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I Want To Shoot The Whole Day Down: Down on the corner, out in the street
Chicago sees host to the latest AEW pay per view extravaganza (?); this year’s iteration of All Out. I feel like it’s basically a one match card, that one match being Jon Moxley versus Will Ospreay, but that’s probably more a “me” issue than an AEW one. On the other hand, hey, it’s up to…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: Got a lot of spare time, some of my youth and all of my senses on overdrive
Jesus, it’s time for the next pay per view already? These three week windows SUCK; just no time at all to breathe. I guess it helps the Dynamite TV booking a touch; no chance to overdrive the various angles into the ground, but on the other hand, I feel like there are only a few…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: I do, I don’t, whatever*
Despite a week of teased returns and accusations of AI slop and peculiar match ups causing yet more intense feelings… …AEW only went and put on not only the best post pay per view Dynamite, maybe ever, but maybe one of the best Dynamites ever, period. Certainly one of the best CROWDS ever; 3,500 Detroit…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: To hurt, they try and try
We are at that part of the weekly AEW discourse where jerks are making (some) good points but in insufferable fashion, the defense force is out in full force and mad YOU might not be into the PPV since this is a weird cycle, diehards are telling you why a LITANY of WWE people coming…
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I Want To Shoot The Whole Day Down: I hear you knockin’, go back where you been
There’s something special about pro wrestling when it hits, when you get the truly top level stuff. I don’t mean that middling crap you see from time to time, the going through the motions, interchangeable wrestling you see on most Monday nights or even some Wednesday nights (!); I mean the stuff you will remember…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: RAGE ROCK ROLL FIGHT BRAWL FALL RUMBLE
Finally, FINALLY, Shane Taylor Promotions has made their way from the backwaters of unwatched, unloved Sinclair-style Ring of Honor to the weird, somewhat adrift Tony Khan iteration of ROH to the safe, almost pleasant shores of AEW. A Tony Khan booking trope; when he gets into an act, suddenly they’re all over the dang product,…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: No pasa nada
Man, I was all fired up to tell you what a good Dynamite this was, already mentally composing what I was going to say, tallying up highlights and it WAS good, don’t get me wrong… but then suddenly, five minutes before the show ended, the SPIRIT OF JEFF JARRETT apparently seized the means of production…
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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…
