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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2022 23:27:16 GMT -5
Atlas hurt his knee. Gutted.
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Post by LK3 on Jan 6, 2022 1:23:47 GMT -5
I wonder if that’s why the Cole/Atlas match seemingly ended abruptly. They were on the mat and next thing I know the bell rings, I didn’t see what happened.
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Post by CM Tusk on Jan 6, 2022 1:59:57 GMT -5
“Punk and MJF are going to have a great feud for the promos alone!”
Punk and MJF: “WWE reference. WWE reference. WWE reference.”
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Post by K5 on Jan 6, 2022 2:12:42 GMT -5
tonight danielson/page reminded everyone that aew has the absolute best wrestling, and punk/mjf reminded everyone who the absolute best talkers in the industry are
that first hour was fire. great stuff
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Post by Sizzle on Jan 6, 2022 2:20:07 GMT -5
“Punk and MJF are going to have a great feud for the promos alone!” Punk and MJF: “WWE reference. WWE reference. WWE reference.” While the news is topical, there’s no point in mentioning the “bidding war” when it’s not happening for a good two years… I had some high hopes for this feud because I think MJF is good and Punk is Punk but I didn’t expect it to be so focused on that topic. Punk just seems like he’s pandering and MJF is keeping it at that level and it’s not really that hot to me. It all just comes down to “omg wwe wants me maybe I should leave” boooo vs “lol wwe sux have fun nerd” yaaaaayyyy and it’s been underwhelming.
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Post by Sizzle on Jan 6, 2022 2:46:57 GMT -5
I’ve made it clear AEW hasn’t been as good as I’ve thought they could’ve been recently but I think there was a lot of good on tonight’s episode… mainly the first and last matches. Hangman and Daniel Bryan had a great match that I found to be more enjoyable than their first. It felt more high stakes and intense than their first encounter and I was pleasantly surprised when the judge thing turned out to be a bit of a fake out when they didn’t go the full 60 minutes. Love me some Hangman.
Jade and Ruby was a match I had no interest in. In fact I’ve pretty much tuned out completely from the TBS title tournament because I figured Jade was winning it from the start and she’s cool but idk that match didn’t get me interested in seeing her reign as champion.
The Jericho/Kingston/2.0 feud just feels like a slightly different version of 2.0 and Garcia’s first feud with Allin, Mox, and Sting. 2.0 guys pull a fast one on much more established guys and then proceed to get their craprocked. I guess it’s the best way to use them considering I don’t think they’re anywhere near on the caliber of many of the other teams in AEW. Really not into it despite the involvement of Santana and Ortiz, which sucks because I like them a lot.
Is Brian Pillman Jr really being portrayed as an airhead? He has a long way to go with his development but idk how much that’s gonna help him. Regardless this is another feud that’s not doing much for me. Malakai is essentially doing the same thing he was in WWE except now he might be getting a faction which I guess is cool?
Main event was dope. Hope Fenix is fine but damn am I happy for Luchasaurus and Jungle Boy. I’ve felt that AEW needed to show this one of their “pillars” some love in the tag division before they really push him out as a singles guy. Still big into the win but I do think Christian’s involvement has to go somewhere in the near future. Good stuff from all those involved in that match tonight.
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Post by CM Tusk on Jan 6, 2022 3:16:29 GMT -5
“Punk and MJF are going to have a great feud for the promos alone!” Punk and MJF: “WWE reference. WWE reference. WWE reference.” While the news is topical, there’s no point in mentioning the “bidding war” when it’s not happening for a good two years… I had some high hopes for this feud because I think MJF is good and Punk is Punk but I didn’t expect it to be so focused on that topic. Punk just seems like he’s pandering and MJF is keeping it at that level and it’s not really that hot to me. It all just comes down to “omg wwe wants me maybe I should leave” boooo vs “lol wwe sux have fun nerd” yaaaaayyyy and it’s been underwhelming. Two great mic workers that should be destroying each other are taking about another company to pop the fans. Imagine if Austin and The Rock kept talking about WCW during their feud. It’s tacky as hell and a waste of their talents.
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Post by tiny04 on Jan 6, 2022 5:41:32 GMT -5
Hangman/Danielson again showed everyone in the back how it's done. Their first match was probably AEW's best match, and this was on par. Just amazing. What I love about wrestling.
Tag title match was the opposite. A mess, hard to follow and ended with a gruesome injury. Hope Fenix gets well soon, but man that spot was so unnecessary. Jungle Boy is a great talent, great wrestler, but sometimes he has to just tone it down with the overly choreographed nonsense like that match was.
Jade winning was the right call but that match showed she still has a ways to go, which is fine. She should've just won with a regular Jaded, the top rope version was very sloppy.
Overall, good show.
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Post by CymruX2 on Jan 6, 2022 7:35:30 GMT -5
Fenix's arm break is this generations take on Sid breaking his leg.
Holy hell, made my legs go weak! Wishing him a speedy recovery, but I don't think we'll see Fenix for a long time.
Gotta wonder if there was an audible called there at the end, rumors were swirling that Brody King would debut tonight. I guessed it would happen after the match. But with Fenix's newly rubberised arm that wouldn't have worked...
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Post by finnbalor1 on Jan 6, 2022 8:42:27 GMT -5
King does make the most sense if somebody was suppose to make their debut,I was thinking when it was happening that the Briscoes was gonna come out.
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Post by Bandalero on Jan 6, 2022 8:48:52 GMT -5
“Punk and MJF are going to have a great feud for the promos alone!” Punk and MJF: “WWE reference. WWE reference. WWE reference.” While the news is topical, there’s no point in mentioning the “bidding war” when it’s not happening for a good two years… I had some high hopes for this feud because I think MJF is good and Punk is Punk but I didn’t expect it to be so focused on that topic. Punk just seems like he’s pandering and MJF is keeping it at that level and it’s not really that hot to me. It all just comes down to “omg wwe wants me maybe I should leave” boooo vs “lol wwe sux have fun nerd” yaaaaayyyy and it’s been underwhelming. y'know we're now well into our 3rd decade of kayfabe being dead thanks to the internet. I mean very recently we've see Miz, Cody, Ziggler, Morrison and Myers as groomsmen for Cardona's wedding, we've seen Darby and an indy chick have a twitter war, so wrestlers interacting with/cross-referencing other companies shouldn't be taboo anymore. ECW made a name for itself when guys like Austin and Douglas would cut promos about how disgruntled they were with their former employer. I always read posts about "oh that's tacky/bush league/indy"; wrestling is supposed to imitate life and who hasn't complained about their previous work experiences? Once upon a time these inside jokes/references were pandering to smart marks, but really in this day and age thanks to social media, it's far from taboo as it once was. I also respectfully disagree with your sentiment about this feud. To me it's more about MJF establishing himself as a pillar of AEW and trying to expose Punk as a washed-up has-been veteran. This feud is magic because Punk will be elevating MJF in the long run. And put ALL that aside, these promos are entertaining as hell! "a less popular Miz"; "never main evented a Wrestlemania" - amazing digs on each other. That's what you do naturally to "pick a fight"
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Post by Ohtimate Wahriah on Jan 6, 2022 9:42:40 GMT -5
Another guy AEW is butchering is Black. Why do they keep turning the lights off to move him 13 feet away? That time the lights went out, he appeared, spun kick somebody and then the lights went out….came back on and he was still in the ring……why did the lights go out? Had he done that SAME THING and disappeared when the lights went off, that would have been EPIC. Instead the lights went off, and when they came back on he just 10 feet over…like couldn’t he have just walked there?
Last night was the same. Lights come back on and he’s in the ramp way…just have him disappear, that created the mystique. All this looks like is, the lights go out and he runs to a spot (which IS what he’s doing) but I never got that sense watching Taker do it
Khan teased a bunch of stuff happening and it’s been 2 “big shows” where nothing really has happened. I’m not saying do something BIG every week, but I am saying don’t have big shows if you’re gonna have average payoffs. If you’ve got nothing to do, do nothing
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Post by kinnikuman on Jan 6, 2022 11:39:28 GMT -5
“Punk and MJF are going to have a great feud for the promos alone!” Punk and MJF: “WWE reference. WWE reference. WWE reference.” And they crowd and interweb LOVE it.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2022 11:52:20 GMT -5
I was team WCW overall, but some of my favourite moments were the skits where HBK dressed up as Hogan, or they did the Ted Turner one. I loved those pot shots they took at each other, they cracked me up. I regularly watched both companies at that time. I don't see what the big deal is with them making WWE jokes. One of my favourite NXT moments during the "war" this time was after Orange Cassidy and Jericho had their feud and dumped the OJ, etc, during a street fight with Shotzi, etc, one of the wrestlers in the crowd yelled "Hit her with the oranges" from the fruit table and I freaking lost it laughing.
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Post by K5 on Jan 6, 2022 11:54:50 GMT -5
While the news is topical, there’s no point in mentioning the “bidding war” when it’s not happening for a good two years… I had some high hopes for this feud because I think MJF is good and Punk is Punk but I didn’t expect it to be so focused on that topic. Punk just seems like he’s pandering and MJF is keeping it at that level and it’s not really that hot to me. It all just comes down to “omg wwe wants me maybe I should leave” boooo vs “lol wwe sux have fun nerd” yaaaaayyyy and it’s been underwhelming. y'know we're now well into our 3rd decade of kayfabe being dead thanks to the internet. I mean very recently we've see Miz, Cody, Ziggler, Morrison and Myers as groomsmen for Cardona's wedding, we've seen Darby and an indy chick have a twitter war, so wrestlers interacting with/cross-referencing other companies shouldn't be taboo anymore. ECW made a name for itself when guys like Austin and Douglas would cut promos about how disgruntled they were with their former employer. I always read posts about "oh that's tacky/bush league/indy"; wrestling is supposed to imitate life and who hasn't complained about their previous work experiences? Once upon a time these inside jokes/references were pandering to smart marks, but really in this day and age thanks to social media, it's far from taboo as it once was. I also respectfully disagree with your sentiment about this feud. To me it's more about MJF establishing himself as a pillar of AEW and trying to expose Punk as a washed-up has-been veteran. This feud is magic because Punk will be elevating MJF in the long run. And put ALL that aside, these promos are entertaining as hell! "a less popular Miz"; "never main evented a Wrestlemania" - amazing digs on each other. That's what you do naturally to "pick a fight" 💯 there’s literally no program in wrestling that can even be close to touching mjf/punk on the mic, only thing we’ve seen half close to it is Kingston/Punk a while back.
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Post by Crane on Jan 6, 2022 13:11:23 GMT -5
Fenix didn't break his arm, just a really bad dislocation.
Wishing him a speedy recovery.
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Post by JCF on Jan 6, 2022 14:46:11 GMT -5
I was there last night. Hangman vs. Danielson was the best match I've ever seen live...
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Post by Bandalero on Jan 6, 2022 15:20:28 GMT -5
Fenix didn't break his arm, just a really bad dislocation. Wishing him a speedy recovery. Man I am relieved! He's one of the BEST parts of AEW
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Post by LK3 on Jan 6, 2022 15:45:49 GMT -5
I was there last night. Hangman vs. Danielson was the best match I've ever seen live... For me it’ll be hard for anything to top Taker/HBK at WM25, but this match is certainly near the top for me.
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Post by fishhook36 on Jan 6, 2022 16:12:23 GMT -5
LAMO at WWE Stans getting more up set at AEW using WWE references. Than WWE firing people while making record profits.
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