Yeah he is *the guy*. He can work, he can (more or less) talk, he looks the part in a way none of their other guys do, everyone loves him and he’s very much an AEW original They’re gonna have to book him well to sustain that love from the audience but he feels like the breakout star from that pack, together with MJF (remember him?) That is a nuclear title program for those guys a year or two down the line, assuming no disasters in the meantime (where the fuck is MJF?!)
― Windsor Davies, Thursday, 14 July 2022 18:28 (one year ago) link
Being in the Blackpool Combat Club #BCC is utter Madness. @GentlemanRegal pic.twitter.com/XtrosBU21v— William Regal (@RealKingRegal) July 14, 2022
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 14 July 2022 18:41 (one year ago) link
obv i'm watching dynamite right now, anyway pretty astonishing the chemistry between claudio and hager... first time i've given a shit about a hager match lol
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 14 July 2022 18:42 (one year ago) link
also.... takeshita is my new favorite wrestler
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 14 July 2022 18:43 (one year ago) link
xxp would buy a shirt of that
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Thursday, 14 July 2022 18:47 (one year ago) link
Hager was in a pretty good Fox News tag team with Claudio for years. If Vince didn’t hate tag teams, they could have had a second team to fight. Oh I guess the rainbow Usos would have been around.
― a hoy hoy, Thursday, 14 July 2022 18:57 (one year ago) link
Holy fuck that Dynamite main event! My girlfriend watched it with me who usually doesn’t care and even she was losing her marbles at it. They all looked so good! There was so many great spots that it reminded me of the wm17 TLC match.
― a hoy hoy, Saturday, 16 July 2022 16:48 (one year ago) link
def couldn’t believe that match. so wonderful
rampage was also great this week. feel like a broken record
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Saturday, 16 July 2022 18:21 (one year ago) link
I am very intrigued by Stokes trying to recruit more clients. I would be very into him managing Lee Moriarty, which is a pairing I never even thought about until Stokely walked into frame last night.
Both nights of Fyter Fest look great. Excited to see Wheeler and his 3 dads wrestle on Wednesday.
― hourspass, Saturday, 16 July 2022 18:44 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_8jMBtB4dQ
one of the things i love about aew is the degree to which they draw on wrestling history instead of y'know largely pretending it doesn't exist *cough cough* and this 30-minute preview of saturday's roh ppv is the best example of that yet. the lethal/joe relationship is so richly illustrated, deep archival footage spliced with absolutely banging present day promos
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 20 July 2022 18:07 (one year ago) link
almost done with dynamite. I FUCKING LOVE FTR
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 21 July 2022 18:53 (one year ago) link
willow nightingale is a star imo
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 21 July 2022 19:09 (one year ago) link
She's one of the most naturally charismatic people they regularly put on TV imo
― hiroyoshi tins in (Sgt. Biscuits), Thursday, 21 July 2022 19:27 (one year ago) link
ftr vs briscoes 2 was breathtaking
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Sunday, 24 July 2022 03:18 (one year ago) link
hook taking the ftw title was an incredible microdrama
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 28 July 2022 19:15 (one year ago) link
not enough dancing Ryan Nemeth in this week's BTE
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Wednesday, 3 August 2022 11:56 (one year ago) link
otm
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 3 August 2022 11:59 (one year ago) link
"Why weren't you Willy Gecko or the British Iguana?"
absolute trooper William Regal performance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98aEqKqfyBQ
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Wednesday, 3 August 2022 22:11 (one year ago) link
Jim Ross: Matt Hardy looks like a young Bruce Dern in "The Cowboys."
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Thursday, 4 August 2022 07:17 (one year ago) link
punk is so hot
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 11 August 2022 03:34 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpi8uDSZRpY
kenny's coming back
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 16 August 2022 01:16 (one year ago) link
I think I speak for all of us when saying how happy I was to see Don Callis back
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Thursday, 18 August 2022 03:12 (one year ago) link
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 18 August 2022 03:15 (one year ago) link
LMAO.
God knows what the hell they are doing. All Out seems like a chaotic mess.
Love Scissor Me Daddy Ass.
― a hoy hoy, Thursday, 25 August 2022 06:48 (one year ago) link
lmao
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 25 August 2022 13:45 (one year ago) link
I genuinely don't know wtf is going on, and I kinda love it. I also kinda hate it.
Is Punk injured still? Is he being punished for backstage shit? Or neither of these things? Whats happening with the Cabana rumours? Is MJF alive? Who does Mox face at All Out? Hangman still needs something too, they've shit the bed with him since he feuded with Punk and lost the title.
Generally AEW is very good, so I'm pretty happy to give them the benefit of the doubt. And I don't really gaf about internet rumours, backstage dealings etc. But I feel if they get this wrong, it could leave quite a sour taste with fans. And they don't seem to get away with shit anywhere as easily as WWE, who regularly book shows this badly.
― a hoy hoy, Thursday, 25 August 2022 15:23 (one year ago) link
Perhaps the most truly baffling outcome coming out of AEW this week is that the video game looks...fun?
― hiroyoshi tins in (Sgt. Biscuits), Thursday, 25 August 2022 15:28 (one year ago) link
I like AEW but I do think Tony's lost the plot a bit, I want a weekly wrestling programme not an erratic machine that randomly shits out indie dream matches, blood-drenched garbage brawls and New Japan crossovers, its like eating the resultant paste of several different desserts all the time, just let some of the guys who know how to work have some three star matches for ten minutes on the undercard til things settle down, grab a damn hold
Bring back 2015-17 NXT basically
― hiroyoshi tins in (Sgt. Biscuits), Thursday, 25 August 2022 15:37 (one year ago) link
i find the backstage drama intolerable to read about, much prefer when the locker room was all good vibes
mjf’s disappearance from this layer of reality is maybe the only thing i’ve sort of enjoyed, like, he’s been gone for months and no one’s said anything, it’s like he’s poochie
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 25 August 2022 17:04 (one year ago) link
the video game was always going to be good imo, omega was drawing from the right inspirations
still so glad kenny is back, the trios match with ospreay is gonna whip
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 25 August 2022 17:05 (one year ago) link
i think punk jobbing to mox is like directly addressing the rumor mill but who knows. like everything it seems like a work/shoot ouroboros, reality influencing fiction influencing reality
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 25 August 2022 17:08 (one year ago) link
Hangman still needs something too, they've shit the bed with him since he feuded with Punk and lost the title.
my feeling is that the trios tournament is gonna bring him back toward the elite’s orbit but admittedly this is wishful thinking
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 25 August 2022 17:10 (one year ago) link
i also think despite mox unifying the title…. it isn’t over
i’m actually into this twist in the storyline tbh, mox’s promo after getting the win (“oh, was that not how it was supposed to go???”) was all-time great
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 25 August 2022 17:13 (one year ago) link
just let some of the guys who know how to work have some three star matches for ten minutes on the undercard til things settle down, grab a damn hold
Gotta give the belated nod that they in fact sent Uncle Dax out to do exactly this last night
Re: MJF, I am not into the lazy cheap heat edgelord end of his promos but I became a total convert of his in-ring after that great PPV match with Darby Allin; I guess with him and Punk being off TV for a while the slowed-down maximum-heat storytelling style I enjoy most got de-emphasised for the hurriedly booked dream matches
― hiroyoshi tins in (Sgt. Biscuits), Thursday, 25 August 2022 21:23 (one year ago) link
did you tune out when christian was on tv or
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 29 August 2022 15:00 (one year ago) link
also aew is p chaotic right now but i don't think it's because they're staging constant underbuilt dream matches (and if they were, forbidden door was proof of concept)
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 29 August 2022 15:10 (one year ago) link
but i did misread your post bc i'm just realizing you're referring to mjf and punk's in-ring action, which yes is a more patient and intense genre of wrestling
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 29 August 2022 15:12 (one year ago) link
i would just like to register that i was fucking right
all the punk/mox stuff last night was masterful
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 1 September 2022 12:51 (one year ago) link
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, August 25, 2022 10:10 AM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink
it wasn't wishful thinking at all :))))))
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 1 September 2022 13:31 (one year ago) link
If the yesterday’s 4-way was any indication, the casino ladder match is going to be nuts.
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Thursday, 1 September 2022 14:25 (one year ago) link
Maybe mine is a minority opinion, but I think AEW could probably do the two-day PPV thing and give everything some space to breathe. This card is so stacked and compressed I just know it’ll exhaust me.
― wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Thursday, 1 September 2022 15:30 (one year ago) link
i'm starting a campaign for forbidden door to be two days
on the other hand, i know aew could pull it off, but two-day mania always felt so unfocused to me
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 1 September 2022 17:08 (one year ago) link
I’ve tried to not really look at wed spoilers so this is encouraging.
As dumb and chaotic as AEW is, I still expect something good and not 99wcw
― a hoy hoy, Thursday, 1 September 2022 20:46 (one year ago) link
i think the last four dynamites have been truly awesome. punk and kenny returning gave the whole thing a shot in the arm
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 1 September 2022 20:52 (one year ago) link
mox getting to unify the title also clearly unlocked something in mox
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 1 September 2022 20:53 (one year ago) link
best friends, dark order and the commentary delivering an absolute gem performance
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Saturday, 3 September 2022 04:50 (one year ago) link
imo: somewhat messy but fun ppv with dizzying highs, like that acclaimed/swerve in our glory match during which my heart just about stopped
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 5 September 2022 04:31 (one year ago) link
punk apparently going scorched earth on the presser :(
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 5 September 2022 04:39 (one year ago) link
Just watched clips of him going off and think “fair enough lad, get it off yr chest” more than the internet acting all maude flanders about it. It’s pro wrestling, maybe people are supposed to talk shit about each other. Who gaf about how professional it is or whatever, let’s build to a proper Punk-Hangman 7 star ugly ass brawl.
― a hoy hoy, Monday, 5 September 2022 06:51 (one year ago) link
appreciate that punk is still bitter about the penguins sweeping the blackhawks in 1992
― mookieproof, Monday, 5 September 2022 07:40 (one year ago) link