I am happy that in AEW Bryan can get the long title reign he deserved in 2014. Hopefully another Upcomer dethrones Omega tho.
Love Simon Miller, and this video was as much a joy to watch as All Out itself was (for me, at least).
I still think it will be:
Yeah, I was pretty surprised by that take. I could understand making a lil' joke or something after Punk asked the media figures if he did alright after a 7 year absence (e.g. "tbh, i started to think maybe you were telling the truth when you said you quit professional wrestling back in 2005..." or whatever lol), but... oy vey. After his match w/ Darby concluded, my first thought was absolutely not "gee, this guy sure looks like he hasn't wrestled in a while."
I'm a fellow old (36 too) and while I have been following AEW day 1, the hype the last few months has increased by wrestling YouTube habits quite a bit.
Watching the 'Thanks to dailys place' video package they did when they started touring again always gets me choked up when it gets to the Brodie tribute show portion. Seeing Miro breaking down hits pretty damn hard.
The Brodie Lee tribute show I hold up on the same level as the Ryan Davis from Giant Bomb tribute show. I have listened/watched it one time, cried like a baby, and never watched it again
Yeah I was heavily into WWE as a teenager during the attitude era, dropped off for a few years after finishing secondary school, started watching it again but really got into TNA when it started getting really good and ended up stopping watching WWE for good back then.
Sorry to say but that's not happening. Instead after Hangman we are going to get a 5 year reign by MJF who will go down as the greatest AEW World Champion of all time.
Yeah Chicago has to be considered now one of the top spots for Wrestling even though it was already. You guys where great and you could feel the energy all show.
Reason I need a 5 year reign by MJF lol.
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We have to remember that AEW have only just started touring again and these events have to be planned in advance. Coming out of the pandemic it must have been hard to determine what sort of attendance they could get out the gate so probably went conservative with All out.
I was expecting some generic remix of flight of the valkyries but this blew my fucking socks off.
Oh I'm not in New York. Just they are generally the hypest crowd. Chicago is great though. You guys deserve a lot of respect for staying hype and popping for Kojima and Suzuki last night. I'm in Dallas which is also usually a great crowd with a long wrestling history.
Hangman is actually the perfect name to bring up with all this. Even here there was so much doom and gloom about his push being over when he lost that tag match with the DO to the Elite and lost his shot.
Quite frankly, last night's PPV is an amazing "jump in' point for AEW. Of course, there's been great matches that we can list to go back and enjoy, but as far as stories and characters, starting at All Out and watching the weekly programs going forward is an awesome way to get into AEW right now. Anything that would need knowledge from earlier shows, such as when Hangman returns or why Britt and Rosa will have such animosity once they go back to that feud, will be explained by the announcers, video packages, and in promos from the wrestlers themselves.
Some bigger cities just have a higher concentration of hardcore wrestling fans.
