Jump to content
DVDVR Message Board

Shartnado

Members
  • Posts

    4,436
  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    5

Posts posted by Shartnado

  1. 1 hour ago, Gordi the recovering AEW f said:

    OK. So.

    In last week's thread, in a post where I was otherwise lavishly praising Christmas Dynamite, I said this:

    TK's recent obsession with making the absolute crowd-pleasing *****+ match the opener and ending the big show with a heel or heels standing tall is kind of baffling to me. As always, I vastly prefer how the "old" AEW would strive to send the fans home happy.

    And... Dang! That PPV was almost like an exaggerated parody version of that!

    That's the message I got from that one!

    Nevertheless, good stuff on tap, as usual!

    • Like 1
    • Thanks 1
  2. 11 hours ago, tbarrie said:

    Good line, but the Call of the Night Award goes to Jim Ross. During the main event, he said something like "Jay White is like a Slinky! He can hurt you at any time from any position".

    JR clearly had a different experience with Slinkies than I did as a child.

    Corporal punishment? I can see how that could work.

    • Haha 1
  3. Holy How I Met Your Mother, Batman! So the whole amazing CC tournament was just a vehicle for a Kenny Omega return?!? Glad that Kenny is back, obviously, but I can't help but to have a bad taste in my mouth after that! So primary target was to give Okada his 5th big tournament win to tie with Chono and secondary target was to Kenny show up before Wrestle Dynasty. This definitely was more about journey than the destination. Fantastic match between Okada and Ospreay and if the record was 8-2 in Okada's favor prior to this one, the ending is logical, but wow. There were people who favored Okada during the match, so I guess they weren't bummed out by this, though?

    Slept through most of the main event, but woke up to see FTR and Copeland return. Which means Moxley retained. I'll re-watch this next year.

    Matches were mostly stellar to really good but the feel good moments were mostly  just the returns and Ricochet getting perfectly TP'd (and some people may find that not so feel good moment.)

    So mixed feelings for this one!

  4. 33 minutes ago, AxB said:

    Not a fan of the Misawa vs Kawada feud, then?

    Those matches were mostly years (year?) apart each, though, not a month or so. Doing a rematch this quickly, with not that much build-up, and having the same result seems kinda pointless. Sure, keeps Mone strong for Wrestle Dynasty but you probably could have pivoted someone else to this spot, instead of jobbing Statlander again, this quickly. The match wouldn't have been as good with almost anyone else, that I will gladly concede.

  5. Watched until the beginning of Continental Classic Finals.

    The opener was fantastic! I DID NOT expect a gory bloodbath this early. Amazing stuff!

    Okada-Ricochet was a good match with the emphasis on the fact that Okada had way easier time dispatching Ricochet than Ospreay did Fletcher. Ricochet getting perfectly TP'd after the match was a lucky accident.

    And that's the end of feelgood moments until I stopped for the time being.

    Mariah retains over Rosa in an intense brawl. This was expected, obviously, but took the wind out of the sails a little bit.

    MJF beat Cole for the millionth Dynamite Diamond Ring but got his ass kicked in the end by Undisputed O'Reilly none of whom turned on Cole. Shouldn't MJF be given the option to retire and purchase the actual ownership of that damn ring by now?

    Takeshita vs Hobbs ended up being a wonderful match and I guess there were people who wanted Takeshita to retain? But still, no actual babyface win or title change here, either!

    Not Sasha vs Statlander was probably even better than their first match but c'mon! WTF was the point of having this match again, if the end result was the same? Still, the package piledriver and the Stone Cold Driver'97 on the apron were both batshit!

    Wonderful stuff aside this is was like watching a great movie with a bummer ending over and over.

    I doubt the main event will bring any change to that, so it will be all up to Ospreay taking the Continental title?

    • Like 1
  6. 6 hours ago, dorfus malorfus said:

    Don't watch the actual match but the handshake at the end of Okada/Shelton is fun and might provide an important tease/context if Okada goes full babyface by the end of tonight.

    No, Okada is still a F'n dickwad, but he respects Shelton so much that he has to go all out!

    • Like 1
  7. 2 minutes ago, dorfus malorfus said:

    Yeah actually between that and the series with Hennig, Borne Doink was maybe a Top 5 WWF worker of 1993.

    Plus the 2/3 falls match with Marty, the Backlund match was okay, too. Plus getting something vaguely resembling a match out of '93 Kamala, yeah, Borne was up there, at the time.

    • Thanks 1
  8. I watched 3 shows in a row from last week's Rampage to this Dynamite. The booking of Continental Classic was very interesting and went a little bit differently than I expected.

    So, Briscoe had the best possible showing that ended up not amounting to anything! I bet he hates math right now!

    Garcia had a great showing too. Ricochet taking his league instead of Claudio was probably for the better, as I figured Ospreay had to be the runner up. Semifinals look fantastic, but the obvious final of the two runners up is some last episode of How I Met Your Mother bullshit, because winning the league amounts to jack shit this way.

    Darby getting his revenge on Claudio by proxy was good shit. Yet, Kommander gets a win but Beast goes 0 for 5, not super cool.

    Still, all 3 shows were very strong but now my head hurts!

    • Like 2
  9. Traveling back home today, so basically no activity whatsoever, besides sitting in a car. But my weight is at 203 lbs and two pizzas are in the oven as I write this, so I am pretty confident that tomorrow evening I no longer qualify as a cruiserweight for a little bit!

    Yup, it's tomorrow and I'm up to 207, but that's straight after dinner of turkey and potatoes!

  10. Cutting back on the calories that you drink is a simple and effective way to clean up your diet, which should result in pounds lost. Every little bit of more activity also helps in the long run. Consistency is the key, like it is in so many things. Starting with the easiest stuff and working your way up once you get used to it, just like in anything else. Keep up the good work!

    • Like 2
  11. A two hour hike to the southernmost peak of Finland, just like last few Christmases, a 30-minute pump workout at the gym before some mild swimming and resistance water training by using floater as training equipment. Then sauna, steam room, cold water pool and some massage with water cannons in the therapy pool.

    Considering the amount of drinks was very modest for it being Christmas eve last night, there has been way more activity than debauchery on this Holiday Get Away.

  12. 32 minutes ago, The Natural said:

    Weather has turned past few days. Bitterly cold. I thought December had been mild for Winter but not lately. 

    Weird. Some warmer weather over here in Finland, especially in the southern part. There was plenty of snow back home, but the snowfall turned into rain a couple of days ago. It hasn't been very cold so far this winter, save for a few days. Really odd how different it is over there!

    • Like 1
  13. One hour, 8+ kilometer run/jog this morning. Luckily, no ice or snow in the southern tip of Finland. Still, it felt pretty rough, especially the one sprint up a hill with a watertower.

    We will go to a spa later on today. I heard there's a gym. I'm not sure if I will try it on, or not?

    Yeah, I did try it. 27-minute upper body pump workout followed by very modest swimming, sauna and 1 minute in the cold water pool.

    Now back to consuming mad calories!

  14. 9 hours ago, NikoBaltimore said:

    Along with the magic in the ring Macho and JR were king-sized themselves on commentary.  The enthusiasm felt genuine and it made Kid a made man, at least for one night.  It's weird that this match doesn't get talked about as much as other Bret matches but it really should be.

    Also, the fact that a WWF title defences didn't just happen on TV like that, at the time. Between two faces, no less. This was something very novel and different for that timeframe, for WWF, at least.

    • Like 1
×
×
  • Create New...