(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!)

Team Sendai Girls vs Team ROH (Chikara, 9-16-2012)

Chikara King of Trios, Easton, PA

A request! It is the semifinals of the 2012 King of Trios, and we’ve got Team ROH, the obvious pairing of Mike Bennett and the Young Bucks, against Team Sendai Girls, the crew of Meiko Satomura, DASH Chisako, and Sendai Sachiko.

(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 Revolution (3-5-2023)

Let’s rock/roll!

Chris Jericho vs Ricky Starks

A good match and a really good choice for opener. I thought referee Aubrey Edwards did her usual horrendous job when she didn’t DQ Jericho once Sammy Guevara came out to the ringside area, from which the Jericho Appreciation Society were explicitly banned, and I thought the baseball bit bit was a little dumb, but the action was good and all that. Starks having Jericho’s number when things are fair and even is cool, seems like it’s the guy Jericho is going to actually “make,” as much as that’s a possible thing anymore, and not just “lose to”; the two are very different things. 3/5

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.

Kevin Steen & El Generico vs Young Bucks (ROH, 12-19-2009)

ROH Final Battle, New York, NY

Request via Ko-fi. This is a match I do not believe I have ever seen. Not sure I’ve seen anything from this show, which was somewhat impacted by a blizzard in New York. The Bucks are still relatively new in ROH, been there about seven months and started pretty hot, established as a team to contend with. Steen and Generico are Steen and Generico.

Young Bucks vs Lucha Bros (AEW, 9-5-2021)

AEW All Out, Hoffman Estates, IL

This is for the Young Bucks’ tag belts in a STEEL CAGE. They’ve been running strong and obnoxious for a year or so and the Lucha Bros are hot on their trail at this point.

FTR vs The Young Bucks (AEW, 11-7-2020)

AEW Full Gear, Jacksonville, FL

Years in the making. Now it’s here, for FTR’s AEW tag team championship, with the Bucks promising if they don’t win the belts here they won’t wrestle for them again. Bucks have gone BACK TO THEIR ROOTS like Bon Jovi every 15 minutes on “Behind the Music.” The California Bible camp kids finally take on the North Carolina Bible camp kids.