Being in the crowd for Jack Perry's Windy City Riot entrance was incredible. But also, I get why AEW showed the footage. I've been a wrestling fan for a long time, and Jack Perry definitely was going to get Punk chants and be the "got CM Punk fired" guy if they hadn't done anything. But incorporating the incident into the story really lets Perry react to it. He can do the choke. He can do Punk signature moves. He can tease the G2S. But it's part of his thing now, and he can own it and move forward and maybe even drop it in a few years as he evolves. It's just really cool of the Bucks and FTR to absorb all the obnoxious discourse around showing the footage Wednesday to help a young wrestler not get bogged down because an old guy had a fit.
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When the story becomes Kenny can only beat the Bucks when love is involved to power the tag team then he'll see
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While I appreciate the Elite/Hangman stuff being brought back up to continue, I also don't want AEW to diminish Dark Order by simply swapping them out.
Initially I had hoped that we'd put Dark Order over by having them rise to meet the BCC, since they are still good wrestlers who made the Trios finals, at Blood & Guts. But with the Elite coming in it does feel like they are at risk of being job guys again.
Instead, I want to encourage AEW to go a different route, make this a 3-way battle for Hangman's soul: you have the BCC who respect Hangman but want to literally beat him into submission (we could have it be like a recruitment angle), the Elite are his old friends capable of standing to the BCC and penitent for their rift, and Dark Order are the friends who stuck by Hangman at his lowest but seem a little out of depth. We put a fourth for Elite and BCC (Adam Cole for Elite and maybe someone like Hobbs for BCC since he did roll with Mox for a bit, or Shota, may be too soon for heel Danielson) while keeping Stu because Stu is great and then we have a great narrative feud as well as a great in-ring feud.
Hell, 3-Way Anarchy in the Arena it with Hangman making a choice on who to side with, just don't shuffle Dark Order to the side.
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More tag team punishment by the Young Bucks who trapped Cash Wheeler in their torture chamber -- aka, the wrestling ring -- and proceeded to work him over. They thwart his every escape attempt and unleash their flashy, devastating offense. And I was here for it.
This is the third time these teams have met (and hopefully not their last.) In the golden age of wrestling, the same wrestlers or tag teams would meet dozens of times, in every little town on the circuit. I wish these two teams would do that -- just wrestle on every card for the next 5 years.
The Young Bucks actually unleashed their devastating Double Knee Strike (which they call the "BTE Trigger") twice on Cash Wheeler. He kept kicking out, though -- which gave the Young Bucks more time to keep on hurting him.
There must be something wrong with me, because I really enjoy seeing the wrestlers I love utterly gutted and humiliated.
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