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Man, that really was sick. When Adam Cole came out at the end I thought he was going to have a standoff with Omega and they'd debut Bryan on Dynamite or something, then THEY GOT ME. They waited until like the last second of Omega's "good night" schtick to hit the music, like they put that doubt in the audience's mind that Bryan would show up, then he did.

And despite being overshadowed a bit by Bryan, Adam Cole is such a goddamn star that it isn't even funny. He carried NXT single-handedly for a year against AEW and kept it competitive in the ratings. And he hasn't even begun to reach his potential yet.

It's so satisfying seeing Cody slowly bury Vince, consider all the history there with him, Dusty, etc.

Breakdown said:

lucha bros are arguably the best team alive and they JUST got gold 2 years in

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Lucha Bros were the only team that IMO were portrayed as equal to the Young Bucks for the past couple of years. It's actually fitting that they're the ones to finally beat them. My question is, who do they pass the torch to, if anybody? I'd honestly have them drop the titles to Proud & Powerful in NYC in a few weeks. Those guys are also crazy over and AEW is starting this great trend of wrestlers actually having successful nights when they're in front of their hometown crowd.

Kirun said:

It's so satisfying seeing Cody slowly bury Vince, consider all the history there with him, Dusty, etc.

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One of the best things about AEW is that it only exists because Vince mistreated so many people. Without all of WWE's mistakes, there's no Cody on the indies, there's no All In, and The Elite all sign their WWE contracts in January 2019. Maybe Tony Khan tries to get something going but it'd be an untelevised indy or the NWA at best.

AEW is like the collective karma of each and every person WWE screwed over time.

Breakdown said:

Legit, am I 13 again? This is monday night wars stuff.

The only stars at the top Level the WWE has made since Austin and the Rock. Legit main eventers and stars.

Lesnar
Cena
Punk
Bryan
Reigns

2 of them debuted in AEW this month. Wow.

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Discounting part-timers like Rock, who wrestle once every 7 Wrestlemanias, and factoring in only full-time rosters, I think AEW somehow has far more star power than WWE now. WWE obviously has the massive star power of the brand name alone to carry it, but as far as who the audience sees when they tune in, AEW's the one with the star power. TNA could have never dreamed of passing WWE in star power. The last time this happened in wrestling? Probably 1995 WCW.

When was the last time we saw such huge returns back to back? That one time when both HHH and Undertaker both made shock returns in the same segment on RAW?

I wouldn't have minded if it went full return-ception like that meme of the people sitting in the church with guns on each other.

Adam Cole shock-returns, joins Elite, Jay White shock debuts and challenges them, cut to black, back on and Ric Flair walks out as the new general manager, is about to make his first proclamation (on White vs Cole) when the lights go black, they come back on and Flair is laid out by Bray Wyatt, standing there holding an effigy of Ric's head and cackling, then Bryan's theme plays and he runs out to Ric's defense while the Bullet Club guys in the ring look on with concern/dumbfoundedness.

And then Tessa Blanchard wanders out as the show is going off the air idk

The problem is WWE either buried or misused all their "up and coming" talent and rested their laurels on fossils like Taker, Flair, etc. Now that those guys are all aged out, they don't really have much left and the talent they would've had, they chased off to AEW.

DDP was right. I remember hearing him on a podcast right around the time of the first AEW PPV and he said that wrestling was going to see another "Monday night war".