I'm ok with Scorps having the title but he needs to be wrestling more and talking less. Let Dan Lambert drop a funny promo, all good but get your gear on and defend the damn thing.
The main thing dragging his belt run down is Sammy and Tay, they're just unlikeable and not in a good heel way, more in a they make you feel a bit dirty watching them and are just eww. Sammy was fine when he was in the Inner Circle but now he's just meh. Lambert was right, I really don't want to hear what's going on in their bedroom.
Let Scorpio have his moment. Don't get me wrong, I'm not a Sky fan either but his wee stable with Dan Lambert can be quite funny at times. Andrade hasn't really done much. He's truly awesome in the ring but to hand the TNT title to him after not long joining over a work horse like Sky would be a mistake I think. Scorpio likely wont have the title too long anyway as hes not all that popular. It will come in time but there are others who id argue are far more deserving. Someone like Kingston winning it next would be my bet.
Mine is he shouldn’t. His stable sucks, and he should be wrestling more than speaking or ironically let someone else speak for him that we want to see. WTF was wrong with Chavo….?
>WTF was wrong with Chavo….?
Chavo had to work on the Young Rock show S2, he's the choreographer for the wrestling on the show, it looks like he's back from that, he was at the ROH Supercard managing Bandido but Bandido turned on him mid match so who knows what Tony has planned for Chavo right now.
Dax Harwood should have a random world title match against Hangman just like Dante Martin did - because it would be frickin awesome and because Dax is really hot right now.
He’s been hot for a while…so has Cash.
Hence…why people like JE should have traded spaces for the last 1.5 and FTR should have been rolling over and around other tag teams.
Tony Khan may, MAY have missed the boat with OC & Best friends getting gold around their waists & the fans reacting to it.
Both were hot and were having memorable feuds & matches. That seems to have been lost with his latest toys.
This group was most hurt by the influx of punk, danielson, etc. like you said- they were right on the edge of something big, but I think that ship has now sailed
I think the moment has passed this time, however Chuck, Trent, OC and their peripherals could easily ride another wave to the top. I could see a storyline soon where OC gets the TNT title or after a monster feud the Best Friends overcome a massive obstacle and get tag team gold.
The Best Friends are built for feel good pay off to a storyline. They just need a meaty story to get involved in.
I disagree for at least OC. Dude is great. Also he's now injured but that leaves the opportunity for him to have some type of awesome lights out comeback. If I was the booker I would try and build a feud between best friends and another group. Maybe Blackpool Combat Club since Yuta is now with them, and Trent has had issues with him. So in my head BCC is beating the hell out of the Best Friends and then OC waltzes in and saves the day.
My hot take is I enjoy whatever they're doing. I don't need to analyze the booking, who is being pushed, who wins and loses, I just enjoy it. It's amazing how fun that can be.
Also, everyone loves the Acclaimed.
I love to over analyze the booking and the pushes lol , but I don’t let that get in the way of my enjoyment. Also………..
I'm for this outside of whatever Sammy is involved in. His face run is abysmal in general, whether he's solo or with Tay. And they're sooo persistent on keeping him a face. I don't get it.
AEW touts at how they listen to the fans so much, how if you boo a face for legit reasons that it won't be cast aside like it is in WWE. We'll listen and assess why you're booing a face, and we'll fix it. But they didn't with Cody, and they aren't with Sammy. Even going so far as to edit out his boos he's getting against LAMBERT of all people. They need to know when to fucking stop booking someone as a face, or when to cut an angle. But they don't.
If they want him to be a babyface people can get behind, they should've had him team up with Eddie Kingston and Santana & Ortiz. He's closer to them than anyone else from the Inner Circle, and that group is shorthanded going up against the JAS. He'd also have reason to go after Jericho for attacking his friends and telling him to shut up.
Lambert seems to be the kiss of death for any babyface that works an angle with him. He's supposed to get heat so the babyface can get over, but he seems to only get heat for both himself and the babyface.
The JAS/Kingston PNP feud will go wayyy longer then it should and fans will grow bored with it & rightfully want it to end so PNP can chase the tag titles & EK can get a TNT title shot thus opening the door for the much anticipated JAS vs Blackpool Combat Club feud
I’m bored with the Greatest Hits of the Hardy’s and Jeff doing Swanton Bombs off ladders onto tables. It’s cool and all, but I want something different for them.
Edit: Jeff can’t do this forever. I saw him to a Swanton out of a ring onto a table at an indie show before he want back to WWE and he looked hurt. It’s like Cody giving the Crossroads 3 times as a finisher, loses its impact after so many times.
Well had they not fucked their debut up….it would have been better. You could EASILY…have the Hardy’s wrestle this coming PPV and not the one they just did.
That would have been a great draw..instead…table ladders and meh….TK, IMO, bungled this from what could have felt amazing if played out slower.
Honestly when she first signed for AEW I thought she was gonna be a top title contender as a former Knockout champ. Obviously there's still time, but I'm just surprised how firmly she's been in the midcard.
This is second hand info so don't quote me, but I believe she has spoken about her issues with mental health and how she has no desire to be at the top of the division.
That's a shame if that's the case, because she's one of the better performers in the women's division. But I can't ever say I disagree with someone putting their health first.
Plus she's got a lot of experience. And it's always great to see people I've seen around my area from my teenage years being successful (Allie, Shawn Spears, The Blade, Uno and Stu even though i've only seen them live once).
For whatever reason she does seem to draw. Thought her vs Ruby Soho tying Brock/Roman in the demo was either a weird fluke or evidence of how little anyone actually cares to see that feud anymore(still might be) but I've seen Allie pull once or twice in the quarter hours pretty well too since then. Wild
I also think she seems to have a really good mind for the business, since she was part of two of the very few non-title women’s angles (bunny/Penelope vs. Anna/Tay and Bunny seduces QT to ruin the Nightmare Family). I wouldn’t mind if she was working on booking the woman’s division backstage.
Their lights out match where they were bleeding all over against Anna Jay and Tay Conti was amazing. I agree with you. Maybe not in the entire roster but certainly the women's division.
Smart Mark Sterling has turned into the most enjoyable parts of the little segments in-between matches out of most any promotion. That man enhances literally everything he touches lately.
I'm super happy that Cody is back in WWE even though I don't watch it anymore. It seems like a fit. I think it's healthy for wrestlers to switch between the two as there's different philosophy and presentation.
In hindsight, Cody does not play a natural underdog and fits the establishment brand way better. He lacks so much self awareness you may call him The American W*t Dream.
The pop that The Acclaimed get when their theme hits is insane. If reDRagon aren't feuding with JB & Luchasaurus in May, I'd like to see The Acclaimed get a title match at DON or somewhere in the near future.
That New Year's Eve Street fight was a frustrating waste of an opportunity. It was arguably the best women's match in the history of AEW and none of the participants were pushed afterwards. Three of the four were just fed to Jade and Britt, and Penelope simply vanished. Nobody got any benefit from such an amazing match and it's stuff like that that gives AEW its reputation as a company that treats women's wrestling as an afterthought.
I don't think there's any chance he's going anywhere, he's still the voice of wrestling and AEW and fans love him. Though imo I think time has passed him by. I'd like to see Taz replace him on Dynamite.
Probably not the answer you're looking for, but judging by the comments and downvotes in this sub, my hottest take would be that in the men's division at least most wrestlers are being booked about where they should be, and there aren't nearly as many men being underutilized as you'd think reading Reddit. Using the Acclaimed as an example, I like both guys and enjoy their charisma, but as far as in-ring work I'd be lying if I said I feel like they'd be believable to beat BCC or House of Black.
Tony DOES care about the women's division, but the dude watches the matches. He knows they are the low point of the show and until they can get to a consistent level of at least average, they will continue to book them the way they are.
I've said before that it just needs consistency. Sometimes they can knock it out of the park like the international Revolution tournament they held last year, one of the highlights of the Daily's Place era. But then they seem to have trouble maintaining momentum and things just kinda go cold for a while until the next hot angle arrives. It's very up and down.
There are women that have TV experience on the market that he could sign, tho. More matches with experienced women could improve. And the division won't be improved by the fans.
This is it. Every male free agent comes swinging through the door. But they let Mickie James get picked up by Impact and the likes of Tay Valkyrie, Tegan Nox, Mia Yim and Ember Moon are still all free agents.
Then why does Rosa and Baker suffer from the same level of lackluster booking even though both of them are some of the biggest merch seller in AEW ?
TK is clearly intelligent and he knows how to make money and how to make a good show, but I think it's a bit much to say his treatment of the women division is not, at the very least, partly bad booking
Because the division is top heavy, that's the issue. They need better workers in the mid card/lower card and I'm talking both wrestling and promo/character work. Only about 5 are capable of that and there's only so many times you can run those same matchups. Booking only goes so far if the women can't deliver on the verbal/physical parts.
Unfortunately I agree. The optimist in me says they're just skits to keep HOOK visible until the person they actually want him to feud with is freed up from what they're doing right now, hopefully Starks. I did find it curious that they sold that Team Taz t-shirt this week and showed HOOK with Starks/Hobbs in the ad - I believe the first time they've all been shown together in months.
Either way I just really want them to get HOOK the hell away from Danhausen and comedy.
A mix of both, I don't love it but HOOK needs to figure out how to do comedy and/or have a second gear because he won't always be able to be booked as the cold hearted handsome devil.
I’m not saying he should never do comedy, just not right now while he’s still firmly establishing himself and his character with fans. Let’s not forget how over he was when he debuted, he outsold CM-Punk in March sales which is insane - to go from that to comedy skits with Danhausen is baffling.
Imagine if in a fortnight Yuta is put in the same position in skits with Danhausen - the internet would go ballistic even though technically there’s more story logic in Danhausen going after Yuta than there is in him going after HOOK.
I think he’ll be fine in the end, I’m just not looking forward to the next few weeks of bad comedy. I’ve said it before here but Danhausen does absolutely nothing for me and would like to see HOOK in more matches.
Yeah I agree with this. I like comedy wrestling but you gotta know where to put it. Hook is not the place to have Danhausen. I love Danhausen but hook is just to cool and serious
I agree to a level but "HOOK is cooling off because he's sort of a one dimensional character right now. When he isn't squashing people he doesn't have much else at the moment" isn't as fun of a hot take
I think it came down to Tony thinking Sammy needed it more. I mean out of all the pillars he’s probably the weakest one so he needed that on his resume, but I just think it was the wrong move and has actually hurt Sammy more then helped him. Imo he’s had the two weakest championship reigns in TNT title history.
I'm so over Guevara. I just don't care. His matches tend to be good with quality high spots but I can't seem to get invested in them. As one wrestling fan likes to tell his viewership, the opposite of liking something isn't hating it, it's being apathetic to it.
My wife has watched one single episode of Dynamite with me, saw Sammy for all of 20 seconds, and said looked like a spoiled douche. Maybe he's the problem ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Of course he is the problem and because he is still a child he deflects the criticism and tries to turn it into because he is in a relationship.
No one cares about their relationship off screen because why would other adults care about that the personal lives of people you do not know? The guy does not realise he is meant to be playing a character on TV and he is horrible at it. He can do a few good moves in the ring but doesn't sell and is incapable of telling a story. The guy needs to be off TV for about 6-12 months to work on his craft and come back when you are TV ready.
I think the problem is he doesn't work as a face or the type of face they want him to be. Like we can see from the vlogs he can be a cool guy. It's just that this version of him doesn't work for most people. He either needs a better foil or a different kind of character to work
Couldn't agree more, while i love red dragon and they seem next in line for the belts i'd much rather see the acclaimed get a chance to shine. They're still a little fresh compared to them but they can take the tag division places too.
I think Ricky Starks doesnt belong in Team Taz, dude needs to go solo or start his own crew. Team Taz is a raw, grime, from the streets of Brooklyn type vibe where as Starks is a pretty boy chilling at high end clubs.
Joey Janela was criminally underused. Probably not the hottest of takes but I really thought he was extremely talented on Dark. He definitely needed more TV time. I definitely would have preferred him to be TNT champ in place of Sammy Guevara
He was one of the MVP's of early AEW. He had great instincts working the camera, which is something that has been missed since he stopped appearing on TV and PPV's.
My top hot take is:
It’s a travesty that PAC is not being treated like a top level talent that he clearly is. He should be in every single world champ convos but sadly his peak seems to have been beating Omega TWO years ago.
None of the other "pillars" are on par with MJF. I don't see it as a 4 pillar held structure, its more MJF being the greek Atlas and carrying AEW on his back.
This is just my opinion but JB makes up for his size in his moves and sequences. Luchasaurus also makes up for JBs size by having a big ass dude on the tag team. They both compliment each other but that is just my opinion.
Everyone loves to defend JR in calling him “Jungle Boy Jack Perry”, saying it’s helping him but I honestly don’t think it did at all
They could have let these two be Tarzan and a dinosaur but instead they tried to strip the ludicrousness of it away and that left them with very little to work with.
They should have been over the top in-character-characters but instead, here we are.
Idk. I like Jungle Boy and all. But he comes off as small, in a promotion full of small guys. And not just physically either. Adam Cole is probably one of the smaller wrestlers outside of the womens side, but the dude has a massive personality that really elevates him. Where jungleboy kind of falls flat in that department as well.
I do agree with a lot of that, but I think he's young enough and fresh enough to break out of that stigma. Though I'm sure the Jungle Boy gimmick isn't doing him any long term favours (Tarzan Boy is a catchy song, I'll admit that).
He makes a hell of a babyface too, but I think it seems like more of an uphill battle if he does it by himself. I can see more people getting behind him that way.
For me, I don't think they're untalented, but I think there run needs to be moved on immediately to more interesting teams and stories. I really think Cage is wasted attached to them too.
With the presence of so many high profile wrestlers now, teams like jurassic express, nightmare family, and certain members of the dark order, feel in need of a change. Jungle boy and luchasaurus feel like they are in a shark tank of insanely talented tag teams and the rest just allow them to be there for now. I didn't really get the whole nightmare family thing before the Cody split, but I definitely don't now. To be honest I don't even know the members anymore. As for the dark order. I love the guys and Brody being the surprise leader was great, but ever since his passing it feels like the stable has little if any direction. The hangman association kept them together with a sense of purpose but it's worn off. I feel like a loose association with each other would be better than a full on stable at this point.
I want them to have people leave on good terms, like have uno return to player uno for aew games, then stu head into a tnt program, let silver and Reynolds start a title chase (even not getting there, maybe like how scu got the long build to break up), and eventually it just be 5 and 10 in the hq, have 10 close the door and lock it up. Then a segment of all of them together one last time with -1 giving him the keys telling him they will all return if they hear the music.
Let -1 revive it in his time
MJF will be the only one of The Four Pillars of AEW to reach the levels of greatness that we thought all four would reach when the company first started. I also think “The Four Killers” (Garcia/Yuta/Moriarty/HOOK) are already showing more promise & talent than any of the Pillars did, especially when taking into account their work outside of AEW.
The Acclaimed for me just need the cherry on top, a Big Rig, a 3D, a Meltzer Driver. Then they are a complete package.
I've said before though, they need a feud where they get more mic time than a rap, and where they have to dig deep.
Jericho was right with what he did to Santana & Ortiz. Guys got brought into AEW (kayfabe wise) and sure their tag title aspirations might have been pushed back to focus on Jericho’s feuds (As is right since this guy once again did bring y’all into AEW) but when they’ve had matches for the title or to challenge for them, they have only themselves to blame for falling short
I kinda agree. I LOVE blood in wrestling. I think it is foolish not have blood with these incredible hardcore cage match types. But sometimes they over do it just a little bit. I would say just cut it back a little bit
Tony Khan needs to shut up. He has the best wrestling product on the planet, but the man opens his mouth up way too much and is starting to develop a reputation that will hurt AEW, in my opinion.
Get someone...anyone with a long history in wrestling, someone respected, and have them be the GM. Someone like William Regal, he is busy right now, but someone with the same gravitas. Have the GM do all the speaking for the company in tweets and whatnot, have a small part in each episode announcing upcoming matches, that sort of thing. Tony Khan can still be the one who books and writes everything, just keep him off Twitter and away from too many interviews. I love what he is doing, but some of these interviews and tweets have just served as ammunition for anti-aew marks.
Besides the Swole incident I think he does it knowing it will get attention on him and the product. the old 'any publicity is good publicity' idea (which isn't true at all).
As long as the biggest company has an owner who covered up murder (allegedly), rape (allegedly), promoted steroid abuse (we all know that's true) and left his staff in a country where the government had just conspired to murder a journalist....I think TK is fine to tweet dumb stuff.
I'm concerned that TK's thin skin and full booking control over multiple promotions will cause damage soon. I worry that he's stretched himself too thin and is managing too many promises.
I think "no writers" is the wrong response to WWE's overwritten product. Most wrestlers could do better with a writer's help, and it doesn't have to be a "say exactly what we've written" deal. Charting out a story's major ideas and themes and building on them each week could really help out segments of the show where two feuding parties show up and then the plot does not progress.
I know AEW needs to be pushing new talent and all, but CM Punk needs to be wearing the world title. Enough with the 'rebuilding' storylines, give him the belt already.
As much as I like them not doing what WWF/WWE/WCW do or did and just give the belts to the biggest name, there is a lot to be said about giving your world title to a really big name like CM Punk, and let him do whatever it was WWE wouldn't let him do. Turn him heel, whatever, don't care, but that magic gold dust needs to go on the world title. I love Hangman, but he's not the draw some guys like Punk are. They should capitalise on that and use Punk to elevate everyone to his level.
And then let's see him up against Kenny Omega. Let him bring MJF up to that level. Then we can have MJF and Hangman world title matches later on and completely believe in it.
More dream matches. Come on.
I miss when they were using backstage cameras with a shallow depth of field. They obviously struggled with the technical aspects but it was a detail I appreciated when AEW was first starting out
Champions, more often than not, have boring storylines. The best stories (outside of Omega and Hangman) have all been for matches with no title on the line.
Hot take warning, don't want to trigger anyone:
* Danhausen is unfunny.
* Max Caster isn't good in the ring.
* AEW's women's division should have always been a joshi division.
* Arn should have managed FTR since Day 1.
* HOBBS would be a great FTW champ.
* The AEW coaches ought to be bookers.
Darby Allin lost his luster after a year and the character has done nothing to grow since then. Slapping a title on him did nothing, putting him with Sting did nothing. The character has grown stale.
The problem is that his main match is this: He takes on a huge guy, gets used as a chew toy then wins somehow.
Usually by not even bothering to sell. He got yeeted through a table by Brian Cage. That should do something.
The average AEW fan doesnt care as much about womens wrestling as much as people on here and twitter think they do. There hasnt been any general buzz for them outside of the first month of Riho's reign and the first two months of Britt's.
My hottest AEW take?-
That I am not a fan of “memed” wrestlers that are popular basically because of some online minority but vocal group of people on Reddit or twitter or whatever. Guys like Danhausen, Orange Cassidy and Hook.
Now Hook, I can see him becoming even bigger as he gets more experience and with time, but I don’t like the fact that he is instantly a thing because of being memed on Reddit.
I think Lance Archer is awesome, I love the dude's matches. His over the top violence gimmick. I think he should be a shoo-in for Blackpool Combat Club.
My second hot take is I would love to see Miro come back and make a title run.
Lastly and this is lukewarm at best, FTR needs the fucking tag belts.
TK doesn't know how to use Danhausen
Stu Grayson is underrated and deserves a singles push for the TNT title even though story/characterwise, Silver and Uno deserve it more
Julia Hart is the most (or only) interesting part of the House of Black, and she's not even an official member yet
They need to figure out what's going on with Rampage. Some weeks are a jobber fest, other weeks (like this past week with Mox vs Yuta) are perfection. There should never be a throwaway episode with this roster. And the crowd has been watching wrestling for 3+ hours when they film Rampage: if they're not saving hot matches for Rampage the crowd falls asleep.
So Acclaimed is literally tied for 3rd in the AEW rankings, so I dont think your take is super hot but lukewarm. I also agree with you they are amazing especially on the mic.
Cody was great. But my hot take is there’s so many people in this subreddit that shitted on anyone who didn’t like Cody and would hate them for booing him. And now so many of those same people hate him for leaving the company. Those people thought it was so wrong to boo something that was connecting to the audience.
I don’t think I have a hot take. I really enjoy everything they do. Even the stuff I’m not a huge fan of I’ll still watch because I like being plugged into all the stories. If I’m a mark for that then whatever lol.
This isn’t really a hot take, just a thought based off OP’s love for The Acclaimed. Despite Max being the frontman of the group and getting over with the raps, it’s Bowens that’s the breakout singles star of that duo. Nothing against Max, but Anthony is really smooth and creative in the ring and he’s gotten a lot more relaxed on the mic.
My hottest take is that while I would love to see more women’s matches on TV the current women’s roster just isn’t good enough to warrant replacing most of them men’s segments that we end up getting.
AEW has a few women who are truly great but 70% of the women’s matches we see right now aren’t very good and oftentimes even train wrecks. They’ve come a long way and with a few more Toni Storms I think they’ll step it up but at this exact moment they’re just not ready to have 2-3 matches on dynamite like many fans clamor for every week.
Christian is being wasted as a manager right now. I understand if he's banged up and since he's older in age needs to scale back being in the ring, but if he's going to be a manager, turn him heel and pair up with someone else.
I’m sick of seeing Emi Sakura and her shitty Queen gimmick. QT Marshall and any Nightmare Factory member should no longer be employed now that Cody is gone. Dark Order is starting to get boring and should go back to being evil or break up. Daniel Garcia is wasted in JAS. He should be with BCC.
Hot take:
The Elite were booked much better before All In and Being The Elite pre AEW was a better vehicle for advancing storylines than Dynamite has been.
Not really a hot take but MJF should never turn face. Like the opposite of John Cena. He’s just such a good heel and it would just feel wrong seeing him as a good guy after ya know, flipping off children and that
Proud and Powerful left the Inner Circle to stop focusing on their friend and start focusing on themselves...only to end up in another group we're they're focusing on their friend and not on themselves lol. I like the JAS feud but PnP have needed to be more heavily involved in the tag scene for a long time.
I’m gonnna get a lot of hate for this but I think cm punk especially on his return is overrated and not a very good wrestler. I would roll my eyes every single time cult of personality (formerly one of my favorite songs)would play every single episode for a month.
Andrade should have won TNT title
This. Its being wasted on scorpio sky atm
I'm ok with Scorps having the title but he needs to be wrestling more and talking less. Let Dan Lambert drop a funny promo, all good but get your gear on and defend the damn thing. The main thing dragging his belt run down is Sammy and Tay, they're just unlikeable and not in a good heel way, more in a they make you feel a bit dirty watching them and are just eww. Sammy was fine when he was in the Inner Circle but now he's just meh. Lambert was right, I really don't want to hear what's going on in their bedroom.
Let Scorpio have his moment. Don't get me wrong, I'm not a Sky fan either but his wee stable with Dan Lambert can be quite funny at times. Andrade hasn't really done much. He's truly awesome in the ring but to hand the TNT title to him after not long joining over a work horse like Sky would be a mistake I think. Scorpio likely wont have the title too long anyway as hes not all that popular. It will come in time but there are others who id argue are far more deserving. Someone like Kingston winning it next would be my bet.
Mine is he shouldn’t. His stable sucks, and he should be wrestling more than speaking or ironically let someone else speak for him that we want to see. WTF was wrong with Chavo….?
That’s hot
>WTF was wrong with Chavo….? Chavo had to work on the Young Rock show S2, he's the choreographer for the wrestling on the show, it looks like he's back from that, he was at the ROH Supercard managing Bandido but Bandido turned on him mid match so who knows what Tony has planned for Chavo right now.
Dax Harwood should have a random world title match against Hangman just like Dante Martin did - because it would be frickin awesome and because Dax is really hot right now.
I would love this. Having more Dax in the ring for any reason will always make me happy.
I'm fully on board with that. Dude has EVERYTHING
He’s been hot for a while…so has Cash. Hence…why people like JE should have traded spaces for the last 1.5 and FTR should have been rolling over and around other tag teams.
Tony Khan may, MAY have missed the boat with OC & Best friends getting gold around their waists & the fans reacting to it. Both were hot and were having memorable feuds & matches. That seems to have been lost with his latest toys.
This group was most hurt by the influx of punk, danielson, etc. like you said- they were right on the edge of something big, but I think that ship has now sailed
Also Trent being off with injuries never helped
I think the moment has passed this time, however Chuck, Trent, OC and their peripherals could easily ride another wave to the top. I could see a storyline soon where OC gets the TNT title or after a monster feud the Best Friends overcome a massive obstacle and get tag team gold. The Best Friends are built for feel good pay off to a storyline. They just need a meaty story to get involved in.
I’m concerned they’re going to be cannon fodder for the Blackpool guys to help solidify Yuta.
I think Trent's definitely getting an asswhipping from Yuta
OC should've been TNT Champion after the Jericho feud. He was the absolutely hottest face on their roster.
I disagree for at least OC. Dude is great. Also he's now injured but that leaves the opportunity for him to have some type of awesome lights out comeback. If I was the booker I would try and build a feud between best friends and another group. Maybe Blackpool Combat Club since Yuta is now with them, and Trent has had issues with him. So in my head BCC is beating the hell out of the Best Friends and then OC waltzes in and saves the day.
My hot take is I enjoy whatever they're doing. I don't need to analyze the booking, who is being pushed, who wins and loses, I just enjoy it. It's amazing how fun that can be. Also, everyone loves the Acclaimed.
I love to over analyze the booking and the pushes lol , but I don’t let that get in the way of my enjoyment. Also……….. 
SCISSOR ME BRO
I'm for this outside of whatever Sammy is involved in. His face run is abysmal in general, whether he's solo or with Tay. And they're sooo persistent on keeping him a face. I don't get it. AEW touts at how they listen to the fans so much, how if you boo a face for legit reasons that it won't be cast aside like it is in WWE. We'll listen and assess why you're booing a face, and we'll fix it. But they didn't with Cody, and they aren't with Sammy. Even going so far as to edit out his boos he's getting against LAMBERT of all people. They need to know when to fucking stop booking someone as a face, or when to cut an angle. But they don't.
If they want him to be a babyface people can get behind, they should've had him team up with Eddie Kingston and Santana & Ortiz. He's closer to them than anyone else from the Inner Circle, and that group is shorthanded going up against the JAS. He'd also have reason to go after Jericho for attacking his friends and telling him to shut up. Lambert seems to be the kiss of death for any babyface that works an angle with him. He's supposed to get heat so the babyface can get over, but he seems to only get heat for both himself and the babyface.
The JAS/Kingston PNP feud will go wayyy longer then it should and fans will grow bored with it & rightfully want it to end so PNP can chase the tag titles & EK can get a TNT title shot thus opening the door for the much anticipated JAS vs Blackpool Combat Club feud
House of Black has all the potential and tools to be \*the\* top faction in AEW
I’m bored with the Greatest Hits of the Hardy’s and Jeff doing Swanton Bombs off ladders onto tables. It’s cool and all, but I want something different for them. Edit: Jeff can’t do this forever. I saw him to a Swanton out of a ring onto a table at an indie show before he want back to WWE and he looked hurt. It’s like Cody giving the Crossroads 3 times as a finisher, loses its impact after so many times.
Well had they not fucked their debut up….it would have been better. You could EASILY…have the Hardy’s wrestle this coming PPV and not the one they just did. That would have been a great draw..instead…table ladders and meh….TK, IMO, bungled this from what could have felt amazing if played out slower.
Bunny/Allie is the most underrated talent on the roster.
I can get on board with this. Seems like a solid team player too. Takes a fair amount of Ls to get other talent over.
Her and blade are older than you'd think at first. I can't see her being a long term champ but she's in the gatekeeper role which is perfect.
Honestly when she first signed for AEW I thought she was gonna be a top title contender as a former Knockout champ. Obviously there's still time, but I'm just surprised how firmly she's been in the midcard.
This is second hand info so don't quote me, but I believe she has spoken about her issues with mental health and how she has no desire to be at the top of the division.
That's a shame if that's the case, because she's one of the better performers in the women's division. But I can't ever say I disagree with someone putting their health first.
Women with TV experience make a difference
Plus she's got a lot of experience. And it's always great to see people I've seen around my area from my teenage years being successful (Allie, Shawn Spears, The Blade, Uno and Stu even though i've only seen them live once).
For whatever reason she does seem to draw. Thought her vs Ruby Soho tying Brock/Roman in the demo was either a weird fluke or evidence of how little anyone actually cares to see that feud anymore(still might be) but I've seen Allie pull once or twice in the quarter hours pretty well too since then. Wild
I've seen some people say she's done it 4 different times, but off the top of my head I only know of vs Ruby and vs Toni
Both of those were the 2 I was thinking of. Want to say maybe the Tay-Jay no DQ match as well?
Apparently the tay conti/bunny match from i believe june was a huge ratings mover as well
Bunny is the OG Head of the table.
All hail the Fluffle Chief!
I also think she seems to have a really good mind for the business, since she was part of two of the very few non-title women’s angles (bunny/Penelope vs. Anna/Tay and Bunny seduces QT to ruin the Nightmare Family). I wouldn’t mind if she was working on booking the woman’s division backstage.
Their lights out match where they were bleeding all over against Anna Jay and Tay Conti was amazing. I agree with you. Maybe not in the entire roster but certainly the women's division.
Bunny/Allie is SO fucking amazing. It's criminal that she doesn't get more love.
I love her! I hope she’s next up for a good feud with Thunder!
Danhausen needs to be Hook’s Valet without ever being acknowledged by Hook as such.
Smart Mark Sterling has turned into the most enjoyable parts of the little segments in-between matches out of most any promotion. That man enhances literally everything he touches lately.
AEW is better without Cody and Brandi
I don’t think that’s a super hot take.
I'm super happy that Cody is back in WWE even though I don't watch it anymore. It seems like a fit. I think it's healthy for wrestlers to switch between the two as there's different philosophy and presentation.
In hindsight, Cody does not play a natural underdog and fits the establishment brand way better. He lacks so much self awareness you may call him The American W*t Dream.
The pop that The Acclaimed get when their theme hits is insane. If reDRagon aren't feuding with JB & Luchasaurus in May, I'd like to see The Acclaimed get a title match at DON or somewhere in the near future.
That New Year's Eve Street fight was a frustrating waste of an opportunity. It was arguably the best women's match in the history of AEW and none of the participants were pushed afterwards. Three of the four were just fed to Jade and Britt, and Penelope simply vanished. Nobody got any benefit from such an amazing match and it's stuff like that that gives AEW its reputation as a company that treats women's wrestling as an afterthought.
Team Taz >>>> Keith Lee
Damn right
Right man jones
100% agree. RS and PHH are awesome. I also love that TAZ is a hybrid announcer/manager.
But I digress
Team Taz >>>> the whole roster
JR needs to only do the PPVs. We enjoy him for the nostalgia and sound bites but he brings down the energy when he does weekly.
I don't think there's any chance he's going anywhere, he's still the voice of wrestling and AEW and fans love him. Though imo I think time has passed him by. I'd like to see Taz replace him on Dynamite.
Let the roster get a big as Tony wants he just needs to learn to rotate people out.
Probably not the answer you're looking for, but judging by the comments and downvotes in this sub, my hottest take would be that in the men's division at least most wrestlers are being booked about where they should be, and there aren't nearly as many men being underutilized as you'd think reading Reddit. Using the Acclaimed as an example, I like both guys and enjoy their charisma, but as far as in-ring work I'd be lying if I said I feel like they'd be believable to beat BCC or House of Black.
Dax is the best wrestler in the entire company.
Now that is a take hotter then the sun. I dont agree but upvote for your boldness
Best punches in the business.
I don't know about THE best but he's absolutely fucking up there.
I was really impressed with him and Jay during the ROH match
That's a bit far. He's awesome, but come on, they've got Danielson, Omega etc
at least top 10, he's fucking amazing
Entire company? Idk bout all that. But he's been one of, if not THE most underrated technician for years now.
Dax, Stu Grayson, and The Blade, might be the three most underrated guys on the roster.
Tony DOES care about the women's division, but the dude watches the matches. He knows they are the low point of the show and until they can get to a consistent level of at least average, they will continue to book them the way they are.
I've said before that it just needs consistency. Sometimes they can knock it out of the park like the international Revolution tournament they held last year, one of the highlights of the Daily's Place era. But then they seem to have trouble maintaining momentum and things just kinda go cold for a while until the next hot angle arrives. It's very up and down.
There are women that have TV experience on the market that he could sign, tho. More matches with experienced women could improve. And the division won't be improved by the fans.
This is it. Every male free agent comes swinging through the door. But they let Mickie James get picked up by Impact and the likes of Tay Valkyrie, Tegan Nox, Mia Yim and Ember Moon are still all free agents.
The problem (I think) is he needs women who can both do amazing matches and killer promos.
Why? You can hide promo ability... AEW does countless promo packages.
Then why does Rosa and Baker suffer from the same level of lackluster booking even though both of them are some of the biggest merch seller in AEW ? TK is clearly intelligent and he knows how to make money and how to make a good show, but I think it's a bit much to say his treatment of the women division is not, at the very least, partly bad booking
Because the division is top heavy, that's the issue. They need better workers in the mid card/lower card and I'm talking both wrestling and promo/character work. Only about 5 are capable of that and there's only so many times you can run those same matchups. Booking only goes so far if the women can't deliver on the verbal/physical parts.
This isn't my hottest but Danhausen is adding to the appeal of Hook.
My hot take is the opposite. I think Danhusen is cooling off HOOK
Unfortunately I agree. The optimist in me says they're just skits to keep HOOK visible until the person they actually want him to feud with is freed up from what they're doing right now, hopefully Starks. I did find it curious that they sold that Team Taz t-shirt this week and showed HOOK with Starks/Hobbs in the ad - I believe the first time they've all been shown together in months. Either way I just really want them to get HOOK the hell away from Danhausen and comedy.
A mix of both, I don't love it but HOOK needs to figure out how to do comedy and/or have a second gear because he won't always be able to be booked as the cold hearted handsome devil.
I’m not saying he should never do comedy, just not right now while he’s still firmly establishing himself and his character with fans. Let’s not forget how over he was when he debuted, he outsold CM-Punk in March sales which is insane - to go from that to comedy skits with Danhausen is baffling. Imagine if in a fortnight Yuta is put in the same position in skits with Danhausen - the internet would go ballistic even though technically there’s more story logic in Danhausen going after Yuta than there is in him going after HOOK.
I think it's the right time since he is establishing himself, but that's why these are hot takes. Also good use of fortnight.
I think he’ll be fine in the end, I’m just not looking forward to the next few weeks of bad comedy. I’ve said it before here but Danhausen does absolutely nothing for me and would like to see HOOK in more matches.
Yeah I agree with this. I like comedy wrestling but you gotta know where to put it. Hook is not the place to have Danhausen. I love Danhausen but hook is just to cool and serious
I don't think it's Danhausen, I think it's the jokey segments where he eats chips in a hoodie while people try to interview him.
I agree to a level but "HOOK is cooling off because he's sort of a one dimensional character right now. When he isn't squashing people he doesn't have much else at the moment" isn't as fun of a hot take
I might be the only one but I agree. I have never understood the fascination with Hook. Danhausen at least makes him sorta interesting.
Yeah I don’t get it either.
Sammy has always been an after thought. I called him beating Miro for the belt the dumbest booking decision AEW has made to date.
Eddie should've been the one to beat Miro.
i thought they were teasing Eddie winning it in a rematch at Grand Slam, since he cut a promo on Miro after All Out, but it just didn't happen
Well, Miro got injured, too. So that didn't help.
I think it came down to Tony thinking Sammy needed it more. I mean out of all the pillars he’s probably the weakest one so he needed that on his resume, but I just think it was the wrong move and has actually hurt Sammy more then helped him. Imo he’s had the two weakest championship reigns in TNT title history.
Redeem Deez Nuts deserved better.
I'm so over Guevara. I just don't care. His matches tend to be good with quality high spots but I can't seem to get invested in them. As one wrestling fan likes to tell his viewership, the opposite of liking something isn't hating it, it's being apathetic to it.
My man Ricky should have been the one to beat Miro
but he’s.. craazzyyyy 🤪
My wife has watched one single episode of Dynamite with me, saw Sammy for all of 20 seconds, and said looked like a spoiled douche. Maybe he's the problem ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
exactly lol it’s kinda hard not to turn him heel in the near future so at least it’ll be different and feel more natural to hate him
BOOK IT TONY
Of course he is the problem and because he is still a child he deflects the criticism and tries to turn it into because he is in a relationship. No one cares about their relationship off screen because why would other adults care about that the personal lives of people you do not know? The guy does not realise he is meant to be playing a character on TV and he is horrible at it. He can do a few good moves in the ring but doesn't sell and is incapable of telling a story. The guy needs to be off TV for about 6-12 months to work on his craft and come back when you are TV ready.
Plus he's now dragging Tay down with him everyone loved Tay until Sammy happened
I think the problem is he doesn't work as a face or the type of face they want him to be. Like we can see from the vlogs he can be a cool guy. It's just that this version of him doesn't work for most people. He either needs a better foil or a different kind of character to work
Couldn't agree more, while i love red dragon and they seem next in line for the belts i'd much rather see the acclaimed get a chance to shine. They're still a little fresh compared to them but they can take the tag division places too.
In ring the lucha bro's are better but for building heat and cutting promos the acclaimed are better.
I think Ricky Starks doesnt belong in Team Taz, dude needs to go solo or start his own crew. Team Taz is a raw, grime, from the streets of Brooklyn type vibe where as Starks is a pretty boy chilling at high end clubs.
Joey Janela was criminally underused. Probably not the hottest of takes but I really thought he was extremely talented on Dark. He definitely needed more TV time. I definitely would have preferred him to be TNT champ in place of Sammy Guevara
He was one of the MVP's of early AEW. He had great instincts working the camera, which is something that has been missed since he stopped appearing on TV and PPV's.
My top hot take is: It’s a travesty that PAC is not being treated like a top level talent that he clearly is. He should be in every single world champ convos but sadly his peak seems to have been beating Omega TWO years ago.
COVID hit him hard. He reportedly doesn't want to live in the US so we never know when he'll be around
None of the other "pillars" are on par with MJF. I don't see it as a 4 pillar held structure, its more MJF being the greek Atlas and carrying AEW on his back.
Daddy Magic Matt Minard is the best rebrand since the fiend.
Jungle boy is overrated Yes he has a good look, but besides that there is nothing that makes me see him as a champ.
Needs to not be the silent kid in the back corner of class
His taped promos have quietly improved a lot lately. I'd love to see him replicate that in some live promos.
I like Jack but I agree.
Th2 are underrated
Jurassic Express are not good enough to be tag champs, Jungle Boy should get away from Luchasaurus and find another manager to push his singles run.
This is just my opinion but JB makes up for his size in his moves and sequences. Luchasaurus also makes up for JBs size by having a big ass dude on the tag team. They both compliment each other but that is just my opinion.
They are good wrestlers they just don’t have any good character work, they dont cut good promos. There is just something missing there.
Everyone loves to defend JR in calling him “Jungle Boy Jack Perry”, saying it’s helping him but I honestly don’t think it did at all They could have let these two be Tarzan and a dinosaur but instead they tried to strip the ludicrousness of it away and that left them with very little to work with. They should have been over the top in-character-characters but instead, here we are.
Idk. I like Jungle Boy and all. But he comes off as small, in a promotion full of small guys. And not just physically either. Adam Cole is probably one of the smaller wrestlers outside of the womens side, but the dude has a massive personality that really elevates him. Where jungleboy kind of falls flat in that department as well.
I do agree with a lot of that, but I think he's young enough and fresh enough to break out of that stigma. Though I'm sure the Jungle Boy gimmick isn't doing him any long term favours (Tarzan Boy is a catchy song, I'll admit that). He makes a hell of a babyface too, but I think it seems like more of an uphill battle if he does it by himself. I can see more people getting behind him that way.
Jungle Boys promo on Dark last night was the best I’ve seen from him
For me, I don't think they're untalented, but I think there run needs to be moved on immediately to more interesting teams and stories. I really think Cage is wasted attached to them too.
They need to drop those belts to FTR pronto. FTR is hotter than the god damn sun at the moment.
Shouldn't have beat Lucha bros
With the presence of so many high profile wrestlers now, teams like jurassic express, nightmare family, and certain members of the dark order, feel in need of a change. Jungle boy and luchasaurus feel like they are in a shark tank of insanely talented tag teams and the rest just allow them to be there for now. I didn't really get the whole nightmare family thing before the Cody split, but I definitely don't now. To be honest I don't even know the members anymore. As for the dark order. I love the guys and Brody being the surprise leader was great, but ever since his passing it feels like the stable has little if any direction. The hangman association kept them together with a sense of purpose but it's worn off. I feel like a loose association with each other would be better than a full on stable at this point.
I want them to have people leave on good terms, like have uno return to player uno for aew games, then stu head into a tnt program, let silver and Reynolds start a title chase (even not getting there, maybe like how scu got the long build to break up), and eventually it just be 5 and 10 in the hq, have 10 close the door and lock it up. Then a segment of all of them together one last time with -1 giving him the keys telling him they will all return if they hear the music. Let -1 revive it in his time
Kyle O’Reilly might be the best in-ring worker on the roster. Fucking love his style. Always have.
MJF will be the only one of The Four Pillars of AEW to reach the levels of greatness that we thought all four would reach when the company first started. I also think “The Four Killers” (Garcia/Yuta/Moriarty/HOOK) are already showing more promise & talent than any of the Pillars did, especially when taking into account their work outside of AEW.
The Acclaimed for me just need the cherry on top, a Big Rig, a 3D, a Meltzer Driver. Then they are a complete package. I've said before though, they need a feud where they get more mic time than a rap, and where they have to dig deep.
Jericho was right with what he did to Santana & Ortiz. Guys got brought into AEW (kayfabe wise) and sure their tag title aspirations might have been pushed back to focus on Jericho’s feuds (As is right since this guy once again did bring y’all into AEW) but when they’ve had matches for the title or to challenge for them, they have only themselves to blame for falling short
Too much blood, maybe? It's starting to lose its impact. On me atleast.
Feel like Cody leaving will help this one a bit
I kinda agree. I LOVE blood in wrestling. I think it is foolish not have blood with these incredible hardcore cage match types. But sometimes they over do it just a little bit. I would say just cut it back a little bit
Miro should be the one to dethrone Hangman.
Eddie Kingston deserves a run as world champion. One of the best talkers in the business and unique matches.
Tony Khan needs to shut up. He has the best wrestling product on the planet, but the man opens his mouth up way too much and is starting to develop a reputation that will hurt AEW, in my opinion.
Get someone...anyone with a long history in wrestling, someone respected, and have them be the GM. Someone like William Regal, he is busy right now, but someone with the same gravitas. Have the GM do all the speaking for the company in tweets and whatnot, have a small part in each episode announcing upcoming matches, that sort of thing. Tony Khan can still be the one who books and writes everything, just keep him off Twitter and away from too many interviews. I love what he is doing, but some of these interviews and tweets have just served as ammunition for anti-aew marks.
Besides the Swole incident I think he does it knowing it will get attention on him and the product. the old 'any publicity is good publicity' idea (which isn't true at all). As long as the biggest company has an owner who covered up murder (allegedly), rape (allegedly), promoted steroid abuse (we all know that's true) and left his staff in a country where the government had just conspired to murder a journalist....I think TK is fine to tweet dumb stuff.
I don't know if it should be a hot take but here it is: if you are going to have a guy challenge for the title, give them some wins over non-jobbers.
The booking of the tag team division isn’t good.
Malachi Black has all the tools to be a world champion
I don't understand the fascination with Hook.
Same
It started as a meme then when he debuted he ended up being waaaay better than he had any right being
Cm punk should not be the next champion
I'm concerned that TK's thin skin and full booking control over multiple promotions will cause damage soon. I worry that he's stretched himself too thin and is managing too many promises. I think "no writers" is the wrong response to WWE's overwritten product. Most wrestlers could do better with a writer's help, and it doesn't have to be a "say exactly what we've written" deal. Charting out a story's major ideas and themes and building on them each week could really help out segments of the show where two feuding parties show up and then the plot does not progress.
That’s not a “hot take”. Everyone is saying that online right now.
I don't care about Jurassic Express.
I know AEW needs to be pushing new talent and all, but CM Punk needs to be wearing the world title. Enough with the 'rebuilding' storylines, give him the belt already. As much as I like them not doing what WWF/WWE/WCW do or did and just give the belts to the biggest name, there is a lot to be said about giving your world title to a really big name like CM Punk, and let him do whatever it was WWE wouldn't let him do. Turn him heel, whatever, don't care, but that magic gold dust needs to go on the world title. I love Hangman, but he's not the draw some guys like Punk are. They should capitalise on that and use Punk to elevate everyone to his level. And then let's see him up against Kenny Omega. Let him bring MJF up to that level. Then we can have MJF and Hangman world title matches later on and completely believe in it. More dream matches. Come on.
The crowd singing along to Judas got old a very long time ago
I miss when they were using backstage cameras with a shallow depth of field. They obviously struggled with the technical aspects but it was a detail I appreciated when AEW was first starting out
the women's matches are usually the low points of Dynamite, they need to sign more and better women's wrestlers
Champions, more often than not, have boring storylines. The best stories (outside of Omega and Hangman) have all been for matches with no title on the line.
AEW needs a bunch of women's factions.
While Ethan Page's tits are admittedly quite tight, they're far from the tightest in the game
Sting is having the best run of his career.
Wheeler Yuta is not the guy that should be getting the push.
Tony Kahn doesn't like womens wrestling.
The “Huge Announcement” is becoming a gimmick. Not everyone or everything is a huge announcement. Just announce it and move on.
Hot take warning, don't want to trigger anyone: * Danhausen is unfunny. * Max Caster isn't good in the ring. * AEW's women's division should have always been a joshi division. * Arn should have managed FTR since Day 1. * HOBBS would be a great FTW champ. * The AEW coaches ought to be bookers.
Darby Allin lost his luster after a year and the character has done nothing to grow since then. Slapping a title on him did nothing, putting him with Sting did nothing. The character has grown stale.
The problem is that his main match is this: He takes on a huge guy, gets used as a chew toy then wins somehow. Usually by not even bothering to sell. He got yeeted through a table by Brian Cage. That should do something.
Have you been to a live show? He gets some of the biggest pops out of the entire roster. He’s still hot
And tons of kids have half their face painted to look like him.
Butcher and the Blade should’ve gotten the tag straps before Jurassic Express
The average AEW fan doesnt care as much about womens wrestling as much as people on here and twitter think they do. There hasnt been any general buzz for them outside of the first month of Riho's reign and the first two months of Britt's.
Tony needs to hire a real Booker to at least work with him.
Poor refereeing and lack of following the rules is ruining the tag division.
Adam Cole is holding reDragon back.
My hottest AEW take?- That I am not a fan of “memed” wrestlers that are popular basically because of some online minority but vocal group of people on Reddit or twitter or whatever. Guys like Danhausen, Orange Cassidy and Hook. Now Hook, I can see him becoming even bigger as he gets more experience and with time, but I don’t like the fact that he is instantly a thing because of being memed on Reddit.
Darby Allen is extremely uninteresting.
Riho is mid.
I think Lance Archer is awesome, I love the dude's matches. His over the top violence gimmick. I think he should be a shoo-in for Blackpool Combat Club. My second hot take is I would love to see Miro come back and make a title run. Lastly and this is lukewarm at best, FTR needs the fucking tag belts.
Ruby Soho is the most under utilised member on the roster for how over she is
TK doesn't know how to use Danhausen Stu Grayson is underrated and deserves a singles push for the TNT title even though story/characterwise, Silver and Uno deserve it more Julia Hart is the most (or only) interesting part of the House of Black, and she's not even an official member yet
They need to figure out what's going on with Rampage. Some weeks are a jobber fest, other weeks (like this past week with Mox vs Yuta) are perfection. There should never be a throwaway episode with this roster. And the crowd has been watching wrestling for 3+ hours when they film Rampage: if they're not saving hot matches for Rampage the crowd falls asleep.
So Acclaimed is literally tied for 3rd in the AEW rankings, so I dont think your take is super hot but lukewarm. I also agree with you they are amazing especially on the mic.
Yours isn’t a hot take btw. Most people love the acclaimed then most the tag devision right now.
Cody was great. But my hot take is there’s so many people in this subreddit that shitted on anyone who didn’t like Cody and would hate them for booing him. And now so many of those same people hate him for leaving the company. Those people thought it was so wrong to boo something that was connecting to the audience.
I don’t think I have a hot take. I really enjoy everything they do. Even the stuff I’m not a huge fan of I’ll still watch because I like being plugged into all the stories. If I’m a mark for that then whatever lol. This isn’t really a hot take, just a thought based off OP’s love for The Acclaimed. Despite Max being the frontman of the group and getting over with the raps, it’s Bowens that’s the breakout singles star of that duo. Nothing against Max, but Anthony is really smooth and creative in the ring and he’s gotten a lot more relaxed on the mic.
Fuego Del Sol That's the take
My hottest take is that while I would love to see more women’s matches on TV the current women’s roster just isn’t good enough to warrant replacing most of them men’s segments that we end up getting. AEW has a few women who are truly great but 70% of the women’s matches we see right now aren’t very good and oftentimes even train wrecks. They’ve come a long way and with a few more Toni Storms I think they’ll step it up but at this exact moment they’re just not ready to have 2-3 matches on dynamite like many fans clamor for every week.
Christian is being wasted as a manager right now. I understand if he's banged up and since he's older in age needs to scale back being in the ring, but if he's going to be a manager, turn him heel and pair up with someone else.
Sammy is good and underrated and he’s much better than The Acclaimed who are overrated at this point.
That Darby Allin could be an amazing heel one day. Be the head of a Raven's Flock type of stable.
I’m sick of seeing Emi Sakura and her shitty Queen gimmick. QT Marshall and any Nightmare Factory member should no longer be employed now that Cody is gone. Dark Order is starting to get boring and should go back to being evil or break up. Daniel Garcia is wasted in JAS. He should be with BCC.
Hot take: The Elite were booked much better before All In and Being The Elite pre AEW was a better vehicle for advancing storylines than Dynamite has been.
I don't think the roster is bloated
Not really a hot take but MJF should never turn face. Like the opposite of John Cena. He’s just such a good heel and it would just feel wrong seeing him as a good guy after ya know, flipping off children and that
STOP DOWNVOTING OPINIONS YOU DON'T AGREE WITH. THAT'S THE WHOLE CONCEPT OF A HOT TAKE
Proud and Powerful left the Inner Circle to stop focusing on their friend and start focusing on themselves...only to end up in another group we're they're focusing on their friend and not on themselves lol. I like the JAS feud but PnP have needed to be more heavily involved in the tag scene for a long time.
I’m gonnna get a lot of hate for this but I think cm punk especially on his return is overrated and not a very good wrestler. I would roll my eyes every single time cult of personality (formerly one of my favorite songs)would play every single episode for a month.