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karmicknight
Aug 21, 2011
AEW Dynamite is here tonight for a huge night of live wrestling action.

https://twitter.com/shidahikaru/status/1288474472111054849
Hikaru Shida vs. Diamante

https://twitter.com/The_MJF/status/1288480439955595265
Maxwell Jacob Friedman's State of the Industry Address

https://twitter.com/EvilUno/status/1288480975094198273
AEW World Tag Team Championship: Cowboy Bebop vs. The Dark Order (A Team, Evil Uno and Stu Grayson)

https://twitter.com/AEWrestling/status/1288459599750799361
Inner Circle vs. Best Friends and Friends (w/ Marko Stunt?)

https://twitter.com/AEWrestling/status/1288308510191648769
TNT Championship: Cody (w/ Arn Anderson) vs. Warhorse

https://twitter.com/AEWrestling/status/1288293515991162881
Tornado Tag Team Match: Jon Moxley and Darby Allin vs. Team Taz (according to Excalibur) (Brian Cage and Ricky Stars) (w/ Taz)

Your TNT pre-Dynamite movie of the week is Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby starting at 6:00.
Your karmicknight plug remains 90s Paul Japan Pro Wrestling, Curt Hennig has just won the big belt and everyone is hurting or if they are Terry Gordy, drunk. Starting at 5:00 at https://www.twitch.tv/drkarmicknight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IbZInTuxVk
AEW Dark (1 Hour and 50 minutes and 52 seconds)



Frog Elite Wrestling Roster (credit Lamuella)

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Shayna Baszler
Oct 24, 2001

i'll always take care of you
Muldoon
someone explain the past month and a half of AEW to me

karmicknight
Aug 21, 2011

Seth Rollins posted:

someone explain the past month and a half of AEW to me

Past Month an a Half (choosing that to mean the start of June rather than doing the full actual math):

+ FTR (acronym unknown) have been integrated into the AEW roster with a good match with the Butcher and the Blade and a feud with their elemental opposites in the Lucha Brothers (who have allied with Butcher and Blade and stole the FTR-mobile). They have caused tension between the Young Bucks and Kenny Omega and Adam Page (again) by being Page's type of people. There seems to be leading towards FTR causing the actual collapse of the Elite as a faction as they drive Kenny to spiral in madness.
+ Brian Cage, coming off of the win in the Casino Ladder Match, has been trying to get his hands on Jon Moxley in a title match, with Taz by his side. A positive COVID-19 test in the Moxley household delayed it and caused Cage to get his match a week later, with Taz throwing in the towel. Taz followed up throwing in Cage's towel by recruiting a second member of what Excalibur has dubbed Team Taz, Ricky Starks.
+ Nyla Rose has decided that a manager is the key to her regaining the women's title (she might not actually be wrong watching the game tape) and has named Vickie Guerrero to that position.
+ Cody has expanded the TNT title open challenge series to include Indie stand-outs, including Ricky Starks, Eddie Kingston, and this week Warhorse. He has been getting progressively more and more heelish in his actions as he has taken his opponents either lightly or been put in scenarios where he has gotten a little mad.
+ Colt Cabana has been recruited to the Dark Order, who are shielding his virgin eyes from the dastardly things #JoinDarkOrder entails.
+ Hikaru Shida has demanded that the women's division show some fire and stand up and challenge her now that injuries have caused some issues (and she has beaten most of the prominent members of the division)
+ Brandi Rhodes and Allie (don't ask about the Bunny please) have been working well as a tag team and someone pulled some strings and they are going to introduce a tag team tournament of some sort for the women's division.
+ Orange Cassidy and the Best friends have been feuding with the Inner Circle.
+ MJF has been teasing some problems with Wardlow.

IcePhoenix
Sep 18, 2005

Take me to your Shida

Does anyone have the image of the show in Atlanta that someone edited to make it look like Orange Cassidy was holding a sign with my Orange Cassidy Frog on it

karmicknight
Aug 21, 2011


God, I remember realizing that I had no good way of blending those colors. :v:

IcePhoenix
Sep 18, 2005

Take me to your Shida

karmicknight posted:



God, I remember realizing that I had no good way of blending those colors. :v:

my discord thanks you good friend

Lamuella
Jun 26, 2003

It's like goldy or bronzy, but made of iron.


karmicknight posted:

Past Month an a Half (choosing that to mean the start of June rather than doing the full actual math):

+ FTR (acronym unknown) have been integrated into the AEW roster with a good match with the Butcher and the Blade and a feud with their elemental opposites in the Lucha Brothers (who have allied with Butcher and Blade and stole the FTR-mobile). They have caused tension between the Young Bucks and Kenny Omega and Adam Page (again) by being Page's type of people. There seems to be leading towards FTR causing the actual collapse of the Elite as a faction as they drive Kenny to spiral in madness.
+ Brian Cage, coming off of the win in the Casino Ladder Match, has been trying to get his hands on Jon Moxley in a title match, with Taz by his side. A positive COVID-19 test in the Moxley household delayed it and caused Cage to get his match a week later, with Taz throwing in the towel. Taz followed up throwing in Cage's towel by recruiting a second member of what Excalibur has dubbed Team Taz, Ricky Starks.
+ Nyla Rose has decided that a manager is the key to her regaining the women's title (she might not actually be wrong watching the game tape) and has named Vickie Guerrero to that position.
+ Cody has expanded the TNT title open challenge series to include Indie stand-outs, including Ricky Starks, Eddie Kingston, and this week Warhorse. He has been getting progressively more and more heelish in his actions as he has taken his opponents either lightly or been put in scenarios where he has gotten a little mad.
+ Colt Cabana has been recruited to the Dark Order, who are shielding his virgin eyes from the dastardly things #JoinDarkOrder entails.
+ Hikaru Shida has demanded that the women's division show some fire and stand up and challenge her now that injuries have caused some issues (and she has beaten most of the prominent members of the division)
+ Brandi Rhodes and Allie (don't ask about the Bunny please) have been working well as a tag team and someone pulled some strings and they are going to introduce a tag team tournament of some sort for the women's division.
+ Orange Cassidy and the Best friends have been feuding with the Inner Circle.
+ MJF has been teasing some problems with Wardlow.

To add to this:

+ Over on Dark, Cutler and Avalon have turned their rivalry over their dual losing streaks into a tagteam, recently dubbed The Initiative. They're really very good but still yet to win a match. Brandon Cutler had an excellent fiery white meat babyface promo on BTE about wanting to win the right way, not enhancement matches, not cheating.

Shayna Baszler
Oct 24, 2001

i'll always take care of you
Muldoon

karmicknight posted:

Past Month an a Half (choosing that to mean the start of June rather than doing the full actual math):

Ricky Starks.


thank you. who is ricky starks

Huntman
Apr 22, 2010


karmicknight posted:

Past Month an a Half (choosing that to mean the start of June rather than doing the full actual math):

+ FTR (acronym unknown) have been integrated into the AEW roster with a good match with the Butcher and the Blade and a feud with their elemental opposites in the Lucha Brothers (who have allied with Butcher and Blade and stole the FTR-mobile). They have caused tension between the Young Bucks and Kenny Omega and Adam Page (again) by being Page's type of people. There seems to be leading towards FTR causing the actual collapse of the Elite as a faction as they drive Kenny to spiral in madness.
+ Brian Cage, coming off of the win in the Casino Ladder Match, has been trying to get his hands on Jon Moxley in a title match, with Taz by his side. A positive COVID-19 test in the Moxley household delayed it and caused Cage to get his match a week later, with Taz throwing in the towel. Taz followed up throwing in Cage's towel by recruiting a second member of what Excalibur has dubbed Team Taz, Ricky Starks.
+ Nyla Rose has decided that a manager is the key to her regaining the women's title (she might not actually be wrong watching the game tape) and has named Vickie Guerrero to that position.
+ Cody has expanded the TNT title open challenge series to include Indie stand-outs, including Ricky Starks, Eddie Kingston, and this week Warhorse. He has been getting progressively more and more heelish in his actions as he has taken his opponents either lightly or been put in scenarios where he has gotten a little mad.
+ Colt Cabana has been recruited to the Dark Order, who are shielding his virgin eyes from the dastardly things #JoinDarkOrder entails.
+ Hikaru Shida has demanded that the women's division show some fire and stand up and challenge her now that injuries have caused some issues (and she has beaten most of the prominent members of the division)
+ Brandi Rhodes and Allie (don't ask about the Bunny please) have been working well as a tag team and someone pulled some strings and they are going to introduce a tag team tournament of some sort for the women's division.
+ Orange Cassidy and the Best friends have been feuding with the Inner Circle.
+ MJF has been teasing some problems with Wardlow.

+ Britt Baker is the Michael Jordan of AEW

IcePhoenix
Sep 18, 2005

Take me to your Shida

Lamuella posted:

To add to this:

+ Over on Dark, Cutler and Avalon have turned their rivalry over their dual losing streaks into a tagteam, recently dubbed The Initiative. They're really very good but still yet to win a match. Brandon Cutler had an excellent fiery white meat babyface promo on BTE about wanting to win the right way, not enhancement matches, not cheating.

I want to add on to this and emphasize how incredibly good the promo is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TRgtXVyBU8&t=280s

Lamuella
Jun 26, 2003

It's like goldy or bronzy, but made of iron.


Seth Rollins posted:

thank you. who is ricky starks

Incredibly good wrestler who has a bit of a playboy gimmick and who was NWA TV champion. Debuted in a match against Cody for the TNT title. Lost, but real-life impressed everyone so much they signed him to a contract the moment he stepped backstage.

Cavauro
Jan 9, 2008

Seth Rollins posted:

thank you. who is ricky starks

kid romeo

karmicknight
Aug 21, 2011
This is Ricky Starks:

https://twitter.com/starkmanjones/status/1287882053166358528

Cavauro posted:

kid romeo*

Thin Kid Romeo.

Huntman
Apr 22, 2010


Seth Rollins posted:

thank you. who is ricky starks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbdY6mdbHmI

and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCd1D6C0lVQ

Shayna Baszler
Oct 24, 2001

i'll always take care of you
Muldoon
tye dillinger's days are numbered

Cavauro
Jan 9, 2008

dye tillinger. tillinger is an online shop that sells polo shirts, so i'm saying to dye the shirts. *Laughs*

Shayna Baszler
Oct 24, 2001

i'll always take care of you
Muldoon
did allie and the apple boy ever kiss

Huntman
Apr 22, 2010


apple boy got covid and hasn't been seen since if i recall

Shayna Baszler
Oct 24, 2001

i'll always take care of you
Muldoon
that makes me really sad to hear

Lamuella
Jun 26, 2003

It's like goldy or bronzy, but made of iron.


Best way to describe the difference between Spears and Starks:

That thing Spears has been looking for since Fyter Fest 2019? Starks had it on day one.

Oil!
Nov 5, 2008

Der's e'rl in dem der hills!


Ham Wrangler

Seth Rollins posted:

thank you. who is ricky starks

He also lit himself on fire wrestling a mop and broom after his contract with NWA ended.

Truther Vandross
Jun 17, 2008

My hope is that somehow Inner Circle has Best Friends and Orange outnumbered and in a vulnerable position tonight and Trent’s mom pulls up in her van with Trent’s friend from Long Island and it’s Zack Ryder.

rantmo
Jul 30, 2003

A smile better suits a hero



I was going to say that it's also the reason some of the Nightmare Factory jobbers haven't been around but then I remembered that Shawn Dean and Lee Johnson were on Dark, so at least some of them have been cleared. Hopefully QT (and DDP who also caught it) are recovering/have recovered without too many lingering effects.

Pylons
Mar 16, 2009

sportsgenius86 posted:

My hope is that somehow Inner Circle has Best Friends and Orange outnumbered and in a vulnerable position tonight and Trent’s mom pulls up in her van with Trent’s friend from Long Island and it’s Zack Ryder.

I'm very unfamiliar with Zack Ryder. Would he fit with Best Friends weirdo energy? I guess he does collect action figures.

IcePhoenix
Sep 18, 2005

Take me to your Shida

Oil! posted:

He also lit himself on fire wrestling a mop and broom after his contract with NWA ended.

you can actually see the burns on his legs still in his match with Cody

RealityWarCriminal
Aug 10, 2016

:o:
that Darby match is still happening? I thought I read he got a concussion hitting the ropes last week.

Pylons
Mar 16, 2009

Reality Protester posted:

that Darby match is still happening? I thought I read he got a concussion hitting the ropes last week.

That was a taped match, so it would've happened roughly two weeks ago.

rantmo
Jul 30, 2003

A smile better suits a hero



Pylons posted:

That was a taped match, so it would've happened roughly two weeks ago.

Last week was taped, this week is live isn't it?

Shayna Baszler
Oct 24, 2001

i'll always take care of you
Muldoon

Pylons posted:

I'm very unfamiliar with Zack Ryder. Would he fit with Best Friends weirdo energy? I guess he does collect action figures.

zack ryder is cool

Pylons
Mar 16, 2009

rantmo posted:

Last week was taped, this week is live isn't it?

Right.

StarkRavingMad
Sep 27, 2001


Yams Fan

rantmo posted:

I was going to say that it's also the reason some of the Nightmare Factory jobbers haven't been around but then I remembered that Shawn Dean and Lee Johnson were on Dark, so at least some of them have been cleared. Hopefully QT (and DDP who also caught it) are recovering/have recovered without too many lingering effects.

According to DDP from a week or two ago, QT only had mild symptoms for like three days but was still testing positive like a month later. So it seems like he's not in any danger, just waiting for it to clear out of his system.

Lone Goat
Apr 16, 2003

When life gives you lemons, suplex those lemons.




Seth Rollins posted:

that makes me really sad to hear

Not mentioned, but adjacent: Anna Jay, one of QT's students, got some promos where it looked like she was being built up as a big star, but got squashed by ABADON in a very short match. Then Dark Order came out to assist Anna out of the ring.

QT's students were put in quarantine, so no further developments in that storyline, though other QT students have been back on Dynamite/Dark since.

Pylons
Mar 16, 2009

Lone Goat posted:

Not mentioned, but adjacent: Anna Jay, one of QT's students, got some promos where it looked like she was being built up as a big star, but got squashed by ABADON in a very short match. Then Dark Order came out to assist Anna out of the ring.

QT's students were put in quarantine, so no further developments in that storyline, though other QT students have been back on Dynamite/Dark since.

Also tangentially related: Abadon got signed and as of her Dark match last night is ranked #5.

Lone Goat
Apr 16, 2003

When life gives you lemons, suplex those lemons.




karmicknight posted:

Past Month an a Half (choosing that to mean the start of June rather than doing the full actual math):

+ FTR (acronym unknown) have been integrated into the AEW roster with a good match with the Butcher and the Blade and a feud with their elemental opposites in the Lucha Brothers (who have allied with Butcher and Blade and stole the FTR-mobile). They have caused tension between the Young Bucks and Kenny Omega and Adam Page (again) by being Page's type of people. There seems to be leading towards FTR causing the actual collapse of the Elite as a faction as they drive Kenny to spiral in madness.
+ Brian Cage, coming off of the win in the Casino Ladder Match, has been trying to get his hands on Jon Moxley in a title match, with Taz by his side. A positive COVID-19 test in the Moxley household delayed it and caused Cage to get his match a week later, with Taz throwing in the towel. Taz followed up throwing in Cage's towel by recruiting a second member of what Excalibur has dubbed Team Taz, Ricky Starks.
+ Nyla Rose has decided that a manager is the key to her regaining the women's title (she might not actually be wrong watching the game tape) and has named Vickie Guerrero to that position.
+ Cody has expanded the TNT title open challenge series to include Indie stand-outs, including Ricky Starks, Eddie Kingston, and this week Warhorse. He has been getting progressively more and more heelish in his actions as he has taken his opponents either lightly or been put in scenarios where he has gotten a little mad.
+ Colt Cabana has been recruited to the Dark Order, who are shielding his virgin eyes from the dastardly things #JoinDarkOrder entails.
+ Hikaru Shida has demanded that the women's division show some fire and stand up and challenge her now that injuries have caused some issues (and she has beaten most of the prominent members of the division)
+ Brandi Rhodes and Allie (don't ask about the Bunny please) have been working well as a tag team and someone pulled some strings and they are going to introduce a tag team tournament of some sort for the women's division.
+ Orange Cassidy and the Best friends have been feuding with the Inner Circle.
+ MJF has been teasing some problems with Wardlow.

also also:
+ Britt Baker out with an injury, but developing a storyline with Big Swole and should be back for All Out in September
+ Kris Stat also out with injury but for many months

Cerebral Bore
Apr 21, 2010


Fun Shoe

Seth Rollins posted:

thank you. who is ricky starks

He's a smaller but more skilled Razor Ramon.

rantmo
Jul 30, 2003

A smile better suits a hero



Ricky Starks also probably has the best entrance music in AEW.

Power Windows
Dec 29, 2004

Brasky used to ride upon a steed, perchance to spy a lady.

Seth Rollins posted:

tye dillinger's days are numbered

10 of them, specifically

smarxist
Jul 26, 2018

by Fluffdaddy
i feel like a hangman gently caress up that leads to a shocking tag title change tonight could be the jolt that starts all the dominoes tumbling, i'd put it at 25%

STING 64
Oct 20, 2006

ricky starks is really good and was a texas indies mainstay for years, and was one of the few that wasn't a sexual predator. he and aaron solow kept getting dark match spots for roh and wwe whenever they came through central texas and went on a tag team run as Extra Talent-ed and actually wound up being in either the best or second best match on whatever show they got booked on. I think they eventually got booked on a tour in japan and i thought it was crazy that neither of them ever ended up signed anywhere. i am really happy for ricky and hope solow isn't far behind.

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explosivo
May 23, 2004

Fueled by Satan


His zipper is open

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