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AEW and Impact - 29th May
Jul. 6th, 2020 06:40 pmAEW
Halp! I remember when the Bucks of Youth (TM Matt Hardy) were young, and all the jokes about them being Hardy Boys replacements.
AEW are Real Madrid in all the worst ways, I don't mean those years where Real used their ridiculous system and actually won things, I mean that particular early 2000 version where they had *all the players* and therefore couldn't half of them. AEW seem to be desperate to have *all the wrestlers*, even while they're not using the ones they've got. I mean fine, they've got FTR (I will be nice and not call them Generic 1 and Generic 2) but they've already got a whole tag team division where we hardly get to see some of them. Even before the virus, how often did we get to see Santana and Ortiz or the Lucha Bros? And I'm no fan of Brodie Lee, but didn't the end of him vs Mox feel rushed. It all seemed a bit, "yay, we have Brodie Lee, let's give him a title shot. Wait a minute, we have Brian Cage, let's give him a title shot. I suspect the Mox vs Brian Cage thing will only last as long as the Mox vs Brodie Lee thing, which will be a shame.
Re: Moxley vs Cage, definite improvement on Moxley vs Brodie Lee (although in 3 months time, please let me have Darby Allin vs Brian Cage).
How am I supposed to choose between a team with Kazarian and team evil and British! (Semi-sensibly, of the totally new to me guys in AEW, Kip Sabian, Penelope Forde and Britt Baker are probably my favourites. And Suge Dunkerton. So, Evil Brit, Fiancee of Evil Brit, Evil Britt, Lovely Brit).
I also suspect that someone backstage at AEW is a Brit because I wasn't expecting the Grandstand highlights music over the Stampede highlights.
TNA:
See Chris Bey, this is what you get for encouraging Swinger. Don't encourage him. I <3 Willie Mack, protector of right, true and other Deener!
Smirking Deener pleases me.
I am also pleased by ... Suzy and Summer Rae, Rosemary and Bravo, and the look of nervousness on adorable Weed Bro Trey.
Trey's match to get into the tournament final was enjoyable, for uses of the word enjoyable that involve me squeaking at, for and to Trey, and going "ouch!" a lot. Which is bad, because 3.30 am is a terrible time to want to shout.
They made an attempted superplex look like absolute danger.
Callihan, this is a bad time to interfere!
Actual footage of self at the end of the match - So happy!
Halp! I remember when the Bucks of Youth (TM Matt Hardy) were young, and all the jokes about them being Hardy Boys replacements.
AEW are Real Madrid in all the worst ways, I don't mean those years where Real used their ridiculous system and actually won things, I mean that particular early 2000 version where they had *all the players* and therefore couldn't half of them. AEW seem to be desperate to have *all the wrestlers*, even while they're not using the ones they've got. I mean fine, they've got FTR (I will be nice and not call them Generic 1 and Generic 2) but they've already got a whole tag team division where we hardly get to see some of them. Even before the virus, how often did we get to see Santana and Ortiz or the Lucha Bros? And I'm no fan of Brodie Lee, but didn't the end of him vs Mox feel rushed. It all seemed a bit, "yay, we have Brodie Lee, let's give him a title shot. Wait a minute, we have Brian Cage, let's give him a title shot. I suspect the Mox vs Brian Cage thing will only last as long as the Mox vs Brodie Lee thing, which will be a shame.
Re: Moxley vs Cage, definite improvement on Moxley vs Brodie Lee (although in 3 months time, please let me have Darby Allin vs Brian Cage).
How am I supposed to choose between a team with Kazarian and team evil and British! (Semi-sensibly, of the totally new to me guys in AEW, Kip Sabian, Penelope Forde and Britt Baker are probably my favourites. And Suge Dunkerton. So, Evil Brit, Fiancee of Evil Brit, Evil Britt, Lovely Brit).
I also suspect that someone backstage at AEW is a Brit because I wasn't expecting the Grandstand highlights music over the Stampede highlights.
TNA:
See Chris Bey, this is what you get for encouraging Swinger. Don't encourage him. I <3 Willie Mack, protector of right, true and other Deener!
Smirking Deener pleases me.
I am also pleased by ... Suzy and Summer Rae, Rosemary and Bravo, and the look of nervousness on adorable Weed Bro Trey.
Trey's match to get into the tournament final was enjoyable, for uses of the word enjoyable that involve me squeaking at, for and to Trey, and going "ouch!" a lot. Which is bad, because 3.30 am is a terrible time to want to shout.
They made an attempted superplex look like absolute danger.
Callihan, this is a bad time to interfere!
Actual footage of self at the end of the match - So happy!
