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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: Shave and a haircut, two bits
I have very mixed feelings about the Darby Allin AEW title reign. On the one hand, you are getting fun World Championship matches on TV every week (and sometimes more than once a week). On the other hand, those matches are INCREDIBLY formulaic; Darby absorbs egregious, over the top (and sometimes, scary in real life)…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: I’ve got the straight edge
Dynamite was a hot show, in front of a juiced crowd in Fairfax, Virginia. It started with a memorable match, Maxwell Jacob Friedman versus Kevin Knight, and ended with an even more memorable match, Darby Allin versus Brody King. I’m guessing, just due to that last match ALONE, that everyone is probably raving about this…
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I Want To Shoot The Whole Day Down: The last great American dynasty
“The heat, my god, the heaaaat!” – Elaine Benes I was prepared to come here and tell you, brethren, that Dynasty was an all timer, and what a dummy I was for almost skipping it… but the final two minutes of the show saw the collective AEW audience sentenced to a summer of repeats and…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: Annie, are you okay, are you okay, Annie
Forgive the “lateness” of the column this week, please (pretty please with sugar on top) as AEW only went and AVOIDED THE BIG FOUR OR THE FINAL COUNTDOWN or whatever it’s called and placed Collision on Thursday. COWARDS. You know, Mrs. Convoy enjoys ROUNDBALL (how dare she; didn’t she get the memo that the only…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: I can still hear you saying you would never break the chain
Sometimes, I feel like a right heel. Not because I “body shamed” one David Finlay earlier in the day (more on that later), not because of the litany of shortcuts I take regularly in order to make life one degree more tolerable, not because of my generally miserable demeanor but because AEW consistently presents us…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: Fix up, look sharp
Darby Allin is a polarizing kind of wrestler. Last night, during his match with the Bastard PAC, I was reading comments from people putting over his resilience, his tenacity. I was reading others saying “how is he the babyface?” and “kill the twink.” The most important reaction of all, that of my wife, was one…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: ‘Cause all I have left is my memories of yesterday
Friend of the blog BIG T (you know who you are and if the clichéd phrase “a brother from another mother” EVER applied, well Good LORD, it applies here) asked me the other day where my pay per view review was. Obviously I generally review every (or near every AEW PPV), especially as my overall…
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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: No new tale to tell, forty seven years on my way to hell
Another year older; not necessarily another year wiser. What have I learned over the past 365 days? I dunno. I specifically recall yelling “wow, I didn’t know that!” about something or other the other night but the fact must have been so trivial, so banal, that it immediately fell out of my brain. Whew! The…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: Just who’s pulling the strings
A pal of mine took to social media during last night’s edition of AEW Dynamite, and, after a particularly divisive segment, he wrote “Are you not sports entertained?” to which I simply replied “No.” “Imagine being so joyless that you couldn’t enjoy that segment,” some random chirped in. “Imagine being blocked,” I replied, and did…
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