OWT: all things related

[Pollaski]

Holy shit. Harwood vs Wheeler?

[Pollaski]

I figured the cloaked figure was going to be Fenix- it was trying too hard to make sure we didn't see it wasn't Marvez. But damn is it good to see Rey back.

[Pollaski]

Dakota Kai released. Sounds like she wasn't planning on re-signing anyways.

Lest we forget....

[Pollaski]

Forbidden Door sold out in less than an hour.


Please give us OC vs YTR

[JTrain]

Hopefully Kenny is back for the show, itd just feel wrong if he wasn't involved somehow...but dude was legit fucked up and needed multiple surgeries.

Even if he can't wrestle, ending the show with him facing off with Okada or Ibushi would be pretty damn cool.

Im going to assume CM Punk vs. Okada will be the main event.

[Pollaski]

Candace LeRae is no longer with WWE.

[JTrain]

AEW officially had trios titles created...apparently waiting on Omega to return to -pull the trigger. Likely going to get Elite vs. Undisputed Era for them in a tournament final.

[Pollaski]

Tonight Backlash card has six announced matches.

FOUR are rematches from Wrestlemania.

[riker7]

The Flair-Rousey match was entertaining.

[Pollaski]

The Flair-Rousey match was entertaining.

Sounds like a lot of that can be put on Molly Holly. Easily one of the most undervalued women in wrestling history.

[Pollaski]

Hometown hero babyface MJF was some of the most surreal shit ever.

Also, the "Legendary Jewish Wrestler" Barry Horowitz cameo was pure gold.

[nutt]

I'm going WAY overboard on this but I'm gonna TRY and predict The Forbidden Door card:

AEW World Championship
CM Punk (c) vs. KENTA

IWGP World Heavyweight Championship
Kazuchika Okada (c) vs. Bryan Danielson

ROH World Tag Team Championship
FTR (c) vs. The Good Brothers

IWGP United States Heavyweight Championship
Jon Moxley (c) vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi

AEW World Tag Team Championship
Jurassic Express (c) vs. Dangerous Tekkers

NEVER Openweight Six-Man Tag Team Championship
House of Torture (EVIL, SHO, Yujiro) {c} vs. House of Black (Malakai Black, Brody King, Buddy Matthews)

ROH World Television Championship
Samoa Joe (c) vs. Tomohiro Ishii

IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship
Hiromu Takahashi (c) vs. Darby Allin vs. Rey Fenix vs. El Desperado

RevPro British Heavyweight Championship
Will Ospreay (c) vs. Jonathan Gresham

Special Tag Team Match
Shingo Takagi, BUSHI & Andrade vs. Undisputed Elite (Adam Cole & reDRagon)

Special Match
Suzuki-gun (Minoru Suzuki, Lance Archer, Douki, & Yoshinobu Kanemaru) vs. United Empire (Jeff Cobb, Great-O-Khan, Aaron Henare, & TJP)

Special Match
Jay White, The Young Bucks & Taiji Ishimori vs. Sting, Tama Tonga, & The Hardy Boyz


BUY-IN:
ROH Pure Championship
Wheeler YUTA (c) vs. Someone he lost to in BOSJ

Special Match
BULLET CLUB (Bad Luck Fale, Chase Owens, El Phantasmo, Hikuleo & Juice Robinson) vs. CHAOS (YOSHI-HASHI, Chuck Taylor, Trent Beretta, Hirooki Goto, & Orange Cassidy)


So here's some of my theories as seen..

• These are all based off Double or Nothing, BOSJ, and Dominion predictions
• Punk beats Page. If he doesn't, then no way does Punk vs. KENTA go on last. I'd imagine Okada vs. Danielson would.
• It was hard to put the IWGP Tag belts on the show as they've lost their luster for about a year now. Putting two AEW tag titles up and the NEVER trios was easier, plus helps push the Trios division.
• No women's matches as STARDOM is not involved
• Some combo AEW/NJPW squads based on guys in factions (BULLET CLUB, CHAOS, LIJ)
• Kenny Omega, SANADA and Naito are out with injuries
• It was hard trying to find spots for a bunch of guys. I can't figure out where to put most guys. I'm forgetting PENTA, Keith Lee, Swerve, Hobbs, Starks, JAS.

I feel like we will get some sort of Rumble match with some sort of stake (NEVER or TNT title shot). This was just a brain storm.

[boomie]

Naomi and Sasha walked out of RAW tonight. The fact WWE put out a press release is weird.

[Pollaski]

Stephanie McMahon now taking a leave of absence from WWE.

Wonder what happened.

[JTrain]

Sashas contract is up in the next couple months, and WWE just pulled all of her and Naomi's merch off the store...so if its a work, its pretty elaborate from WWE's way of doing things. Vince better start kissing that ass, or she'll be Mercedes in AEW with a quickness.