05-30-2022, 01:27 AM | #721 |
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05-30-2022, 01:28 AM | #722 |
Hey Mister!
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05-30-2022, 01:41 AM | #723 |
Triple A
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Jade Cargill next...
every1 prob just waiting to ask Tony Khan about MJF |
05-30-2022, 01:48 AM | #724 |
quesque fuck?
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Where the fuck is Miro?
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05-30-2022, 01:48 AM | #725 |
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Rosa vs Deeb and Darby vs O'Reilly both stand out matches for me.
The rest was fun but spotty, and borderline sloppy looking at times. |
05-30-2022, 01:49 AM | #726 |
Resident drug enabler
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Lol Tony did a couple celebration lines after the show tonight. I’m for it.
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05-30-2022, 01:49 AM | #727 |
Triple A
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05-30-2022, 01:50 AM | #728 |
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lol if MJF really does leave for WWE.
Fun show but god damn out was too damn long. Punk winning was the right call. Interested to see where he goes. |
05-30-2022, 01:51 AM | #729 |
Resident drug enabler
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05-30-2022, 01:51 AM | #730 |
quesque fuck?
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Love lines.
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05-30-2022, 02:23 AM | #731 |
quesque fuck?
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Tony not going to address the MJF stuff during presser he said.
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05-30-2022, 02:36 AM | #732 |
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Lame
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05-30-2022, 03:03 AM | #733 |
quesque fuck?
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Probably the right thing to do.
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05-30-2022, 03:14 AM | #734 |
I W C DEEZ NUTZ!
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05-30-2022, 04:26 AM | #735 | |
RoBOT Reigns
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05-30-2022, 04:29 AM | #736 | |
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I can tell you he did not draw my $50 for this PPV, fucking cokehead bragging about beating a preempted half hour of Smackdown on FS1 like 6 months ago |
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05-30-2022, 08:09 AM | #737 |
It's a blood match!
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Overall this was still one of AEW's best PPV's. It's too long to watch in one sitting ever again probably, but it would be a fun show to rewatch down the line if you had the time. Maybe if you had the flu or Covid and had to stay in a single room for a week or so. But for me personally I've already committed myself to watching the entire Harry Potter series if I get sick and have to a stay in a room for a long time. I've never seen any of them so I don't know what I'm missing. But if after the first Harry Potter film I was like "eh idk if this series is for me"? Then I could probably rewatch this DON 2022 show.
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05-30-2022, 08:13 AM | #738 |
It's a blood match!
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Can we all remember the utter chaos and genius of Anarchy in the Arena? So many elements of so many good things. It reminds of New Jack's ECW brawls with the theme song playing throughout, it felt like the Chicago Street fight at Mania 13, it harken back to early AEW brawls that went to the merch area like Cody and friends vs Inner Circle....
And just all the intensity from the standouts like Jericho, Mox, and Danielson. Even Hager was great. That match was a classic, totally crazy. |
05-30-2022, 09:28 AM | #739 | |
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05-30-2022, 10:47 AM | #740 |
stay dumb to stay sane
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the streaming site that i always use had an average of around 5-6k people watching the whole show. that's like wrestlemania numbers 'round them there parts!
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05-30-2022, 12:54 PM | #741 |
MILF Eater
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I woke up yesterday at around 7:30. Got ready and made the three hour trek to Vegas. PPV was bonkers. Got home at around 2 AM. Good times.
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05-30-2022, 02:03 PM | #742 |
Taller than Adam Cole
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I just want to comment on how half assed and shitty looking the stretcher job was. They could have just put him on the gurney and hauled him off like that and I'd be ok with it (like they did with most of Sid's jobbers, right before Sid attacked them again and knocked them off the gurney.) They could have gone the full route with the backboard and the strapping him in and all that and I'd be ok with it.
But no. Tony went halfway, and it looked awful. oxygen over the man's eyes, a neckbrace but he was clearly leaning his head backwards, etc. |
05-30-2022, 04:40 PM | #743 |
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Meh @ CM Punk as champ. Much prefer Hangman, although at least now the world title will actually be presented as the main storyline and not an afterthought. Hope they keep Hangman v Punk going and they actually trade the title a couple of times. The one and done championship reigns are a little predictable.
Tag trio was great. The matching attire for all the teams made it seem more legit. Was expecting Jurassic Express to lose and Christian to turn on Jungle Boy for losing a few high profile matches of late. Happy they won in the end though, they’re a more legit team than the other two and are having a really good reign. Didn’t really care about either womens title matches so skipped through them a fair bit. “Athena” v small. Not a very exciting debut. Statlander should be going against Jade next. Skipped most of the Owen Hart stuff. Adam Cole is “change the channel” bad for me so given how much exposure he gets, a lot of AEW has been skipped recently. Watched bits of Brit vs Ruby but with Brit acting a bit like a face… I feel like they might end up doing a couples feud against Sammy and Tay… Sammy is also “change the channel” bad. Not sure if that might be a benefit though since I’ll only have to skip through the one segment a week if Cole and Sammy are combined |
05-30-2022, 04:43 PM | #744 |
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Why did Kyle O’Riley beat Darby? Another boring guy. Darby is one of the best they have and should be getting occasional main event feuds. Hoping he had a mini feud against Punk for the title at some point.
Jerichos stable vs Regal’s stable was great but such a waste of Jericho, Danielson and Moxley. Just because those guys are in stables does mean they have to do nothing but multi man matches. Jerichos added the three biggest jobbers in the company in 2.0 and Danie Garcia to his stable and they’re suddenly good enough for a PPV match involving Mox and Danielson? They should be nothing more than lackeys. |
05-30-2022, 04:45 PM | #745 |
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Dunno about O'reilly's personality, but I love watching his matches. His style feels different, even among other strikers and submission guys.
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05-30-2022, 04:46 PM | #746 |
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Same goes for Malakai Black. He needs to move onto a big feud now. I get why the feud with death triangle was dragged out, with the injury to Fenix, but it’s killed most of his momentum. He needs to move straight into a 1 v 1 feud now against a big name and the rest of house of black can back him up. Instead it’ll prob be another Trios feud though. Probably against Best Friends.
The trios match was great though. Taking nothing away from that. Just want some of these guys in stables to have big singles feuds, with the rest of the stable eating up matches on the weekly shows to build to the big ppv match. |
05-30-2022, 04:47 PM | #747 |
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Surprised that everyone no sold Rosa vs Deeb
Legit one of the best womens matches the promotion has ever had. |
05-30-2022, 04:52 PM | #748 |
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Liking The Acclaimed and Ass Boys joining up btw. Good mid card goofy comedy acts. Getting “peeved” at so many stables tbh though. No need to combine them since they were both fun acts separately but I assume Bowen is legit injured so needed something to keep Caster busy.
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05-30-2022, 04:55 PM | #749 |
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Oh yeah, Wardlow very good. Fully anticipate people getting sick of him though when he has longer matches since he can’t just powerbomb people for like 30 mins. I mean he could… that’d be sweet. But not sure everyone would agree.
Is MJF leaving? A massive shame if he does. No MJF, no Cody, no Omega, no Miro. Lots of reasons I enjoyed AEW missing. Damn. |
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05-30-2022, 05:24 PM | #751 |
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Overall I enjoyed the parts I watched of the ppv. But it went far too long, and I skipped half of it.
It should be like 8-9 matches maximum, and most of those should be singles matches, with a lot less no marks on the ppv. Leave them eating up pins on dynamite and rampage. You could cut about 20 guys off that pov and have a much stronger PPV lineup. |
05-30-2022, 05:35 PM | #752 |
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Show hasn’t captured any of my interest outside of MJF’s antics. I’ll watch him when he goes elsewhere.
* I get it with Wardlow, but maaaan are the Goldberg comparisons on the nose. It’s not necessarily bad, but come on. MJF is a master and put him over, but where does he go now? He’s already in the position of being a main event babyface but you’ve got Old Man Punk with the belt. * WWE’s tag division is way better than AEW’s. Outside of FTR, who do you have? So many no-marks it’s impossible to give a shit about. AEW would be better if you fired Luchasaurus and Keith Lee. Then you save about $1.75 million too. * Why is Christian Cage in this company? We got fucking Christian back from 7 years of retirement and they’ve made me care 0% about him. It’s insane. * They got Bryan Danielson and he doesn’t fucking matter either. Crazy. They’ve done the same thing with Samoa Joe. * Adam Cole and the goober patrol are a unique case because they’ve actually become horrible in AEW. And they’re proud of it. Sign on for a long time and TK will push you. Fan interest be damned. * CM Punk’s jumped the shark for me. He can obviously talk and he’s got his matches that he likes to perform. But at some point he’s just crossed over into embarrassing uncle trying to be cool. It’s sad. Seeing how fucking bad he is at actually fighting does not help. It’s too much to suspend disbelief in him. It doesn’t work. * Of the people that were featured at Double or Nothing, you could very easily fire a whole bunch of them and save MILLIONS. They’re losing money like crazy and there are signs that Daddy might want tighter purse strings. I question why half the people they feature exist. |
05-30-2022, 05:45 PM | #753 |
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Like, wtf is The House of Black? That is terrible WWE shit using guys who were actually terrible in WWE. Malakai’s got something there. Matthews is a try-hard and Brody King fucking sucks. Why? Now that Malakai has been exposed as a goofy gimmick, you could scrap all three of them. I bet you that’s another $2 million right there. Let Malakai Black go and be a comedy guy in Impact Wrestling and Matthews go and play Kenny Omega in Japan. It’ll be fine.
Who sees all the talent in the world and goes “You know who I need? Tony Nese. Get me Tony Nese.” I will skip over guys like Christian Cage and The Hardys, because I get having them. Although the fucking Hardys…yikes. But these Undisputed Jackoff Union or whatever can fuck right off. Do you really want to pay Samoa Joe $1 million to be a mid-carder in your company? I’d take him as a top guy, but fuck me. That’s another $6 million. |
05-30-2022, 06:01 PM | #754 |
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I agree with those sentiments, although not necessarily the personnel. I really like House of Black and with their presentation, Black should be a key figure for them in main event feuds, not cutting promos on Fuego Del Sol lol
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05-30-2022, 06:08 PM | #755 | |
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But that can be a problem too. I absolutely love Christian, but he’s a giant waste of money being Jungle Boy’s bag-carrier. The context of the entire promotion needs to change to properly evaluate some people’s contributions. |
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05-30-2022, 06:13 PM | #756 |
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Malakai should have stayed a loner. He was more intimidating that way.
Brody has a great look, but hes never really hooked me with his in ring work has never hooked me. I could take him or leave him. Matthews is a fantastic junior heavyweight wrestler and I really enjoyed his 205 live stuff. He should have gone to NJPW though. Hes a weird fit in this stable, and he would be better served to go to an enviornment where he could better showcase his talents. |
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05-30-2022, 06:28 PM | #758 |
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I kind of get annoyed with the “AEW is good for wrestling” arguments, because TK plundered the indies and everyone feels the crunch. But he’s also got some pretty key talent under lock which prevents them from actually contributing to wrestling too.
Keep your Moxley and Jericho. I get that you want them for AEW’s identity. And you can’t let everyone go. But what I wouldn’t give for Bryan Danielson, Samoa Joe and FTR to be in an actual wrestling promotion right now. Imagine if ROH still existed and they made a play to put Danielson, Joe and Claudio against AEW? Maybe a guy like WALTER would have chosen wrestling outside WWE if it wasn’t basically them and AEW. That would also provide talent with another place to go and freshen themselves up. It could also put more actual pressure on these shitty shows to get better. |
05-30-2022, 08:02 PM | #759 |
2 Dicks out for Trips
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damn...Tony needs to stay behind the scenes and off social media. that's for sure
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05-31-2022, 02:21 AM | #760 |
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Forgot to mention the Hardy Boys. Was really looking forward to them teaming up when Jeff debuted. The old music and attire and everything had me “excited”, but now… Oof, Jeff is just not very good anymore is he. He needs to retire, because it’s not like he can change up his style to a more grounded, safe working style. People want to see Jeff Hardy fall off stuff and onto other stuff. But he looks very very close to hurting himself or someone else.
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