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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: Then four hours ’til it starts again
I mean, yeah, sure, we’ll talk about the four hour show AEW produced last night (well, really, it’s an episode of Dynamite and then an episode of Collision) but I have something I need to get off of my chest. If I’m talking about YOU, I’m sorry, but so be it. Seriously, if you feel…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: Somebody tired of dreaming
Honestly, there wasn’t a lot of meat on the bone for me in regards to Dynamite last night. The best match on the show had a dumb, dopey disqualification (sigh), and… it is seven LONG weeks until All In, so that’s gonna mean a LOT of treading water for all of the top programs. Thekla…
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I Want To Shoot The Whole Day Down: Gambling is the finest thing a person can do, if he’s good at it
Feels good when you place your faith in a product and are justly rewarded for said faith. AEW pay per view remains the surest bet in the PPV universe (yes, even better than “Naughty Co-Eds open a Car Wash” vol. 6) and when the complaints are already coming in about how LONG the show was,…
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I Want To Shoot The Whole Day Down: Coraje para dar un paso adelante
Not a lot moves me in the world of wrestling anymore. It takes a pretty big, emotional sendoff or climax to an important story to get me. But when Hiromu Takahashi came out this weekend in Fukuoka with “LIJ” written on his wrist tape, when BUSHI came out and couldn’t stop himself from crying, I…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: When you’re a boy, other boys check you out
If you read this, you probably don’t need the reminder or roadmap but wrestling, when you strip it down (ooh er, missus) to its bare essence… wrestling is more than a little homoerotic. Largely, it’s two dudes (sometimes two gals, sometimes a non binary pal) rolling around in their underwear. Have a problem with that?…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: Tag team, back again
Sorry; at a bit of a deadline crunch this week so a truncated column… but I won’t leave you hanging too much. Last night’s Dynamite was another REALLY good show, full of great wrestling AND angle advancement. YES, VIRGINIA, YOU CAN DO BOTH. We had a Nitro-esque opening involving Master P (!), the Death Riders,…
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I see the line in the sand
A number of ill considered, kneejerk takes in regards to punitive / protective actions AEW should take in the industry, decidedly less lukewarm than usual, fueled by the events of this weekend, in no particular order. I dunno. Good ideas? Bad? More trouble than they are worth? You tell me below.
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: This is what it’s like when worlds collide
Figured I’d delay MDTD until the Collision show was over since they were on back to back nights this week… and frankly, Dynamite was SO GOOD, anything I have to say about it is nitpicky (and my two big gripes would probably be considered nitpicks) and I didn’t want to bring anyone down. That being…
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I Want To Shoot The Whole Day Down: Power Production
I, like a fool, thought he was just Japanese John Cena. He came into TNA once maybe around 2005 or 6 and had a NOTHING match with AJ Styles, AJ STYLES, for crying out loud, someone *I* could probably have a passable match with and I was thoroughly underwhelmed. I didn’t like him, didn’t appreciate…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: Damage Control
The cool Marvel kind, not the shitty WWE kind. Well, even then. This is not going to be an extensive review of Dynamite. I don’t have the time or, honestly, the inclination at the moment, so deflating was the end of AEW Dynasty and the ridiculous backlash to the backlash against the show. There are…
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