AEW - All Elite Wrestling (*Spoilers for Latest Show*)

I'd hope not. I'd assume the eventual Rosa match will be PPV so not sure who the challengers between then are really. Jade is not ready and Britt handing Jade her first loss really does nothing for the women's division. Also Jade will still be in the TBS tournament or coming off a loss which drops her in the rankings anyway.

Probably be non title matches but someone coming through Forbidden Door would be cool here. Even if protecting people outside, could do a tag or trios match where Rebel takes the pin.

Kevin Steen to AEW?

I'd say Kevin Owens/Steen and Kyle O'Reilly are certs for AEW. I haven't seen Rok C in action at all but they could do with a few more women who can hold their own in the ring.

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Looks like Omega will have to vacate the AAA world title this week he won't be to having a match to drop the title next month.

Danhausen is another meme wrestler that the internet will soon tire of, like Maki Itoh. Remember her?

Gresham the man has some loyalty for ROH

Danhausen! How did I forget him. I will accept my cursing like a man.

Add me to the people who really don't get that appeal of Danhausen , have seen on Ethan Page's vlogs and stuff and really don't see anything in him at all , could be an awesome heat magnet by all means (as in a heel smashing him) and great for stuff like BTE but like i've not seen him in ring so could be an Orange Cassidy type

Maki Itoh is still a thing, and really improving in ring. She's still in TJPW.

Danhausen is great though. The few matches I've seen, he's not the best wrestler in the world like, but he's great for that low end or even lower mid-card tier of guys, or can put him in a stable and help elevate others as he's great at getting attention (he got the Gunn club trending as AssBoys on twitter). With how much he's mentioning AEW in some things atm, I kind of feel he's a cert to sign tbh. He's got too many fans high up in AEW (likes of Cody, Jericho etc) to not imo. Injury is just holding it up, although you could probably sign him now and just have rolling around in a wheelchair and he'd get over.

I do think he'd need to lessen some of the stuff he does in the ring (not sure we'll be getting teeth for one), but his outside ring stuff is fantastic. There's way too much stuff he can do in AEW already (can work with Jericho/Inner Circle, add him to Darby and Sting as the annoying member of their group, have him join Dark Order or Best Friends, go around following Britt asking for teeth etc). Like do I want to see Danhausen wrestle Omega, Danielson, Page etc nope, but him interacting with Jericho, Darby, Sting, John Silver, Orange Cassidy etc will be fun, and with the stuff with Conan that he's done, i do think he can cross over and draw more viewers there.

I agree that Danhausen is a meme wrestler but Itoh isn't, she had one of the matches of the year against Miyu Yamashita in TJPW.

Ignoring week-by-week variation, there's a clear, gradual linear trend upwards in AEW's viewership since crowd's returned in April (white line on the grey curve). Meanwhile Raw is at best holding steady, or possibly even in decline (white line on the red curve)...

Where might these arrows meet?... Early/mid next year?

Only watched that first segment so far. Absolute magic.

During that main event I was expecting someone on commentary to refer to Chicago as Bizarro world.

It's mad how easily Bryan switched to a heel persona.

I absolutely loved that segment with MJF and Punk, he's forever going to be plagued with Miz chants going forward. AEW has rekindled my love entirely for pro wrestling, I can't wait to catch the shows each week. I can't bring myself to watch the other product any more

It'll be interesting how they do when they move to TBS. There's a clear drop atm due to the West Coast issues, so if they can get back to 1.2/1.3m a week and then draw higher on loaded weeks, they could get close to Raw

My God what a show.

We experienced the best Promo in AEW history and one of the best ever

That main event with Cody's belt being thrown back, that had me in stitches, it was epic. The look on Cody in disbelief, bloody priceless

Britt didn't go off one however Punk must have been reading ;)

Exactly what I was thinking. It was long, but it all made sense. MJF opens with the low hanging fruit, Punk fires back with the jealous fan/Miz line. 1-0 Punk. MJF takes it up a level with comments about selling out and being second best in other promotions. Punk fires back with a more direct physical challenge, torching him with the NY Times Obituaries and Britt Baker lines. 2-0 Punk. MJF then backs away from a fight. Babyface the clear winner, and the heel now with justification to do something wretched to him in coming weeks. Chef's kiss.

It'll be interesting for sure. The obvious next step is to get physical, but it'll actually be far harder for them to make a physical heat segment stand out, given the amount of beat-downs, backstage attacks, no DQ matches etc that we already see. I'm sure they've something up their sleeve though.

I'm just thinking - reverse those two segments and it would have been perfect. Have 2.0/Garcia get one over on someone like Jericho in a first segment, then later interrupt Eddie and have him roast them.