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Old 07-05-2020, 04:16 PM   #2241
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Btw, anyone else giggle a little a bit every time Brian Cage does his "Who better than Brian Cage?" bit? I just yell "Kanyon!" every time he does it.
Every. Single. Time.
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Btw, anyone else giggle a little a bit every time Brian Cage does his "Who better than Brian Cage?" bit? I just yell "Kanyon!" every time he does it.

Kanyon was incredibly talented, and a great worker. I also loved his angle where he imitated DDP.


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Good. WWE wasn't using her correctly anyways, she already reached the top of the NXT women's division (the one that counts), and was basically taking injurious bumps from Nia.

Her husband is part of Los Ingobernables in NJPW and one of the best talents in the world. With Bushido Road owning both Stardom and NJPW, I can see Kairi's final wrestling days happening in both rings. I fully expect her to be at Wrestle Kingdom next year and then calling it a career.

Fantastic talent and one of the best elbow drops in the business.

Io Sharai is engaged to EVIL.
Kairi Sane is married to someone outside of wrestling.
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Old 07-06-2020, 08:19 AM   #2244
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Ah, my mistake.

Either way, I expect to see Kairi in Stardom and competing at Wrestle Kingdom next year.
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Old 07-07-2020, 05:37 PM   #2245
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It sounds like Kairi Sane leaving isn't set in stone yet and WWE is offering her more money than she could get in another promotion to stay.

https://rajah.com/node/update-kairi-...-contract-stay
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Old 07-07-2020, 05:48 PM   #2246
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The new US title is sexy AF
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Old 07-09-2020, 04:31 PM   #2247
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I think this is the third week in a row that NXT has beaten AEW


https://twitter.com/user/status/1281316559885971458


Smackdown 1.77

Raw had 1.68 million viewers.
NXT 759,000
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Impact 7 dudes named Floyd
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Old 07-09-2020, 05:08 PM   #2248
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The AEW guys keep talking about winning the 18-49, so really it's kind of a tie.

NXT wins overall, AEW the key demographic.

One thing that I think does get overlooked though is that NXT still does live on the network too. If you were a NXT/WWE fan that had the network to watch, you might not have changed viewing habits to watch it on USA now.

So I don't think it tells a full story anyways.
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Old 07-09-2020, 06:36 PM   #2249
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The AEW guys keep talking about winning the 18-49, so really it's kind of a tie.

NXT wins overall, AEW the key demographic.

One thing that I think does get overlooked though is that NXT still does live on the network too. If you were a NXT/WWE fan that had the network to watch, you might not have changed viewing habits to watch it on USA now.

So I don't think it tells a full story anyways.
Also, with it being on the WWE Network, people may choose to watch AEW live, then watch NXT on the network online afterwards rather than PVRing AEW and fast forwarding through commercials.
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I really wish WWE would work out a deal with Sportsnet to show NXT live. It's not like Canadians are able to watch it legally on the USA Network. I try my best to scroll quickly past WWE posts Wednesday nights but when you have a video of the winner of last night's main event celebrating on Facebook it's pretty tough to not get things spoiled.
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Main reason why I dropped the Network. Can't watch NXT live on Wednesday nights? #### that. Too much media and discussion in 24 hours to be able to ignore when you're a fan. Happy to support AEW on Wednesday nights, especially with a primetime slot on TSN.
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Ya that change has been super annoying, essentially sportsnet paid them to stop showing it live on the network so they could show a condensed version on fridays before smackdown
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Old 07-10-2020, 12:42 PM   #2253
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I think this is the third week in a row that NXT has beaten AEW


https://twitter.com/user/status/1281316559885971458


Smackdown 1.77

Raw had 1.68 million viewers.
NXT 759,000
AEW 715,000
Impact 7 dudes named Floyd
Raws 2nd lowest rating ever I think I saw

They need crowds back in the worst way, for whatever reason AEW and even NXT just feel so much more normal than WWE in the presentation
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Old 07-10-2020, 01:18 PM   #2254
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Just to be clear, pretty much all of the numbers are dismal, They had this great opportunity to capture audience when all of the sports went on Hiatus, but really bad television on all accounts and a really poor product on all accounts has effectively hurt the business, and could kill it when other sports come back.
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Sunny re-arrested.


She has had lots of run ins with the law, just being released from prison earlier this year and now she's on the way back. The WWE has paid for her to go to rehab I believe on multiple occassions.



I think this time she's going away for a long time


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Anyone interested in NJPW, EVIL won the New Japan Cup, turned on Los Ingobernables by beating down Naito, joined the Bullet Club, and promptly won the IWGP Heavyweight and IWGP Intercontinental Championships with the help of Dick Togo.

This is a monumental storyline change even by NJPW standards. They finally had someone leave JIJ, unseat Naito only six months after his historic win, and rocketed the overlooked member of LIJ passed SANADA. Looks like Gedo is trying to build a monster heel while KENTA and Jay White are not competing.

This is also the first Young Lion of the 2010's to win both belts, and is likely the first Triple Crown champion with the New Japan Cup win.
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Jesus Christ, can someone please get JR the hell off of commentary? It's beyond painful at this point. Guy kept calling "Fight for the Fallen" "Fyter Fest 2."

Decent enough show. The ending to Cage/Moxley was pretty underwhelming and made Cage look like a nerd.
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That whole broadcast crew is dragging the show down. Cage/Moxley was rushed probably because of panic over the ratings. They did what WCW did with Hogan Goldberg and gave it away for free and to little effect. Hotshot panic booking over ratings will eventually kill a company.


I watched part of the Knox and Io match when I got home from practice, and what immersed me is I knew that Teagan wasn't going to win, but I was really cheering for her to win. I also noticed that she's not wearing the duel knee braces of doom anymore, hopefully that's a good thing. A pretty good match with good spots. I did love that Kai is back into the title picture, she's the proto Bayley heel.
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Old 07-16-2020, 10:06 AM   #2259
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That whole broadcast crew is dragging the show down. Cage/Moxley was rushed probably because of panic over the ratings. They did what WCW did with Hogan Goldberg and gave it away for free and to little effect. Hotshot panic booking over ratings will eventually kill a company.
Don't think the plan was ever to have Cage/Mox be a PPV feed. With AEW only running 4 PPVs/year, there's going to inevitably be some title matches they give away on TV, and I'm fine with that. I think the main issue is they hotshotted Cage into the main event without really building him up. The guy wasn't really a household name coming in, so that didn't make much sense to me.

I'm really not sure what's next for Moxley now. He's cleaned out most of the roster. Archer probably makes the most sense and they had a pretty good match in NJPW, so I definitely wouldn't be opposed to it.

Nice to see the seeds being planted for The Elite turning heel, especially Kenny.
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I still don't like what they're doing with FTR, they're starting to feel dud like to me, and they do have a serious lack of charisma. Suppossedly they have nuclear heat over an appearance on Corny's pod cast.



I honestly feel like Moxley has stalled, I had really high hopes for him in terms of what he could do character wise after he left WWE and posted that video, but he seems to have fallen into being pretty 2 dimensional, and they ran him through everyone in a hurry. Maybe turn Cody complete heel and have that matchup? Though Cody is really a charisma vacuum in his current character.
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