He got a lot of praise for this promo




He can make them, but the one he cut last night was too forced because it didn't really match the story.

I think he wrote it in reverse because it was like he knew he wanted to sell the match on "instead of the American Nightmare, for this one match only, I'm gonna be the American Dream"

But in order to get there, they had to quickly insert this "foreigner that hates America" story over the last week or so. And the other guy hasn't really done enough for people to be like "Cody, whip his ass for America!", so he had to play up the America pride shit. And it kinda undermined the story arc they had already going with Ogogo breaking off from the Nightmare Family by joining QT Marshall and beating them all up.

It was a crammed episode overall because TNT's about to do the NBA playoffs and Dynamite's going to end up on different days and times before Double or Nothing, so some of the main storylines feel a bit rushed.


I think he just wears too many hats now and can't focus primarily on being a performer. It took his dad a while to figure out how to perform and book simultaneously also, and he had already completely developed his mic skills by that point.
 
The Nick Gage, Dark Side of the Ring episode is boring.

Fell asleep on that muthafucka today.....I wanted to care but I couldn't. I guess because I never heard or seen this dude and only shit he seem to be good for is bashing his dumb ass head in...I was more interested in John Moxley then I was in his own shit.....
 
Watched some of last nights show. The Reigns/Cesaro match and the Lashley/Drew/Strowman matches were entertaining.

Glad they kept the belt on Lashley, hope he carries it throughout the end of summer.

I really want to see how crowds react to The Hurt Business and Roman Reigns.

It really looks like they will eventually pull the trigger on Cesaro. He had a very good match against Reigns and looked strong even though he lost.

By this time next year, I can see him holding a title.

That said, where the hell is Mr. Limitless?

Keith Lee has been completley absent. Damn, so much potential and creative has nothing for him.....
 
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Thanks for the heads up. Never heard of the guy, so I'll probably skip it and delete it off my DVR.
I finally got around to finishing it.....

I think the issue here is that this dude is just boring. He's nothing special. His story is nothing special. In comparison....there's probably not much different in his story than New Jack's. But New Jack was just far more interesting as a person.

This dude just comes across as a uninteresting lunatic.
 
Ohhhhhh ok I missed that. I was gonna say that's wild as hell for Jericho to say...I expect WWE to say something stupid like that though.
Then again, AEW did have their Women's Champion feuding with a zombie (Abadon) a few month's ago, so even if Jericho was talking trash about WWEs Zombie match, at least that was entertaining, whereas the whole Abadon thing was just cringeworthy....
 
The zombie/horror wrestling stuff works best as a cinematic match, but last nights actually worked well for what it was.

Undertaker and Kane stories would have worked great if they did cinematic matches throughout their runs.

Same thing with Bray Wyatt.

Would have been the same thing had AEW went that route with Abadon. They tried to keep it straight as a wrestling gimmick but that shit doesn't always work so well nowadays.
 
The zombie/horror wrestling stuff works best as a cinematic match, but last nights actually worked well for what it was.

Undertaker and Kane stories would have worked great if they did cinematic matches throughout their runs.

Same thing with Bray Wyatt.

Would have been the same thing had AEW went that route with Abadon. They tried to keep it straight as a wrestling gimmick but that shit doesn't always work so well nowadays.
I think they are starting to realize it, but again it takes time..

...Also, how did Katie Vick work out??

:lol:
 
Undertaker and Kane worked.

Did Abadon...? I don't think so.

Cause they aren't trying to make it seem like that gimmick is real. The gimmick is more a lifestyle like the image of a musician (unless you're Prince) I don't know why Abadon, didn't work. I have a soft spot in my heart just for the name Abadon (video game character that was never released) I wanted to see more of her, but like you have said that woman's division is SUPER green and for whatever reason she wasn't on TV again. Also women wrestlers aren't going to get that level of "disbelief" from the public that men are. You add that to how green she was, it was gonna go nowhere.

And lets not act like WWE doesn't cart Boogeyman out once a year to fill his mouth full of worms and hit himself over the head with an alarm clock. Or how Finn could transform into "The Demon", Bray and the Demon Kid. Sometimes somethings stick for WHATEVER reason, other times... not so much!
 
Fell asleep on that muthafucka today.....I wanted to care but I couldn't. I guess because I never heard or seen this dude and only shit he seem to be good for is bashing his dumb ass head in...I was more interested in John Moxley then I was in his own shit.....
Thanks for the heads up. Never heard of the guy, so I'll probably skip it and delete it off my DVR.

I can appreciate stiff wrestling, I can appreciate wrestlers who get bloody but I'm not, nor have I ever been impressed by these motherfuckers who go off script and start seriously hurting their opponents just for a pop.

It's wrestling, your "opponent" is actually more of your co-star or co-worker and you and him or her work together to put on a performance. If you want to shoot on somebody, head over to UFC, Bellator some other shoot fighting promotion.
 
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