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Quoted from Rdoyle1978:Makes sense IMO. NXT (being shorter) has been a much better show than Raw lately. Maybe even Smackdown too. I'm uh, sure, it had NOTHING to do with another show starting up on Wednesdays...
Takeovers are way better than WWE PPVs too. You put these guys/girls in a smaller venue and the place is electric.
Quoted from DBLM:You can't do that to The Master and Ruler of the World, from any damn well he pleases. Here, this is how you need to remember him[quoted image]
Best mic botches of all time.
I thought I wouldn't mind anyone as much as Corbin. Awful personality and worker IMO. Then I saw Sammy Guevara. He can move, yeah, but I can't even stand to look at the guy with his teeth and tongue out all the time. He's like 12 years old and wears a panda. What the hell's going on?
sammy (resized).jpgQuoted from Rdoyle1978:Absolutely hate a lot of his stupid face mugging and WTF is up with the panda crap?? Then I remembered he is a heel.
Yeah but not all heels are "break the 4th wall" annoying. Geek Squad Jack Swagger isn't (unsure of his new gimmick).
Quoted from TomGWI:Love CM punk but I want to see him in the ring, not so much as a backstage guy analyst.
WWE has gotten so bad I was planning on going to Mania this year and now I am leaning towards skipping it.
I want Punk in the ring too, but look at it as baby steps.
It's not good right now. You'd think AEW would force them to raise their game, but it's getting stale. First Ep of SD was great, then not so much. I killed the network subscription after HIAC, it was so bad.
I can't get into AEW yet. I've tried. But let's face it, aside from Jericho and Omega, there a some suck-the-air out of the room WWE cast offs. Spears and Hager aren't exciting no matter how you reinvent.
Quoted from DBLM:NXT is by far my favorite right now. Great action, very different types of wrestling, and some pretty awesome storylines (Balor, invasion, etc). Keith Lee blows me away every week and Adam Cole is Shaw Michaels 2.0. My two new favorite wrestlers are Rhea Ripley and Angel Garza. Both of them have it in spades!
I try and try on AEW but the cute-sy, inside-y stuff just falls flat for me. I love what Cody and MJF are doing, but most of the Elite just falls flat for me. Jericho is at the top of his game.
Ripley is great. You can see why NXT works. It's more intimate, and less wrestlers = more time for each appearance. Also learning similar spots and techniques helps with flow. Less disjointed than AEW.
The impromptu NXT invasion of Smackdown after the Saudi Trip was fantastic.
Too many botches in AEW and the moves just don't look good. Check out the main event from last night. Jericho's codebreaker was about a foot away from the dude's head.
Here's a good botch.
https://www.instagram.com/p/B41sA5fpsoU/
If you're not following Wrestlebotch on Instagram, you're missing out.
Quoted from DBLM:I tied to watch AEW last night and it was the drizzle shits. I am sorry, but they have regressed since before the end of the year. Lots of miscues, uneven packing, etc. Even the Mox turn was not great. Don't even get me started on the Women's division and Marko Stunt.
Not to say NXT was great last night either. I found both shows lacking. However, NXT leading up to this week has been great.
AEW is awful right now. It's like watching the Indies with random jobbers that never work together.
Quoted from DBLM:Just my opinions:
The production values and overall presentation has been subpar: Weird commercial breaks, pacing is off, storylines happen on Dark but are not referenced on Dynamite, etc. Jim Ross was not good from what I saw last night.
The main starts do not feel big: Outside of Jericho and maybe Moxley, nobody feels like stars. Bucks dont feel big, Lucha Bros lost last night, Omega is not special, etc. I think they have tried to elevate so many people that the key people do not feel special.
Too many cults and groups: Dark Order, the other kind of dark order thing, Inner Circle, Elite, Butcher Bunny Blade +MJF, Lucha Express. Ugh.
Women's division: Sucks
Overall, it feels like they are pandering to this very indy, IWC crowd and it is just not engaging to me. I will stick with NXT.
It *feels* like 30+ minutes of MJF EVERY. DAMN. WEEK. And it's all a Miz knockoff.
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