AEW - All Elite Wrestling (*Spoilers for Latest Show*)

J. Marston

Literally anywhere else and it would be fine. Upper arm, chest, anywhere.

It's almost on his face, for goodness sake.

SMC92Ian

J. Marston wrote: »

Literally anywhere else and it would be fine. Upper arm, chest, anywhere.

It's almost on his face, for goodness sake.

Ah it has to be paint or a transfer, he's not a gob****e.

J. Marston

SMC92Ian wrote: »

Ah it has to be paint or a transfer, he's not a gob****e.

If it was paint it probably would've started to sweat off by now.

SMC92Ian

J. Marston wrote: »

If it was paint it probably would've started to sweat off by now.

Did he have it Wed? Wouldn't it be too soon to wrestle with a fresh tat.

J. Marston

SMC92Ian wrote: »

Did he have it Wed? Wouldn't it be too soon to wrestle with a fresh tat.

Oh it's real, it's damn real...

https://twitter.com/AEWrestling/status/1233954797386072064?s=19

SMC92Ian

J. Marston wrote: »

Oh it's real, it's damn real...

https://twitter.com/AEWrestling/status/1233954797386072064?s=19

What a feckin' ejit!!! The hack.

J. Marston

There is such an effortless charm to Orange Cassidy. He's fantastic.

SMC92Ian

I feel this main event needed a gimmick match. It's a murder feud.

cian68

Just clicking with me that we're getting the AEW champ at Scrappermania. That's neat

Lord TSC

cian68 wrote: »

I was wrong. The neck tattoo, the band ****ting the bed, the gang of eejits walking him to the ring. Cody come across as less of a star on the PPV than he does on a random Wednesday

I'm an ultra casual AEW fan. Really, I follow some clips on Reddit and watch PPVs at a fast pace.

I've always enjoyed Cody from that distance, but the fact each of his PPV matches (including the entrances) are the same over the top "Look at all my family" things....it's losing it's appeal, honestly.

And yeah, that tattoo is horiffic.

On the other hand, I can't get enough of Orange Cassidy. An awesome blend of character and genuine wrestling ability. Super watchable, a gimmick thats incredibly fun, all backed up by an obvious talent to go when he wants.

Enjoyed the tag title match, and happy to see a company have enough faith in Mox to give him the ball.

The White Wolf

SMC92Ian wrote: »

WOW what a f'n tag match, I'm only a few month into knowing who Kenny and these guys are and they already feel like massive stars, I know they already are technically in Japan or wherever but I only heard to them for AEW so everyone except Cody, Golddust and Jericho I knew.

I wasn't convinced by Hangman but that tag match made me a believer.

I was a bit iffy about Cassidy but having watched the match, I can get behind him. It shouldn't work but it just does, all credit to him.

Will be interesting to see what happens in the title picture now, I'd like to see Mox against MJF.

Johnny Sausage

Catching up on it now

The tag match is insanely good

ShaneU

The Tag match is what Pro Wrestling is all about, Storytelling. Getting you invested in a storyline and the wrestlers playing it out in the ring. Some amazing spots too

Johnny Sausage

Codys entrance was a pile of ****e, shoudlve just played the song instead of having the band there...

CastorTroy

The tag match was great but one thing that helped was there wasn't as much flippy stuff as the Bucks are usually criticised for.
Does Page usually do the Chicken Wing or was that just a shoutout to Marty?

So is the Cody/MJF feud going to continue? MJF quickly recovered from 2 Cross Rhodes. And why the Orton dig/shoutout?

I remember reading a comment somewhere that a sign of a good wrestler is someone who can work comedy into his moveset. Orange Cassidy seems to be a good indicator of this. He seems to be able to switch between proper wrestling and his gimmick seamlessly.

Agent Coulson

Really solid wrestling PPV from start to finish from wrestlers.

Loughc

Agent Coulson wrote: »

Really solid wrestling PPV from start to finish from wrestlers.

What are the words in bold? I rather enjoyed the sports entertainment from the superstars. :P

The White Wolf

Only sour note is that I thought women's match was poor. Statlander seemed nervy and they didn't quite have the right in ring chemistry.

Johnny Sausage

The blood and guts war games thing should be interesting, see how that goes

J. Marston

Loughc wrote: »

What are the words in bold? I rather enjoyed the sports entertainment from the superstars. :P

People still think Vince disallows words like "Wrestling" and "belts"?

We'll ignore Becky 2 Belts and Cesaro's brand new t-shirt, I guess...

https://shop.wwe.com/cesaro-the-wrestling-purist-authentic-t-shirt/14691F7196.html?dwvar_14691F7196_color=black#start=1

Monokne

Just because there are exceptions it doesn't mean the rules have changed. Watch the show for 5 minutes. No-one says title shot. Everyone says CHAMPIONSHIP OPPORTUNITY. Guys brag about being the best performer or the best sports entertainer, rather than the best wrestler. And yeah Becky was allowed it but no-one else says belt either. When was the last time anyone said THE FANS rather than THE UNIVERSE?

It's like a cult.

AEW is so refreshing.

CastorTroy

Johnny Sausage wrote: »

The blood and guts war games thing should be interesting, see how that goes

Shhhh, we can't say "war games"

Monokne

I have just finished the show. On the whole I thought it was fantastic.

Hager-Rhodes over delivered. Good opener.

Darby and Sammy was a little spot heavy for my tastes but I enjoyed it.

Omega & Page V the Bucks was great. 4* plus.

I didn't like Rose-Statlander.

MJF - Cody was very good and the finish was right. Still not convinced Max is great in the ring.

I hated Pac and Orange Cassidy. I just feel like tonally the stupidity mixed with serious wrestling is a clash. Doesn't work for me at all. Seems to work for others though, so more power to them.

I really hated the title change. I could see what they were going for - creating their Steve Austin, man of the people type deal. Moxley doesn't work for me. He just feels limited in range and I'm not crazy on his matches.

Whatever about the decision to change the belt, the match made no f*cking sense. The babyface half blinded himself for the entire match and this was revealed to be. A BRILLIANT MOVE at the end. Excuse me what? I can't believe that got through all the way to the show. It just made no sense. I didn't think it was much of a match anyway but I was laughing at that and then caught really off guard mid chuckle when it was actually the finish. I never for one second thought they would take the belt off Jericho.

But a terrible main event shouldn't take away from all the good that went before. Kudos AEW.

The White Wolf

I think Cassidy lifting the veil during the match by showing that yes, he's actually capable of acting like an ordinary wrestler, makes the gimmick work even better.

I was scratching my head before it in regards how they could make it work but it just did. Sign of a star.

SMC92Ian

When the bell rang for the main event Moxley should of revealed then his eye was fine.

Adiboo

SMC92Ian wrote: »

When the bell rang for the main event Moxley should of revealed then his eye was fine.

I bet he wished that was the plan, it seemed like the eye patch was filling up with blood for most of the match. That would be a pain in the ass to deal with.

Johnny Sausage

CastorTroy wrote: »

Shhhh, we can't say "war games"

AEW: Games of War

CastorTroy

Adiboo wrote: »

I bet he wished that was the plan, it seemed like the eye patch was filling up with blood for most of the match. That would be a pain in the ass to deal with.

That and the fact they kept having to adjust it as it kept moving away, revealing a healthy eye

Monokne

SMC92Ian wrote: »

When the bell rang for the main event Moxley should of revealed then his eye was fine.

That would actually have made sense though, which clearly was not a concern :eek:

SMC92Ian

Monokne wrote: »

That would actually have made sense though, which clearly was not a concern :eek:

But but this is AEW not WWE I thought they always made sense???