AEW Dynasty (4-21-2024)

LIVE from St. Louis, it’s AEW Dynasty! You only get so many chances to watch a first-ever wrestling event. One, really. If you’re alive and stuff.

Let’s go! SPOILER: Arguably the greatest match on American soil ever happened on this show, and Chris Jericho has done it again!!

(Requests open and tips always appreciated!)

WALTER vs Eddie Kingston (Progress, 7-6-2019)

Progress Chapter 91: Prog on the Tyne, Newcastle, England

A request! It was for “an Eddie Kingston match.” I have never seen this one. I didn’t want to do one from AEW or ROH (AEW), and I was casually scrolling the Cagematch Matchguide for Ed when I saw this one.

Never seen this match.

(Requests open and tips always appreciated!)

Eddie Kingston vs Claudio Castagnoli (AEW, 9-20-2023)

AEW Dynamite: Grand Slam, Queens, NY

We’ll do it live. You know why the match is happening. For Claudio’s ROH title and Eddie’s NJPW STRONG title.

Bryce Remsburg as the ref, as it should be. Castagnoli with a Ribera jacket and Misawa colors, Eddie in the yellow and black of Kawada.

(Requests open and tips always appreciated!)

REVIEW: AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door (6-25-2023)

HERE WE GO! From Toronto! This door is so mother fucking forbidden, bro! I’m fired up! AEW is hot right now! In a couple weeks if a show or three is a little lackluster I’ll say it’s cold! And then if they have a couple good ones I’ll say they’re back! That is how I do!

(Requests open and tips always appreciated!)

Cody vs Eddie Kingston (AEW, 7-22-2020)

AEW Dynamite, Jacksonville, FL

A request! Requests are the only thing that will ever get me to purposely relive bubble era TV wrestling, which is not to say there weren’t some highlights in both WWE and AEW, but man, it was not a good time I’m trying to remember a lot.

This, however, was something pretty special.

(Requests open and tips always appreciated!)

Mike Quackenbush vs Eddie Kingston (Chikara, 11-13-2011)

Chikara High Noon, Philadelphia, PA

Requested via Ko-fi! I was never a Chikara guy. Just not my kind of utter dorkery. But like anything, obviously there were some great matches, some good stories, and a lot of tremendous talents passed through there, either from the Chikara Wrestle Factory itself, or just passing on through for a spell.

REVIEW: ROH Supercard of Honor (3-31-2023)

There is not a single show this week I want to see more than this one, and that’s not a knock on either night of Mania, I’m fired up for those, but this card has so much I’m really itching to see. Most of all, Samoa Joe vs Mark Briscoe.

Alright. Let’s go!

REVIEW: ROH on HonorClub (3-9-2023)

Let’s see what Episode 002 has in store for us!

ROH Television Championship: Samoa Joe (c) vs Tony Deppen

Again, I refuse to call TV titles “world TV titles,” I’m sorry. I just won’t do it. I refused as a kid and I refuse now. “World” meant something. I also wouldn’t call the ECW a “world” title until whenever PWI started, and then it didn’t last a lot longer. This shit means something, goddamn it! But things got more interesting after that in how you could claim something is a world title. I mean the GCW belt has been defended around the world, not just in any region. And so on. But whatever. I’m looking forward to this match.

REVIEW: AEW Full Gear (11-19-2022)

Hi what’s up.

PPV REVIEW: AEW Double or Nothing 2022 (5-29-2022)

I’m in a very cautious budgeting period of my normally reckless, freestyle way of life but I really wanted to watch this pay-per-view program live, so I went the crowdsourcing route via Ko-fi. It worked! And I actually did use the money to buy the show instead of sneaking away with it and stealing a pirate stream, which I do know how to do, despite everyone on the internet assuming you don’t know how if you suggest you’re willing to pay for something.

Also, I note nobody asked for any match reviews or anything, but I’d have a feeling of some type shame or the like if I didn’t do anything to even kinda feel like I’d earned this great payday, so I’m going to dust off the ol’ PPV-reviewing gloves and do a proper PPV review for the first time since probably, like, 2014.

This is a match review blog by design, but also it is a stupid fucking blog intermittently given attention by an aging idiot, so this will just exist. Who knows? Maybe more of this will happen. I do actually believe that there is value in how matches seem in the context of their entire show, but also in how matches seem in a vacuum. So in other words I have no opinion about reviewing wrestling other than most people should stop it. Not me, though.

Anyway, let’s go, motherfuckers.