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Prof. Crocodile posted:Well gently caress I'll lay it out like this.... AEW doesn't take itself nearly as seriously as WWE does, so a lot of the talking spots are much more bearable. The commentary is loving amazing with JR and Tony and Excalibur and Taz and Jericho all enjoying the poo poo out of themselves on the mic. The big difference is AEW uses the wrestling to tell the story, instead of telling a story around wrestling. If you see a feud happen, there's gonna be a big headline match eventually! Someone is doing sketchy poo poo like cheating and whatnot? Gonna get their payback eventually! My biggest gripe with AEW is that because they use the wrestling to tell the story, there's a bunch of screwy endings to otherwise A+ matches. Sometimes those screwy finishes pay off, sometimes they don't. Another thing is I wish they'd stop signing literally every single wrestler known to mankind because now some of my old school AEW favorites, like Sonny Kiss, are getting less national TV time while still playing a role in their YouTube stuff. If you want to dip your toes into AEW, their YouTube channel has a ton of free programming in the form of their lesser known wrestlers as well as some of the big names doing house show matches. The programs are AEW Elevation, released on Mondays and featuring up and coming wrestler, and AEW Dark, featuring their mid card as well numerous big names and released on Tuesdays. However, The Real Good poo poo is AEW Dynamite on TBS. AEW Rampage on TNT is very good, but Dynamite always seems to have a better flow edit you can also see Taz's son and WRESTLING PHENOM Hook!!
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# ? Feb 3, 2022 17:21 |
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Prof. Crocodile posted:Well gently caress Not really. RAW on a Monday is 3 hours long and is mostly talking, AEW Dynamite on a Wednesday is 2 hours and mostly wrestling. There's been episodes of RAW where it's been an hour before there's any Wrestling on. Granted it can fluctuate from time to time but usually in a 2 hour show you get 6 matches. They only did 4 this week but one of those was about 40 minutes.
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# ? Feb 3, 2022 17:49 |
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Saying Sonny Kiss is getting less TV time is wrong because it implies she was getting any to begin with
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# ? Feb 3, 2022 18:08 |
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Rarity posted:Saying Sonny Kiss is getting less TV time is wrong because it implies she was getting any to begin with Sonny/Joey were on Dynamite semi-regularly at the beginning and I remember Sonny getting one really good match of Dynamite that total won me over. I'm really loving sad that Sonny isn't like, a part of the Best Friends stable or something. Perfect fit!
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Rarity posted:Saying Sonny Kiss is getting less TV time is wrong because it implies she was getting any to begin with On the one hand, I'm glad Dark got a feud as good as Sonny/Joey. On the other, it absolutely deserved proper TV time
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# ? Feb 4, 2022 11:13 |
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Peggy Edson posted:They talk just as much as WWE. Not even close Might still be too much for some tastes, but it's not just as much
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Gavok posted:AEW just signed a guy whose gimmick is "Pee Wee Herman as the Devil," so they know what they're doing. Oh, it's even better than that. Danhausen is more like Conan O'Brien as the devil and the dude is loving hilarious. He's also drat good in the ring. His gimmick is really hitting a sweet spot for me along with Britt Baker. AEW is killing it and I say this as a wrestling fan who gave up on WWE years ago.
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Burning Beard posted:Oh, it's even better than that. Danhausen is more like Conan O'Brien as the devil and the dude is loving hilarious. He's also drat good in the ring. His gimmick is really hitting a sweet spot for me along with Britt Baker. AEW is killing it and I say this as a wrestling fan who gave up on WWE years ago. I absolutely love the Best Friends stable, Orange Cassidy and Kris Statlander are absolutely awesome. I love gimmicks where they don't yap all day. On the flip side, I absolutely loving love Eddie Kingston and originally fell in love with him through NWA Powerrr. The other group I just cannot wait to see a 3v3 tag match with is Death Triangle aka PAC, Penta El Zero M and Rey Fenix. Those three are some of the best wrestlers I have ever watched and took part in some of my favorite AEW matches of all time
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# ? Feb 4, 2022 16:21 |
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AEW also doesn't drag out feuds for a year (Hangman being the exception.) MJF and CM Punk just had a PPV quality match Wednesday night as part of their big story and it's moving forward next week instead of having the exact same match four weeks from now with talking segments every week in between. If you watch an AEW show two weeks in a row you'll actually see storylines move.
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# ? Feb 4, 2022 16:30 |
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Occasionally you get a very talk heavy episode of Dynamite. Like I think three weeks ago you had Mox come back from rehab, Cody doing a promo in front of a ladder, and one other long promo segment (I think another Punk/MJF thing) but then that Friday on Rampage it was an hour straight of wrestling. All the promos on that Dynamite were great but if it was your first time watching AEW you might think "they talk as much as WWE." Most weeks that would not be true, though. This week we got PPV quality MJF vs Punk, last week we got an absolutely insane Cody vs Sammy ladder match AND the OC vs Cole lights out match. And the PPVs are better too.
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# ? Feb 4, 2022 17:24 |
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Ok I’m hearing some good things about AEW, but what about the broad racial caricatures, incestuous relationships, glistening bodybuilders, and elder abuse that I
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# ? Feb 4, 2022 17:54 |
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Prof. Crocodile posted:glistening bodybuilders My friend let me tell you about
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Prof. Crocodile posted:Ok I’m hearing some good things about AEW, but what about the broad racial caricatures, incestuous relationships, glistening bodybuilders, and elder abuse that I Would Sting doing driving crossbodies or Ricky Morton taking a Canadian Destroyer be considered elder abuse?
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Prof. Crocodile posted:Ok I’m hearing some good things about AEW, but what about the broad racial caricatures, incestuous relationships, glistening bodybuilders, and elder abuse that I if it helps, it looks like Brandi Rhodes and Paige Van Zant are going to have one of those super-highbrow women's feuds where they argue over who is the biggest bitchwhoreslut (and not much else of substance) for eighteen consecutive weeks and then Bryan Alvarez shouts for a looooong time otoh Paige Van Zant is the only wrestler who actively posts her own nudes on the subreddit for sexy wrestlers, so she's really reaching for that brass ring
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# ? Feb 4, 2022 18:26 |
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or so I heard from someone who likes that sort of thing
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Prof. Crocodile posted:Ok I’m hearing some good things about AEW, but what about the broad racial caricatures, incestuous relationships, glistening bodybuilders, and elder abuse that I It's absolutely no where near the levels of the Attitude era, but there's still a lot of skin, glistening bodybuilders (and giant hairy madmen too mind you) and elder abuse (I cannot wait for Dan Lampert to get hosed up more, I love him so much for hating him so much). Luckily they don't really seem to be doing the relationship bullshit that WWE always did, the only one I enjoyed was Lana/Miro/Lashley just because it gave birth to my favorite worst WWE promo ever, the Lana/Lashley Wedding
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# ? Feb 4, 2022 19:12 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkdBOgXISWQ This just absolute loving complete dumpster fire of a spot, what the gently caress even is this lmao Hahahaha I forgot about the crowd chanting Jerry Jerry Jerry
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# ? Feb 4, 2022 19:14 |
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Zombie like the Under Taker bump! I enjoy it for poo poo like this, haven't watched in over 6 months but WM season is coming up and the Brock v Roman stuff is looking cool. Been in a YouTube loop and even some of the Hogan TNA stuff is cool to watch. Now I am only through the first like 10 mins, but this just explains so much about WCW's dying days! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiELVV9uNdg PSYCHOTIC MADMAN Scott Steiner! who can stop him? [Nitro - 18th July 2000]
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# ? Mar 27, 2022 17:34 |
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I was debating making a new GBS wrestling because I want to blab about AEW somewhere so thanks for the bump Who's still watchin AEW
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# ? Mar 28, 2022 13:57 |
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I'm a full time member of Jade Cargill's baddie section
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# ? Mar 28, 2022 14:09 |
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Who isn't
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# ? Mar 28, 2022 14:11 |
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Give Sonny Kiss at least one match per week on prime time imo
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# ? Mar 28, 2022 14:47 |
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Absolutely agree, Sonny is awesome and his Dark matches with Joey Janela were absolute bangers that belonged on Dynamite and wouldn't have been out of place as PPV openers.
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# ? Mar 28, 2022 15:34 |
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Sonny should be besties with Jade once she turns face
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# ? Mar 28, 2022 15:38 |
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Its The Wrestling Day my Friends, Are You Ready For The Main Event
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# ? Mar 30, 2022 20:44 |
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bagmonkey posted:Its The Wrestling Day my Friends, Are You Ready For The Main Event Yes can't wait to see Ricochet vs. Ali part 48
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# ? Mar 30, 2022 20:56 |
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Jay Lethal has had some AWESOME matches lately, love what he's been doing
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# ? Mar 31, 2022 02:45 |
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bagmonkey posted:Jay Lethal has had some AWESOME matches lately, love what he's been doing Is it better or worse than this:
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# ? Mar 31, 2022 02:58 |
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Trollologist posted:Is it better or worse than this: I'm sorry but can you ever top the Ric Flair promo
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bagmonkey posted:I'm sorry but can you ever top the Ric Flair promo Honestly, It may be the single greatest thing in wrestling history.
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Trollologist posted:Honestly, It may be the single greatest thing in wrestling history. I think I found out about it because of this thread and I've watched it like 2-3 times since Jay Lethal joined AEW
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Trollologist posted:Honestly, It may be the single greatest thing in wrestling history. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKuquMfcoOc
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bagmonkey posted:I think I found out about it because of this thread and I've watched it like 2-3 times since Jay Lethal joined AEW I watch MLW (because I like the little guy), and that Jay lethal promo is pretty much the only wrestling thing I've ever gone and shown to people as a "reason wrestling is good"
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# ? Mar 31, 2022 03:11 |
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The whole thing is SOOO GOOOOD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SobD560-9ZQ
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# ? Mar 31, 2022 03:12 |
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Jay Lethal blackballed women from the industry cause they wouldn't sleep with him so he can gently caress right off imo
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# ? Mar 31, 2022 08:07 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7iyclHwYSo
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# ? Mar 31, 2022 11:12 |
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Rarity posted:Jay Lethal blackballed women from the industry cause they wouldn't sleep with him so he can gently caress right off imo Well gently caress that, do you have a link to the story about that? That's a real quick way for me to sour on a wrestler, or anyone for that matter
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# ? Mar 31, 2022 13:57 |
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bagmonkey posted:Well gently caress that, do you have a link to the story about that? That's a real quick way for me to sour on a wrestler, or anyone for that matter Here you go
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# ? Mar 31, 2022 13:59 |
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Ugh, thank you. No longer a Jay Lethal fan, appreciate the heads up!
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There's some good wrestling tonight. You should watch it. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4005600
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