Friends then enemies, and now (hopefully) uniting the trios titles. My god, TK please, unify and/or drop some of these titles.

It's obvious why Willow/Riho went on last - get a 2nd hometown pop for Mercedes and set up her storyline. The whole show was themed around her and they're positioning Boston as one of their big bases like they did with Chicago when Punk was still there. Ticket sales for the show were reportedly great and their last time there was Blood and Guts which also sold well.

Weren't they just recently enemies before they were friends for a month though? It was a pretty quick and random turn with no build.

They joined forces because of Undisputed Kingdom attacking all of them but it looks like they're just dropping that which is good because it wasn't working.

That osperay spot is one of the stupidest things I’ve ever seen. And snow is 100% on this, what is the point of that level of risk on a transitional move that moves the match along and tells no story

F-

The ratings have barely moved, if at all, for the debuts of Ospreay/Okada/Moné. There's a very loyal base, who will tune in week in/week out regardless of who's on the card, but these new signings haven't moved the needle.

The lesson should be that it's completely unnecessary to try to sign a ton of stars to bloated contracts, but TK will never get that. What he should do is consolidate the roster, not the opposite.

In the old days, guys in the WWF worked like 330 nights a year. Even now, WWE stars work way more than AEW. AEW doesn't even have that many shows, so I don't see why most wrestlers couldn't work an average of 1.5 nights a week. Some weeks 1 night, some 2. Could even work in some squashes to build up guys like Ospreay/White. Every match doesn't need to be a banger. There are hardly any shows so you wouldn't even need that big a roster if everyone is making at least 1 appearance a week, and we'd get to see all the top people consistently and build storylines rather than people disappearing constantly.

Show has been pretty fire tonight. Next week looking stacked.

I concur. Ironically, the thing I thought was pretty bad was the opening segment with Sasha and crew. Mostly everything else was great

Dynasty shaping up to be one of their best ever in ring ppvs as well which is really saying something

Some of the matches coming up look insanely good.

I was really excited about Mercedes, but am already cooling. The piped in C-E-O just seems incredibly lame, and the same little dance every single time. The promos have also been really underwhelming and I'm not interested in the least at these developing stories w/Willow or vs. Julia Hart. I think they needed to debut her in a big angle with someone with charisma who could go back and forth with her on the mic.

It seems the plan for every former WWE or Impact woman coming in is a brief run with the champion as a face and then a quick heel turn. Seems Deonna Purazzo's already headed that way and will probably go that way with Mercedes too. (Like Taya, Athena, Paige and Toni before them.)

Please tell me they're not already turning Wardlow AGAIN!!

Rest of the show was pretty strong. Although, I feel like they almost made the mistake of getting sympathy for Christian. They are going to have to put him and Edge together at some point, but he's just such a great heel.

punk goes to aew, shits on wwe, punk goes to wwe, shits on aew

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6xQo-bko00

among a bunch of things, claims he told tony you're a clown this is a f'ing joke I quit before the joe/punk match at wembley.

Lol yeah, basically all that interview did was prove how out of touch he is. Hangman seems pretty justified.

Punk has also now told two different versions of events, dude is way more Hogan than Hart these days.

“I didn’t punch somebody, I just choked somebody a little bit.” Lol, wtf is wrong with this guy??

How so? He's the catalyst for all this which has really put AEW into a very downward business spiral and for seemingly no reason. But perhaps I missed something

Hangman makes a crack about workers rights to the guy who uses words as weapons and Punk throws a toddler tantrum in response. Who’s the catalyst?

The crack seems rather justified given that in this very interview Punk is saying that wrestlers shouldn’t have guaranteed pay (while always wrestling with guaranteed pay himself). He’s literally become everything he used to rally against. The ultimate irony will be complete when Phil eventually laces up his boots for a Saudi show.

The guy just comes off as insanely hypocritical, sensitive, and narcissistic. Everything is always everyone else’s fault.

Edit: If things are really as one-sided as he portrays them, why is the famously litigious Punk not taking anyone to court? He’s disingenuous as hell and already spinning multiple versions of “the real story.”

I do want to clarify that the majority of this blame totally falls on TK for letting the inmates run the asylum.

I just can’t stand the Punk dickriders acting like he had no choice but to drop the gripe bomb and assault people, all because Hangman got spicy with him in a promo. A promo that no viewer took beyond face value or thought twice about.

A lot of big egos in a small space, but Punk definitely comes off as the most childish especially given his supposed “locker room legend” status. Dude’s 45 years old and starting physical altercations over, in his own words, “internet ****.”

Edge’s “statement” to start the show was pretty cringe.

Should’ve leaked the footage to TMZ or something. The Bucks trying to turn it into a storyline with their typical double-meaning meta style just didn’t land well at all. I can understand what they and FTR were going for story-wise, but it was simply too hot to handle.

The only positive coming out of this, is that the footage has been seen. This could’ve been something that was speculated for years, but now everyone knows exactly what happened.

Overall, I’m excited for Dynasty. I hope AEW can now redirect their focus back to bangers and ****.

I don't care at all about anything Jericho is involved in and any Julia Hart match is guaranteed to be mediocre at best, but the rest of the card looks great and could have some legendary matches.

HOOK needs to ****ing destroy Jericho.

Anyone watching Dynasty?

Pac/Okada and Strong/O'Reilly were great. 6 man with House of Black solid as well. Looking forward to Danielson/Ospreay and hopefully a Swerve title win.

Welp

Lol Jericho.

Ospreay/Danielson was ridic.

Edit: crowd has been incredible

It's time for Swerve to take the gold.

This is hard for me to say as someone who this has been my favorite wrestler for like 20 ****ing years

But…I think I hate Chris Jericho