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Post by Some Guy on Apr 24, 2024 20:17:49 GMT -5
This is getting to be too much of two guys in the ring and another guy rotates in match
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Post by Some Guy on Apr 24, 2024 19:49:53 GMT -5
God the sound tonight is so goddamn bad
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Post by Some Guy on Apr 24, 2024 19:27:14 GMT -5
Fletcher still feels to me like Ospreay before he started actually honing some psychology into him so it's just annoying to me unless he's in tag matches.
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Post by Some Guy on Apr 24, 2024 16:50:15 GMT -5
They do quite often do eliminators as the opener from memory. MJF/Cole opened a Dynamite which The Elite and BCC main evented for example. Just recently Joe/Dustin main evented but only after they teased doing it as the opener. I'd guess Hobbs/Mox has a big melee after it with the BCC and Callis Family if the plan is Anarchy in the Arena between the two groups, in which case it would make sense to have Fletcher have finished his match early in the night. I think on Dynamite, unlike PPV, the main event and opener are quite interchangeable tbh, feels like we get as many memorable matches open the show as close them and there always seems to be more eyes on the start of the show for whatever reason. I think the show starting with Swerve's music hitting is a fitting way to start the night too. Not sure the graphics always mean much though, matches that look like they're the main event haven't ended up being so from what I recall, so Swerve could easily main event. I just think they might want to start the show off with their new champion being the first thing you see. I agree about the opener being important but optics matter and Swerve is the world champion, not Moxley. Personally I'd have him open with a promo AND close with the match He is, but the first time the IWGP title belt has ever been defended on AEW TV is a bigger deal than a match with Kyle Fletcher in it. Especially one that has built up anybody amount of heat in the last week.
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Post by Some Guy on Apr 23, 2024 11:50:56 GMT -5
Kind of unfortunate that she didn't want to wrestle but I get it if OF is just more lucrative at this time so hope for the best. She was the only one in the horrendous beyond belief America's Top Team era I thought had any potential, though.
Now I can stick solely to talking about how AEW misuses Marina Shafir as far as fighters go because she rules.
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Post by Some Guy on Apr 22, 2024 12:44:55 GMT -5
I'm assuming Jericho has become AEW's Local Man. Max Caster: Yo?
Caster is an annoying midcard to lower midcard act, you have to have an actual singles push to be a local man. He hasn't even had a singles TV match in 2 years and has genuinely never won a singles TV match in his AEW career.
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Post by Some Guy on Apr 22, 2024 2:37:19 GMT -5
Hook looked like a million bucks after losing to Joe in a really good/hot match, and he looks like complete shit coming out of that match against Jericho. Why? Like I get you despise Jericho but it comes off as bias to say this killed HOOK and made him look like complete shit. He needed two Judas Effects and a bat to the skull to stay down, and he was completely defiant, kicking out of said Judas Effects. Crowd was entirely into it and hated Jericho for winning Sorry to say but this match did what it needed to do, there's an actual spark to this storyline if Jericho can take advantage of it, and delusional teacher Jericho in crazy hardcore matches would be a different direction at the very least, especially given now everyone wants to see HOOK wreck him even more. I hope he takes advantage of it because the crowds tonight definitely told him the direction he needs to keep leaning. They weren't that into it, though. Just look at the reaction to Hook kicking out of the muscle buster at 1 then suplexing Joe in their match 3 months ago (I said 2, got it wrong there) and compare it to these kick-outs. It's just waning, and also they hated Jericho not because of this feud with Hook but because they're sick and tired of him being on TV every single week. You can't metastasize go away heat into a wrestling character when you are as unbelievably stale as Jericho is. Also you can list the shit he kicked out of and it won't make a difference. It's just the same shit that happened a little over a year ago with Ricky Starks. Ricky had a super hot mini feud with then champ MJF and lost, but was hot coming out of it. Then he beat Jericho twice and you can list the shit he did there, but was he even close to as over as he was when he fought MJF? Nope, not even in the same vicinity. He didn't recover at all until Punk made it his personal business to get him back higher. Oh yeah one more final thing...does anyone at all want to watch Hook/Jericho again? What interest is there in that anywhere? Jericho just won basically clean without any interference or "Hook would have won!" moments. Jericho just flatly won, what's the point of going on after this
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Post by Some Guy on Apr 22, 2024 2:19:22 GMT -5
I'm not sure there has ever been a situation where a single wrestler drags down a company in every segment on every show when mostly everything else is firing off quite well in the same way Jericho is pulling right now. He's managed it by having the worst match by far in three straight PPVs, and what he did with the Hook match tonight was a literal worse version of what Joe did two months ago. Hook looked like a million bucks after losing to Joe in a really good/hot match, and he looks like complete shit coming out of that match against Jericho.
He also I think has made more combined Dynamite/Collision appearances than any single other talent this year besides MAYBE Toni (who is way more over). And if it were literally any other talent that has gotten the reactions he has gotten for four months straight, they'd be given time off or just set aside. Instead, Jericho gets a title (as meaningless as the FTW title is, Hook was still super protected going into this for several years and this is the second match ever he's lost relatively clean). The leeway he gets is unreal.
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Post by Some Guy on Apr 22, 2024 0:32:02 GMT -5
Wrestling is firing on all cylinders right now. I think this is bigger than the previous period when things were getting hot, which was the indies before COVID. Are you sure? TNA is setting up Moose/Broken Matt Hardy at the moment
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Post by Some Guy on Apr 22, 2024 0:20:12 GMT -5
Let's pass the blunt around and share our favorite moments of the late great Bryan Danielson. The period where he was feuding with Hangman and he kept beating the shit out of Dark Order members then flexing/laughing while he made them tap out is peak Danielson.
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Post by Some Guy on Apr 22, 2024 0:17:45 GMT -5
Every company drops the ball every now and then, but WWE missing the boat on Swerve is almost Detroit Pistons drafting bad. Don't speak like that, I don't want Troy Weaver signing Top Dolla
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Post by Some Guy on Apr 22, 2024 0:05:49 GMT -5
Eh that's harmless really on the spectrum of things that Brian Cage conceivably believes in his life. (also the Sting retirement match could technically count here! which I liked better but that's a ymmv dealio)
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Post by Some Guy on Apr 21, 2024 23:59:06 GMT -5
The next person coming out is just gonna go apeshit and beat up the reporters Steiner in Ring Ka King gimmick is coming back?
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Post by Some Guy on Apr 21, 2024 23:56:46 GMT -5
Is Bryan legit hurt or are they playing up a work? Like 95% sure it's a work
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Post by Some Guy on Apr 21, 2024 23:54:28 GMT -5
Can somebody ask if Jamie Hayter is close? It's been over a year since she wrestled a real actual match and 11 months since she actually did anything.
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Post by Some Guy on Apr 21, 2024 23:45:21 GMT -5
I do think Willow is the most likable person maybe in the entirety of wrestling, so I think they should really just play hard off of that.
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Post by Some Guy on Apr 21, 2024 23:38:32 GMT -5
I really liked most of Bryan and Will, but 5-10 minutes of the grapple porn is just unnecessary time filler that serves no real purpose. Just looks and feels like Bryan tugging for attention, “Hey dad! Hey dad! Hey dad! Look what I can do!” It’s out of place with the match. I complained about the same things in the first two matches with Hangman. Finish looked great visually, but here we are again with Bryan losing in another heatless banger that went 10+ minutes too long. I know I’m going to upset some, but I really can’t wait for him to no longer be full time. So tired of the self-fellating matches. That's how wrestling works, it builds and builds to a point that the ending is earned by opponents that specialize in ground work wind down their opponent. Bryan outlasting his opponents has always been his goal and gimmick, dating back to when he did hour long matches in ROH. Don't really know what exactly you want here, do you want immediate big spot kickout fests from the word go? Do you want every match to be The Rock/Cena's second Mania match?
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Post by Some Guy on Apr 21, 2024 20:07:46 GMT -5
Fellas, it's been a great week for AEW. Solid Dynamite, solid PPV so far, and Matt Hardy is in TNA. A bad week for the world when the possibility of Moose/Matt Hardy seems likely
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Post by Some Guy on Apr 20, 2024 21:25:08 GMT -5
Let these two cook for like 12 minutes
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Post by Some Guy on Apr 20, 2024 20:36:20 GMT -5
Mercedes not having a match on the first PPV after her arrival Is wild. My guess is they either don't want to over expose her or don't want her push to be too forced from the get go. Like would people here like it, if she came in and immediately took the title from Storm? Probably not. Slow build is my guess. If she was actually capable of wrestling right now (I don't know if she is), a match against Deeb or Skye Blue or Emi or something like that would have been very good to do at Dynasty. Primarily because you can't keep doing endless promos with her instead of wrestling.
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