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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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Hot boy summer
Man, I love the Transformers Missing Link toyline, the initiative by TAKARA / Tomy to recreate the original Transformers / Diaclone toys as faithfully as possible, but with more modern levels of articulation and sometimes eschewing stickers for actual molded greeblely detailed parts. They’re NOT all home runs (looking at you Bumblebee and Cliffjumper; both…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: The traffic is waiting outside
The groundswell of Japanese people going about their lives, the push of bodies against them. The chance meeting on the crowded street afforded one more opportunity to say what hadn’t yet been said. Darby Allin and Bryan Danielson embraced amongst the tulmolt, one last defiant gesture before real life came crashing back down over them…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: I can feel myself fading away
Another week where I can’t tell you Dynamite was bad but it didn’t really do a lot for me, either. Another week where it feels like Colision might be the thing I’m looking for, instead. I dunno. Just not really feeling the residency, I guess; I’m about ready for the thing to end. And the…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: There is no god up in the sky tonight
Approaching this a little different than usual this week. Normally, I like to think I’m fairly thick skinned, but last night after Dynamite, someone who I thought I was cool with kept attacking me over hating the finish to the main event. Like, maybe they had a bad day, I dunno… but I was told…
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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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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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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: I kicked the leg out of your leg
Another back to back Dynamite / Collision taping means a ganged up review POUR VOUS. And hey, Dynamite was pretty great and Collision was solid. Both had a tiny bit more “sports entertainment” or whatever we’re calling it this week than I STRICTLY prefer, but that’s not a sin. I think the record will show…
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