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Right, so don't pretend otherwise. As soon as AEW became a thing, us nerds got all excited,

because we were like, oh my gosh, it could be like the Monday Night Wars again,

this guy may get over there and who the flood knows what they're going to do.

We should have shot away from it either, because don't forget when Cody Rhodes made this jump,

it was like being a part of the greatest but most surprising thing ever.

And this is true back in the day, remember when Lex Luger was on the first episode of

the night troll? What the flood is going on? Got always the master of this too before social media,

because my word that he blur the lines, because Twitter or X and Instagram and all that is a thing

these days, maybe you can't do the same, but there's a flip side to this, because of the internet,

now we can speculate like crazy. Because there are a group of people that exist within all

elite wrestling, if they did go over to WWE, we would all melt down, and I am of course talking

about the elite now up to a couple of weeks ago, this was a very real proposition,

but then Kenny Omega, the young bucks and hangman Adam Page,

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