I thought it was an interesting hire, and had a chance to work...but I'm not sure how well Adnan could perform off the type of scripting WWE does.

I haven't watched Raw in months, so I didn't know how he was doing. I always liked him when he was at ESPN, though

There are a lot of people on the digital end who have been let go from WWE. The WWE Advanced Media Group department is merging with TV and many people were laid off. Some who work on https://t.co/XDVO5lgJk0 and Youtube were among them, as well as editorial and production.

— Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful.com (@SeanRossSapp) May 25, 2021

Tom Phillips released

I enjoyed Tom Phillips. I wish they let Corey Graves go, he's annoyed me since his days in NXT

“He may be taller, but let me tell you—I could bench press him 750 times all the way to Croatia and back.”@ToBeMiro would do ANYTHING to help his Los Angeles Clippers stop Luka Doncic pic.twitter.com/akYBr8m91t

— SportsNation (@SportsNation) May 27, 2021

Miro threatening to take out Luka to help the clippers win

Tony khan is so cringey and such a try hard. I tried posting his new promo about NJPW/WWE and it was just so bad.

good decision to start with Darby Allin. The crowd loves that guy

Lol I thought it was funny

My DON predictions:
AEW World Championship
Kenny Omega (c) vs. PAC vs. Orange Cassidy
Winner: Omega (this will probably be a good back and forth, but there almost 0% chance the big gold goes to either PAC or Cassidy)

AEW Women's World Championship
Hikaru Shida (c) vs. Britt Baker
Baker (she's their best talker and she's been putting herself over. No way they don't put the title on her)

AEW TNT Championship
Miro (c) vs. Lance Archer with Jake Roberts
Miro (my gut is telling me Miro so they can keep pushing him as a monster that he as of late as opposed to his lackluster start.)

AEW World Tag Team Championship
The Young Bucks (c) vs. Jon Moxley and Eddie Kingston
Bucks (honestly I'm 50/50 on this since I feel AEW would like to have some gold on Mox, but I expect some interference)

Stadium Stampede Match
The Pinnacle vs. Inner Circle
Inner Circle (they wouldn't break up their biggest faction with their biggest star in Jericho?)

Casino Battle Royale
Christian Cage, Matt Sydal, Powerhouse Hobbs, 10, Evil Uno, Colt Cabana, Matt Hardy, Isiah Kassidy, Marq Quen, Jungle Boy, Penta El Zero Miedo, The Acclaimed, Nick Comoroto, Lee Johnson, Dustin Rhodes, Varsity Blonds, The Blade, and TBA
Winner receives future AEW World Championship match.
Christian. (Unless a TBA is a huge name, I don't know who else they would go with. Hobbs, Hardy, or Penta are they only others I could see)

Sting and Darby Allin vs. Ethan Page and Scorpio Sky
Sting/Allin (you get the "feel good Sting win and haha screw you WWE because he's here doing what he couldn't do there". I also think Allin gets the actual pinfall as a passing of the torch kind of thing even though he is about 10% as interesting as Sting)

Cody Rhodes vs. Anthony Ogogo
Rhodes (meh.)

Hangman Page vs. Brian Cage
Page (I have almost no interest in Cage at all. I wouldn't be surprised if taz ditches him very soon)

NWA Women's World Championship (Buy In)
Serena Deeb (c) vs. Riho
Deeb I guess?

Jericho is going to be out for part of July, a bit in August, and pretty much all of September and October touring with Fozzy. So, I could easily see them breaking up the inner circle to start having their own angles.

*********page and cage killed it. Hell of an opener.

So far it's been great. The crowd is really into it.

Ogogo sucks. The "I hit someone one time and they are severely hurt" angle is stupid.

Dang. One match away from getting them all correct.

What a great ****ing show.

I didn't get to see the PPV. Did Sting take any bumps or did he just do a few moves at the end? I love that he's back but I always worry he's gonna get hurt again.

Sting took a suplex on the stage and jumped right up after. I was shocked he was willing to do that.

Great show overall.

WWE posted this on their Instagram yesterday, anyone recognize the "local jobber" Nia squashed...

https://instagr.am/p/CPd3MwrhKKr

bigcat22 said:

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WWE posted this on their Instagram yesterday, anyone recognize the "local jobber" Nia squashed...

https://instagr.am/p/CPd3MwrhKKr

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There are few wrestlers I dislike as much as I despise Nia

I really liked that ppv!! The crowd was electric, the wrestlers fed off the fans real well and almost all the matches were spot on!!

Same here. And WWE posting this clip of Nia squashing Britt Baker hours before the AEW PPV as if they somehow have the better wrestler is straight laughable

Full show

Crowd participation when done right is so ****ing good. The ending with Judas was cool, but I got chills when they sang Tarzan Boy when JB won the battle royale.

wtf?!

WWE has come to terms on the releases of Braun Strowman, Aleister Black, Lana, Murphy, Ruby Riott and Santana Garrett.

WWE wishes them the best in all of their future endeavors. https://t.co/8bAQIFgA1M pic.twitter.com/b77AeeLuDn

— WWE (@WWE) June 2, 2021

Braun needs to go to AEW. He would kill there.

Send Braun, Aleister, Lana and Murphy straight to AEW please.

If I'm being honest, Braun and Murphy are the only ones I'll miss. Shocked they could never find a way to use Murphy, he was such a good worker.

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If I'm being honest, Braun and Murphy are the only ones I'll miss. Shocked they could never find a way to use Murphy, he was such a good worker.

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It never surprises me that WWE can't find a way to use talented wrestlers. They botch it over and over again. Rinse and repeat.

I really liked Braun, Murphy, and Aleister.
This suuuuuuuuuucks.

It's not surprising. WWE largely sucks lately. I don't even watch Raw or Smackdown any longer. They are just so boring and predictable. I watch NXT occasionally, which is still halfway watchable.

Same. haven't watched anything other than WM in 2 years probably. Any highlight/storyline/clip I see looks bad.

The Aleister release really makes no sense. Something had to have happened very recently like within the last couple of days. He was just doing the angle with Big E and did all those promos. Like within the last week or so.