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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: It’s been five long years
So. Nearly a year and a half ago, there began to be whispers of AEW expanding and getting a new media rights deal. It was coming at a time of great upheaval for the company; it was after the infamous backstage brawl between the Young Bucks, Kenny Omega, CM Punk, Ace Steel and, depending on…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: Did you watch over the men who fell?
No Nostradamus I, but as Nigel McGuinness stood in the middle of the ring, asking for the missing Bryan Danielson to be counted out due to forfeit, I looked over to the venerable Mrs. Convoy and said “Final Countdown hits and Dragon comes out?” Her (once considerable) love for Danielson has long since died (once…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: I’m getting back on my feet and I’m grooving to the beat
Feels good to have a decent Dynamite after whatever the hell last week was. Sure, Grand Slam sounds decent (and will likely be a wasteland, attendance-wise) but ultimately… past the business metrics and incoming TV deals and the moving goalposts and whatever… did the show entertain my surly ass? The answer this week was yes.…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: Not much to say
After a tremendous pay per view, man, Dynamite left me cold. There were a couple of good things, but… I have to be honest… most everything was mediocre to awful. I don’t really have a lot to say about the show. I would rather talk about the good stuff, but in brief: Mariah May grinding…
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I Want To Shoot The Whole Day Down: State of shock
Warning: post contains rambling, potential gatekeeping, eye rolling and gushing, plus rampant speculation. Very much a first draft, stream of consciousness thing. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. When I woke up this morning, a buddy of mine had posted a reaction (likely from someone a lot younger than I) from a person over the weekend, pertaining…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: Let me hear you cut it, DJ / Let’s make some noise / The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire
I mean… talking about a so-so Dynamite practically feels like an anti climax after Hangman Page got his pyromania on (NOT a Def Leppard reference but it COULD HAVE BEEN) at the end of Wednesday’s episode. Instead, if nothing else, we should probably look at this instantly infamous ACT OF ARSON as compared to the…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: There’s no tix in the Champaign room
See what I did there? I’m a funny guy; I think of clever things. So… All In came and went. As the masses continue to fight about whether or not 53 some odd thousand is good or not (it is, now move on for Gotch’s sake), AEW seems to be at a bit of a…
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A Death in the Family
It was a long time ago; we are talking 1988 or early 1989… but I distinctly recall sitting at the kitchen table. Mom walked by, telling me that she and Dad were leaving for the weekend, and that I needed to be good while they were gone. I nodded, picturing eating ice cream and watching…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: Your future dream is a shopping scheme
Just a full warning here; despite the good parts of last night’s show, the bad stuff or the too little, too late stuff is really what I’m going to blither about here. If you loved Dynamite… this is probably not going to be your cuppa today. Don’t get me wrong; there WAS good stuff. If…
