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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: Just a dream and the wind to carry me
Of course, I’d be remiss if I didn’t say something about one R.E. Turner the Third. Don’t worry; I’m not doing three thousand words on the eccentric philanthropist. I haven’t the time and frankly, I don’t know the lore that well. This is a light entertainment blog, not a heavy research think tank. The part…
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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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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: There used to be a greying tower alone on the sea
If nothing else, you’re going to gasp out loud at least once or twice every week for the next six or seven weeks as Darby Allin does something potentially career threatening to himself or to others. Good Gotch in the Great Ring in the Sky Above; this dumb dumb took an AIR RAID CRASH from…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: I’m a skateboarder (I’m a Transformer)
I mean… Look. I like Darby Allin well enough. I’ve seen him have crazy matches, or crazy spots, anyway. So have you. If you’re the kind of wrestling fan who believes in “you deserve it,” there’s no question that the man deserves it; he’s put his body through Hell for wrestling, long before he came…
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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: Can’t you feel it coming (Empire)
In the Convoy household, we have a kind of saying. Many moons ago, many versions of NXT ago, there was a thing where a number of good guys lined up in ring against a number of bad guys to have a big brawl, and that was clipped and dropped into the opening of the NXT…
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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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I Want To Shoot The Whole Day Down: Three times a night, it all equals subliminal sequels
You gotta laugh, you know? The news will get’cha right down. If I told you that AEW Revolution was a newsworthy show because We are, what, about a quarter of the way through probably the most wretched year I can personally recall? So far, you could probably sum up the story of AEW in Two…
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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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