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Dynamite keeps dishing out PPV-level bouts while Rampage goes kinda indie and weird and unpredictable and I am LOVING IT!!

Mox, Claudio, and Wheeler vs Butcher,Blade, & Kip! Sure! Why not! Mox and Butcher gonna LAY IT IN on one another for sure.

Marina vs Ruby! Should be violent!

Orangey Boy defends the All Atlantic Championship Title Belt against Tiga Style! Yes! This is the kind of match that I personally watch AEW for. This, Emi vs Hayter, Eddie Kingston vs QT Marshall... Just two folks who are very very good at pro wrestling going out there and having some fun beating each other up. Nothing better, in my way of looking at things.

Reportedly also: Jungle Boy vs Hollywood Hunk! Random enough matchup for me. Can Perry pull a fun match outa Nemeth? Probably!

JAS come out to confront The Impractical Jokers w/r/t the rightful ownership of Floyd The Bat in a segment I simply cannot imagine anyone I know giving half a runny shit about but who knows maybe it will be entertaining.

We'll hear from Mark Briscoe! That is a positive development! Will he announce a new tag team partner? Will it be the start of the tastefully executed non-"I did it for Eddie" style Mark Briscoe face run I wished for on Dean's thread? Will Terry Funk be name-dropped? I'm actually stoked for a "We'll hear from" segment!

About 24.5 hours to go! I like having stuff to look forward to every week. 

 

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Mark not showing up with a Cool Whip container will suck and we'll probably all end up crying but it'll be good to see him say something. 

I'm totally down for the women's, six-man, and the Orange Oddity Match (because all of his mismatches -- because nobody can really match him after all -- rule). This should be a great episode. 

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It's the Blackpool Combat Club!  It's Kip Sabian!  I can contemplate who is getting pinned.  Sabian and Yuta are a hoot in the ring together!  The Butcher looks 1920's INSANE now, which I love.  B+B+KS are interesting beating the fudge out of Wheeler!  MOX is fucking great as the hot tag, as Sabian was at Yuta's level and MOX is way above Sabian's level and Sabian takes an ass beating.  Blade is closer to MOX's level so he and Butcher beat on him until Sabian tags in lets MOX tag in Claudio!  The finish MORPHS into a Young Bucks 6 man- CRAMMING of just all kinds of stuff into a match.  That was fun!  Sabian escaped unpinned!  Starks vs Garcia should be great if last week was any indication.  Ruby Soho takes on Marina Shafir.  I can't see this working.  ATHENA is the only gal who beat a good match out of Shafir, but let's watch, shall we? This is good.  Ruby is laying it in.  Shafir is using her KARATE~! to try to get the advantage.  Soho starts taking a beating in picture in picture, as she is better working underneath.  GREAT DANGEROUS BACKDROP by Soho!  This was good.  Not ATHENA good, but that was good. POSTMATCH is AWESOME!  ALL THE GALS ARE BEATING EACH OTHER UP!  Mark Briscoe vs Josh Woods will RULE. Jack Perry puts in an appearance against Ryan Nemeth.  I'm confused by the whole Eddie Kingston/House of Black/Ortiz stuff but I'm assuming it leading to Brodie King and Eddie so I'm riding this out.  It's Lee Moriarty! It's Orange Cassidy!  They fuck around early.  They continue fucking around as OC does the hand in the pockets thingy.  Lee assumes the role of the Minnesota Wrecking Crew and starts mangling the arm of OC.  Cassidy makes Moriarty look like a killer.  Michinoku Driver by OC!  FOR TWO!  Moriarty looks great in this.  The finish was good, countering out of a submission into a roll-up!  PEE!  GORDLOW!  PEE!  That was kind of an unnecessary gob of wrestling, but it was all good.  AEW RULES THE MOTHERIFKKING WORLD!!

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Hey do you think Wheeler's emerald green and white/silver gear is meant as a tip of the hat to someone or something from pro wrestling's  past? Like how Eddie Kingston's black and yellow gear is a nod to Toshiaki Kawada? I think It might be. Not sure who, though. Ooooo. Darby & Ortiz vs Mad King & ? YEAH! LET'S GO! I think the Impractical Jokers were actually talking about Jericho's penis. You might have missed that because it was so subt!e and clever. Swerve vs Dustin should be great. I think if I HAD TO choose one, I'd rather watch Dana White Presents Slapfighting over Impractical Jokers. Fortunately, I do not have to watch either. I CHOOSE PRO WRESTLING! I enjoyed Ruby's confused/conflicted facial expressions. Josh Woods vs Mark Briscoe should be great. "Swoleverine" is pretty funny, in my opinion. But so is "Gordlow" in my opinion. So, my opinion about what's funny might not count for much. Speaking of: "I ate his ass..." - Hangman Page. Nice pop for The AEW All Atlantic Champion. VERY fun main event with a couple of ROUGH-looking bumps. As always, hats off to Satnam's tailor.

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That Dustin/Moguls promo was something else. Maybe I missed the set-up but was there any reason why Dustin, wearing half face-paint, was hanging around a commercial property development construction site? I thought “I like Doritos!” would be the quote of the night but…

Then Moguls affiliates comes out are there. I love the wrestling ridiculousness behind it. Did they just follow Dustin around all day and then saw he was doing an interview in the future basement of a mixed use property and decide it was time to strike? Or were they already at the site because Swerve, as a mogul, has invested in future workspace opportunities, and saw Dustin and an AEW announcer wandering in and decided to lay The Natural out?

Treach or whatever his name is also has a very steady hand holding a camera.

Either way, Swerve wishing Dustin a “Happy Black History Month” was a great line. This was a great “let’s analyze wrestling logic” segment and man we are getting a Swerve versus Dustin Rhodes match, which is something I did not know I needed but man we need this more than anything in our troubled time.

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5 minutes ago, Greggulator said:

That Dustin/Moguls promo was something else. Maybe I missed the set-up but was there any reason why Dustin, wearing half face-paint, was hanging around a commercial property development construction site? I thought “I like Doritos!” would be the quote of the night but…

Then Moguls affiliates comes out are there. I love the wrestling ridiculousness behind it. Did they just follow Dustin around all day and then saw he was doing an interview in the future basement of a mixed use property and decide it was time to strike? Or were they already at the site because Swerve, as a mogul, has invested in future workspace opportunities, and saw Dustin and an AEW announcer wandering in and decided to lay The Natural out?

Treach or whatever his name is also has a very steady hand holding a camera.

Either way, Swerve wishing Dustin a “Happy Black History Month” was a great line. This was a great “let’s analyze wrestling logic” segment and man we are getting a Swerve versus Dustin Rhodes match, which is something I did not know I needed but man we need this more than anything in our troubled time.

Swerve/Dustin is going to be amazing.

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Dear god is this OC/Lee Mortuary match fantastic. I still have not watched Dynamite but I know there were about six dozen MOTYs on it or whatever.  But I thought Usos/Ricochet and Braun was going to be the best match of the night. 
 

Nope. Such a great match where OC got in his shtick but Lee just kept on wrestling. It was pretty easy to see in this that Lee was not one of the AEW kids who never chatted up Regal by all the wrist work he was doing. And it was an awesome strategy to take out his Orange Punching arm. OC sold and sold and sold. But he is also an elite babyface in showing grit and determination (and in a way no one else does) and manages to Bugs Bunny and out clever the supposedly better mat technician. 

OC is wrestling’s Fountains of Wayne. He is a master of great, easy-to-watch wrestling storytelling but clever enough to put his own spin on it and everything is just its own unique gem of perfection. 

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10 hours ago, Gordlow said:

Hey do you think Wheeler's emerald green and white/silver gear is meant as a tip of the hat to someone or something from pro wrestling's  past? Like how Eddie Kingston's black and yellow gear is a nod to Toshiaki Kawada? I think It might be. 

It might just be that he's a big Philadelphia Eagles fan. It seems they've done quite well this season.

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Butcher's like a carny strongman at the circus now. It's awesome. You can't beat Kip enough for me to like him, but it sure looks good seeing him get it. In the same fashion will be Preston Vance running into the woodchipper that is BCC. 

Ruby finally got it -- STIFF is the WAY. She always takes a good licking but adding legit offense has raised her game to the top. I still like Shafir a lot and am willing to wait and watch her evolve unlike some. 

The Black History Month quote coming from somebody who looks like a Stormfront member was kinda weird. 

Who is gonna crack the code of Orange? I mean he even beat Shibata. It's gonna be Ibushi, isn't it?

 

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Probably the best Marina Shafir match I've seen. She still looks like she is thinking about every move she has to make, but at least she's game to let Ruby lay it in.

Glad we got two Kip Sabian segments, he's replacing Shawn Spears (RIP, the GOAT) as my favourite heel doofus.

Since everyone is deciding who they think the Butcher looks like now, this is the first thing I thought of on discord last night. My dad's favourite wrestler, Hardboiled Haggerty

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I posted this in the merch thread, but wanted to get some more eyes on the question

 

Did AEW ever release the Ruby/Willow shirt they wore in their match against Anna/Tay?  I am a huge fan of both and wanted to get one for myself and one for my daughter.....even though she likes both Ruby and Willow but thought "They bled too much Dad, i was scared for them"  

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The OC-Taiga match saved that show. Such a great match and nice to see OC have to use some mat skills to sneak a win. Aftermath at least ended the show with faces on top, guess Acclaimed are sliding back down the card.

The opening trios didn’t do much for me, feels a bit like Claudio and Yuta are spinning their wheels until the ROH tapings and Mox not having anything real to do after carrying the company on his back through 2022. But I’m a huge BCC fan, so I’m biased

Congrats to Ruby for having the second or third best Shafir match and making it through without injury. I guess they had Shafir to get Vickie some TV time in El Paso. Speaking of, obviously Rush had a huge match but would have been nice to see Bandido or another luchador in El Paso (and Laredo next week).

Backstage stuff was mostly fine to good. The Impractical Jokers segment, on the other hand, reminded me of the worst of late-era WCW. Grateful for the fast-forward button.

Jungle Jack does little for me, that match seemed more suited for Dark. When I see people mention him as the potential top babyface I wonder what I’m missing other than his name and his face. Granted, I’ve only been watching for 18 months but he seems like his best role is a tag-team specialist.

Again, main event was excellent and another example of OC being in the top 3-5 in the company right now. Meshed real well with Moriarty on the mat and in reversals. Got his spots in but within the story of the match. Sold the arm throughout, to the point of realizing he wasn’t going to win with the Orange Punch and needed to get a flash pin.

 

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3 hours ago, JLowe said:

 

Jungle Jack does little for me, that match seemed more suited for Dark. When I see people mention him as the potential top babyface I wonder what I’m missing other than his name and his face. Granted, I’ve only been watching for 18 months but he seems like his best role is a tag-team specialist.

 

 

Jungle Jack is not top BF material, HOWEVER he could be Ricky Steamboat who could be a challenger to the top heel due to his great inring charisma despite the lack of a strong promo

 

6 hours ago, Curt McGirt said:

 

The Black History Month quote coming from somebody who looks like a Stormfront member was kinda weird. 

 

Swerve with his goons felt little like he was channeling  YE, I wanted him to say "this is for your dad ripping off Thunderbolt Patterson"

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13 hours ago, StuntmanCrowley said:

I posted this in the merch thread, but wanted to get some more eyes on the question

 

Did AEW ever release the Ruby/Willow shirt they wore in their match against Anna/Tay?  I am a huge fan of both and wanted to get one for myself and one for my daughter.....even though she likes both Ruby and Willow but thought "They bled too much Dad, i was scared for them"  

It's not on AEW's website having looked for you. Only other suggestion is scroll through Ruby Soho and Willow Nightingale's Twitter and see if there's mention there on availability.

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