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I for one am glad they’re finally doing a story about the guy who put Danielson on the shelf with a neck injury and got The Bucks EVP titles taken away from them and former IWGP champ learning to have a killer instinct.

@TonyKhan @AEWonTV @TBSNetwork Needs more Opps

Good afternoon! Thank you all who watch AEW! TONIGHT don’t miss Wednesday Night #AEWDynamite! It will be a tremendous Wednesday night of wrestling @AEWonTV, and it starts at 8pm ET/7pm CT (And we’re back at 8pm west coast!) on @TBSNetwork & HBO Max TONIGHT!!!!

@JunkyardAkiyama @MACboi1989 If Fletcher is the bar for promos no wonder the quality has sunk

@MACboi1989 @730Matty A.) Ive known who ciampa was for like 15 years. B.) Fletcher is bad at promos. Ciampa js bad at promos. I like fletches matches Hope that helps

A friend just sent me this...

Abysmal. Every week highlights from this show end up in my feed and it’s always just the worst shit. Guy was having MOTY candidates with Danielson but wanted whatever this is

@JunkyardAkiyama Bizarre really. Like folks going crazy for Ciampa cutting the same kind of overdone promo that got Sammy ripped apart a few years ago, or that god awful ‘cinema’ Deathriders segment on Collision. It’s Vince product right in their face

@730Matty @uhvaimorre I mean I am not even a hook guy, and I don't even get what these people are doing here.

You see the performative hate tweets for guys like HOOK on this app and I don’t think people are prepared for the possibility that Joe might actually like working with the guy? This app will melt if he’s been chosen as Joe’s retirement opponent.

@JunkyardAkiyama @uhvaimorre You can literally tell when an idea starts from a performer and gets taken over by a producer. Look at the original OPPs backstage segments and compare them to now. Exact same people in front of the camera. Only behind the camera has changed. Yet its talents fault.

@730Matty @uhvaimorre People are so desperate to just not admit vince era segments are happening on aew; quite regularly...as if vince era hires arent backstage producing shit.

@JunkyardAkiyama @uhvaimorre This apps hate boner for HOOK is so weird, downright overdone and performative at this point. Guy does everything this app has been shouting for for 4 years (promos and indies) so now they blame him instead of the sports entertainment slop writers and producers for a segment

@730Matty @uhvaimorre Not the only person Ive seen blame hook for the segment. Like what the fuck is wrong with these braindead people? Yes, hook came up with the idea, scripted it, and produced/directed the segment... not the people whose job it is to do so..

@SoDuTw They are speed running his routine though like someone asked for a quick google summary of ‘what does he do?’

Personally have a lot of faith in the robustness of Danhausen as a character, but SmackDown absolutely was WWE writers writing for Danhausen. A tonal shift for the worse. Miss Who Wants to be a Millionaire with Regis Philbin moving to two nights being Meltzer's stock example.

@uhvaimorre @JunkyardAkiyama You think HOOK is directing backstage segments? You’re an idiot. ‘Pretending to be black’ ‘Woke’ I’m sorry your parents dropped you on your head as a baby.

C’mon now, he’s just back. Joe was moving crazy before leaving, but legit this is all Hook’s fault. AEW so woke that even the talentless nepobabies that pretend to be black are white, and they had to find something for Hook to do. Joe was the one left to deal with that charisma vacuum.

Average age in this match is 46 😴

Exhibit B

Imagine wearing tees that essentially advertise that you pay money for wrestling gossip on Discord 😂

Discourse gonna go crazy after this match

@SoDuTw Must have been a sale on bot farms over the weekend

Some day, someone will appreciate Tommy Bellend.

It’s 2026. AEW just put the title on Darby. Why are we getting promos like this is WWE where this ‘airport test’ shit came from? This is like the dumb promo Sammy rightly got ripped for about 5 star matches.

@JunkyardAkiyama @AEW ‘Welcome to the group. Now stay here and stare off to the middle distance rather than walk away with the group you just joined’

@AEW After 7 years, why did you start adding the name graphic to backstage segments? Also, why is there 4 second shot of Bowens staring off in the distance as The Opps walk away when Shibata is the camera man?

.@SamoaJoe is BACK, and @730hook is giving Joe the rundown on what’s happening with The Opps… but @Bowens_Official is still waiting for an answer! Watch #AEWCollision on TNT & HBO Max

You can spot the people who have only watched wrestling for 6 years and also never watched a movie or read a book. Basic story telling tropes seem shocking to them.

@JunkyardAkiyama I don’t think these ppl have seen much wrestling. Like folks thinking this Opps story ends with HOOK getting jumped and not Joe - y’know, the guy who leaves after June every year for 6 months to film a tv show.

@730Matty Thry really havent. People still havent figured MJF is beating knight for the tnt title for leverage to beat darby

How have people not figured out the Darby challenger formula yet? Guy below the main event scene beats another guy beneath the main event scene (sometimes waaaay lower) then cuts a promo saying they want a shot at Darby. 25 mins later TK “makes it official”

Because who needs rankings?