Only works if he walks out on a match with the Young Bucks and says “I respect you, booker men!”

shits a work. no man on earth would powder at the sight of punk.

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And Thunder Rosa is pissed about her lack of TV Time. Which, I don't blame her. I mean, for fuck sake, Britt gets more airtime in one episode than Rosa got in a month. You know, she's only the fucking Women's Champion. And if MJF was starting out at 40k, I can guess Rosa wasn't getting much more.

It’d be great if MJF did fuck them over, but it’s pretty safe to say that once this shit appears on Dynamite it’s all part of the shitshow.

Nothing like a dude pushing 40 still rocking "your mom" insults lol. No wonder you like a 43 year old who still acts like a 14 year old punkrocker, NOFX and PENNYWISE yeahhhhhhhh!!!

Wild week or so...

Anyway

Hangman v. Okada has me pretty excited if it happens. I have never seen an Okada match but heard the hype and frankly Hangman could probably drag me to a 4 star match the way hes rolled lately so should be hot shit.

Believe PENNYWISE is the evil clown from “IT”. No clue what NOFX is. Was that just you banging your fist on the keyboard out of anger because I brought up your newest failed “Gotcha” and you got embarrassed again? Wanna talk about it?

MJF signed a new deal for an added year or so and a lot more money, and is being groomed for mega match with Punk For the strap at All Out.

Taking his merch down and removing him from the roster page might be a bit much. They wouldn’t suddenly do that if it were a shoot so it doesn’t make sense to do it while pretending it’s a shoot.

Yeah that is really stupid tbh

I do like the idea of MJF taking the belt off punk.

it's the only reason to put the belt on punk imo

My only small concern with that is what do you do with Wardlow for the next year?

Build Wardlow up for DoN next year where he dethrones MJF for the gold.

I’ve said it countless times but MJF is the guy to take the belt off Punk. There’s nobody else. It would be ballsy to do it at All Out in Chicago, one year after Punk made his in ring return. I would love it. I hope they do it.

last i heard all out is not necessarily in chicago this year but i guess that may have changed

That would also give Punk the shortest world title reign in company history. He’d barely need champ 90 days while most champs have been around double that.

good

Wardlow I think soon will be the main guy in the TNT title picture. I'm not sure what exactly this Mark Sterling storyline is, or if it was just a one and done thing. But I think Wardlow regaining from Scorpio makes a lot of sense. Build it up for a main event of Fyter Fest or whichever gimmickdd Dynamite they want.

Have MJF go through the legends of AEW but meet his maker at DON 2023, WARDLOW. Who hopefully soon has better not death screamo entrance music! Kiss my butt!

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lol remember when he proposed to pam on tv

what a dingus

Lol, even Dave Meltzer is shitting on the MJF fiasco.

Sigh, you don't even know bands from the genre of your hero smh...

https://www.nofxofficialwebsite.com/

https://pennywisdom.com/

I like this idea. Wardlow holding the TV Title for a year before relinquishing it after he wins the world title would do fucking wonders for the credibility of the TV title. Drill home the fact that it’s a stepping stone to the world title picture and make it a TV draw.

Phil's Face When...

lol so when does MJF get crowned interim champ?

Moxley vs Tanahashi for the Interim Belt would be good, so would Omege vs Tanahashi. Hopefully they go with Omega Man.

Lol apparently they're some kind of punk rock band according to google. Never heard of them but they all look like they're like 80 years old. I thought NOFX was some kind of clothing brand, I have a vague memory of this kid wearing a NOFX sweatshirt when I was in like middle school

Yeah that could be an awesome program too. I don't think it should be a one off meaning I think MJF should take the belt but they should stretch it out for maybe 2 PPVs

I have zero interest in Moxley vs Tanahashi. If they were going to say "fuck the rankings" and put who ever they want at the top, why wouldn't you make it Danielson?

It could still end up being Danielson vs Tanahashi.

Though having Danielson vs Moxley on just 90 minutes on hype would be a missed opportunity.

Just put the title on Pac

MJF scrubbed from all of AEWs intros.

Boooooooooooorrrrrrriiiiiing.

This company fucking sucks.

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LOL Tiny Khan is such a douchebag

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News sites reporting Bryan Danielson injured

Same

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:lol:

Fun history: Undertaker vs Mankind is the most memorable of all the Hell in a Cell matches. Mankind went off the Cell and through it. Why did he feel the need to do those things? Because the Undertaker was injured going into that match. His injury? A broken foot.

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What exactly is an interim world champion? They are only champ until Punk comes back?

In MMA when a reigning champion suffers an injury that will keep them out under a year (usually that's the time line) the company with make a match between the top contenders an Interim Championship match where the winner will be paid in full as a champion but under the understanding they will fight the reigning (injured) champion when he returns in an Undisputed Championship fight.

Look, while I don’t deride guys for not performing injured, it has to occur to me that this was major “shots fired” and very strategic on the part of Cody to deliver where the ageing, pampered star of AEW would take a dive. It definitely makes one guy seem more “punk” than the other guy.

Concussions can happen anywhere, and it may be unreasonable for me to pin it on the company, and Danielson is making his own choices — but I will be quite cranky if his career ends in the swamp that is AEW.

Eh, it’s his choice. No one forced him to go. I guess it’s on him to ruin what he’s built. It’s just frustrating. Major Mick Foley in TNA vibes.

And only the winner of that undisputed championship fight’s reign gets recognized, right?

So if, say, Moxley wins but then loses to Punk, Punk’s reign will be recognized as having never ended and Moxley’s reign never actually happened. But if Moxley beats Pink, Punk’s reign retroactively ends when Moxley became interim champion and Moxley’s reign retroactively begins then.

I’ll remind you this is a promotion built on facts and statistics, thank you very much.

For the same reason Hirooki Goto is getting a more clear shot at the belt than any AEW top contender not named Jon Moxley is.

Give me Moxley v Goto. Fucking love Goto.

Psst, it’s bad booking. AEW sucks.

Lol, MJF has gotten himself removed from AEW promotional material by WBD. It would be amazing if he actually went the full Pillmam (instead of just faux Pillman) and took the shoot, made it a work, then shot his way out of his AEW contract.

I’m just waiting for the “You’ve got to actually fire me to make this work, Tony.”

He should do it after convincing TK he should be Interim AEW World Champion.

That's not the way it works in the UFC but I could see AEW doing it that way, but also I don't see Mox getting the Undisputed belt over Punk tbh.

That’s how I thought interim titles worked (in boxing at least). What’s the point of having an interim championship if that’s not the case? Why not just strip the title, crown a new champion and then let the old champion instantly be #1 contender when he returns?

In this instance it’s because they don’t want the record to show Punk’s first reign lasting 3 days.

Instead it’s going to have asterisks, carets, tiny numbers and a different colour of shading on the row.

I think they shot themselves into a work, then worked themselves into a shoot.

I mean, imagine, dropping an F Bomb on National Television in front of Network Executives. But hey, Game of Thrones on HBO is the exact same thing as AEW on TBS, so we should have the same shit be featured on both, right?

Admitted big fan of Adam Cole, but both of these are gold!

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Check must have cleared

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lmao what?

Because of gas prices the gates were actually higher for DON so...

… Gate and paid attendance aren’t the same thing. There’s no contradiction there.

He said HIAC had a higher gate. Some idiot claimed he said that HIAC had a higher paid attendance and he rightly corrected him. Lol

Worked for Danielson.

What's funny to me about it is that we had shit like Nick Gage and the infamous pizza cutter right before a paid pizza spot not getting any eyebrows raised until the competition essentially narc'd on them, but then a guy doing something interesting has to be ushered away quickly.

Tony can't hire the Briscoes because of something one of the brothers said a decade ago, but almost everybody else up and down the card can be motherfuckers.

Honestly at this point, I wouldn't be surprised if the network unironically pulls the "international object" card and "no gratutious violence". Not even in reference to WCW either; the suit suggesting it will think it's a totally new idea they just thought up.

Yes. It was the competition. Even I admit that it's likely that someone from WWE called the higher ups at Dominoes... after the shit storm started. To cover their asses. Because the story isn't going to mention AEW at all, it's going to mention "Pro Wrestling." And for the average person, "Pro Wrestling" = "WWE." I mean, it's not like there were more than a couple of folks throwing shit on Twitter about how Nick Gage was doing Nick Gage things while his weapon of choice was being used as intended during a commercial. And it's not like someone tagged Dominoes, thinking it was funny. And Dominoes likely doesn't want to have their product associated with a bank addicted drug robber.

It could be the fact that a decade ago, One of the Briscoes said a Homophobia. Or it could be just as likely that there are promos of them online from this year where half of the content was the word "Fuck." Where do you think my "Standards and Practices" bit came from in that one booking post I made? Because Dem Boys like to use spicy language that turn away people who buy shit.

I mean, I get it. I really do. However, some things don't make sense. Primarily: How the shit does people scream conspiracy when there is a much more logical reason for things going wrong in AEW.

Like, the Executives were right there at the show, invited by Khan himself. They heard MJF say Shit and Fuck. I get being into the entertainment aspect of wrestling, but it's also a business. Said Executives are thinking dollars and cents. And advertisers don't tend to care for edgier content. Especially lately. I am a fucking Unemployed Auto Parts Salesman (as of Today, long story), and somehow I understand how Television works better than the Son of a Billionaire who mismanages 2 sports teams and 2 wrestling promotions (when is the first ROH show, btw?).

Think I’d like to see Eddie Kingston win the interim title. It’s different, he’s one af, and being a gritty underdog champion is something they haven’t had yet. Who knows how serious Punk’s injury is but if it’s 8-12 weeks, a Kingston run with his promo ability wouldn’t be bad, IMO. And I just love Eddie Kingston.

It’ll prob be Moxley though.

I’d love Kingston to get a world title run even if it’s just an interim one but if they do that he’d have to drop it to someone like Jericho before Punk gets back or commit to a Punk heel turn because Punk taking the title from Eddie would make people hate him.

Hold up. Isn’t this part of the work? Wouldn’t he have been removed/pulled his merch to sell the angle? Didn’t WWE do exactly this with Sasha/Naomi? Isn’t it art* imitating life?

* Not calling AEW art.

Estimates for Double or Nothing are 155k buys, continuing the downward trend each PPV has had since their all time high 205k buys for All Out.

Tiny Khan of course spun it completely different, ignoring the last 3 PPVs and bragging they are growing their business because they did 9,000 more buys than last years Double or Nothing.

I suppose if his stupid rich daddy is dumb enough to believe that increasing the spending by 3 times to get an extra 9000 buys shows growth, maybe Tiny is a better Khanman than we all know.

I’m not saying it isn’t part of the work. I’m just saying it would be funny if he worked Tony free of his contract and it became a shoot again.

Would be VERY funny if he worked himself into a shoot to work Tony into a shoot just to go to Vince and work HIM into a shoot which becomes a work so he can shoot himself into a work with Tony that then becomes a shoot.

ARTISTIC COMBAT

It was more the bit where you specify that he was removed “by WBD”.

That’s the part that made it sound like you weren’t considering it to be part of the work.

It was an edict issued by WBD. It’s all part of the work. The work is bafflingly stupid.

I would just find it amusing if MJF has convinced Tony to work with him to the point MJF can actually get out of his AEW deal early.

It is neither artistic nor combat, but I am indifferent to it and it does clox up my television screen.

Just kidding: AEW doesn’t have a TV deal in Australia.

Forbidden Door looks like the raging shits.

Tanahashi vs. Moxley for the fake title? Okada vs. Diamond Hearst Page in the most underwhelming use for Okada outside a meaningless tag? Holy shit. This card is piss water.

I'm feeling pretty nonplussed about it. All the potential match ups they could have had, they come up with the most mediocre ideas.

How do you not do Okada vs Daneilson for the IWGP title?

Im gonna draw up my own card here in a while

oh can you do a 7 of clubs

My guess is that Danielson’s too hurt. That would have been the A1 match though. Adam Page is fucking boring in that slot. Give him some time off to rehab the horrible job they’ve done with him.

Daneilson is only expected to miss 1-2 weeks.

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I have never seen an Okada match but heard the hype. Okada vs. Hangman has me buying the PPV because Hangman would take a broom to 4.5 stars atm.

Otherwise the NJPW stuff leaves me a bit flat. I understand travel etc probably makes it a bit hard but if your gonna do an invasion angle do an invasion angle. The bits and pieces showing up weekly isnt doing it for me as there not guys I know and am hanging out to see.

That said its all a bit stuffed up atm with injuries etc.

Wardlow as TNT champ should be good fun. Got time to get the Punk turn in (although the injury complicates that) and then have Wardlow steamroll him if the reactions continue.

Oh and hot take time...

I like Eddie Kingston but I don't want him anywhere near the world title. I think AEW have actually done a good job with making the world title credible to date and I think if Eddie was having this run 5-10 years from now with a long lineage to the belt I could see him winning it and a quick drop but I have less than 0 interest in Eddie Kingston World Champion right now.

If we are doing a quick feel good win and drop within a month I would rather Darby or JB maybe even Starks with a face turn win it out of nowhere to start a long arc of "I had the belt but I wasn't good enough to keep it, now I gotta grow to have my time truly on top".

Not so hot take, can Adam Cole go away for a bit now? Please... like really please. I dont want to see the guy injured, I just dont want to see him.

- Edit - Darby for the quick win and drop... he would do a sick couple year long chase culminating in MJF losing his first title.

Glad that people here have turned on Adam Cole....

Adam Cole is the least interesting person in AEW.

Had a sinking feeling he was going to win this interim title before the show started.

I never really watched NXT so had very little exposure to the guy. I was excited when he came in, I was into the entrance etc but it got old fast and just feels off.

I wonder if he should be a face, the whole stable things too big now but fans want to cheer him, maybe it’s time to let them.

Adam Cole is still better than CM Punk.

My argument for Kingston is he’s red hot over and has stayed that way since going face, he’s a stellar promo, and because it’s interim and likely won’t be recognized, it’s fine IMO to give him a run that ultimately won’t “count”. The only problem is he’ll likely get cheered over Punk, but then again that can make Punk a heel and that’s what he’s best at.

I beg to differ.

What Phil is best at is getting his ass beat as the worst shoot fighter of all time.

That was my thought exactly. He’s the perfect guy to get an ultimately meaningless title run. He’s so good and people love him but he just doesn’t fit that true face of the company mould.

You could even have him win it briefly and lose it to someone like Jericho before Punk comes back so that a heel can get the heat from taking it from him and “You’re convict street trash that only tasted glory for a bit and it didn’t even count” can be a running cheap heat-getter for any other heels he might feud with in the future.

They’re both detriments, at this point.

Exactly. Eddie winning the title, getting all the glory and pomp and circumstance that doesn’t go to a guy like him not only gets him over even more, it gives a heel who’d run his chance at becoming a legitimate world champion mega heat. Dropping it Jericho after getting shafted in his first defense would be tremendous.

Adam Cole is like a rock in your shoe when you are running.
CM Punk is like the entire track covered in feces that you keep slipping on and making you fall down over and over again.

They are not the same.

and yet you saw that track covered in shit and still made the decision to run on it, then complain after :|

No, I have been the one saying nobody should run on the track, because Credibility Missing Phil was going to shit everything up.