aew 2021: don callis’s sunglass game is on point

i think you should rewatch it

as usual i hated everything surrounding the inner circle/att match but the actual thing was pretty fun

i also disagree about ftr and lucha bros

I’m just not feeling it at all. Top Guys, at the Pinnacle, being Andrade’s hired goons, wearing lame masks, not doing much to make themselves or someone like Fenix shine. He should be bouncing off them like Dante Martin remaking the movie Flubber. Instead it’s just more ciero medo taunts, Tully never looking in position and hating Cash’s mullet.

Lucha Bros need something else. Idk what, as they’ve already recently feuded with the 3 biggest teams on the show (Bucks and JE before this). Mox and Eddie when he returns?

Will definitely rewatch. I now seemingly can’t remember much from the main event, I must have been half asleep.

lucha bros vs top flight (or at least dante/lio) would be very nice, i was just thinking after full gear that i fully expect dante martin to be on an upcoming ppv card. i do LOVE ftr and think the frog mask thing is hilarious so i think i give the whole feud the benefit of the doubt, but i also think the matches are dope

my critiques were: i didn’t want mjf or cody/pac to win their respective matches. superkliq trios match went way too long but maybe it’ll be better on rewatch without a room full of my friends

also why only one women’s match!!!!!! the buy-in doesn’t count!!!! :(

i guess when thunder rosa makes a title run after the tbs tournament that ppv is gonna rock my world

I totally agree about the women. Ruby, Rosa and Deeb could all have legit ppv level feuds. Also my Lucha/FTR is still slight criticism, it’s still better than any tag team stuff coming from the WWE since idk like tlc and maybe one new day feud. It’s just not the high high standards I’ve started to take for granted.

Thought I would rewatch the main event tonight and put on the last hour, which has the ic-att street fight on first.

Holy fuck did they start a street fight with both teams in the corners 1-on-1 in the ring trad tag match? That’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen. Why not just walk off your corner, be the first to pick up a weapon and knock them the fuck out? Instead you just stand there, hoping to be tagged in? So so so so dumb. Feel like I need to hate watch this in full now.

Actually Santana & Ortiz would be perfect for Lucha Bros, after umm, I guess defeating former UFC champions. Gonna skip it.

Had a blast with that whole show more or less top to bottom, some stuff was of a higher standard and some stuff of a lower but it was pretty much all at least enjoyable and I dunno what impossibly high standard they’re supposed to be operating at if you’re going to pick holes in most of the show.

Can’t subscribe to ahoyhoy’s criticisms here. Thought the Minnesota street fight was hilarious throughout, for instance. Lucha bros are a bit sloppy but also very cool so they get a pass.

MJF / Darby and punk / Kingston the highlights for me. The standing ovation for the pinfall trades in the opener was amazing.

GAF about jay lethal though. Thought we were getting switchblade for a second too which only made it the more disappointing

santana and ortiz def deserve a long feud with the lucha bros and a title run

impossible to dismiss any inner circle matches as long as they and/or guevara is involved

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_RLB2wynEE

rewatching full gear. mjf vs. darby is one of the best matches i’ve ever seen

in fact, the first three matches were all mindblowing lol

also, i changed my mind, superkliq vs. christian/jurassic express isn’t too long at all

full gear rewatch continues:

say what you will about cody rhodes... that tag match was full of great storytelling. all the blind tags! cody getting knocked out for most of the match when malakai kicked him!

pac somehow being able to twist himself like a pretzel in the air even though he is an enormous man!

there were so many great moments in the tay/britt match too. jeez

Hyped for the era of Cowboy Shit.

Agree with Lucha Bros vs. Santana & Ortiz. They had a pretty epic feud in IMPACT that I loved (and actually, Santana & Ortiz beat Lucha Bros in their last match for IMPACT). I would be very interested, actually, in just a tag team feud between Santana & Ortiz and Ethan Page & Scorpio Sky since Page was half of the tag team that gave Santana & Ortiz their sendoff from IMPACT.

tag team feud between Santana & Ortiz and Ethan Page & Scorpio Sky

feel like this might be coming, one of the best parts of the minnneapolis street fight was santana/ortiz and page/sky going at it in the ring

i forgot that jericho stapled dan lambert in the dick

fun match

(i am still rewatching full gear lol)

kenny kicking out of the one winged angel...... astonishing

totally amazing dynamite on top of that tonight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0YJgm6Auz8

have y'all watched this video series? it's remarkable. hangman's storyline presented documentary style with full clips from every relevant match and bte episode, and, blissfully, with no narration

yeah wow i hadn't seen these but they're really something. i've never been a regular watcher of BTE so this is essential stuff. thanks for flagging!

I watched them all yesterday, so so good. They even got a mention in Page’s cute little declaration, which people should also find and read.

Lmao at meltzer’s young buck love. I guess I need to watch the trios match. I really should have found time for the show when I wasn’t half asleep.

When I rewatched the main event it was fascinating seeing how obviously hurt Omega was from the start. He had one arm up against his chest the whole time like he was struggling, not just selling. Really like rewatching Perfect v Bret or Austin v Shawn. Still went through a table though! Hope he gets a good year off and an insane pop at Full Gear 2022.

kenny kicking out of the one winged angel...... astonishing

I always love how Kenny kicks out of his own finisher(s). When he got hit with the Golden Trigger by The Bucks, he angrily kicked out at less than one.

Watching how Kenny has transformed himself over the years really goes to show just how good the guy is. He's a polarizing figure in wrestling, for sure, but you cannot deny that he knows how to illicit emotion, both in the ring and out of it.

In other news, I really enjoyed the faceoff between Hangman and Danielson. I hope they hold off on having this match for a bit, because I would hate to see Danielson lose just yet, but you know that match is going to make Hangman look like even more of a star than he already does.

I wouldn’t put it past them to have another draw with Page. Could be a cool little narrative to start where he has an apparent ceiling as to who he can beat.

A draw would be very interesting, especially after Danielson goes through the rest of the Dark Order. I thought maybe a double DQ because of some sort of interference, but a draw would leave that door open for a challenge again later, through the obvious claim of "you never beat me."

Honestly, if Kenny comes back heel, I would have to assume that he would use his injuries as an excuse to goad Hangman into another match. I want Hangman's reign to last a year, at least.

It would give Page the added juice of that burn he gave Bryan earlier about only being able to draw against Omega.

Good point. Really, I'm totally fine with getting to see multiple matches between the two. Make Hangman even more of a star let's goooooooo

Unrelated, but aw man, Swole. I was really hoping she was going to have more of a run, soon. At least to see her vs. Ruby in a marquee match.

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swole <3

that sure was a wacky episode of dynamite

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cw22ae9JYB4

just perfect

jbl voice: haha michael, its bizarro land in long island with the aew universe tonight! where the fans for some reason cheer the bad guys and boo the good guys *looks into the distance, forever lost*

Tony Khan resurrecting location-specific face / heel dynamics = just one of the many reasons that he is the best booker. he has correctly identified Bret Hart vs Stone Cold as the pinnacle of all wrestling

Hook has been sent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqsloakKs7A

30 mins in and I’m pretty sure this is gonna be an all-time great episode of wrestling tv

How on earth do you have Bryan Danielson on the roster and not present him as the best wrestler in the world? He is out of this world

The very best of wishes to Jim Ross but Taz is ridiculously good as the third man in the booth

Deeb vs Shida III on the same show as this world title match is showboating. Serena Deeb is also out of this world.

Dante Martin is to 2020s wrestling what Rey Mysterio was to the 90s. The most exciting flier out there. I cannot wait to see him fight MJF.

Can’t wait to find out about the Owen Hart cup

These are my jumbled early thoughts on this obnoxiously stacked episode of AEW dynamite

How on earth do you have Bryan Danielson on the roster and not present him as the best wrestler in the world? He is out of this world

this fucking match!!!

Bryan Danielson is the best wrestler ever

Having to take a cigarette break after that match.

Best AEW match ever? Agree with Schiavone’s call near the end there, this felt like breaking new ground for AEW

the cowboy shit chants in the home stretch were wverything, I honestly don’t think I’ve ever seen a better executed long term push by a company of their chosen guy

Yeah that was all about as good as tv wrestling gets

For at least the 7th time in this thread - it is a fucking miracle that AEW exists

brody king signs with aew

Kyle O’Reilly pretty obviously coming in as well. I only know ReDragon through their NJPW junior stuff because I’d checked out of WWE completely before they landed in NXT but that still seems like a good move.


The dream now is for the pandemic to ease up enough for AEW and new Japan to start cross promoting, I think njpw desperately need it after a terrible few years and the AEW fans are gonna be rabid for the big NJPW stars if we can get to that point

Feel like they’re fast approaching the point where they could do with Rampage being slightly longer and taped on a different night /separate city with a livelier crowd.

The dipshits that think it’s somehow a problem to have too many popular acts on the roster are beneath contempt but there really are just so many people now that need to be showcased

In total fucking awe of how over they’ve gotten Hangman, I don’t know who you could even point to in the last decade or so as a comparable example of a company deliberately taking a promising but unfavoured guy and just fucking firing them up into the stratosphere. Okada maybe?

I guessed right!

Absolute classic title match