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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: You can’t escape, no one will survive
Look, I like Tomasso Ciampa well enough. Well, I did, anyway. Like ten years ago. “It’s not the years; it’s the mileage.” – Indiana Jones Hell, even five years ago, if Ciampa wanted into AEW, I would have been hooting and hollering. Probably, anyway. The succession of bigger and grander matches between him and Johnny…
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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: You know you drive me up the wall
The Rainy City provided a lovely backdrop for AEW this week; hardly surprising since AEW is pretty well loved over in the UK. I could be a snarky boy and be like “well, then why didn’t they give them a better show” but the show was… aggressively fine. Honestly, it was really only one thing…
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I Want To Shoot The Whole Day Down: One guy’s wasted and the other’s a waste
Is ‘Nevermore: The Raven Effect’ worth a stream? I’m torn. It certainly wasn’t bad or anything; it was clearly made by filmmakers with a vested interest in the subject and was able to even achieve poignancy a time or two. On the other hand, if you’ve been watching wrestling since the time Raven was actually…
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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: Lead me to your door
I mean… it was a good show. Good build to the pay per view. Shitty venue with a crowd that started fine and ended up as Florida goobers, but we’ll (probably) get to that. The ELEMENTS, the COMPONENTS of the show were good. But there are a couple of things that left a bitter taste…
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I Want To Shoot The Whole Day Down: 497 day absence (leg)
Well, All Out has come and gone. A mostly good show, drug down at times by a crowd who was really into ENTRANCES AND MOMENTS. There were other factors dragging the show down as well, some self inflicted. You know what ultimately ruined wrestling? It’s not superkicks or the DDT not being a finish or…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: And the sound of the battle rang through the streets of the old east side
Fuck Cody Rhodes. Well, maybe not LITERALLY. That’s someone else’s job. But seriously, I have NO SYMPATHY for those who are given everything but still manage to cry poor. Boo hoo, he was disrespected. Boo hoo, there was bad blood by the end. Mr. Revisionist History seems to forget that the AEW audience had largely…
