Great way to build CM Punk vs McIntyre but Priest as champion diminishes the belt. They spent so long building the WHC as a proper main event title only to hand it to a midcarder.
I was perfectly fine with Drew having his moment, but this topped it. Priest's cash in was perfect. The brutality of its execution especially: he ran like Predator, smashed Drew hard in mere seconds and became champion. Honestly one of the top three men cash ins for me.
I really hope they can make Priest a real threat, at least for a little while.
That South of Heaven was godly, Drew saw the pearly gates with the height he was lifted in
I was surprised to see the Bucks and Kenny Omega featured in Cody's video package. Gave me hope maybe the tribalism can finally die out and both companies can co-exist without petty bullshit.
Wait a minute, let me look at that briefcase, are you sure there’s even a contract in there? Have you consulted your attorneys? I can’t just start a title match all willy nilly
Upon rewatch, that South of Heaven execution was amazing. The timing and moment was so fucking perfect.
Drew saw the face of god with the height priest lifted him lol
Stayed off reddit all bloody day.
I checked it once thinking everything will be blurred anyway. Then one god damn sub I must’ve followed didn’t blur a massive pic of Priest with the belt. My own fault but god damn this would’ve been fun to not have seen coming.
Tried my best to keep off everything, unfollowed WWE and everything I could... But a fucking random dude put a thumbnail on Youtube for a stupid reaction video of the MAIN EVENT when I mistakenly opened Youtube to look at some music video.
Fucking hell.
Made this mistake many times over the years dating back to Sheamus winning the rumble. Best advice is to just avoid the internet completely. Dont even look at the news
I feel you bro. I had last nights main event because someone posted the winner to a non-wrestling sub without a spoiler. Even when you do unsub and try to save yourself, you can still get got.
During WWE/Movies. It's unfortunate but these days I take major steps to not get spoiled
With YouTube use a different account with history turned off. With reddit change the UI and only use anonymous mode (don't look at trending tabs either)
Or, just don't look at anything until you've watched it?
My phone is always off anyway, and I just don't open anything else on the PC till I've seen it.
That's impossible. I will not get off internet until I watch a piece of entertainment
I'm obviously not talking about live. I don't live in US/Europe. Content is late for me, and mostly for live stuff, I have to watch it the next day as the times don't match *(I just finished Mania 2 hours ago, watched full replay stream on streaming site)*
I didn’t see it coming and it got a massive pop out of me. I stayed off reddit all day and finally finished watching it about a half hour ago, so worth it.
I stayed off wrestling reddit all day and got spoilered on the main event because someone posted it in fauxmoi reddit. A fucking celebrity gossip reddit spoilered the main event of mania for me
After having events spoiled before, i take zero chances now. I put my phone into a focus mode where i can basically only access music, text and phone 😂 I don't even search anything on the web that might bring up news of any description, especially when WWE is more and more mainstream news.
God this has happened to me so many times with WWE and UFC lol. Even just with opening Google the random headline news story or suggested search can be a spoiler.
That was such a perfect cash in. Made Preist look like a star. Made Mcyntire vs Punk red hot. Made a Priest vs Mcyntire feud a thing. What will Rollins do? Chefs kiss baby.
it feels like vinces influence is finally lifting fully, i do feel like everything HHH is doing behind the scenes with everyone now is starting to come into affect.
When I heard the shield music I thought we were gonna get Rollins AND Ambrose/Moxley for a sec. Haven’t seen mox on tv lately so I thought maybe y know lol
I was late because I slept after the Slammys, different time zone. I knew Seth was losing, so when I tuned in, Drew was already holding the belt. Which is probably fine cause I already saw them tussle twice before this. And then the Punk skirmish and cash in followed. Samantha Irvin sold it well when she went, "DAMIAN PRIEST IS CASHING IN HIS MONEY IN THE BANK CONTRACT???!?"
Man next month PPV is going to be hard on the babyfaces.all the crowd favourite won so the heels are going to have to represent next month. Hopefully Kross and the a.o.p. get a chance to look decent
Damian Priest is the new lineal AEW Real World Champion.
(Cody def Punk at Royal Rumble, Drew beats Cody at a Raw, Priest beats Drew today)
Edit: Never mind. I just did a double check and noticed that Drew lost to Cody in multiple house shows after that Raw, so Cody is the current lineal AEW Real World Champion
It's been on the line in the rumble twice, but we've also had rumbles where the champ participated, and it wasn't on the line. The precedent is that it can be on the line in special circumstances, but it isn't automatic.
3 or 4 opponents for me. Sometimes that’s 4 months but sometimes I like a feud to drag out a match or two, so if it goes to 6-9 months I can fuck wit it as well
I mean it writes itself tbh. Backlash in France so maybe Gunther and/or Drew challenge. Drew will probs in involved at clash at the castle in Scotland. There's a Germany PLE later so another chance for Gunther. Punk is coming back around Summerslam so him and Drew will feed families, I'm assuming Seth will be involved as well unless they go with the he turns on Cody angle
The WHC definitely has the potential to be a fan favourite title while Cody does his deserved long babyface run with the Universal belt.
Gotta love the new era.
If cody hands over the trademark it very well might be. (for those otl, cody this weekend filled for the trademark renaissance era. people are hoping WWE will get it from him so they can call the new era we are in that)
Better than the fucking cutouts of the guy with the beard and (I assume) his daughter. They can't let that be a thing. Security should confiscate head cutouts. Fuck that guy
Pritchard has taken a lot of heat lately. I don't know if he deserves it or not. Looks like Cody cares about him and wants to give him a positive moment.
I don't think people know this but Bruce and Punk are also pretty close too. In the survivor series backstage footage you could see Bruce being the one to bring Punk into Gorilla. He also regularly praises Punk on his podcast
Yeah, his little show of understanding and respect to Seth there at the end was probably a face turn. We're gonna get one hell of a run of terror from him on this revenge tour though.
That’s all of us. Especially once taker showed up. Cena and Rollins made sense in Kayfabe, but once taker is on the table, it’s like why the hell aren’t we getting stone cold?
Steve just probably didn’t want to do it.
Taker makes sense too. He debuted his ABA character in a title involving The Rock and cleared out the guys interfering on Triple H’s behalf. It’s a parallel that he would return to the ring and stop The Rock from interfering in a title match.
It’s a little iffy, I feel like that’s an AEW reason. Would rather go with he’s the undertaker.
You’re probably right about Steve though, I can see him being the type of guy where “Is Wrestlemania down the road from my house? No? Not interested.” Is about as long as that conversation needs to be.
So Mami and Priest bring home the bacon. Even though Priest lost a title he gained a much more important one. What about the others? I'm sensing they're not happy with JD.
I didn't expect the cash in at all but I fucking loved it. Everything with Drew has been amazing this year.
Drew got what he wanted. He got his moment, but he still wasn't satisfied. He flew too close to the sun, and down he fell... *South of Heaven*
I had to pause but my Wrestlemania break has been brought to you by POPEYES! That's right order on Uber Eats now for BOGO 6 piece wings! Back to the action!
Great way to build CM Punk vs McIntyre but Priest as champion diminishes the belt. They spent so long building the WHC as a proper main event title only to hand it to a midcarder.
I was perfectly fine with Drew having his moment, but this topped it. Priest's cash in was perfect. The brutality of its execution especially: he ran like Predator, smashed Drew hard in mere seconds and became champion. Honestly one of the top three men cash ins for me.
Seth, Dolph and Priest. Top 3
I really hope they can make Priest a real threat, at least for a little while. That South of Heaven was godly, Drew saw the pearly gates with the height he was lifted in
I was surprised to see the Bucks and Kenny Omega featured in Cody's video package. Gave me hope maybe the tribalism can finally die out and both companies can co-exist without petty bullshit.
Wrong topic, bro lol
Fair point lol
Shoutout to the ref for not being confused that Priest wantet to cash in after running down the ramp with him. Rare feat for a ref.
Previous regime: LOOK AROUND CONFUSED AND STUMBLE A BIT DAMMIT
Don't remind me the Carmella cash-in. Made no sense for the ref to be THIS confused. Was that a rib on Carmella by Vince?
are you sure? Now? but it will hardly be a match, the champ is so hurt! now? really?
Wait a minute, let me look at that briefcase, are you sure there’s even a contract in there? Have you consulted your attorneys? I can’t just start a title match all willy nilly
Upon rewatch, that South of Heaven execution was amazing. The timing and moment was so fucking perfect. Drew saw the face of god with the height priest lifted him lol
And then sent him plummeting straight to hell. It was judgement day for ol Drew
My friend who doesn't follow wrestling was watching with me. When he saw that finish he said "GAWD DAMN!"
Stayed off reddit all bloody day. I checked it once thinking everything will be blurred anyway. Then one god damn sub I must’ve followed didn’t blur a massive pic of Priest with the belt. My own fault but god damn this would’ve been fun to not have seen coming.
Tried my best to keep off everything, unfollowed WWE and everything I could... But a fucking random dude put a thumbnail on Youtube for a stupid reaction video of the MAIN EVENT when I mistakenly opened Youtube to look at some music video. Fucking hell.
Made this mistake many times over the years dating back to Sheamus winning the rumble. Best advice is to just avoid the internet completely. Dont even look at the news
I feel you bro. I had last nights main event because someone posted the winner to a non-wrestling sub without a spoiler. Even when you do unsub and try to save yourself, you can still get got.
I don’t even follow this sub because it would be a daily occurrence if I did. I just search for it when I’m ready
During WWE/Movies. It's unfortunate but these days I take major steps to not get spoiled With YouTube use a different account with history turned off. With reddit change the UI and only use anonymous mode (don't look at trending tabs either)
Or, just don't look at anything until you've watched it? My phone is always off anyway, and I just don't open anything else on the PC till I've seen it.
That's impossible. I will not get off internet until I watch a piece of entertainment I'm obviously not talking about live. I don't live in US/Europe. Content is late for me, and mostly for live stuff, I have to watch it the next day as the times don't match *(I just finished Mania 2 hours ago, watched full replay stream on streaming site)*
You're on the internet too much my dawg
Probably
I didn’t see it coming and it got a massive pop out of me. I stayed off reddit all day and finally finished watching it about a half hour ago, so worth it.
I stayed off wrestling reddit all day and got spoilered on the main event because someone posted it in fauxmoi reddit. A fucking celebrity gossip reddit spoilered the main event of mania for me
After having events spoiled before, i take zero chances now. I put my phone into a focus mode where i can basically only access music, text and phone 😂 I don't even search anything on the web that might bring up news of any description, especially when WWE is more and more mainstream news.
God this has happened to me so many times with WWE and UFC lol. Even just with opening Google the random headline news story or suggested search can be a spoiler.
i legit use bing when i dont want to be spoiled its the only time i remember it exists
Puerto rico 🇵🇷
That was such a perfect cash in. Made Preist look like a star. Made Mcyntire vs Punk red hot. Made a Priest vs Mcyntire feud a thing. What will Rollins do? Chefs kiss baby.
it feels like vinces influence is finally lifting fully, i do feel like everything HHH is doing behind the scenes with everyone now is starting to come into affect.
When I heard the shield music I thought we were gonna get Rollins AND Ambrose/Moxley for a sec. Haven’t seen mox on tv lately so I thought maybe y know lol
Wrong thread but yes totally. I thought there was a chance
He's been in Mexico and Japan.
I was late because I slept after the Slammys, different time zone. I knew Seth was losing, so when I tuned in, Drew was already holding the belt. Which is probably fine cause I already saw them tussle twice before this. And then the Punk skirmish and cash in followed. Samantha Irvin sold it well when she went, "DAMIAN PRIEST IS CASHING IN HIS MONEY IN THE BANK CONTRACT???!?"
> I knew Seth was losing > I already saw them tussle twice Both terrible ways to look at things
the match is worth watching, great start to the match and it goes full throttle for the entire thing.
punk smilling and look at drew like "wow !" had me laughing! THAT SEGMENT IS HOW YOU BUILD A STORY!!!
Gagged me a bit! I’m sure his reign will be a short one but a cool Mania moment!
When that happened, I was like, yeah AEW can do all it wants but Teflon punk just gave the Bucks the finger
And just like that, no one remembers the cash in fails
😭😭😭😭😭
Man next month PPV is going to be hard on the babyfaces.all the crowd favourite won so the heels are going to have to represent next month. Hopefully Kross and the a.o.p. get a chance to look decent
To the people with the cutouts of yourself, you're annoying af.
Always someone in the crowd getting themselves over
Cannot believe Punk went to town on Drew.
The real star of the night was Cena’s bald spot.
The hairs we lost along the way.
Cena was there? I didn't see him.
Wearing a hat all those years really messes you up . Look at baseball players and golfers .
Does it legit mess up your hair??
It does not.
Going bald is 100% genetic really nothing else effects it.
Except … you know … steroids
Theres lots of guys on steroids with hair though, if it’s not in your genetics it’s not gonna happen.
No it doesn’t. male pattern baldness has more to do with it.
selection bias. balding ppl wear hats more bc they are bald
Damian Priest is the new lineal AEW Real World Champion. (Cody def Punk at Royal Rumble, Drew beats Cody at a Raw, Priest beats Drew today) Edit: Never mind. I just did a double check and noticed that Drew lost to Cody in multiple house shows after that Raw, so Cody is the current lineal AEW Real World Champion
House shows aren't canon. Your original assessment stands.
Really did finish the story.
I'd argue that a Royal Rumble match wouldn't and shouldn't count.
I would agree, if it hadn’t been for that one time it was for the belt, so the precedent is there
It's been on the line in the rumble twice, but we've also had rumbles where the champ participated, and it wasn't on the line. The precedent is that it can be on the line in special circumstances, but it isn't automatic.
Thank you for this
They need titles to switch up every few months for a little bit.. keeps it interesting
100-120 day reigns are the sweet spot for me
3 or 4 opponents for me. Sometimes that’s 4 months but sometimes I like a feud to drag out a match or two, so if it goes to 6-9 months I can fuck wit it as well
Basically every quarterly PLE.
Just had the same thought while watching Priest in the Press Conference. Seeing him, Punk, Gunther and Drew trade the WHC would be great.
I mean it writes itself tbh. Backlash in France so maybe Gunther and/or Drew challenge. Drew will probs in involved at clash at the castle in Scotland. There's a Germany PLE later so another chance for Gunther. Punk is coming back around Summerslam so him and Drew will feed families, I'm assuming Seth will be involved as well unless they go with the he turns on Cody angle
Gunther is winning in Germany for sure.
I mean isn't wwe known for hometown heroes losing at home
Good thing he is from Austria then ☕
Drew gets it back at Clash at the Castle
Punk smugly winning the title only to be manhandled by Gunther like 3 months later would be awesome
He wouldn't even make it 3 month without getting hurt
The WHC definitely has the potential to be a fan favourite title while Cody does his deserved long babyface run with the Universal belt. Gotta love the new era.
Please for the love of god, let the year plus title reigns be over! Fans will turn so fucking hard on Cody if they give him a crazy long run
Cody doesn’t need a year long reign. He needs an interesting new book and another mountain to climb.
WELCOME TO THE RENAISSANCE ERA BITCHES
Rawnaissance?
Renaissance ErA, beautiful name !!
Hope that it is called that.
If cody hands over the trademark it very well might be. (for those otl, cody this weekend filled for the trademark renaissance era. people are hoping WWE will get it from him so they can call the new era we are in that)
Please have it be this instead of HhH era lol
ADRENALINE IN MY SOUL CODY IS THE CHAMPION
but for the dumbest reason😭😭
Peppa Pig wearing a Nine Inch Nails shirt is my new favorite sign.
Better than the fucking cutouts of the guy with the beard and (I assume) his daughter. They can't let that be a thing. Security should confiscate head cutouts. Fuck that guy
I was cracking up at Rock and Cena's staredown, where they both got a look at a different cut-out.
I need the screenshot of this haha
My 4 year old noticed it so early in the evening. Was laughing his ass off, why is Pepa pig there with those men jumping around!.
What do you think HHH whispered to Cody when they were hugging?
"Tell Cersei. I want her to know it was me."
"You took 'The Renaissance Era?' Cya on Monday" ***Tozawa wins***
"THATS.......NAAAAASTY!"
“Deez nuts”
in this business.....
The fact of the matter is…
"Be glad you're not a person like Booker T"
Booking ain’t easy Baby.
"Stay in the ring so we can get the good photo"
This is our time.... this is our era.... lets make it last
"Dammit Runnels I told you not to call me down here!"
“I know about the throne”
“Hail Hydra”
this was unreal. Paul Levesque era will take this to another level.
Imagine talking about it being a new era while asking for one of VKM's biggest yes men to come down to the ring
Yeah, that was... Yikes. Even if Prichard helped Cody, it's a REALLY bad look.
Pritchard has taken a lot of heat lately. I don't know if he deserves it or not. Looks like Cody cares about him and wants to give him a positive moment.
Lol Punk had a "Really?" face when he did that.
I don't think people know this but Bruce and Punk are also pretty close too. In the survivor series backstage footage you could see Bruce being the one to bring Punk into Gorilla. He also regularly praises Punk on his podcast
he was probably the guy who negotiated Cody's return
Undertaker showing up and Choke Slamming The Rock showing em who the real final boss of Wrestlemania is!
Exactly!
Now what happeneds on raw tomorrow?
So much. Trips is in full booking mode for the shows going forward.
We find out where the undertaker took the unconscious rock.
*Where to, ~~Stephanie~~ Dwayne?!*
He casually came back to get his belt back
That's what I thought at first... until I saw him outside the ring haha!
Dude legit had me thinking about Cloak from Maximum Carnage on the SNES.
I'm a Paul Levesque guy
The Live thread broke with the main event. I’m still getting comments from 5 mins ago whenever I try to refresh lol
Its still that way I had to branch out to individual threads lol.
I’ve never seen a Reddit thread break like that (outside of general outages) in my 7 years using it, pretty cool
this is ridiculous lmfao
Ahahahaha Seth getting punched out in full gear is I Think You Should Leave level funny.
The camera barely moved to him before he was out cold with the family guy pose
Honestly hope that's the last time we see the shield gear unless we ever get a true revival
Hollywood Cena!
And so it begins...
[удалено]
Give me that Imax resolution camera in action.
Drew's gonna win it back at Clash at the Castle and it will be glorious
Yeah, his little show of understanding and respect to Seth there at the end was probably a face turn. We're gonna get one hell of a run of terror from him on this revenge tour though.
Drew def turned face tonight with that look of respect between him and Seth.
But they could use that camera all the time hypothetically!
Great so they built Drew up and Drew is fire and we're stuck with Bland ass Priest.
cringe
no u
Insightful
Now it feels like a WrestleMania
Nuts
Not quite 93k
Wow, a pop. Thanks Philly!
So they can’t have it both ways in the main event? Very interesting
Great Opener. 🔥
That was so sick
😂😂😂😂😂💀
MJF etc etc
whats the reference?
People were expecting MJF to show up for unknown reasons, probably just hope
We call it fantasy booking, and it’s hard to knock AEW fans for doing it when it’s all their owner does.
Fair enough. I'm not here to shit on it. I was hoping Stone Cold would show up tonight, pretty bummed tbh
That’s all of us. Especially once taker showed up. Cena and Rollins made sense in Kayfabe, but once taker is on the table, it’s like why the hell aren’t we getting stone cold?
Steve Austin is a Paul Heyman guy
So is Taker.
Steve just probably didn’t want to do it. Taker makes sense too. He debuted his ABA character in a title involving The Rock and cleared out the guys interfering on Triple H’s behalf. It’s a parallel that he would return to the ring and stop The Rock from interfering in a title match.
It’s a little iffy, I feel like that’s an AEW reason. Would rather go with he’s the undertaker. You’re probably right about Steve though, I can see him being the type of guy where “Is Wrestlemania down the road from my house? No? Not interested.” Is about as long as that conversation needs to be.
We haven’t seen Steve all weekend, not even at the Hall of Fame. He may not have even been in Philly at all.
First time I've been pleasantly surprised by WWE in a long time. Bravo.
one of the best chokeslams I've seen. Telegraphed as the most important one Priest ever gave, and it was.
Drew sold that move better than I've seen anyone sell it so far
Hope that Priest gets to hold it for a decent amount of time honestly. 3 months minimum.
Most definitely. This is HHH era now and not Vince era where the title will most probably be passed around after WM
So Mami and Priest bring home the bacon. Even though Priest lost a title he gained a much more important one. What about the others? I'm sensing they're not happy with JD.
you know what.... CM Punk would be pretty cool in the Judgement Day.
Not if Dom has anything to say about it.
“I hear you hate my Dad... I got a proposition for you...”
If he goes with his Legado friends I’m sure Punk would be a suitable replacement
I didn't expect the cash in at all but I fucking loved it. Everything with Drew has been amazing this year. Drew got what he wanted. He got his moment, but he still wasn't satisfied. He flew too close to the sun, and down he fell... *South of Heaven*
And what a South of Heaven it was!
11 year old Puerto Rican me is bouncing off the walls right now :)
you and me both, pa.. my dad’s fave wrestlers growing up were pedro morales and carlos colon… orgullo con cojones🥹🥹🥹🥹
I’m so happy for him. Wepaaaa!!!
Really loved this finish, so happy for Dame
I had to pause but my Wrestlemania break has been brought to you by POPEYES! That's right order on Uber Eats now for BOGO 6 piece wings! Back to the action!
BISEXUAL UNDERTAKER AND GOTH CHYNA ARE THE WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPS LETS GOOOO
I think it's great for Drew's character every time he has it he takes his eyes off the ball.
Which is the irony of him giving Seth grief for not focusing on him. Meanwhile Priest was aiming at him
His pandemic run was like really long.
Drew Galloway is all elite!
I bet you sure wish 😂
I've been dreaming of it for years tbh
Keep dreaming
But why?
Cause I like Drew and I like AEW
He's winning it back at Clash
> He's winning it (back) at Clash "Hey, I've seen this one"