Brandon Bones

Chefs kiss to the main event, Toni/May, and MJF/Ospreay. Money well spent.

This post is why I’ll always be Daniel Bryan Danielsons #2 best fan. A placement I am perfectly fine with. Great post, sir.

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.

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.

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.

Is there any known reason why Danhausen is back doing indies and not in AEW?

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.

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.

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.

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.

Were they? Heh. I did LIKE the entrance as it really made me laugh. Now it’s even funnier because it also has “lore”.

You’d think that would be the wisest plan. Because dual competing events on the same night is inexcusable.

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.

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.

I haven’t clicked the link and I already KNOW!

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.

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…?

I’m betting the Aemond look will be this years most common Halloween costume. Bonus points if you manage to make his teeny wanger a part of the ensemble.

Well that was fucking awesome. MOTYC on weekly tv for free that pushed the much vaunted 60 minute broadway that all the old timers seem to respect so much. Count me in. The announcers for once didn’t go total goofball during breaks of Osprey/MJF. Liked the “Riggs needs to reset his shoulder” spot from Lethal Weapon. Which got a fun unexpected “eww” pop from the crowd.

I had completely forgotten what this was so I went and looked it up. As kinda lame as the Jake/Martel blindfold match at Mania was. I do like the suggestion of having coaches at ringside yelling instructions as an upgrade to an experiment that never quite worked. I’m sure GCW could do a fun one with EFFY or Cardona.

As a guy who spent 20 years on forklifts. There was so much wrong with how they worked their way into making that stunt happen. Like… the guy who was operating the lift prior to them coming around the corner probably has a meeting in the bosses office this morning. Ugh. I could smell the propane from the exhaust on the forklift through my tv.

Another missed opportunity was I really wanted Britt to finish Monés shot she left on the table. Fuuuuuuck! This show ruled. I reeeeally wish Omega was in the mix right now. It was a good idea here in the moment of cultural high awareness of diss tracks for The Acclaimed to do another video for a song. Though I’ve liked others they’ve done more. It’s on brand, quick, and keeps it all on screen to develop further without having to give away a match. I recall some criticism over the Toni/Mina match at FD having a happy reconciliation as being anti-climactic. But it makes sense more now in retrospect why that choice was made when you’ve got the real heartbreaker for this show. What a classic angle. Excellent use of a blade job. And they really went for it to get it over. Applause.

Without looking it up. I’m going with what podcast lore would refer to as a “Shoe Show”.

Loved the show. A lot. JR had me howling when he called the Destino a “reverse backflip DDT thing”. He was lots of fun in his cameo. Mońe has pretty much answered my questions over whether she can thrive outside of the system that produced her. La Primera was chefs kiss. Osprey/Swerve was a classic. Will probably be even better on rewatch. It’s a bummer that Bryan’s injury selling rubs people the wrong way. I get it though. It gives me the ick too. But for me that’s part of the ride. Also I’m feeling like it’s part of a continual story thread. Good match but I vaguely recall the Dragon Gate USA match being an epic. Okada