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I'm gonna ruin my brand new AEW fanboy reputation on this board already... As a show overall, I have enjoyed both Bound for Glory and the MLW PPV more than this. Despite this having (some) better matches. Enjoyed Young Bucks vs Ortiz & Santana a whole lot. Like I predicted, Young Bucks are gonna put everyone over. Excellent match. Ricky Morton doing a Canadian Destroyer at the tender age of 65 is cool as hell. Also enjoyed PAC vs Page a whole lot. I actually was thinking (and it's true) during that match I wouldn't mind a Best out of 7 matches between those two. Just terrific straight pro-wrestling with no bullshit. No idea where the dislike for either comes from. PAC is a great worker, Page is very good and coming around better. Then I thought Spears vs Janella was an ok match. Pretty much agree about everything said about Spears before. He's a solid worker. Kinda boring version of Saturn. Tully Blanchard is wasted with him now that the Cody feud is over. Did I just see Tully do the fucking assisted piledriver ? Hope Janela is gonna feud with Sabian over his former partner, he really made the match. The three-way was a disappointment of sorts, because of the stupid way these matches are worked. They tried to make the most sense out of the stupid "gotta tag out" rule, but it should really be 3 guys at the same time. Yeah, Kazarian is kinda scary doing some flips he can't really do great. Private Party looked spotty this time around. The diving sequence was awesome though. Lucha Brothers need to get near the top of the cards. Daniels cospl dressing up as Pentagon was kinda goofy and needless. Loved, LOVED Riho vs Emi Sakura. I mean, Emi Sakura from FMW ? In 2019 ? On a PPV ? And she rules too. Nice Kodo Fuyuki tribute (kudos to Excalibur for catching it). Yeah, loved everything about this match. Hopefully they don't do Riho vs Baker next, because Baker ain't ready and Riho is over. Gimme Riho vs Shanna NOW ! Cody vs Jericho was quite the title match. Jericho is awesome. Cody has developed into a very good main event guy. Interesting finish. One could argue the turn was too quick, but then again, it was obvious since the beginning and MJF could not keep on being a babyface, really, as he never was. The lights out match, well... I guess we should call that the Renee Young Special. Crazy and hilarious at points (the barbwire bats & broom, the crawling in glass), stupid and too slow at other points (mousetraps, heavy boring chain), way too fucking long too. The breaking down of the ring was a nice touch, maybe they'll do the LAX IMPACT match at some point, with the match happening entirely on the wood floor. Never boring despite the lenght, but nowhere close the best crazy-ass violent matches of Lucha Underground to me. Omega is awesome and isn't afraid of doing anything. Mox has quite an aura. So yeah. Some stuff I really loved, some stuff I felt underdelivered. Spears on PPV while Allin was sitting in the crowd was a bit of a WTF. Two big issues that are basically the same : Tony Schiavone was missed badly. JR SUCKED. Like, he was terrible. Not Mauro terrible because he was not ruining the matches, but Mauro at least knows who the fuck he's taking about. JR was Drunk Solie bad. Although at some point, his total miscomprehension and disbelief of what he was watching was actually funny in a Bob-Caudle-listening-to-New-Jack-promos-in-SMW way. But yeah, JR was just plain bad. So there, to me the lesser of the big AEW shows thus far, despite mostly very good to excellent stuff.

Ok, it's all fair and good. Yeah, I would say !

Hey, I didn't even call TKK a Corny cosplayer on that one (ya know, trying to make something personal and polarizing the argument, because that's how things are done now), when I could have, really. So there... Hell, I even agree with some of the points he makes (the kick out of the Black Arrow wasn't needed, especially when Trent did not actually kick out and the ref fucked up). I even said in my previous post I would rather watch that Aldis vs Storm match than some epic Mania WWE/Takeover match. But hey, let's try and trigger (yeah, sorry) the AEW fanboy lol. Kinda lame, really, but whatever...

Basically stopped producing DVD, are selling the stock. Oliver wrote a book. Now doing a podcast, which has not interested me very much. If he ever go back into producing content for KC is anyone's guess.

Hum... no. I don't give a flying fuck, really. But it would be nice if you didn't make everything so personal. Don't take your cues from Corny. You can love NWA Powerr and dislike the modern style all you want without referring to those whom you disagree with and go all "Awww, you people are gonna hate this soooo much." Really, no, I don't give a flying fuck. No really. I don't need validation from anyone as far as my tastes go. Hell, I've spend the last 5 years browsing through TNA 2002-2009, watching and loving Lucha Underground, which was watched and loved by at least a dozen people, and IMPACT has been my favourite promotion before AEW showed up, yeah, IMPACT, the promotion that drew less on Twitch than people opening boxes. I don't need anyone liking the same thing I like. I don't care about people disliking the stuff I like. You didn't enjoy PAC vs Trent from Dynamite ? Ok. Cool.

No word in itself in unacceptable. Only context and intent matters. That's why I always laugh/shake my head at every occurence of "the X-word". It's so infantile. And it totally ignores how language actually works, so it makes no difference whatsoever if you write/say "fuck" or "f-word" (which is even stupider when you say it). And yeah, it works for every X-word (I actually used another exemple, but then I figured "fuck" was the easiest way to go). Semiology says hello. That fear of words is absolutely ridiculous and yes, a way to infantilize people. The use of "triggered" in the title of the thread, using the same construction as alt-right dickhead making fun of feminists (for instance), could pass for kinda offensive to some I guess, if you take that construction literally. Still, it's pushing it to me...

Can Taz stay instead of JR ? Kind of a shoot Gorilla Monsoon. Yeah, Baker is basically a rookie at this point.

Young Bucks opening the PPV ? I bet on them doing a job, again, to establish P&P. They are gonna be the Jushin Liger of AEW...

What ? It was a decent little match. Bea Priestly is good. Baker is way green. I knew it. They look AWESOME.

A fucking ramp !

Gonna watch the Dentist (did you know she was ?) and off to bed.

Fuck restraint. Seriously. I hope for two zillions dives, a hundred bumps on the apron, buckets of blood and weapons shots and garbage bumps galore in the lights out match. Gimme workrate on cocaine, an orgy of moves and all around insanity.

The real question is, did he use papercuts ?

I guess he wanted to say she was scary or something, but "They put her picture in prison to cure the sex-offenders" is just not something that works to get that across and even less something that you'd say in 2019 about any woman, for obvious reasons.

It was okay. I didn't see any great stories told at all. Tim Storm is some unknown old guy who held the useless NWA title, so the fuck did I care about his despair to win and whatnot. The psychology was basic but ok. The action was ok. I find Aldis to be pretty dull most of the time if there's not a whole dog & pony show built around him. Storm is a decent 50 years old guy working like it's 1991, but there are the Jericho's and LA Park's and Suzuki's of the world, so paint me unimpressed. Everything was quite ok. It wasn't bad at all, and I'd rather watch that than any WWE Mania (or sadly, Takeovers) Self-conscious epic indeed. Kamille took a great bump, which you gotta love, the spirit of Sensationnal Sherri lives on. Cornette is also out of his depth taking about women. That line about Thunder Rosa was baaaaad.

Well, it has to do with Kazarian's funny story about him meeting Bob Holly...

DO YA ?! (see, that's typically a reference only those watching BTE and the Wrestlers on the Road Ordering Food videos would get)

That's ok. None taken. Yep. I follow BTE since basically AEW was announced, so I'm familiar with a lot of stuff, and I have watched Kenny in NJPW for a while before. I do get why someone who is just discovering the TV show would feel a broom is kinda odd. Although broom + barbwire still looks kinda cool in a awkward Cactus Jack way.

It is CRAZY to me. Like, unbelievable level crazy. His real-life story is what should have turned him into what they always wanted him to be. And.... no.

Hey, thanks for calling me a stupid fanboy. Always appreciated. If you paid any attention, I have criticized some stuff about AEW before. Not fan of the Dark Order gimmick at all. Britt Baker is not very good right now. Tully with Spears at this point seems like kind of a waste. I could totally do without JR, I don't think he's been very good. And so on. Then again, I show patience and good faith because, yeah, I've said it, right now, count me as an AEW mark. Doesn't mean I can't be critical of the stuff I don't like. Truth be said, thus far, the stuff I really don't care for hasn't been very much. I wasn't a fan of Hager showing up *at all*. They have proved me wrong thus far on that. As far as Omega goes, I had seen him countless times with the broom, so it's neither new nor surprising to me. It was part of the old Kenny Omega presentation, so it kinda makes sense to me that's all. Like I sarcastically alluded to, the announcers could have explained why he was carrying that particular object. I don't think it's that big of a deal, but they probably should have.

Oh damn, I know, that was so stupid !

Come on. Aldis vs Tim Storm was like an OK to good TV match. Aldis is the champion of a Youtube cosplay show. He's great at it too, no argument from me about that part.

Yeah, Omega with a broom makes all the sense in the world. Omega used to come down the ring wit a broom. "But the announcer don't make it clear yaddiyaddi yadda…." Yeah, he's got very cool music too. Cody should indeed try to make himself the guy who doesn't need the belt, and more importantly maybe, that the belt doesn't need. Right now, the belt needs Jericho.

New boom period.

I encourage all to play the game of taking a shot every time JR says "physicality" or "athleticism". You'll get toasted way before you'll get to Cody vs Jericho.