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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: Loneliness is not a phase
As much as I’ve come to hate the term, there is something to be said about “restoring the feeling.” I don’t think you have to look much further than last Saturday’s episode of Collision… a show that garnered near universal praise (at least as near as one can these days) and last night’s Dynamite, a…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: I open up my hand and smack dab in the middle is a slow, slow fly
It seems like a pretty easy formula… you start Dynamite hot with dudes the crowd likes and that puts ’em in a good mood for a fun show… LO AND BEHOLD. With maybe one or two little missteps, Dynamite started hot, hotter than it has in a long, long time. Will Ospreay and his hotel…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: Not by the hair of my chinny chin chin
As much as I’d like to have told you Dynamite was a home run, especially after a weekend where AEW announced a stinky match and it was OPEN FORUM WARFARE between the haves and have nots… it was probably a solid double, at best. If that. It wasn’t all bad, certainly… Kenny Omega and his…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: Return of the good gumbo
So God came back the other day. Look, I know I was not particularly kind to the Kenny Omega / Gabe Kidd match, but that was largely due to my distaste for both Kidd as a performer and the match layout casting Kidd as a virtuous defender of New Japan Pro Wrestling. KENNY, in the…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: A self imposed penance
Unless I wake up tomorrow and it turns out David Zaslav sold off WBD to a conglomeration of Elon Musk, Donald Trump and Ari Emmanuel, it would be hard to say THE MOTHER OF ALL SIMULCASTS was anything but a success. The picture on MAX was GREAT; the feed looked like a million bucks. The…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: Christmas in the Northwest is a gift God wrapped in green
Speaking as someone who neither believes in Christmas nor God… er… happy holidays? I don’t really have many keen insights to share re: Dynamite last night and a bagel is calling my name before I log into my work computer to do NOTHING for the next eight hours… so I have little desire to write…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: But no one wants you when you lose
I’m sure I’ve written about this before as it seems like the kind of cantankerous, old man thing to do but I was irked this week and then flat out pissed off by something… the seeming need of a certain segment of AEW fandom to dismiss criticism, to be upset when YOU don’t engage with…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: Give me a head with hair
I didn’t feel especially moved by Dyna one way or the other last night… there’s usually a show or two in their cycle to build the next PLE PPV that just treads water a bit, and this one surely did that, although it did feature some good in ring action (and some not so good…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: Cheaper by the dozen
Sometime in the last week, TNA AEW died. RIP. At least it looked that way if you were following any sort of online discourse. Last week’s Dynamite had a bad rating, a record low for a normal time slotted episode and EVERYONE freaked out. Let’s leave aside the fact that it was the day before…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: Then fan the flame and keep the dream alive
Sorry I didn’t grind out a Full Gear review. Honestly, I didn’t really have any great takes, lukewarm or otherwise coming out of Full Gear, and I knew it would be covered to death, anyway. The show largely went how I figured; oh, they could have killed Orange Cassidy a bit more dramatically, and maybe…
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