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Dynamite - 8/3/2022


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3 hours ago, DEAN said:

THURSDAY REFLECTIONS:  I just noticed that Sanjay Dutt is dressed exactly like Platinum Satnum, like Satnum's mini-me.  Satnum should DEFINITELY shave his head.  The reason Orange Cassidy is so 1970s in approach is because of his gimmick mostly, he really takes his time.  What's the saying, "If you think you are going too slow, slow down."  He really let's the crowd take in what's happening and THUS they can comprehend and get into the story he is telling.  His story is usually, "I am the cool fuck up you hung out with in high school and a jock is beating my ass."  Nobody is more Jock-like than Jay Lethal.  Actually, Jay Lethal assumes the role of asshole gym teacher who has had enough of Cassidy's shit and wants to settle it man to man.  "First you didn't go out for the football team and now you're smoking between classes!"  I love Lethal letting the moment where Cassidy can't stand up to hit the Orange Punch ferment and let the crowd get all of it's sympathy for Cassidy out of their system.  Actually, Jay Lethal is a drill instructor and Cassidy is the upstart raw recruit... I'll stop.  Wardlow is Adam Baldwin is My Bodyguard and Orange Cassidy is Christopher Makepeace.  Wardlow will show Cassidy the motorcycle he's working on.  Okay, NOW I'll stop.  Cassidy could never match Makepeace's awesome hair. 

Adam Cole is great being pissed off that the Young Bucks are INEVITABLY joining Hangman Page and going ahead and getting them together.  Oh those are butterflies on his pants.  I thought they were lots of holes.  I don't know what's worse.  Or maybe greater. 

Mox does his infamous Make The Hart Dungeon Look Like A Daycare promo. 

They follow that up with the GREAT Jungle Boy tries to vehicularly manslaughter Christian and Tony!  Christian is so fucking great in that.  "Christian, we're going to need you to act surprised!"  "Gotcha." 

Britt Baker needs a fur coat too.  They can come to the ring as a team channeling Bette Davis from the Letter.  I love that Baker and Thunder Rosa are the two that are WAAAY over but they have hitched their wagons to two of the best workers in the world.  Hayter is soooo lucky that Toni Storm hated the WWE.  Britt Baker is sooooooo lucky that Toni Storm hated the WWE.  Oh man, that Hayter punch to the face I've watched 400 times in GIF form and now twice while watching the match and it is STILL fucking awesome.  While YOU RUBES were watching in picture in picture, Baker and Hayter were sooooo fucking awesome beating a wad of heat on Thunder Rosa.  They are Leilani Kai and Judy Martin in All Japan Women in 1987.  Britt Baker holds up her end and actually is better than Hayter at getting the crowd behind Thunder by taunting the marks while beating her ass.  Rosa is really good at being a sympathetic babyface and takes a real beating in this match to get the crowd to get into her comeback.  Hayter got over EXACTLY when she double suplexes Storm and Rosa.  Baker is fucking great in this match, too.  I love her toprope Air Raid Crash.  She is also a HEAT MACHINE when she and Rosa face off and start slapping each other upside the head.  Baker takes Storm's Flying Hip Attack like a total CHAMP.  Hayter taunting Storm right after the pinfall is so fucking good.  They need to trade the belts between the four of these.  Jamie Hayter is fucking great but Toni Storm is the anchor of the division.  She allows everybody she wrestles to hit their peak potential- especially Hayter and Baker.  We REALLY need to see Storm versus Kris Statlander.   But yeah, this match pretty much proved that AEW needs a women's tag title- especially if you've got a GREAT fucking heel team like Baker and Hayter.  It would just be great match after great match.

  I wasn't watching WWE when Matt Hardy and Christian Cage wrestled 182 times so I dig this.  This match is very old school psychologically and very deep.  Matt Hardy is our babyface.  Christian beats on him and Hardy makes a comeback.  Hardy beats on Cage until he cuts off his own comeback by missing an elbow through a table.  Cage drags Hardy into the ring and hits the Killswitch and wins.  That was a good, solid match by two guys who are pretty old- one of whom is pretty physically limited, wrestling a low impact, story-heavy match.  It was a good match to follow a stiff, high-impact women's match. 

Ethan Page is fun because he is back to being a dad of teenage boys- the teenage boys being the wrestling audience.  Replace his bitching about other wrestlers with the audience not mowing the grass and not thanking your mother for dinner.  Then the audience DOESN'T CLEAN THEIR FUCKING ROOM AFTER I'VE TOLD YOU A THOUSAND TIMES THAT I WANT THIS FUCKING ROOM CLEAN BY THE TIME I GET HOME FROM WORK!  I was hoping Ethan Page would keep it up and maybe transition to Father of Teenage Daughters again like when he was yelling at Tay Conti. 

 The Dumpster match answered a few questions I had about the Ass Boys.  I knew they were totally fucking great at selling an assbeating.  Do they have enough offense to be able to beat some heat on a babyface team?  Sure.  Especially Colton, though he needs to work on his punches.  Austin Gunn is great at getting the crowd riled up by being COMPLETELY AWESOME.  Anthony Bowens is the Jamie Hayter of the Acclaimed.  Max Caster would be your Britt Baker.  Bowens is your Wrestling Machine.  Caster is good.  Caster does do the crazy ass elbow drop through a table.  That was more fun than good but it was a good breakout match for both teams. 

The main event makes me think about comparing AEW to 1990's All Japan.  Bryan Danielson is Misawa.  Mox is Kawada.  Hangman Page is Kobashi.  Adam Cole is Akira Taue.  Chris Jericho is Jumbo Tsuruta.  Kenny Omega is Stan Hanson.  Wheeler Yuta is Jun Akiyama.  Daniel Garcia is Doctor Death Steve Williams.  Fuego Del Sol is Kikuchi.  So I don't know if Wheeler Akiyama is ever going to get the big win over Jumbo Jericho but Wheeler has twenty more years to get big wins.  This match is pretty fucking great if you look at it through that filter.

Here you go, you big babies.

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15 hours ago, DreamBroken said:

Another good show. Excalibur switched up the intro from the usual "you know what that means".

 

5 hours ago, twiztor said:

not sure how i feel about Excalibur kicking off the show without Brodie Lee's "it's Wednesday, you know what that means". had to happen sooner or later, i suppose.

 

5 hours ago, HarryArchieGus said:

I may be alone, but I find it refreshing not to hear that phrase.

Vin Scully opened every Dodgers broadcast with “Hi everybody and a very pleasant good evening to you wherever you may be.” Vin died Tuesday, and Excalibur is an LA guy, so he opened the show with those words to pay homage to Vin. It was a one-off tribute, I'm sure. I would imagine the Brodie phrasing will be back on Rampage.

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6 hours ago, HarryArchieGus said:

 I’d also suggest, tho I undeniably enjoy her current ring gear, I wonder if something slightly more respectable might be a better idea for her and the company overall. Perhaps I’m wrong here.

Yeah. Wrong and kinda gross.

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8 hours ago, Matt D said:

They should pull the trigger on her. For one thing, you need an actual title change on one of these Battle of the Belts. Run it for a couple of months where Baker gets more and more jealous of her being champ. You can use ThunderStorm as an attraction and feud them with TayJay or something. Rosa doesn't need the belt right now. 

I was thinking having her upset Rosa at BotB3 would be a slightly shocking but very smart move. Lead to some tension with Britt, still have Storm and Rosa chasing the belt.

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1 hour ago, Pete said:

One of the first movies I ever saw in a theater. I'M NOT OLD @DEAN, YOU'RE OLD! Head for Denny's, I think the Early Bird ends at 4!

I had the youth novel adaptation of that movie that I got from Scholastic book fair.

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1 hour ago, southofheavy said:

Yeah. Wrong and kinda gross.

Wrong, okay. Go on. Guh'wha? What's that about? Is it the inability to not enjoy said ring gear that you find offensive'? Or the suggestion that maybe she'd be better off with a presentation that doesn't elicit shock from first time or mulitple time viewers? Especially a consideration when the shows are bumped to early afternoon on the west coast feed. Anyway, I'll try to keep it to hairstyles. Looks like that's okay in your playbook.

1 hour ago, grilledcheese said:

Vin Scully opened every Dodgers broadcast with “Hi everybody and a very pleasant good evening to you wherever you may be.” Vin died Tuesday, and Excalibur is an LA guy, so he opened the show with those words to pay homage to Vin. It was a one-off tribute, I'm sure. I would imagine the Brodie phrasing will be back on Rampage.

Neat. Had no idea. Oh well, I'm okay with them keeping on keeping on. More interested in the dissolution of the stale Dark Order.

RIP truly legendary Vin Scully.

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Guest Stefanie Without Stefanie

Personally I could do without the in-depth analysis of a woman's attire or appearance, because it's almost always out of balance with how people discuss the presentation of men, but y'all do you.

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Just now, Stefanie the Human said:

Personally I could do without the in-depth analysis of a woman's attire or appearance, because it's almost always out of balance with how people discuss the presentation of men, but y'all do you.

I have some thoughts on Dragon Lee's attire, but not looking to offend any further. 

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6 hours ago, Log said:

Asking Dean to not have a wall of text is like asking Picasso to paint people "normal looking".

A distressing percentage of AEW discussion (here and elsewhere, now and earlier) overall is and always has been people asking Picasso to paint people "normal looking." 

Like, say, wanting Hobbs to have a stereotypical big man finisher. Or complaining about the guy wearing sunglasses and wrestling with his hands in his pockets. Or more or less demanding that Cole and the Bucks get on the gas. Or Mad King go on a diet. Or that Hangman stomp mudholes in people and drink beer instead of sipping whiskey, hanging out with nerds, and doubting himself. Or that Hook needs to talk, Keith Lee should wear a singlet, Japanese wrestlers should get video introductions explaining who they are, and Kenny needs to stop making weird gestures.

It's not even necessarily that all of those ideas are wrong. It's that... Can't we please just let the creative people be creative instead of trying to cram them all into pre-existing moulds. Some of the "weird" ideas have ended up working out really well. I am glad we have slightly tweaked OC, Anxious Millennial ex-champ, and short-shorts-wearing Keith Lee to enjoy, week in and week out. 

I used to say that, "If you want to watch a wrestling program where everything is micro-managed to fit existing cliches that any pro wrestling grandpa would be comfortable with, it already exists and is not difficult to find." Possibly that is no longer the case! Hooray! Free the creative spirit! Let your freak flag fly!

 And, yeah, if reading a "wall of text" is too much work for you, maybe you don't deserve to enjoy DEAN's pearls of insight and comparison. ?

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30 minutes ago, John E. Dynamite said:

He has a concave butt. A Hank Hill butt. So much freakier in person.

Not to be a hypocrite, but... ‘gross and wrong.’ I do think you’ve helped towards striking the balance discussed as being out of whack.

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3 hours ago, HarryArchieGus said:

Wrong, okay. Go on. Guh'wha? What's that about? Is it the inability to not enjoy said ring gear that you find offensive'? Or the suggestion that maybe she'd be better off with a presentation that doesn't elicit shock from first time or mulitple time viewers? Especially a consideration when the shows are bumped to early afternoon on the west coast feed. Anyway, I'll try to keep it to hairstyles. Looks like that's okay in your playbook.

It's the word "respectable." As in the idea of her gear, or any woman's clothes, for that matter, denotes a level of respect with which she should be treated. 

Fuck a time zone or a time slot. It's entirely a you issue. 

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5 hours ago, grilledcheese said:

 

 

Vin Scully opened every Dodgers broadcast with “Hi everybody and a very pleasant good evening to you wherever you may be.” Vin died Tuesday, and Excalibur is an LA guy, so he opened the show with those words to pay homage to Vin. It was a one-off tribute, I'm sure. I would imagine the Brodie phrasing will be back on Rampage.

Now that makes perfect sense! And Vin Scully was a national treasure; one of the voices of my sports life.  Scully is part of the soundtrack of Southern California

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37 minutes ago, southofheavy said:

It's the word "respectable." As in the idea of her gear, or any woman's clothes, for that matter, denotes a level of respect with which she should be treated. 

Fuck a time zone or a time slot. It's entirely a you issue. 

Easy tiger! A bit of a ridiculous jump there suggesting a degree of respect/treatment was in question, but you're entitled to whatever conclusion you choose to believe. I see how you've calculated this, and sorry to have misled you. Thanks for sharing. I also appreciate your clear Jamie Hayter fandom. She's one my favorites in the company as well. And numero uno of the Women's Division. Peace? 

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58 minutes ago, Ramo2653 said:

Care to elaborate on this one? 

He's not the super worker the other three are but he is DESTINED to be champion.

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1 hour ago, HarryArchieGus said:

Easy tiger! A bit of a ridiculous jump there suggesting a degree of respect/treatment was in question, but you're entitled to whatever conclusion you choose to believe. I see how you've calculated this, and sorry to have misled you. 

How have I calculated this? 

You said it: "I’d also suggest, tho I undeniably enjoy her current ring gear, I wonder if something slightly more respectable might be a better idea for her and the company overall. Perhaps I’m wrong here."

She isn't wearing anything more revealing than Mandy Rose or even Toni Storm most nights, for that matter. Both of whom are pushed at the top or very near the top of their divisions. Jamie's gear isn't going to make a damn bit of difference whether or not she gets a push. Over the last six or so months, she's knocked it out of the park in every match and segment that she's in. That it hasn't translated into a push is thoroughly on Tony's insistence on keeping with his plan. The idea that Jamie wearing different gear being better for the company is laughable, especially when they just put on a barbed wire match on national cable TV and Mox is landing somewhere on the Muta Scale every week. 

Really, I'm just trying to get you to think about what you said. 

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8 minutes ago, southofheavy said:

How have I calculated this? 

You said it: "I’d also suggest, tho I undeniably enjoy her current ring gear, I wonder if something slightly more respectable might be a better idea for her and the company overall. Perhaps I’m wrong here."

She isn't wearing anything more revealing than Mandy Rose or even Toni Storm most nights, for that matter. Both of whom are pushed at the top or very near the top of their divisions. Jamie's gear isn't going to make a damn bit of difference whether or not she gets a push. Over the last six or so months, she's knocked it out of the park in every match and segment that she's in. That it hasn't translated into a push is thoroughly on Tony's insistence on keeping with his plan. The idea that Jamie wearing different gear being better for the company is laughable, especially when they just put on a barbed wire match on national cable TV and Mox is landing somewhere on the Muta Scale every week. 

Really, I'm just trying to get you to think about what you said. 

Yes, you've really given me something to think about! Sorry to have offended you.

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2 minutes ago, Brandon Bones said:

In the interest of staying on topic.

 

I’m fairly certain Hayter had new gear with a color scheme that matched closer to Bakers.  Perhaps a subtle nod to the teams development getting them a win.  
 

 

You’re right. They mentioned that on commentary. 

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