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*Official* Pro-Wrestling Thread II

Mike5181

Mike5181

International Captain
Aritro said:
When I saw it was 6 hours, I skipped straight to the three big matches at the end and then went back skim watched the first four hours. I also skimmed through the last match because watching people taking power moves on broken glass and whatever other nonsense was in that match is not my idea of a good time.

Nevertheless, I enjoyed the the finish to the decider with all the run-ins and everything else. Toni Storm vs Mercedes was the one I looked forward to most and it delivered.
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Supposedly they were counter programming the.... counter programming from WWE, and that's why it went so long. Tbh I think the Dynamites have been close to the best they've ever been week to week. Easily the strongest roster they've had, especially on the women's side of things.
 
Red_Ink_Squid

Red_Ink_Squid

Global Moderator
Aritro said:
When I saw it was 6 hours, I skipped straight to the three big matches at the end and then went back skim watched the first four hours. I also skimmed through the last match because watching people taking power moves on broken glass and whatever other nonsense was in that match is not my idea of a good time.

Nevertheless, I enjoyed the the finish to the decider with all the run-ins and everything else. Toni Storm vs Mercedes was the one I looked forward to most and it delivered.
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I've mostly stopped following AEW (and WWE for that matter) this year, but I checked out a bit of All In. The main event seemed really well booked in a end-of-season finale way, like their version of Cody finishing his story at 'mania 40 with all the run ins and payoffs. But I agree, I don't like the abundance of death match spots. Those sorta matches should be limited to a couple a year at most imo so the brutal spots are at least meaningful and memorable. Doing hardcore bloodfests every big show (and some smaller shows too) is not only over catering to a niche part of the audience, but devalues the ridiculous punishment the workers are taking too and creates an unhealthy pressure to try and create increasingly grisly spots. I don't think your world title match is the right spot for a death match either. (On the positive side, I really loved the intro for Hangman here.)

Mercedes/Toni Storm was excellent too. Toni is crazy over. I've not seen much of Mercedes since she left WWE but thought she was incredibly good here. Are there other Mercedes matches worth checking out from her AEW run so far?
 
Mike5181

Mike5181

International Captain
Red_Ink_Squid said:
I've mostly stopped following AEW (and WWE for that matter) this year, but I checked out a bit of All In. The main event seemed really well booked in a end-of-season finale way, like their version of Cody finishing his story at 'mania 40 with all the run ins and payoffs. But I agree, I don't like the abundance of death match spots. Those sorta matches should be limited to a couple a year at most imo so the brutal spots really matter and stand out. I don't think your world title match is the spot for a death match either. Doing hardcore bloodfests every big show (and some smaller shows too) is not only over catering to a niche part of the audience, but devalues the ridiculous punishment the workers are taking too and creates an unhealthy pressure to try and create increasingly grisly spots. (On the positive side, I really loved the intro for Hangman here.)

Mercedes/Toni Storm was excellent too. Toni is crazy over. I've not seen much of Mercedes since she left WWE but thought she was incredibly good here. Are there other Mercedes matches worth checking out from her AEW run so far?
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Athena, Kris Statlander x 2, Jamie Hayter, Willow Nightingale, Billie Starkz. She's been on a good run in AEW. She had a really good one against Hazuki in New Japan last year too.
 
Bahseph

Bahseph

International Debutant
Yeah fully agree on the death match stuff. I used to go out of my way to keep up with AEW but honestly if I want a wrestling fix now I look for a good match from WWE. Hardcore matches in itself are fine when they are special attractions but now when I think about Moxley I think blood and gore whereas before he was a brawler who threw in some nice grappling and good character work. I think what irks me is these big blow offs are on a Sunday or Saturday and then these guys show up on the next TV show! Why would I believe that a simple finisher is enough then? It just kills the established power levels needed to finish a match. Not to say WWE doesn’t do finisher spam but usually a very crazy spot in a hardcore match leads to a finish there.
 
sledger

sledger

Spanish_Vicente
I like both Omega and Ospreay, but mostly for meta reasons. Watching their matches is like watching a kid playing a wrestling video game and just "doing all the cool moves". It's not even bad every now and again, but when it's done to death it completely loses all meaning. RoH in the pre Tony Khan era became very much like this, and so did NXT in the black and gold days to some extent.
 
Mike5181

Mike5181

International Captain
Bahseph said:
Yeah fully agree on the death match stuff. I used to go out of my way to keep up with AEW but honestly if I want a wrestling fix now I look for a good match from WWE. Hardcore matches in itself are fine when they are special attractions but now when I think about Moxley I think blood and gore whereas before he was a brawler who threw in some nice grappling and good character work. I think what irks me is these big blow offs are on a Sunday or Saturday and then these guys show up on the next TV show! Why would I believe that a simple finisher is enough then? It just kills the established power levels needed to finish a match. Not to say WWE doesn’t do finisher spam but usually a very crazy spot in a hardcore match leads to a finish there.
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I'd actually say AEW is very story and characterization heavy now. I don't think I've seen character work like Swerve/Hangman or Timeless Toni Storm in WWE in years, if ever. And it's not like Mercedes, FTR, Hayter, Takeshita, Briscoe, Megan Bayne, Hobbs, etc. just do a bunch of flippy **** or death matches.
 
Aritro

Aritro

International Vice-Captain
Ospreay's best matches are properly fleshed out, good psychology matches and he's had a fair few in the last few years IMO

I do find it hard watch entire Dynamites and Collisions though. Yeah they have good individual workers but the weekly shows seem to feature one-track spotfests fairly often these days - and even more so than they they used to, it feels like. Shame, because the stories and character work are the best they've ever been but I mostly stick to Youtube highlights now.
 
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GotSpin

GotSpin

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
sledger said:
I had heard the reports he was seriously unwell.

Undeniably an absolute icon. But honestly he was a total ****. C'est la vie.
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Yeah I saw a photo of him recently and he looked like he was knocking on deaths door

Anyway, pretty unsavoury character but what an incredibly part of wrestling history he was
 
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