Modern Marks

Even if it was only AEW fans calling out Gail Kim for her racist and misogynistic comments about Riho, which thankfully it wasn't, that would say more about other fans than it would say about AEW fans. 🤼

The AEW Men's World Champion should be the biggest thing on every show, alongside the AEW Women's Champion. He should be #1 in terms of match presentation, #1 in terms of story presentation, and instead? Not even a 10-minute match and no story coming out of the PPV.

As nice as a one-off Moriarty match is, AEW continues to present Hangman way below what he's earned and deserves. I can't blame this solely on AEW's lack of top-of-the-card heels. He's simply being booked as less important than the AEW Men's Champ should be. Why does this keep happening? 🤼 #AEW

Riho is one of the best pro wrestlers in the fucking world. 🤼

How is it helping your show to say, "AEW IS FOR THE SICKOS!" and then force us to read the most normie-ass boring takes from Twitter in the middle of a MOTY candidate? 🤼 #AEW

I absolutely loved the PPV but I'm going to rate the show poorly and every AEW show going forward until the god damn tweets are removed. 🤼 #AEW

Brett Lauderdale even considering talking The Collective to Saudi Arabia for the 2027 WrestleMania weekend is such carny-ass fucking bullshit. Stand up for your fucking promotion, your wrestlers, and your fans, you clown. 🤼 #GCW

Bowens quoting my criticism of Tony Khan's mid-card booking.

Riho, a former AEW Women's World Champion, not getting her own music for her entrance while Windsor did, is a fucking crime. 🤼 #AEW

Blue, green and yellow illustration of wrestlers Mason Madden and Mansoor posing.

Illustration of wrestling tag team MxM Collection

Also, it's been said a million times but it needs to be said again. One women's match per Dynamite is completely unsustainable. Something's gotta give.

Highlights -- Darby's a maniac. RIHO! Brodido is fuckin' OVER! Mike Bailey and Kyle Fletcher are both incredible.

Lowlights -- Hook still presented way above his level, w/e that Christian+Cope/FTR bullshit was, Hangman still booked like he's less important than everyone around him. 🤼 #AEW

That Cope+Christian/FTR segment is the definition of what last-minute football season Tony Khan booking looks like. 🤼 #AEW

Uh, there's no fucking way Mark Briscoe beats Konosuke Takeshita before Takeshita gets his match against ZSJ, right? Right? 🤼 #AEW

why didn't my gif work T_T

AEW wrestler Riho in the video game Fight Forever holding up multiple championship belts.

IT'S HAPPENING! 🤼 #AEW

I'm more bothered by there only being three matches announced for Dynamite tonight than I am about any All Out schedule adjustment nonsense. Please, football season Tony Khan! 🤼 #AEW

And, even if you want to give Will some respect and accept the premise of his argument. "Groupthink social place" is immeasurably better than the fucking Nazi place. What are your priorities, man?

It's an embarrassing take. Go over to @willwashington.bsky.social Twitter and see how many conversations he managed to have about wrestling over there. No surprise, there are none. He's engaged more with this one Bluesky conversation than anything over there for months. But bsky is "groupthink."

I would love to hear Will's thoughts on wrestling on the regular, but having him come over here after spending all his time on the Nazi platform and immediately say Bluesky is a "groupthink social space," a baffling perspective spread specifically by the Nazi place... come on, man.

I'm not one to mince words on the subject of CM Punk. CM Punk was only so damaging to AEW because Tony Khan enabled him. He did so at the expense of his roster and the quality of AEW. He used Punk to undercut his co-founders. AEW hasn't fully recovered from it, and probably never will. 🤼 #AEW

It just goes to show that Hager calling Tony Khan a communist, an article in The Athletic talking about AEW's leftist wrestling -- AEW is still a company driven by money. Only fan pressure can improve things.

Reminder that Jay Lethal was credibly accused by multiple women of using his position in Ring of Honor to solicit sex for better booking and treatment. 🤼 #AEW

... and somehow the ROH card grew worse.

Tonight's Death Before Dishonor PPV looks like what might be the worst card TK's ever booked. Definitely near the bottom. 🤼 #AEW

Okay, one squash. But only one!

We're almost to Dynamite and thank all that is good there is no Wardlow squash announced. No more squashes for Wardlow. Either have good matches, or go back to American Gladiators. 🤼 #AEW

That's way too much wrestling, man.

Some marks always gotta make everything about WWE.

If you're a wrestling fan and understand that WWE is toxic dogshit, stop letting it color your every wrestling take. Watch great wrestling. Support great wrestling. Compare it to other great wrestling. Demand great wrestling get better. 🤼 #AEW

Forbidden Door ended basically like every individual match ended. 90% very fun and then 10% off-putting. It's the same reason Dynamite continues to be frustrating to watch. They're trying to do too much, and it's hurting the wrestling. 🤼 #AEW #AEWForbiddenDoor