Mark my words, MJF is a future AEW World Champion. Because he’s better than you. And you know it.
The crowd in Arthur Ashe Stadium was pretty electric through about 90% of Dynamite, but it cooled off to just an average crowd during the switch to Rampage. Don’t know if you’ll notice it on TV. Also, maybe 10-15% of the crowd left after Dynamite, mostly to miss traffic or get the last mass transit (especially Metro North) trains.
You probably were seeing the “CM Punk Interview 48 hours before his 1st match” graphic (or something to that effect), which we were also seeing. Funny as everyone knew he’d be wrestling in less than 3 hours. Also, very hard to have an interview with just one person. Yes, nerd me quibbled that it was a monolog, not an interview.
Don’t know if it was on TV, but Arn Anderson took a real ‘bump’, falling off the apron, when he tried to go around the ring post.
Lastly, I don’t know why NY decide to heel Cody and cheer Malakai, but it was fun.
Yes, we saw Arn’s botch. I forgot they had booed Cody and cheered Malakai. It was already a head-scratcher of a match.
I have a vague feeling like they’re setting up Cody to turn heel and feud with Brock Anderson. It’d be a good way to build up Brock as a rising star, and it’ll give Cody something to do since he’s managed to avoid the sin most wrestler-bookers (like, for instance, his dad) commit of making the show all about themselves.
I went to an ROH show once where they taped four weeks of TV. It was a little amusing seeing the wrestlers cut promos about a match that was going to happen “next week”, and then watching that match happen about half an hour later.
I remember someone saying after PPVs the WWE would tape all their mostly squash tv shows back when they had 4 or 5 and you’d see the same people wrestle 4-5 times … all they changed was the banner to show what show it was going on …
That’s how NXT used to be back in the Full Sail days. They’d tape about 3 week’s worth of shows so you’d see the guy run in on a match, his subsequent promo, next week’s retort, and their blowoff match all in one night. Not to mention by the time the third hour of taping hit the crowd was SHOT. Once tapings stopped being impossible to get, we stopped going too often because it was an exhausting night. But I always got Wendy’s afterward, so that’s good.
OK, now I have a legitimate reason to hate WWE. If what Meltzer said is true, the city I live in is one of Vince’s banned words because it doesn’t sound prestigious enough. I’m glad I didn’t go to RAW.
- According to Dave Meltzer on Wrestling Observer Radio, the Raw commentary team was not allowed to say the city name “Raleigh” during this week’s broadcast even though that’s where the show emanated from in North Carolina. WWE thinks Raleigh “doesn’t sound prestigious enough,” so it is now the latest entry on WWE’s list of banned words.
Vince, or should I say “Vinnie Lupton”, was born and raised in Pinehurst, NC and loathes the place.
It’s honestly not surprising that he’d blackmail Raleigh out of spite.
In that section of NC, the pine trees breed like cockroaches, but it’s not exactly a jerkwater town. It has a PGA course, so it’s got some elegance. They at least cut the weeds away from the trailer signs.
Well, the main event finish of Extreme Rules was just terrible. Finn is about to get the pin after a coup de grace when the Usos run in and drag him out of the ring. Finn fights them off, but Roman spears him through a barricade and both men are knocked out. Then… the red mood lighting comes on, Finn’s intro starts playing, he starts flopping on the ground each time the heartbeat sounds off… and as the guitar comes in he jumps up and goes into super saiyan mode, taking out all three men while invincible to their counterattacks. The crowd is going wild! He drags Roman back into the ring and goes up for another coup de grace…
…then the top rope breaks, the music and mood lighting instantly switch off, Finn falls down and sells his leg, then Roman hits a spear and gets the pin. with the bloodline all pointing one finger to the heavens in celebration as Maggle speculates that God intervened to help Roman retain.
Not since Rollins vs. Bray at HIAC 2019 has a match finish done so much damage to BOTH wrestlers’ reputations and personas.
wow… that sounds like something hogan would come up with the 80s … cornettes gonna have a field day on the podcasts…
If I was Cornette’s doctor, I might advise him not to watch any wrestling that was produced after 1983. It can’t be good for his heart.
oh believe me look him up on youtube … his rants are epic …there’s 3 different ones one huge one that’s 2-3 hours long and a couple of shorter response to things happening ones
Oh, I’m quite familiar with Corny’s take on modern-day wrestling. I’m just saying he’s gonna give himself a heart attack these days watching some of the stuff that goes on.
I heard in one of Corney’s excerpts his reason for being so opposed to Omega and company’s use of humor, when he’d done so many silly things in his career. He thinks humor should only be used for heels getting their comeuppance. That’s why he was so willing to get his face mashed in wedding cakes, acting gay with the Midnight Express, or getting clocked by Baby Doll. It served to get heel heat. He doesn’t think wrestlers should act like clowns otherwise.
He really hated Dexter/Indy’s wedding angle, which I thought was hilarious. Maybe if Johnny Gargano (who he calls “Johnny Same-Face”) got his face pushed into a wedding cake, he would have liked it. If Corney’s at risk of a coronary at watching modern wrestling, he would have kicked the bucket the moment Vince Russo started booking.
AEW Dark Taz/Excalibur moment of the day
Cezar Bononi & Adrian Jaoude vs. Jake St. Patrick and Ryzin
Cezar bodyslams St. Patrick
Taz: Communications… he’s speaking, communicating in non-English, Brazilian.
Ex: Portuguese.
Taz: I know that! I know what it is! I know Portuguese! I know the whole thing!
I was pretty sure that was the one that you would post. Some of their exchanges seem like Taz and Excalibur are trying too hard, though. T & E are probably thinking, “We want a really good quote for Knowed_Out’s Taz/Excalibur Moment of the Day”.
You hit the nail on the head. Taz isn’t nearly the same level of crazy he was when Dark switched to a studio audience. He used to feed on the frenzy of thousands, but now it’s only a couple hundred.
Another factor is that with the studio production, Ex is used more for promotions than actual commentary, so there’s less time for chatter. Still, I’ll continue to monitor. I’m sure Taz will pull through for me.
The Dark Order is just the most wholesome cult. Glad -1 could get them to get their acts together.
(Though part of me was hoping that Hardy would threaten some of the noncombatants in a way that would lead to a returning Hangman run-in)