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American Dragon

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An AEW PPV should be a bigger deal than a NXT PLE with a roster that I can probably name 4 people from right now. You're taking a Young Bucks victory lap over AEW performing better than Great American Bash on the CW after most of NXT's top talent have moved up.
You are missing the forest for the trees.

WWE does this to try to hurt AEW. It doesn’t work. Time and time again all it’s proven to accomplish is to get less people watching and discussing NXT. And significantly less now that we get tv ratings for their PLEs. They only drew a little over half of what they did last week for the tv taping.

It’s disrespectful to the NXT wrestlers and the staff that works down there to continually throw them to the wolves like this.
 

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Poor Terry Funk rolling over in his old timey 1800s cowboy coffin while constantly being compared to wrestlers like Jon Moxley and Kenny Omega. Would be like comparing Mason Rook to Vader.
 
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The pictures of the venue look pretty neat. Wonder what it will look like on tv. Going to be a feels like temperature of 86 degrees at 8 pm so that’s going to suck for the people there. At least it’s a covered - not enclosed - venue so that should help a good bit. Though I don’t think all of the seating is covered but the ring area and stage will be.
 

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Welp, I was wrong. Sami vs Cody on Raw in Chicago for the title. Cody wins and because it's Chicago, Punk returns and has a stare down leading to Cody vs Punk in four weeks. No wonder after Sami won he cut a promo saying no matter what happens after this I'll always be called WWE champion.

If you want the bigger PLE bang, then yeah, Reigns vs Rollins, Cody vs Punk, and Oba vs Brock in a cage works. Odd as hell way to get to all three though in the last few weeks.
 

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He was going to give it some BS like 2 stars before someone on his staff told him there would be “riots”

Though i definitely see the argument over it being much better received from watching on tv than in person. Much easier to mask over the wardrobe problems on tv than in person.
 

American Dragon

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Welp, I was wrong. Sami vs Cody on Raw in Chicago for the title. Cody wins and because it's Chicago, Punk returns and has a stare down leading to Cody vs Punk in four weeks. No wonder after Sami won he cut a promo saying no matter what happens after this I'll always be called WWE champion.

If you want the bigger PLE bang, then yeah, Reigns vs Rollins, Cody vs Punk, and Oba vs Brock in a cage works. Odd as hell way to get to all three though in the last few weeks.
Lol at not even giving him one successful defense. Just giving him a “damn bitc* here” title reign.
 

Laparkafan

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Welp, I was wrong. Sami vs Cody on Raw in Chicago for the title. Cody wins and because it's Chicago, Punk returns and has a stare down leading to Cody vs Punk in four weeks. No wonder after Sami won he cut a promo saying no matter what happens after this I'll always be called WWE champion.

If you want the bigger PLE bang, then yeah, Reigns vs Rollins, Cody vs Punk, and Oba vs Brock in a cage works. Odd as hell way to get to all three though in the last few weeks.
Yup they could have just had Rollins win KOTR and Brock costing Oba and it would have made a little more sense.
 

Laparkafan

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Looking back a month, it would have been nice if Sami would get a Darby like month long run.
Summerslam is in a month so they can’t. Prob been better to do at Saudimania so he got a longer reign.

Kinda like how Omega gonna beat MJF to build up all in.

Im ok with short reigns didn’t Kane have the belt for 24 hours?

It’s better than these 5 month reigns that get boring.
 
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Summerslam is in a month so they can’t. Prob been better to do at Saudimania so he got a longer reign.

Kinda like how Omega gonna beat MJF to build up all in.

Im ok with short reigns didn’t Kane have the belt for 24 hours?

It’s better than these 5 month reigns that get boring.
You think Kenny beats MJF? I hadn’t actually considered that might happen.
 

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You think Kenny beats MJF? I hadn’t actually considered that might happen.
Unless they do some overbooking to have a rematch in Canada for Redemption then yeah Kenny is winning. Unless they decide to do a time limit draw. Either way after Wednesday Kenny will not be “locked” out of the world title picture.