Was he high or was he like fuck it I've done enough.
I'm thinking he's trying to get fired, but AEW can't keep picking up everyone, they just don't have time for it.
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I'm thinking he's trying to get fired, but AEW can't keep picking up everyone, they just don't have time for it.
They are going to find themselves under booked and overpaid similar to WCW if they don't stop soon.
Seems all the smaller companies fall into the same trap.
I don't know, I kind of get the feeling that AEW fans were always looking for their version of Triple-H or Double-J to hate and they were going to hate that guy once they "found" him even if he deserved it or not. It just happens Cody is the guy in their minds. (Although some of the stuff he does like the anti-racism stuff was kind of tone deaf.)
I actually like Cody and wish his stories felt like they had some weight but they don't. Losing to Jericho was more about setting up MJF.
Is Ricky Starks really over because of Cody or because he's got great charisma?
Cody didn't put over Darby, Darby was a far more popular star deserving of the push.
Shaq stuff was about Jade promotion.
Brodie winning was to push a big stable storyline at the time less about beating Cody and more about beating anybody in that fashion.
Does Malakai Black look impressive beating up Cody? Does nothing for me but waste Black's time in AEW, just my opinion.
I like Cody, I like his reality show from what I've seen. His wrestling act/gimmick/character is bullshit right now and the fact he's addressing the crowd about going heel tells you there's A LOT of Cody fans who feel the same way.
It would have been cliche but I would have loved it if Grayson made a comment to the effect "Hi Candice, now you've got 2 people to take care of who drool all over themselves."
I remember him more as one of the agents who showed up to break up fights
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Trent is back.
WWE have wished Jeff Hardy well in his future AEW endeavors.
HE certainly took it all in. The CM PUnk MJF feud is pretty great.
I still think he goes back, he can likely get a cushy trainers role and be a part time on air talent in NXT and have so much more time to spend with his wife and new baby not traveling like he would have to in any other company or the main roster. Would I love him in AEW? Absolutely, do I expect it...not really.
HOOK!
Hook surprised me - debut was pretty much perfect. Very clean moves and Feugo did some great work to make him look good.
Like the Action Bronson intro music. AEW has another inhouse star.
Like the Action Bronson intro music. AEW has another inhouse star.
He definitely looked smoother in the ring than quite a few people that have been doing this for awhile. (You know, like Big Swole.) He's definitely got potential.
Can wrestle 'good', still looks like a little boy
I'm not sold on hook he wrestled fuego,have him wrestle and win against pheonix,pentagon,MJF,etc than I'll be impressed.
So you gotta be 6'4 240 and look like an NFL player? Who are you, Vince?
He looks like Darby, Yuta, Dante, Daniel Garcia, etc. They seem to be doing ok.
It was first ever match. No need to go throwing him in at the deep end with higher expectations. Build him up with matches like the Fuego one to let him get more experience.
Former WWE champion shows up in a dead promotion.
Wow, Jimmy Rave dead at 39. (And before that he had both legs and one arm lopped off. That is a really shit ending to ones life.)
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Horrible news. Poor guy had a really tough time over the past few years.
He was so good in The Embassy in ROH
RIP
Felt forced which is exactly like every Rey and son segment. We can argue this a million times but there's more to wrestling than in-ring. Taz is the perfect example of that, if he was just about suplexes he'd be limited but he can work the mic like a maniac. There's millions of dudes who can wrestle, can Hook work a mic and have a personality outside of being one of his daddy's thugs? Remains to be seen
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I've got nothing against KO, and I like his mic skills. But IMO, his decision to stay in WWE is not a loss for AEW. AEW does not need every single guy who WWE didn't use perfectly well competently like their biggest fans would have preferred. I'm not agreeing with anyone that calls them WWE lite (or whatever), but if they pick up everyone who isn't Roman or Brock they could end up with a really stale product.
IMO Kevin Owens looks more like a fat dude who should be in the stands watching wrestling as a smark than in the ring wrestling. For how big Vince is on image I don't understand how KO continues to get a pass for looking like a slob versus every other star in the WWE being fit. If you have charisma like Bray you can get away with it, KO does not.
Never once tuned in to the WWE to see what Kevin Owens was doing, never will
Dominik Mysterio is straight up trash. There is just nothing they can do to make him a total package of a wrestler. His acting sucks, he is just okay in the ring, I guess, I just can't take him seriously whatsoever. He is trying way too hard, with everything. Every match he wins is just unbelievable. At least Hook has a better look to him and can be seen as an actual wrestler, not some kid with twig arms trying to do his dad's high flying moves and looking like a flopping tit.
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More or less what I see too, Rey was a phenomenon and his son is just a dude. Hook has potential at least and a clear popularity as the Hook white T-Shirt just outsold CM Punk for the first time in awhile. Aint nobody buying Dominik's shirt
Wow, you sound like me except that's largely my attitude to CM Punk who looks a guy working at the local Hot Topic. Not even MJF is good enough to get me to watch anything with Punk in it.
Ouch!
Merry Hookmas!