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It sounded like Beth did the 'you think you know him' too. Cool either way.
I'm hoping Edge stays healthy and does some cool stuff. The matches are there. The stories are too. And if he sees Christian being amazing as a challenge and tries to rise up to it in any way, GREAT.
And yeah, AEW is doing some good azz rasslin right now. And for fuck's sake, they should be. This roster is a dream (no puns). Imagine someone rolling up on you 4 years ago and saying the list of names out loud and saying 'yeah, they're all in AEW now..they're trying to figure out how to book it all, they have 5 hours across 3 shows every week but those mfers are all there'.
And them figuring out some stuff with New Japan was even better. Just wow.
But really, let's do this: imagine 2023 today me walking up to 2018-ish you and telling you this partial 2023 AEW roster list:
Christian (Yeah, he got cleared. He turns into a turtleneck wearing heel for the ages. Also, this won't make sense now, but he has a thing for shitting on ANYONE who has a dead dad.)
Edge (I know..this is CRAZY! He got cleared too! He went to WWE for like 3 years and did a bunch of cool stuff before he went to AEW. He started a group that ended up getting Rey Mysterio's son over af...AS A HEEL. I know, crazy! Oh, and he kept his music and shit too.)
BRYAN DANIELSON (he ends up wrestling Okada, Omega, Zach Sabre Jr, and others with fun results)
MJF (this young indy guy from MLW grows into his shit and ends up being great. He's the main champ and he should be. His best friend is...)
Adam Cole! I know, this is bonkers. Cole survives an injury/retirement scare and an impressively bad AEW start, but WWE wanted to make him a manager so he got the fuck outta there! Anyway, he can still wrestle real good and this stuff he's doing with MJF is a blast. They got over a double clothesline like it was the Doomsday device.
Sting..yeah...that Sting. He rarely wrestles but he never loses. BECAUSE HE IS FUCKING STING and TK loves him. He does silly shit sometimes but he keeps coming out of it fine!
Roddy Strong shows up and becomes a fun af chickenshit heel who is jealous of Cole being friends with MJF. It shouldn't work but it does. He's out here with a neck brace on and everything.
Jericho hangs in and survives another low time (people forget his Jeriblow era early in his WWF run). His band made a song that ends up being his entrance music. The crowd sings the whole damn thing pretty much every time. It is wild.
Rusev (he had a good match with Bryan too cuz duh)
Kenny Omega (he also survives near retirement)
The Revival (they change their name to FTR and go around the planet doing killer good tag team matches with basically everyone)
Cesaro (he joins a group with Danielson and Moxley...I know..crazy)
AND
Eddie Kingston (yes, Cesaro and Eddie finally kinda sorta settle their issue. And oh, Eddie is now an on the table Japan wrestling nerd who does killer promos and people love the shit out of him..trust me, its cool. Yeah, he's still looks pretty much fat. But it doesn't matter..he's good af.)
Ricky Starks
Kota Ibushi (yes, that Kota Ibushi. YES, he teams with Omega. He's getting old but he's still Ibushi)
Moxley (who got clean and loves rasslin again..oh yeah, he was apparently drinking like crazy).
Killshot/Swerve put on a bunch of good weight and is on his way up the card. His manager is Prince Nana and he does a ridiculous dance during the entrance. Wait until you see it!
Jay White has a dope group and is a good match machine.
Oh and Will Ospreay is a recurring guest in the prime of his career. He might sign with AEW full-time too.
Another thing: Big Cass gets clean, looks great and is now in AEW under the name Big Bill. He doesn't win as much as he should but he's there doing good stuff on a reg.
Another thing: the joke indy guy in the jeans? Yeah, Orange Cassidy. Well, he's also in AEW but he ended up being sneaky awesome. He had a midcard title run where he got his ass kicked but barely won every defense until he finally gets taken out. It was good. It made the title look good. It was on. Haters are married to their takes so they won't admit it but it was pretty good if you watched it with reasonable eyes.
I keep forgetting stuff but here's one more random thing: fine ass Toni Storm is in AEW, but she's gone crazy after her group with Paige (yeah, she got cleared too) and acts like a deranged Marilyn Monroe. She keeps using the word 'tits' and its hilarious. She also throws a show at whoever interviews her FROM OFF SCREEN. I can't do this justice..trust me..its great!
Last thing: AEW also gets 1-ish good year of a CM Punk return..yes, as a wrestler! Trust me, past you, it was awesome af until it wasn't. He came back IN CHICAGO, grown men were crying, Cult of Personality played, he handed out ice cream bars, all of that shit. He did an all-time feud with MJF. Things go fucking great for a while. But then he kept saying little things that made it clear that it wasn't all good backstage. Then he kept getting hurt and shit. After a PPV, he does an insane interview at a post-show scrum (oh, AEW does these post-show scrums that are part shoot, part in-character deals..Punk went 100% shoot, Tony Kahn was sitting there looking shook af and it was crazy). He had a fallout with The Bucks and Kenny Omega and had a mysterious fight that got multiple people suspended/damn near fired. From that, goofy rumors about him and that fight basically kept the sheets industry alive and well. Problem is: it never got back right backstage. And silly stuff kept happening. Eventually, Punk had a fallout so bad WITH TONY that TK straight up fired him on a Saturday. It was so shitty dude, trust me.
But hey, Punk's last match there was vs Samoa Joe. In Wembley stadium. With a Wrestlemania amount of mfers there. There's gonna be a stupid argument about exactly how many but whatever..trust me, past you, the shit was awesome. Also, he helped forced fans to appreciate The Revival. So if nothing else, he left that. Also, he had this obsession with praising and repeatedly paying homage to Bret Hart. It was wild and at least a little weird but still pretty cool. Trust me, you're gonna love it. You're NOT going to love this thing called COVID, but hey.
>People can talk as much shit as they want about AEW's quick
>builds to these PPVs, but the end results have been
>consistently fiyah. This one was no exception.
>
>Claudio vs. Barnett was completely different than the stuff
>they usually do. Kingston vs. Shibata was appropriately
>brutal. MJF vs. The Righteous was goofy, though it risked
>turned the Righeous into a complete joke; theu skirted it by
>having MJF win with his feet on the rope. Danielson vs. ZSJ
>was an instant classic. Swerve vs. Hangman was great and is
>the exact type of big win Swerve needed; hopefully it'll be
>start of pushing him to the next level. Statlander vs. Hart
>way over-delivered. FTR vs. Aussie Open was fun. As was the
>four-way tag match (don't know if the Bucks really needed to
>win though). I liked the six-man tag match, but the ending was
>a bummer.
>
>And Allin vs. Christian was exactly what it needed to be.
>Allin winning the first fall via the turtleneck was clever.
>However, the man needs to get his had check for all those
>bumps he was taking. I could see that they were building to
>the Nick Wayne betrayal, so it makes sense. And Adam Copeland
>debuting with his WWE music and as the "Rated R Superstar" was
>pretty awesome.
>
>So, another banger PPV by AEW. Now hopefully they announce the
>streaming deal with MAX soon, as there's apparently two more
>of these this year, and $50 a pop adds up.
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