JLowe
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If you had Stat-Skye Blue as your MOTN going in, then go ahead and buy a lottery ticket.
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In March 1988 I saw Sting on the Nothing like the Sun tour at Madison Square Garden. I was actually a pretty big fan of the first 2 solo records, saw the documentary about the making of the record in theaters. But I also was getting heavily into hardcore/punk rock by then. I bought a shirt before the show. The show was SOOOOO self-indulgent. When I got home, I gave my brother the shirt and my mom the tapes and never willingly listened to anything non-Police again.
In March 2022 I saw Sting at AEW Dynamite in Austin. He was tagging with Darby Allin (of course) and the Hardyz versus Andrade Family Order. He jumped off the top rope to the floor and brawled around the arena. It was awesome to see him, and he worked hard.
Anyway, BCC-FTR/Kingston is going to rule.
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5 hours ago, Technico Support said:
I believe he means as soon as Danielson loses one of these bucket list matches, then baby you got a stew going.
Speaking of, I desperately need one of these foregone conclusion JTTS matches to end with the JTTS winning. Maybe that's the long game TK is playing?
That’s how you end up with Action Andretti.
but for real, they did that with Top Flight-Young Bucks, and it was basically the year-long storyline for Skye Blue.
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1 hour ago, Technico Support said:
Yeah, if AEW closed tomorrow and I had 5 hours per week back, I'd probably just re-up independentwrestling.tv and live off West Coast Pro, Prestige, etc.
I’d probably play video games and watch old sitcoms on Tubi.
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55 minutes ago, Cobra Commander said:
Collision ratings for last weekend would say “no” (385k viewers for Collision)
It’s very possible that the only way to make Collision work is to make Dynamite more popular too so that if Collision gets 50% of Dynamite’s ratings, it’s a higher number.
Feels like asking for people to watch a Saturday night show for a promotion whose main show is kinda stagnant in ratings is a tough ask.
I mean TV ratings across the board on a Saturday night are lower than a Wednesday, right? I’m 52 years old and married and even I am doing fun social things then at least 30% of the time because I don’t have to work the next day. Wednesday night I’m unwinding with Dynamite after work and dinner before going to bed for work the next day. I’d bet the DVR +7. between the 2 shows has less of a gap than the live ratings.
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1 hour ago, odessasteps said:
Not sure when long title reigns became a bad thing. I mean, the Roman one is silly, but having someone be a champion for more than six months or a year. Is it just the need for instant gratification for the short attention span generation of fans raised on the Attitude Era and later?
I’m fine with them when they are the “fighting champion” trope, with the very rare “heel ducking challenges” run. Didn’t OC have more title defenses in his year-long run than Roman has in 4?
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1 hour ago, Godfrey said:
I get that totally. For me, a match like Danielson/Akiyama is just a waste. It could be so much more if you added any kind of build but instead it's just there. It wouldn't matter if Akiyama won, he basically doesn't count for the rankings. So why not give it something, ANYTHING, to make it matter just a little more? Audiences are way more forgiving if there is a compelling storyline to get the match over, then wrestlers don't have to kill themselves just to get a reaction
It's not a binary, if you don't like the WWE angles that doesn't mean having no angles is better. Also the shampoo angle was over 20 years ago so maybe let that one go
The booking made it pretty clear, as did the announcers, that it was all about Danielson’s feud with Eddie Kingston. Yes it was announced out of the blue but by the end of the match it was well presented that Danielson wanted to show up Kingston by beating one of his idols, followed by the low blow and disrespect angle. Just because everything isn’t spelled out in weeks of 15-minute long promos doesn’t mean there aren’t stakes or angles.
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3 hours ago, Log said:
A couple of my favorite all-time matches were just matches that got booked because it would be cool if the two wrestlers faced each other. Kobashi/Joe and Necro/Joe jump to mind immediately. Hell, in Japan there for a while, we got all kinds of great shit because someone decided that Hashimoto wrestling Kawada would be cool and stuff like that.
I'll take "Danielson vs random Japanese legend announced two days before a show" any day over "guys fighting because of a fake shampoo commercial snub" or "week 189 of one of the Usos feeling conflicted about Roman Reigns", personally.
Whenever I hear about great WWE booking all I can think of is that last bit and how just about all their champions are on multi-year runs.
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If Meat Madness is just Wardlow, Hobbs, and Archer then they need to change the name.
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31 minutes ago, Jacey said:
Thanks so much to everyone who has been assisting and sending. Appreciate you and we will be reaching out for thanks, and to see what you'd like plugged/adopted etc
Was Filthy Tom the goal, or are you still fundraising?
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Rampage was hit and miss, mostly miss for me.
Trios was pretty messy, and seeing Penta meant the finish was a foregone conclusion. Komander did some cool stuff. Darius and Bryan Keith looked a lot alike, about the same height, same braids, Keith has a slightly larger build, but they matched up well. Sydal was odd guy out and Penta tried to kill him twice (pretty sure the apron botch rang his bell some and led to the springboard botch). Private Party don’t really interest me anymore. In my perfect world, Top Flight go back to tag team and chase the ROH titles they were supposed to win. Komander keeps doing cool shit. Not sure how to book Bryan Keith but I like him. Speaking of, you can see how 13 years on the indies makes a huge difference in Keith versus the super green Andretti.
Guevara doesn’t apologize for breaking his idol’s face. Ok. I FFWD through this, Callis at this point draws a ton of heat for himself but is total death as far as angles.
Why do we need Saraya’s brother? I guess she can be his manager. I don’t know, I assume this is for All In but I was under the impression he kinda sucks?
Half watched the Bucks match. It is interesting how they’ve varied their style some to be heelish.
Mariah May has superstar potential. Hot, talented, stiff wrestler, good at getting character across in the ring. Good match. I’m hoping they don’t rush the angle with her and Toni splitting.
Would they actually run a Skye Bkue-Stokely match?
Main was alright, I don’t care much for Hager but he was working hard and there were some good comedy bits. Of course, one of those involved the action in the ring stopping dead for over a minute which I hate. Figured OC would get involved, but also expected the mascot to be a wrestler.
From what I’ve been reading, ROH would be a far better use of my time than Rampage recently.
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2 hours ago, Matt D said:
Holy crap, it's a Malakai Black singles match.
Doing the time honored tradition before following Andrade?
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2 hours ago, Curt McGirt said:
Given the price of beef these days it would be awesome.
Is there really a Meat Madness thing or was this just Callis rambling? I was joking about there being a tournament, though obviously we've talked about this before and all would dig it. (Hell, all you'd have to do is say "Hey Tony, NEW BELT" and he'd probably start with the Pavlovian drooling.)
Right after Wardlow’s promo, either Schiavone or Excalibur did the “just got word from Tony Khan” and it literally used the term “Meat Madness”
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4 hours ago, DreamBroken said:
Supercard of Honor is confirmed for April 5 at the Liacouras Center in Philly.
I haven’t even watched ROH in a year but I’m going to this show (the day after DEAN~! in Jersey).
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There’s also MEAT MADNESS~! although I expect that could end up on the Buy-In
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Opening match was good but not great other than the flashes of Claudio just going full on Hulk mode. It did its job of setting the table for some kind of big bloody gimmick match at the PPV. And PLEASE AEW stop with the unprotected head butts.
OC-Bennett was fine but honestly in the lower tier of OC matches the last 18 months. Hager saving OC was weird but I guess it was Oklahoma and with no JR they had to have some kind of home state pop to wake that crowd up. Other than their resemblance, there was no connection between those two and hope it’s a one-off.
We had one women’s squash and one women’s match that might have been the worst match not involving Jade Cargill, Brandy Rhodes, or Marina Shafir. Deonna comes out of that looking bad, they really need to give her a good opponent next week. They also need to decide if she’s a heel or a face. But I did like the overlapping on the ramp, that’s been a nice addition to AEW.
Main thing I remember about the main event is Hook taking some really bad bumps. Like several landings that weren’t the usual flat back type, and one where I think he got knocked a little dizzy. Joe was his usual killer here, they have a dilemma where it’s probably Swerve’s time but Joe also deserves a longer run because he rules as a champ.
I might be missing a match, if so it’s because it was forgettable.
Promos were pretty good work other than Flair’s semi-intelligible pseudo-shoot. Sting and Darby had me feeling really bad, excellent work by Sting who was obviously speaking some from the heart. Ang-Ruby was sweet. FTR trying to issue a challenge only for BCC to confront worked well. Bang Bang Scissor Gang had some moments (but really really needs to wrap up). Garcia’s promo was solid, and Christian is just a master heel right one, but Garcia closing with “I’ll put you in the dirt next to him” was fantastic.
And then there’s Wardlow. They finally gave him some personality and motivation. But also, dude, you have been openly been presented as a pawn for Adam Cole to use to get the belt, so in the end this means nothing. But I guess we will be getting to enjoy some BMMSM as a result.
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10 hours ago, Curt McGirt said:
Actually, I take that back. If they were dressed in their ring gear, they'd be going to the psychobilly gig. This time they were dressed like they were going out swing dancing. Maybe hitting up the Cherry Poppin' Daddies reunion show at the House of Blues.
Renee was rocking a bit of an modified Zoot look as well with her high-waisted pants, gold chain hanging along one side, and the rose on her blouse.
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12 minutes ago, SovietShooter said:
That was all on Madison Rayne. Purrazzo was doing a basic leg sweep/flat liner, and Rayne took it like a DDT. Rayne looked awful the entire match before that too, honestly. Not sure how she is one of the coaches...
Yeah that whole match was sloppy and in slow motion, Rayne was rustier than a Cybertruck after a rainstorm.
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2 minutes ago, Phil Schneider said:
Oh wow! Hope y’all can get the Trustbusters Janes Addiction knockoff theme!
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5 hours ago, Curt McGirt said:
The Dominator was the best move nobody ever uses (along with the shoulderbreaker [Edge did it though recently!] and Scott Steiner's backflip fallaway slam) so this ties back into wrestling, neato
If you follow the Dinosaur Dracula page on Facebook you will see so many goddamn forgotten foods of the '80s and '90s. I think the dude collects McDonald's styrofoam containers and Chef Boyardee cans, ffs.
The Discontinued Foods account on Twitter and Bluesky is a wrestling fan, especially 80s and 90s WWF.
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1 hour ago, Log said:
I do like that this Bucks heel turn (Were they faces before? I honestly can't recall.) has given the Sting/Darby match some actual heat. I would've been fine with them facing someone like FTR with the idea of having a "good match" for Sting to go out on, but I personally kind of like the bad guys trying to ruin his last match thing better.
Now, would I like it more if it was someone besides the Bucks? Possibly. But, I'm cool with it if it was Sting's choice.
Bucks have been faces but with mixed crowd response at best. They got a lot of boos in Philly, but, you know, Philly...
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2 hours ago, Curt McGirt said:
I just remembered this story from the ECW "unauthorized" book. Apparently Fonzie broke his arm in the ring, and either to keep the commission from getting mad at them or trying to get some money in a lawsuit (or both), I dunno, but he ran to a grocery store and pulled a bunch of cans over top of him and claimed he slipped.
I listen to a classic R&B and soul station in Philly and 60% of the ads are for ambulance chaser lawyers and all I can think of is Fonzie doing that and then saying “Call Top Dog Law”!
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36 minutes ago, Evil Otto said:
Tony for some reason pronounces Sonjay's last name like DOOT and my mind (and Excalibur's) immediately went to Narduwar's signature sign-off. He briefly mentions the name, and Tony and Daddy Magic unsurprisingly have no clue (nor would I expect them to).
Moments like that are why I cherish the fact that AEW exists.I guess Daddy Magic being from French Canadia is why he didn’t recognize the Canadian radio legend.
A few years ago, The Evaporators were playing at South by Southwest and I went to one of their daytime shows. I was dancing so hard that eventually Nardwuar called me out and made me get up front and dance with/by them.
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Also, Claudio’s “When you’re good, you tell everyone. When you’re great, everyone tells you” was a killer line.
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AEW TV - 2/28 - 3/5/2024 - Stingchronicity II
in ALL ELITE WRESTLING
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On the other hand, if you had “Sting will descend from the rafters one last time on TV” going in, well, yeah but it still ruled.