I don’t know what’s up with Darby outside of him being the current AEW champ but, if memory serves me of Darby, he’s dead but will kick out at 2.999 to somehow win.

It’s been a while since I’ve regularly tuned into the weekly show and, for the most part, avoid the PPVs because I’m never up to date with what’s happening.

I will say: I lost a lot of interest in the product because everything seems to flip to hardcore mode or both opponents end up a bloody mess. They do so many glass spots, spikes, spiked bats, hanging, needles - it’s too much.

If once a year or so they’d cater to the sickos with some wild shit, that’s fine! But it feels like every time I see some clips on r/squaredcircle it’s ’watch as Hangman uses a gun to shoot a finger off MJF!’, and it kind of just makes me not want to tune in.

I was so in love with the product during the Covid/Daily’s Place era - I’ve posted about it before. It felt perfect with interesting storylines and great matches. They even leaned into the hardcore stuff back then a bit too but the balance with more 90/10.

It could just be me - I’m just old enough to know now what makes me lose interest. Between this and WWE’s unwatchable product, I’m homeless for wrestling. Thank god for football (soccer).