The Wrestling Thread

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I wouldn't care if Drew and Punk had the greatest match ever. The feud has been trash and the wrong person won last night from what I'm hearing. Everything about Bad Blood sounds like trash. Finn Balor should have beaten Damien.

and I am so sick of being logged out of this forum all the time and have to do fifty attempts to log back in

Yeah, what is up with that? Earlier I tried logging in, it came up with an error message and failed, I tried again and it worked and then it logged me out again after about 30 seconds. It's really annoying.

I didn't think Punk was going to lose. That decision doesn't surprise me. I agree the feud has been lame and now he's made Drew look like an idiot. I'd argue he's made himself look like an idiot too, but of course he comes out on top.

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There was a moment on Collision that I really liked. Mercedes sent Kamille into the ring to attack Statlander. What I loved about this is that there were no shenanigans or cheap bullshit. Statlander was in the ring, waiting as Kamille entered. Kamile and Mercedes pretty much announced what they were doing. This wasn't the usual cowardly, heelish sneak attack that we are so accustomed to in pro wrestling. Kamille and Statlander just straight up went at it in a fair fight, and Kamile put her ass down.

God, it's so refreshing to see heels just be badasses. Kamille showed that she is Mone's enforcer for a reason. Faces should not always win in a fair fight. That gets old and predictable. What's even better is that this happened right after Statlander won a squash match. This was Kamille showing us that Statlander is one bad bitch, but Kamille is an even badder bitch.

Speaking of heels, Hangman Adam Paige and Liv Morgan are two of my favorite heels right now, because they are heels who did everything that they said they would do. I like when heels can back up their threats. Liv promised to take everything from Rhea Ripley, and she did. Hangman said he would, "Burn Swerve's world to the ground" and he absolutely did.

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Me: "Man, WWE is supposedly so hot right now. Why don't I watch it?"

*Sees Goldberg is back and might be wrestling again*

"Oh..... That's why"

*Sees Sexxy Red on Raw*

"Oh and that."

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I forgot Dynamite was on Tuesday this week. I saw Britt Baker was pulled from an appearance/match at the last minute. Hopefully everything is ok there. Looks like Jake the Snake Roberts is back and Daniel Garcia also returned to confirm he has re-signed with AEW.

It's Wrestledream this weekend. Unfortunately I'll probably have to give it a miss. I have too much on this weekend. To be honest, I still need to catch up on All Out.

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RIP Bryan

Didn't watch Wrestledream, no idea if it was any good or not, but I am genuinely shocked that Bryan lost. I am kinda annoyed I didn't watch it now.

I saw a lot of bitching online, but that's nothing new as far as AEW and their booking decisions is concerned.

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Current AEW champions seem a little unbalanced...

World champion: Moxley (heel)
International champion: Takeshita (heel)
TNT champion: Jack Perry (heel)
Continental champion: Okada (heel)
TBS champion: Mercedes Mone (heel)
Women's champion: Mariah May (heel)
Tag team champions: Young Bucks (heel)
Trios champions: BCC (heel)

They're literally all heels

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I'm in the process of watching WrestleDream, and they announced the match between Hologram and Mortos and I'm thinking, "Why is there is a Rampage match on my pay per view?"

When people say AEW pay per views are too long, it's because of stuff like this.

I also question following the International title match with this since we already just saw lots of flippy shit

Oh well, hopefully it's a great match because I can't say that I'm at all interested in watching it.

Jesus, how many fucking entrances did we have following Jack Perry's match? I couldn't stop laughing. After Adam Cole came out I was half expecting yet ANOTHER person's entrance music to play

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I'm not one of those guys who hates "flippy shit" in my wrestling, but luchadors tend to go overboard with it. Everything they do requires way too much setup and as a result it feels like you're watching a choreographed dance instead of a fight. I'm like two minutes into Mortos/Hologram and I already feel like skipping it for the next match.

Modern day lucha libre kind of sucks.

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Eh, you know what, I skipped Mortos/Hologram because I just don't fucking care. I ended up skipping ahead to see the results of the remaining matches and this honestly seems like a nothing pay per view other than Takeshita becoming International champion which was pretty cool (match was great too).

The angle at the end of the show? Meh. So Yuta turned, wow what a shock

Mox as champion again

I think Bryan was maybe too hurt to keep going with this title run so they strapped Mox. There were better options though, like a certain cowboy.

No big debuts. No Bobby Lashley. No Shane McMahon. Meh.

This PPV feels like a big nothingburger. I'm gonna go watch the newest episode of The Penguin.

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I'm in the process of watching WrestleDream, and they announced the match between Hologram and Mortos and I'm thinking, "Why is there is a Rampage match on my pay per view?"

When people say AEW pay per views are too long, it's because of stuff like this.

I agree. Haven't watched it, but looking at the card and nearly every AEW PPV, there is nearly always at least one match that could be on Dynamite, Collision or Rampage. It's the same with some of those segments. In fact, apparently people were expecting Bobby Lashley to debut during that MVP segment with Swerve and it's rumoured that he actually was supposed to, but they decided to delay it until a Dynamite episode to spread out "surprises". It makes sense since they also did something with MJF and Cole, not to mention Daniel Garcia.