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Feel like this spot would have worked better if both sides sold it better but given the general nature of mixed gender wrestling in 2023, I can see why that would've been hard to do. Also Maki rocks and the fact that she isn't a bigger name is entirely on Tony Khan having absolutely no idea what to do with his female wrestlers.
I give a **** in the sense that
- I never got over Triple H leaving Chyna for her, and
- HHH is far from my favorite dude, but I feel like >90 percent of everything that has worked in WWE the last decade and a half has been stuff that he's had a hand in, and if a Triple H/Stephanie divorce results in him being forced out of the company (and Shawn probably goes with him), I don't like to imagine what WWE's going to look like after that.
I agree with both of those points. And I guess it would give credence to those that believe that his entire marriage was a political one. So I want to believe it really was about love at some point, but on a higher level I really can't say "I'm rooting for them".
It's a little unclear to me if any of the old guard will have much power as the merger sorts itself out. Some of the cuts feel like Vince guys (Boogs?) while others feel like non-Vince guys that only Shawn and Trips would push (Ali?)
It's a little unclear to me if any of the old guard will have much power as the merger sorts itself out. Some of the cuts feel like Vince guys (Boogs?) while others feel like non-Vince guys that only Shawn and Trips would push (Ali?)
I am very intrigued, and extremely interested, in seeing where they go with Thea Hail. I really liked what they did with her on Tuesday's show, and how they introduced the new, darker, version of her, but still made it feel like she was still heavily cheered by the crowd (at certain points during the match, I actually thought she was a legit face).
They certainly do have the potential to take this as far as they can possibly go (and I hope they go BIG). I'm just concerned that, at some point down the road, someone is gonna come in and completely botch it for her, for the WWE, and for the fans who want to see her do great things.
They certainly do have the potential to take this as far as they can possibly go (and I hope they go BIG). I'm just concerned that, at some point down the road, someone is gonna come in and completely botch it for her, for the WWE, and for the fans who want to see her do great things.
Hopefully he is just there to do something with Christian and do just that.
I don't like it. Of course the stans are going nuts that this is AEW flexing it's muscles as the superior promotion. I don't get that. Honestly just hope he wants to do something with his friend before he calls it a career. And that's fine.
Also I didn't realize until a number of friends posted pics from the arena that the event yesterday was in Seattle. Maybe I'd have tried to take Teej. We've only been to one PPV/PLE (NXT Takeover: Portland) and it was definitely 100x more memorable than house shows and Raws/Smackdowns. The only time they came to Portland it was for a Rampage taping (I guess they had battle of the belts too) so I skipped it.
I don't like it. Of course the stans are going nuts that this is AEW flexing it's muscles as the superior promotion. I don't get that. Honestly just hope he wants to do something with his friend before he calls it a career. And that's fine.
Also I didn't realize until a number of friends posted pics from the arena that the event yesterday was in Seattle. Maybe I'd have tried to take Teej. We've only been to one PPV/PLE (NXT Takeover: Portland) and it was definitely 100x more memorable than house shows and Raws/Smackdowns. The only time they came to Portland it was for a Rampage taping (I guess they had battle of the belts too) so I skipped it.
I don't think that this is anything like the dying days of WCW, where guys were just going to WCW for the check, and WCW was just signing them because they were a name, whether they had anything left to give or not.
I'm sure that he wants to do some business with Christian, but he's also said that he wants to work with some guys that he was never going to get to wrestle in WWE: I believe that he specifically cited Omega in the media scrum. Can't begrudge him for that. I remember Moxley saying once that part of the reason why he left WWE was because they were never going to let him be the version of his gimmick that he wanted to be, they wouldn't let him work the kind of matches that he wanted to work, and they wouldn't let him do color. And while I think that the fact that he wants to blade is ****ing nuts, I can't say that his logic for why there should be more color in wrestling isn't fair.
I'm sure that he wants to do some business with Christian, but he's also said that he wants to work with some guys that he was never going to get to wrestle in WWE: I believe that he specifically cited Omega in the media scrum. Can't begrudge him for that. I remember Moxley saying once that part of the reason why he left WWE was because they were never going to let him be the version of his gimmick that he wanted to be, they wouldn't let him work the kind of matches that he wanted to work, and they wouldn't let him do color. And while I think that the fact that he wants to blade is ****ing nuts, I can't say that his logic for why there should be more color in wrestling isn't fair.