More Dangerous Than Dynamite: Today I need something more sub-sub-sub-substantial
I dunno. The shows AEW fields after a big pay per view often feel kinda ad hoc, kinda thrown together… and while there were presumably the ends to a couple of long running programs (Chris Jericho and Ricochet, Kris Statlander and Hikaru Shida)… I just didn’t think there was enough meat on the bone to…
Stare into the lion’s eyes
You know, I’ve made absolutely no secret of the fact that New Japan Pro Wrestling used to be my favorite wrestling promotion on the planet. Of course, that “used to be” is a big part of the equation; for me, New Japan went away from the pandemic and, uh… never quite found its way back.…
I Want To Shoot The Whole Day Down: The long hot summer just passed me by
You pay your money, you takes your chances. Some scattershot thoughts about the show last night: I was already a bit on edge (no, not THAT Edge) when Double or Nothing, technically the seventh anniversary show for AEW, started. At least when Mick Foley name dropped a WWE lifer within SECONDS of his speaking debut,…
More Dangerous Than Dynamite: Watch this space
Apologies and mea culpas; faced with this three hour show and the pay per view I don’t have any particular faith or interest in save one or two matches, I’ve decided to skip this and save my quill for that, if you get what I mean. Our time on this Earth is limited, friends, and…
More Dangerous Than Dynamite: Shave and a haircut, two bits
I have very mixed feelings about the Darby Allin AEW title reign. On the one hand, you are getting fun World Championship matches on TV every week (and sometimes more than once a week). On the other hand, those matches are INCREDIBLY formulaic; Darby absorbs egregious, over the top (and sometimes, scary in real life)…
More Dangerous Than Dynamite: Just a dream and the wind to carry me
Of course, I’d be remiss if I didn’t say something about one R.E. Turner the Third. Don’t worry; I’m not doing three thousand words on the eccentric philanthropist. I haven’t the time and frankly, I don’t know the lore that well. This is a light entertainment blog, not a heavy research think tank. The part…
More Dangerous Than Dynamite: I’ve got the straight edge
Dynamite was a hot show, in front of a juiced crowd in Fairfax, Virginia. It started with a memorable match, Maxwell Jacob Friedman versus Kevin Knight, and ended with an even more memorable match, Darby Allin versus Brody King. I’m guessing, just due to that last match ALONE, that everyone is probably raving about this…
More Dangerous Than Dynamite: There used to be a greying tower alone on the sea
If nothing else, you’re going to gasp out loud at least once or twice every week for the next six or seven weeks as Darby Allin does something potentially career threatening to himself or to others. Good Gotch in the Great Ring in the Sky Above; this dumb dumb took an AIR RAID CRASH from…
More Dangerous Than Dynamite: I’m a skateboarder (I’m a Transformer)
I mean… Look. I like Darby Allin well enough. I’ve seen him have crazy matches, or crazy spots, anyway. So have you. If you’re the kind of wrestling fan who believes in “you deserve it,” there’s no question that the man deserves it; he’s put his body through Hell for wrestling, long before he came…
I Want To Shoot The Whole Day Down: The last great American dynasty
“The heat, my god, the heaaaat!” – Elaine Benes I was prepared to come here and tell you, brethren, that Dynasty was an all timer, and what a dummy I was for almost skipping it… but the final two minutes of the show saw the collective AEW audience sentenced to a summer of repeats and…
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