AEW - All Elite Wrestling (*Spoilers for Latest Show*)

I'm starting to think there's a correlation between how poor the booking to a show is and how great a show is for AEW (Forbidden Door being the other big one that follows that trend) because that show absolutely slapped!

The weak link for me was probably Jericho/Starks but glad Ricky won at least and hope that's him done with JAS now. Christian and Jungleboy was was excellent and was glad it felt distinct from the Texas Death Match. The drama of the coffin and Jack looking down at him really worked. Curious what next for Christian and hope they give Jungleboy a decent programme now too.

Elite/House of Black as as great as you'd expect and delighted the House of Black won, please keep them on TV and give the rest of the Elite something worthwhile to do. Women's match was pretty good, Saraya's best showing back even if I'm not a fan of the whole 'ex-WWE' invasion idea. Hayter is really gonna start needing credible opponents soon. Tag match and TNT title were about what you'd expect but had the right results from me. FTR, I have no idea what FTR bald is doing with worked shoot comments or whatever they are, just makes me think less of him.

The Deathmatch was awesome, even if the extreme matches can wear thin for me, they told a great story and aside from the fork spot, it wasn't overly violent, loved the ending with Hangman being an actual hangman and Moxley tapping felt big!

The main event, as much as I thought 60 mins was a lot, they pacing was superb. It was mostly engaging and they put in a lot of false finishes that reminded me of terrible WWE decisions that made me wince thinking we were getting an awful ending, what we got was pretty good. Pulling out the Yes chants was a masterstroke, really thought Danielson had it for a sec. On a minor note, throwing the drink at the kid was a **** move, that's not good 'heel' work it's just being a prick. Guessing Adam Cole is next for MJF?

Now please for the love of God, AEW give us some stories and get Dynamite back on track because this PPV was absolutely ace.

Also Jeans Jungle Boy is the best Jungle Boy haha. He comes off way better in them and would love him to just go on a mad one after the PPV.

There's a lawsuit going on at the moment over the rights to the Luchasaurus mask design which is why there was no mention of him at all and no inclusion of him in video packages in the build as it's being contested at the moment.

Card for Dynamite tonight is an odd one, they rarely (if ever) follow up a PPV with a compelling Dynamite. Mox shouldn't be on, Jericho can go away for a while too. TNT match will be weird, can't really have either one lose - unsure what the right call is really - I prefer Hobbs at the moment myself.

Surely we should get something with Jungle Boy, Starks or even see what Darby and Sting are at. Nothing listed for Max or Bryan yet either.

For this Canadian challenge thing, maybe a one-off appearance from someone like Taya Valkyrie? Married to Johnny Elite/Morrison/Mundo(etc etc etc), who they've gotten a couple guest appearances from, so there's already a natural connect there. Or from the roster, maybe Bunny?

In the longer term, Statlander would seem the ideal one to dethrone Jade when she returns - but it looks like that could still be quite a few months away. If not her, then i'd like to see Serena Deeb beat Jade.

Yeah, I get the feeling Stat was the plan, as she was initially projected to be back around now - but it seems like her recovery is going slower than anticipated and she's actually still a few months away. As I said above, Deeb would be a great option I think - she's got that unflappable vibe that works well against Jade's confidence. And her style is a good fit too, matching her technical quality and submissions against Jade's raw power. Could be some nice storytelling to see Deeb just cutting her down, and breaking her up with submissions, before finally making her tap. Failing that, Shida would be my next choice. She seems to have gone missing from the main title picture, so could be better used against Jade. And she's got legit quality too, worthy of ending Jade's run.

Whatever they decide, it would be nice if they properly build up to it for a couple of weeks instead of just throwing it out there, as seems to happen with most of Jade's matches.

I think it definitely was the plan to have Statlander win, at this point though TK is being stubborn in not changing the plan imo. There's very few women have been built up to be a credible challenger to Jade. Even Deeb hasn't been on AEW in nearly half a year. They have plenty of female talent they could have used but they don't put them near Jade because they'll have to lose to her. Willow Nightingale would have been great, hell even Athena would have worked. Expecting Taya to be the opponent.

I don't even think Jade needs a belt anyway, she is a special attraction without one and the streak says more than the title does. The TBS belt should be on another woman to elevate them and give the middle of the women's roster something to do but it's clogged up with Jade, the streak and waiting around for Statlander.

Maybe they'll see sense and dethrone Jade soon but there's been little build to credible opponents and they risk making Jade's eventual loss meaningless at this stage.

They're doing a very bad job of making Rampage interesting in recent months. I'm not sure they'll do much better with a fourth hour. Albeit that's arguably a better slot than Rampage is in currently. I really liked Revolution but the weekly product is a bit plodding at the moment.