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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: I can feel myself fading away
Another week where I can’t tell you Dynamite was bad but it didn’t really do a lot for me, either. Another week where it feels like Colision might be the thing I’m looking for, instead. I dunno. Just not really feeling the residency, I guess; I’m about ready for the thing to end. And the…
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I Want To Shoot The Whole Day Down: And you know what they said? Well, some of it was true
On the whole, Forbidden Door was a better show than All In, but it was still let down by two things: not enough New Japan participation (more on that in a bit) and the absolute scourge of modern wrestling… overwrought, overthought overbooking. This show probably made it to at least 1.2 MegaJarretts on the overbooking…
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I Want To Shoot The Whole Day Down: ‘Cause they’ve got to ride forever on that range up in the sky
Well, that’s that. All In came and went. It played host to probably something near 30,000 spectators and apparently is on track to be one of AEW’s most purchased pay per views EVER. So business wise, an absolute smash. And yeah, for ME, the back half of the show delivered. It’s not even that the…
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I Want To Shoot The Whole Day Down: Gambling is the finest thing a person can do, if he’s good at it
Feels good when you place your faith in a product and are justly rewarded for said faith. AEW pay per view remains the surest bet in the PPV universe (yes, even better than “Naughty Co-Eds open a Car Wash” vol. 6) and when the complaints are already coming in about how LONG the show was,…
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I Want To Shoot The Whole Day Down: Coraje para dar un paso adelante
Not a lot moves me in the world of wrestling anymore. It takes a pretty big, emotional sendoff or climax to an important story to get me. But when Hiromu Takahashi came out this weekend in Fukuoka with “LIJ” written on his wrist tape, when BUSHI came out and couldn’t stop himself from crying, I…
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I Want To Shoot The Whole Day Down: Power Production
I, like a fool, thought he was just Japanese John Cena. He came into TNA once maybe around 2005 or 6 and had a NOTHING match with AJ Styles, AJ STYLES, for crying out loud, someone *I* could probably have a passable match with and I was thoroughly underwhelmed. I didn’t like him, didn’t appreciate…
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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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