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AJ Lee is definitely rusty, but I don't care...I really enjoyed this match. Becky vs AJ was something I wanted to see and the story telling was great even if there were a few missteps during the match. I would have preferred a different finish, but it was the finish I expected.
 
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Djay said:
AJ Lee is definitely rusty, but I don't care...I really enjoyed this match. Becky vs AJ was something I wanted to see and the story telling was great even if there were a few missteps during the match. I would have preferred a different finish, but it was the finish I expected.
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Rest of the match was good, so I'm okay with it.
 
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Kaines

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I hope AJ is back for an extended time. But listening to Punk during one of the ESPN interviews, he kind of implied that she will only be back for a certain time-frame. I hope that has somehow changed.
 
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Brock beating Cena is fine, but the squash was kinda weird given his whole retirement and all that.
 
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Brock beating Cena is fine, but the squash was kinda weird given his whole retirement and all that.
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It felt like the exact same match as Summerslam 2014. I could see them having one more match before Cena retires and he actually beats Brock.
 
MusicForFish

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Damn dude, he's putting in the work. Should bring some excitement back to WWE for his farewell run.

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Kirun

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MusicForFish said:
Damn dude, he's putting in the work. Should bring some excitement back to WWE for his farewell run.

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This is still my favorite debut of someone from another promotion ever. I was a huge WCW fan, the internet was barely a thing (so no spoilers), and this debut blew my fucking mind at 14 when I saw it live. That pop and that music..chef's kiss.
 
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Kirun said:


This is still my favorite debut of someone from another promotion ever. I was a huge WCW fan, the internet was barely a thing (so no spoilers), and this debut blew my fucking mind at 14 when I saw it live. That pop and that music..chef's kiss.
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I bought the shirt (or one very damn close to it) that Jericho wore in this video, and my g/f's mom made her a dress out of very similar materials, and we wore them to one of her formal dances at her high school.

I miss that shirt.
 
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Merrith

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Kirun said:


This is still my favorite debut of someone from another promotion ever. I was a huge WCW fan, the internet was barely a thing (so no spoilers), and this debut blew my fucking mind at 14 when I saw it live. That pop and that music..chef's kiss.
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That was hype as fuck when it happened. He was one of the first "over" WCW guys to jump ship the other way, and WWE (for once) put a guy from there coming in immediately into spotlight by having him interrupt the Rock. Killed it with the entrance and promo, and off he went. He still had to earn his spot after that, but it felt like a lot of guys after him coming over got buried pretty quickly whereas he either managed to get a longer rope or was just given one and ran with it.
 
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This is still the best match I've ever watched in-person, and the first five minutes or so are the loudest crowd I've ever heard in-person. Nobody was sitting down. Helps that both guys had to wait 12 years to wrestle the other, and they got to do it in front of 22,000 people in NYC. AEW catches random strays around here, but this was peak.
 
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Kaines

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This is still the best match I've ever watched in-person, and the first five minutes or so are the loudest crowd I've ever heard in-person. Nobody was sitting down. Helps that both guys had to wait 12 years to wrestle the other, and they got to do it in front of 22,000 people in NYC. AEW catches random strays around here, but this was peak.
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Random?? AEW deserves every bit of criticism it gets. Imagine how good WWE could be if AEW were halfway competent
 
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Rajaah

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Random?? AEW deserves every bit of criticism it gets. Imagine how good WWE could be if AEW were halfway competent
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Most criticism of AEW is overblown, and mostly by people who never actually watch it.

As someone who actually is familiar with the product, though, it does have a lot of room for improvement, and didn't measure up to all the promise it had in 2019. There was a pretty big responsibility hefted on Khan and The Elite to deliver an alternative to the WWE hegemony (and how unwatchable it had gotten circa 2019 - Brock one-shotting Kofi Kingston for the title felt like they were flipping a big bird at their audience). Even from the get-go, I wasn't sure if those guys were taking the responsibility seriously. They weren't putting the right people in the right places, especially on production and writing. You had the Codys and CM Punks that wanted to compete / beat down WWE, and then you had the Kennys and Bucks that wanted to play nice and co-exist in their niche pocket. The former means capturing audience from RAW and Smackdown, the latter means capturing audience from NXT and indies. I wish they would have taken things more seriously and tried harder, especially on the storyline front.

TLDR: AEW is a good product (that people who usually don't even watch it trash as bad) but it should be a great product and it's a shame how it's kinda fallen off into TNA-level "just exists" territory.

And yeah, it's a bit random. Reminiscing on 2021 because goddamn, 2021 AEW was the best it ever got. In 2019 they did manage to bring back a lot of lapsed fans and give them hope, and 2021 was the closest I've ever gotten to experience to what wrestling felt like in the Attitude Era (in terms of fan hype). Especially at the shows in Chicago and NYC that year, which felt like I was back in 1999 or 2000.
 
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