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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: Just who’s pulling the strings
A pal of mine took to social media during last night’s edition of AEW Dynamite, and, after a particularly divisive segment, he wrote “Are you not sports entertained?” to which I simply replied “No.” “Imagine being so joyless that you couldn’t enjoy that segment,” some random chirped in. “Imagine being blocked,” I replied, and did…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: My minimum table stacks a verse on a gamble
See? BIG DON isn’t the only one with Wu lyrics at his disposal. Episodes like Wednesday’s Dynamite are my absolute least favorite to talk about… nothing was truly terrible, nothing was particularly great. I’m not especially fired up for WrestleDream, which will certainly be fine, but I don’t anticipate it being better than fine. AEW…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: A white knight on his steed
Part of consuming wrestling, for better or worse, is consuming online noise about it (he says, typing on his computer in order to post wrestling criticism online). Sometimes that noise is good, sometimes it’s tiresome. Of late, I’ve found it fairly tiresome. Some of the dirt worst discourse of late; takes and raging anti-takes about…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: Lead me to your door
I mean… it was a good show. Good build to the pay per view. Shitty venue with a crowd that started fine and ended up as Florida goobers, but we’ll (probably) get to that. The ELEMENTS, the COMPONENTS of the show were good. But there are a couple of things that left a bitter taste…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: Tubular boobular joy
I wonder what the annoying discourse will be today; AEW has too many belts (good lord; look at the other place, then), the Dentist wasn’t there in Pittsburgh, Kenny is a bad guy for sticking up for his protege (oops, that was YESTERDAY’S discourse), ohimgod, FIRE is too dangerous or what. Sigh. Am I thrilled…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: The traffic is waiting outside
The groundswell of Japanese people going about their lives, the push of bodies against them. The chance meeting on the crowded street afforded one more opportunity to say what hadn’t yet been said. Darby Allin and Bryan Danielson embraced amongst the tulmolt, one last defiant gesture before real life came crashing back down over them…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: Sane Planning, Sensible Tomorrow
This week saw an interesting Dynamite in a few ways. I’m not sorry to see the residency come to an end… we’ll get to that, but the show was bookended with some stuff that makes me VERY hopeful for the future. Look, I nitpick AEW every week. I wouldn’t say it’s my JOB; but it’s…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: War has always been the bosses’ way, sir
Looking back, I feel like I don’t have a great deal to say about Dynamite; not a bad show by any means, but I wasn’t particularly GRIPPED by it, either. I was a bit worried it was gonna be an endless parade of misplaced ECW nostalgia and was dreading that, honestly… but other than the…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: I’ll take the low road
Feels like football season started early. Did the Zombie Princess come back and we just weren’t told? The last couple of weeks of Dynamite have felt a little… Fed-y? Fedular? Fedtastic? I can’t call a show with a thirty minute FTR / Bandido / Brody King (I refuse to type the other thing) match BAD.…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: Vegetable lasagna
As Forbidden Door finally comes into sharper focus, the eternal battle rages… is there too much New Japan content on the show with people the Western audience won’t know? Not enough New Japan? Where are their biggest stars? Why are there no New Japan tag team in the FD tag team tournament? Wither STARDOM? Why…
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