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I thought the Okada vs. Sanada match was really good but it wasn't as blowaway as you make it out to be. Maybe it's more enjoyable with english commentary? I thought ELP vs. Ospreay was a much better match and will be un-topable this week.

Loved Suzuki vs. Liger too and the post match that Suzuki had to honor Liger. Very cool moment.

Archer vs. Juice was a fun brawl. Excited to see Archer get a chance to do something cool after watching him shine in the G1.

Overall a really good show from New Japan.

I don’t think you want to end a $50 PPV on a screwy finish.

Awesome matches from AEW and NXT tonight. Young Bucks vs. Private Party is as good of a tag match as you can ask for. Mox and Spears was a fun brawl, the visual of Kenny with the barbed wire broom stick was hilarious. Inner Circle seems cool. WALTER vs. KUSHIDA seemed really cool from what I watched from the overrun and Roddy vs. Swerve was also very good.

Both shows still have rough edges. The Best Friends/Orange Cassidy segment was lame and whatever the fuck the Velveteen Dream segment was is actively bad.

But still, great night of wrestling on Wednesdays.

I said this last night. I think the idea is that it's the same angle as the old shows, but the ropes are definitely in the foreground and there's no reason not to do it except for nostalgia.

@wikitoups: Yeah, I really dig the vibe of this show and it's completely different from the several thousand other options that are already out there.

The promo Tim Storm cuts before the main event is fantastic.

AEW Dark is pretty neat, but I don't know if it'll be a thing I need to see every week. The idea of NWA at 6:05, AEW at 7:00, and TNA at 8:00 every Tuesday is overwhelming.

I mostly watched GCW through the chat and MNF. Raw seemed pretty uneventful outside of the bookends of the show. Opening segment with Lesnar was awesome because everything Lesnar is involved with is awesome. Dominic's selling is already great so I'm ready for WWE's developmental to put an end to that. Ending segment was pretty rotten.

@dashibuya: I am loving what he's doing in AEW. He is single handedly bringing back old southern wrasslin' in 2019 and his matches are usually the most fun matches on every show he's been on (outside of Fight for the Fallen).

NXT was fine... the highlight was Oney vs. Lio. Kinda shocked that there was pretty much zero angles in the show outside of WALTER vs. KUSHIDA. Commercial breaks really broke up matches in the first hour. I don't think HHH understands the BS that people are complaining about, the TV main event ended via screwjob finish over the babyface and the network main event ended via a random brawl so there was a Non Finish in a street fight.

We'll see how it goes from here, but it seems like NXT will be focusing on having good matches AEW will have more focus on storylines/personalities and providing more variety of matches. So in the end they won't mirror each other and there will be a reason to watch both shows and ignore Raw/Smackdown.

Boy, the Kanelis angle is possibly the biggest pile of garbage I've seen in a long long time. I know it's the gimmick but Corey calling Mike a "beta cuck" on live TV with Renee and Cole chuckling to themselves really makes me pretty sure that I'm going to stop watching Raw/Smackdown for the time being.

I might be interested in trying this out and incorporating it into workouts from home. It's a neat idea. A ring isn't as cumbersome to have around the house as the Balance Board.