2025-star Frog Splash! Pro Wrestling Thread

[Inky_Wretch]

Did they just — finally! — start to fix what Tony Khan screwed up with the dynamic between Swerve Strickland and Hangman Page?

Yes!

While I think that's a rivalry that will last for as long as they are both in AEW, both are starting to rethink their behavior over the past year. Pretty smooth way to do it. But I'm a mark.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

Should always have been Swerve as the bad guy, but this is one of the things that happens when you're doing the show on a hotel notepad 15 minutes before air time.

 

[JosephMyers]

Yes!

While I think that's a rivalry that will last for as long as they are both in AEW, both are starting to rethink their behavior over the past year. Pretty smooth way to do it. But I'm a mark.

Agreed. I think they're going in the direction that both are realizing that they might have gone too far. Page might even come help Swerve against the Death Riders.

 

[JosephMyers]

Rumblings that WWE has re-signed Rusev/Miro after he, too, was set free by AEW. Between him, Aleister Black and Lucha Bros. (and Ricky Saints in NXT), that's a lot of additions from the other place. They all have the fan support behind them (and Rusev should), but WWE is starting to bloat their roster again, and there might be some more cuts that have to be made.

Heard this today as well. Also heard that he wouldn't be coming in with Lana, though apparently they are back together.

 

[Gutter]

Heard this today as well. Also heard that he wouldn't be coming in with Lana, though apparently they are back together.

Great potential opponent for potential champ Cena, with roles reversed.

 

[nietsroob17]

The episode order for the rest of Dark Side. I'm looking forward to knowing more of the Hassan story as the season finale.

Daffney's is still going to be downright awful to watch.

April 8: Big Van Vader
April 15: Tony Atlas
April 22: Superstar Billy Graham
April 29: Eddie Gilbert
May 6: Billy Jack Haynes
May 13: Original Sheik
May 20: Daffney
May 27: Muhammad Hassan

 

[nietsroob17]

Rey Fenix debuting against Nathan Frazer? I thought they'd debut him against someone lower on the totem pole like Apollo Crews, but Fenix and Frazer could be a badass match in normal situations.

 

[Batman]

Rey Fenix debuting against Nathan Frazer? I thought they'd debut him against someone lower on the totem pole like Apollo Crews, but Fenix and Frazer could be a badass match in normal situations.

Guess they wanted to pair him with someone who can work the Lucha style and keep up the pace. Good match from both guys.
Frazer might need to fine tune his suicide dive, though.
Also, that brainbuster/piledriver thing Rey did looked rough.

 

[nietsroob17]

I love Tiffany Stratton's work in the ring, but the promo battles between her and Charlotte have been downright painful from both sides. Not sure how close that is to Tiffany's actual tone of speaking, but it would be help a lot if she could drop the whole "daddy's girl" tone to her speaking.

And Charlotte trying to work an inside dig by saying "Is that why Kaiser is in my DMs?" -- ugh. Also, I understand she's had to go through a lot of personal issues that might have led her down this path, but Charlotte looks absolutely awful.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Guess they wanted to pair him with someone who can work the Lucha style and keep up the pace. Good match from both guys.
Frazer might need to fine tune his suicide dive, though.
Also, that brainbuster/piledriver thing Rey did looked rough.

Yeah, that could have gone tragic for both of them.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

I love Tiffany Stratton's work in the ring, but the promo battles between her and Charlotte have been downright painful from both sides. Not sure how close that is to Tiffany's actual tone of speaking, but it would be help a lot if she could drop the whole "daddy's girl" tone to her speaking.

And Charlotte trying to work an inside dig by saying "Is that why Kaiser is in my DMs?" -- ugh. Also, I understand she's had to go through a lot of personal issues that might have led her down this path, but Charlotte looks absolutely awful.

Yeah, of all the places to have a face to face with those two, they did it with a Chicago crowd.

There's just no chemistry between them.

 

[Batman]

Tiffany sounds like she's in promo class at the Performance Center and Charlotte has a look on her face that says, "Really? Really? How long until Becky comes back?"