Tonight Felt Like a 2019 AEW. Anyone Else Prefer That?

[LiamMcDuggle]

Tonight, they just focused on their on young talent and was not bogged down by other nonsense. Everything connected together fairly well. 

While I think SOME WWE guys who have reinvented themselves work well in AEW (Jericho, Mox, Miro), my fav part of AEW has always been the new younger talent. 

I think I realized today, I don't really want to see CM Punk be in three different drawn out segments, I would rather see OC in a match, or MJF have the creative freedom that makes him so interesting. MJF's least interesting feud was with Punk and it was not even close really. 

While I like the Elite, they were also starting to take up a lot of space on TV over the last year, including having giving their friends screen time just for the sake of it, even though they really don't add to anything. The Bucks at one point had an entourage of 7 people following them to the ring. Like I want to see Bucks matches, but I don't really want to see their buddies eating up precious screen time for no apparent reason. The Undisputed Elite thing didn't go anywhere and just seemed to be them wanting to be around their friends. They had a full year to do something with this and instead of doing that match, they just followed each other out to the ring every week and did nothing of any significance until about two weeks ago

Do you really need Adam Cole, Kyle O'Reilly, Fish, Nakazawa, Cutler, Gallows, and Anderson all out with you at once?

[Fade]

It did.

It’s a much different roster. The main event scene is going to have to be solidified. And a lot of young talent is going to need to step up.

[Dr. Bolty, Disaster Enby]

Sept 8, 2022 0:41:45 GMT -5 Fade said:

It’s a much different roster. The main event scene is going to have to be solidified. And a lot of young talent is going to need to step up.

This is true, and it helps that there's actually a lot of visible movement right now. The Acclaimed hit a high level far faster than anyone predicted. Swerve popped up tonight looking like he owns the place already. Hobbs came out of All Out looking like a world-beater. Daniel Garcia and Wheeler Yuta just had a good main event match.

(I missed the Stokely segment tonight, so I'll have to wait til a Youtube video goes up to see what's going on there.)

A night lacking so many of the "mandatory Dynamite appearance" tier of wrestlers and a few well-chosen pushes are doing a lot to make the future look bright, once all the nonsense and chaos got perfunctorily settled.

[Dave the Dave]

Yeah. I loved it. I like a lot the new people, but just seeing Best Friends and Death Triangle start the show and tear the house down and I was like, “These guys have been here and being great the whole time. Why’d we get away from this?”

[Fade]

Sept 8, 2022 0:50:09 GMT -5 Dr. Bolty, Disaster Enby said:

Sept 8, 2022 0:41:45 GMT -5 Fade said:

It’s a much different roster. The main event scene is going to have to be solidified. And a lot of young talent is going to need to step up.

This is true, and it helps that there's actually a lot of visible movement right now. The Acclaimed hit a high level far faster than anyone predicted. Swerve popped up tonight looking like he owns the place already. Hobbs came out of All Out looking like a world-beater. Daniel Garcia and Wheeler Yuta just had a good main event match.

(I missed the Stokely segment tonight, so I'll have to wait til a Youtube video goes up to see what's going on there.)

A night lacking so many of the "mandatory Dynamite appearance" tier of wrestlers and a few well-chosen pushes are doing a lot to make the future look bright, once all the nonsense and chaos got perfunctorily settled.

Swerve absolutely stood out to me (as he has). Drop those titles to the Acclaimed, have Swerve turn on Lee and push him as one of your top dastardly heels. We finally get a face singles Keith Lee in AEW, out of it too.

[Super Duper Dragunov]

Sept 8, 2022 1:04:13 GMT -5 Fade said:

Sept 8, 2022 0:50:09 GMT -5 Dr. Bolty, Disaster Enby said:

This is true, and it helps that there's actually a lot of visible movement right now. The Acclaimed hit a high level far faster than anyone predicted. Swerve popped up tonight looking like he owns the place already. Hobbs came out of All Out looking like a world-beater. Daniel Garcia and Wheeler Yuta just had a good main event match.

(I missed the Stokely segment tonight, so I'll have to wait til a Youtube video goes up to see what's going on there.)

A night lacking so many of the "mandatory Dynamite appearance" tier of wrestlers and a few well-chosen pushes are doing a lot to make the future look bright, once all the nonsense and chaos got perfunctorily settled.

Swerve absolutely stood out to me (as he has). Drop those titles to the Acclaimed, have Swerve turn on Lee and push him as one of your top dastardly heels. We finally get a face singles Keith Lee in AEW, out of it too.

100%.

Swerve just felt "comfortable" tonight in the role as an asshole heel.

Plus he even had his own version of a Seth Rollins fakey HA HA HA HA HA! laugh.

Skies the limit.

[Deleted]

prefer this by a mile

things had really gotten iffy since hangman won (not because of him winning but it’s just the exact moment) and tonight might get aew back to a much better place

[clifford]

Said it in the Dynamite Ratings Thread; last night had that thrill of the unknown that only late 2019 Dynamites had.

[XIII]

Yes. That was about when I fell off from watching. I like seeing a mix of vets that I like and people on the come up.

[Dub H]

Absolutely, 2019 and Kenny's Reign were AEW at its best

[ASYLUMHAUSEN]

Sept 8, 2022 1:34:21 GMT -5 Super Duper Dragunov said:

Sept 8, 2022 1:04:13 GMT -5 Fade said:

Swerve absolutely stood out to me (as he has). Drop those titles to the Acclaimed, have Swerve turn on Lee and push him as one of your top dastardly heels. We finally get a face singles Keith Lee in AEW, out of it too.

100%.

Swerve just felt "comfortable" tonight in the role as an asshole heel.

Plus he even had his own version of a Seth Rollins fakey HA HA HA HA HA! laugh.

Skies the limit.

I just noticed your sig image.

Bra-f***ing-vo!



...also yeah...Swerve is THAT Dude. Rocket strap him, TK.

[Milkman Norm]

I was thinking the same thing, and how I preferred the way show was paced to who it has been in current weeks.

[Denny Zen is Cooking™]

Yeah, this was so refreshing. I became such an AEW fan in its earliest days because I could see dudes like Darby Allin, Orange Cassidy, Jungle Boy, Sonny Kiss, and even the likes of Joey Janela and Jimmy Havoc (who I was a fan of at the time) get a legitimate opportunity on national television while also seeing major stars like Omega, Jericho, and Moxley.

Last night felt like that. In context, that was one of my favorite AEW main events ever. Just signifying to the world "we know what got us here, and we're going back to that," and giving a young talent that likely wouldn't have gotten the opportunity if AEW didn't exist an absolute starmaking performance. Just great stuff.

[sunnytaker]

i think having so many big names coming in relatively close to each other (punk, danielson, cole) made tony feel he needed to get his money's worth out of them and so they started popping up all the time (outside of injuries) especially with cody leaving (bit hazy on the timelines but i think it was all within a few months of each other). so that pushed aside the natural grown people, swerve and keith lee to a lesser extent on their arrival so it seemed to be an ex-wwe/nxt focus on the top of the card when you added jericho and mox to the mix.

now with an openning at the top of the card it's time for the people pushed back a step to show they are ready to carry the ball themselves.

[lavelleuk22]

I thought it was the best dynamite in a while...and my favourite part of Dynamite had been Punk

I don't know if it's as simple as it being the unknown, or maybe people stepped up, but it was good. The opening six man was just fun, and two other great matches. That said there have been other Dynamites that were just as good, but it just seemed more...loose maybe? I don't know how to describe it, but like things were a bit less serious.

I've always said AEW's biggest strength could be their comedy. People still say funny doesn't draw, but The Acclaimed are proof that's rubbish, I'd love for them to lean back into the silly elements of wrestling

Edit - I actually still like JR, but I'd love Taz and Excalibur to be the main commentators going forward. Weirdly, for all the Punk/EVP's stuff I thought JR's rant about how badly booked the All-Out main event was days before the show was also incredibly unprofessional. You don't bury your companies PPV main event before it takes place...in the future fine, but not before people have ordered it lol

[Cyno]

Moxley's rallying the troops promo did a lot to set the mood of the show. Outside of no Elite, it definitely felt like more of the kind of show that made me interested in the promotion from Day One than the weirdness of the last couple of months.

[dynamitekidd]

I’ve been in and out of AEW the past 6 month or so for different reasons. But this little reset has got my full attention again.

[Dub H]

Sept 8, 2022 11:36:16 GMT -5 Cyno said:

Moxley's rallying the troops promo did a lot to set the mood of the show. Outside of no Elite, it definitely felt like more of the kind of show that made me interested in the promotion from Day One than the weirdness of the last couple of months.

Props to MJF and Mox, the opening segment COMPLETELY set the mood for the whole Show. It was the perfect start

[ghost]

Sept 8, 2022 1:04:13 GMT -5 Fade said:

Sept 8, 2022 0:50:09 GMT -5 Dr. Bolty, Disaster Enby said:

This is true, and it helps that there's actually a lot of visible movement right now. The Acclaimed hit a high level far faster than anyone predicted. Swerve popped up tonight looking like he owns the place already. Hobbs came out of All Out looking like a world-beater. Daniel Garcia and Wheeler Yuta just had a good main event match.

(I missed the Stokely segment tonight, so I'll have to wait til a Youtube video goes up to see what's going on there.)

A night lacking so many of the "mandatory Dynamite appearance" tier of wrestlers and a few well-chosen pushes are doing a lot to make the future look bright, once all the nonsense and chaos got perfunctorily settled.

Swerve absolutely stood out to me (as he has). Drop those titles to the Acclaimed, have Swerve turn on Lee and push him as one of your top dastardly heels. We finally get a face singles Keith Lee in AEW, out of it too.

Yeah, I'm not familiar with pre-AEW Swerve, but he's money. His presence, the way he walks to the ring, his facial expressions, his mic work, crowd work, etc. Dude is going to be a main event heel if the company gets behind him. No reason he can't be in the MJF category at some point as one of the top heels in the company.

[chronocross]

I enjoyed it and it definitely felt different from the shows as of late.

I liked Swerve coming out heeling on the Acclaimed and while I would like to see the Acclaimed get the tag belts, I have a feeling SIOG will retain.