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!)

Dante Fox vs Killshot (Lucha Underground, 9-27-2017)

Lucha Underground: Ultima Lucha Tres Pt. 1, Los Angeles, CA

A request, as Swerve’s Texas Death Match with Adam Hangman at Full Gear reminded someone of this match. I was pretty well out on LU at this point so I’ve never seen this. It’s not that I don’t think I could find plenty to enjoy in seasons three and four, but they lost the plot compared to that first season, which I truly loved.

This was also taped in June 2016 but didn’t air for 15 months. The title date is the air date, which is how I usually do it.

(Requests open and tips always appreciated!)

Hangman Adam Page vs Swerve Strickland (AEW, 11-18-2023)

AEW Full Gear, Inglewood, CA

A Texas Death Match! Did you know the only way to win is by knockout or submission? To me that seems like the only ways, but I am not a Dapper Yapper.

I have heard a lot about this match but couldn’t watch live because I can almost never do Saturday night wrestling, which is why God put wrestling PPVs on Sundays, but now The Fighting Khans, Nick and Tony, are determined to defy the Lord.

Swerve has a whole entrance with Prince Nana and dancers. Hangman Adam does not do an entrance, because this is PERSONAL and he is FURIOUS, so he rushes into the ring and jumps on Swerve to get us going.

(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!)

REVIEW: AEW Double or Nothing (5-28-2023)

From the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas! I didn’t get to watch live Sunday, but I am watching delayed now.

(Requests open and tips always appreciated!)

REVIEW: AEW Dynamite (4-12-2023)

LIVE! from Milwaukee, which is in Wisconsin, which is a real party state.

Why? Why not! Not doin’ anything better.

(Ko-fi)

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

Hi what’s up.

REVIEW: AEW Dynamite (10-26-2022)

We’ll do it live.

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.

Sami Callihan screams about ‘bullshit’ (WrestleCircus, 7-22-2017)

WrestleCircus The Squared Ring Circus, Austin, TX

This is a request via Ko-fi. Remember WrestleCircus? RIP, WrestleCircus. Anyway this was one of the things they did that got some mild internet buzz. I never watched it because “Sami Callihan pipe bomb” sounded like a recipe for diarrhea to me, but hey, I like money.