AEW 2022: The year of the bloody bunny

xxp would buy a shirt of that

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.

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.

def couldn’t believe that match. so wonderful

rampage was also great this week. feel like a broken record

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.

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

almost done with dynamite. I FUCKING LOVE FTR

willow nightingale is a star imo

She's one of the most naturally charismatic people they regularly put on TV imo

ftr vs briscoes 2 was breathtaking

hook taking the ftw title was an incredible microdrama

not enough dancing Ryan Nemeth in this week's BTE

otm

"Why weren't you Willy Gecko or the British Iguana?"

absolute trooper William Regal performance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98aEqKqfyBQ

Jim Ross: Matt Hardy looks like a young Bruce Dern in "The Cowboys."

punk is so hot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpi8uDSZRpY

kenny's coming back

I think I speak for all of us when saying how happy I was to see Don Callis back

otm

LMAO.

God knows what the hell they are doing. All Out seems like a chaotic mess.

Love Scissor Me Daddy Ass.

lmao

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.

Perhaps the most truly baffling outcome coming out of AEW this week is that the video game looks...fun?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

did you tune out when christian was on tv or

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)

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

i would just like to register that i was fucking right

all the punk/mox stuff last night was masterful

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, August 25, 2022 10:10 AM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

it wasn't wishful thinking at all :))))))

If the yesterday’s 4-way was any indication, the casino ladder match is going to be nuts.

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.

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

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

i think the last four dynamites have been truly awesome. punk and kenny returning gave the whole thing a shot in the arm

mox getting to unify the title also clearly unlocked something in mox

best friends, dark order and the commentary delivering an absolute gem performance

imo: somewhat messy but fun ppv with dizzying highs, like that acclaimed/swerve in our glory match during which my heart just about stopped

punk apparently going scorched earth on the presser :(

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.

appreciate that punk is still bitter about the penguins sweeping the blackhawks in 1992

In the most unsurprising turn of events, the Elite v the DO was really good.

The ladder match shit the bed though, what a mood killer finish.

Lol at Jade running out of Hulk paint, she just looks mouldy. When cosplay gets embarrassing.

Wtf are they thinking of

The Punk shit is so, so embarrassing. Repeatedly going after Colt Cabana for taking care of his mom(?!); he’s a gigantic fucking baby and it’s pathetic that Tony Khan didn’t pull the plug as soon as things started going off the rails. He should never have been out there

There have been a lot of high points this year still but overall the company is a mess rn compared to where it was

not sure why he is intent on destroying the locker room that made him return to wrestling but it sucks ass

way to poison the air in the room after a good match and ppv too lol, just a great way of making me not want to watch the product