Wrestling Thread 7: FTR Baldhausen • Page 897

Man, drop the Wardlow/FTR squash and actually give the crowd more than 5s to process Hangman being in the Trios tournament.

This episode is like like Scarface-level coked out TK

 

The kayfabe just makes no sense. You need a fiber optic level connection to answer the email fast enough to get a TNT or TBS title open challenge...but an open contract for the AEW title, and a chance to main event a PPV, and nobody runs out to grab that shot?

edit: Also, 7 guys get announced for a brutal ladder match, and not one walks out to just take a free contract instead...including 2 guys who are Mox's teammates who got no heads up, and who are clearly watching the show as they ran in to save Danielson in the next segment

 

Card is way better than some of y’all giving it credit for. Like, the weakest looking match has Bryan Danielson it in!

 

hahaha, the entire intro is all about Ospreay

 

The undercard is probably the best AEW has booked. In opposition to DoN which had a really, really weak midcard, almost everything between the Ladder Match and the womens/mens title matches on the PPV is gonna be paying off a multi-month story.

But its got strong odds of ending in back to back duds.

 

Wearing a title belt around your neck looks fucking stupid, just makes Ospreay look stupider.

 

Card is great, the build is below expectations based on AEW’s past. There will be good wrestling, just not a lot of emotional investment in most matches.

 

I disagree

 

wrong

 

y'all are acting like CM PUNK is adam cole lol. just stop it's embarrassing.

 

These takes are like, ridiculous levels of doomer.

 

I would never insult Adam Cole like that.

 

drew is like a moth to a flame with doomer sports tweets

 

that's fine, he insults himself plenty for the two of you

 

card has two different “guy fighting his betrayer” matches, a trios match that is combining multiple storylines, and another trios match that has been literally been building for *years*

yeah the Mox Punk build misfired

yeah they need to do a better job booking the women’s division

but idk, pretty much every match is easy for me to get hyped over. So seems weird to me to complain too much about build

 

Drew for the love of god stop posting Trevor Dame tweets.

 

Yeah, this PPV has more build than most AEW PPVs, truthfully. Jade's opponent has actually interacted with her before the Rampage before the PPV, for example

 

All the title matches have shitty builds. Good matchups, shitty half assed booking.

 

Progress lol

 

NBA thread posters are used to it. This is usual behavior

 

I think if you think this card is bad your expectations are just too high. It's average. I guess it should be a little better because it's their defacto Mania, but I think it'll still be a good show and on paper is pretty good, the main event just feels odd and weaker because it's had a super weird build but it's still Mox vs Punk in Chicago which sounds like a big deal

 

Wheeler Yuta is so smooth

 

Yeah, no surprise, that match ruled.

Kenny v Hangman for the Trios belt is gonna be wild...

 

There's absolutely still a hell of a lot good wrestling to be excited for on the All-Out card. I don't even need to watch the main event to be excited

 

These elite guys are pretty good at wrestling