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Sasha and Naomi suspended indefinitely, vacate titles.

Of course since WWE has stated they'd have a tournament to crown new champs, they're forced to confront the issue Sasha and Naomi wanted them to: actually building up the women's tag division.

The infinite suspension seems like a big Stone Cold salute. Why didn't WWE just announce the tournament first?

Because the suspension is the reason the tournament is happening?

They could have done the tournament without suspending them.

No? Unless you think this entire thing is a work and that Sasha and Naomi, Naomi might but Sasha I heavily doubt, are doing this for a storyline. The walkout and subsequent suspension were entirely unplanned in fact we already know what was planned for the two.

(ie Naomi would win the six-pack challenge and face Bianca while Sasha would challenge Ronda with both losing)

I just remembered it's been three years since AEW started.

Where did the time go?

Covid.

I see the Young Bucks are trying to get into the Hardys' head by cosplaying them on Rampage.

I could have gone without Cutler dressed as Lita though.

I think everybody could have done without that one.

That being said, we were all doing the Spit Take (though not with blood or whatever is in that goblet) when Gangrel came out.

Double or Nothing is tonight, so I'll post my predictions for it (winners will be marked in bold)

• AEW World Championship: "Hangman" Adam Page (c) vs. CM Punk
• AEW Women's World Championship: Thunder Rosa (c) vs. Serena Deeb
• MJF vs. Wardlow
• The Hardys vs. The Young Bucks
• Anarchy in the Arena: Jericho Appreciation Society vs. Bryan Danielson, Jon Moxley, Eddie Kingston, Santana & Ortiz
• AEW World Tag Team Championships: Jurassic Express (c) vs. Ricky Starks and Powerhouse Hobbs vs. Keith Lee and Swerve Strickland
• Men's Owen Hart Foundation Tournament Final: Adam Cole vs. Samoa Joe
• Women's Owen Hart Foundation Tournament Final: Britt Baker vs. Ruby Soho
• TBS Championship: Jade Cargill (c) vs. Anna Jay
• House of Black vs. Death Triangle
• Kyle O'Reilly vs. Darby Allin
• Scorpio Sky, Ethan Page and Paige VanZant vs. Sammy Guevara, Frankie Kazarian and Tay Conti
• Buy-In Match: Hook and Danhausen vs. Tony Nese and Mark Sterling

Bonus prediction: Will anyone debut/make a return?

Edited by omega2900 on May 29th 2022 at 9:13:36 AM

Thoughts on Double or Nothing so far:

• Nice to see Danhausen actually wrestle.

• That's a lot of power bombs out of Wardlow.

• The Hardy's manage to not kill themselves as usual

MJF was essentially powerbombed through the earth's core.

That match was just Wardlow kicks the shit out of MJF for 10 minutes.

Athena/Ember Moon is here

Along with Malcolm...BIVENS!!!Stokely Hathaway.

Edit: Oh shit. Trigger pulled. Julia Hart joins the House of Black.

Edited by HandsomeRob on May 29th 2022 at 6:22:42 AM

Probable match of the night there. Death Triangle and House of Black bringing the house down as usual.

I highly doubt it but I hope after their match tonight, the storyline between ATT and Sammy will be done. It's becoming a rehash of the same shit from Impact four years ago.

American Top Team is a huge albatross around the neck of the talent of this company and they really shouldn't be here at all.

Also, I'm so far two predictions wrong (Hardys and Cole winning).

Ruby brings an entire band, but it wasn't enough. Britt takes the women's tournament, and we've got husband and wife champions of the Owen hart Foundation tournament.

That seemed like the most questionable booking decision yet.

EDIT: With that said, it was beautiful to see Owen Hart homaged.

Edited by Gaon on May 29th 2022 at 7:13:38 AM

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Stop putting America's Top Team up against people who the audience hates more.

It's fucking confusing.

Who am I supposed to be cheering for here?

I agree. I'm not a fan of how clearly I can hear Sammy and Tay jaw jacking with each other.

Frankie deserves better.

Just don't put America's Top Team anywhere, frankly. Dan Lambert's entire gimmick is just saying boomer shit.

Thank God the trainwreck is over.

Whelp!

I hope Frankie utterly destroys Sammy now, since they both lost the chance to ever challenge for the Tn T belt ever again.

By the way: when did Sammy lose the fans? When the rivalry started, people were behind him, and then they just suddenly switched. What the hell happened?

His relationship with Tay. Sam had announced his engagement to his fiancee on air, broke up, and shortly after announced his relationship with Tay so the internet got its wheels rolling to accuse Sammy of being a cheater and Tay of being a homewrecker. Then they were being Sickeningly Sweethearts on air, making things worse every time they did it, and then suggested they did sexual things to the TNT belt. That last one was the death knell and the heat turned nuclear.

It's a shame as I do think they're both very good wrestlers.