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Craig William

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1 year

I fear the only person who doesn’t want Bryan Danielson to be AEW Champion is Bryan Danielson.

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2 years

I’m sorry… But Samoa Joe has already had a better TNT reign than Wardlow.

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2 years

🧵 Stories I’d like to see in wrestling. 1. Undefeated wrestler who has to give himself challenges. Tonight I am going to win: - by count out. - using no strikes. - by knockout! - using 5 frog splashes. - using your finisher.

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2 years

Man Who Wrecked Two Wrestling Companies Says Successful Company is Bad.

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3 years

The Undertaker thinks he’s Minoru Suzuki.

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Craig William

@CraigPWMusings

11 months

Rebuild the company around Adam Page. I’m deadly serious.

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@OaklandRovers

11 months

If you are AEW, what is your move from here?

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🧵 Wrestlers who LOOKED like Champions. 1. Kazuchika Okada. IWGP Heavyweight Champion in 2016.

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2 years

🧵 Things that AEW needs to do: 1. Bring back the rankings. Change them or bring them back as they were. The Wins and Losses framework of AEW was far from perfect but it was a principle, one that the company was founded on, that made the company stand out.

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Craig William

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1 year

CM Punk is drawing the reactions that Cody Rhodes should have drawn were he willing to embrace the reactions.

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Craig William

@CraigPWMusings

3 years

Dear @AEW , It really sucks that AEW ditched the Saturday PPVs. Watching All Out on a nice, quiet Sunday would be tremendous. Watching it, quite tired, after work on Monday night and probably not getting through it all, ain’t so great. Yours sincerely, The UK. 🙂

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2 years

Kenny Omega has had 26 singles matches in AEW. Interestingly low when you consider CM Punk has had 18. Danielson has had 41.

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Craig William

@CraigPWMusings

2 years

AEW should absolutely not be shoe-horning in every British person they can. Hayter and PAC should be on the card because they’re class. The only ringer I’ll accept is Ospreay. Keep everything else what the fans will come to see; AEW.

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10 months

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10 months

Category: matches with the wrong winner⬇️

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2 years

🧵 People who would rock as All Atlantic Champion. 1. Konosuke Takeshita If the belt is designed to aid AEW’s reach around the world, then this one fits the bill. Already travelling the world and big in three continents.

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Craig William

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4 years

WWE claims to own the REAL NAMES of it’s wrestlers (independent contractors??) and have asked them not use use their likeness on third party platforms. Twitch/Cameo Vince thinks he owns the wrestlers birth names and physical appearance. This is some dystopian nonsense.

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2 years

Fans cheering Vince just after the scandal broke.

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@aaronrift

2 years

What is the most embarrassing thing you ever saw on a national wrestling television show?

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4 years

Dear @AEWrestling , I am writing to you to make an official complaint. During this week's #AEWDynamite you cut to commercial during @sammyguevara 's rendition of Judas. This is a crime against #AEW viewers who tune in exclusively for Sam's choral finesse. Regards, Disappointment.

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1 year

🧵The 5 Biggest Winners from AEW Collision’s Inception: 5. Juice Robinson The only man to wrestle on every episode (I’m pretty sure!) and is being heavily spotlighted in and outside the ring. He got the pin in the big match with FTR and his character work is flourishing.

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Craig William

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8 months

RIP NJPW. The greatest wrestling era ever.

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7 months

When your billionaire boss who is a mega fan of yours gives you your own show but you ruin it and instead end up compromising all your values and end up being the hype guy for capitalism.

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2 years

🧵 The Best Things as a Wrestling Fan 1. When your favourite wrestler wins the big one after a long ‘will he, won’t he chase’.

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2 years

🧵 MJF matches/feuds I want to see: 1. Eddie Kingston Could you imagine the promos and the amount of almost crossing the line material both men will touch on!? CM Punk’s best two promo opponents. Put them together.

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2 years

Grading AEW World Champions, men’s belt. THREAD. Chris Jericho - A He did everything he was supposed to do and more. Lacking in the ring at this stage but he elevated everyone around him and was an entertainment machine. An almost perfect first champ.

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Craig William

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3 years

Eddie Kingston is the best promo in wrestling and it’s not even close.

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11 months

Again, 2017 New Japan is the peak of pro wrestling.

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2 years

AEW should recognise Toni Storm’s reign as official. The second best one after Shida’s to me.

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Craig William

@CraigPWMusings

11 months

AEW should just release anyone who wants out. A smaller crew that wants to be there is so much more preferable than a continuation of whatever backstage manoeuvring has been going on.

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Craig William

@CraigPWMusings

3 years

Kazuchika Okada is in the conversation for greatest wrestler of all time. He’s 33! 🤯🔥

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Craig William

@CraigPWMusings

1 year

I still think having The Acclaimed lose to transition the belts to FTR was a dreadful decision. The Acclaimed were the hottest tag team by far and at the peak of their ascent from an AEW creation to biggest pop of the night.

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Craig William

@CraigPWMusings

2 years

Rampage should become ‘Late Night Rampage’. A more bloody, coarse and violent version of Dynamite. A playground for Moxley, Kingston, MJF, Starks and Allin to push the boundaries. Make the time slot a positive.

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Craig William

@CraigPWMusings

11 months

Care to explain yourself further? As people are concerned about the alleged SA history of Flair and the connotations of his comments at the Rampage taping, I’m sure you had a well reasoned and sincere perspective on this that we’re all missing? No? Do a job for once.

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Stop reading the dirt sheets. They are poison and they do not represent the fans.

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2 years

Omega's header for years was a hint at the roadmap of AEW's first 4 World Champions. It also really underscores how difficult CM Punk's (reported) desire to return to AEW is. He's has pretty serious (reported) heat with all four.

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1 year

🧵 Wrestlers I’d hope to see get more TV time with the introduction of Collision. 1. Rush His intensity and aggression have become an incredible tool for underdog babyfaces this year. He is a mid-card champion in the making, tailor made to highlight up and coming babyfaces.

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Craig William

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2 years

Bryan Danielson has been criminally misused in 2022.

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1 year

Moxley, Ishii and Dustin Rhodes kicking out at one to diminishing returns after Omega did it perfectly is exactly what’s wrong with AEW at the moment. Scarcity makes things special.

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Craig William

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2 years

🧵 Grading AEW PPVs. All In 2018 - A+ I know it’s not technically, but it’s more an AEW PPV than a ROH one. It’s the caterpillar to AEW’s butterfly. A roaring success by fan investment, bringing together a cross-section of wrestlers from around the world and across companies.

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2 years

🧵 AEW’s Best Ever Matches according to Cagematch. #10 - Young Bucks vs Lucha Bros - Escalera De La Murte. Their second clash in AEW on the second PPV. A wild thrill-ride that encapsulates both teams’ style and ambition. 9.16 (367)

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2 years

After Final Battle, I would appreciate it if I never have to see another BCC/JAS tag. Thanks.

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@CraigPWMusings

2 years

🧵Who could be AEW's Cody/Sami level mega-babyfaces? 1. Adam Page Because he already was. The crowd reactions that Adam Page was getting in 2020-2021 are comparable at the very least to anything Sami or Cody have received this year. Add that to Page's age and in-ring! 🔥🔥🔥

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2 years

The magic of The Elite's story-telling. 10 seconds of three guys just appearing on screen together is richer and more meaningful than any other wrestling angle of the week/month/year...

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Craig William

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3 years

AEW should do a Pinnacle vs Inner Circle TV special. MJF vs Jericho FTR vs PnP Sammy vs Spears Wardlow vs Hager

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Craig William

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2 years

The actual nerve of people going in on the Bucks for that BTE clip is madness. One of them gets sucker punched and they are off TV for two months because of it. A guy comes in, and to them, ruins their long term project. They’re told to say nothing and they say nothing. 1/2

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Craig William

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4 years

Not enough is said about how the AEW EVPs are bucking the trends set by previous wrestlers in positions of power within wrestling promotions.

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2 years

🧵Wrestling's 2022 Highlights: 1. Forbidden Door This was an absolute triumph, it was one of those events that was part feeling, part celebration and straight up just part quality. Headlined by the triumph that was Tanahashi turning the crowd against Moxley!

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Craig William

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2 years

🧵 Cool things AEW should consider doing to get the fans excited about the product again. 1. The Kenny Omega Challenge. Omega challenges anyone to beat him. Doesn’t have to be weekly but an ongoing thread that creates a prize for someone eventually.

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2 years

FTR have been getting a lot of plaudits this year and quite rightly so for their scientific style of wrestling. Everything counts, everything is perfect. HOWEVER The Elite and Death Triangle reminded you what AEW was built on. Genre bending intelligence, TIMING and athleticism.

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Craig William

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2 years

AEW Dynamite is the greatest wrestling TV show of all time and it’s only been three years. Easily.

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2 years

AEW Championships Power Rankings: 1. Men’s World Championship It’s had a tough year, but it’s still the best booked championship in the promotion.

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2 years

3. A betting scandal. Commentators begin to get suspicious that somebody loses on purpose every now and again. Said wrestler buys a new car but is almost believable in their excuses. Fans shouldn’t be completely sure if the wrestler is throwing matches on purpose.

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2 years

2. A clever portrayal of mental health. Not just ‘he/she is crazy’. Adam Page did it to an extent and their are versions of the post title breakdown character like the Okada balloon character. But can we have a tasteful breakdown of confidence and explicit build it back up?

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Craig William

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5 years

#AEW Wrestling League Standings - Overall. -99 Wrestlers have wrestled in AEW in 2020. - @KennyOmegamanX has wrestled the most and has the most wins. - @shidahikaru has wrestled and won the most in the Women's Division. - @BranCutler has lost the most (-8) Sorry... #AEWDynamite

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Craig William

@CraigPWMusings

11 months

People that should be pushed ahead of Guevara/Perry: Garcia Takeshita Starks Rush Andrade Brody Bandido Big Bill Fletcher Hobbs Fenix This list is unlikely to be exhaustive.

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Man…current Dynamite with the looming returns of Perry and Guevara. That’s like rooting for a recovering drug addict to get better and dropping heroin needles in front of them.

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2 years

More people should be like Jon Moxley, CM Punk, PAC and Sasha Banks.

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2 years

2. Utami Hayashishita. Wonder of Stardom Champion 2021

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2 years

Your Mount Rushmore of promos? I’ll start!

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Craig William

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7 months

Wrestlemania has never been this overtly propaganda before.

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Craig William

@CraigPWMusings

2 years

🧵 Ages of AEW 1. Genesis: Jan ‘19 - Oct ‘20 This was an incredible time to be a post-WWE fan. All In was great and the Western NJ stars were launching a weekly American product. The early PPVs generally delivered too; Cody/Dustin, Bucks/Lucha Bros. And those crowds… 🔥

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Craig William

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1 year

It feels like he has been pushed aside for Guevara at least twice. Which is criminal.

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I still don't get what's up with Daniel Garcia He got over twice with the BCC Story and the dance and I'm still waiting for him to get established His hometown victory was such an incredible moment

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2 years

5. Kenny Omega. IWGP US Champion 2017

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2 years

We’ve had the first four champions, the Four Pillars of AEW and then the ‘Four Killers’. Who would you like to see elevated into prominency in AEW, next? I’ve chosen mine below:

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1 year

Hunter in 2019

Ibou, of WrestlePurists

@BackupHangman

1 year

Let’s finish Dynamite

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Craig William

@CraigPWMusings

6 months

New Japan wrestlers should put as much effort into developing as performers as they do complaining about Moxley getting the belt.

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SANADA: "The IWGP title has moved overseas. Touring without the champ present is kind of sad. When there are people who only get to see the tour once a year, it would be good if they could see the champ. I would like to get to the point where I can challenge for the belt again."

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Craig William

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2 years

Adam Page - A- The best title ring in-ring. Excellent stuff with Danielson, solid matches with Cole and the well-received match with Omega. Criticised by many for not feeling like the champion but, to me, he felt like he had a quiet and dangerous authority.

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2 years

4. Jade Cargill TBS Champion 2022

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8 months

Miro’s medical report leaked: “Injury - Dislocated Ego Treatment - Do a job Status - Patient refusal” - PWOutsider.

Miro

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I’ve been injured since September and i got medical attention in January. Sorry he wasn’t aware of it

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2 years

Delayed Selling > No Selling.

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Craig William

@CraigPWMusings

4 years

AEW will have a good women’s division by the end of 2021. Screenshot this tweet.

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Craig William

@CraigPWMusings

2 years

🧵 Wrestling matches is want to see in 2022. Kenny Omega vs Will Ospreay And luckily, we are getting this one (barring a disaster). Expect genre pushing action. You’re getting the guy that raised the bar five years ago with the guy who is trying to do the same now.

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2 years

6. An unbeatable heel genius. A wrestler with a savant level IQ that is obsessed with winning so much so that they spend their free time obsessing over tape. In matches they would be very dominant due to countering most offence. A different take on the unbeatable monster.

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2 years

CM Punk 1st reign - F Injured himself trying to do the athletic finisher of a man he was in the process of burying. Wee man stuff.

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2 years

"When you've got two red-hot babyfaces that are both drawing better quarter hours than your two year dominant champion, what you've got to do is beat both in back to back months to cool them down" - Voices of Wrestling's Joe Lanza

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2 years

6. Becky Lynch. Double Champion 2019

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Craig William

@CraigPWMusings

8 months

US wrestlers have been taking turns to 'punch' each other for decades. This is literally the same thing but more convincing.

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Peak PRO Wrestling right here🤣GTFOH

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Craig William

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2 years

I may be on an island here, but I’m way more into BCC vs The Elite than a potential CM Punk feud with any of The Elite.

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Craig William

@CraigPWMusings

6 months

Punk’s second run in WWE is the wrestling equivalent of your uncle trying to ‘hand with the boys’ when you’re a teenager. Awkward. Try hard. Grasping for life.

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CM Punk tried to throw a shot at the Big Scapegoat and got fucking CRICKETS

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Craig William

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2 years

2. Bring back the uninterrupted opening match. It feels like every AEW Dynamite match is three minutes then advertisement, even if that means the show goes to break after only 5 minutes in the air. It also means it’s harder to have stand out matches in terms of quality.

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2 years

Jon Moxley interim reign - A I would not say the interim run was as good in the ring as Adam Page’s run. But the A, is for the Herculean job Moxley did of rehabilitating the belt after the strange Page/Punk program and injury. The match with Tanahashi was special.

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4. Title holders competing for the main event. Have a secondary/tag/women’s champion kayfabe declare they want their belt to be featured in the main event so they are going to out-do the men’s World Champion. This could be more defences, more viewers or a match.

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2 years

7. Ric Flair NWA Champion 1989

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2 years

People saying that the Bucks should never have got involved in a fight as EVPs seem to be missing the point. If they turned up with Megha Parekh to find out what on Earth was going on and then got assaulted then they’ve done *very* little wrong. If anything.

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10. Send people on excursion. It’s not as if the roster isn’t big enough! Send Tay Conti, Skye Blue and Penelope Ford to TJPW. Send Butcher and the Blade to do World Tag League. Send Dante Martin and Lee Johnson to DDT for a bit. Let Kingston do NOAH. The possibilities.

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2 years

WWE: ‘oh my gosh, Michael Cole said New Japan!’ AEW:

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3. Make belts feel prestigious again. Cody had a running open challenge for the TNT Championship which acted as a revolving door of platforming of others. Darby Allin and Miro did similar long reigns were even getting in the ring with them was a big deal.

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When I watched the Cruiserweight Classic, I knew almost none of the wrestlers involved. After I watched and enjoyed the Cruiserweight Classic I knew lots of wrestlers I did not before. Part of the experience was the *novelty*.

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2 years

4. Fixtures This is a fictionalised sport. Not every match needs to be rationalised by a petty conflict. They can just wrestle to build their records. The rankings should make this easy. Those in the top 5 should have to defend those spots against wrestlers who are on a run.

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9. Will Ospreay. Rev Pro Champion 2022

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8. Nick Aldis. NWA Champion 2020

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CM Punk 2nd reign - F triple minus An absolute disgrace of a performance in that press scrum, not to mention what came next. Wanted to be the top guy in WWE, couldn’t get there, correctly complained about Rock cutting him off. And then look at this situation…

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10 months

Because they’ve outlasted Nitro?

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AEW is TNA all over again. @83Weeks

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1 year

If you segregate the Elite and Punk on Dynamite and Rampage respectively, you create another ‘Forbidden Door’ situation. Imagine the pop when Kenny Omega shows up on Collision in late 2024 to stare down CM Punk.

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Jon Moxley, 1st reign - B A reign blighted by the pandemic but it was a Jon Moxley pre-BCC evolution. It was a good reign elevated by incredible promo work and the odd special match; Brodie Lee at Double or Nothing.

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6. Use YouTube creatively. These shows could be a breeding ground of creativity and opportunity for wrestlers who aren’t TV mainstays. One week Dark could be a knock out tournament, the next it’s a big Beat the Clock Challenge and then you could do a ‘Up and Comers’ round robin.

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7. Disapproving heel manager/father. Father and son, manager and wrestler act. The wrestler is talented but worried about disappointing his father, who in turn is cold, harsh and impossible to please. The wrestler could be driven to heinous actions to make father proud.

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5. Financial consequences for losing. A losing streak where somebody becomes more and more disheveled. Like the Corbin stuff but more serious. Brandon Cutler could be upset after a match because not only did he lose but his gear ripped and he’s broke. Because he keeps losing.

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Kenny Omega - B+ This was not the ‘Best Bout Machine’. However Omega clashed with Danielson in an epic, put in a well-received match with Fenix and ended with a popular one with Page. Some wonderful character work and the fabulous Elite/Dark Order 5v5.

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2. Jay White The Former 2x IWGP Champion who NJPW pushed as a threat to Okada arrived in AEW to a main event scene bursting at the seams. Now on Collision, he has space to show his slick in-ring expertise and character work/promo ability perfect for American TV wrestling.

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8. Analyse the in-ring like a sport. Add a clock to the screen like in football, time how long someone has been in control or display the percentage of offence. Or just use my match stats! 😂

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