AEW Dynamite Saturday Night Live - August 22, 2020

[MoS]

How many have read the spoilers 

[SirEdger]

The spoilers were pretty inexact for the Women's Tag Team Cup so not holding much stock about the rest. We'll see tonight.

[MoS]

WHY DO AMERICAN SPORTS HAVE SO MANY BREAKS AND TIMEOUTS

Seriously, how do you all stand for it. A 48+30 min game should not take 3 fucking hours to finish 

[sek69]

Tully on my TV again on a Saturday night just feels right.

[MoS]

I am on Fite and thus on a 30-second delay. I hope they keep mentioning how this is wrestling returning to Turner on Saturday evening in decades. Connecting Dynamite to a stream of history makes it feel more legit 

[sek69]

Going right to the matches with little or no introduction is giving me 6:05 vibes as well. 

[sek69]

Oh shit Eddie Kingston forming his own group, I'm down.

[sek69]

Mimosa Mayhem! Surprised I didn't see that coming considering the orange juice based attacks OC has been using. 

[MoS]

That was a really good match. I am guessing they book a triple threat for the tag titles for All Out and then build to FTR v. YB for the next PPV?

[MoS]

Man, Kingston really is a great promo. I am guessing this stable  is a substitute for Death Triangle that was their plan pre-COVID. I like Kingston a lot more  than PAC so I like this more 

[sek69]

Hangman killing his gimmick out here by drinking a Bud Light.

[MoS]

wtf is this mimosa mayhem. Is this like a gimmick to attract more 18-34s

[sek69]

8 minutes ago, MoS said:

wtf is this mimosa mayhem. Is this like a gimmick to attract more 18-34s

Maybe Jericho thinks if he gets dunked in a vat of mimosa, it will kill any covid germs he picked up on tour.

[sek69]

Whoa, Thunder Rosa is here with the NWA Women's title.

[Coffey]

If this finals of the Women's tournament is any indication, it's a good thing the rest of the tournament was on YouTube & not TV.

[MoS]

As much as I don't like Omega, this slow-burn Omega-YB-Page angle is being done brilliantly 

No one in wrestling moves like Darby. He genuinely has megastar potential

[MoS]

That Darby-Starks angle started real corny and ended real awesome. Props to Starks that was a brilliant promo

[sek69]

Whoa, wasn't expecting Cody to basically get squashed there.

[MoS]

Why has Brandi randomly become a complete heel? Why are her turns more schizophrenic than WWE at their worst?

[MoS]

Jesus THAT is how you rehab a gimmick. What a main event angle. When they zoomed on to Arn I literally yelled out loud

[Tim Evans]

I feel like having Eddie Kingston in a stable does him a disservice. I didn't like it in TNA or ROH. He should be a loner going after Moxley after the MJF feud. Also Fenix should be a babyface.

That final angle was the first time since joining AEW that Brodie Lee looked like a star. Props to Cody for taking that type of beating. Dark Order looked like credible threats instead of the tall guy, fat guy and goofs. Great stuff.

[Coffey]

Every single wrestler that is in AEW that was previously in Lucha Underground, was better in Lucha Underground than they are in AEW. Fenix definitely falls into that category for me. So does Pentagon, Jr. to a ridiculous degree. Jack Evans, Angelico, arguably even Brian Cage whom AEW has probably done the best with... and even that hasn't been great.

I don't know what exactly is missing from AEW but it just feels... off to me. I can't buy into it. I don't know why. LU was WAY over the top, to the point of being ridiculous, but I loved it. I never missed it. I don't know if it's the pandemic, or the people in charge or what, but AEW to me doesn't feel like it matters if you watch the show or not. There's nothing drawing me in as a viewer that makes it must-see TV. 

[MoS]

3 hours ago, Coffey said:

Every single wrestler that is in AEW that was previously in Lucha Underground, was better in Lucha Underground than they are in AEW. Fenix definitely falls into that category for me. So does Pentagon, Jr. to a ridiculous degree. Jack Evans, Angelico, arguably even Brian Cage whom AEW has probably done the best with... and even that hasn't been great.

I don't know what exactly is missing from AEW but it just feels... off to me. I can't buy into it. I don't know why. LU was WAY over the top, to the point of being ridiculous, but I loved it. I never missed it. I don't know if it's the pandemic, or the people in charge or what, but AEW to me doesn't feel like it matters if you watch the show or not. There's nothing drawing me in as a viewer that makes it must-see TV. 

I am obviously in the completely opposite boat from you as far as enjoying AEW in general goes, but I agree about AEW not utilising LU alumni as well as LU used to book them. Pentagon for instance has been reduced to a clone of his brother, and both him and Fenix no work as Young Bucks clones, both of which is really stupid. 

[NintendoLogic]

Just think about how much better this would have been if Brodie Lee had delivered his post-match promo with a Southern accent.

[Migs]

10 hours ago, MoS said:

I am obviously in the completely opposite boat from you as far as enjoying AEW in general goes, but I agree about AEW not utilising LU alumni as well as LU used to book them. Pentagon for instance has been reduced to a clone of his brother, and both him and Fenix no work as Young Bucks clones, both of which is really stupid. 

I don't think that's AEW's fault, though - they were working that way for years before, really since they started tagging regularly in the US. Their work in MLW and Impact as a tag team is the same. They could probably get more out of them as singles. The Bucks feud was really good and had enough juice for two PPV matches (that they had to build without TV). But they've been directionless for so long that it's almost hard to remember that Penta vs Omega was a dream match at All In.