What I saw is Miro screwed himself with the turnbuckle thing and had to eat 2 finishers to lose the title by surprise. NWA/Midsouth/regional 80s wrestling was very big on doing these types of things from time to time so it felt like 'home' to me.

Side note: turnbuckles are having a week! Roman better watch the fuck out!

Similar to Rusev's WWE run, the aftermath of his first big loss is the key. He was an excellent TV champ and is basically always a grand worker. He just needs to either be kept away or kept as a dangerous thing.

Sammy is dope. And yeah, non-WWE wrestling in general now assumes that people think that everyone is at least good..especially if the announcers say so. I agree that SOMETIMES, all feds can do better at 'showing their work'.

WWE has done a strong gig of making sure you know that most of their roster ain't shit and that's not great.

AEW is, at worst, guilty of 'pretending' that everyone is 'good'. Of the two, give me 'everyone is here for a reason and can win any one match if things go their way'. Again, it reminds me of 80s wrestling in a good way. Just sell everyone as at least formidable and then go from there. It gives a fed more options too. AKA every big win can't have multiple shows and months of lead-up for it. Now sure, SOME SHOULD HAVE IT..otherwise, you're Russo.


>the match, in a vacuum, was very good. if i bought a ticket
>to see this live and that was the main event id have gone home
>quite happy.
>
>but
>
>this is allegedly serialized weekly television, and Sammy
>Guevara has not been presented as someone capable of this at
>any point since this show has been on the air, while Miro had
>actually been built as a star.
>its not to say a Sammy win couldnt have worked for me, but
>hoisting him up for a finisher and then stunting on his
>lifeless body with the 630 senton seemed way less logical, and
>definitely was way less engaging for me, than setting it up
>for him to steal one while Miro rages about it. this show
>expects me to see people a certain way because thats how they
>tell me to see them rather than booking them to be seen a
>certain over time and giving it roots. Sammy hadnt done
>anything of note in a very long time outside of quitting War
>Games like a bitch, but now he soundly thrashes the guy who
>out-brawled Eddie Kingston? cool lol.
>
>beyond that, whose side am i supposed to take in this dispute?
>
>
>the match was really good. on par with some of the other
>highlights of the last few weeks. but in context of what the
>show is from week to week it made no sense to me. I suppose it
>did solve the problem of the TNT champ being more of a top guy
>than the world champ, but i would have rather seen the other
>side of that equation get adjusted upwards.