Brandon Bones
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On 9/3/2024 at 1:22 PM, Technico Support said:
As someone not chronically online, what’s the toxic fanbase’s problem with Skeleton Crew?
As a diehard… I just can’t give a shit. If you’re selling doom and gloom. I’m not buying.
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I’ve always thought fewer PPVs would service the weekly shows positively. More destination match making during the week in theory should boost interest.
For awhile that seemed to be the AEW approach. But looking at Collision I often wonder about some matches even being on the show other than to dodge, delay, and avoid giving anything away for free.
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Here I go. Bringing up my simfed AGAIN. But topically it’s a coincidence this has come up (for me at least).
Because I’ve been pondering the newish Gauntlet Matches on 2k24. I could totally fix up a 30 person Rumble with pins and submissions and all that. But it sounds like it would take a week to finish on sim.
So it’s kind of the same issue for AEW. How long is too long? Could an over run past the normal end of the show drive them wild or make them beg for it to just end already? Would a consolidated match put too many cooks in the kitchen as it pertains to agenting the individuals.
Could be a butthurt ego fest potentially.
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A hit off my weed vape in honor of the two time WrestleMania Main Eventer. Loved the ECW run.
An unforgettable character.
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Risk averse for sure. But it’s an odd way to be these days since so many shows that are highly regarded and successful had either an iffy start in quality or mostly ignored as they built an audience. A course correction could have saved this show. My perception of it had much of the show laying track for a future. That world building has value. Plus, you’re already invested this far. Baffling.
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32 minutes ago, SturmCRF said:
The bit where Danielson hit the first running knee, and Swerve just leaned into it like an Ishii and did his sicko deathmatch grin was fucking perfection. Talk about a wrestler who knows his character, he played a relentless heel like he needed to without ever being inconsistent with his character up to that point. That's the whole Attitude Era-ey shades of grey thing done right, Swerve as this focused, ruthless, amoral bastard who will accept the cheers and the hatred as they come, so long as his current actions help him to win the match and be the best.
And for me that’s the gist of it for my complete turnaround on Swerve. Killshot and his run in MLW did nothing for me. But ever since the team with Keith Lee I’ve fully invested. He is great and was as great as Bryan was during the match, the entrance, the build.
In the category of picking nits though. It’s tougher to swallow the Christian win in hindsight of his losing the feud to Edge. Not that his injury was in the plans of course. But it has forced a course correction that would have had more muscle if they’d had the foresight to beat Edge instead. It’s not like I don’t think The Patriarchy has the legs to be the top heel group. Cage will carry that entire act on his back and make it incredible (and he still might). But at the moment? I guess mixing in the Luchasaurus tease IS making use of available resources to keep a certain continuity. But that element by itself is definitely mid-card strength expected to hold up main event weight.
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Chefs kiss to the main event, Toni/May, and MJF/Ospreay.
Money well spent.
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On 8/18/2024 at 9:14 AM, The Natural said:
I made one for Sting and wanted to do the same for Bryan Danielson.
I’ve been a fan of wrestling since a young boy and Bryan Danielson/Daniel Bryan imo is the greatest wrestler of all time. Bryan Danielson can do it all from match quality (his biggest attribute, what a wrestler), promos, face or heel, comedy, brawl, commentator and authority figure. Still, there are things I wish Bryan wouldn't do. The headbutt charge, the diving headbutt and especially THAT sell he sometimes does. Makes me worry knowing Danielson's history with concussions and neck injuries requiring surgeries.
I became a fan of Bryan Danielson in 2004 via Ring of Honor Wrestling. Bryan Danielson as Ring of Honor World Champion in September 2005-December 2006 declaring himself the “Best Wrestler in the World!”, getting the ring announcer to add an extra note when announcing him in the ring and “I have till five!” The greatest Ring of Honor World Champion ever. One of the best world title reigns in wrestling history.
Bryan Danielson became Daniel Bryan when he joined WWE making his TV debut in NXT, February 2010. There were setbacks for Bryan, he was fired for choking Justin Roberts with his tie and spitting on John Cena on WWE RAW, June 2010. Bryan was brought back at WWE SummerSlam 2010. After successfully cashing in the WWE Money in the Bank 2011 for The Big Show's WWE World Heavyweight Championship at WWE TLC 2011 (I for sure thought he'd be the first to fail), Bryan started shouting “Yes!” and raising his arms upwards. This caught on big time and outside of wrestling with people doing that. As a baddie, Bryan would shout “No!” back at the “Yes!” chants. I had fun with Bryan and Kane's Team Hell No odd couple as WWE World Tag Team Champions and the funny Anger Management skits/Hug it Out match. Only Daniel Bryan could pull off the Hug it Out match.
I woke up to watch Daniel Bryan defeat John Cena cleanly for the WWE Championship in a classic match at WWE SummerSlam 2013. What a way to debut a new finisher, the running knee putting down the biggest name. Bryan went on to become WWE World Heavyweight Champion in the main event of WWE WrestleMania XXX beating Randy Orton and Batista, the fans demanded his inclusion in the main event through protests. Bryan vacated the WWE World Heavyweight Championship due to injury in June 2014 and came back in January 2015. For my 30th birthday that year, my Little Sis’ bought tickets for me and Dad to go to WWE Live, 12th April 2015. My first time at any wrestling show. and Daniel Bryan was there making it even better! I’ll always remember that day. Two days later Bryan had a tag team match on WWE Smackdown Live, 14th April 2015. and was pulled off the European Tour, it would be his last match as he had to retire, February 2016. However Daniel Bryan was cleared to in-ring competition in March 2018! We are so lucky to get this second chapter which reinforced my opinion Bryan Danielson is the GOAT.
Daniel Bryan regained the WWE Championship the week of WWE Survivor Series 2018 hitting AJ Styles with a low blow followed up by the running knee. The New Daniel Bryan was more aggressive in the ring, stomping people in the face, killed the Yes! Movement and cutting great promos. The promos chastising people about the environment, consumerism and animal welfare. Daniel Bryan is the planet’s champion and introduced an eco-friendly WWE Championship belt. This was one of my favourite incarnations of Daniel Bryan, maybe #1. Shame it didn't last longer.I turned the air blue watching AEW All Out 2021 live as it was expected Bryan Danielson would debut there but Adam Cole came out. Thankfully Bryan debuted two minutes after. The amount of amazing matches he's had since September 2021-August 2024. I have to single out Bryan Danielson vs. Kenny Omega at AEW Grand Slam Dynamite 2021, vs. Hangman Adam Page at AEW Winter is Coming Dynamite 2021, vs. MJF at AEW Revolution 2023, vs. Ricky Starks at AEW All Out 2023, vs. Zack Sabre Jr at AEW WrestleDream 2023 which is my pick for the best AEW match ever and vs. Will Ospreay at AEW Dynasty 2024. We even got to see Bryan Danielson wrestle in NJPW and CMLL. My dream match for years was Bryan Danielson vs. Kazuchika Okada and we got it twice at AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door 2023 and NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 18.
At AEW All In 2024, Swerve Strickland defends his AEW World Championship vs. Bryan Danielson who puts his career on the line. I'm really hoping Danielson wins having never held the belt before. If he doesn't, the end of his full time career but I don't think he'll ever stop wrestling. I can't see him leaving AEW for his bond with Tony Khan either, his freedom to wrestle in other companies and gets to bleed.
Thank you for the memories, Bryan Danielson. The GOAT. Hope I get to meet you one day.
Thanks for reading. Sorry it's so long. Touch typist.
This post is why I’ll always be Daniel Bryan Danielsons #2 best fan. A placement I am perfectly fine with. Great post, sir.
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On 8/17/2024 at 3:47 PM, Cliff Hanger said:
I pretty much gave up on downloading other people's customs ages ago because the search is completely insane.
Additionally, any connection to CC dies after a short while. It’s like you’re only allowed so much time to browse before every reboot of the game feels like pumping quarters into an arcade machine.
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2 hours ago, Technico Support said:
I hate Green Day and Billy Joe's fake English punk accent. Worse than Sting's (the singer, not Real Estate Steve) fake Jamaican accent. The video package was great, though. Loved seeing Wrestling Road Diaries and PWG footage. PS speaking of Green Day songs they made purely for cash grab crossover appeal, Boulevard of Broken Dreams has the most cliche, trite lyrics this side of you dad's oldies station. REO Speedwagon has more depth.
Thank you. Just THANK YOU!!!
This came up today with my therapist.
I have issues.
Jay Lethal is a good wrestler and I enjoyed his recent match.
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12 hours ago, Technico Support said:
Because for every Orange Cassidy, there are 40 Warhorses, Dan the Dads, Danhausens, etc...meme wrestlers who don't bring much more to the table than a cute gimmick to be shared on social media. Not to say there's no place for it, but a workrate company might not be it.
Seeing all those names together really hammers your point. Especially, since they’d all be competing for roughly the same demographic on shows where the real estate of tv time is gobbled up by work rate guys.
But AEW isn’t that old. There can be an ebb and flow or shifting of tonal gears to provide variety and material storytelling elements to really sell the show. And I still think even 5 years in the shows are still defining themselves in a way the MNR doesn’t have to.
So I get why the thought of work rate kind of eclipses the sports entertainment aspects both in intention and execution.
But IIRC danhausen and Cassidy are/were big merch sellers and really easy to “go as for Halloween” because kids liked them a lot. Market value attributes that should generate revenue. Or so I’d assume anyway. Business chat is a bit above my pay grade but it made sense to me to keep a guy around that onscreen they were hyping as this big merch seller.
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Is there any known reason why Danhausen is back doing indies and not in AEW?
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I died a little inside watching Punk play it like a fucking friendship bracelet had the power of those Egyptian snake guys in CHIKARA to straight up… hypnotize him. It’s like your exploding death match didn’t explode. Limp. Dick. Salad.
Shame. ding! Shame. ding! Shame.
Take anything I say with a grain of salt. I don’t watch the weekly shows. I’ve got no clue (mostly) of what the storylines are. So with that in mind…
The show started off pretty good. Liv/Ripley and Logan/Knight were both very good to exceeding my expectations. Ripley could be the face of the company. How this company navigates Logan Paul from this point forward should be interesting. Awesome moonsault or not. I’ve got no patience.
Enjoyed Priest, Gunther, and the JD implosion. Good execution that makes the earlier angle more impactful by proxy. It got me into it in a way that the main event failed to.
Am I incorrect that my perception of Solo is that he isn’t quite seasoned or elevated enough to warrant a PPV main event in a stadium? I felt the same way about Priest but he largely overcame that by standing up to a beast like Gunther. It certainly didn’t feel like Sikoa had a chance to win at any point. Thats too bad because babyface Cody is doing great but it’s shit like this that’ll start a fan backlash.
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4 hours ago, Cliff Hanger said:
FYI the pack has been available at least since I got off work at 4p yesterday. Also, code SECURETHEBAG is good for 7500VC (not sure if it works on other systems or just PS4-5) as a make-good
As of last night nothing had changed. But I’ll check it out later and report back. Not that the MyFaction stuff does much for me. My game is mostly to support my simfed. So my criteria for what’s good may differ.
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Just to continue the never ending clusterfuck that are WWE games. PS5 won’t allow you to download the Pat Whatshisnuts DLC. They even managed to fuck up a release that nobody was even that excited about. Just to make it that much more fucky. Mmm mmm. Shit tastes good! Oh! Sugar in my gas tank? Fine! Go for it. Might as fucking well.
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Shane in AEW is too crazy not to do. But it sure is a delicate situation that you’ll get one chance to do it right. Not impossible.
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5 minutes ago, AxB said:
They were doing that entrance on Dark Elevation 2 years ago. It looked bad in that building because the ramp is so narrow there was barely enough room to move. But Yuta even discussed it on Hey EW a while back. It's a Darts thing.
The BCC love Darts, it's their favourite sport. Regal's influence (except Moxley, who likes the sport because he's seen Deathmatch wrestlers doing the human dartboard spot).
Were they? Heh.
I did LIKE the entrance as it really made me laugh. Now it’s even funnier because it also has “lore”.
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2 hours ago, Gorman said:
Maybe ROH being included as an official part of AEW will make it more likely to be included in the upcoming TV deal.
You’d think that would be the wisest plan. Because dual competing events on the same night is inexcusable.
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I swear Claudio and Yuta came up with THAT entrance 4 seconds before they went out there. They just held their arms out and shimmy back and forth in opposite directions. Then they had the nerve to high five about it.
It might have been the weed. But I have to highlight a tremendous lack of effort.
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I wonder how differently Douglas would be remembered if the largest part of his run as ECW Champion wasn’t spent injured in the announce booth. If he was feuding and pulling heel bullshit with his established faction during that same length of time and still find his way to Tazz. Yeah. Probably a lot better.
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32 minutes ago, mystman said:
I literally forgot that was the title of the song Douglas used and thought you were talking about this
I haven’t clicked the link and I already KNOW!
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Didn’t care for Hologram. Maybe it was nerves or something. But definitely needed some smoother movement to fully get the most out of what were otherwise decent moves. Plus I miss Fuego.
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1 hour ago, The Natural said:
MVP as well. Breaking up the Hurt Business was so fucking dumb.
It sounds like they’ve got every reason to go. I’ve seen oodles of news posts over the last year or two of speculation about bringing it back. So if Shelton or MVP keep “putting it out there” to no response from the company…?
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TUESDAY IS SONG STUCK IN YOUR HEAD DAY!
in MUSIC
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Arrest me. Make it sexy.