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Everyone, it wasn't a Donald Trump rally. It was just a, uh, rally where military members of the audience were vetted to be men who were vocally loyal to Trump and shops allowed at the event were Trump loyalists selling Trump memorabilia. But I'm sure the WWE stars were just there for fun.

#HangmanWasRight

Revealing the next Street Fighter DLC character pass with Kenny Omega cosplay? Hell. Fucking. Yes. #AEW🤼

Yesterday's four-hour Dynamite was a weak effort. I think AEW is heavily relying on putting popular wrestlers on TV and is failing to give them a meaningful purpose for being on TV. I don't think any match showed a wrestler's best effort or elevated them, intentionally or otherwise. Filler. 🤼

Illustration of wrestler Hangman Adam Page.

Fucking insane to me that so many AEW fans watched Double or Nothing and know exactly why it's getting hot again, and then turn around and say the next week that R-Truth or any of the recent WWE cuts should be signed. Y'all can't be trusted.

While Fulham and the Jaguars are certainly a contributing factor, it's also an exaggeration by the fanbase (encouraged by TK himself). During Premiere League/NFL season, TK is still responsible for booking. He is still there every week. He still personally approves everything.

Love that so many AEW fans feel excited to be AEW fans again. But it also feels like we're whitewashing parts of the past several years from memory to do so. Tony Khan has a lot of poor booking tendencies. It's not surprising a lot of fans see AEW's positives as happening despite TK.

Despite a bit of initial awkwardness, the back and forth with Toni was Mercedes' best promo work since she joined AEW. It felt natural, fun. In the ring with the right person, she lets go of her WWE trappings and you see her art. This was the first time I saw that outside the ring (on TV). 🤼 #AEW

Loved Thekla's debut. Was very impactful. But it absolutely deserves to be criticized that after WEEKS of teasing, Thekla's debut was lightning fast and she got no promo time. That's after a torturously long dogshit Frat angle. THE FRAT GOT MORE TIME THAN THEKLA. On a show with time to spare! 🤼 #AEW

THEKLA! ☠️🕷️ 🤼 #AEWDynamite

I get that the AEW roster is probably a bit stretched after the PPV, with a bunch of folk taking some recovery time, but there is really no excuse for this frat dogshit being on television. This makes ME want to stop watching. I can only imagine what a new viewer thinks. 🤼 #AEWDynamite

AEW PPVs are and have been the best thing in pro wrestling since AEW formed in 2019. If these dirtsheet controversy-humpers cared at all about what matters to wrestling fans, they'd fuck off with these, "Oh, please make the PPVs worse value with less great wrestling," takes forever. 🤼 #AEW

I don't blame Darby fans for wanting Darby to win the belt. Hangman fans, Ospreay fans -- everyone should want their guy to win. But if you watched Double or Nothing's main event and don't agree Moxley should lose as soon as fucking possible, at that point I'm going to call you crazy. 🤼 #AEW

#AEWDoN 🤼

Dinner before Double or Nothing and our waiter saw our Hangman shirts and we talked about the show. He eventually asked us about tickets and we mentioned they were crazy affordable, he walked off looking at his phone after. Between word of mouth and ticket pricing AEW seems in a good spot. 🤼 #AEW

Just got back from Double or Nothing. Unbelievable show. I'm so, so happy I got to go. It was fun, ridiculous, exciting, emotional. Not perfect! But pretty fucking good. 🤼 #AEWDoubleOrNothing

We spent years waiting for FTR to turn heel again and they immediately took the mic away from Dax, who is a fucking incredible heel promo, and gave it to Stokely, who has been pretty bad so far. Is FTR cursed? 🤼 #AEWDynamite

Y'all are good people. You've got to stop letting shitheads frame discourse, stressing you out over lies driven by hatred. No, GCW didn't drug Sabu and force him into a match. Sabu regularly took THC and Kratom. The Janela interview was half-joke/half-embellishment, like everything Janela says. 🤼

Seein' a lot of people who have never watched GCW or Sabu trying to find a way to accuse Joey Janela of murder today. 🤼

Illustration of #aew wrestler Julia Hart. #wrestlingart 🤼‍♂️ #art

Tonight's Dynamite had over 70 minutes of in-ring action. It's the second Dynamite in April to deliver that much wrestling and the third in 2025. The other Dynamite to have over 70 minutes of wrestling was in the back half of March. I think this is why some fans are feeling like AEW has momentum.

Please let Nicholas Jackson poorly attempting a modern dance move become a regular thing. #AEW 🤼

Illustration of wrestler Jack Perry.

This is the first time I'm skipping watching The Collective since it started in 2019. Bit the influence of WWE ID, bit the split between GCW and AEW, bit it feeling like the indie circuit isn't quite my vibe at the moment. Sad about it, really. 🤼

If you're curious the kind of messages I'm getting because I don't think AEW should do sexism angles. #AEW 🤼

Hearing all sorts of bullshit from sexist marks today about AEW's MJF/Hurt Syndicate angle last night. Always a great opportunity to share some links: Sexuality vs. Sexualization: www.canr.msu.edu/news/sexuali... Sexism in Wrestling: www.freedomgpt.com/wiki/sexism-...