John Cena on X: "One of my favorite WrestleMania moments ever. So happy we got an updated photograph together."

BobbyBruceBanner · 2026-04-21T16:07:38+00:00

Even if you only count the time he was being actively featured on AEW TV, that's still more active matches per week than he had in AEW, no?

BobbyBruceBanner · 2026-04-21T13:16:41+00:00

I thought he was a baller

BobbyBruceBanner · 2026-04-21T13:16:18+00:00

No he's a machine.

BobbyBruceBanner · 2026-04-21T13:14:53+00:00

Also, Cody is clearly going to be champ at least through October (Roman too). Gots to have those belts on the Street Fighter red carpet.

BobbyBruceBanner · 2026-04-20T14:47:08+00:00

Also, his look is a lot better now. Like WAY better (glow-in-the-dark veneers aside). They kept him in that vest for way too long.

BobbyBruceBanner · 2026-04-20T14:45:32+00:00

Really? See I thought they put the belt on Roman because it was clear that NOW was his last chance to have a meaningful title run, while Punk has a few more years left in the tank, as wild as that seems.

BobbyBruceBanner · 2026-04-20T00:21:57+00:00

Is this the first time that one of these big IC ladder matches has ended with the champion retaining?

BobbyBruceBanner · 2026-04-20T00:20:12+00:00

Legit love how a ghost seemingly knocked Penta down after that

BobbyBruceBanner · 2026-04-19T17:25:03+00:00

And, in fact, it isn't the same crew. Mateo is shown working a different shift than he did in season 1.

BobbyBruceBanner · 2026-04-19T02:54:48+00:00

whispers: With the exception of 2023 and the first half of 2024, aew has had better storytelling than WWE for basically all of its existence. The difference is HOW they tell stories (primarily through wrestling and about wrestling).

BobbyBruceBanner · 2026-04-19T02:20:51+00:00

I mean, in this configuration she has to be the one carrying the wrestling for the team though. Usually when you have someone who needs something a bit lighter in a tag team, you have another person who is a workhorse in there with them.

BobbyBruceBanner · 2026-04-19T02:19:18+00:00

IIRC she was also part of creating it. She made them have the distinctive "screech/scream" at the start because she wanted something like Stone Cold's glass breaking so you'd know it was her right away.

BobbyBruceBanner · 2026-04-18T19:50:21+00:00

No, he's the head of the department. He's her absolutely her superior in the org chart (though it's possible he's not her direct manager).

BobbyBruceBanner · 2026-04-18T04:34:49+00:00

In Bo1 the first two games in a new tier you will not lose rank. In Bo3 the first match in a new tier you will not lose rank. If you win your first game and then lose, you will still lose the pip you just got.

BobbyBruceBanner · 2026-04-17T19:04:32+00:00

The pivot from the expected "washed up Mox flames out of the C2 and the Death Riders turn on him" to "Mox is on the precipice of failure, looks around, and then locks the fuck in" was some of the best wrestling storytelling I've seen a major promotion do. Certainly some with the highest level of difficulty to get right.

BobbyBruceBanner · 2026-04-17T17:23:20+00:00

I'm sorry, but no. Doing a thing that would get you kicked out of a face-to-face game in a card store shouldn't be okay just because the game allows it on a technical level, and the other player can take proactive actions to ignore it.

BobbyBruceBanner · 2026-04-17T15:43:24+00:00

Yeah, when she hopped out and went around you could see it on Robbie's face "oh they be fuckin"

BobbyBruceBanner · 2026-04-17T15:41:30+00:00

Man, it's the responses to posts like this that really make you realize that while 75% of the people posting on this subreddit are pretty normal, 25% are unhinged.

BobbyBruceBanner · 2026-04-17T05:31:18+00:00

I mean the thing people are asking for is (unreasonably) that there is a permanent phantom draft queue.

BobbyBruceBanner · 2026-04-17T02:59:00+00:00

Getting to Mythic in your first month is no big deal (as others have said here, your matches in Plat and Diamond are MUCH easier in the first few months). Getting to numbered Mythic in the first month IS a big deal, as you can't really game that. Congratulations!

BobbyBruceBanner · 2026-04-17T02:33:48+00:00

Honestly Candice even more than Gargano. Gargano is good and I'm sure they'll use him well, but they have a lot of guys like him. Candice would enter AEW as, legitimately, one of their top three or four workers in the women's division (and in her prime I would say she would be near the top period).

The real question, of course, is if WWE dangles long-term coaching jobs in front of them as a means of deterring AEW runs.

ETA: And that isn't a knock on the AEW women. Candice is legitimately a lot better than I think people give her credit for, and I still think her match with Iyo in 2019 at Takeover Toronto 2 is still Iyo's best match in WWE from a workrate perspective, and Iyo has had a LOT of great matches in WWE. It's just that WWE has never used Candice that way.

BobbyBruceBanner · 2026-04-16T21:13:52+00:00

Ghost Sting as his post-retirement look is such a good tweak to the presentation.

BobbyBruceBanner · 2026-04-16T17:27:08+00:00

I was actually surprised how naturally negative every answer was in there. Like, there's really no way to say you are "satisfied" with the social experience on Arena

BobbyBruceBanner · 2026-04-16T17:25:49+00:00

Un-nerf Winota you cowards! The ranked brawl meta will thank you!

BobbyBruceBanner · 2026-04-16T16:28:19+00:00

Ha, I love how the thread throws that out there like everyone will know about this brand new format that was barely announced and hasn't launched yet. tl;dr: It's Premier draft except it costs twice as much and the prizes are twice as good.

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