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I Want To Shoot The Whole Day Down: Holding pattern
AEW Dynasty could have been a great show… It certainly featured a couple of great matches, a couple of surprise returns… some spills and chills. However, it ended with Jon Moxley retaining, and unsurprisingly, people are PISSED. I don’t know if I really have the time today or tomorrow morning to really break the show…
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O death, where is thy Sting?
A rerun from the Observer Board from 04 Mar 24: No more Sting. Hurts to type, hurts to think about. I often feel a fraud… of course I’ve watched a metric ton of 80s wrestling… probably more than all but the most ardent fans of that era… but save some SNMEs and a WrestleMania… I…
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I’m often the bearer of bad news
A rerun from the Observer Board dated 19 Jan 24: Points where I genuinely had doubts about continuing in my wrestling fandom: Sting losing / winning stupidly at Starrcade. I promised myself I would stop watching cold turkey if Sting didn’t win. He didn’t and I was mortified… but then Bret Hart wandered out and…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: Playing Favorites
Most of my favorite wrestlers are dead. Now THERE’S a way to kick things off… but it’s true. Obviously I can’t talk about my REAL favorite; he ended up a monster, brain turned to soup by concussions and drugs and grief (and let’s face facts; he was probably not a great guy prior to what…
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You need a fire engineer when I lay this blaze
Why, friends, is HOMICIDE, one of the most important wrestlers of the early 2000s, retiring tonight on some tiny show no one has heard of? If my addled brain isn’t playing tricks on me, I believe the first time I saw Homicide was delivering a VICIOUS lariat to his longtime rival, Samoa Joe, a man…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: Hold on to me tightly, I’m a sliding scale
I try not to judge the post pay per view Dynamites too terribly hard as those shows usually have to involve a lot of recaps and direction resets and etcetera (plus the fact that EVERYONE is probably a bit beat up from Sunday, surely one of the most hard hitting shows I’ve seen in ages)……
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I Want to Shoot the Whole Day Down: Now don’t be sad (’cause) two out of three ain’t bad
Yes, Revolution was great. Yes, the main event stunk. It’s okay to point both of those things out, I promise. You’d think saying one thing was bad was a capital offense! Blame the wrestlers, not the reaction. The real diehard AEW fans will cop to EDGE / Jon Moxley stinking like a man covered in…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: Yes the world spins for you
Sometimes I feel bad when I don’t enjoy Dynamite as much as everyone else seemed to. Staring here at the blank screen, I’m not even really what I want to say or even if I have ANYTHING in particular to say about last night’s episode. I get it; people WANTED to enjoy the show, to…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: And I say, it’s all right
I guess we should talk about the AEW releases? Do I have to? It IS my site, after all; no one is holding a gun to my head… that I know of, anyway. I dunno… this isn’t really a news site and I don’t particularly have any huge, revelatory thoughts you already haven’t heard about…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: Why don’t we turn the clock to zero, honey
As ever, the AEW discourse rings dumb throughout the endless tubes of the internet. The latest non-controversy controversy is whether the upcoming Australian show was designed to be a pay per view or not and then, on top of that, there is suddenly a LOT of hand wringing that the good folk of Australia aren’t…
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