Diluted Dante wrote:

Triple H is recovering from a heart attack.

That's quite a thing.

RedDave2 wrote:

The Bucks match has been getting rave reviews and maybe I expected way too much but it really was a load of spots. The lack of selling from the Bucks is so obvious until the final five minutes. Too many of the spots look too staged for me (but that is a lucha issue in general) Not keen on it but cant argue that what they can do is very impressive. Just not how I like my wrasslin'.

I find this interesting because I have tried very hard to get into Lucha but for me it never feels like a fight and it feels like dancing. I try to watch AAA and CMLL's big shows and I'm non-plussed after 2 matches. I think I can take one lucha style match per PPV.

On a side note I do think some wrestlers get unfairly criticised for this non-selling lark. Ospreays the main one. The guy has had incredible matches full of great selling and because he does a few flips he gets written off. I'm a defender of the Bucks, and maybe because that's because I've seen more of their work, and to be fair that cage match did feature a lot of stuff that harkened back to parts of their earlier matches with the Lucha Bro's and I get that becuase to someone who's maybe only seen clips or the odd match I can probably see why that match in isolation would look like that. Though if you've seen their New Japan stuff or even the Hangman/Kenny stuff or FTR match and you told me you think they're no selling indie guys I'd just think you were out of your mind.

On a side note it's about 30 minutes until I get to see Moxley and Suzuki beat the shit out of each other and I cannot fucking wait. Wrestling is good.

"Manbun twat" is a pretty satisfying persona.

i do not enjoy the lucha stuff. I find Ray Mysterio boring as fuck to watch. I know i'm in the minority but it's not interesting to me.

Is Vince trying to sell?

Just saw OTT Wrestling are doing a show in Dublin again next month with Will Osprey wrestling a match. Tickets only went on sale today but are already sold out :'(

Never been to a wrestling show live and would have loved to get to see Osprey as part of that. Ah well.

Pleased for Big E as he's great

Agreed, great show.  Always enjoyed AEW but they've had me hooked since Black joined a few weeks back.  They're doing a great job of giving you plenty to enjoy in the moment while also looking forward to the next show.

Good news RE Big E too!  I forgot how long he's been with WWE, absolutely deserves a chance on top.  Could be really fun.

Isn't there one of these rancid Saudi shows around the corner? Worry is they'll just squash Big E at that.

Diluted Dante wrote:

So I don't really see who they would have squash him.

Going on past treatment of main event babyfaces, im sure they wont let you down.

Also - My goodness, why are they feeding lashley to goldberg?

At Summerslam, Lashley put Goldbergs kid in the Hurt Lock when he was attacked from behind. Rather than understand that Lashley neutralised an unknown assailant who had jumped the barrier, Goldberg got mad about this.

Lashley and MVP are going for the tag titles at Extreme Rules, so it's not beyond the realms of possibility that they win and take on Goldberg & Son at Blood Money.

I'm not really sure what they wilkl do with E. My hope is leave him off the card.

Diluted Dante wrote:

At Summerslam, Lashley put Goldbergs kid in the Hurt Lock when he was attacked from behind. Rather than understand that Lashley neutralised an unknown assailant who had jumped the barrier, Goldberg got mad about this. Lashley and MVP are going for the tag titles at Extreme Rules, so it's not beyond the realms of possibility that they win and take on Goldberg & Son at Blood Money. I'm not really sure what they wilkl do with E. My hope is leave him off the card.

I'm quite out of the loop but could they turn Drew McIntyre and have a solid feud with Big E and build him up? Both are faces at the moment arent they?

Says a lot that I know most of the upper card on AEW and very little on who is top line for Vince. There's Brock, Lashley, Big E (well, we will see) and .... God, I dont know. Orton? McIntyre?

Brock is just back, and will face Reigns in Saudi Arabia.

Reigns will face The Demon Finn Balor at Extreme Rules.

Orton is tag team champion with Riddle right now, and will be facing Lashley and MVP at Extreme Rules.

McIntyre is now able to challenge for the title again since Lashley lost it, so could concievably be a challenger for E.

Na, Rollins is brilliant right now, but he's tangling with Edge.

AJ Styles could go in there, he's with Omas, but would still work.

Elias is being repackaged, and putting him straight into a title feud would be a statement of intent.

Jeff Hardy is there seemingly for  putting people over when they need, so he's a possibility.

People I doubt they'd do would would be great: Keith Lee, John Morrison, Mustafa Ali, and of course the one everyone wants, Cesaro.

I have also suggested that.

It's worth pointing out that E is a Goldberg superfan, so if he does end up in a match with him, it wouldn't exactly be a punishment. He loves, in his words "big meaty men slapping meat" and slapping meat with Goldberg is his dream match.