament. Tony is going to confuse himself.

It’s fucking hilarious and embarrassing to see so many crutches during the MJF promo. Horrible storyline.

Joe being dragged into this shit is sad. He wants to kill MJF — “Please no!” “Hmm…ok!” Fucking stupid. “MJF you SHOULD defend against Samoa Joe” “Hmm…ok!” Then Joe backs out of the match. AEWtf indeed.

The Christian segment sucked. Sorry. Christian’s performance — as in his delivery on the mic — great! Luchasaurus is a bitch, Nick Wayne is a bitch, Adam Copeland is a fucking idiot., etc.

It’d be hilarious if the devil is revealed to be somebody a bit shit like Jungle Boy, then Samoa Joe just comes straight out and destroys him to protect MJF and then the whole thing is just scrapped.

Every Adam Cole interaction reinforces to me he is the "Devil". Hes failed to beat MJF twice, he keeps watching him overcome obstacle after obstacle and hes the devil plotting and scheming to weaken MJF or get the belt off of him. Watching the match vs. Jay white it felt like Cole was trying to have MJF take silly risks. Calling for the dive, the interaction with the ring and White. On Dynamite MJF goes to duck Joe and Cole wants him to take on Joe because its the right thing to do etc.

If it plays out this way I think Cole has done an excellent job of being MJFs friend while trying to not be to obvious in his manipulation. It should make him a solid heel reaction when the trigger is pulled as people are really behind MJF.

All of these other people out to get MJF sets up a great arc for him as well. He loses his belt but everyone after him still comes after him and Cole goes off to other challengers while MJF works a redemption arc and wins the belt as a face in the future

So why did Adam Cole try and help MJF by attacking Jay White? Why didn’t he throw in the towel for him?