The Wrestling Thread~

[Tetsujin]

Spoiler: Why they gotta do him like that on the day his uncle died?

Jacob kicking Roman's ass while in a walking boot. There is really no reason for him to be below Solo in the pecking order aside from Solo having been with the company a couple years longer than him.

 

[Tetsujin]

https://twitter.com/statuses/1824989815726649503

good on AEW for finally booking size appropriate venues instead of bringing 3000 people to a 18000 seat arena?

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

good on AEW for finally booking size appropriate venues instead of bringing 3000 people to a 18000 seat arena?

Worked for the Atlanta Dream: they moved from State Farm Arena to the much smaller Gateway Center and now, instead of playing in what looked like an empty arena, they play to sold out crowds every night.

 

[Tetsujin]

When your first Fed paycheck clears but you're still in Japan so you're getting the 150 yen per dollar exchange rate bump

https://twitter.com/statuses/1825503657506328787

 

[pdxKingsFan]

https://twitter.com/statuses/1824989815726649503

good on AEW for finally booking size appropriate venues instead of bringing 3000 people to a 18000 seat arena?

They book BU's hockey arena all the time which is a little over 7k cap. Not sure why if they have the sense not to book the Garden they wouldn't book Veteran's Memorial in Portland instead of Moda but then if they wanted to run Sacramento they don't have another option. It would make sense to run more mid-size college arenas though. I bet the school might even subsidize part of the ticket sales to students.

 

[Tetsujin]

Spoiler: NXT

an ex-AEW guy and a current TNA dude main eventing a WWE event. What a time to be alive. (Considering they chickened out and didn’t put the title on Jordynne I don’t think they’re going to do it for Joe Hendry but they absolutely should for sure entertainment value)

 

[SLAB]

Spoiler: NXT

an ex-AEW guy and a current TNA dude main eventing a WWE event. What a time to be alive. (Considering they chickened out and didn’t put the title on Jordynne I don’t think they’re going to do it for Joe Hendry but they absolutely should for sure entertainment value)

Spoiler

100% Josh Alexander / The North reunite when it looks like Hendry has the W.

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

Spoiler: NXT

an ex-AEW guy and a current TNA dude main eventing a WWE event. What a time to be alive. (Considering they chickened out and didn’t put the title on Jordynne I don’t think they’re going to do it for Joe Hendry but they absolutely should for sure entertainment value)

Still salty about that, by the way.

 

[SLAB]

http://instagr.am/p/C-8LxDhv9Q1/

 

[QWERTYLICIOUS]

http://instagr.am/p/C-8LxDhv9Q1/

Enjoy your trip to

 

[Tetsujin]

https://twitter.com/statuses/1826372660110270794

this is the McMahon-iest bit of stunt booking I’ve seen since the old turd finally got the boot that I’m now entirely convinced Shane did wind up working for AEW after all.

 

[pdxKingsFan]

Putting you in the penalty box for putting those two on my radar.

 

[Tetsujin]

http://instagr.am/p/C-8LxDhv9Q1/

If your finisher isn’t some sort of crazy flip piledriver that immediately gets TK to throw a seven figure deal at you, you deserve the one way trip to Suplex City QWERTY keeps pushing.

 

[SLAB]

If your finisher isn’t some sort of crazy flip piledriver that immediately gets TK to throw a seven figure deal at you, you deserve the one way trip to Suplex City QWERTY keeps pushing.

Unfortunately,

Spoiler

It’s the Hammerlock Lariat.

 

[pdxKingsFan]

Why does a ham and egger like Slab even have a ”finisher”.

 

[Tetsujin]

https://twitter.com/statuses/1826440659798041086

I get that this is supposed to be a burn at AEW’s expense but I feel like this would have looked much better if Toni was doing this against someone who isn’t actively terrible at wrestling like Saraya.

 

[QWERTYLICIOUS]

If your finisher isn’t some sort of crazy flip piledriver that immediately gets TK to throw a seven figure deal at you, you deserve the one way trip to Suplex City QWERTY keeps pushing.

I mean, I get your point, but...

If you ask me...

He deserves the one way trip regardless...

 

[Tetsujin]

Spoiler

https://twitter.com/statuses/1827156959860080999

”bringing him up from the worst slums of Sacramento”
I mean, the Cho was definitely the hood when we were growing up but we weren’t pre-gentrification Oak Park or anything. Probably not where you’d expect Rikishi’s brother to live but not terrible.

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

I sure as hell hope that walking boot is a work, because if he's doing all that on a legitimately broken foot, he's a god damned fool.

 

[Tetsujin]

So as someone who barely watches AEW and has especially not been paying attention since probably right around when it became clear TK’s big talent dev strategy was to just raid Japan’s promotions of all their top talent, is Jack Perry’s entire gimmick just that he got choked out by CM Punk backstage at this point?

also

Spoiler

Cena’s retirement is probably going to be even shorter than Sting’s

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

So as someone who barely watches AEW and has especially not been paying attention since probably right around when it became clear TK’s big talent dev strategy was to just raid Japan’s promotions of all their top talent, is Jack Perry’s entire gimmick just that he got choked out by CM Punk backstage at this point?

In a nutshell.

 

[pdxKingsFan]

So as someone who barely watches AEW and has especially not been paying attention since probably right around when it became clear TK’s big talent dev strategy was to just raid Japan’s promotions of all their top talent, is Jack Perry’s entire gimmick just that he got choked out by CM Punk backstage at this point?

also

Spoiler

Cena’s retirement is probably going to be even shorter than Sting’s

That's correct, and yet it's 1000x better than his gimmick being "Jungle Boy". Or Dylan McKay's son.

 

[pdxKingsFan]

I saw the results but haven't bothered to watch today's show and while I probably will find it later tonight it doesn't really excite me much. I guess Hayter coming back during the pre-show is cool though. Don't know how I feel about the new hair.

 

[Tetsujin]

https://twitter.com/statuses/1828615950435848267

Trick turning heel and just feuding with Joe Hendry until they both wind up on the main roster is HBK booking 101

 

[SLAB]

https://twitter.com/statuses/1828615950435848267

Trick turning heel and just feuding with Joe Hendry until they both wind up on the main roster is HBK booking 101

Still think Josh Alexander is Page’s ace in the hole.

 

[Tetsujin]

https://twitter.com/statuses/1828471886889578634

has Indi even wrestled a match since switching brands?

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

Only one of them can actually wrestle.

 

[pdxKingsFan]

Yeah there's no "new generation" of FHW. If there was, that ain't it.

It was bad enough recycling the name for the first one (which at least had a Flair in the group) instead of coming up with something new.

As far as "new" to the company ladies that I am excited about go, Tiffy and Blair top my list and Giulia and Stephanie got next.

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

Meh. Not watching wrasslin' in real time, 'cause I never do (plus, WNBA on, so...), but I happen to to see that a certain name is trending, related to Dynamite, so I look to see if they actually did the thing. Come to find out, nope, it's just dorks fantasy booking on the internet, again.

 

[pdxKingsFan]

I don't see who it is trending but AEW is literally one dork fantasy booking so of course the home game would be trending.