2019-10-15 NWA Powerrr Ep 2 Review

Good morning, good afternoon, good evening....whenever you find this blog.  I loved the first episode and cannot wait to see this one. It is wrestling the way I remember and the way I love it....wait...I feel like that is not the NWA tag line but you know what I mean!

• Great recap of Tim Storm and Nick Aldis last week
• It is weird that I feel this show is better produced than a certain show on TNT
• SANDOW IS BACK!
• How has WWE not picked Sandow back up?  If for nothing else to be a manager because the man can talk
• Love that the interviewer is going along with the no eye contact thing, love this already!
• Where did they dig Murdoch up from?  I am a huge fan of his
• It is a little weird with no music but makes them so different
• I want to see Murdoch and Beer City Bruiser as a team!!
• Damn awesome missile dropkick!
• Love that the match ended without a finisher, we need more of that
• Not sure about this Ricky Starks kid because this interview is not all that good
• Is Starks a good guy?  Because he is coming off as heel 
• Colt is a strangely good looking guy.  I am surprised WWE did not use him better....but then again I am not
• Ugggg, he is still doing the stupid asshole thing?
• Already making it like they do not get along, interesting....
• PELE KICK!!!
• Kingsley is taking a hell of an ass-kicking
• I hope they do not keep allowing no hand tags, I hate that as does Corny
• Where did they dig up Tony Falk?  Good grief 
• I have been a fan of Allysin for a while now going back to when she was in Impact
• Damn that was right on her tailbone
• I like this youngster Vox
• Way too many somersaults in wrestling
• I liked Allisyn covered up from the chops instead of just taking it
• OH MY GOD!  I hate that move, that will break someone's neck
• Did they just cut that interview short?
• Tim Storm deserved that standing ovation
• Homicide is looking old
• What is up with Issacs weird wrist stuff?
• The Dawsons are showing up to show they are dominate, love it!
• Camille is a lovely young lady
• Interesting that they are making Aldis kind of a bully but Camille is going along with it

Another great show from the NWA!  Corny and Joe are really starting to gel as a team.  Guys like James Storm and Cabana can carry the younger guys to good matches and help them grow into better performers.  Wild Cards are solid performers and I think this Stark kid might be something special as well.  Another great show and I cannot wait to watch next week.

Here are the Results/Segments

• Interview:  Aaron Stevens
• Ricky Starks def. Trevor Murdoch
• Interview:  Ricky Starks/Trevor Murdoch
• Segment:  Nick Aldis (NWA Champion)
• Interview:  Colt Cabana & Mr. Anderson
• Colt Cabana/Mr. Anderson def. Sal Rinauro/Jordan Kingsley
• Segment:  Nick Aldis (NWA Champion)
• Interview:  Eddie Kingston & Homicide
• Allysin Kay (NWA Women's Champion) def. Ashley Vox
• Interview:  Allysin Kay (NWA Women's Champion)/Ashley Vox
• Interview:  Tim Storm
• Interview:  James Storm (National Champion)/Eli Drake
• Eddie Kingston/Homicide & Thom Latimer/Royce Isaacs (NWA Tag Team Champions) fought to a No Contact for the Titles
• Interview:  Nick Aldis (NWA Champion)/Camille

2019-10-08 NWA Powerrr review

Good morning, good afternoon, good evening....whenever it is you have found this entry.  Tonight I checked out the first episode of NWA power(rr?).  I do not know what to expect.  I know Jim Cornette loved it but he might be biased.  Lets go to my thoughts...

• Tim Storm has such a great old school look!
• Uggg, I already hate the fans chanting NWA
• Corny is looking GREAT!
• Nick looks ike a champion does he not?
• Wow, who is that with Nick? 
• Nick has done a great job of losing his accent but not completely to make it better for us American to understand him
• The J-O-B, throwback to Dusty and Ric!  LOVE IT!
• Already loving this show!!!
• Love what JC just announced the refs name!  They are part of the show too guys
• Love a good squash!
• I can get behind those Dawson Boys!  The one is my bearded brethren!
• Is that really Austin Idol!?!?!
• Honestly, if it was twenty years ago I would be going to learn from Austin Ido
• E-Li-Drake!  Huge fan and surprised NXT did not sign him up
• Two former Impact Stars here and already bigger stars here
• I love the old school feel to the show.  Easily my favourite show in months already!
• I feel like I am watching old school NWA with the show.  I am in wrestling HEAVEN...minus the fans....
• Who is Jocephus but I like him!
• I LOVE JAMES STORM!!!!
• I hate the flipping spear
• How has Eddie Kingston not been on a national stage?
• I think Jocephus is one of my new favourites!
• And that fast I guess he is not going to be featured going forward
• I hope at 50 I look 25% as good as Tim Storm!
• That was bad, Aldis going across the ring after a buckle shoot
• FIGURE FOUR!!!
• That is the first time that I have heard an announcer say that it affects both legs just differently....which it does!
• Uggg, I hate wrestling fans and their chants and shits
• I hope they do not have Storm tap, just have him pass out
• Why are the fans chanting NWA instead of Storm?

That is easily my favourite show in months as I said earlier.  The pacing was fantastic!  The old school feel (minus the stupid fans chanting the companies name instead of the wrestlers) was awesome.  The wrestlers are old school.  I love Aldis and Storm (both of them).  The tag team of the Dawsons is old school and fun.  Corny is easily my favourite announcer right now (sorry JR).  This is what wrestler was growing up and I loved it.  Forget AEW this is the wrestling show EVERY fan should be watching!!

Results/segments of the Show

• Interview:  Nick Aldis (NWA Champion)
• Dave Dawson/Zane Dawson def. Sal Rinauro/Billy Buck
• Interview: Dave Dawson & Zane Dawson 
• Interview:  Eli Drake
• Eli Drake def. Caleb Konley
• Video:  Tim Storm
• Segment:  Jocephus
• Segment:  Jocephus/James Storm (National Champion)
• Thom Latimer/Royce Isaacs (Tag Team Champions) def. Danny White/Mims
• Interview:  Thom Latimer & Royce Isaacs (Tag Team Champions)/Eddie Kingston & Homicide
• Segment:  James Storm (National Champion)/Jocephus
• James Storm (National Champion) def. Jocephus
• Video:  Tim Storm/Nick Aldis (NWA Champion)
• Interview:  Tim Storm
• Nick Aldis (NWA Champion) def. Tim Storm for the Title
• Interview:  Nick Aldis (NWA Champion)

1990-11-24 Worldwide

Good morning, good afternoon, good evening...whenever it is you have found this entry. Tonight I am checking out a late 1990 WCW Worldwide.  This was late in the Black Scorpion storyline.  You also have Doom as the tag team champs and Stan Hansen as the US Champion.  Let us see what Worldwide had for us at that point.  (If you want to see the results scroll down to the end)

• I do love Dirty Dutch on announcing
• Doom was a hell of a tag-team
• Weird, Flair did not say a thing there
• So weird to see Ron Simmons throw a dropkick
• Ugly looking piledriver
• Aside from the snap powerslam that Randy Orton/Dustin Rhodes do I love Simmons version
• Brian Pillman could not talk at this point
• So weird that Morton kept the RNR gear at this point but Rich did not do something similar
• How bad is wildfires hair at this point?
• It is weird to think that Ricky Morton is currently the NWA Tag Team Champions with Robert Gibson
• I cannot watch this knowing where the Black Scorpion story goes without thinking it had such potential
• I wish I saw more Stan Hansen, this brief period in WCW I really enjoyed
• Paul E was good even back in the day
• Weird to see Mr Hughes in regular wrestling gear
• I always loved Rip Rogers hair and dark beard
• Zenk just was not that good in the ring and I am surprised Rip never got more of a push
• However, that was a pretty good top rope crossbody
• Such a weird team, Landell and the Moondog
• It is sad to think about how good Buddy could have been if Buddy did not always get in his own way
• I know people love the Big Poppa Pump version of Scotty but this was my favourite, 90-93
• Look how think the Nastys are!!
• How many Nature Boys did WCW have?  Flair...Lee...Landell all at once!

I do not know why but I didn't enjoy that as much as I do the older WWF shows.  Maybe because I was watching WWF at the time so I have fond memories.  Maybe because WCW/NWA had lesser characters.  But aside from the Main Event tag team match (the Steiners match) this show as just there for me.  I just do not and did not care about most of the guys on the card and I think that sums up WCW/NWA in 1990!

Segments:

• Butch Reed/Ron Simmons (NWA Tag Team Champions) def. Mark White/Pablo Crenshaw
• Segment:  Brian Pillman
• Ricky Morton/Tommy Rich def. Jim Corbett/Mike Samples
• Segment:  Black Scorpion/Sting (NWA Champion)
• Wrestling Wrap-up
• Winner Circles:  Stan Hansen (US Champion)
• Big Kat def. Keith Hart via DQ
• Segment:  Sid
• The Z-Man def. Rip Rogers
• Rick Steiner/Scott Steiner (US Champions) def. Moondog Rex/Buddy Landell
• Segment:  Rick Steiner & Scott Steiner (US Champions)/Brian Knobbs & Jerry Sags
•  Jimmy Garvin/Michael Hayes def. Todd Brewer/Paul Lee
• Segment:  The Juicer
• Interview:  Butch Reed & Ron Simmons (NWA Tag Team Champions) & Teddy Long

2019-10-04 Impact

Good morning, good afternoon, good evening....whenever it is you found this.  Today I am looking at the 2019-10-04 Impact Wrestling show.  I will admit I have not watched Impact for probably a year.  So I am not up with the storylines or anything like that.  Let us see how they have improved.....

• Wow, Sami Callihan is still around in Impact huh?
• Madison Rayne still looks amazing!
• Is that Josh Matthews?  That is who they have doing announcing huh?  I sure did not miss Impact
• Uggg, Josh is talking about Halloween and he is just awful
• I am less than 5 minutes into the show and I am reminded how awful the announcing is 
• Is that official 16?
• This match is horrible, not a great reintroduction to Impact
• So Madison Rayne left ROH and possibly NXT for this?  
• Wow that was...um...something.  That was one of the worst TV matches I have seen in a while
• Tommy Dreamer is looking old!
• Johnny Swinger?!?!?! Seriously?  Where did they dig Swinger up from?
• Wow, Cyrus is fricking talking carney!  Good grief I am about to mute this
• What is with all the pointing in wrestling!
• Rob Van Dam is in a tag team now?  How the mighty have fallen
• Reno Scum....um....yeah
• 'Member when Eddie Edwards was one of the biggest stars?  I 'member
• Listen to the crowd, it is like there are 4 people are there!
• This is like a trainwreck and I cannot look away
• Even the fans are broke and have pieces of paper instead of poster board signs
• The fans are about as excited as I am for this...and that is not very
• These guys look like people off the street of Vegas, not wrestlers
• Should I care about these guys?  I know this is the first time in months...or longer...since I watched but these guys are not stars
• I ask again why is there so much pointing in wrestling?!
• Tessa is the first person on this show to look like a star
• Ken Shamrock is looking OLD!
• I hate to say it but Havok has gained some weight
• So many Impact stars had/have great potential yet they are there in almost the minor league

This show as bad.  I know I do not know the characters but none of them look like stars.  Most of them look like fans that became wrestlers but never became good.  Guys like Elgin or TJP or Madison Rayne or Tessa Blanchard are fantastic but then you have oVe which just makes it look so minor league.

I hope with AXS things increase but we shall see

2019-10-11 Smackdown Review

Good morning, good afternoon, good evening....whenever it is you have found this entry.  Today I am watching this weeks Smackdown.  It is Draft Friday boys and girls and who will bleed blue and who will bleed red?  My pick of the first pick of the first round is BROCK LESNAR!...wait...he cannot be picked tonight?  Well find then I will go with Roman Reigns

• It is interesting that Ember Moon is in the Smackdown entrance when she is rarely used
• Also the new Smackdown intro music SUCKS!
• They are giving us Reigns vs. Rollins live on Smackdown?  Really want to get big numbers for Fox!
• Still weird now having Cole on Raw but no Smackdown again 
• I like that Seth brings out the best of Reigns.  Reigns is good given the correct opponent.  
• I know they say Seth or Reigns should be number one but if it was me it would be Lesnar first,  then New Day, then Bray Wyatt, then Strowman, then Becky
• Rollins is so damn good but he is also formulaic a bit.  
• That was an awesome counter to the spear!  Do not think I have seen that before
• ITS THE FIEND!!
• HE JUST DRUG ROLLINS TO HELL AND BACK!
• I love that hey have CGI Football Robot in Fox!
• Of course, Stephanie is there
• Becky is the number one pick again!  AWESOME!
• Reigns stay on Smackdown, interesting
• I like that the OC stayed together
• Wait...the Fiend goes to Friday!  Woway Zowie!
• Drew is still a thing?  When was the last time we saw him?
• Uggg, this fake war room stuff is bad
• I thought that was Taz not Joe
• Love the shot at Rene's husband by Joe!  TAKE THAT MOXLEY!
• I know I am in the minority but I love King Corbin
• What is with these weird camera shots?
• Fox is really throwing their stars at Smackdown
• I love that Cole is calling him Shorty Gable
• I would have Gable be the man on 205 every week
• Not sure I would have had King Corbin win but that's okay
• Orton to Raw, interesting
• Sasha to Smackdown...who cares
• Ricochet says on Raw okay
• STROWMAN TO SMACKDOWN!!!
• Lashley is still a thing that people care about?
• Heyman is the best in the business
• Why is Kofi so happy?  He is over being a FORMER champion?
• I love that the WWE does the cancer stuff but it is a bit of a downer and hurts the pacing of the show.  I know it is weird to say but would the NFL or NBA stop middle of the third quarter to do something?  It is just strange
• I would watching AJ vs. Kofi a few times
• Kofi needed that win
• I love me som Alexa Bliss, so underrated
• Lacey Evans to Smackdown.  I like her!
• Kevin Owens to Raw?  Interesting....
• The Top Guys stay on Smackdown!  I would like to see them on every wrestling show honest
• Why would anyone waste a pick on Nattie?  Nothing personal but why
• Wait....why only Alexa?  No Nikki Cross and Alexa Bliss?
• Viking Raiders stay on Raw.  Future champs right there!
• Why would you take the Lucha House Party?  Maybe they will get a big push
• Wait....they used two draft picks on Cross and Bliss?
• Heavy Machinery stays on Smackdown.  Love me some Otis!
• My wife just said we are not going to watch Raw anymore because of the Street Profits
• Will Bayley get the title back?  If so why change the title in the first place
• Fans booing Bayley?
• Bayley with a hoodie?  Is she a meanie now?
• SHE IS KILLING HER WACKY WAVING INFLATABLE ARM FLAILING TUBE MEN!!
• SHE ALSO CUT HER HAIR!!
• Love the new hair cut on Bayley
• Charlotte does too many high risk moves for her size in my opinion
• Charlotte is awful at hitting the moonsault.  It looks amazing but she cannot land it right, always looks like a flipping moonsault elbow shot
• Someone is bleeding the ref has the gloves on!
• She just beat Charlotte clean?!

Well that was a shocking way to end the show!  A heel Bayley just won the title back and basically clean.  Used the hair to pull Charlotte down but that is....did Bayley just say bitches?  Damn I love it!

A much better show this week I think.  I felt like it flowed better and was paced better, minus the segment with the New Day.  

Once again, however, I feel like they wasted AJ Styles.  Hopefully not a trend.

I would give the show a solid B.  Not perfect but very good.  I enjoyed it more than AEW this week especially with the fantastic Bayley turn.

Joker: A fat man review

Good morning, good afternoon, good evening...whenever it is you have found this review.  Today I am going to talk about the newly released Joker flick.

Overall this flick was AMAZING!  While not a complete origin story, because as we all know there is no real origin story to Mr. J, it does a good job of giving a base story...a POSSIBLE origin for him.  We have several others of course, the story from The Killing Joke, the one from the original Batman flick in 92 and others.  They did a good job of mixing a lot of those. 

And honestly aside from Ledger this is a perfect live-action Joker.  This was a subdued Joker because he is just coming into his own.  Like a preteen who has not figured out just who he is yet.  You see him "age" and "come into his own" which is great.

The casting of Thomas Wayne and Murray Franklin was fantastic.  Easily one of my favourite DeNiro's performances especially near the end. 

I do not want to go into too much detail and spoil things but they throw a few curveballs and "possibilities" that I have not seen in Batman lore before. 

I am honestly not sure what else to say about this.  It is perfectly dark and light at the same time.  However I have one complaint, they make Joker almost sympathetic.  Without giving too much away what starts Arthurs turn into Joker is almost, ALMOST, not his fault.  His reaction to the situation is, again, ALMOST normal.  This is what made Heath Ledgers portrayal perfect because there was nothing redeeming or good about his Joker. 

Also, I find it interesting that the director has said that this will not cross over into the DC Cinematic Universe.  This is the first of DC's one-off movies.  It will be interesting to see who else we see in this type of flick and if they do end up in the DCCU. 

I am going to say that this is a 10/10 while IMDB has it at 9/10.  I LOVED THIS FLICK and will be purchasing the Blu-Ray when it comes out!

1990-11-11 Challenge Review

Good morning, good afternoon or good evening, whenever it is you have found this blog.  This entry is another wrestling review and we are going into our way-back machine to 1990.  This was the year I got into pro wrestling and we are going to November 11th.  We are on the march to the Survivor Series at this point.  I have no idea what we will see but it should be Gorilla Monsoon and Bobby Heenan which means I will be entertained!  Enough guess lets go to the tape (mp4)!

• Oh yeah, this is when Bobby Heenan was bashing Boss Mans mom, great angle because it felt like something The Brain would do
• I would be lying if I did not say how much I loved this era of wrestling.  I know most people hated the early 90s but I loved them!
• Black Bart was a great hand as they say in wrestling.  Excellent in the territories and believable as a threat to a stars
• However, in this match, these two sure started off poorly
• Bart was such a throwback even in 1990
• Love that he used something other than the big splash and I miss these squash matches!
• Look how young Dustin is!  Also, how is it he looks almost the same nearly 30 years later!
• Dusty is in pretty good shape for 1990, I remember him much bigger
• Here comes Mr. Perfect!  He would be one of the biggest stars behind the scene if Curt was still alive.  I miss the Perfect One
• Shelton did not hip toss Perfect, he just went over on his own he is that good
• And now my favourite tag team Demolition!  That really is the perfect team!
• Oh, I miss the giant egg, we need more of this in wrestling!  
• Love that patch of hair on Slaughters forehead
• I miss these slower type matches.  30 seconds in now we would have 10 flips and 15 superkicks!
• Weird to see Sgt throw a dropkick
• What does it say when Kerry Von Erich is the most well-spoken on a team!
• Do you think Hawk will say.....weeeeellll
• Why does Warrior have his back to the camera
• Wait...Hawk did NOT say it?  I am so confused and scared
• I am surprised Rick Martel still is not in the Hall of Fame.  
• Also weird to think he only held the tag titles
• How long did Tito and Martel feud?  Are they still feuding now?
• Weird to see both wearing white trunks
• Maybe Martel is wearing those baby blue trunks, it is a transfer from VHS
• Ah yes, blind Jake Roberts.  Now he is just blind after drinking piss since he is the piss drinking champion of the world! 
• I hate Jake but he has a great voice
• Bunkhouse Brawl?  In the WWF?  So weird
• Did Roddy Piper feud with Earthquake?  Also, I miss Pipers interviews
• Uggg, how horrible was Saba Simba
• That kid LOVED Simbas music!
• I wonder what Tony Atlas thought when they came to him with that headdress and spear
• I love that Gorilla reminds me of my Grandpa, I think that is why we all loved Gorilla so much

I love these old shows.  It was all about getting the stars over and getting the fans to the arena.  I wonder if in 20 years people will look back at Michael Cole and company as fondly as we do Gorilla and Bobby and Jesse Ventura.  I hope so.  

This show was what you would expect, all about the survivor series...and randomly Saba Simba!  The Egg, the teams, the feuds.  It was great that they could build-up for months to see what happens with these guys.  Now three weeks and the feud is over and onto the next guy typically.  Looking at what they did with Strowman and Rollins and probably Rollins and Wyatt.  

Overall enjoyable for what it was.  The memories were great and if you watched it back in time you probably really enjoyed.  I still did now! 

AEW Dynamite Week 2: 2019-10-09

Good morning, good afternoon, good evening.....whenever it is you have found this entry.  Today I am watching the 2nd episode of AEW Dynamite.  Nothing more to say so let's go to the show!

• Starting off with some tag team action!  
• Uggg, I do not like Justin Roberts.  Did not in WWE and I do not now!
• Nice neckbeard there Matty boy
• 12 seconds with both men in the ring!
• Nicky Boy has an 8 head!  Just cut your hair off son
• 15 seconds that time.  Did they not say the rules would matter?
• Seriously how long can both men be in the ring?  Is it a tornado match?
• That should be the end of Kassidy, if he comes back it is just plain and simply dumb
• This is a basic Bucks match with very little psychology fans
• How do wins and loses count JR?  The Bucks are on a two-match losing streak yet they are ranked number one in the tourney?
• And of course Kassidy is back up
• So are the Bucks good guys or bad guys or "tweeners"?  Personally, they will always be heels to me!
• I hate it when guys turn their backs on their opponent.  Someone said how much Vince McMahon hates it and now I can not not see it!
• Why would he crawl to the opposite side of the ring?
• Also, when did the Sharpshooter become a basic move?
• Quen needs a better haircut!
• YES!  Bucks lose!
• Here comes Y2J....can I call him that or will I get sued?
• I hate their belt design, looks like the old Mid-South North American Title
• Good grief I want to slap Sammy.  PULL UP YOUR PANTS!
• The worst version of LAX?
• Wow Jericho is on fire!
• Uggg, why are the fans excited that Jericho just bashed them.  I HATE SMART FANS!
• The Inner Circle?  Really?
• Calling Dusty a jerk?  Great heat move
• Full Gear?  Stupid name
• Time for garbage wrestling!
• Wait...wins and loses matters yet I have not seen either of these guys win yet they are in a number one contender's match?
• I hope they do not do their garbage crap here
• Good grief that was ugly and sloppy
• This match seems slow
• That DVD into the Buckle is stupid but they did it very safely!
• Nice use of the Coffin Drop and the match was better than I expected.  At least no garbage hardcore crap
• I just cannot buy Riho when she is smaller than most high school kids
• Baker is almost orange unless it is my TV
• I am sorry but should I care about this tag match?  Not what I would put on at the hour 
• We have seen a stunner in all three matches
• Nice submission combo!  Rings of Saturn with a Mandible Claw.  Different and well done
• OH GOD!  I hate these guys.  The Best Friends my ass....and Pockets is there!
• Is this a heel vs. heel match?
• Very good question by PAC
• It is weird to have Tully at ringside still
• We are seeing a lot of repeat big moves tonight which is weird
• Seriously are there rules in AEW?
• Is Omega the Cleaner again?  Really picked the broom over the ball bat?  He is a moron
• Nice chaps there Hangman!
• Seriously Dustin has been wrestling since the late 80's!  He looks better than ever!
• I do not get Sammy.  Not who I would have picked to be the kid who is pushed but not my call obviously ha ha
• Shades of Stan Hansen there!  Love the lariat
• I do not think I have seen Dustin do that sunset flip bomb before!
• Love me some MJF!
• Oh my god, seriously he used a skateboard to come down and attack Y2J!

I would say this was a good show.  The Darby match and the ladies match was a bit of a drag for me.  Plus I hope we do not see a brawl at the end of every show.  It got old with the nWo and it will get old her as well.  

The main event was fantastic but with Y2J and Goldie in it what do you expect!

Overall a step down from last week but it would be hard to keep up.  

Until next time....Abyssinia!

2019-10-04 Smackdown Review

Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, whenever it is you have found this review.  Today I am looking at the debut edition for Smackdown on Fox!  I am not going to bore you with a huge intro lets get to it!

• Interesting set, not sure I like or hate it, it will take a few weeks
• Of course, the McMahons open the show
• I love that Vince always sounds like he has been gargling razor blades anymore
• Why Michael Cole?  I feel bad for Tom Phillips 
• Now the Raw Women's champion....on the debut of Smackdown....yeah that makes sense
• KING CORBIN....also not on the blue brand
• HE IS HERE!  ITS HIM!  THE GREAT ONE!  ROCKY!!!!
• I hated him for some long and now I miss him so much.  Sometimes you do not know what you have till you no longer have it
• I love King Corbins look, my first time seeing it
• The dumb fans cannot chant together
• I love this!  
• Four Horsewomen in action next, a good way to start the night
• Every time I see Sasha I feel like I need a penicillin shot
• I feel like we have seen these ladies too much together
• Just nothing special about this sadly because we have seen it
• Erin Andrews has no clue who these guys are
• I started off hating the Firefly Funhouse but now I love it!
• There was a time people cared about Shinsuke right?  
• I love the Fiend and Wyatt both!
• They are throwing everything at the wall here for the first Smackdown on Fox 
• For no real training, Shane has always been good
• I hope Owens loses and comes back as Mr. Canada or the Midnight Rider
• AS GOD IS MY WITNESS SHANE IS BROKEN IN HALF!
• Seriously why would he do that!
• Seriously why is Shane on his feet after that?  That should have been the end of Shane on WWE TV for months
• Paul Heyman is the Hitchcock of WWE directing horror movies that is star Brock Lesnar!
• Why should I care about Braun Strowman?  
• And what is Braun wearing?
• How great is Otis?  So entertaining
• Who is Tyson Fury?  Should I care?
• I like Rowen and it is nice to see him finally get a chance
• I love the chaos of lumberjack matches!
• Needed a bigger brawl for me
• Well I guess that ends the Kofi experiment
• What the hell?  Rey Mysterio really?
• I guess I do not know my MMA well enough to know who Cain Velasquez is

That was a very good show.  I am not sure I like Kofi losing in 10 or so seconds but lets see where it goes before I hate on it.  This was, hopefully, chapter one, of this story.  Also interesting to see Cain Velasquez enter the fray as it were.  Where this goes will be interesting.

I hated to see Randy Orton, Miz and AJ Styles put into a pointless 8 man tag.  Should have been Strowman vs. Cesaro or someone to get to the Fury and Strowman staredown.

Overall nothing horrible but there was the bad 8 man, not because of the people, but because of the use of those people.  Also seeing people like the Viking Experience no-sold during the Lumberjack Match sucked.  Little things that WWE will say no one noticed does get noticed.  

Very good first show on Fox but like I said about AEW it is not about one show but 10 and 20 and 50 to keep me, and the fans, happy.

2019-10-02 AEW Dynamite Review

Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, whenever it is you find this.  I have returned after a long LONG absence of blogging.  Work and private life got real hectic real fast but I back....and better than ever!

I return to review the first-ever AEW show that happened tis past Wednesday night.  If you are new to my blog and reviews I will give you my thoughts as I watch it and then give you a summary afterwards.

So lets get to the tape as it were for the debut of AEW Dynamite!

• Why are there so many table sops in their opening?  Good grief!
• I know some don't like Excalibers look, but I think it is different although a little goofy with the mask
• Of course, we start off a Rhodes promotion with a Rhodes!  Dusty would be proud for some many reasons
• Wait...what is the difference between your life and your career Sammy?
• OH MY GOD, I cannot take Sammy serious if he is wearing that stupid polar bear outfit thing, Cody better beat him in about 30 seconds if he wears that!
• Brandi might be the most beautiful woman in wrestling today
• Good grief Sammy looks like a bad stripper hired for a rednecks bachelorette party
• Sammy is a great athlete but looks so silly
• I love having a female official, but it should be ladies for ladies and men for men, but that probably makes me an old man
• Vlogger?  Good grief!
• The delayed suplex is great but overdone.  It used to be special when Davey Boy did it
• Uggg, I hate the AEW crowd and their noise
• Huh?  Run through the house with a pickle in his mouth?
• Really?  A Brandi bump early on?  I hope they are strapping the rocket on this Sammy kid because if not...
• Cody needed to sell that inverted superplex a minute more
• Cody does not stand a chance if it takes him this much to beat Sammy
• I do not like Justin Roberts voice as a ring announcer
• Tony Schiavone looks GREAT!
• Why did Cody just keep talking to Sammy as the fans starting freaking out?
• Interesting they want to commercial but kept the attack going
• Jericho's "sleeve" looks awful....well most do honestly
• This attack is taking forever.  I thought this stuff was supposed to NOT happen in AEW.  Rules matter right?
• Love the stagehand shoving Jericho around, great camera work boys
• WTF IS BRANDON CUTLER?!?!  He looks like a bad jobber from the '80s
• Really a friend of the Young Bucks?
• Here is the biggest star in AEW, MJF!  
• Good grief he does have a D&D shirt!
• Really Excaliber?  Talking about D&D WAY too much, hope WotC paid for that!
• Two matches two dives....hopefully we will see a superkick at some point
• Love it, he cheated to win and we all know he did not need to, is he the only true heel in wrestling?
• Who is this horrible interviewer?  He is awful!
• Well that segment was Raw Host bad
• Scorpio does a pretty good Obama!
• Are SCU faces or heels?
• Another wasted segment.  Its like Thunder here!
• Wait, what is Aubrey doing?  If Daniels cannot push her around how can he do anything!  COME ON!
• How great is PAC?  Honestly, AEW has some of the best heels going today
• Is Earl Hebner the oldest official in wrestling ever?
• Second running Shoot Star Press, we should not be seeing repeat big moves like that in my opinion
• Is PAC the best wrestler in the world right now?
• Riho is just not believable as a challenger to ANYONE
• How many people are going to turn their backs on their opponents?
• Seriously this is just weird to see someone the size of a child beating up a full-grown adult
• So there are no rules in AEW, got it
• Yep, Riho gets the win because that makes sense, 98-pound champion who looks like a schoolgirl.  Guess you got to keep those Anime fans somehow
• Speaking of school kids here comes the Young Bucks....well the one looks like a balding school kid
• Only one of these six looks like stars and he is the champion!
• Omega would if he didn't shake his head and point around all time.  
• Jim Cornette talks about it and calls it jazz hands
• Wow superkicks by the bucks, really some unique stuff
• Why would you want to jump through your brothers legs?
• Omega is taking literally 30 seconds to do something
• WHERE IS THE BELL?  No rules again
• VIP area that is just next to the bar and no one is in it?
• Why would Moxley go through it too?  He went through the glass before Kenny boy
• Really?  So a bad back he can suplex TWO guys at once?  
• Nick needs to cut his hair, good grief he almost has a skullet that Heyman would be proud of!
• nWo style brawl to end the show
• Where is MJF to help Cody...both times?

An excellent to a very good show.  I am shocked by how much I enjoyed the show since I have not enjoyed most of their pay per views.  I think the stars gave too much too the others but seeing the end of the show made more sense on the Sammy stuff earlier.  Looks like it is going to be a big push for LAX and Sammy which will be interesting when you have real men like Hager who tower over most of the roster.  Overall I'd give the show a 4/5, very good.  However like WWE tweeted out, it is a marathon not a sprint.  Lets see what I am saying come first of the year or this time next year!  

However from a wrestling fans standpoint, we now have AEW, Raw, Smackdown, NXT, NXT UK, Impact on AXS and NJPW all airing in the US.  Plus NWA and OVW both regularly on YouTube (next week for the NWA).  It is an excellent time to be a fan of pro wrestling boys and girls and this fat man is very very happy!