AEW 2022: The year of the bloody bunny

Mox putting the team on his back. Great reset promo.

that opening promo was such a bounce back from a horrible weekend

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JO5PgBSbmZM

i want this preserved in the thread

the grand slam card is 1. incredible 2. basically a restaging of all out 3. i'm not complaining

i'm gonna see that shit live!!!

Watching last weeks AEW and Stokely’s job squad is on.

What happened to Shawn Spears?

Also why does one of the ass boys have an arm pit tattoo that looks like he’s gone mouldy?

What happened to Shawn Spears?

Bit early for paternity leave. I think they just cycled him out for a while, especially after the whole MJF deal.

i’m at arthur ashe and i’m soooo happy

the match that opens rampage… just y’all wait

loving jericho's repeated mentions of "no honor" for low-blowing an opponent during the starks/hobbs commentary

that rampage was my favorite aew thing i’ve seen live

Did you stick around till the end? The building looked conspicuously empty on TV (and I know why, it was well after midnight on a school night).

Also, that Julia Hart table spot looked nasty and I’m glad she’s OK.

it was 12:30 and yes a lot of the crowd had emptied out but we stuck around, and starks/hobbs was absolutely worth it

I’ve not seen it yet but I feel for them, Starks and Hobbs are two of my favourites.

You know who needs a good feud? Wardlow

jungleboy/fenix was match of the night and prob a contender for match of the year. shame we were all so tired

I was at last year's grand slam and was absolutely drained about halfway through the Rampage taping. Were the concession/merch lines any better than last years?

night and day, they really got their shit together this year

ffs itv4 dont have the two hour rampage, it only starts with jungle boy having just won his match and christian coming out

as someone with back issues, i winced at the lower-back kneebomb move done during the MJF/Yuta match

Just a reminder all, Dynamite is tonight instead of tomorrow.

Lots of crazy stuff going on with this company lately, as far as backstage issues. Unfortunately not surprised that Sammy Guevara is involved.

despite things blowing up behind the scenes regularly i think the product has been p consistently great over this past month

hope nyla stealing jade's title leads somewhere lol

Sorry if this is a spoiler, but relieved that Hangman seems to be doing okay. Scary ending to the main event last night.

#Hangman @theAdamPage Medical Update pic.twitter.com/NAFnfzFhEL

— All Elite Wrestling (@AEW) October 19, 2022

yeah that was an unpleasant ending. love hangman so much <3

I’ve not seen Dynamite for about a month due to ~Lyfe~ and I thought I’d check out the full gear card

lololololol sting and Darby V. …. JEFF JARRETT AND JAY LETHAL?

Wtf is this shit?

And seemingly no Wardlow, TNT champion or FTR, best tag team in the company.

jeff jarrett’s debut was a recent low

everything else has been dope. ftr just wrestled an amazing eight man tag match

and the acclaimed are the best thing on television

full gear card is actually extremely awesome

They need to stick the landing on this one, it’s been feeling very flat for a while now. Time to correct course and go in a new direction

idk i think every dynamite since and including grand slam has been excellent. they’ve already pivoted. and mjf is gonna make an amazing champ*

*i agree with max it’s his time

got to ditch the ROH stuff and end this interminable JAS vs BCC feud imo.

still feels like they're benching major AEW players that the fans are behind in favour of featuring whoever TK fancies this month, still feels like whenever a new star heats up to a certain point they run out of ideas of where to go next, still feels like there's too much emphasis on putting on technically competent wrestling matches as opposed to running memorable or buzzworthy angles.

all personal taste ofc but i've really fallen out of love with AEW this year.

this card does look predictably sick though, yes. TNT title match should be a hoot

like, Rush and Bandido are cool. AR Fox and Dalton Castle could be cool. Jay Lethal, Jeff Jarrett and many others are not cool. but none of them should be getting TV time when you've got the usual list of suspects spinning their wheels and not being featured. and that's before we even start on Brian Cage, Daivari, Gates of Agony, whoever the fuck has been getting featured matches ahead of fucking Miro, who was p much the best wrestler in the world for a while there.

it's a mess

also i can't remember the last episode of AEW tv where you couldn't look at the card in advance and call every winner, give or take. they've got to freshen it up.

anyway sorry these are all really boring complaints that have been made everywhere ad infinitum so i'll stop. i am looking forward to this show.

i really have to assume miro is injured again lol

i think i agree that bcc vs. jas has been interminable while also thinking jericho’s roh champion run has actually been v interesting

roh tv deal is supposedly in the works, or maybe not, who knows, i do like that there isn’t much roh content in the ppv beyond the title match

brian cage is a very good wrestler, his charms may not translate to tv effectively ever but he’s one of the dopest big guys out there

I think he's a charisma-free douche and I wouldn't mourn if he was cut because of all his dumbshit extracurricular opinions, but I also kind of tend to automatically tune in if he's wrestling a very squishy little guy or another big hoss he can have a video game match with, it is quite simply good television

Same is true of Wardlow, Hobbs, joe, archer and others. Big dude with snappy offence pulverising a jobber in the Steiner style is always fun tv but there are guys on the roster (including but not limited to all of the above) who can do that while presenting much more upside than that dipshit Brian Cage who will never be anything more than that

Even leaving Miro to one side, I just can’t fathom having a guy like the entirely and correctly beloved 2k22 Eddie Kingston on the roster and not having him be perpetually in a major program as a mainstay of the show, same goes for FTR, same goes for PAC

I didn’t want to watch jay lethal 10 or 15 years ago, I certainly don’t want to watch him now. Bobby fish is gone now but I felt the same way about him when he was all over the tv

Should be noted that in terms of raw talent Jun Akiyama vs Eddie Kingston is an absolutely absurd match to be able to chuck out there on a pre show, there aren’t many obvious contenders for better wrestler than those 2 in the 21st century beyond Danielson

Can’t watch this live so bowing out but I’m confident this is gonna be a great show

wardlow is not charismaless! wtf. capricious ass wrestling fans

that elite/death triangle match was special

sorry i misread that post lol

i’m very emotional is all

Yeah sorry I could’ve been clearer. To be clear - Wardlow fucking rocks

this fucking ppv is astonishing

shits gonna end before midnight too

they’re doing a best of 7 between the elite and death triangle

embarrassment of riches

sorry i know i am less critical of aew than most but that whole thing just blew me away. they nailed it

this fucking ppv is astonishing

― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Sunday, 20 November 2022 03:54 (three hours ago) link

i had zoned out of every one of these narratives leading up and in the ring they made you invested in each of them. blackpool/jac was amazing. i think my favorite thing at the moment was mjf's classic walk-on drip.

they managed to land two planes simultaneously on a busy landing strip with that main event.

also, i'm not sure how anyone else heard it on the PPV, but i thought the audience was saying "fuck 'em up" until they followed it up with "colt cabana".