In the biggest swerve of the century Moxleys skin remains unbroken for the entire match.
In the biggest swerve of the century Moxleys skin remains unbroken for the entire match.
At least the cage will prevent his standard five minute brawl in the crowd.
You’d think, anyway.
Draft episode was pretty boring, as they usually are, and while I don't begrudge the NXT women their moment none of them feel a big enough deal to make those interesting draft picks. I assume we'll get Breakker and Pretty Deadly called up on Monday?
Main event was alright. I assume that the Usos end up on Smackdown anyway even if Roman doesn't want them to progress that story.
Indi Hartwell was a baffling one. I remember her impressing in the Rumble but she looked very green and they’ve just put the NXT title on her.
I just think she's not very good. She was wrestling relatively regularly in NXT during The Way stuff and that was a while back now and I thought it odd when they gave her the womens title. It felt a little bit "you've been here ages so here you go." But I watch bugger all NXT these days so maybe I'm being unfair.
Yeah, I was never a fan of her in ring stuff.
I assume they reunite her with Lumis as Index still seemed pretty over with the NXT crowd when he helped her win the title.
Have your opinions but she’s Rab from Consolevanias niece so she can be pushed as far as they want.
I really need the full details of how Jim Cornette conspired with Michael Jordan, Nikki Bella, Home Depot and the ghost of Chris Benoit to steal someone's kids.
Huh. That reminds me, I need to see if Consolevania is good these days.Originally Posted by phonics
Index can continue then. Possibly a "The Way" revival?
Got to feel that RAW have lost that by having to take Nattie though.
No idea why but the Exploding Deathmatch just popped into my head. Got to be up there with Vince blowing out both his quads in funniest moments in wrestling history terms.
Von Wagner a free agent?
Fuck it, I'll call myself a free agent for this draft too then.
No explosion (ie Kenny can't make a bomb) would have been better than that farty pyro.
This race needs some tyre blowouts like what happened to Max and Strulovich that time.
Don’t be giving Tony any more crazy ideas eh.
Do it Tony, complete the journey to becoming WCW.
I have to admire Tony's restraint in having Big Show on the books and not booking a rooftop monster truck match yet.
To be fair, a lot of AEW pays homage to the Giant’s murder and resurrection later in the program with all the no-sells the flippy guys do after being thrown off a ladder/stage/whatever.
Takes itself a little too seriously now and Ryan McLeod isn't part of it anymore.
Oof. Without someone like Ryan to balance out Rab's flowery tat, it's not Consolevania to me.
Tickets acquired. Had some of the Ł400 ones I wanted but it had auto selected 2 instead of 3 and when I went back to change it, I could only get Ł175 ones.Got them for now but will keep an eye out for some P2 ones going back on sale. Will join the 11am presale (for non-Fite TV subscribers) and see what’s what.
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Ya mad cunt.
I just watched a whole episode of Raw in 15 minutes. This holding pattern until post-draft is dreadful. The best thing about the whole show was Priest's promo and I understood about 20% of it. Dominik getting booed out the building was as fun as always though.
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Ł400.
Blimey.
Got offered 175 quid tickets. Couldn't swing it so I gave em to a mate.
Apparently 35k tickets already gone for AEW Wembley.
It’ll be full. Can’t wait.
I'm a twit
See if you can get Taz to present a TTH award.
I was a little unsure but those are some strong opening numbers and suggest it indeed will be fully.
Tickets acquired. Had some of the Ł400 ones I wanted but it had auto selected 2 instead of 3 and when I went back to change it, I could only get Ł175 ones.
I'm in 121. Not that bad, really.
I'm guessing the entrance stage/ramp will be between 101 and 144.
Get watching AEW @Mike. Borrow your missus' Jeff Hardy tshirt.
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A Wrestletalk list has just reminded me that in the 2021 draft WWE put Gable Steveson on Raw. Well worth it.
Draft picks don't always work out.
Seems he's trying to qualify for Paris 2024 to defend his Olympic gold.
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90,000 Baz’s in Wembley.
Wardlow was much better when he was a bit like Brock Lesnar but I’ve completely lost interest now he’s actively trying to be, flexing his straps and doing that little dance.
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Add him to the pile of wrestlers that Tony has actively sabotaged through his incompetent booking. He got massively over doing the "Lesnar" thing, then they randomly stopped it, killed his momentum, and now Tony will be wondering why it isn't working when he's decided to go back to it.
Dom with the nuclear heat last night on Smackdown
Enjoyable show for once. Hot crowd obviously helps but all four matches were decent too. Puerto Rico loves Cody.
Not as much as they love Bad Bunny. That was Stone Cold level pop
Yeah that crowd was great so hopefully should give Backlash a bit of a boost as well.
The Bad Bunny? Is he a good wrestler?
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He's a good celebrity wrestler. He's probably not as good overall as Logan Paul has been so far but he's athletic, bumps, clearly puts the effort in to try and be good at it.
Who's the bottom of the celebrity wrestler pile?
Jay Leno comes to mind, but chances are it's one of the many times TNA gave it a try.
I watched Sharmell vs. Jenna Morasca because Wrestletalk are doing a "Worst Wrestling Match Ever" series and Jenna Morasca was possibly the worst I've seen.
Ooooh, Packman Jones. So crap they had to give him nothing to do.
Classic TNA, bung a load of money at someone who is contractually prevented from actually doing anything.
They struck gold with DeAngelo Williams though. Probably the best before Logan Paul came along.
Think that Backlash kind of proves how mad this AEW show is going to be. Crowd's can make even the worst show over.
Just started.
Ito/Bianca was fun but the ending was a bit meh. Hot crowd (hopefully it continues) really helped too.
Omos/Rollins was better than I thought it would be but not by a huge amount. Think it was dumb that Omos kicked out of back to back stomps but the SUPER stomp was fun.
Triple Threat was far too quick unfortunately as it was really fun. Smart way for Theory to win though.
Ripley/Vega was pretty poor. At no point did it feel like Zelina had any chance of winning, her 619 was also laughable.
Bunny/Priest was alright. Best thing was Carlito returning obviously. Carlito
Bloodline Trio match itself was alright but nothing special, I'm just gagging for that Bloodline implosion now and I loved it when Solo thought about spiking Jey.
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Belair / Skye - Fun, and that one near fall I actually thought they might be doing it, but on the whole while Belair is really good they need to change something up if she's gonna keep the title for much longer.
Rollins / Omos - He tried, bless 'im. And I don't hate a top rope curb stomp as a way to put the exclamation point on it but yeah, nobody's getting anything good out of Omos.
US title triple threat - The problem here is doing sneaky shit is literally all Theory has. They need to get that belt on somebody else while they figure out what to do with him because this isn't working. He's got talent but he's a non-character and the fans simply don't care.
Rhea / Vega - Didn't watch. This was even more predictable than the Belair match and Vega just isn't great.
Bunny / Priest - Just fine, but the crowd really elevated it and the overbooked mess in the middle with Carlito and Savio Vega was a laugh I guess.
Bloodline trios - I've got a lot of time for how committed Solo has been to his character since being called up, and him basically trying to take charge of the team to Jey's chagrin is a good wrinkle as they continue to tease that out. Not bad but for having six men there was still too much time when everybody was down or nowhere to be seen because they still wanted to fit all the storyline stuff in.
Rhodes / Bork - I thought they'd really hit a spot of luck with Bork's blood pissing absolutely fucking everywhere and how good that would look when Cody stood tall at the end covered in Brock's blood so to have him win because Lesnar is a moron somewhat took the shine off that. I liked that Cody jumped him before the bell but otherwise not much to report here. An unfortunate middle ground between Brock's 4 minute slugfests and his standard template for the flippier lads he wrestles.
As Phonics says though, the crowd being so into everything really lifted a lot of a very middling show.
Didnt really care much for anything beyond the last two matches. Agree on Omos though. Can't really knock the guy as he seems in pretty good shape for someone so large and seems to be an alright guy out of the ring, but he is just too large for anyone to be getting a good match from.
Solo almost mistakenly spiking Jey, then thinking he should really do it anyway is interesting. Maybe we get Solo having to make the choice soon. Stoner Bro still has no part in being shoehorned in here. Speaking of which put some damn shoes on.
Silly to make Brock look the idiot, but it depends how the inevitable next match goes. If Cody wins again but a lot more decisively then he goes on to take a/the belts. If we get good old fashioned 50/50 booking, we're in for a Brock win next and then a DECIDER at SummerSlam.
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