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I Want To Shoot The Whole Day Down: Holding pattern
AEW Dynasty could have been a great show… It certainly featured a couple of great matches, a couple of surprise returns… some spills and chills. However, it ended with Jon Moxley retaining, and unsurprisingly, people are PISSED. I don’t know if I really have the time today or tomorrow morning to really break the show…
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I Want to Shoot the Whole Day Down: Now don’t be sad (’cause) two out of three ain’t bad
Yes, Revolution was great. Yes, the main event stunk. It’s okay to point both of those things out, I promise. You’d think saying one thing was bad was a capital offense! Blame the wrestlers, not the reaction. The real diehard AEW fans will cop to EDGE / Jon Moxley stinking like a man covered in…
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I Want To Shoot The Whole Day Down: The more that you fear us, the bigger we get
I was already a fan, but I remember when Christopher Daniels gained a permanent grip on my heart. I WANT to say it was during ROH Dragon Gate Invasion, but I may be mistaken as I’m too lazy to dig out the DVD and check, but THE KING OF SPICE, CURRY MAN had a hard…
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I Want To Shoot The Whole Day Down: There’s no more blood and no more pain
I had a startling revelation around about the third time I sat down to try to align my thoughts about the combined Wrestle Kingdom and Wrestle Dynasty shows into a coherent narrative (keeping in mind that I have not yet seen or read results for New Year’s Dash): this wasn’t going to be a review.…
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I Want To Shoot The Whole Day Down: Leonard Bernstein
I find myself coming out of Worlds End happy with the wrestling AEW can field, seemingly at the drop of a hat, but depairing at the focus on certain things, certain things I don’t like. I also despair at the state of (some of) AEW fandom, so desperate to tell you if you don’t like…
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I Want To Shoot The Whole Day Down: To everything turn, turn, turn
Say what you will about AEW (Gotch knows I do every week) but they are a company UNPARALLELED when it comes to Pay Per View. Is every show perfect? Not hardly… but they have to be the company with the biggest ratio of delivering the goods when money is on the line. My beloved WCW…
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I Want To Shoot The Whole Day Down: State of shock
Warning: post contains rambling, potential gatekeeping, eye rolling and gushing, plus rampant speculation. Very much a first draft, stream of consciousness thing. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. When I woke up this morning, a buddy of mine had posted a reaction (likely from someone a lot younger than I) from a person over the weekend, pertaining…
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I Want To Shoot The Whole Day Down: Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité, for there’s life in the old world yet
Nothing to get hung about; just some thoughts re: ZED ESS JAY, the G1, Yota Tsuji and the state of New Japan Pro Wrestling. Of course, we watched the G1 semis and final over the weekend. Not bad; I don’t do star ratings but if you had me rank the three final matches I’d probably…
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I Want to Shoot the Whole Day Down: Precious and few
A little something for the weekend; some (mostly but not all) pleasant viewing as the GRADE ONE CLIMAX begins over in the hallowed halls of SHIN NIHON PROWRES. A word about this year’s G1; I’m not super into it. I realize that this is a transitional year, a year where they are starting to elevate…
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I Want to Shoot the Whole Day Down: Below the sliding doors
Still kind of digesting Forbidden Door a bit; featuring both the best and worst of AEW. Before I get into talking about the show properly, I’d like to make a special aside to one Mike Mansury: Take your Vince McMahon-loving, LED board-having, camera cutting when there’s action going on ass back to Stamford and the…
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