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You'd think that BIG MONEY MATT HARDY~ could afford to have others fight for him.
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Oh shit, we had Tyson tonight! ... sure wish I knew how his appearing and involvement will improve buyrates/sales. I'll admit I can't remember what even happened in that match, but even if something earthshattering happened I couldn't tell you what that particular angle was at play.
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This show did well to forward or renew feuds but holy fuck was it trash. Here's how poorly this kept my attention, as someone who considers Wednesday their wrestling night: I paused it while on the phone with someone with 45 minutes left in the show. So little of an impression had been made on me as a fan to where I realized I'd whiffed on the main angles in the last hour. Nothing made me want to see more even though I'd already been nominally into the program. Team Taz and Christian is a goddamn plot culdesac.
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There really needs to be at least one brand new (to TV) person in a match every week on Dynamite. Unlike the 90s we aren't looking at a bunch of people who have had to work within the parameters of a network program in AEW. This isn't a bad thing but something people overlook too often. You can't just go from, say, some PWG show to national television without adjustments. The sooner the greener members of the roster get TV experience, the better.
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APRIL 2021 WRESTLING IMAGERY
Sex Machine Gun replied to Dolfan in NYC's topic in The PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING
So one of two things is at play. One, they're creatively bankrupt and desperately trying to get every drop of juice from the Wrestlemania fruit. Two, they assume people who aren't fans are so goddamn stupid that "Wrestlemania" is a synonym for "pro wrestling" in their heads. You know, like how UFC is up in the hundreds with their card titles. Is WWE's concept of their fans where they imagine a group of people sitting around in October asking each other "You wanna watch Wrestlemania tonight?" -
APRIL 2021 WRESTLING IMAGERY
Sex Machine Gun replied to Dolfan in NYC's topic in The PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING
Tim White finally got the job done! -
WRESTLEMANIA 37 Post Match Thread
Sex Machine Gun replied to Dolfan in NYC's topic in WWE PROGRAMMING
It's possible for the venue but only if there was no elaborate entrance stage. 90-something was probably more like it. The stadium's website went off of the kayfabe figure which you can tell because they mention WM III having 93k previously. -
Raw is Back in the LED Cave, 04/12/21
Sex Machine Gun replied to Sex Machine Gun's topic in WWE PROGRAMMING
Maybe you play the sound of a railroad crossing closing no matter whether he hits it or not. HOW IS THIS BRAINSTORMING BETTER THAN RAW ITSELF -
Raw is Back in the LED Cave, 04/12/21
Sex Machine Gun replied to Sex Machine Gun's topic in WWE PROGRAMMING
I was bummed too but think there wasn't a choo-choo since he wasn't going to hit anyone and got biffed in the face with the ring steps instead. EDIT: They should have played the sound of a train crashing! Missed opportunity there, Dunn. -
Raw is Back in the LED Cave, 04/12/21
Sex Machine Gun replied to Sex Machine Gun's topic in WWE PROGRAMMING
I can't believe they used a Clone High USA gag, intentionally or unintentionally, when Riddle said his braces were picking up radio transmissions. -
Raw is Back in the LED Cave, 04/12/21
Sex Machine Gun replied to Sex Machine Gun's topic in WWE PROGRAMMING
What an underwhelming followup to Mania. They couldn't even give me SLAPJACK~ -
I'm starting to wonder which one of you is Tony Khan. I know it isn't me. ("That's exactly what he'd say!")
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WRESTLEMANIA 37 Post Match Thread
Sex Machine Gun replied to Dolfan in NYC's topic in WWE PROGRAMMING
Boy am I glad someone else is pushing back against the "sell tickets for Mania" narrative. Also, whoever thinks there was a legit 100k in Dallas in 2016 is out of their mind. -
Via Wrestlinginc: I'm more curious to see what the people who lost are doing next. Does Drew keep scrapping with Lashley? Is anyone expected to be called up soon? Does THE MAN return to challenge (and ultimately put over) Rhea Ripley? Will Riddle develop an edge? This came up in the Discord during Wrestlemania's second night: does WWE try to mimic the post-Mania Raw crowd through artificial noise? Highly doubtful I think, denying us the true WM weekend experience until 2022.
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WRESTLEMANIA 37 Post Match Thread
Sex Machine Gun replied to Dolfan in NYC's topic in WWE PROGRAMMING
I'll be very disappointed if Maffew doesn't dub some martial arts "whoosh, whoosh" movement sounds over that. It may have seemed like I was being too hard on Tamina in the Discord but last night was the first time I'd personally heard a crowd react to her in any substantial way. Quite the shock considering they'd just sat through Fiend shit. Speaking of Fiend shit, I'm actually... curious to see what happens next since it was heavily implied that he was under Bliss's control. Is this the payoff for calling her "the goddess" for years? -
WRESTLEMANIA 37 Post Match Thread
Sex Machine Gun replied to Dolfan in NYC's topic in WWE PROGRAMMING
I've decided to call middle age Edge's wide-eyed and angry face the Aggro Crag. -
WRESTLEMANIA 37 Post Match Thread
Sex Machine Gun replied to Dolfan in NYC's topic in WWE PROGRAMMING
Looking at the radar a half hour out I'm not optimistic about the night being free of weather-based interruptions. Damn. Just let them do Orton/Fiend before the rain so it can be over and done with. -
WRESTLEMANIA 37 Post Match Thread
Sex Machine Gun replied to Dolfan in NYC's topic in WWE PROGRAMMING
I was about to say how excited I was for KO/Sami, Asuka/Ripley and the triple threat, even more eager to see those than I was for anything on Night One... ... and then I remembered that Orton/Fiend is happening. -
WRESTLEMANIA 37 Post Match Thread
Sex Machine Gun replied to Dolfan in NYC's topic in WWE PROGRAMMING
As of about 1:30pm here on the East Coast the forecast for Tampa expects the rain to be over with an hour or two to spare. Thank goodness. I ended up missing the first match last night by doing other stuff during the delay I expected to be an hour but was more like forty five minutes. Night One gave me what I expected, which was a perfectly okay show. Weird booking at times like AJ being a Heel in Peril during his tag match but it was necessary to cover for Omos in that case. I think Bad Bunny got all that ring time because most of his preparation was when it was going to be a singles match against Miz. Speaking of Mr. Bunny, fuckin' get in there! Very impressed, dude's a real fan and clearly wanted to be as good as possible with only a couple of months of prep. -
WRESTLEMANIA XXXVII - 4/10-11/2021
Sex Machine Gun replied to Dolfan in NYC's topic in WWE PROGRAMMING
Just checked the weather for Tampa and... well, looks like we'll finally see how one of these modern stadium shows are done in the rain. -
WRESTLEMANIA XXXVII - 4/10-11/2021
Sex Machine Gun replied to Dolfan in NYC's topic in WWE PROGRAMMING
How the fuck do they do it? Ask me a few days ago and I'm not excited for the show but today I'm totally jacked. Every year, the same story. I don't care until I wake up the day of the event. Now I'm staring down the clock and wondering why this hasn't started yet, dammit. -
WRESTLEMANIA XXXVII - 4/10-11/2021
Sex Machine Gun replied to Dolfan in NYC's topic in WWE PROGRAMMING
People gonna be in the Discord or what? I don't have the link anymore but would love to be part of a show chat~ -
WRESTLEMANIA XXXVII - 4/10-11/2021
Sex Machine Gun replied to Dolfan in NYC's topic in WWE PROGRAMMING
It's Christmas morning for wrestling fans! Finally, people! Bomb-ass set! Pyro in the sky! The product might not be very good tonight but the presentation will be superb. No way Vince doesn't want this show to be a big "you must have forgotten who the fuck we are." -
Their time in AEW is really all I've ever seen of their work and this quirk has convinced me that Nick must be terrible as a talker, even worse than Matt apparently which is impressive. Whoever shouted for a full arena cheering Hangman when he gets the strap, you're my kinda guy, guy. I never watch BTE or anyone's vlogs or Dark/Elevation so my views are shaped purely by the TV product. They have made me a fan of lots of wrestlers I'm sure Indy fans knew about but I'd never seen so they're capable of good shit. Hangman, Darby, some of the women (Britt, Shida, Rosa), and (somehow, someway) Orange Cassidy are all people I look forward to seeing each week who I couldn't name in the fall of 2019. The pieces are there but keep getting jammed together in ways that don't fit, and always in fits and spurts. As redundant and goofy each week may be I'm still always anticipating Dynamite all day Wednesday. They must be doing something right because I haven't really been this excited for a weekly wrestling show since 2001-2. I point out dumb stuff but that's because wrestling is like, at least 75% dumb stuff in AEW's case but that remaining 25% is what keeps us all coming back. Shit, in WWE it's 95% dumb stuff. But then you take that 5% and cut it in half because you KNOW that's overestimating and you've got a 2.5% of good WWE shit at SACRIFICE... ...why the fuck isn't Scott Steiner in AEW somehow? I demand a weekly promo segment on Dynamite where he slaps the Recliner on whatever geek tries to interrupt him. Oh, and talking mad shit the entire time of course.
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Jeeeeeezus I forgot about this. I thought it was goofy as fuck, even more so than the time Jericho and MJF had their limos pull up to each other nose-to-nose. This happens every week: I generally feel favorable towards Dynamite but as I recall details it starts to fall apart. For example, why didn't they just start the Bunny/Conti match when they first scrapped? Sting had a promo faceoff with Roberts/Archer, then goes away just to walk back out five minutes later with Darby. It's jarring and again you wonder why they couldn't merge things, maybe give JD a real entrance before going to break.