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the show, formerly known as NXT2. Oh, pay-per-views, premium live events. We have interviews, roundtable discussions and a round of the week complete with the video quiz, of course, on wrestling culture. As I said, though, joined by Michael Sidgwick to review last night's AEW darn might, another good show. Another really, really strong show. Some awesome moments on it.

Again, another sense of just momentum and form. I described this on Twitter, come X.

Forgive the soccer analogy, but it just feels post all in that AEW is just having a string of comfortable league results without any major games.

Just victory after victory after victory, just racking up points,

just racking up goodwill, racking up momentum,

racking up, you know, just this idea that we're kind of back

and we are banging form and it's the best promotion in the world right now.

That has, you know, it's obviously not a bad thing at all

when you've got this sort of like a set of easy fixtures, if you like, where you're not under any particular duress, you're just comfortably, comfortably winning.

And comfortably might be the key term because, you know, there's a major test on the horizon with forbidden door, which doesn't really feel particularly forbidden. It doesn't feel as six-pointer yeah it doesn't really feel as big as all in um

so that might be a tricky one to navigate and there's not in the part of like the comfortable

league win against opposition you expected to beat to it's like there's no real jeopardy,

there's no sense of,

oh, God, I'm desperate to win this one,

or I really need this show to be great or whatever.

It's kind of an expected result,

which doesn't necessarily make your entire week

or make your entire weekend,

or you don't get any glory celebrating.

Yes, i was looking

forward to turning this over you know it's not like a huge high stakes period where you've got a lot

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