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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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I Want To Shoot The Whole Day Down: 497 day absence (leg)
Well, All Out has come and gone. A mostly good show, drug down at times by a crowd who was really into ENTRANCES AND MOMENTS. There were other factors dragging the show down as well, some self inflicted. You know what ultimately ruined wrestling? It’s not superkicks or the DDT not being a finish or…
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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: 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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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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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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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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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: There is no god up in the sky tonight
Approaching this a little different than usual this week. Normally, I like to think I’m fairly thick skinned, but last night after Dynamite, someone who I thought I was cool with kept attacking me over hating the finish to the main event. Like, maybe they had a bad day, I dunno… but I was told…
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