She does not perform very well in the ring, and her size has nothing to do with it.

How could anyone want to see Zelina wrestle?

The match is passé and there are two on the same show. The cash-in makes faces look cowardly, titles look cheap, and the company looks incompetent.

Why would a sport allow a way for its biggest prize to be won in such an unsporting manner?

Last years C2 was a marked improvement in both quality and scale, too. Both the Owen and C2 will become big draws for AEW if they treat them right.

Yep. They have got better each year, but the bar is high now.

Still sounds piped.

I think it was Q magazine who said it was the only guitar album of the 90s that sounded like the future. That is a stretch, but it's not far off.

Why?

I read this as an undeserved market, which is probably more accurate.

Apparently Meltzer said Iwatani is going to the US.

AEW is a success, and the doomers, grifters, and WWE PR puppets know they can't deny it anymore. You can tell because they are trying to spell a new narrative that it was never possible for them to fail.

The Baba method. Once you merge your singles guys into the tag division it becomes stacked pretty quickly. They don't all even have to be active at the same time.

Turns out she didn't have many places.

Enough talent for a female C2 in the summer.

Same vibes as Seth Rollins. Wacky clothing as a substitute for personality.

He has Yeet written across his face.

It wouldn't matter in the least.

I remember when Jey won the Rumble people rushing to defend the idea he should main event Wrestlemania. Meanwhile, even WWE knew all along his "Main Event" gimmick is a rib.

Punk's quest to main event Mania could have been a big story in next years road to Wrestlemania but you can't re-tell that story now, just for the sake of being a minor plot point in a muddy, tepid three-way story.

That's what I meant by 'booked better'.

That's a symptom of HHHs priorities. Rhea v Belair could have if it had been booked better.

As in you could have done something bigger with it and save it to headline night 2. It's pretty incidental to this story and doesn't feel important.

This call causes multiple problems. It means neither Rumble winner gets a main event. It means "Main Event" Jey Uso is once again midcard. It means no women headliners again. It burns the story of Punk finally headlining Mania for a secondary spot.

They keep talking about cards. Sometimes it's the cards that win the game, but usually it's the player.

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Realistically, all brawls should be pull-aparts if security are doing their job.

You wouldn't prefer to see any of the two in a singles match? Triple threats just dilute a singles match in my experience.

Who actually wants a triple threat?

Part of this save was to play 442 longball, but it was limiting the team. This is the formation that worked for me in a previous save and turned our fortunes around here too.

We had the worst defence in the league and seemed to concede every shot on target.

A win over Blackburn on the final day saw us leapfrog them into our best ever finish. If we had our form over the last 19 games for the whole season we would have finished 3rd.

Sagi Burton and Carlo Nash are the only Eagle originals and both are still in the first team.

Season 7 was a season of two halves. We were 18th at the halfway point but finished 8th, our highest placing.

The turning point was ditching 442 variations and longball tactics.