The All In preshow has begun. We will now see the developments of the Cole/MJF union, and which one will backstab the other first.
I’m betting Cole will be the Judas. MJF is the hotter commodity, and AEW is already building the Fed around him. Maybe it’ll be a reluctant swerve on Cole’s part, induced by the presence of Roderick Strong et al.
Anyway, better stop speculating before the tag match ends.
OK, my success at predicting is still shit. Cole and MJF wouldn’t turn heel on each other and their friendship continues… for now. AEW knows how to keep the narrative going. They put in plenty of new storyline seed to boot.
I have new respect for Orange Cassidy. Old schoolers like Corny hate his nonchalant gimmick, believing he’s mocking the business. Who better to carry purist heat than Moxley? OC paid for his indifference and got his forehead pulled apart like a BBQ special, but he endured it all and got the win.
Nigel McGuinness made a weird call during the Punk/Joe match. Punk mocked Hulk Hogan’s “I can’t hear you” gesture and then performed a Leg Drop of Doom on Joe, which Joe scornfully kicked out of on one, but Nigel said Punk was mocking Joe. C’mon Nigel, can’t you diss your ex-employer just once?
Punk started another fight backstage and now he and Jack Perry are both suspended and will miss All Out.
Punk is seriously an insufferable little bitch who thinks he’s God’s gift to wrestling and is incapable of being professional, and Tony Khan needs to fire him before he poisons the entire company with his temper tantrums.
Corny actually took Punk’s side for berating Perry’s desire to get sliced with actual glass so he could take medical leave.
Khan should appoint Paul White as backstage gestapo. In the All In pre-show, White was always first to make any kind of commentary to Renee’s lead-in questions. Sabian and Agogo obviously waited for the 800-lb gorilla to have his say, even though they were UK natives.
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A fitting eulogy.
John Cena will appear on every SmackDown in September and October.
He’s also scheduled to make his first-ever in-ring appearance in India at Superstar Spectacle on the one day that SmackDown’s not airing, the 8th.
The Undisputed Tag Team Title will be on the line at Superstar Spectacle when Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn defend against Indus Sher.
I wonder if Cena needed something to do while Peacemaker Season 2 is being held up by the writers’ strike?
Some talk has said that’s the specific reason he’s doing it.
Everything said in wrestling must be taken with a grain of salt, however nobody in the SAG is complaining about his wrestling work during the strike so far. It will be a tough call for him if someone starts complaining. This could be another great chance for wrestlers to unionize, save their health, and possibly ruin the show. Once on TV most wrestlers are overpaid IMO, and as part of a strategy by the owners to avoid unionization and control over the product. Not like they use that control wisely. But I don’t think any wrestling organization except WWE makes a profit but the rest of them pay an incredible amount for a few hours of work a week from performers not enough people want to watch to cover the costs of the show. So unions might lower pay in the bottom ranks, but perhaps some badly needed benefits. The promoters dish out for the short term costs of injuries, but aren’t there for the lifetime of problems that follow.
Punk also yelled at Tony Khan at All In and threatened to quit until Samoa Joe talked him into going through with their match.
SERIOUSLY, Tony, fire this man. Vince would have pulled a Summerslam 1991 and canned him the instant he got back from his match.
I dont know i heard Perry started the last one becuase Punk said no to someone getting slammed through a real car window in fact every official there told him no and he said was gonna do it anyway so the entire staff including tony Schiavone went to Punk to enforce the no … which he ignored it anyways
Apparently, he went after punk a couple of weeks later at the PPV …
It has just come to my attention that AEW is doing a memorial show PPV for Antonio Inoki on October 1st, the anniversary of his death, and that it’s happening in Seattle the night after the Collision I already have tickets for.
Guess it’s a 2-night stay now.
I met Inoki decades ago thanks to a leg cramp he noticed i was having ,we chatted for about 5 minutes and he had security let me in the LA Wrestling Peace Festival an hour early … having cerebral palsy did something cool for once, but really cool guy
Security at that show was a total bag of dicks tho …that’s where I met Konnan too who almost got in a fight with said security after the show …
When Punk arrived in London, the number he was given for car service did not work, he ended up taking the train into town, got lost, got help from fans. Pretty pathetic not coordinating transport for one your biggest stars in a foreign country. Also though, why didn’t Punk take a cab, he can afford it. So Punk was pissed when he arrived at Wembley, and he bitched at TK when he arrived. Then in the Pre-Show Jack Perry did the live real glass spot that Punk strongly advised against the week before and then went to a camera and said “real glass, cry me a river”. Punk and Perry cross paths in the gorilla position and things escalated from there. Good job separating locker rooms by having Perry’s match before Punk/Joe and then Omega & Page after them.
Barring any last-minute surprises on Collision, this is the card for All Out:
I’m probably going to skip this one. The lineup screams “B-show”, the movie theater that usually shows AEW PPVs in my town isn’t showing this one, and I can’t justify spending full price on a PPV two weeks in a row.
On the other hand, I am morbidly curious to see how a 70-year-old Ricky Steamboat holds up in a strap match.
I don’t think I’ll buy it either, even though I’ve always felt I got my money’s worth with AEW events. I am curious how OC vs Moxley will pan out, since the IC belt is really below Mox’s pay grade. OC has proven to be really resilient in the face of sheer brutality, but this isn’t a no DQ match. Will Mox blade OC and get DQ’ed, which is practically nonexistent in PPV? I think this match will be the beginning of a series between the two, with the next match being no DQ.
CM Punk has been fired by AEW after the incident at All In.
Now WWE looks less like pricks for firing Punk on his wedding day.
Punk gleefully pours gasoline on every bridge he crosses while carrying a lit torch. But it isn’t his fault they keep getting burned. With all the other assholes prancing around wrestling backstages, one has to be an exceptional asshole to keep causing this much trouble. Still, this is probably going to turn the Chicago crowd a bit hostile.
He won’t be missed. I can’t figure out how he got anywhere in the first place.