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Describing Dustin Rhodes and Sammy Guevara, RoH tag team champions, as jobbers would be hilarious, if it wasn't the absolutely correct description in this situation. They could just as well have had them wrestle Top Flight again, the Outrunners, the bloody Infantry, the cult-y dudes in white who I think used to be all about eating butt, or anybody else. Bit of a smack in the face for RoH once again.

The Hurt Syndicate is over like rover, but there's a bit of a problem with AEW's tag division having a few top teams (all of whom are heels), even though the Hurt Syndicate are more like tweeners right now, and the rest being presented as ineffectual geeks.It's a shame that the Lucha Bros are gone, it's a shame that Santana &Ortiz are no more... btw, Ortiz still is signed to AEW, right? Where has he been the past 3 years?

I'd love to see more of Brian Cage and Lance Archer or Big Bill and Bryan Keith. The former two I just love to see because of the spectacle, the latter two I think got a good face run in them. But anyway. We need the Bang Bang Gang back.


Dynamite was really good. It felt a lot like a WWE show actually, but it's well done. I'm not entirely happy with the Moné/Storm exchange. Which always varied between good and rehearsed, but okay. Then there was the thing we have to talk about of course: the debut. The bloody Frat House. Is this the most WWE concept ever? Quite possibly. It might work really well as a jobber squad, if AEW didn't have so many of those already. Oh well, let's wait and see.


Oh, there was Thekla too. Good debut, let's hope they do something with her.

Brian Cage being injured seems to have derailed a match I think a lot of people want to see - sounds like his recovery is progressing, though, and hopefully we get that match when he comes back.

Damn R-Truth and Carlito got released. Truth just got a Saturday Night Main Event match against Cena as well.

@Dysartes: Oh, I did not know that. Thanks for the info. Dang. I like Brian Cage. He looks like a wrestler, he wrestles like a wrestler. He makes for a great bad guy to overcome for some good guy.

@Gert: Yeah. Maybe I'm just unable to process this, but the whole "contract is not being renewed" thing sounds a lot like a work to me. He'll either be back by the time it's time to get the title off Cena or he'll take on a different role within WWE or both. I'm very sure of that.

Not sad to see Carlito go. Never really taken to him.

But R Truth?

What’s up?

They missed an opportunity to make Cena more of a heel by challenging R-Truth to a lower leaves town match.

 bbb wrote:
They missed an opportunity to make Cena more of a heel by challenging R-Truth to a lower leaves town match.

Yup, one of the reasons I don't quite believe we won't see R-Truth again in WWE very soon. You couldn't ask for a better situation (IF R-Truth really is to leave) for that sorta match. An established match type, which WWE hasn't done in AGES (last one I recall was Shane vs. Kevin Owens in 2017 or so? Kevin lost and just went over to Smackdown.)

with all the outpouring of love that wrestlers have given Ron in all of this, i find it hard to believe this is a work, unless WWE are working the boys on this one

i hope he goes to AEW. whether he stays this character or we see him as a serious wrestler again, i think he could really help in the mid and low card over there

less feelings on Carlito, but i also saw Sarah Logan get released and all i can say to that is "rip bozo"

I think there's a better chance of seeing him in TNA, as Tommy Dreamer has already told him on social media to hit him up.

Yeah, he's been to TNA before; extremely different company now of course, but I'd also rather see him there, to be honest. Maybe I'd like for AEW not to hire anybody for the next 3 years.