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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: I do, I don’t, whatever*
Despite a week of teased returns and accusations of AI slop and peculiar match ups causing yet more intense feelings… …AEW only went and put on not only the best post pay per view Dynamite, maybe ever, but maybe one of the best Dynamites ever, period. Certainly one of the best CROWDS ever; 3,500 Detroit…
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I Want To Shoot The Whole Day Down: There’s no Canada like French Canada
We could argue all day the merits of AEW slowly but surely crawling towards the once per month pay per view model… suffice to say I don’t like it but it’s not like I don’t understand it. Money talks, and all that. I do think that there is a touch of nuance lost when AEW…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: When I needed soul revival
May as well get right into it this week, as I kick it speed style. If you want the more thoughtful, more introspective side of my writing, I dropped a near 7,000 word screed about TNA earlier this week. Tranquilo. Assenayo. Much like most heel commentators when the in-ring action gets… questionable… you might say…
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Dark Side of the Ring: In this world I find a way to cross the line
This is for you; you know who you are. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities and poorly produced documentaries. While this isn’t really the space to go into a line for line attack on the latest Dark Side of the Ring documentary, this time featuring Total Nonstop Action (a dark…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: Clarissa wrestlesplains it all
I could write paragraphs, COLUMN INCHES about the difference between wrestlers using sand for a dumb, crooked finish and wrestling MANAGERS using powder or salt since time immemorial but I get tired of wrestlesplaining or being wrestlesplained to, so we can table that. A plea from ship to shore and all points east; I try…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: I can blow you away or you can ride with me
You can’t say AEW gave you a sleepy post pay per view Dynamite THIS week, and to top it off, due to the impending holiday, a Thursday night Collision to boot. Then, on top of all that, next week’s Dynamite sounds insane. AEW feels fairly hot, feels like they are stomping on the gas pedal.…
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I Want To Shoot The Whole Day Down: I hear you knockin’, go back where you been
There’s something special about pro wrestling when it hits, when you get the truly top level stuff. I don’t mean that middling crap you see from time to time, the going through the motions, interchangeable wrestling you see on most Monday nights or even some Wednesday nights (!); I mean the stuff you will remember…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: This is the Knocking Song; I’m knocking on a door
In essence, we’ve got two things to go over, here. Thing the first? No victory laps on Forbidden Door, please. Sure, it looks like a good card NOW, but that largely all came together between the time I last wrote in this space and the time I’m writing this now. I dunno if that’s a…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: With six, you get egg roll
Forbidden Door season remains an awful time for wrestling discourse; everyone up in arms over who is working, who is not, who is xenophobic (!), who has a visa, who has a potential deal on the table and most importantly, who is actually gonna BE on the Forbidden Door show itself. Meanwhile, AEW seems anxious…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: RAGE ROCK ROLL FIGHT BRAWL FALL RUMBLE
Finally, FINALLY, Shane Taylor Promotions has made their way from the backwaters of unwatched, unloved Sinclair-style Ring of Honor to the weird, somewhat adrift Tony Khan iteration of ROH to the safe, almost pleasant shores of AEW. A Tony Khan booking trope; when he gets into an act, suddenly they’re all over the dang product,…
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