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2019 Tournament

Round one

Brock Lesnar vs Jay White
Okada vs A.J.Styles
Kenny Omega vs Drew McIntyre
Roman Reigns vs Cody Rhodes
Chris Jericho vs John Cena
Braun Strowman vs Sonada
Seth Rollins vs Will Ospreay
Randy Orton vs The Undertaker

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Ok, go ahead talk the rasslin'.

So.. AEW going to be able to compete with that?

I'll go ahead and answer.

No

No way an old cat plucking an acoustic gee-tar is better than a full blown band, but.....different.

Compete with what?

Brock as a part time champ again? Working a program with a green, hobbled Cain Velasquez?

Are you one of those WWE marks that just gobbles up whatever they shit out at you because it's Vince?

NXT and The Fiend/FFFH are the only interesting things they have.

The absolute disrespectful burial to Kofi is going to make a lot marks mad. So yes, AEW can compete with "that."

Kofi's butial aside - and who knows where that leads; Bryan got buried like that once... - that was a pretty phenomenal show last night

The question they face, both AEW and WWE, is how or even if they can maintain that kind of heat moving forward. Because you only get one premiere and then it's all downhill from there. The Rock can't open the show again, a major AEW heel faction reminiscent of the nWo can't form every week, Balor and Chiampa can't surprise return again.

Wanting to see where all this leads should generate audience for a week or two, but then what can or will they do to retain people. The honeymoon period will end, for all of them.

I watched both AEW and NXT and it was exactly what I expected. AEW has a different feel which is good in this day and age where everything is WWE.

However the NXT roster has much better workers on it capable of much higher end matches. One of the downsides of AEW is it is a company that doesn't exactly have a lot of high end workers.

I'd also like to point out if this was 20 years ago...a maineventer with the age and body type of Chris Jericho would be mocked endlessly, how times have changed. That new hip wrestling company has a fat 50 year old as champ and the smarks eat it up....

Well, the industry standard just buried their wildly popular champ in order to roll out a fat 40-year-old that is a total greenhorn in a feud that doesn't even need the belt.

That's the thing. A fat sloppy pile of shit like Jericho should be mocked endlessly. He's basically Hulk Hogan.

SmackDown's debut on FOX last night averaged 3.87 million viewers

That's pretty good, but lets see what the numbers are when the rock isn't showing up.