AEW 2022: The year of the bloody bunny

oh my god

That's surely a motyc if it goes anything north of like eight minutes

Update: it should go EXACTLY eight minutes

They can do it

RICKY STARKS SPITTIN.

(via @AEW) pic.twitter.com/hzSPgYByEl

— B/R Wrestling (@BRWrestling) December 8, 2022

Ricky Starks has really won me over this year. I liked him before, but man, he got over HUGE with me this year. My friends were at Dynamite this week and they were losing their minds, since Ricky is the hometown hero in Austin. It'll probably be a great showing for him.

I’ve been on the Ricky Starks train since I first saw him on NWA Powerrr so I’m delighted to see him get the push he deserves. TK needs to keep it going.

twitter tells me that TK has apparently acknowledged that (1) the ROH stuff on AEW TV has to stop, soon and (2) that you can't keep devoting c.50% of your airtime each week to the latest new signing(s) (who promptly disappear after a week never to be heard from again).

in the quote i read he sounded pretty fucking miffed about item (2) in particular, because yknow WCW used to bring all these lucha and Japan guys in back in'96 and it was the coolest shit. but "apparently" that doesn't fly anymore

well yeah guess what Tony AEW 2022 is not WCW 96 and that actually doesn't fly anymore. please god let him be getting the message here.

hilariously i end my latest whinge by noting how much I enjoyed that episode and yeah, Starks has got the lot if they give him a chance. i fully expect him to lose to MJF and then disappear back off into oblivion (which fucking sucks, i have loved (and still in theory do love) AEW so much, but they have now conditioned me to expect the hot new star to get beaten and immediately benched which is a shitty place to be because that's what shitty wrestling companies do. i kinda need them not to fuck this one up

[well yeah guess what Tony AEW 2022 is not WCW 96 and that actually doesn't fly anymore. please god let him be getting the message here.

reading that back it's a bit ambiguous. should probably clarify that imo there is a way to do guest stars from other regions and companies. there is a qualitative difference between Jun Akiyama, Minoru Suzuki, Bandido and Takeshita vs idk Juice Robinson, Jay Lethal, Jeff fucking Jarrett, Anthony Henry etc. etc. etc. call me a snob if you like

dynamite has been outrageously good. once again

I'm selfishly hoping that they'll do some build towards some Wrestle Kingdom matches in the coming weeks (namely next week, since I'll be going to the San Antonio show). I'm interested to see how the card fills out and when Ospreay is going to show up to cost Kenny and the Bucks in the best of seven. Also, one of our guys from here is wrestling on the Dark recordings, so I'm hyped to go over there and cheer for him.

Re: what Windsor said - I agree, but am sad about it. It's a shame that for several of the people they have brought in (like Jay Lethal and Juice Robinson), the timing was off, and they hadn't heated up again in quite some time. I get why they brought these people in, but man, crowds were dead for most of them. At the end of ROH, Jay wasn't as hot of a commodity as he was a few years back with his feud with Colt Cabana. I also had a time where I thought Juice was doing great, but his Bullet Club run hasn't done anyone any good. FinJuice had run their course, but I feel like an amicable split (like RPG VICE) would have felt better, since they haven't done much with the split between Juice and Finlay. I'll stop before it turns into a post that should be in the NJPW thread instead.

Maybe it's also a testament to how the atmosphere and the interests of the average "indie" fan have shifted during these pandemic years.

Hell of a strong run of TV to close out the year, I loved Hayter vs Shida and the Acclaimed diss track in particular

Not really that much bloody bunny to speak of in the final reckoning for 2022, but a very strong year for Orange Cassidy and the Acclaimed

Also I guess some other stuff happened idk

lol yeah I guess some stuff did happen.

as I’m newly sober (started going to AA, it’s actually a hoot) I’m gonna binge the past couple Dynamites on nye instead of going to a house party. Excited about the new set and maybe sasha.

Any good new thread title ideas?

bunny was injured for like nine months so i really blew the thread title lol

She was unlucky!

Good luck with sober NYE AHH, you should be in for a good time with those recent eps. The Rampages have been fairly good lately too IIRC

Thanks man. I’ve kinda forgotten about Rampage, I’ll make sure to take the time.

AEW 2023: Scissor me daddy
AEW 2023: The return of slapnuts
AEW 2023: Where’s Miro?
AEW 2023: We miss you, Larry the dog

Holy fuck the Acclaimed diss of Jarrett and Lethal had me rooooollin. Absolutely love those guys.

Watching 3 weeks of tv and I’m back in love with aew

AEW 2023: R-A-S-S-L-E-R

Lol Wardlow should be a killer and he just had a great match, please don’t try to make me care that he had his “man bun” cut off

I'm into "We miss you, Larry the dog" but I did get scissored by Bowens when I went to Dynamite tapings, so I gotta go with Scissor me daddy.