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| LEGIT VS THUNDER |
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9 | 8.91% |
| DARBY VS JOEY |
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11 | 10.89% |
| PAC KILLS BRILEY |
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4 | 3.96% |
| FALLS COUNT ANYWHERE ANYTHING GOES |
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77 | 76.24% |
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Congrats to MLW’s newest signing
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Feb 17, 2021 18:45
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Maybe I'm overthinking it, but wouldn't it be just a bit too obvious for Thea to do the "hint hint I'm showing up on AEW" thing? She's got to know that a hint like that would ultimately deflate the reveal tonight if it happened.
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Feb 17, 2021 18:48
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I'd be happy to have Thea on board. She was great in her role in WWE, she just never seemed to get properly rewarded for it. I admit that's the only place I've ever seen her work though.
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Feb 17, 2021 18:52
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As always I side with Hitchcock. Suspense over surprise. Wrestling is better like that too. Set something up and pay it off, you can actually get people to watch that way and the whole deal is satisfying rather than just the payoff. Just because the swerve or the surprise has been the way of wrestling for 20 years now doesn’t mean it should be, especially as the last 20 years has done nothing but show how diminishing the returns are on that from a creative standpoint.
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Feb 17, 2021 18:54
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Maybe Aleister is getting sent down, err, sideways, to NXT to play the hits as a standout moody guy in leather with a metalcore theme and she’s happy for him.
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Feb 17, 2021 18:56
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JUNGLE BOY posted:Maybe Aleister is getting sent down, err, sideways, to NXT to play the hits as a standout moody guy in leather with a metalcore theme and she’s happy for him. They don't want him back down in NXT, supposedly.
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Feb 17, 2021 18:57
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Lone Goat posted:A venue with Wrestling, Pinball, and Beer sounds like it was created especially for me. Total same.
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Feb 17, 2021 18:57
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https://twitter.com/shopaew/status/1362093140748992513?s=21
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Feb 17, 2021 19:04
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I love how much nonsense is on that TH2 shirt.
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Feb 17, 2021 19:08
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Archer should start doing a testicle claw and call it the BDE CLAW
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Feb 17, 2021 19:10
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Pylons posted:They don't want him back down in NXT, supposedly.
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Feb 17, 2021 19:17
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i am extremely excited for Comedy Wrestler Luther against orange cassidy. give me the goofiest serpentico spots you have
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Feb 17, 2021 19:18
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Pylons posted:I love how much nonsense is on that TH2 shirt. It makes no sense and every sense. I might get a size bigger than normal so I can properly molly dance in it.
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Feb 17, 2021 19:21
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Erebus posted:maybe they're just excited Rush Limbaugh died Yeah she's cool so this tracks. It was my first thought when I heard the news too.
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Feb 17, 2021 19:21
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CobiWann posted:It makes no sense and every sense. I might get a size bigger than normal so I can properly molly dance in it. It's formatted in the style of a Jack Evans promo, which I respect.
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Feb 17, 2021 19:25
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smarxist posted:If the bucks can be honest their first run has kinda sucked with a lot of lukewarm stuff going on, a shocker upset that adds a ton of juice to the Inner Circle drama is such a great direction to go, you can put so much fuel on a great slow burning plot at the right time, you can have Sammy (masked or unmasked) cost the bucks the titles, or take out Jake when he tries to cheat at revolution, you can build Sammy / Jericho, grow Sammy / MJF, bring the best friends rivalry back when Trent is better, the whole division looks so much more interesting Their first run has been made up of great matches and helping establish two young teams in the division, it has anything but sucked.
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Feb 17, 2021 19:36
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*win the titles in maybe a top 10 tag match of all time* Man this is lukewarm poo poo
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Feb 17, 2021 19:37
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One thing I have always noticed regarding championship reigns, is that as soon as someone has a belt, there are always people ready to get it on somebody else they think also deserves it, or deserves it more. Its not always the same people, but hey, people like different wrestlers. Also possibly a matter of how the storytelling changes around a person when champ. Outside of rare cases, like Steve Austin, the booking around them, especially if they are face, gets a lot more passive, as the heels start to have to carry the motivated part of the feud, while the face champ has to sit around and wait to defend. It takes a lot to keep the active part of the feud on the face champion when they are more traditional babyfaces.
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Feb 17, 2021 19:39
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Yeah, the YB as tag champs makes perfect sense, they put out bangers pretty consistently. If anything, it says a lot about the division itself when there's still so many teams we want reigning. I really, really want Proud and Powerful at the top and breaking away from Inner Circle thanks to the gold, but I won't say no to Bucks winning and having a few more months with the belts. Though I'm probably nicer to the bucks right now because Penta is stuck in Mexico and thus I can't be complaining loudly about how he and Fenix should have the gold.
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Feb 17, 2021 19:52
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Is this the most balls AEW has had in the air this close to a PPV? Other than the street fight, we've got: Title picture is super muddled, could be heading for Kenny-Moxley II or a multiman match Shida is supposed to face the tourney winner but they need to get through seven America-based matches in the next three weeks MJF/Jericho have a title shot against the Young Bucks but they haven't interacted at all I would assume Orange Cassidy-Miro is happening. Probably Hangman-Hardy or some variant thereof, although the contract is still a hanging thread. Maybe an NWA Women's Title match if Deeb loses in the tournament? Young Bucks-Good Brothers if the Bucks drop the belts?
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Feb 17, 2021 19:55
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FTR/Jurassic Express seems pretty locked in as well and probably some kinda PAC/Archer/Eddie triple threat if they're not doing a main event clusterfuck
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Feb 17, 2021 19:57
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MJF/Jericho have a title shot. Not necessarily against the Bucks.
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Feb 17, 2021 20:00
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xbilkis posted:Is this the most balls AEW has had in the air this close to a PPV? Other than the street fight, we've got: MJF/Jericho vs. Santana and Ortiz (or the Young Bucks) Assuming Santana and Ortiz win, Good Brothers vs. Young Bucks Orange vs. Miro Hangman vs. Hardy Shida vs. Tournament Winner Street Fight Main event title match (either a clusterfuck or Mox vs. Omega 2 (technically 3)) FTR vs. Jurassic Express (Hopefully) NWA title, Riho vs. Deeb I could see FTR vs. Jurassic Express being on the buy-in.
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Feb 17, 2021 20:00
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If Britt doesn't win the tournament we're likely getting a Britt/Rosa rematch too
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Feb 17, 2021 20:01
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Rarity posted:If Britt doesn't win the tournament we're likely getting a Britt/Rosa rematch too Yeah, I think we either get Britt vs. Rosa or Deeb vs. Riho.
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Feb 17, 2021 20:02
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Malcolm Excellent posted:"THAT'S TRINIDAD, WITH UPS! SHE JUST LAID OUT BRIT BAKER, AND THUNDER ROSA WITH A PACKAGE OF SYRUP FROM TASMANIA!" - Excalibur Gimmick Infringement!
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Feb 17, 2021 20:02
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Maki Itoh explodes out of Shida's luggage and we get Eddie and BBB vs Lance, PAC, Fenix and Itoh-Chan.
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Feb 17, 2021 20:05
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lol at this pic of Griff Garrison looking like a bully on a 90s Nickelodeon show.
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Feb 17, 2021 20:19
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is pepsi ok posted:lol at this pic of Griff Garrison looking like a bully on a 90s Nickelodeon show. Who the gently caress is Griff Garrison?
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Feb 17, 2021 20:33
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I don't think the Bucks have had a bad title reign at all. They've essentially gotten 2 new teams established in The Acclaim and Good Brothers. A third in Top Flight. You could even stretch and say they got TH2 reintroduced to the Dynamite mix. I actually think its been a really effective reign, its just that the focus hasn't really been on them and their story has been wrapped up in the Omega/Good Brothers stuff. If the Bucks reign ends with them helping introduce and establish 2 brand new teams in Acclaimed and Top Flight, helping re-establish 2 existing teams in TH2 and Good Brothers, and finally elevating Santana and Ortiz to the next level then I think that's as good a reign as anyone's had in AEW. And of course they've consistently had good matches. STAC Goat fucked around with this message at 20:38 on Feb 17, 2021 |
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Feb 17, 2021 20:35
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As an example of how well the AEW tag titles are booked imagine how lame it would come off if a major stable began breaking up over which members got to challenge for the tag titles. It'd seem like a joke, but it's totally normal here, they are important!
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Feb 17, 2021 20:39
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Personally, I’m pulling for PnP to win tonight. I think it’s the better story and only story for Jericho/MJF. YB can work anybody of course, but the natural story (and the Bucks don’t need the belts, they’ve shown they’re top tier) is PnP gets the win. I also don’t want to hear if PnP loses that they’re officially buried in places (not here), which I’m seeing already and this could turn the tide. No matter the outcome, this is a must watch match between two top tier tag teams and I can’t wait to see who wins because I honestly can’t predict this one!
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Feb 17, 2021 20:51
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I want PnP to win because I really like PnP and always want my favourites to win.
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Feb 17, 2021 20:57
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With all of the titles, there's a big swing from how the previous champions were presented. Mox showed up every week to show off how he was willing to throw down pretty much whenever; Kenny shows up to... do stuff? Cody defended the TNT title weekly; Darby had a match with Cage and... did stuff with STING! FTR were giving teams A Brush With Greatness, and the Bucks... have matches once in a while? I'm not saying any of this is a problem. (The TNT title stuff kind of is, to me, at least.) Mox/Kenny just furthers how Kenny stole the belt (despite being the best in the world anyway) and Kenny doesn't actually want any part of defending it. The Bucks are already over, so they don't need a weekly TV slot to have short matches with other teams (and FTR giving "title matches" where you have like a third of the normal time to win built their personas as a team). I guess Shida's about as prominent as anyone else in the women's roster (for good and bad) and there's a lot of jockeying for position to get the next title shot, so the title and champion are relevant even if the champion isn't omnipresent. Anyway, AEW's titles are being booked just fine, but if you just started tuning in before, I can see people going "where'd all da belts go?" I'm all for champs having programs that aren't just taking on a line of challengers, though. (Except for the TNT title; if it's supposed to be a "TV Title" then it should be defended a lot.)
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Feb 17, 2021 21:00
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They certainly wouldn't be "buried" with a clean loss but Santana and Ortiz have definitely been "drifting" for a very long time and if they lose this match clean that changes nothing. And would feel weird because it seems so obvious and easy to have Inner Circle drama cost them and advance them that way.
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Feb 17, 2021 21:01
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Pylons posted:I love how much nonsense is on that TH2 shirt. I had to buy it, it's too good. I also bought a Chaos Project shirt. I don't know how I feel about that.
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Feb 17, 2021 21:03
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Bucks have great matches and not great stories
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Feb 17, 2021 21:03
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the stories leading into this match have been all about bucks vs good brothers and the inner circle implosion so doing the title switch (probably off gallows and anderson costing the bucks the titles) and having the inner circle teams fight for the aew tag titles and the bullet club teams fight for the impact tag titles makes sense but usually when i try to predict aew booking i overthink things and they just do the obvious thing, so i wouldn't put money on it
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Feb 17, 2021 21:06
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CellBlock posted:With all of the titles, there's a big swing from how the previous champions were presented. Mox showed up every week to show off how he was willing to throw down pretty much whenever; Kenny shows up to... do stuff? Cody defended the TNT title weekly; Darby had a match with Cage and... did stuff with STING! FTR were giving teams A Brush With Greatness, and the Bucks... have matches once in a while? The Brush With Greatness was a barely defined thing and everyone was complaining about the feud with the Bucks. They never even paid off the Brush With Greatness. It was one of the weirder AEW booking things.
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Feb 17, 2021 21:07
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mooseinfants posted:Bucks have great matches and not great stories I love them in the ring but give no shits about them outside of that. Nick Jackson (just offscreen) was p. funny I suppose
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Feb 17, 2021 21:08
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