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Dynamite for this evening. A Tribute To Tanea "Rebel" Brooks who is battling ALS.

David Finlay vs. AEW Champion Will Ospreay in a Championship Eliminator
AEW Trios Champion The New Level and Swerve Strickland vs. The Conglomeration.
Steven Borden & AEW TNT Champion Darby Allin vs. Mark Davis & Josh Alexander with Don Callis.
Tables Match: The Young Bucks vs. Kevin Knight & Kyle Fletcher.
Britt Baker & Hikaru Shida & AEW TBS Champion Persephone vs Thunder Rosa & Maya World & Hyan.
Britt Baker's "Waiting Room" returns with Rebel and guests Hikaru Shida and AEW TBS Champion Persephone.
 

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This is the inspiration for Joe Hendry's song on Raw and quite possibly the greatest ad campaign ever.
 

Omega_X

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Kentucky has gotten two different shoutouts during this Borden match. The angle on the leapfrog that Steven did made it look like he jumped 6 feet in the air. Then they mentioned he tested with 41” vertical at UK.
 
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Last WrestleTix update on Twitter has Worlds Collide at 10,149

Worlds Collide is in a building nearly twice as big as what All out is running - 17,544 vs. 9,542. AEW is going to have a true sellout (meaning sold every possible seat they can, not just sold out their setup) before next week is even over because they keep moving over 100 tickets a day. They'll likely set or tie their record attendance for the building once suites are added in (suites are never part of the WrestleTix distribution counts as they aren't sold thru the ticketing websites) while WWE is going to have to tarp off seats unless they see a big surge in ticket sales. The shows barely over two weeks out and they still have to move 7000+ tickets to have a true sell out.

WWE hasn't built anything for the show. It's just going to be a bunch of hastily thrown together random matches with little to no story because they decided to cram in five premium events - AAA Heatwave, NXT Heatwave, SNME, and two nights of TripleMania - from between August 30 to September 13.
 
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Watched the NFL game last night so I recorded AEW. I made it through the women's match where Rebel came out in her wheelchair. I have to admit, I got choked up seeing how Britt Baker and Rebel broke down after the match. And I don't even like Britt Baker.

That ALS is a *****, man. Thoughts to Rebel and anyone else who goes through that hell.
 

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Watched the NFL game last night so I recorded AEW. I made it through the women's match where Rebel came out in her wheelchair. I have to admit, I got choked up seeing how Britt Baker and Rebel broke down after the match. And I don't even like Britt Baker.

That ALS is a *****, man. Thoughts to Rebel and anyone else who goes through that hell.
Yeah it said in the video package people typically survive 2-5 years with it and she's coming up on 2 years since she started having symptoms. So....not good.

In the moment I was surprised they didn't have Rebel come out with Britt for her entrance, but what they did ended up being better because she got to get her own pop. AEW always knows how to nail these types of things, unlike Drake Maye who once again *hit down his pants
 
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Laparkafan

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Watched the NFL game last night so I recorded AEW. I made it through the women's match where Rebel came out in her wheelchair. I have to admit, I got choked up seeing how Britt Baker and Rebel broke down after the match. And I don't even like Britt Baker.

That ALS is a *****, man. Thoughts to Rebel and anyone else who goes through that hell.
Ya it’s rough
Someone said Britt didn’t do many moves during the match -maybe she only came back for the rebel event?
 
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GeraldV

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Ya it’s rough
Someone said Britt didn’t do many moves during the match -maybe she only came back for the rebel event?
Honestly, I was not paying too close attention to the match this morning, as I was getting ready, so I can't say exactly what happened until Rebel came out.

You might be right though. You don't park someone for two years if you intend on them being a big part of your organization going forward, I think.
 

Laparkafan

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Honestly, I was not paying too close attention to the match this morning, as I was getting ready, so I can't say exactly what happened until Rebel came out.

You might be right though. You don't park someone for two years if you intend on them being a big part of your organization going forward, I think.
I’m not going to pick on the booking I guess they did it for all in and to build up
To last nights match but how do you bring Britt back as a heel then do the rebel stuff that’s not getting anyone booed. If they were going Britt heel they should do it next week not 2 weeks ago.
 
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I’m not going to pick on the booking I guess they did it for all in and to build up
To last nights match but how do you bring Britt back as a heel then do the rebel stuff that’s not getting anyone booed. If they were going Britt heel they should do it next week not 2 weeks ago.
Very fair point.
 

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The trademark Rebel interference spot is a heel tactic, not a babyface one. Rebel was barely on tv when Britt was babyface and when she was she didn’t really do anything.

And The Waiting Room segments were when Britt was a heel.

Rebel’s entire on-screen career in AEW was based on being a manager for a heel Britt.
 
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This is going to be an all-time bad tv crowd for WWE when you factor crowd size and location - Corpus Christi might be the most notoriously bad US tv crowd in all of existence.

AEW ran there once in 2019 and thankfully learned never to go back.

 
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The trademark Rebel interference spot is a heel tactic, not a babyface one. Rebel was barely on tv when Britt was babyface and when she was she didn’t really do anything.

And The Waiting Room segments were when Britt was a heel.

Rebel’s entire on-screen career in AEW was based on being a manager for a heel Britt.
Regardless you weren’t getting booed last night
 

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I was sure Kash Daniel would be the first UK to make it in wrestling but Steven Borden has blown that prediction. He’s got the entire IWC talking about him. I’m even seeing AEW haters and WWE homers saying he could be special.

His promo early in the show.


The female demo, and gay male demo, seems particularly interested.



Steven said if Davis doesn’t want to sell then he’ll make him sell that second clothesline. 😂
 
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I was sure Kash Daniel would be the first UK to make it in wrestling but Steven Borden has blown that prediction. He’s got the entire IWC talking about him. I’m even seeing AEW haters and WWE homers saying he could be special.

His promo early in the show.


The female demo, and gay male demo, seems particularly interested.



Steven said if Davis doesn’t want to sell then he’ll make him sell that second clothesline. 😂

The women love him lol. I told my manager about him because she was a Sting fan growing up. She looked him up and first pic that showed up a shirtless one. She was very impressed 🤣
 
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I was sure Kash Daniel would be the first UK to make it in wrestling but Steven Borden has blown that prediction. He’s got the entire IWC talking about him. I’m even seeing AEW haters and WWE homers saying he could be special.

His promo early in the show.


The female demo, and gay male demo, seems particularly interested.



Steven said if Davis doesn’t want to sell then he’ll make him sell that second clothesline. 😂

He'd be the first UK Player to make it that's not a nepo baby.
 

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So Keith Lee joined a cult?
Man fell off a cliff as fast as any star…
That’s what the streets are saying. Not familiar with this Darius Wright guy but is the leader of an alleged cult. I say alleged because I lack the knowledge to say with certainty.

I’ve seen and read enough stuff about cults though that I know for a multitude of reasons it’s actually quite difficult for a group to be “officially” recognized as a cult though.

 
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