Danielson / Moxley / Yuta vs Trent / Chuck / OC is a match i would watch
the hapless loser fantasy booker in me still wants Cesaro to join up to complete the Regal-adjacent triumvirate.
― Windsor Davies, Friday, 8 April 2022 19:21 (two years ago) link
Yuta rules. That match was also incredible on second viewing.
― maura, Saturday, 9 April 2022 03:57 (two years ago) link
mox/yuta is a classic
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Saturday, 9 April 2022 15:41 (two years ago) link
I'm so happy for Wheeler. He's going to be a star!
― hourspass, Sunday, 10 April 2022 15:46 (two years ago) link
I’ve only seen the gif and not seen Rampage in full but HOLY FUCK GOOD FRIDAY EVERYBODY
― a hoy hoy, Saturday, 16 April 2022 07:13 (two years ago) link
wednesday was very frustrating, should've been a perfect dynamite but finale was inexplicable and the women's match was a fucking joke
i'm watching rampage this morning and it is FUCKING AWESOME. ruby & robyn renegade really rocked it. main event starting now
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Saturday, 16 April 2022 16:21 (two years ago) link
holy shit lol
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Saturday, 16 April 2022 17:03 (two years ago) link
Finale pretty explicable in a business context apparently but there’s no surer sign that youve gone too far down the rabbit hole as starting to care about that shit. Total fuckin trash, leave that shit in WWE where it belongsAlso I refuse to believe that if it becomes a commercial imperative to appeal to the south Asian subcontinent specifically you can’t find someone who moves better than this joker
― Windsor Davies, Saturday, 16 April 2022 20:25 (two years ago) link
I’ve still not seen it, is he really that bad? I’ve always had a soft spot for rubbish big guys though. I’ll take to my grave that they ruined Kurrgan by having Ken Shamrock be the first guy to take him off his feet.
― a hoy hoy, Sunday, 17 April 2022 06:58 (two years ago) link
He might not be quite in the same league as giant gonzales but it wasn’t an auspicious intro It stuck out like a sore thumb. AEW has always been a kind of rebuttal to that vision of wrestling and I guess it should be celebrated that it’s taken this long for them to pull something like this but yeah - no thanks
― Windsor Davies, Sunday, 17 April 2022 08:34 (two years ago) link
I felt like the reveal was just...weird. It's funny, because the Japanese commentary that NJPW adds on (featuring Shingo Takagi) had the same reaction as I did when the lights went out. I had no idea who that guy was, so when the lights came back up, it didn't feel like "holy shi-!" but instead felt more like, "who is this?" I don't know if that's just because of my lack of sports knowledge, though.
In any case, Suzuki vs. Joe was great. What a weird cap to that.
― hourspass, Tuesday, 19 April 2022 19:01 (two years ago) link
Found time to watch Yuta-Mox. Holy shit.
― a hoy hoy, Wednesday, 20 April 2022 07:17 (two years ago) link
Have they actually said what the Owen is going to be yet? I presume G1 style league type tournament, especially as they do knock out tournaments regularly already. Intrigued to see both sexes get a tournament too, it could really make some stars.
Also I’ve not seen Dynamite yet but god damn the news. It most probably would have happened earlier if not for covid, but dream matches are gonna be happening on ppv once a year if this goes well.
― a hoy hoy, Thursday, 21 April 2022 19:57 (two years ago) link
The background art for all the owen stuff has included a standard knockout bracket. A G1 style tournament, if you were to say organize it as 4 groups of 8, would be 112 matches long before the finals. Without an actual G1 style touring schedule, that would take roughly 75 years to get through assuming they want every match on TV. Never going to happen with a field that large.
― ✖, Thursday, 21 April 2022 20:34 (two years ago) link
Lmao yeah ok.
― a hoy hoy, Friday, 22 April 2022 05:09 (two years ago) link
I guess I hope they maybe do an old school KotR type thing with wrestlers going many matches on one night (maybe quarters-final).
― a hoy hoy, Friday, 22 April 2022 05:10 (two years ago) link
Just a minute into the FTR faceoff and it's constantly laughable at the kind of Usos/New Day/etc. tag-team level talent WWE allows to dip
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Thursday, 28 April 2022 04:50 (two years ago) link
not exactly sure what they're trying to do with sammy and tay but it's not working and it's inadvertently turned att into faces lol :( sammy's two big ladder spots were uh... painfully executed
otherwise perfect show last night :)
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 28 April 2022 16:52 (two years ago) link
wardlow and archer looked so dope in the ring together that i hope they have a feud down the line
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 28 April 2022 16:58 (two years ago) link
Sammy and Tay have turned themselves into the most revolting, despicable heels just by being themselves so I don’t blame AEW for trying to course correct. But yeah they’re dangerously close to “you suck, get the fuck off my tv” reactions at the moment.Doesn’t help at all that Sammy / Scorpio is simply not an interesting direction for that belt when you’ve got all those other amazing wrestlers just hanging around Similarly Scorpio / Kaz isn’t exactly a hot ticket. Also bench the the Undisputed Elite guys for a bit please, they’re absolutely all over the show and none of them is better than “fine” at this point. Get the feeling TK dumped a lot of cash into the Adam Cole signing and wants to get his money’s worth but it’s way too much. AEW is so much better when it isn’t just 2010s indy / NXT guys everywhere
― Windsor Davies, Thursday, 28 April 2022 17:31 (two years ago) link
Show ruled, company rules, obviously
― Windsor Davies, Thursday, 28 April 2022 17:32 (two years ago) link
i love kor but i feel like his personality gets a little buried between cole and fish
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 28 April 2022 17:34 (two years ago) link
KOR is easily my favorite of the whole group. Always thought it was talented, but he won me over huge at the first NXT Wargames. I've loved him ever since.
Was hyped on The women's trios tag match! Always happy to see Willow Nightingale on my screen, and happy to see Trish Adora on AEW! Though would have been happier with a different finish.
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― hourspass, Monday, 2 May 2022 18:37 (two years ago) link
i'm kind of immediately sold on the baddies section as a faction. they looked great
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 2 May 2022 18:59 (two years ago) link
Agreed. Jade has big money huge star potential, and I've always loved Kiera Hogan from her time in IMPACT. Red Velvet fits so well with them, and I think the heel attitude suits her really well with how well she swaggers. I think it's really revitalized her.
FTR fighting each other was a lot of fun, but man I wish that it was a quarterfinal match or something. Wish it was for something more than just to qualify for the Owen Hart cup. Though it looked like they had some fun working against each other rather than as a tag team. It was easy to call who was going to win, but I didn't expect that sort of finish, though I guess it makes sense for how early this match was.
― hourspass, Monday, 2 May 2022 21:53 (two years ago) link
when you got a women’s division like riho and yuka in them, you can’t lose
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Sunday, 8 May 2022 03:06 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bIhwKDYOr8
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 12 May 2022 05:24 (two years ago) link
i was at the long island show with maura, it was wonderful pretty much the whole way through except the crowd sucked ass (e.g. seconds after a nyla rose/emi sakura tag match started i heard someone behind me shout transphobic shit, anyone who shouts transphobic shit at nyla rose should get powerbombed through the earth; also during the ruby/riho match on rampage i heard someone dissing the entirety of joshi. can you imagine??? the total absence of taste??? on long island??? i guess you can)
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 12 May 2022 05:26 (two years ago) link
very pleased to hear you enjoyed it for the most part, very sorry to hear there were people putting a downer on the experience.
it was objectively a good show and i thought the Hayter / Storm match in particular was excellent so idk if it's just a wider depression-induced malaise but i'm struggling to take as much pleasure in it atm as i used to.
I have been umming and ahhing but i think i might actually really fucking hate the presence of Adam Cole, ReDragon, Jeff Hardy, Tony Nese, Jay Lethal and (god forgive me) even kinda Samoa Joe. like if i wanted to watch a 2016 indy or NXT show I could just go and watch one. there are quite a few people who I enjoyed and who i would like to see more of who are getting no tv time because all these new guys keep coming in and shunting them out the picture, it's exhausting
enh maybe it is just depression-induced lack of interest in anything much, as i say. but it does feel like TK has been going way too far in his quest to assemble the perfect c.2014 wrestle-nerd's roster.
i wish he could find more use for Serena Deeb, Miro, Pac, Lance Archer / Jake the Snake, Jamie Hayter, the Butcher and the Blade, the Best Friends.
why the fuck am i watching another 20 minute Adam Cole match when neither Andrade nor Malakai Black are getting reliable tv time
― Windsor Davies, Thursday, 12 May 2022 22:05 (two years ago) link
totally projecting here but I am increasingly entertaining the thought that unfiltered TK has pretty shitty taste in wrestling i.e. loving all these completely tedious early 2010s indy dopes like the Undisputed Era, and that the best stuff which goes on in AEW is basically talent-driven, whether by Omega, Punk, MJF, Jericho, Danielson, Moxley, FTR, whoever
that's probably unfair but i'm feeling sour on it all tonight for some reason.
will be ponying up for DoN 22 regardless, of course. I think this Punk vs Hangman thing has legs
― Windsor Davies, Thursday, 12 May 2022 22:10 (two years ago) link
I kinda agree with you. And with the (possibly kayfabe) news that MJF wants out, hopefully it makes Tony have a reassessment of how he is using his roster.
That said, I’ve barely watched any wrestling in the past 6 weeks thanks to moving my whole life/work taking all my time, so I’m not the best for judging it. Still made time for hookhausen
― a hoy hoy, Friday, 13 May 2022 07:27 (two years ago) link
i really do not agree with the last few posts lol
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 13 May 2022 11:22 (two years ago) link
like how would mjf wanting out make tk think about anything? mjf gets tv time EVERY WEEK
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 13 May 2022 11:24 (two years ago) link
would say he def can’t afford to keep the roster this big tho
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 13 May 2022 11:26 (two years ago) link
I'm not at the 'get these gobshites off the television' stage but I see where you're coming from. AEW has a lot of moving pieces and I suppose it's only natural that TK would get distracted by a few at the expense of the others, but yeah they could mix it up a bit. They have a lot of time between PPVs and can afford to slow-build so you can swap people in and out of in-ring stuff while keeping the angles alive with backstage bits, video packages, etc.
― wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Friday, 13 May 2022 15:26 (two years ago) link
checking out the card for tonight's Dynamite and i stand by my comments from last week. they're really focusing far too much on recent and recent-ish hires. i;m certainly not saying that they're at risk of running off talent or any of that stuff - i'm speaking purely in terms of my own enjoyment of the show.
and i don't mean to be a downer, i love the whole thing pretty much top to bottom and they still do almost everything so well. it's a miracle it even exists. just.. enough Adam Cole for a bit, please. AEW has always had the indy-to-end-all-indys vibe but recently it's veered too hard in a direction that doesnt interest me as a fan.
less NXT, Impact, ROH (or whatever) guys who have been around and wrestling each other for a decade. more joshi, more PAC, more Deeb, more Hayter, more Acclaimed. much more Miro. in fact if Miro is the joker tonight and we get him vs Joe all is forgiven.
excited for Takeshita tonight - that's a new hire that genuinely carries some intrigue
― Windsor Davies, Wednesday, 18 May 2022 20:56 (two years ago) link
if the joker is Johnny Gargano i will explode with rage
― Windsor Davies, Wednesday, 18 May 2022 21:15 (two years ago) link
I went to Miro's Twitter yesterday to see if he'd been tweeting much through his mysterious absence and he'd just retweeted something from Glenn Jacobs about keeping Knoxville "pro-business and pro-life" 🤮
― hiroyoshi tins in (Sgt. Biscuits), Wednesday, 18 May 2022 21:38 (two years ago) link
ffs
ban all wrestlers from twitter.
― Windsor Davies, Wednesday, 18 May 2022 21:55 (two years ago) link
except for CM Punk. "go suck a blood money-covered dick you fucking dork" is one for the ages
― Windsor Davies, Wednesday, 18 May 2022 21:56 (two years ago) link
joker reveals were both huge surprises, no one i know guessed them both
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 19 May 2022 02:41 (two years ago) link
only punk, danhausen, and nyla rose should have twitter
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 19 May 2022 02:48 (two years ago) link
hangman vs. takeshita match of the year
i'm glad tony khan knew i wanted to see more konosuke takeshita
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 19 May 2022 03:01 (two years ago) link
i appreciate that punk and hangman have yet to do a promo where they talk at each other. they've been building this up just with monologues and silent stares
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 19 May 2022 03:07 (two years ago) link
i really loved this whole episode. perfectly-paced long promo between the bcc and the jas, just the right amount of surprise and dynamism added to the owen cup by the joker selections, astonishing deeb promo, and kor vs. fenix was nearly as good as hangman vs. takeshita
is the endgame of the men's owen kor vs. cole???? have to say that i actually am fascinated with the instability of the undisputed elite
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 19 May 2022 17:59 (two years ago) link
Honestly, Brad, as much as I want Samoa Joe to take the whole thing, I would be very interested in your final two. Honestly, I've always liked KOR more, and felt like he's a much more complete performer, which almost everyone I know disagrees with, but he always looks good in the ring, and honestly, can always make his opponent look good, too.
I was definitely surprised by the Jokers, but not by the outcome of the matches.
― hourspass, Thursday, 19 May 2022 21:02 (two years ago) link
Catching up with Dynamite. Great Hangman match. Serena’s promo got my excited. Lol at JE seem to be the third in the tag team match at a second pay per view in a row. Just a shame this Cole Hardy match is the “main event”.
― a hoy hoy, Sunday, 22 May 2022 10:41 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6Co5Eq8ncw
so excited for this week :)
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 25 May 2022 00:07 (two years ago) link
now that cole is telegraphing kor vs. cole as the final, i believe it's gonna be joe vs. cole... and joe may go over
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 25 May 2022 00:15 (two years ago) link
i really hope you're right.
alas i am really struggling to gaf about the men's side of this tournament; also about Adam Cole (the dirt worst and together with Johnny Gargano the surest sign that Dave Meltzer doesn't know wtf he's on about in the 2020s);also his reDRagon buddies (Kyle O'Reilly is a good wrestler and fun in a vacuum but he's stuck orbiting this boring bullshit);in fact really anything to do with the Undisputed Era; 2018 Bullet Club-adjacent in-group tensions; various ROH guys;Jeff Hardy;John Morrison;Big Cass; Big Damo;even, sadly, Samoa Joe.
stop debuting people, even for a one-off. stop pulling "surprises" out the hat. there's about 100 wrestlers (ok maybe 50) that got over to a greater or lesser extent between 2019-2021 through time, effort, good matches, good stories, good booking. i love those guys, the AEW guys. i do not want to watch 2019 NXT, 2017 Impact or re-runs of old New Japan feuds. AEW was the escape route from all of that shit, that was the whole point
― Windsor Davies, Wednesday, 25 May 2022 05:16 (two years ago) link