The Cold-Hearted Handsome Devil Hook will be making his Dynamite debut next week.
Fine, but sometimes I wanna see cavemen fight. Suzuki’s in his fifties and can’t move as quick as he used to, but he’s tough as leather. Samoa Joe escaped the PG-rated WWE element, and this match was definitely not sanitized for your protection. Technical masterpieces look alike after a while. This was just pure primal ferocity.
I do like those fights once in a while, and this was actually better than most, but it’s been done too much lately.
I am actually happy for you to get to see a fight you liked, it’s good to have variety in wrestling to suit varying tastes. I think the quality needs improvement in a lot of varieties but it’s better than the days when everything was the same and only the names changed. I watched the HOF induction for Gordon Solie the other day, he was truly skilled at making dull repetitive matches sound like something interesting was going on. The best most other announcers ever do is distract you from the poor work in the ring.
Gordon Solie could make a janitor sweeping with a broom sound exciting. “Stanley Johnson, eyeing his Herculean task, steadying his nerves for the task at hand,”
In the main event of Rampage for the AEW World Title in a Texas Death match, Hangman Adam Page wrapped some barbed wire around Adam Cole’s head like a crown of thorns and then drove him head-first through a table. On Good Friday.
Come on, man.
It’s art.
Adam Christ, Bay-Bay
While I haven’t watched yet (stupid time shift!), I’ve heard that the announcers were rather blasé about the blood. Seems AEW is using blood too often, thus lessening the impact when someone gets color. WWE has cages and elimination chambers and ramming people into steel over and over and no one ever bleeds, and on AEW someone bleeds once per show (yes, that’s an exaggeration - but not by much). Use of blood should be somewhere between those two extremes.
AEW Dark Taz/Excalibur moment of the day
Eddie Kingston joins commentary after the first match, and he and Taz frequently engage in New York heat: Brooklyn vs Yonkers, Yankees vs Mets, Long Island vs the Boroughs, and mistells producing Danielle Garcia and Coffee matches.
Ricky Starks & Powerhouse Hobbs vs. Dark Order’s Evil Uno & Stu Grayson
Starks armdrags Evil Uno, does his victory pose, then transitions into mocking Dark Order’s Claw.
Taz: That’s called mocking. You mock the Dark Order.
EK (evil voice): I am the Dark Order!
Taz: We do that all the time in our dojo.
EK: Oh really?
Ex: You practice Dark Order poses?
EK: That’s part of their curriculum.
Ex: Is that before or after blow up drills?
Taz: Blow up drills, squats, heavy lifting, we do all that.
…
Ex: You know what just happened. We lured Taz into giving the details of his Team Taz Master Class, so now we don’t have to sign up for it.
EK: I wasn’t going anyway.
Taz: You wouldn’t last, wise ass.
EK: Oh yeah, here we go. Here we go.
…
Hobbs knocks down Grayson with a short-arm clothesline.
Taz: That was nice, man. Big power by big Hobbs, man.
Ex: Big power, big aggression, by Power House Hobbs.
Taz: The poise right, see that’s the key, right? And you know that very well. You gotta have poise.
EK: Oh, now we’re friends?
Taz: No, we’re not friends! I’m trying to be professional, ya knucklehead!
Ex: Delayed vertical suplex… that’s how people from Brooklyn talk to people from Yonkers.
Taz: It’s basically.
EK: Yeah, we’re Home of the Brave, we’re all here at 7:30, wattup?
Taz: Oh God, stop.
…
Starks slaps Grayson on back of the head.
EK: Oh! Hell no!
Taz: What the hell’s goin’ on? What a shot, bro. That was a shot!
EK: That was a Brooklyn smack to the back of the head.
Taz: That was a shot, man.
EK: That’s when you eat the last Cannoli, and he wanted it, he smacks you in the back of the head! Waddaya doin’?
Bonus moment
Toni Storm vs Gigi Rey
Special Commentary Guest Jamie Hader, on potentially wrestling Britt Baker in the Owen Hart Tournament: “Just two friends knockin’ boots.”
Yeah, Kingston’s and Taz’s commentary during that match was great. Excalibur was just there treading water. He tried to get involved, but he was outclassed by Kingston and Taz.
Hader going off on Storm was also amusing, as Taz was egging Hader on.
Yup. Another example of wrestling stabbing itself in the back by overuse of gimmicks.
Tony Khan has announced an AEW/NJPW supershow for June 26th.
This has the potential to be an amazing show, especially if it can deliver on the Okada/Danielson match everyone’s been dreaming of for years.
Interesting that Renee had Jay White on Oral Sessions, which was filmed sometime before this week’s Dynamite, and asked him “So you’re with AEW now?” He said “no, still with New Japan,” pretty quickly. I wonder if he knew about the upcoming Supershow and didn’t want to leak. He seems to be the common denominator between the two feds, and thus the grand marshal of this convergence.
found these … wondering what people here would of thought about the booking
Found this too its a rare conglomeration of my two hobbies … wrestling and computers
AEW Dark Taz/Excalibur moment of the day
Some bullet points:
- “I was a baddie before baddie was a thing.”
- Serpentico is still trying to find his way after 2 1/2 years.
- Ex: You know who I owe a lot to? Taz: Me.
- “Internally, I second guessed myself. When you hear the show, there is no second guessing.”
- Taz wants to be surrounded by good people, not evil bad mean people like the Dark Order.
- “Goin’ back to Cali. To Cali. To Cali.”
- “That being the equivalent of you and the other broadcast guys talking in run-on sentences and never letting me get a word in edgewise.”
- “Get your hand off my knee.” “Not my hand.”
- Taz happened to have watched the obscure match Ex made a reference to just before the show.
- QT Marshall is rumored to be a lift tipper.
- Taz was a “Weblo.” Ex asked if he meant Weebalo, but the bit didn’t resolve.
- Taz tells Stagehand Jones to wipe off his dirty monitor.
Today’s moment was more of a deep dive than I realized.
Anna Jay & Skye Blue vs. The Bunny & Raychell Rose
Taz: I hear Raychell’s name, I think of one of my favorite movies, “Rochelle, Rochelle.”
Ex: From Mulan to Minsk, Taz.
Taz: Exactly. You know the movies! That’s awesome, bro.
This was a running gag in an episode of Seinfeld.
Too late to edit: The line is actually “from Milan to Minsk.”
Luther (who just got married) is still lost in Boston and that’s why he wasn’t with Serpentico.
Regarding the second-guessing, Excalibur ratted Taz out and said that he (Taz) would remove mispronouncing Raychelle’s name in post-production. I was sure that would have been the Taz/Excalibur MofD.
This seemed like the announcing at the end of a long day, because they focused more on just joking around and less on calling matches. Moreso than the usual, even.
Luther got married? I guess that’s why he hasn’t put out a new Cryptids video in a while. I sent him a ghost story this past November and haven’t seen anything since.