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Aaron is Unsustainable
@aaron.wrotkowski.ca

Okada has been great but because people want him hitting 7 star matches weekly they always feel let down. Punk's great in-ring work needs at Brawl Out. He never had anything close to the Mox match following. Most of the Collision stuff is Cope level followed by a wildly overrated Joe match in UK.

🇵🇷Chuck Martin@singlemalttheory42.bsky.social

I'm not even sure AEW Catchphrase Okada has been markedly better in-ring, to be honest. His baseline as a worker is so much better than Punk's that it probably has, but he has coasted so much. In-ring, Punk was a massive success at AEW. And that's not even counting the ratings and tix he moved.

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Aaron is Unsustainable
@aaron.wrotkowski.ca

If you are frustrated by people excited about Cope when him and Punk are basically mirror images of each other I get it. Cope has skirted out of losing to a non former WWE guy in a 1v1 since his debut. Neither guy is at the top of the roster for in ring.

Richard
@sirlariato.northsky.social

I think it's worth taking into account that his neck's pretty badly messed up and he has back problems too; working the chickenshit heel style is adding to the length of time Big Match Okada is still able to deliver when necessary. Plus, he looks like he's enjoying himself a bunch lol.

wrightsaidnick.bsky.social
@wrightsaidnick.bsky.social

I like Punk more than most but the idea he had a better in-ring output than most in AEW is bonkers to me. Better than Fletcher, Takeshita, Mark Briscoe, Swerve, Bandido, Christian, Ricochet, Joe etc. Punk had like 3 excellent matches in AEW, the rest being decent to very good.