SirEdger Posted September 30, 2021 Report Share Posted September 30, 2021 3 hours ago, Flyin' Brian said: I love Miro, but so happy to see Sammy win. It’s just nice to see a babyface go over, especially since the company was all heel champions up to that point. - edit: except the Lucha Bros. Have they defended the titles since they won them though? I believe they defended them against The Butcher & The Blade 2 weeks ago on Rampage. That's what set up the 8-men tag we saw last week with the Lucha Bros teaming with Santana & Ortiz. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoS Posted September 30, 2021 Report Share Posted September 30, 2021 The Casino Ladder Match with the winner receiving a title shot is next week. Very very intrigued to see who wins that. Bryan is already booked for a tag next week so he can't win it. Is this where Hangman returns? Cuz man, again, it's too soon for Omega to lose, he has to finish his Danielson program for starters, but Hangman losing again to Omega just a couple of months after he lost, it just doesn't seem like a good idea. Who else can win that ladder match? I don't see anybody else who can work Omega at Full Gear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RingoPlaysDrums Posted September 30, 2021 Report Share Posted September 30, 2021 Hopefully Page. I feel like Full Gear could be the right time, although I wouldn't necessarily object to it being strung out until Revolution. Either way, damn good Dynamite. Guevara's win felt a bit sudden but he deserves some shine and I expect Miro will continue to look dominant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gramsci Posted September 30, 2021 Report Share Posted September 30, 2021 Watching Danielson's promo in Elevation it's clear that they're gonna do Kenny/Bryan in Full Gear for the title. I think the right way to go is giving a midcarder the win in the casino ladder match in order to book a tv defense three or four weeks before the PPV, and then, after the PPV, Page can show up in his hometown and climb his way to the championship again to challenge Kenny at Revolution. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tetsujin Posted September 30, 2021 Report Share Posted September 30, 2021 Realy liked the opener. It's been a while since I enjoyed an Adam Cole match, but he and Jungle Boy were good at manipulating the crowd into cheering the right guy and booing the right guy, and they build up a great last couple minutes. Fast-paced 15-20 minute matches are exactly what modern pro wrestling needs more, and specially what Cole can be good at, so yeah, the match worked pretty well. Then we had a cringy Elite segment, and I gotta say, I HATE all of these guys. I hated them before they turned heel, you know, but that was serious hating, now I can appreciate they're trying to be hated. Then Bryan came in and gave Omega a nickname that I hope stays with him for the rest of his career. It is so cliché but so hilarious I can't help it, wrestling needs to be silly sometimes. I would have appreciated some direct confrontation between Danielson and Nick Jackson, because, you know, Nick is the one who's gonna face him at Rampage, and I would have prefered a set up to it instead of just randomly announcing the match later on the show. But well, Nick is probably the best singles worker of The Elite if you think about it (I know, I know, sounds crazy but I can't see it otherwise). Andrade's promos were disgusting to watch, but now he went full circle and is absolutely hilarious. I just can't take him seriously when he talks, but I want more of his shit. Anyway, whatever he does with the Lucha Bros should be awesome. Arn Anderson destroying Cody on the mic was golden. Glad to see the crowd is still turning on him. It was funny how Lee Johnson got the pin and basically the whole match all by himself, but when the interview comes it's Cody the one at the front page. Wtf Tony man INTERVIEW THE ACTUAL WINNER of the team. Set up some jealousy from Cody or something. But anyway, Double A dumped him so I guess they're still going somewhere with this storyline. I just hope it's a turn heel instead of another redemption arc, but at the same time Cody was a horrible (horrible, horrible) heel back in the day so... It also bothers me the fact that the story is about Cody, when in my opinion they should give more screentime to Black and continue his push doing his stuff with other notorious guys on the roster. Give Cody some holidays, let him focus on his stupid reality show or something, and then when he comes back he can turn heel and later explain his new motivations. But right now, I feel the focus should be more on Black than on him. But that's Cody Rhodes for you all. Dark Order reunited again was cool. This company knows how to build earned, satisfying feel-good moments (more on that later in this post) for every single part of their roster, being main events, midcard, women division, tag team division, comedy guys... ALSO, I'm so excited for Lio Rush. He's huge and kinda underrated if you ask me. I also like Lambert, Sky and Page, and hope they get more protagonism on the tag division, but I don't care about all the other guys that attacked Jericho last week. And I don't really care about the Jericho feud itself, either. Give me a Lucha Bros vs Men of the Year series! Still no much screentime and development for the womens division. Whenever I see there's a womens segment in this show, I just can't help but think "they're doing womens segment because they feel forced to do them, but they're not giving them any strong storylines, directions, gimmicks, etc". AEW is not trying with their women, and I know they in ring level is not that good, but fuck they are obssesed with signing cool male wrestlers to reinforce their roster, why not cool female wrestlers!? Why are they not trying to give their actual female roster more interesting stuff to do, other than the obligatory 10-minute match, maybe two matches, per show? I can see the potential in that division (Baker is a great character and it's only a matter of time she gets actually good in the ring, Soho too, Nyla is great, Thunder Rosa is fun, I want to like Anna Jay too even though I haven't see her in great performances yet...), and I'm sure the company does it too, so then why it feels like the company is not fucking trying to build a more interesting scene with all of them? The MJF/Darby rivalry can be great. I love how AEW is stablishing the "future four pillars" in Guevara, Jungle Boy and those two, I can see them all having very succesful careers if AEW becomes huge for a long time. But man I hate MJF promos. He just screams all the time. I also don't like how he always goes for black humour, because I remember the Moxley feud and all the "MJF 4 champ" campaing, and that was fun as hell and didn't need MJF to be screaming and talking about AIDS and/or dead relatives. Darby didn't look good at all at the mic this time, so I hope this feud focuses more on backstage stuff and the actual matches instead of regular promos at the building, because I don't want neither of them doing those. The segment also finished kinda akwardly... But hey, a very promising midcard rivalry, I'm in! The main event was great. Not because the match itself was (it was very good, specially Miro's performance, but not *that* good), but because the segment as a whole felt totally earned. After all the bullying Miro has done to Fuego del Sol and him, Sammy finally got his moment. I loved Sammy's high flying comebacks, dude is a magnificent athlete and a such a sympatethic babyface, and Miro. Man, what a guy. He looks better than ever. He has one of these kind of bodies you just can't look away, the same happens to me when I look at Cesaro or Kiyoshi Tamura, they're just... physically perfect. And he looks more motivated than ever too. This Miro is completely different from early-AEW Miro, and I'm so glad he regained his wrestling passion because he's that. Damn. Good. If you ask me, AEW would be much better if The Elite goes away and Khan puts Miro as one of their main heels (with PAC and Malakai). As for Sammy, he now has to prove he can be a great babyface midcard champion, and it feels exciting to be part of this new phase of his career. If Eddie Kingston wasn't gonna win the TNT Title, then I'm glad Guevara was the one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stiva Posted September 30, 2021 Report Share Posted September 30, 2021 I like these post-PPV Dynamites a lot more now that they’re peppering in big matches and are casually putting pieces into place for the future. I’m ready for the Sammy TNT run since it offers up some different kinds of matches and Sammy going against the likes of Andrade, Lio Rush and Jungle Boy will be great. Actually, Sammy/Christian given 15 minutes would be incredible Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sek69 Posted September 30, 2021 Report Share Posted September 30, 2021 I love seeing the internet reaction to Arn dropping some OG shit on Cody. This MF brought a camera crew along to document him beating Dusty's ass in a parking lot, of course he's got no qualms with icing a car jacker, lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirEdger Posted September 30, 2021 Report Share Posted September 30, 2021 12 hours ago, Gramsci said: Watching Danielson's promo in Elevation it's clear that they're gonna do Kenny/Bryan in Full Gear for the title. I think the right way to go is giving a midcarder the win in the casino ladder match in order to book a tv defense three or four weeks before the PPV, and then, after the PPV, Page can show up in his hometown and climb his way to the championship again to challenge Kenny at Revolution. To me, it looks more like they're setting up Danielson vs Cole at Full Gear. And considering how connected they are with their arrival in AEW being at the same time, it just makes sense to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoo Enthusiast Posted September 30, 2021 Report Share Posted September 30, 2021 “I’m Arn Anderson and all that that implies!” Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted October 1, 2021 Report Share Posted October 1, 2021 Crossposting my thoughts of what I saw: Nightmare Family vs Sydal/Martin: Cody rushing in worked for me. There was a neat moment during the early exchanges where Martin and Johnson were going at it and the ref was obviously in the way of the corner so that almost opened things up for a switch. Pretty sure it was planned but it didn't feel it which is what matters with these elaborate spots. Punk balking at the "Lightning Spiral" name was funny. The sequence where Cody hit the Disaster Kick to Sydal on the apron and then hit the Vertebreaker was really good but no one should be kicking out of that move without something extra. That shouldn't just be some random midmatch move for Cody. I got the impression Cody was glad to be in there with Martin and based well for him. Post match promo worked. Arn's shaky these days which is weird because he's really clear on the podcast but it still worked. Greene/Bears vs Darby/Mox/Eddie: Glad Boulder's ok after seeming hurt on Dark. Excalibur called La Casita La Magistral again. Come on, Excalibur. I like how Greene somehow bumped on his face off a shoulder black. He was obviously glad to be there. The Hurricane vs Rock and Austin moment at the end with him was great. Eddie's German on Bronson was pretty awesome too. OC/DO vs HFO: I like how this shifted gears once everyone came down midway. All of the signature stuff was after that. At first it felt a little empty for such a big match but that's because they saved it all for when the switch flipped. In retrospect, pretty perfect. Tay/Anna vs Bunny/Ford: Tay should probably work hulking up into her act because she's got a memorable pissed off face. She also took the knee first corner bump to the floor huge. The backstabber combo onto Anna didn't look pretty. We lost the heat and the hot tag in the PiP. The Dangerous J kick looked great. I had wondered about putting the Dark Order stuff back to back but probably best to highlight it like this in the middle of the show. Miro vs Sammy: I don't think I've ever actually seen Sammy before. I was wondering if they were going to put him over during Hispanic Heritage Month since they did a promo for that and seem a lot better than WWE about this stuff. Miro is a once in a generation talent (which given this generation is saying something) with his balance between offensive presence and engaged selling. He just gets it and is exceptional at making everything he does mean something and resonate. I'm not sure I see quite enough differentiation between Sammy and a lot of the other young guys. If I had to say I'd say that Sammy tosses himself at people forward and Darby does it backwards and more fatalism. The story of the match with Sammy throwing himself at Miro as the only way to hurt him and Miro catching him again and again worked for me. The transition where Miro let the crowd get into his head and feed his own ego was excellent. I only saw half the matches on this show and there was just way too many cutters and stunners. Also too many superkicks. Almost every match had at least one. You have to love the effort and weight behind Sammy actually getting the GTH on Miro (too many drop onto knee moves too though). I was interested to hear Punk's reaction but he stayed in the moment and shouted "Pin him!" instead. They covered a lot of ground in ten minutes. Great moment for a crowd that deserved a great moment in the memory of someone who inspired a great moment. I did see Cole vs Jungle Boy on youtube later on too, just the last few minutes. I don't like someone kicking out of the panama sunrise already (I'd rather it didn't exist, but if it does, protect it) but he didn't hook the leg, as Punk noted. Jungle Boy pulling him back to the center of the ring maybe before he needed to was a nice youthful exuberance/risktaking moment to build to the finish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.S. Posted October 1, 2021 Report Share Posted October 1, 2021 Even though I hated the Arn Anderson promo (yeah, yeah, I'm the only one - no, I don't care), it was worth it for memes like these. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoS Posted October 1, 2021 Report Share Posted October 1, 2021 Nia in particular has been on a roll on Twitter since he said that line Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dav'oh Posted October 1, 2021 Report Share Posted October 1, 2021 Didn't take long...(available at BoxofGimmicks.com) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NintendoLogic Posted October 1, 2021 Report Share Posted October 1, 2021 MJF has really been scraping the bottom of the barrel lately with his attempts at cheap heat. First there was the stuff with Melanie Pillman, now he's bringing up Darby's uncle. He's getting dangerously close to Eddie's in hell territory. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoS Posted October 1, 2021 Report Share Posted October 1, 2021 2 hours ago, NintendoLogic said: He's getting dangerously close to Eddie's in hell territory. I mean he pretty much did that with Pillman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.S. Posted October 1, 2021 Report Share Posted October 1, 2021 10 hours ago, MoS said: Nia in particular has been on a roll on Twitter since he said that line Nia Jax??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sek69 Posted October 1, 2021 Report Share Posted October 1, 2021 The funny part about the reaction to Arn's promo is he's always been about that life. It's not the first time he's mentioned killing someone in a promo, folks aren't just accustomed to hearing stuff like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoS Posted October 1, 2021 Report Share Posted October 1, 2021 53 minutes ago, C.S. said: Nia Jax??? Sorry, I meant Nyla Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El-P Posted October 1, 2021 Report Share Posted October 1, 2021 So, Lio Rush is unretiring after retiring then only working the matches he had scheduled for NJ now apparently unretired for good. What's next ? Kylie Ray ? People bitch about modern worker not able to control a crowd, take notice : crowd goes batshit crazy for Cole's little catchphrases, but also chant his name a little too much during the match, and so what Cole does ? He starts to bitchslaps Jungle Boy and the crowd actually boos him. Also, that Panama Sunrise kick out was perfect because it makes Jungle Boy special, which he needs to be since he's losing the match (not clean, ok, but still). Plus, the Panama Sunrise is not Cole's #1 finisher, that Shining Wizard thingy is. Miro vs Sammy Guevara was just the perfect match for the perfect moment, although I would have loved to see Miro keep on with his streak. Hopefully his momentum doesn't stop because he has been an awesome TNT champ (the best actually). That Dark Order vs HFO match also was exactly what it needed to be, with the nice moment of Amanda, Tay & Anna (damn the matching outfits makes them look so good too !) setting the record straight and -1 doing the infamous paper throw. That's not one but 2 feel-good moments (both paying homage to Brody since he was the original monster TNT champ). Well, make that 3 with the brutal Arn promo. Of course Cody is aware, it's very obvious. He gotta turn heel. Brandi comes from the heel tunnel already. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sek69 Posted October 1, 2021 Report Share Posted October 1, 2021 It seems pretty clear Cody is turning heel, too many seeds have been planted and AEW doesn't tease things they don't plan to deliver on. Cody going full HHH would be the perfect heel character too, I hope the next PPV he comes out in full Motorhead gear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El-P Posted October 1, 2021 Report Share Posted October 1, 2021 Just have him seat on the broken throne ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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