I watched for a decent while but somewhere along the way I never had a urge to tune in again. Meanwhile WWE has gained alot of steam lately

Disagreed. That roster needs culled in a bad way. Hell, pretty much the entire organization could use a culling. I'm pretty sure they recently hired someone new to direct their live events so hopefully that aspect improves soon.

Nice. New stage they debuted on Smackdown and Raw this week is the norm going forwardm

Not nearly as funny as watching people throat the market leader.

LMAO Wow, that was it?

LMAO Schiavone knew that was an absolutely braindead move they just pulled.

Well it make Punk look like a bitch so hey.

No it didn't? Perry instigated it on the pre show, Punk came up and asked him what the **** are we even doing here, Perry told him to do something about it, and Punk proceeded to do something about it. That's the story that everyone eventually settled on and it fits that footage perfectly.

Ah ok well that settles alot of this. I know where you stand as a wrestling fan at this time.

In fact, it makes Khan look like the biggest pussy/liar in the world. "Scared for your life" over THAT?!? You run a ****ing wrestling promotion and have responsibilities with the Jacksonville Jaguars. There are worse scraps than that at every training camp in the league.

LMAO You can pout about how stupid AEW looks for doing this all you want, but that's the story. Even Meltzer and Alvarez settled on that.

Everyone knew that was bullshit the second he said it….

And it was ****ing reeruned to come out and confirm it.

Ospreay shitting on H is amusing though.

At the end of the day this bullshit is console wars. Really not sure why WWE fans hate AEW so much.

LMAO You're the only stan in this thread.

Actually I'm not, I'm not shitting on WWE.

Defending CM Punk at this point is a joke, dudes a hypocritical jerk off who could get over that someone like Hangman Page didn't want his advice. Defending him is WWE stan through and through.

I want AEW to succeed. Competition is good. Hell, I loved Lucha Underground. It is just booked and ran horribly at the moment.

Never actually defended CM Punks actions. Feel free to quote where I did. He's a **** and by most accounts is a miserable wretch of a human being to be around if he thinks you've slighted him. He's also one of the best draws in wrestling today. These things have been known for decades at this point, which is why folks are calling out Khan, the EVPs, and their buddies for being absolutely ****ing stupid doing everything in their power to piss him off.

Mecca couldn't make it any more obvious his ass is thoroughly chapped that WWE is in the midst of one of their biggest boom periods. "I'm not an AEW stan because I'm not shitting on WWE". What the **** is there to shit on currently?!?

Raw got highest ratings in five years. With the Cody-Rock segment getting 3.19 millions viewers.

New boom period.

Seriously LMAO

Tony looks like a ****ing loser dweeb here. You have someone like an Undertaker break it up and you discipline JB with a fine for being a dumb shit and you move on.

What a total overreaction.

Even though them constantly spouting about the HHH era is going to get so ****ing old, unlike the hundreds of times they made a miniscule change to the product and called it a new era under Vince McMahon, they actually earned this one. Almost all facets of the product have improved to varying degrees. The announcing, Cole in particular, is so much better without Vince constantly in their ear. I honestly feel bad for hating on that poor dude for as long as I did. He's a tremendous announcer left to his own devices.

LMAO Good grief. Now there's fan cam of the crowd while they were showing the All In footage and Punk os getting loudly cheered while giving Perry the business. Oop, and Punk is currently the #1 trend on Twitter. A huge backfire that literally everyone with an ounce of common sense knew was a horrible idea.

That was rather tame for a backstage fight. It wasn't Orndorff beating the crap out of Vader with a squeegee, Arn and Sids scissor fight, Jacques Rougeou breaking Dynamite Kids teeth, or even the Jericho -Goldberg incident.

Jack Perry needs to come back and proclaim how he's lucky to be alive after withstanding the assault of a legitimate MMA fighter. That would actually be gold for a while.

LMAO Now AEW is out issuing copyright strikes on the footage.

Well, the person that is going to benefit the most from this is.....Drew.

They were chanting CM Punk when the Bucks came out and helped Okada....hilarious...

They want it to go away so fast now. Really gotta hand it to them for being determined to do the dumbest of moves.

LMAO

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Interesting. So is Jacob Fatu going to destroy Reigns then?

I would love to see Roman be beaten down and the rock becomes the tribal chief. Then he add Jacob fatu. Also to note cody mention the fact that he and a.j. were nwa champ thou the longest reigning one was nick aldis. And on raw they have the guy who held it the most in Adam pierce.

So apparently the end of Wrestlemania was supposed to be Stone Cold but they couldn’t come to a financial agreement.

The justification for Solo to destroy Jimmy is dumb as ****. Solo hasn't won a match on TV in almost 6 months. Should've at least had him doing squash matches of this is the way they're going to go.

Maybe I'm an outlier, but Solo does absolutely **** all for me. He's 0 calorie Umaga.

Yeah...if they were going to have Solo take over the Bloodline there needed to be a better story line somewhere earlier. And like you I think he hasn't really been much of a competitor. In fact, if you notice he pretty much messed up the "over the rope" part when Cody took him out of the ring. Instead of flipping over the rope backwards like most do, he turned around and did it frontwards.

When I watch him I think of the villain Oddjob from the Bond movie. (Who was actually a wrestler in real life)

A heel is a hypocrite? Say it ain't so.

I maintain that it was supposed to be Brock until the trouble started with Vince.

It would’ve made all the sense in the world. And would’ve explained Cody’s feud with Brock that we never got an explanation for. That was essentially Cody proving himself to Brock before taking Roman’s title.

Roman Reigns being the one to order Jimmy attacked would've been a perfect use of that principle, since he's fully established and they both lost at Mania. Solo has done nothing since Crown Jewel except heavy grunt work and all of a sudden he's the de facto leader on TV while Reigns and Rock **** off? Nah, this isn't going to work.

Honestly if this is a Triple H move it's not really a smart one....unless there is a break between Reigns and the rest of the Bloodline and thus begins an internal power struggle.

That's definitely what's happening. Heyman calling Reigns and Solo slamming the phone before he could talk all but confirms it. The 'Tribal Chief' Tama Tonga was referring to has to be Rock, not Reigns.

So what do you have...Tonga, Solo and the Rock one one side and Reigns and the reunited Uso's on the other?

Just not sold on an older Rock in the ring.

They couldn't sell Jey and Roman getting back together.

Sikoa, Tonga, and Jacob Fatu with Rock as the boss vs Reigns and the Usos

Ripley out until Royal Rumble probably. Sucks she was one of the reasons WWE got hot.

Wait, wut? Where'd you see that at? Pretty sure read somewhere it was 2 to 3 months.

Yeesh. Apparently Liv legit ****ed her up throwing the chair and then slamming her into the wall.

Shoulder is usually 5-6 months to fully heal. Let her get a big pop at the Rumble as her comeback.

AC Joint sprain. So 3 months if she really busts her ass rehabbing. Could be Rhea-Liv at SummerSlam for the title.

Don't know if Kevin Dunn just sucked that bad or if Lee Fitting is this great, but some of these new camera shots are incredible.

They got incredibly lucky ESPN scapegoated him for their Emmy shenanigans.

Right now, Rhea is the only person on the roster who can be both cheered raucously one minute and then jeered a few minutes later when her Judgment Day cohorts join her on stage.

That's the version of raging hot that we all love to see.

One a side note....I just don't get having Liv Morgan be her #1 enemy. If you are going to set something up that lends some faction of credibility (I know) then set it up to have the return of Raquel Rodriguez be the match for Rhea Ripley.

And please do not bring back Nia Jax for a feud with Ripley....

LMAO Attempted vehicular manslaughter is back on the menu.

Jindal mahal,Xia li are fired.

Are they trying to bury LA Knight by having him lose to an aging AJ Styles?

Not a big loss....Mahal really wasn't that entertaining in the ring except when he did the occasional decent mic work.

And Xia Li wasn't really all that good.

No, having Knight vs Cody would split the crowd and you don't want that.

WO/BD was probably the match of a generation

Yeah, that was ****ing insane.

Swerve won! Give me swerve vs ospreys

I didn’t watch but I’ll check out the replay of BD and WO at least.

Better than the Omega vs Okada matches?

Aren’t really my style, but I can appreciate the work still.

I watched the match this morning after reading all the hyperbole this morning (Meltzer and Alvarez esp. hysterical but go figure there lol)...

It was a really good match but I must be missing something..and I'm not even being a hater. I've seen better WO matches and better BD matches easily, people calling it the greatest match ever or the best match in North American history is ridiculous.

Maybe I'm just an old curmudgeon...it was every WO match you've ever seen except with Danielson.

I guess I'm just clueless.

It was pretty much a match in a vacuum. There was real no emotional element to it. Which is fine as it is but it certainly makes the match feel lacking since their isn't much investment by the crowd. So, it probably just feels less than what it could of been.

This is one of AEW's biggest problems...like great match, ok cool...*crickets*

No real build up to it and what does it lead to?

Ospreay was already super over, pretty much seen as Swerve's first challenger, and didn't really need the win, Danielson just loves putting guys over at this point lol...

The medical angle at the end was completely unnecessary and kind of stupid. They did a pretty piss poor job in convincing folks it was legit once it was pretty obvious with replay Danielson landed as safe as could be.

The match was a total banger but I agree when it comes to the payoff from it and it's something I've mentioned for awhile.

They have no idea how to run AEW as an actual business. Tony is still running tye company like a glorified Indy fed with an unlimited credit card.

He has the talent in place and match producers to bang out bangers but there's literally nothing when it comes down to booking a much watch product every Wed/Fri/Sat and selling quality merchandise.

If you can't get on board with that match, you just don't like AEW, there's really no way around that.

Good for AEW, they actually managed to turn airing that footage into more than a one off bump in ratings. Not sure Jack Perry is who I'd do that angle with but let's see how it goes.

Also need to see how they pivot. Heel Jack Perry ain't happening. Not sure if it's ironic or he's genuinely over as a face, but he's yelling '**** you all' to the fans and being as obnoxious as possible. Obviously SUPPOSED to be a heel.

Tony khan did the thing and is wearing a neck brace.

Mahomes just walked into Raw with Logan Paul lol. They’re trying anything they can to get Logan over as a babyface.

Btw Raw is in KC tonight and Mahomes is with Logan because of the Prime partnership.

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Pat was about to lay the smack down on Strowmam

LMAO He had Creed and Trey with him.

and Dieter :D

amazing show from KC

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Naw, Mahomes is a heel to the majority of the audience.

LMAO Dave Meltzer butchering Mahomes name is my new favorite thing.

Oh jesus...I can only imagine lol.

How'd he pronounce it?

Ma-Ho-Mis