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Koushirou said:

Alright, so how hard are we believing for RAW tonight?

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Personally, I DON'T believe in Joe Hendry.

That's right, I said it.

Kaines said:

So Cody vs Cena will not main event Wrestlemania. Triple H just BURIED the WWE championship.

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If anything, they buried Jey Uso and the redundant other world title. Why the fuck do they even have two world titles? WCW had two world titles in 1992/1993/1994 and abandoned it to merge the titles when Hogan came in, so Hogan could win a unified title and be The Guy. Was such a bummer when they un-merged the titles yet again (merging them in 2014 and 2022 was a good call) by introducing this new belt that nobody knows from Adam.

Also, Cody beat Gunther in a title vs title match. If anything, Gunther's title is the modern 80's IC title equivalent. Regardless, Jey Uso is getting dicked over really bad and is an afterthought, despite having the most over entrance in the company.

My jimmies are also rustled by Cena being upstaged by The Rock in this whole thing. If he starts a faction, who's the leader? Him or The Rock?

Punk continuing to be rewarded after the shit he did in AEW is kind maddening. Why does his match need main event status? I guess it was part of his contract and it's a way to get his WM main event out of the way without it involving any world titles (given what happened the last two times he won world titles, I doubt they're in amy hurry to put a title on him). Hopefully the Punk match is only "main eventing" Night 1. Which I don't consider a main event but the company does.

Only way I'll think this makes sense is if Cena wins the title on Night 1 and then proceeds to trash the show on Night 2, "invading" with his new NWO (Rock and whoever else). After Jey Uso wins the other title, Jimmy turns on him and takes him out before joining Cena's group. In the main event they help Seth win and he joins too. End result is Jey, Punk, Roman, and Cody all aligned against the new NWO. They can do a title unification with Cena deciding he wants #18 from Jey, they can do Roman vs Rock, they can do Jey vs Jimmy, they can do Cody/Punk vs Seth and whoever else is involved.

Well, just some ideas. Who would you put in a new NWO with small elite membership?

Breakdown said:

Cody on his third straight mania main event of night 2, and was on night 1 as well last year.

Punk is main eventing night 1

AEW is rolling out shitty Cope vs Mosley death matches in front of 2000 people

I cannot believe how badly Tony khan fumbled his company by letting those two stars walk away because he sides with Indy marks with zero draw.

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Unfortunately, Punk forced their hand by being a complete jackass behind the scenes, terminally angry and terminally "big-leaguing" everyone.

Cody leaving on the other hand was mostly due to Cody not wanting to turn heel and wanting a significant pay raise to match the new salary scale after Punk and Bryan came in with much higher incomes.

TK is indeed a moron for not giving Cody a pay raise. The fans are morons for booing Cody out of the building and making him want to head out.

Losing those two basically killed AEW, that much is for certain. And incidentally raised WWE's level significantly.

AEW still has Kenny (who they need to use as an Undertaker-like attraction instead of just another regular guy) and MJF (who seems to care less and less) to hang their hat on, but aren't using either of them particularly well. At this point it is what it is, most AEW employees and fans know they're just gonna be a distant 2nd for a long time.

* They also have Will Ospreay who is a legitimate superstar, young, and reliable, and should probably be made the face of the company. They're clearly waiting until August 2026 (next Wembley show) to put the title on him though.