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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: And the sound of the battle rang through the streets of the old east side
Fuck Cody Rhodes. Well, maybe not LITERALLY. That’s someone else’s job. But seriously, I have NO SYMPATHY for those who are given everything but still manage to cry poor. Boo hoo, he was disrespected. Boo hoo, there was bad blood by the end. Mr. Revisionist History seems to forget that the AEW audience had largely…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: Ol’ Chicago, she’s a woman, make a young man a bum
If I liked Toni Storm better, that would have been a pretty killer title. Oh, how I LAUGHED when young Billie Starkz gave the Timeless one a gentle TAPPY TAP with the title belt in order for her mistress, ROH Forever champion Athena to get heat. Just the most GENTLE of belt shots. Athena keeps…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: Chicago Transit Authority
The Aragon Ballroom is a venerable location; it’s played host to acts like Nirvana. Metallica. The Smashing Pumpkins. Green Day. REM. Aerosmith. FUCKING KRAFTWERK. And I hope you liked it because it’s now playing host to AEW. For a WHILE. Amongst hardcore fans… they seem to get real excited about AEW and residencies and to…
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I Want To Shoot The Whole Day Down: ‘Cause they’ve got to ride forever on that range up in the sky
Well, that’s that. All In came and went. It played host to probably something near 30,000 spectators and apparently is on track to be one of AEW’s most purchased pay per views EVER. So business wise, an absolute smash. And yeah, for ME, the back half of the show delivered. It’s not even that the…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: The first time was the charm when you came calling
Some things, maybe of relevance, maybe not, bouncing around in my brain the last day or two: “How are we gonna financially recover from this?” – Nick Jackson “I will never let somebody weaponize a friendship against me.” – Ricky Saints née Starks “Save the performative bullshit for your entrance!” – Toni Storm “Baby, life’s…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: Aimed at you, we’re the cowboys from hell
“WHY DO THEY EVEN BOTHER HAVING A CHICK IN THE RING WITH A MAN IF THEY AREN’T GONNA GO ALL THE WAY?!” the bloodthirsty, woman-hating woman to my left thundered at the television. “This stupid intergender stuff is NEVER DONE RIGHT. THEY. ARE. ALL. WRESTLERS!” Right as she said “WRESTLERS,” Hangman Adam Page leapt over…
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Trouble Shooter
“I wanna be Jim’s Shooter!” some ‘clever’ wag in fandom said once in the 80s. HA HA GOT ‘IM. Cool way to enjoy comics, bro. There was a LOT of vitriol around Jim Shooter then in those times (and certainly extending into the 90s as he launched several failed publishing ventures), some of it warranted,…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: New moon on Monday
I dreamt I had invited Tetsuya Naito over to my apartment and was feeding him Golden Grahams… and he was really, REALLY impressed (with the Grahams, not me and my apartment). “SUGOI!” NO, I don’t know what that means. Dynamite (and Collison) did NOT emanate from Seattle, Washington as they said no less than six…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: Que soy yo quien te espera
You’ll have to forgive the (relative) brevity of this week’s column… I’m very under the weather thanks to my plague carrying wife. She’s forced to go into our office three times a month and clearly the last time she was there, she caught THE DREADED SKUNGE and passed it along to me, so we’re coughing…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: You rock me like the real thing
I don’t really have the energy to rant about four hours of AEW action being too much this week… and I think the more militant weirdos about it have largely backed off, anyway. People sort of figured it out… this wasn’t really a four hour “blockbuster,” if you’ll excuse the term, a four hour “pay…
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