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CI Wrestling Thread #56

Dynamite for this evening...

AEW Women's Champion Toni Storm and Thunder Rosa vs. Penelope Ford and Megan Bayne.
AEW International Champion Kenny Omega vs. Blake Christian.
Swerve Strickland to call out AEW Champion Jon Moxley.
MJF to give his answer to MVP about joining The Hurt Syndicate.
Tony Schiavone will have a sitdown interview with Rated FTR.
Mark Davis vs. Powerhouse Hobbs.
Mark Briscoe vs.Konosuke Takeshita.
Kyle Fletcher vs. Brody King.
 
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So here’s the thing - why does the young kid act cocky and flip off omega? That’s reserved for people on the level of Okada not some roh upstart.
 
That MJF segment was odd - unless there’s some 4d chess move going on that just seemed kinda strange - just seems like MJF is treading water until they find a post hangman feud for him
 
To be fair that’s both their biggest weaknesses - Enzo did 90% of the mic work when they were a tag team in wwe
It wouldn’t have been bad work for Big Bill if he didn’t start making it an exchange of who’s the bitch. He had the right overall idea in mind and the tone but the execution needed improvement.

Can’t make a mistake against MVP on the mic though. He’s amongst the best ever at improving, and he knows everyone wants to hear him talk, so he isn’t about to hold back.
 
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It wouldn’t have been bad work for Big Bill if he didn’t start making it an exchange of who’s the bitch. He had the right overall idea in mind and the tone but the execution needed improvement.

Can’t make a mistake against MVP on the mic though. He’s amongst the best ever at improving, and he knows everyone wants to hear him talk, so he isn’t about to hold back
Thunderstorm was actually a pretty good name - Rosa already had the shirt made!
 
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Nice first pitch from MJF even if he did move closer to the plate before throwing it.

Thought Dynamite was a solid show, interesting they had the women main event for the second week in a row.

Ratings wise it continued it's slow climb over the last few weeks.

663,000 and a .17

Of course that doesn't include MAX numbers.
 
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Nice first pitch from MJF even if he did move closer to the plate before throwing it.

Thought Dynamite was a solid show, interesting they had the women main event for the second week in a row.

Ratings wise it continued it's slow climb over the last few weeks.

663,000 and a .17

Of course that doesn't include MAX numbers.
Don’t know what the demo #s are without taking the time to look thru the Wrestlenomics posts and it not worth the time to do that.

But total viewership has gone up for 6 straight weeks and is up 100K in that time span, going from 563K on February 19 to 663K last, a percentage increase of 17.76%.
 
Praying that Swerve wins next weekend, Hangman wins the Owen, and then we get Swerve vs. Hangman for the title at All In.

Renewing arguably the greatest rivalry in AEW history that also happens to feature two of the most permanently over guys on the roster for their biggest show of the year would be a great move.

If nothing else, injecting something more well liked into the main event scene right now by having Swerve win would be a great fan service move to go with AEW’s slow building momentum.

But I have a feeling Swerve isn’t going to win, which is going to be disappointing. But the ratings continuing to go up along with the social #s would indicate that the Death Riders stuff is hitting well outside of the IWC.

Like week after week after week Death Riders clips on AEW’s YouTube are consistently the most viewed clips. Even the clip of the trios match that didn’t involve Moxley was the top clip from Sunday Collision - excluding the Jericho stuff with the kid fan that wasn’t aired.

 
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Yep, it's Omega. He's a draw for AEW whenever he's there. When the Bucks and Perry return the ratings will slide once again because they act like douchebag teens. As far as Moxley goes, the IWC may hate the DR but any casuals tuning in wanna see someone who looks like a badass, and this version of Jon Moxley looks like a badass. Dean Ambrose looks like a kid on Halloween in his Shield gear compared to the shaved scalped, more beefed up Moxley who enjoys bleeding and choking people out. A subpar story may still work if the guy heading it up at least looks the part.
 
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BREAKING: Orlando has submitted an $18 million bid to host several WWE & UFC events from 2026-2031

Through the plan the city intends to bring the following events to the city over the next few years:

— Survivor Series or SNME ( Kia Center 2026)
— UFC PPV (Kia Center 2027)
— Royal Rumble (2028 Camping World Stadium)
— WrestleMania (2031 Camping World Stadium)
 

I can’t stand it when people I know play their family drama out in public, I sure as hell hate it when celebrities do this crap.
 
Put the belt on Swerve

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