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AEW Dynamite |OT5| Hello again mother fuckers.
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All aboard the Jungle Boy and Jurassic Express train. They're building them up for something. I'm thinking it's a tag title loss to Proud and Powerful at or before Double or Nothing.
Shanna really needs to stop doing that bridging suplex as her finisher
She really seems to struggle getting the bridge with opponents bigger than her.
It's Wednesday. You know what that means. 💜
Caught Dark last night before bed. Wasn't expecting to watch the whole thing, but it went by quickly. Super easy watch. Lots of good stuff from pretty much everyone. I was initially disappointed that Rickyyyyy(!) and KC didn't have a match, but the dude is so charismatic that you just can't hate on anything he's a part of.
Caught Dark last night before bed. Wasn't expecting to watch the whole thing, but it went by quickly. Super easy watch. Lots of good stuff from pretty much everyone. I was initially disappointed that Rickyyyyy(!) and KC didn't have a match, but the dude is so charismatic that you just can't hate on anything he's a part of.
Man I really need to up my screen brightness sometimes, it took me way too long to realise that Tony was holding a heart balloon and wasn't dressed as Iron Man.
I'm debating whether or not to preorder Luchasaurus but, if I do, I'd have to get Jungle Boy as well to complete the set but, man, these action figures are pricey. I preordered Omega's and that was expensive.
This is pretty dumb tbh when there's tons of women's tournament matches that should be on TV. Unless it's a 2 minute squash that leads into a promo or something.
I have to imagine that's 100% what this is gonna be. Give or take a few minutes. But yeah what the heck, really weird match up haha. I'd much rather see Serpentico vs OC, as well. I've grown on Luther, but only as far as how fun he is with using Serpentico as a weapon. Not really excited to see him in a singles match, so I really gotta imagine this is a squash to lead into a Miro promo that was probably going to happen anyway.
Luther is going over tonight. It is happening. We are getting a Kip/Miro run in and Luther gets the win
No question that AEW should have had more of these matches on TV, in general. Two last episode and two this episode should have been obvious. But it's probably a logistical impossibility on such short notice to do that kind of swap. As lame as the situation is.
I'm beginning to question how they plan to actually have the tournament winner vs Shida on the PPV, after this episode, there will only be 2 more episodes of Dynamite left before the PPV, and if they only do the Deeb/Riho match this week, that means you need to have 2 first round matches, then 2 quarterfinals, a semifinals match, and the match vs the Japanese women's side winner all in the span of 2 weeks, which means a lot of this either has to be on Dark or you have to have women working multiple matches a night on Dynamite, which I can't see happening. It also means that the Finals are going to basically be an afterthought, with a maybe 30 minute build instead of a 1 week build. I'm beginning to suspect that they might change things and make the tournament final the PPV match and do the Shida match on TV instead?
I understand why they are only doing 1 match this week- the return of Riho after a year is a pretty big deal and there is no reason to overshadow it and just make it one of several tournament matches on a show- but the timing on this all makes little sense. If you were going to do a bunch of this tournament on Dark, wouldn't it have made sense to have the first round, and not the quarters/semis as part of it?
I'm also not sure how florida is handeling overseas travel right now, but I would assume that if they wanted to have the finals match on TV in 2 weeks, the Japanese wrestler probably needs to already be in the country by now?
Then again, we still don't actually have a main event for the PPV which is really weird!
I understand why they are only doing 1 match this week- the return of Riho after a year is a pretty big deal and there is no reason to overshadow it and just make it one of several tournament matches on a show- but the timing on this all makes little sense. If you were going to do a bunch of this tournament on Dark, wouldn't it have made sense to have the first round, and not the quarters/semis as part of it?
I'm also not sure how florida is handeling overseas travel right now, but I would assume that if they wanted to have the finals match on TV in 2 weeks, the Japanese wrestler probably needs to already be in the country by now?
Then again, we still don't actually have a main event for the PPV which is really weird!
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Looks like a good card. But to be honest, they could have probably moved that FTR/Sydals match either to next week or Dark and put in another women's tournament match. I don't know why AEW is so insistent on having only one women's match per week.
Yeah, some of the booking seems a bit weird lately. We always find AEW desperately needs a second show to showcase all their talent and then we get Chaos Project matches or guest spots that are glorified Dark material unless they're starting an arc which they don't usually do.
I really, really love AEW but the build to Revolution 21 pales in comparison to how well they've built up matches in the past. If the Sting callout doesn't play out differently tonight than it has in the past four to six weeks, we're in trouble...
I really, really love AEW but the build to Revolution 21 pales in comparison to how well they've built up matches in the past. If the Sting callout doesn't play out differently tonight than it has in the past four to six weeks, we're in trouble...
OC vs Luther looks like a match there primarily to set up an angle. OC vs Miro at Revolution seems likely so probably we get a Miro run down after a brief match.
Pretty much anything on TV at this point is going to build to the PPV I'd imagine. Whatever the Hardy vs Page thing ends up as, whatever FTR vs Jungle Express ends up as, OC vs Miro, women's tournament/title match, tag title match. I assume Omega vs Moxley is officially announced tonight.
It seems pretty clear what the major directions for the PPV are at this point, and we'll probably have a lot more clarity on the specifics of the card are tonight.
Pretty much anything on TV at this point is going to build to the PPV I'd imagine. Whatever the Hardy vs Page thing ends up as, whatever FTR vs Jungle Express ends up as, OC vs Miro, women's tournament/title match, tag title match. I assume Omega vs Moxley is officially announced tonight.
It seems pretty clear what the major directions for the PPV are at this point, and we'll probably have a lot more clarity on the specifics of the card are tonight.
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I would like for them to give Deeb vs. Riho at least 20 minutes because that match is going to be straight fire.
They could do the next two first round matches on Dark next week, one of the semis on Dynamite, and than the other on Dark the week before the final. While that only gives them one day to market the US final, I'm not sure if that'll be a big deal.
I'd rather see two womens matches on Dynamite, but I'm presuming they aren't going to at this point.
Edit: Scratch that, I was forgetting that we still have the US vs JP final.
So... hmmn. Yeah. I guess we'd need two semis on dynamite next week, and then the US finals on Dark... which isn't ideal.
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I think it's probably straight forward how they're going to do it if you work backwards:
March 7- Shida vs tournament winner at Revolution
March 3- tournament finals on Dynamite
March 1- US and Japan bracket finals on YouTube
Feb 24- US semifinals on Dynamite
Feb 22- Japan semifinals on YouTube
The only matches unaccounted for are the last two US first round matches. Which could either slot on the YouTube show this Monday, since there are only two Japan matches, or they put them on Dark.
March 7- Shida vs tournament winner at Revolution
March 3- tournament finals on Dynamite
March 1- US and Japan bracket finals on YouTube
Feb 24- US semifinals on Dynamite
Feb 22- Japan semifinals on YouTube
The only matches unaccounted for are the last two US first round matches. Which could either slot on the YouTube show this Monday, since there are only two Japan matches, or they put them on Dark.
Deeb vs. Riho should go at least 10 minutes and should be a banger. But yeah, I'd love at least one more, though I'm assuming it would just be a Nyla squash or something.
No disrespect to Luther...but I don't see that match gaining any viewers...even with Orange Cassidy's popularity.
If it wasn't for the time crunch with the tournament, i'd be fine with the Riho match being a standalone thing- it's literally her first match in 11 months almost to the date (march 18 was her last appearance) and she's probably going to be at the top of the card in the womens division with her moving here and her previous spot on the card. I'm guessing this is a 10+ minute match or a really short 2-ish minute match if they want to do an angle around something like "she's been gone and can't keep up anymore" if Deeb goes over or if they want to give as dominant a win to Riho as possible
Meh, OC is the draw regardless of opponent. He moves ratings, we've seen it before. I do think Luther sucks though. He moves like a sack of potatoes.
I think OC taking on Serpentico would've been better than Luther. That at least stood a chance of being a fast-moving, energetic match.
The fact that it was a Valentine's themed message from TK makes me lean a pre-recorded video from Ibushi being the surprise to start teasing the match for down the road, but as someone else said, I also expect an announcement of a gimmick match for Omega/Mox 3.
The tag team championship match is going to be full of interference from the Good Brothers and Inner Circle isn't it?
So...
Hangman and Hardy
Imagine Moxley losing to that collection of dweebs
FTR
OC
Riho
I'm not sure about the Bucks and this title thing. Someone made the point that you could do Santana and Ortiz with the titles versus Jericho and MJF and that stuck with me. You could kick Jericho out the Inner Circle at Revolution.
There were rumors it could happen and Sammy sewed some seeds in his vlog.
I kinda expect... Bucks beat PnP, Bucks beat Jericho/MJF to set up Jericho/MJF v PnP and PnP leave IC after that match.
Edit: I also expect the Bucks to be the team that retires Daniels & Kazarian as a tag team which will most likely happen as a title shot so there's that too
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