AEW Discussion for 4/22: Wardlow

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Lamuella: Jun 26, 2003; It's like goldy or bronzy, but made of iron.

Dynathoughts

Cody's cyber-office is amazing. Actually this whole promo is great. Refreshing and different.

Scorpio Sky's nipples are weirdly prominent.

Oh, okay, MJF's injury is an angle.

Jericho struggling for the word "environment" was great.

Darby/Sammy is always remarkable. I don't know if this was better than their absolute war at Revolution but this was wild as hell. The psychology of the lost boot was great. And poo poo, that grapevine pin of Darby's is deadly.

This isn't a prediction so much as speculation, but... what if Darby beats Cody in the semi final? It would tie their series again, be a really decent torch-pass from Cody, and move us from a predictable final to a wild card.

SAMUEL THE FALSE GOD!

I would love a Sammy/Hardy chaos match.

The switch from Damascus to Matt Hardy was great.

Wow, Omega is giving a lot in this match. Really letting Angels get his stuff in. Angels actually looks good in this squash.

The sports presentation in this Scorpio Sky package is a really good choice. Whoever wins the TNT title, Sky needs to be an early contender.

As Havoc's main fanboy on here, I'm glad to see this match.

Boo, we lost the homemade entrance video.

Wow, Havoc is dominating here and looking good. They're selling the sadism & submissions well.

gently caress, that Havoc sell on the top turnbuckle spot was nasty as hell. Jesus. This match is getting pretty good.

Cassidy's first singles win! Yay! And we set up for later Best Friends / Brit Boys matches. I'm not mad at it.

MJF promo. This mfer said MJeffs.

Hangnail is the obvious but fun way to go.

Cutie pie Lee Johnson is back. Sorry you're going to get murdered, cute guy. Wardlow is such a good monster. Fast and powerful and just looks great. He's got a snap on some of his moves that makes them look deadly.

There was a PUPPY in that Bubbly Bunch ad.

Revisiting the Dark Order vignettes. Hi Mr Brodie.

"How tall are you, how much do you weigh, did you play college football?" you rear end in a top hat.

Brodie Lee is so very good at this charismatic shithead stuff.

Enjoying the vicious Brodie squashes, but I want to see him face someone real. Oh, hi Marko.

Best Friends promo was outstanding. Trent is so dry.

Hi bubbly boys. Ortiz and his cuddly toys are great. Benji is great. Flim Flam! (not affiliated with TikTok).

Dustin / Kip is a really solid match. Kip has his working boots on tonight and has looked really good. Had the result we knew it would, but overall very watchable.

For a three-squash show, this was very good.

# ¿ Apr 23, 2020 07:54

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 22:01

Lamuella: Jun 26, 2003; It's like goldy or bronzy, but made of iron.

Rarity posted:

I get the feeling they're holding back on Judas cause they don't have a crowd to sing along to it

My memory is increasingly hosed: didn't they do some kind of thing where they had people send them videos of them singing along to Judas? Done right and with some clever editing you could make a virtual Judas choir.

# ¿ Apr 23, 2020 09:48

Lamuella: Jun 26, 2003; It's like goldy or bronzy, but made of iron.

I Before E posted:

It's Preston Vance, his name was on the screen

Yeah, but that's just the fake name Pop Will Eat Itself used for song credits.

Sorry, turns out that was Vestan Pance, never mind.

# ¿ Apr 23, 2020 09:49

Lamuella: Jun 26, 2003; It's like goldy or bronzy, but made of iron.

karmicknight posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivNaTLgUfKQ

Preston Vance dance.

Wowsers, Vance has a good look but he's as green as his trunks.

# ¿ Apr 23, 2020 10:03

Lamuella: Jun 26, 2003; It's like goldy or bronzy, but made of iron.

We've got four final options, and multiple ways of getting there. Each could, I think, produce a satisfying story.

The most obvious would be Cody vs Archer. Cody beats Darby, then has to watch while Archer demolishes his brother. Throw in some post-match sadism towards Dustin and you have the setup for Cody wanting, needing, revenge.

You could also do Darby vs Archer. Darby wins clean. Jake and Archer are furious they don't get Cody in the final, they underestimate Darby, Darby wins. Or Darby comes close, Archer wins, and demands a match with Cody. Either way the story between them goes on.

You could even do Dustin vs Cody again. Either through shenanigans (Archer interferes in Darby/Cody to guarantee he faces Cody, Cody interferes to make Archer lose) or just that's how it turns out. You could even have Archer bust up Dustin then walk away. Either way, immediately post Cody getting the title, Archer demolishes him, setting up their TNT title match.

And finally, the weird one. Dustin vs Darby. Cody loses to Darby. With Cody out of the match, Archer just walks away. After either Darby or Dustin wins, Cody comes out to congratulate / commiserate, and gets crushed by Archer.

My preference with any of these is for Darby to win. The TNT title makes sense to me as a young guys' title, and Darby represents something pretty unique in AEW at the moment.

Lamuella fucked around with this message at 17:28 on Apr 23, 2020

# ¿ Apr 23, 2020 17:24

Lamuella: Jun 26, 2003; It's like goldy or bronzy, but made of iron.

Basically my bias is and always will be "push Darby to the moon" because he's ridiculously good, but as long as they have heart behind it I would be happy with most of the ways this ends.

# ¿ Apr 23, 2020 21:20

Lamuella: Jun 26, 2003; It's like goldy or bronzy, but made of iron.

I think this thread had just become The Horny Gulag

# ¿ Apr 23, 2020 21:24

Lamuella: Jun 26, 2003; It's like goldy or bronzy, but made of iron.

jesus WEP posted:

I feel like I'm gonna get a sixer just for looking at that Jordynne tweet

Never heard it called that before.

# ¿ Apr 23, 2020 21:59

Lamuella: Jun 26, 2003; It's like goldy or bronzy, but made of iron.

Blast from the past: this is the last televised singles match between Dustin Rhodes and Lance Archer. Under different names of course https://youtu.be/QNvuiKyZhf8

# ¿ Apr 23, 2020 22:45

Lamuella: Jun 26, 2003; It's like goldy or bronzy, but made of iron.

Waffleopolis posted:

I think MJF should replace his injured arm with a robot arm so that he hits harder and wins more matches.

Lucha Underground Gauntlet

# ¿ Apr 24, 2020 13:13

Lamuella: Jun 26, 2003; It's like goldy or bronzy, but made of iron.

Lone Goat posted:

I like that they have an Uno and a Stwo and the goofs from a few weeks ago and now 10 and I can't wait til they have a 69

Wait, AEW are hiring Taguchi?

# ¿ Apr 24, 2020 18:04

Lamuella: Jun 26, 2003; It's like goldy or bronzy, but made of iron.

New Sammy vlog. Him and Ricky Starks talking business. It's really good. https://youtu.be/y6OVG-zhDQI

# ¿ Apr 24, 2020 18:29

Lamuella: Jun 26, 2003; It's like goldy or bronzy, but made of iron.

Jonny Nox posted:

Hey so I was watching the Dustin Unrestricted video and thinking about Taz and ECW and I realized: What if we only get 4 years?

What if Tony can't justify the money spent, or the Carnies go and Carny, or they just plain run out of ideas and AEW is dead in 4 years?

Have you ever been part of a group that had just started out on something new and big? Eventually the "Us against the World"/Scrappy underdogs attitude of the original group gets diluted and fades away because you can't keep that kind of thing going forever. I think the family (actual family) that is the AEW talent is going to go away some day and I hope if it has to be replaced with a corporate AEW it manages to hold on to a culture of creativity or something.

I don't know.

Right now I'm enjoying the gently caress out of what we are being given. I'm enjoying the talent clearly having a ton of fun and loving wrestling. I'm enjoying wrestlers being allowed to be themselves and present themselves in a way that speaks to them. We're given a rare gift right now, and I'm really happy about it.

side note: At the age of 100, my Grandma died this week. I may be in a weird emotional place right now. LOL.

this was a really stupid post.

This is what is known as catastrophic thinking.

Yes, bad things could happen. If bad things happen, we will deal with them. The fact that they could in theory happen doesn't mean they're likely to happen.

I'm sorry about your grandma and I hope you feel better soon.

# ¿ Apr 25, 2020 09:11

Lamuella: Jun 26, 2003; It's like goldy or bronzy, but made of iron.

I can see the value of the quick squash if it establishes someone as powerful. Having Lance Archer and Wardlow and Mr Brodie obliterate some guys is great because it shows off the impressive things they can do, especially things we might not have seen before, and that's how you build a monster.

But Kenny's not a monster. He's the best bout machine. People don't watch Kenny matches to see him dominate people, they watch to see him tell a story through his athleticism. If you're putting him against enhancement talent, he's going to have a bit of back and forth because that's how you get to see what Kenny can do.

I'm bored of this idea that someone has to win fast with their opponent getting no offense in to look "dominant". I'm even bored of it if their opponent is enhancement talent. I know this is predetermined, let me see what both guys can do. All a 90 second Bill Goldberg match tells me is that Bill Goldberg gets gassed at the 60 second mark.

# ¿ Apr 26, 2020 17:36

Lamuella: Jun 26, 2003; It's like goldy or bronzy, but made of iron.

Presumably taped when she and Darby were visiting https://twitter.com/AEWrestling/status/1254458938084470788?s=19

# ¿ Apr 26, 2020 18:42

Lamuella: Jun 26, 2003; It's like goldy or bronzy, but made of iron.

AEW would definitely benefit from hiring Rick Martinez from Bon Apetit (a known Mexican wrestling fan) and having him do a version of A Shot Of Brandi where he makes chilaques with Jack Evans

# ¿ Apr 27, 2020 06:23

Lamuella: Jun 26, 2003; It's like goldy or bronzy, but made of iron.

Malcolm Excellent posted:

Hire Brad to be the boiler of the B Show and watch the magic unfold

I'm just imagining a conversation between Brad and Joey Janela about white claws and Taylor Ham.

# ¿ Apr 27, 2020 06:32

Lamuella: Jun 26, 2003; It's like goldy or bronzy, but made of iron.

Tweak posted:

a BA Test Kitchen x AEW joint is now all I�ll long for

edit: not carla

I'll thank you to speak only compliments about Ms Carla Lalli Music.

# ¿ Apr 27, 2020 09:08

Lamuella: Jun 26, 2003; It's like goldy or bronzy, but made of iron.

jesus WEP posted:

i would pay so much money to see chris morocco doing nerd poo poo with the librarians

Alex Delaney and Cody eat everything on the menu at Fox Bros. Bar-B-Q.

Nyla and Sohla cook fry bread and just hang out and be weird nerds together.

Best Friends and Orange Cassidy form an honor guard to stop Adam Rapoport being creepy to Molly Baz.

# ¿ Apr 27, 2020 09:24

Lamuella: Jun 26, 2003; It's like goldy or bronzy, but made of iron.

ShallNoiseUpon posted:

Much like everyone in the test kitchen, Kenny will have to ask Sohla for help tempering chocolate.

This always confuses me because tempering chocolate isn't actually that hard.

# ¿ Apr 27, 2020 10:13

Lamuella: Jun 26, 2003; It's like goldy or bronzy, but made of iron.

stupid linear passage of time

# ¿ Apr 27, 2020 12:19

Lamuella: Jun 26, 2003; It's like goldy or bronzy, but made of iron.

New BTE

https://youtu.be/H2ReC1GJAqM

# ¿ Apr 27, 2020 19:29

Lamuella: Jun 26, 2003; It's like goldy or bronzy, but made of iron.

This Luchasaus stuff is getting a bit loving weird. But hi, Taya.

# ¿ Apr 27, 2020 19:39

Lamuella: Jun 26, 2003; It's like goldy or bronzy, but made of iron.

Man, some people really got hung up on a bad joke Luchasaurus made about four months ago and dropped straight away.

# ¿ Apr 27, 2020 20:02

Lamuella: Jun 26, 2003; It's like goldy or bronzy, but made of iron.

CobiWann posted:

I appreciate the opening with Jimmy Havoc. "I've got to get me some friends," he says as he beats up a training dummy.

I know I'm in the minority for this opinion but I actually like Jimmy Havoc a lot.

# ¿ Apr 28, 2020 21:14

Lamuella: Jun 26, 2003; It's like goldy or bronzy, but made of iron.

if AEW are bringing in women's tag teams, I'd love to see them bring in Sea Stars. Ashley Vox had a barn burner at the start of the year against Kris Statlander in Limitless.

# ¿ Apr 28, 2020 21:16