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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: When you’re a boy, other boys check you out
If you read this, you probably don’t need the reminder or roadmap but wrestling, when you strip it down (ooh er, missus) to its bare essence… wrestling is more than a little homoerotic. Largely, it’s two dudes (sometimes two gals, sometimes a non binary pal) rolling around in their underwear. Have a problem with that?…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: Tag team, back again
Sorry; at a bit of a deadline crunch this week so a truncated column… but I won’t leave you hanging too much. Last night’s Dynamite was another REALLY good show, full of great wrestling AND angle advancement. YES, VIRGINIA, YOU CAN DO BOTH. We had a Nitro-esque opening involving Master P (!), the Death Riders,…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: This is what it’s like when worlds collide
Figured I’d delay MDTD until the Collision show was over since they were on back to back nights this week… and frankly, Dynamite was SO GOOD, anything I have to say about it is nitpicky (and my two big gripes would probably be considered nitpicks) and I didn’t want to bring anyone down. That being…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: Damage Control
The cool Marvel kind, not the shitty WWE kind. Well, even then. This is not going to be an extensive review of Dynamite. I don’t have the time or, honestly, the inclination at the moment, so deflating was the end of AEW Dynasty and the ridiculous backlash to the backlash against the show. There are…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: Enumeration makes it happen
No real huge thoughts coming out of Dynamite. ‘Twas okay, and the stuff I liked I really liked. Did it hype me up for the PPV? I dunno. Some people take the Owen Hart Cup a LOT more seriously than I do… AEW has sort of established the Continental Classic for me a bit better…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: Playing Favorites
Most of my favorite wrestlers are dead. Now THERE’S a way to kick things off… but it’s true. Obviously I can’t talk about my REAL favorite; he ended up a monster, brain turned to soup by concussions and drugs and grief (and let’s face facts; he was probably not a great guy prior to what…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: Me stab someone down the lane
Even a SNOWICANE or whatever couldn’t slow the momentum AEW seems to be be building over the past couple of months. It does seem like, after long last, even if everything isn’t perfect, the ship has at least been righted. There are pitfalls along the way… the existence of EDGE… WWE trying to sabotage Forbidden…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: Hold on to me tightly, I’m a sliding scale
I try not to judge the post pay per view Dynamites too terribly hard as those shows usually have to involve a lot of recaps and direction resets and etcetera (plus the fact that EVERYONE is probably a bit beat up from Sunday, surely one of the most hard hitting shows I’ve seen in ages)……
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: To turn your mind around I know will take time
I don’t know that AEW has a great record with go home shows. Often times they overshoot the mark, miss the peak, end up DECREASING interest in matches, etc. I’d say they made a concerted effort with the build to Revolution to avoid that, and even if I don’t love Mercedes Moné and her same,…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: Mutiny on the Bounty
It’s rare that I would say this… but it almost doesn’t matter what I feel about Dynamite (or Collision); this upcoming AEW pay per view is shaping up to be a best ever, full of big time singles matches with natural, logical builds while the other guys are counting on a weird promo, seemingly fueled…
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