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My conspiracy theory:

Punk's injury is a work. He faked it because he knows Roman would cheat to win, so he interferes with the WM main event to make sure Cody wins. He wanted Cody to win so that he can have a clean win over a worthy opponent at Summerslam, or teased out to WM41.

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Florence, KY

Lots going on at SmackDown tonight.

Spoiler:
Bayley makes her WrestleMania decision. B-Fab joins Bobby Lashley and the Street Profits. Tiffany Stratton debuts. Jade Cargill and Bron Breakker weigh their decisions on SmackDown or RAW contracts.

'It is a source of constant consternation that my opponents
cannot correlate their innate inferiority with their inevitable
defeat. It would seem that stupidity is as eternal as war.'

- Nemesor Zahndrekh of the Sautekh Dynasty
Overlord of the Crownworld of Gidrim
 
   
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Spoiler:
Not happy about The Rock butting in to the main event of WM.
   
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Florence, KY

Spoiler:
From what I've been seeing, it's only because CM Punk is injured as he was Seth's planned opponent at WrestleMania. Rock vs. Reigns was planned for either Saudi Arabia or WrestleMania XLI.

'It is a source of constant consternation that my opponents
cannot correlate their innate inferiority with their inevitable
defeat. It would seem that stupidity is as eternal as war.'

- Nemesor Zahndrekh of the Sautekh Dynasty
Overlord of the Crownworld of Gidrim
 
   
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Vienna, Austria

 Ghaz wrote:
Spoiler:
From what I've been seeing, it's only because CM Punk is injured as he was Seth's planned opponent at WrestleMania. Rock vs. Reigns was planned for either Saudi Arabia or WrestleMania XLI.


Spoiler:
Oooh yes, Rock/Reigns absolutely sounds like a Saudi Arabia match. No idea why I never thought of that.

   
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Spoiler:
They should not go with another part-timer for the champion and Reigns should not continue as champion.

The way to do it is Cody vs Reigns for the championship. Rock demands Roman wins clean or he must face him for the title of Head of the Table.
   
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Vienna, Austria

 bbb wrote:
Spoiler:
They should not go with another part-timer for the champion and Reigns should not continue as champion.

The way to do it is Cody vs Reigns for the championship. Rock demands Roman wins clean or he must face him for the title of Head of the Table.

Spoiler:

Yus, I heard that concept ('the title' being head of the table rather than a proper one) the other day on the cultaholic pitches video, and really like the idea. Your idea has the added bonus that Roman loses, BUT despite Solo Sikoa's (who acts on his own accord, to get rid of Reigns to become his own man and so on, and we got a post-Bloodline story for him going as well) interference, so the Rock/Reigns match happens.
   
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Vienna, Austria

I love how after Darby Allin's promo at Dynamite last night Cody isn't only the biggest baby face in WWE, but also in AEW.

   
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Vienna, Austria

Could it be that WWE recoloured CM Punk's Pepsi tatto so both halves are blue?

https://www.wwe.com/superstars/cmpunk


This is hilarious.

   
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Florence, KY

Original Four Horsemen member Ole Anderson has passed away at the age of 81.

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'It is a source of constant consternation that my opponents
cannot correlate their innate inferiority with their inevitable
defeat. It would seem that stupidity is as eternal as war.'

- Nemesor Zahndrekh of the Sautekh Dynasty
Overlord of the Crownworld of Gidrim
 
   
Made in us
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Florence, KY

Shawn Spears (f.k.a, Tye Dillinger) is back in the WWE, showing up on tonight’s episode of NXT.

'It is a source of constant consternation that my opponents
cannot correlate their innate inferiority with their inevitable
defeat. It would seem that stupidity is as eternal as war.'

- Nemesor Zahndrekh of the Sautekh Dynasty
Overlord of the Crownworld of Gidrim
 
   
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 Ghaz wrote:
Original Four Horsemen member Ole Anderson has passed away at the age of 81.


While sad to see him go, 81 is a good run - and an absolutely phenomenal one for a Professional Wrestler.

   
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Florence, KY

Just noticed that Virgil has passed away as well

'It is a source of constant consternation that my opponents
cannot correlate their innate inferiority with their inevitable
defeat. It would seem that stupidity is as eternal as war.'

- Nemesor Zahndrekh of the Sautekh Dynasty
Overlord of the Crownworld of Gidrim
 
   
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Vienna, Austria

Yeah, two more gone. :/ RIP. Couldn't have been more different guys, based on what I know about their careers.

I skipped Elimination Chamber, but did watch AEW Revolution.
Spoiler:

Garcia/Cage perfectly chosen opener. My goodness, the Matt Menard pop! I really like the guy. That Mother Wayne (that they found a role for her is a gigantic accomplishment. Absolutely not a camera person, but around Cage in Patriarchy, as a statuesque and icy cold mother figure she works).



Kingston/Danielson
was possibly the match of the night for me. A few weeks ago I was talking to a friend who doesn't follow wrestling (unless it's Mercedes Moné) about how I often find it difficult to root wholeheartedly for a wrestler to win a match and not at all for the opponent. That's often not the case, because in many cases I like both of them. I don't know about you, but there are very, very few wrestlers that I really don't like. And even with those, it happens that I have to admit several times in the match itself: "wow. He/she was really good there now". There are some wrestlers where the character concept just doesn't click with me. For example, I find the Timeless Toni Storm character extremely problematic. She's like the Fiend - a big attention magnet and you always wonder "what's she going to do next?", but as a wrestler - when it comes to in-ring stuff - the character just doesn't work for me at all (unfortunately, the vignettes usually don't either). Which is a problem, because wrestlers should convince in the ring, right? Not to say that either Wyatt or Storm were bad wrestlers - it's just when the character stuff interferes with my enjoyment of the matches I'm not that happy. Then I see her in the media scrum after the PPV, and ....yeah, she's got the character stuff down and she's got a lot of humor and has really put a lot of work into this character.



To get to the point - with Eddie Kingston matches, most of the time I know I want Kingston to win and no one else. He's just a gem.





All-Star Scramble Match
- When it was announced that the Meat Thingy match had to be cancelled I was really sad because this thing sounded really good. Especially after the Miro/Hobbs match last year. Instead, it was an All-Stars match, and it was great fun. Very entertaining, first a MEAT! segment (finally Lance Archer again!), then the same with the smaller participants [that really looked like a Jericho idea]. No one in the world gets stuck on ropes as often as Dante Martin. But then straight back up between the ropes, up onto the turnbuckle - he's a freak athlete. Magnus also cut a good figure. It was predictable that Wardlow would win, but that's okay. He just shouldn't wear backwards baseball caps anymore. Noone ever should.

Cassidy/Strong for the Continental title - This went basically as expected. Totally ok.

BCC/FTR
- Super. Which is to be expected, considering the people involved. Funnily enough, Moxley and Castagnoli used a spot that I've only seen before (but exactly like this) with the tag team of Miyu Watanabe and Rika Tatsumi - one tag partner does a Giant Swing, the dropkicks the swingee in the head. GNARLY. (it looked even gnarlier on Watanabe and Tatsumi, but everything always looks worse on more delicate ladies than with a melange of Mox, Dax and Castagnoli).

Timless Toni Storm/Deonna Purrazzo - As mentioned above: Timeless Toni Storm isn't my bag. Had to giggle the other day at the way she pronounced Collision on Dynamite, but that's about it. And apart from the fact that Deonna Purrazzo has a funny voice, I think so far I liked her better in theory than in practice. I found the short fake-out at the beginning with Maria May as the old Toni Storm funny [Maria May doesn't give me anything either. Maybe I'm just boring.]. Storm wins, and rightly so. She can keep the title until Jamie Hayter comes back and then she can give it to Yuka Sakazaki in autumn.


Ospreay/Takeshita - Yeah, insane. Ospreay is over like rover and rightly so. Takeshita can do it all, these two put on one hell of a match.

3-Way for the AEW title. Samoa Joe/Swerve Strickland/Hangman Page - Here's another one of those situations where I like all of them. Hangman for sentimental reasons (and as an on-and-off misguided babyface, he's perfectly utilized), Strickland because he's THE guy right now (and I'm enjoying Prince Nana's dancing immensely. Not sure why, because I'm picky about dancing and wrestling combined, but this works for me.), and Joe because he's Joe. Cool match, whack, whoop, slap, correct result.



Sting& Darby Allin / Young Bucks - First time I saw Sting in action was at Wrestlemania. It was the first Wrestlemania I ever watched too. Then from his bad injury until his AEW run I didn't see anything of him. I never watched WCW. BUT considering 1.) the little vignette before the match and 2.) his excellent AEW run in general ..... I like Sting. He's a good guy, and good guys you can relate to are crazy important. Is he like Bret Hart? I never really watched much Bret Hart stuff, but he's (basically) always been the proper babyface who wants to do things right, on screen at least. Anyway. The entrance was great too, with the two sons. My goodness, can Wolfpack Sting Jr. jump. The match itself was a rollercoaster, with a nice speech from the nice Sting at the end. All the best. Had a great time. The Young Bucks as heels also work much better than as faces. Especially in 2024. That was a really, really fun match. "We're NOT sorry. We HATE you!" is the most Young Bucks moment you could think of.


In summary: Super. AEW properly deliver on PPVs. 9 matches, all absolutely top (with the possible exception of Storm/Purrazzo. It's a real shame that the women's match in particular was a bit of a low point for me. Because they have a strong womens roster. Julia Hart, Willow Nightingale, Hikaru Shida, Yuka bloody Sakazaki, ...heck, get Nyla Rose back into the title picture. But either way; really cool PPV, really good wrestling.

Then I watched the "season premiere" of Dynamite.

Spoiler:
In the beginning, a loooong promo sequence with a Swerve face-turn. Oh well. Was to be expected, but I was very afraid for the first half of the show that this thing was going more in the direction of RAW 2017. First 30min of talking, evil GMs doing bad things, then 2min of matches with no tension. But then it got better.

Statlander/Riho match! If there's one thing you can count on at AEW, it's that Riho always gets the crowds going. I have no idea why, maybe it's the music. I mean, Riho is really good at the wrestling too of course. Nice story about Statlander and Stokely Hathaway, hopefully there'll be a Kris Statlander Heelturn.

And then: The EVPs do bad things, break up The Elite. Eddie Kingston complains, gets punched. Then: OKAAADAAAAAAAAAAAA!!! Cool. And as a heel, too. As the chosen one of the EVPs; perfect. I'm looking forward to it.

At the very end, a short video with Julia Hart. "Where is the House of Black anyway? Is she even still there?" I ask myself. Instantly, a second video comes on, AGAIN Julia Hart, this time alongside the House of Black. Interesting sequence, but ok.

Main Event: Ospreay against Matt Taven. Super. Ospreay wins, a feud with Brian Danielson is announced. Everyone is happy and happy, and good night.



I was a bit of two minds on the first half of the Dynamite, but then it got really good.


All is well.

   
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That wasn't Taven, Sigur - it was Kyle Fletcher.

2021-4 Plog - Here we go again... - my fifth attempt at a Dakka PLOG

My Pile of Potential - updates ongoing...

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 Kanluwen wrote:
This is, emphatically, why I will continue suggesting nuking Guard and starting over again. It's a legacy army that needs to be rebooted with a new focal point.

Confirmation of why no-one should listen to Kanluwen when it comes to the IG - he doesn't want the IG, he want's Kan's New Model Army...

tneva82 wrote:
You aren't even trying ty pretend for honest arqument. Open bad faith trolling.
- No reason to keep this here, unless people want to use it for something... 
   
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Vienna, Austria

Yikes, I thought I might be wrong on this but didn't wanna look it up. Sorry to Mr.Fletcher and Mr.Taven.

I zapped through TV channels, as old people tend to do the other night and Collision was on! What was even more surprising - Angelico on TV! It's been ages! Big fan of Angelico. It's such a shame that he isn't on tv more often.

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Dynamite was fun.


Woah, what's going on with Stardom. Very intriguing. Interested to see where Agawa's new promotion is going. I know very little about Stardom, but some of the names rumoured to leave and go with him are huge.

   
 
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