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Could see any of the four women at AEW. Chelsea is the best get for them, though. Could be a massive asset to their fast improving women's division: they've got a great core of good workers now, and a second massively charismatic focus, alongside Britt, would really round things off nicely.

If Joe is planning to wrestle full time, then he's another that would be great.

Predictions:
- Samoa Joe: NJPW
- Billie Kay: Impact
- Peyton Royce: Impact
- Bo Dallas: retire
- Kalisto: AAA
- Chelsea Green: AEW
- Tucker: unsigned/independent
- Wesley Blake: unsigned/independent
- Mickie James: NWA
 
I was totally checked out of wrestling from about '93 to a few years ago, so Mongo passed me by.

During lockdown last year, though, the @ThatsOurMongo account on Twitter got me up to speed on the guy. A barely trained ex-football pro stumbling about in the ring: it was hilarious!

To start with, it was just funny clips but, gradually, I got a feel for just how great a performer he was: the dude was incredibly charismatic, and as enthusiastic as a Labrador-puppy. It's obvious why people have such fond memories of him.

Really sad news to see what he's going through.
 
Used to watch it back in the wcw days but for me it's was to scripted now I know it was always but it's so in your face it's hard to watch it's like watching love island or the only way is Essex
 
AEW Double or Nothing tonight!

Sting wrestling a live match for the first time in 6 years should be awesome.

And Anthony Ogogo is making his ppv debut in a Rocky IV style USA vs the foreign menace story against Cody Rhodes. Tough to see past a Cody win with it being Memorial Day weekend in America.

And it's Stadium Stampede 2 for the main event. Last year's was an absolute hoot, though I'm expecting a more serious tone this time. A real blood fued between Chris Jericho's Inner Circle and MJF's Pinnacle factions.

Anyone else planning to watch? I'll probably watch the first match before bed, then watch all the important stuff tomorrow before I let myself see any spoilers.
 
haven't watched it yet, been trying to find out what happened to Dynamite, it's usually on Fridays on ITV4 and it was missing this week, the only listing i can find was for this Wed, so i'm assuming i've missed an episode [though it's not listed in the Freeview online guide] and the air date has moved to Weds now?? :-/
 
haven't watched it yet, been trying to find out what happened to Dynamite, it's usually on Fridays on ITV4 and it was missing this week, the only listing i can find was for this Wed, so i'm assuming i've missed an episode [though it's not listed in the Freeview online guide] and the air date has moved to Weds now?? :-/
It was moved to Friday 10pm (after Smackdown) in America due to NBA playoffs being on Wednesday. No idea when ITV will show it, I had a quick look at the schedules and didn't see it.

I watch on FITE, so managed to get through it all before the ppv.

And the ppv was amazing. Having a really hot crowd back made a big difference.
 
thanks for that, we get it a couple days behind so if it moved to Fri, the one tomorrow on ITV4 should be the go-home show.
i watched the last PPV and it was stonking, reminded me why i paid for PPVs in the first place, far above the last ones from WWE that resulted in me giving up on them.
 
thanks for that, we get it a couple days behind so if it moved to Fri, the one tomorrow on ITV4 should be the go-home show.
i watched the last PPV and it was stonking, reminded me why i paid for PPVs in the first place, far above the last ones from WWE that resulted in me giving up on them.
Yeah, I've watched all the AEW PPVs since Dynamite started and even the worst one (All Out 2020) was still pretty good. The rest have all been very good to excellent.

It's worth watching the free 'buy in' match for Double or Nothing. Serena Deeb vs Riho for the NWA title: it was actually one of the best matches of the night.

Starts around 49 minute mark :
 
cheers, will give that a look.

looks like WWE cleaning house again, would be willing to bet Lana turns up on AEW w/ Miro, would love to see the others too.
Yeah, some pretty big names this time.

I could see aew taking any of Aleister, Murphy, Ruby, Lana, though probably not all of them. Braun doesn't strike me as a fit, wouldn't be surprised to see him leave wrestling.

My picks for AEW would be Ruby Riott (aka Heidi Lovelace) and Aleister (aka Tommy End).
 
cracking PPV. I think Britt and Hikaru was my fave match but they were all pretty good, except for Miro's match which i felt was a bit flat. some stonking bits though, especially
Darby getting thrown clear out the ring and into the seating
 
CM Punk has signed with AEW for his return from a 7 year hiatus from wrestling!

Set to make his debut on the second episode of their upcoming 2nd weekly show Rampage on 20 August.

Not sure what the UK TV deal will be for AEW Rampage yet (their main show, Dynamite, airs Friday night on ITV4, a couple of days after the US airing). I subscribe to Fite.tv to get Dynamite live, hopefully Rampage will be included in that subscription.
 
CM Punk has signed with AEW for his return from a 7 year hiatus from wrestling!

Set to make his debut on the second episode of their upcoming 2nd weekly show Rampage on 20 August.

Not sure what the UK TV deal will be for AEW Rampage yet (their main show, Dynamite, airs Friday night on ITV4, a couple of days after the US airing). I subscribe to Fite.tv to get Dynamite live, hopefully Rampage will be included in that subscription.
I always thought CM punk was way overrated and he thought too much of himself.
But Daniel Bryan is a big win for them.
 
I always thought CM punk was way overrated and he thought too much of himself.
But Daniel Bryan is a big win for them.
It's a heck of a statement bringing both in within weeks of each other. The roster is absolutely stacked right now, and the shows are on a hot streak. Only the women's division needs work: the talent is there now, but they're just not committing to the division enough, it's always felt like an afterthought.
 
It's a heck of a statement bringing both in within weeks of each other. The roster is absolutely stacked right now, and the shows are on a hot streak. Only the women's division needs work: the talent is there now, but they're just not committing to the division enough, it's always felt like an afterthought.
i don't expect too much from cm punk but I hope it's a huge change when Daniel Bryan huge talent in a lot of areas,
True, It does need a lot of work in a lot of areas.

I cant see why they are having issues in basic areas, even with experienced stars I mean (Kenny, Cody, Dustin, Jericho, Hardy) Backen (Jerry lin. Arn Anderson Tully ) Im sure they had dean malenko

1. The Tag Team and The women division has been a waste, so have most of the titles

2. They need to build up real tag teams, after the first year nothing really happened IMO
they still need polished up,

3. The matches need polishing work, they will have a good match then make a mess in other areas
really the whole thing need work not much has changed since the start

4. They have been bringing in a lot of retired talent, not really in-ring, you see them once for a huge bump then you don't or don't care, they need more, they need to focus more on people like black and murphy or backend managers to help them look more polished and professional, it still seems very indie.

5. They need better storylines maybe have them going a little longer, at the moment it seems like 80s cartoons, the endings of most I've watched just seem rushed. kind of like WWE but most WWE matches are polished even if the story is rubbish and repeated.

6. in terms of talent they don't have a huge roaster compared to other companies, and the ones they do have need work and build-up, like WWE once they get near to the goal they kind of drop the ball.

7. The talent they have are all in factions not in a good way, seems a little wasted. if they are going with that, they need to work hard on it,


For this reason, they are the same as or even less than WWE reason why WWEs work is polished and can build up stars but then waste it (firings, repeats, stop pushing so on) but i really dont like both I was expecting a change when AEW first turned up.



IMO WWE has had the best build-up and story line in a few years with roman, they also had a good build-up with the fiend but we all know what happened both times.
 
@2013 tbh, I don't really share any of those issues, other than the retired talent coming in. Big Show and Mark Henry, and recently Chavo Gurerro, we're all pretty meh. I just don't dig them. Hopefully they add something backstage, though.

Tags have been less of a focus for a couple of months, but the tag division has otherwise been strong throughout: It's easily the best tag division in any promotion for a long time.

The Hangman/Kenny story has been phenomenal over 18+ months. And MJF/Jericho has been pretty great for about a year. There's long term stuff going on.
 
@2013 tbh, I don't really share any of those issues, other than the retired talent coming in. Big Show and Mark Henry, and recently Chavo Gurerro, we're all pretty meh. I just don't dig them. Hopefully they add something backstage, though.

Tags have been less of a focus for a couple of months, but the tag division has otherwise been strong throughout: It's easily the best tag division in any promotion for a long time.

The Hangman/Kenny story has been phenomenal over 18+ months. And MJF/Jericho has been pretty great for about a year. There's long term stuff going on.
I don't think they would be much use backstage either, I think its just a WCW tack tick (look who we got from WWE) and maybe talent recruitment, tag team a good few month and even when it was it nothing special, the same match you have seen 100 times before,

Hangman/Kenny MJF/Jericho not really its been more of a stop and start I was expecting better,

another thing I dont really like is the over the top stunts every match, I would rather have them go a little old school and have a match of skill in grappling sometimes, If you see it every week it no longer feels special.

Worst thing about them is the camera work, they get some really bad shots at the worst times.

WWE is worse in some cases but you will need a much longer list for them.

NXT has been the best from the few shows I watched
 
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