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!)

(Most of) AEW Dynamite (4-17-2024)

From Indianapolis! I have been there. I am not there right now.

I turned this on the TV tonight and decided I wanted to talk about it. I also tuned in about 24 minutes late so whatever happened in the first 24 minutes, I don’t know. Mercedes Mone ran off Julia Hart or something when I turned it on. Then Samoa Joe did a sit-down interview with Renee. It was good!

LET’S GO

(Requests open and tips always appreciated!)

REVIEW: ROH Death Before Dishonor (7-21-2023)

From Trenton, New Jersey, at the CURE Insurance Arena, fka Sovereign Bank Arena and Sun National Bank Center! Insane to me that ROH hasn’t been to New Jersey since 2012 and only once since 2009.

I am ready to die before I take part in or even observe any dishonor.

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

Hi what’s up.

REVIEW: AEW Dynamite (10-18-2022)

It’s a Tuesday Dynamite! It’s “Title Tuesday”! Back in my day on the Tumblr web app, people had titty Tuesday, which is different. It was a better, simpler time.

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.

PAC vs Andrade El Idolo (AEW, 9-10-2021)

AEW Rampage, Cincinnati, OH

Andrade hasn’t exactly been destroying since leaving WWE. But we all know how great he can be. This match was postponed from All Out, which in a way might be better for them. Yeah, it would have been nice to have a match on that big, acclaimed show, but here they won’t be lost in the shuffle of a hugely eventful night, either.

Kenny Omega vs Orange Cassidy vs PAC (AEW, 5-31-2021)

AEW Double or Nothing, Jacksonville, FL

This is for Omega’s AEW championship but none of the other crap belts he’s accumulated. I didn’t watch this live because I’m rarely available on Saturday nights (it’s not that I’m working it’s that I’m having SO much SEX), but I liked the build to this. A great way to utilize Orange in this sort of thing, and Omega’s moderate fear of and deep respect for PAC’s ability and danger is a nice touch for Kenny, too.

Adrian Neville vs Tyson Kidd vs Sami Zayn vs Tyler Breeze (NXT, 9-11-2014)

NXT TakeOver: Fatal 4-Way, Winter Park, FL

This is a request. It’s actually a match I thought about watching the other day but then didn’t. Neville is your NXT champion, while the other three are not. This was so long ago Neville had a first name, and nobody was calling him “Pack.”

Adrian Neville vs Sami Zayn (NXT, 12-11-2014)

NXT TakeOver: R-Evolution, Winter Park, FL

This is a request via Ko-fi.

The match is title (Neville’s NXT championship) vs career (Zayn’s in NXT). It was last chance time for Sami to finally climb the mountain and win the NXT title. NXT had done a great job painting Sami as a guy who “couldn’t win the big one.” They’d established that Neville was willing to do anything to win, despite not being a heel, while Zayn just wasn’t able to bring himself to capitalize on an injury in a previous match they had. This was a match with great build and great promos leading up, and really felt like a big match.