MoS Posted June 19, 2021 Report Share Posted June 19, 2021 TWO more weeks of this weekend Dynamite nonsense Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sek69 Posted June 19, 2021 Report Share Posted June 19, 2021 JR doing a sit down with Andrade should be good, since that's the one thing he still excels at. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoS Posted June 19, 2021 Author Report Share Posted June 19, 2021 Worked MMA matches are never good, but this one was not as bad as it could have been. Wardlow is awesome Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoS Posted June 19, 2021 Author Report Share Posted June 19, 2021 Darby Allin truly is a special wrestler Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoS Posted June 19, 2021 Author Report Share Posted June 19, 2021 Fire every one of these jobbers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoS Posted June 19, 2021 Author Report Share Posted June 19, 2021 That Omega-JB backstage backdown was terrible and made Jungle Boy look like an idiot. How could he not have seen that coming from a long way Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sek69 Posted June 19, 2021 Report Share Posted June 19, 2021 Same reason Michael Nak never sees it coming that Kenny is going to throw him under the bus I suppose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sek69 Posted June 19, 2021 Report Share Posted June 19, 2021 Julia Hart reminds me of Alexa Bliss's original cheerleader gimmick in NXT. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sek69 Posted June 19, 2021 Report Share Posted June 19, 2021 Miro vs Pillman? I can get down with that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gordi Posted June 19, 2021 Report Share Posted June 19, 2021 Jungle Boy vs Kenny? Yes, please. Hangman vs Powerhouse? Yes, please. Miro vs Pillman? Yes, please! FTR vs P&P?!?! Oh. Hell. Yeah. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoS Posted June 19, 2021 Author Report Share Posted June 19, 2021 I loved everything Miro did there, that was amazing lol Santana is so incredible Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coffey Posted June 19, 2021 Report Share Posted June 19, 2021 I have nothing against Julia Hart but what does she bring to the table that puts her ahead of someone like, say, Skye Blue? Is it just the Hart name? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NintendoLogic Posted June 19, 2021 Report Share Posted June 19, 2021 12 hours ago, MoS said: Worked MMA matches are never good, but this one was not as bad as it could have been. Wardlow is awesome The laughably bad strikes from both men completely killed the match for me. Worked MMA only works if you lay your shit in. Otherwise, it looks even faker than traditional pro wrestling. It's a bad sign when the best punches were the ones thrown by Jericho in the post-match run-in. 10 hours ago, Coffey said: I have nothing against Julia Hart but what does she bring to the table that puts her ahead of someone like, say, Skye Blue? Is it just the Hart name? She has no connection I'm aware of to the famous Hart family other than having the same last name. She may be green as grass, but AEW's track record with bringing green wrestlers up to speed has been pretty great. The one thing you can't coach is natural athletic ability, and she blows the other girls away in that regard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwin Posted June 19, 2021 Report Share Posted June 19, 2021 20 hours ago, MoS said: Worked MMA matches are never good, but this one was not as bad as it could have been. Disagreed. There's plenty of great shoot style matches or "worked MMA matches." Even in 2021, on a smaller scale we still get Bloodsport, Hard Hit, etc. which do a great job at this. This was embarrassing. They spent 3 minutes in the first round stalling and making mean faces to try and save their stamina to ride this out into the second round. The few strikes landed in those 3 minutes were embarrassing, as was the Showtime Superman punch. Instead of doing the played out lame Frye/Takayama hockey fight exchange we've seen done in NXT which looks horrendous, we got a mock Korean Zombie/Leonard Garcia fist fight that was on par, if not worse than the phoney Frye/Takayama hockey fight. Excalibur said before the match Wardlow had boxing background, but he looked like he had never thrown a punch in his entire life. His ground and pound was no better than his stand up. Wardlow looked visibly gassed in the second round. I guess that's why the powerbomb into the cage and the Rampage/Arona triangle counter spot looked like they had minimum to no impact on Hager. For some reason Hager just randomly began selling at the start of the second round even though he came out of a rest from the corner were he wasn't even selling slightly. The piped in fake crowd didn't do this any favors either. Not trying to be a jerk or being negative, but that was just an embarrassing mess that made Nobuhiko Takada vs. Kyle Sturgeon from PRIDE 3 look great in comparison. They really should never do this again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoS Posted June 19, 2021 Author Report Share Posted June 19, 2021 Bloodsport is not really "Worked MMA fight" the way this one was, and while the best Bloodsport matches are great, a normal one is just boring. They definitely should not have booked a worked MMA match. If nothing else, you require one excellent shootstyle worker for it to even be close to good, and Jake Hager is no one's idea of an excellent worker Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Migs Posted June 21, 2021 Report Share Posted June 21, 2021 Looking forward to them getting out of Friday night purgatory next week, feels like they've been in a holding pattern even when the eps have been decent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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