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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: Risky, that’s your name
Ahhhhh. THAT’S more like it. Dynamite was back in the good gumbo column this week and, frankly, after the lousy week I’ve been having, a couple of hours of decent graps buoyed my spirits. There were nits to pick (it is ME, after all; I never saw something good that I couldn’t whine about) but…
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Crackin’ in heads and jumpin’ in and out of beds
We’ve looked for evidence for years, and the ribald, violent nature of the movie should put paid to the notion, but the missus and I have always felt that Joe Don Baker’s disheveled and sweaty Mitchell (1975) really, really, REALLY feels like it’s a pilot for a TV show. We get patterns of behavior, call…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: I’ve seen the future and it will be
There are a couple (well, MORE than a couple) sayings in wrestling that are loaded, just PREGNANT with double meaning. Stuff that might appear complimentary on the surface but really is kind of a knock. “______ is a good hand,” is one phrase where it might seem like you’re putting over someone’s in ring proficiency,…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: Rice and stuffing, macaroni and cheese
Well… you would probably have to say that the Continental Classic lived up to it’s name. I guess maybe not so much the “continental” part. I was never ONCE offered FINE CHAM PANGNYAH. But genuinely, from an in ring perspective, this was probably the single best tournament AEW has yet fielded of any kind. That’s…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: Sucks me in when you’re aloof
Gotta be honest with you, gang… and if I weren’t, there’d be no point to me writing this OR you reading it: this was another week where I don’t feel like I have much to say. Not symptoms of burnout or anything, at least I don’t think so; I just wasn’t particularly moved. There was…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: It’s your world and I’m just a squirrel
Continental Classic episodes of Dynamite tend to be a bit harder to write about; I have some thoughts about yesterday’s show (mostly positive, obviously; it was a good show and the time went by very quickly) but there’s not a lot to drill into without boring blow by blow move recaps… that’s not really what…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: You f*ckin’ wit’ the champion (you already know)
Greetings, friends! DON’T WORRY; If AEW died the second Hangman Adam Page lost to Samoa Joe, it was resurrected when Kazuchika Okada stepped in the ring with Kyle Fletcher (he who implores us to say his full name but I don’t feel like anyone has a problem doing that in the first place). IS THIS…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: Three hours will fill him, three hours will kill him
Oh, I kid. The three hours were mostly FINE. Didn’t love EVERYTHING, but as far as AEW go home shows go… I think this one was fairly good. I think there were only a couple of matches that had me HOOTING AND HOLLERING, but that’s not an indictment… and sometimes I have to stop to…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: Think of the consequences
Seemed like last nite’s episode of Dynamite was largely about consequences… matches to determine the MAN ADVANTAGE in Blood and Guts… announcers menaced for chicanery… talent pressured to join factions… the direct results of messing with FAMILIA… not a complaint, just an observation. TL,DR: a fairly enjoyable show and some good hooks (ho ho) for…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: A white knight on his steed
Part of consuming wrestling, for better or worse, is consuming online noise about it (he says, typing on his computer in order to post wrestling criticism online). Sometimes that noise is good, sometimes it’s tiresome. Of late, I’ve found it fairly tiresome. Some of the dirt worst discourse of late; takes and raging anti-takes about…
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