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The Pipe Bomb: AEW Collison Begins, The Bloodline Ends and LA Knight vs. Logan Paul

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Welcome to The Pipe Bomb, where we discuss the latest news and events from the world of wrestling, both inside and outside the ring.

 

AEW Collison Begins

CM Punk returned with a great but strange promo where he said David Zaslav loves him and calls him “1 Bill Phil” and that he’s better than ‘counterfeit bucks’ which was a fire line but makes me wonder what the actual plan for Punk is.

Everyone who is aware of the name David Zaslav knows he’s the exec that took over at Warner Bros and has spent his entire tenure canceling popular programs and doing little annoying cost-cutting moves and stupid rebrands like removing “HBO” from “HBO Max” for no reason. Zaslav is everything wrong with media today as it’s all about maximizing every little tiny earning potential and nothing about the actual quality of the content or the art. Dude sucks.

So it’s odd for CM Punk to say that he’s Zaslav’s baby boy unless Punk is turning hell which he absolutely should but I don’t think he has the self-awareness to do that. If/when he and The Elite finally have a match, I don’t see Punk letting them be the heroes of the story. He’s already proven he can’t do that with his dumb ESPN interview where he once again shit on Hangman Page for no reason.

I just hope he can wrestle consecutive matches without tearing every muscle in his body. Every time I see CM Punk, I find it remarkable how he’s a professional athlete who seems allergic to lifting a fucking dumbbell. Really need this grown man to care about his body so we can get some great storytelling and great matches from one of the best to ever do it.

And just when I think CM Punk is an out-of-touch sociopath, he does shit like this:

Turns out, Punk is a good guy who exclusively hates Hangman Page which is fine by me.

As far as the rest of AEW Collison, weird to see Andrade and Miro pop back up after reading so many stories about them essentially refusing to appear on Dynamite. Collison is a whole new universe where the assholes in the company have squash matches for their own self-esteem.

 

The Bloodline Ends

I had gotten pretty bored with this Bloodline story once Roman Reigns retained the title against Cody Rhodes and then stopped showing up on TV again. It’s tough to tell a story when the main character isn’t around. But man, every single time Roman and Jey Uso are in a ring together, something great happens.

The question now becomes which one of these men is taking the title from Roman because if it wasn’t Cody then it has to mean the belt is changing hands within the Bloodline. Personally, Jey Uso has all the skills to be a top guy but I also know WWE won’t trust him with the belt for longer than like, a 3-month reign so is it even worth it for him to win and then immediately lose it to like Bron Breakker or whatever young guy they’re grooming in NXT?

Either way, I’m about ready to wrap this storyline up.

LA Knight vs. Logan Paul

LET ME TALK TO YA.

LA Knight has had a weird year where he’s quietly been the most over wrestler in the company but the biggest match he could get on a pay-per-view card was a match against Bray Wyatt—in the dark and sponsored by Mountain Dew. It was like Knight was in a parallel universe where nothing he did had any impact on the rest of the show. People are losing their voices cheering for him and he’s on Smackdown losing in 4 minutes to various scrubs on a weekly basis.

So it’s refreshing to see him get the opportunity to not only show up on Raw but with a chance to cut a promo on Logan Paul—a celebrity with enough clout to actually matter.

I’m fairly certain Logan Paul is going to win the Money in the Bank and then challenge Seth Rollins for the belt at Summerslam because it’s Summerslam and those tickets don’t sell themselves but LA Knight proved he belongs in the same ring as main eventers.

My man brought out a whole ass map for a ‘stick it up your ass’ joke. He’s HIM.

 

 

 

 

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Written by thelesterlee

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