We're headed towards a weekend with a boatload of rasslin. All Out (what is the main event!?, Clash at the Castle, Worlds Collide. Yeah, that should work.

Triple Haitch is byke and large corners of the internet are mostly pleased if they've actually watched the stuff.

Roman/The Bloodline/Sami/KO...chef's kiss. It is all just wonderful times. Everyone is killing it. Its best days NXT stuff with king shit ultra star during his best run Roman at the head of it all. Errbody knows I love me some Sami when he's doing something of note. I couldn't love it more if I tried.

Rollins vs Bro is ON. Rollins is out here doing killer non-title work no lie.

The Miz is out here helping people get over again and I like it.

Edge is trying to do his part again too.

In general, coherent WWE is on a roll. Its taking me longer and longer to watch these shows nowadays! And whenever Cody comes up from the floor again, it is REALLY on.

And relax, folks. Sasha and Naomi will be back soon enough. And they're lined up to have some NXT-level good matches depending on how they get reintroduced.

AEW is allegedly having the inevitable issues that every rasslin company will have to navigate. Bookers who are wrestlers, hurt folks, everyone can't be champ (even with 15 titles), a young owner who is just 'trying to make good shows' is finding out that there's more to it than just the E-Fed styled 'making good cards' shit. I'm not super scared for them yet though. And really, good luck figuring out who is actually mad, sad, down bad, and/or hoping for Haitch to call them up on the low. Their existence is still an obvious net gain. Cuz TNA, ROH, NJPW, and the others weren't forcing WWE to do anything better anytime soon. If nothing else, WWE moving off of multiple talents was good for all of us in most cases. And it got us some more CM Punk, which has mostly been wonderful.

ROH is still a no weekly show-having rasslin outfit with some badass champs (FTR, CeClaudio, Smoa Joe).

NXT UK is going away. I'm guilty of barely watching it if it wasn't VAULTER/GOONTER whooping someone's azz or some tough pretty lady match.

NXT 2.0 is still trying to get and stay coherent. They have a few sure shot stars. Richochet vs the kid Carmelo Hayes (he's shorter than I thought) is gonna be a good time this weekend fo sho. Reminds me of Rico vs Dream.

Yes, I'm openly sad that V. Dream can't seem to get/keep his shit together. I mean, he was IT. And he's still young af. I don't love that he's one who is being held most sternly to 2022 standards for shady shit done offsite. But hey, who knows what people really know about that dude. Meanwhile, Flair just got hella resources put down on his *some number here*-th retirement match/tour. I love his work, I figure 4'd my brother regularly, whoooo, stylin and profilin, and all of that but IJS. I tried to chop my brother too but he wasn't down to take those after a while. I was too stiff with them chops.

I don't know how Eli Drake is gonna make it out of this models thing, but he still looks like a star waiting to happen if Haitch can rescue him then get him mixed into something that he doesn't have to make chicken salad out of.

Man I fuckin hated that

First bad thing Punk’s done in AEW. That whole segment was as silly as how we ended up here in the first place.

>Man I fuckin hated that
>
>First bad thing Punk’s done in AEW. That whole segment was
>as silly as how we ended up here in the first place.

It was convoluted in a bad way. And a little Ace Steel at ANY POINT BEFORE LAST NIGHT would’ve been cool. But the crowd ate it up so I’m not going to be too upset with them. Punk is losing and/or trying to turn heel in Chicago because he thinks he can do anything? IDK. I’ll just watch.

I liked the show quite a bit for a go-home show. Kenny got less crippled pretty fast for my taste unfortunately but he probably didn’t want to look in any way reduced with Will O around. They played ball and it looked spicy enough to buy that they don’t like one another ‘for real’ so I liked the energy of their interactions. And the tag teams both handled their damn biz. The Bucks were on a roll with the 6 hit combos and Aussie Open showed really too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FljGi6jzDmM

Triple Haitch comes back and gets a prime role. WWE gets super coherent because of course it does! NXT B&G wasn't an accident! Fun is obviously being had at several levels of the card. And even the complaining azz innanet is generally like 'yeah, this shit is pretty good'. And he's bringing back all sorts of people who had been cut.

So OF COURSE the story now is that some of AEW's roster is looking back at WWE like 'shiiiiiiiiid, I can be not champion in front of 10,000 people instead of 3,000! And what is this foolishness between The Elite and CM Punk? I don't want any of that if its real! I'm focused, maaaaaan. Tell Triple Haitch to holler at me, maaaaaan.'.

If Strowman (LOL) is really coming back to WWE and Bray Rotunda is too, it makes total sense that folks like Miro Rusev and Tommy End/A. Black might want to show back up to WWE too. And if KOR is getting neck fusion AND Adam Cole is hurt and/or trying to get off of the block of ice that him and Hangman are on AND Rod Strong is stuck in NXT, I can't imagine a Bobby Fish type would want to sit around and lose solid matches 2x a month in his 40s either.

I REALLY hope FTR is not about to have to roll out too. On the other hand, Haitch would probably have those dudes randomly main eventing weekly shows. And the inevitable Uce vs FTR match would be a damn good time.

I wonder who is really trying to sneak off? HOPEFULLY, AEW gets it straight, lets the people go in some reasonable way if they don't have some big plans for them, and then move on with the people they DO have plans for. I didn't love it when WWE was putting people in closets and not using them for 6 months or more and then being shocked when they wanted to leave. Or putting people on ice BECAUSE they said 'hey, can I just go?'.

>We're headed towards a weekend with a boatload of rasslin.
>All Out (what is the main event!?, Clash at the Castle, Worlds
>Collide. Yeah, that should work.
>
>Triple Haitch is byke and large corners of the internet are
>mostly pleased if they've actually watched the stuff.
>
>Roman/The Bloodline/Sami/KO...chef's kiss. It is all just
>wonderful times. Everyone is killing it. Its best days NXT
>stuff with king shit ultra star during his best run Roman at
>the head of it all. Errbody knows I love me some Sami when
>he's doing something of note. I couldn't love it more if I
>tried.
>
>Rollins vs Bro is ON. Rollins is out here doing killer
>non-title work no lie.
>
>The Miz is out here helping people get over again and I like
>it.
>
>Edge is trying to do his part again too.
>
>In general, coherent WWE is on a roll. Its taking me longer
>and longer to watch these shows nowadays! And whenever Cody
>comes up from the floor again, it is REALLY on.
>
>And relax, folks. Sasha and Naomi will be back soon enough.
>And they're lined up to have some NXT-level good matches
>depending on how they get reintroduced.
>
>AEW is allegedly having the inevitable issues that every
>rasslin company will have to navigate. Bookers who are
>wrestlers, hurt folks, everyone can't be champ (even with 15
>titles), a young owner who is just 'trying to make good shows'
>is finding out that there's more to it than just the E-Fed
>styled 'making good cards' shit. I'm not super scared for them
>yet though. And really, good luck figuring out who is actually
>mad, sad, down bad, and/or hoping for Haitch to call them up
>on the low. Their existence is still an obvious net gain. Cuz
>TNA, ROH, NJPW, and the others weren't forcing WWE to do
>anything better anytime soon. If nothing else, WWE moving off
>of multiple talents was good for all of us in most cases. And
>it got us some more CM Punk, which has mostly been wonderful.
>
>ROH is still a no weekly show-having rasslin outfit with some
>badass champs (FTR, CeClaudio, Smoa Joe).
>
>NXT UK is going away. I'm guilty of barely watching it if it
>wasn't VAULTER/GOONTER whooping someone's azz or some tough
>pretty lady match.
>
>NXT 2.0 is still trying to get and stay coherent. They have a
>few sure shot stars. Richochet vs the kid Carmelo Hayes (he's
>shorter than I thought) is gonna be a good time this weekend
>fo sho. Reminds me of Rico vs Dream.
>
>Yes, I'm openly sad that V. Dream can't seem to get/keep his
>shit together. I mean, he was IT. And he's still young af. I
>don't love that he's one who is being held most sternly to
>2022 standards for shady shit done offsite. But hey, who knows
>what people really know about that dude. Meanwhile, Flair just
>got hella resources put down on his *some number here*-th
>retirement match/tour. I love his work, I figure 4'd my
>brother regularly, whoooo, stylin and profilin, and all of
>that but IJS. I tried to chop my brother too but he wasn't
>down to take those after a while. I was too stiff with them
>chops.
>
>I don't know how Eli Drake is gonna make it out of this models
>thing, but he still looks like a star waiting to happen if
>Haitch can rescue him then get him mixed into something that
>he doesn't have to make chicken salad out of.

He's been making his grievances known on his podcast, and was either granted a release, turned down an extension, or wasn't offered one.

Only other thing that's been close to confirmed is that at some point (no one can say when) Malaki asked for his release, citing mental health and unhappiness with his character's direction. But apparently the same people have also said that things were smoothed over. He's on a five-year deal regardless.

Miro asking to leave has been debunked too. He re-signed a five-year deal last fall, and got a lot of $ in the process, and has said he's happy. The speculation came from him "liking" a Twitter post by someone else grumbling about how he was being used.

Also, no rumors have said ANYTHING about FTR. I don't know if people are trying to construe them not being in the video game with them wanting out. It should also be noted that they have gotten along with HHH or Michaels.

As for Cole, it sucks that O'Reily is on the shelf for a while, Fish is gone, and Strong is apparently sticking around with WWE, but he's never actually given any indication that he's not happy. Again, it seems to come from speculation after he's said in the past how him and HHH are close. When he's healthy, he's been near the top of the card, and has always indicated that he's happy theere.

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Granted, I’m sure there’s plenty of people who thought they would be used more/have better creative when they joined, but I don’t believe that practically everyone is asking for their release just cause AEW has a couple down months and WWE has a few good weeks.

>He's been making his grievances known on his podcast, and was
>either granted a release, turned down an extension, or wasn't
>offered one.
>
>Only other thing that's been close to confirmed is that at
>some point (no one can say when) Malaki asked for his release,
>citing mental health and unhappiness with his character's
>direction. But apparently the same people have also said that
>things were smoothed over. He's on a five-year deal
>regardless.
>
>Miro asking to leave has been debunked too. He re-signed a
>five-year deal last fall, and got a lot of $ in the process,
>and has said he's happy. The speculation came from him
>"liking" a Twitter post by someone else grumbling about how he
>was being used.
>
>Also, no rumors have said ANYTHING about FTR. I don't know if
>people are trying to construe them not being in the video game
>with them wanting out. It should also be noted that they have
>gotten along with HHH or Michaels.
>
>As for Cole, it sucks that O'Reily is on the shelf for a
>while, Fish is gone, and Strong is apparently sticking around
>with WWE, but he's never actually given any indication that
>he's not happy. Again, it seems to come from speculation after
>he's said in the past how him and HHH are close. When he's
>healthy, he's been near the top of the card, and has always
>indicated that he's happy theere.
>

Right. It IS funny how those rumors fly around. And we know enough to know how it can go now: sometimes, its gonna be bigtime untruth (C) Mary J. Other times, there'll be a little fire around some of the smoke. IE: Malaki is allegedly struggling personally in some way.

Of all of that stuff, I'm most ticked that KOR appears to be bigtime hurt for real and it'll be a good while before he's back.

Besides that, I'd like to see Malaki doing something cool SOMEWHERE. He's not young and his character is the type that can go bad pretty fast because the gimmick can teeter on the edge of being silly if everything doesn't go great and/or he isn't kept pretty strong. It is easy to forget/gloss over NOW, but let's not dare talk about some of Taker's shakier stuff.

House of Black hasn't been exactly horrendous to me, but its touch and go from segment to segment. I love Malaki's finisher still. I assume there's something up with Buddy Murphy that has nothing to do with the wrestling part (if I'm right and/or some of the rumors are true, at least he's getting to wrestle still..for now). And Brody King has been better than I expected..poor man's WALTER maybe. I hope they can get something going a bit stronger. I'm fine with them not winning the Trios deal. Kenny and Bucks as the first Trios champs makes entirely too much sense and they're GOING to have good azz matches so its fine.

FAMJ(Fine Ass Mickie James) is now claiming she's gonna pull a Ric Flair going into Mania 24. AKA she's retiring (from Impact?) on the next loss. In the meantime, I'ma be winning every time she shows up anywhere doing anything. She's had a long and solid ass career. And she's pretty high up the list on Impact of people who had pretty killer runs. And don't even start me on how on and poppin her feud with Trish was.

>We're headed towards a weekend with a boatload of rasslin.
>All Out (what is the main event!?, Clash at the Castle, Worlds
>Collide. Yeah, that should work.
>
>Triple Haitch is byke and large corners of the internet are
>mostly pleased if they've actually watched the stuff.
>
>Roman/The Bloodline/Sami/KO...chef's kiss. It is all just
>wonderful times. Everyone is killing it. Its best days NXT
>stuff with king shit ultra star during his best run Roman at
>the head of it all. Errbody knows I love me some Sami when
>he's doing something of note. I couldn't love it more if I
>tried.
>
>Rollins vs Bro is ON. Rollins is out here doing killer
>non-title work no lie.
>
>The Miz is out here helping people get over again and I like
>it.
>
>Edge is trying to do his part again too.
>
>In general, coherent WWE is on a roll. Its taking me longer
>and longer to watch these shows nowadays! And whenever Cody
>comes up from the floor again, it is REALLY on.
>
>And relax, folks. Sasha and Naomi will be back soon enough.
>And they're lined up to have some NXT-level good matches
>depending on how they get reintroduced.
>
>AEW is allegedly having the inevitable issues that every
>rasslin company will have to navigate. Bookers who are
>wrestlers, hurt folks, everyone can't be champ (even with 15
>titles), a young owner who is just 'trying to make good shows'
>is finding out that there's more to it than just the E-Fed
>styled 'making good cards' shit. I'm not super scared for them
>yet though. And really, good luck figuring out who is actually
>mad, sad, down bad, and/or hoping for Haitch to call them up
>on the low. Their existence is still an obvious net gain. Cuz
>TNA, ROH, NJPW, and the others weren't forcing WWE to do
>anything better anytime soon. If nothing else, WWE moving off
>of multiple talents was good for all of us in most cases. And
>it got us some more CM Punk, which has mostly been wonderful.
>
>ROH is still a no weekly show-having rasslin outfit with some
>badass champs (FTR, CeClaudio, Smoa Joe).
>
>NXT UK is going away. I'm guilty of barely watching it if it
>wasn't VAULTER/GOONTER whooping someone's azz or some tough
>pretty lady match.
>
>NXT 2.0 is still trying to get and stay coherent. They have a
>few sure shot stars. Richochet vs the kid Carmelo Hayes (he's
>shorter than I thought) is gonna be a good time this weekend
>fo sho. Reminds me of Rico vs Dream.
>
>Yes, I'm openly sad that V. Dream can't seem to get/keep his
>shit together. I mean, he was IT. And he's still young af. I
>don't love that he's one who is being held most sternly to
>2022 standards for shady shit done offsite. But hey, who knows
>what people really know about that dude. Meanwhile, Flair just
>got hella resources put down on his *some number here*-th
>retirement match/tour. I love his work, I figure 4'd my
>brother regularly, whoooo, stylin and profilin, and all of
>that but IJS. I tried to chop my brother too but he wasn't
>down to take those after a while. I was too stiff with them
>chops.
>
>I don't know how Eli Drake is gonna make it out of this models
>thing, but he still looks like a star waiting to happen if
>Haitch can rescue him then get him mixed into something that
>he doesn't have to make chicken salad out of.

The card is good. The crowd is good. This is gonna be good.

Enjoy!

>We're headed towards a weekend with a boatload of rasslin.
>All Out (what is the main event!?, Clash at the Castle, Worlds
>Collide. Yeah, that should work.
>
>Triple Haitch is byke and large corners of the internet are
>mostly pleased if they've actually watched the stuff.
>
>Roman/The Bloodline/Sami/KO...chef's kiss. It is all just
>wonderful times. Everyone is killing it. Its best days NXT
>stuff with king shit ultra star during his best run Roman at
>the head of it all. Errbody knows I love me some Sami when
>he's doing something of note. I couldn't love it more if I
>tried.
>
>Rollins vs Bro is ON. Rollins is out here doing killer
>non-title work no lie.
>
>The Miz is out here helping people get over again and I like
>it.
>
>Edge is trying to do his part again too.
>
>In general, coherent WWE is on a roll. Its taking me longer
>and longer to watch these shows nowadays! And whenever Cody
>comes up from the floor again, it is REALLY on.
>
>And relax, folks. Sasha and Naomi will be back soon enough.
>And they're lined up to have some NXT-level good matches
>depending on how they get reintroduced.
>
>AEW is allegedly having the inevitable issues that every
>rasslin company will have to navigate. Bookers who are
>wrestlers, hurt folks, everyone can't be champ (even with 15
>titles), a young owner who is just 'trying to make good shows'
>is finding out that there's more to it than just the E-Fed
>styled 'making good cards' shit. I'm not super scared for them
>yet though. And really, good luck figuring out who is actually
>mad, sad, down bad, and/or hoping for Haitch to call them up
>on the low. Their existence is still an obvious net gain. Cuz
>TNA, ROH, NJPW, and the others weren't forcing WWE to do
>anything better anytime soon. If nothing else, WWE moving off
>of multiple talents was good for all of us in most cases. And
>it got us some more CM Punk, which has mostly been wonderful.
>
>ROH is still a no weekly show-having rasslin outfit with some
>badass champs (FTR, CeClaudio, Smoa Joe).
>
>NXT UK is going away. I'm guilty of barely watching it if it
>wasn't VAULTER/GOONTER whooping someone's azz or some tough
>pretty lady match.
>
>NXT 2.0 is still trying to get and stay coherent. They have a
>few sure shot stars. Richochet vs the kid Carmelo Hayes (he's
>shorter than I thought) is gonna be a good time this weekend
>fo sho. Reminds me of Rico vs Dream.
>
>Yes, I'm openly sad that V. Dream can't seem to get/keep his
>shit together. I mean, he was IT. And he's still young af. I
>don't love that he's one who is being held most sternly to
>2022 standards for shady shit done offsite. But hey, who knows
>what people really know about that dude. Meanwhile, Flair just
>got hella resources put down on his *some number here*-th
>retirement match/tour. I love his work, I figure 4'd my
>brother regularly, whoooo, stylin and profilin, and all of
>that but IJS. I tried to chop my brother too but he wasn't
>down to take those after a while. I was too stiff with them
>chops.
>
>I don't know how Eli Drake is gonna make it out of this models
>thing, but he still looks like a star waiting to happen if
>Haitch can rescue him then get him mixed into something that
>he doesn't have to make chicken salad out of.

<--- Big Baller World Order

>

Rumor keeps floating around that he’ll lose them one at a time somehow.

At least this time he won Ric Flair style and Drew shouldn’t be ruined.

i like it

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>

Rollins vs Omega before they both get too old would be excellent. And Rollins has proven that he can heat up a story before a match, tell a story with/during a match, and he's still a freak physically with some of the shit he can pull off.

I'd be down for some Rollins vs Will O too.

Jade v Bianca might be THE one tho. Bianca is already crazy good and Jade, at least to me, is somewhat obviously getting better and listening to someone who knows what they're doing. Mainly, she's gotta a lot better at being her character in between moves instead of the thing where you can basically see a wrestler thinking 'okay, we just did this spot. Shit, what is the next thing I'm supposed to do? Ahhh yeah, this thing..yeah. Let's go'.

WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE

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<--- Big Baller World Order

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The main event program is gonna be a good time. Predictable can still be good.

And the main event tonight was physical and solid.

And all the love to Keef and Swerve for doing their part to help The Acclaimed steal the show as much as it could’ve been with the guarantee of something cool coming at the end.

>We're headed towards a weekend with a boatload of rasslin.
>All Out (what is the main event!?, Clash at the Castle, Worlds
>Collide. Yeah, that should work.
>
>Triple Haitch is byke and large corners of the internet are
>mostly pleased if they've actually watched the stuff.
>
>Roman/The Bloodline/Sami/KO...chef's kiss. It is all just
>wonderful times. Everyone is killing it. Its best days NXT
>stuff with king shit ultra star during his best run Roman at
>the head of it all. Errbody knows I love me some Sami when
>he's doing something of note. I couldn't love it more if I
>tried.
>
>Rollins vs Bro is ON. Rollins is out here doing killer
>non-title work no lie.
>
>The Miz is out here helping people get over again and I like
>it.
>
>Edge is trying to do his part again too.
>
>In general, coherent WWE is on a roll. Its taking me longer
>and longer to watch these shows nowadays! And whenever Cody
>comes up from the floor again, it is REALLY on.
>
>And relax, folks. Sasha and Naomi will be back soon enough.
>And they're lined up to have some NXT-level good matches
>depending on how they get reintroduced.
>
>AEW is allegedly having the inevitable issues that every
>rasslin company will have to navigate. Bookers who are
>wrestlers, hurt folks, everyone can't be champ (even with 15
>titles), a young owner who is just 'trying to make good shows'
>is finding out that there's more to it than just the E-Fed
>styled 'making good cards' shit. I'm not super scared for them
>yet though. And really, good luck figuring out who is actually
>mad, sad, down bad, and/or hoping for Haitch to call them up
>on the low. Their existence is still an obvious net gain. Cuz
>TNA, ROH, NJPW, and the others weren't forcing WWE to do
>anything better anytime soon. If nothing else, WWE moving off
>of multiple talents was good for all of us in most cases. And
>it got us some more CM Punk, which has mostly been wonderful.
>
>ROH is still a no weekly show-having rasslin outfit with some
>badass champs (FTR, CeClaudio, Smoa Joe).
>
>NXT UK is going away. I'm guilty of barely watching it if it
>wasn't VAULTER/GOONTER whooping someone's azz or some tough
>pretty lady match.
>
>NXT 2.0 is still trying to get and stay coherent. They have a
>few sure shot stars. Richochet vs the kid Carmelo Hayes (he's
>shorter than I thought) is gonna be a good time this weekend
>fo sho. Reminds me of Rico vs Dream.
>
>Yes, I'm openly sad that V. Dream can't seem to get/keep his
>shit together. I mean, he was IT. And he's still young af. I
>don't love that he's one who is being held most sternly to
>2022 standards for shady shit done offsite. But hey, who knows
>what people really know about that dude. Meanwhile, Flair just
>got hella resources put down on his *some number here*-th
>retirement match/tour. I love his work, I figure 4'd my
>brother regularly, whoooo, stylin and profilin, and all of
>that but IJS. I tried to chop my brother too but he wasn't
>down to take those after a while. I was too stiff with them
>chops.
>
>I don't know how Eli Drake is gonna make it out of this models
>thing, but he still looks like a star waiting to happen if
>Haitch can rescue him then get him mixed into something that
>he doesn't have to make chicken salad out of.

and they turned it into the most genuine "good guy bad guy" dynamic AEW has ever had outside of Cody or MJF

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>and they turned it into the most genuine "good guy bad guy"
>dynamic AEW has ever had outside of Cody or MJF

A bunch of people working now and before can’t heel a situation no matter when the call got made. But it’s all went great here…especially the injury work. And the commentary even did their part to overtly call it out and explain it.

Keef and Swerve we’re making the right faces, bringing heel stank to what they were doing, and other little ‘we are good at wrestling’ shit that the older folks claim they want to see. So they just got it. In large quantities.

And since everybody loves the Acclaimed, they were great for their part of the deal..just excellent work on a weekend with a bunch of fun and/or rock solid rasslin.

Too bad it’s gonna be all about Punk vs EVP cuz folks love their drama and negativity.

Only possible way to make him seem bad is to make him a diva

The incumbent Day 1 guys are adored (even though I’m personally not fond of any of them really)

So if the former-WWE millionaire guy is a jerk , yea I guess you could get heat that way. Now I don’t know how they intend to portray MJF but If Punk seems really real and MJF just keeps being really real then you’ve got the first program in AEW’s young history that feels really real. They may even be able to switch roles if they’re savvy enough.

Punk/MJF 3 whenever they do it will easily be the most important and anticipated AEW main event ever. So there’s no harm in making as much noise as possible in the run up to that match. Hell maybe the Elite guys cost Punk the match even.

>Only possible way to make him seem bad is to make him a diva
>
>The incumbent Day 1 guys are adored (even though I’m
>personally not fond of any of them really)
>
>So if the former-WWE millionaire guy is a jerk , yea I guess
>you could get heat that way. Now I don’t know how they
>intend to portray MJF but If Punk seems really real and MJF
>just keeps being really real then you’ve got the first
>program in AEW’s young history that feels really real. They
>may even be able to switch roles if they’re savvy enough.
>
>Punk/MJF 3 whenever they do it will easily be the most
>important and anticipated AEW main event ever. So there’s no
>harm in making as much noise as possible in the run up to that
>match. Hell maybe the Elite guys cost Punk the match even.

But that number is going down little by little. I'm trying to NOT investigate too much (even though I had to go see when Ace Steel actually started working with AEW..March 2022 allegedly).

Really, I don't want to believe that the EVPs would really WILLFULLY fuck up the magic carpet they have with Punk (and the parade of other giveaways they got from WWE).

But then...I think of how Jericho seems to keep his distance and is usually off to the side somewhere doing his own thing. And Cody...well, you know.

This is where Cornette is already wrapped in a 'Fuck the Elite..especially that Twinkletoes!' flag and ready to take a victory lap if this is NOT a work. And Punk is the PERFECT guy to go all in on those dudes if so. He has the right mix of DGAF, money, and general wrestling world goodwill independent of The Elite/2010s indies/younger rasslin fans who have been internetting almost their whole lives.

And if Punk was willing to pull a Seth Rollins's's's old music (Burn it Down) with WWE when they were 'the only game in town', imagine what he would/could do with AEW if he really felt like taking it there. Maybe he's actually holding back cuz he appreciates Tony for throwing up the money to get him back in a ring in front of some people.

Either way, it is interesting/scary/something and they should be able to somehow turn it into at least some money and 'what is gonna happen!? Let me watch this shit to see!' energy if people can get/keep it together.

But they are playing a dangerous game either way. Cuz we all know how quickly a 'worked shoot' can become 'work yourself into a shoot'. And I'm going to keep saying it, but Punk being a huge Bret Hart fan should register with people as a good thing AND a bad thing for situations like these.

AND there's almost certainly some people who have mostly kept their mouths shut who weren't wild about Punk when shit was going bad with WWE. And some of those people have pods BECAUSE DAMN NEAR EVERYONE HAS A POD. And even if not, someone somewhere will throw a mic in their faces to get a 'yeah, dude was a bitch back then too' quote/clip.