AEW 2024: But your father’s dead, dead, dead, dead, dead…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeih29ylk50

It’s 2024 and 2006 TNA is better than ever

That thing with Collision last week, where they had the hard camera higher up like WrestleMania 2? I hope that’s a thing and they do it again tonight.

Fade out Friday vibe 💪😎#ROH | #HonorClub | https://t.co/8dcdtxqvDf@TheRealMorrison pic.twitter.com/ked6cQfkgI

— ROH - Ring of Honor Wrestling (@ringofhonor) January 26, 2024

i am guessing it's cool to post about roh here bc the promotions/rosters are so porous, but they've really been killing it in the promo department these past few weeks. johnny tv vs. dalton castle is story of the year so far

Of course! AEW and ROH are basically one big umbrella

"pain" ❤️‍🩹 @GarciaWrestling
x @pinkpantheress2#DanielGarcia #AEW#AEWCollision @AEW@TonyKhan@AEWonTV pic.twitter.com/APuug1s4PV

— reelgraps 📀 (@reel_graps) February 3, 2024

been loving daniel garcia's push these past few weeks. continental classic really sharpened him as a character

He’s wrestling on Ethan Page’s indie booker comeback show that starts at the top of the hour, FWIW.

jesus fucking christ that dynamite, it just didn't stop. i only ever want to watch hangman and swerve wrestle

mercedes pretty much confirmed to debut in boston... shaping up to be a good year :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzGga4We8z8

IT'S THE KNOCKOUT

I really expected them to start rapping

I’ve not really watched Dynamite all year* but watching Revolution and absolutely loving it. Eddie-Bryan was a classic imo.

At the womens title match and have no idea who Deonna is but liking it. Makes me wonder if there has been any movement in the women’s division in a while though. Did Hayter or Baker return yet? Sasha debuts soon? Have they started having more than one match per show yet?

Unsurprisingly this Takeshita-Ospreay match is incredible. It is fucking STIFF. A turnbuckle avalanche brain buster wtf!

I haven’t even finished it and yet I feel like I need to rewatch it

That was definitely the second 5 star match of the night. I need to start watching weekly again.

I hope Will didn’t get injured though, his back looked gnarly.

it’s been two women’s matches per two-hour show lately. women’s division kinda has the most momentum it ever has? mostly bc the belts belong to two real characters. mercedes debuts the 13th. no hayter return yet but deeb is back and is murdering ppl in the ring

Amazing. Missed Deeb a lot.

The main event was beautiful too. Poor Darby’s back. Sting going into super saiyan hulk ups. His kids. The young bucks fucking up Flair.

Gotta be one of the best AEW PPVs. 3 5 star matches (including the main event here).

I havent been watching wrestling recently, I think the Vince news has really put me off. And fuck WWE forever. But this show has pulled me back in. And what an exciting future. Okada? Sasha? Loads of potential ways to go - singles Darby! Ospreay! What’s Jay White up to? Mega heat for the Bucks! Evil Hangman! Swerve for the title? DANIELSONS END STRETCH. A bunch of stars that will eventually return (Pac! Hayter! Baker! Cole! MJF! Omega?)! Seemingly they are finally doing something with Eddie fucking Kingston too! Whatever the hell is going on with big daddy Christian! 2024 could be something special.

The main event was beautiful too. Poor Darby’s back. Sting going into super saiyan hulk ups. His kids. The young bucks fucking up Flair.

Gotta be one of the best AEW PPVs. 3 5 star matches (including the main event here).

I havent been watching wrestling recently, I think the Vince news has really put me off. And fuck WWE forever. But this show has pulled me back in. And what an exciting future. Okada? Sasha? Loads of potential ways to go - singles Darby! Ospreay! What’s Jay White up to? Mega heat for the Bucks! Evil Hangman! Swerve for the title? DANIELSONS END STRETCH. A bunch of stars that will eventually return (Pac! Hayter! Baker! Cole! MJF! Omega?)! Seemingly they are finally doing something with Eddie fucking Kingston too! Whatever the hell is going on with big daddy Christian! 2024 could be something special.

I know Americans fucking love capitalism but this CEO! chant shit immediately has x-pac heat with me.

aew and roh feel like they're majorly focused on women's wrestling right now and i am so happy

We have the Ring of Honor debut of STARDOM wrestler Mina Shirakawa!@MinaShirakawa #ROH pic.twitter.com/Tg8jJdJKm6

— JJ Williams (@JJWilliamsWON) March 13, 2024

Other than not caring for Mercedes' gimmick, that was a perfect Dynamite. I love shitty Okada.

Seeing her pose ivy, someone really needs to do a renaissance painting series of wrestling outfits. (and i dont mean ai shit)

Sasha was bland again but that was another classic Dynamite. Thunder Rosa is back! Okada-Eddie was great and I actually really enjoyed an Edge match!

A few months ago: “We want the Continental Crown to be AEW’s own Triple Crown, prestige, yadda yadda…”
Last week: Okada beats King for only the Continental Championship, breaking the crown (despite the belt having a crown on it), presumably because it would look like a step down for the multi-time IWGP Champion to hold the ROH and NJPW Strong belts.

Doing occasional things on a whim with no plan is the most valid criticism of Tony. That belt is so dumb. See also: Cole’s joke of a new faction and the Bang Bang Scissor Gang.

What a roster of champions they have though. And Roddy. Presumably Mercedes will be TBS champ soon. The run up to All In/Out could be stellar.

Shame there is news that Kenny is likely out indefinitely and most probably needs surgery. Omega-Okada V is the most obvious route they would have taken and I can’t imagine he’d be healthy again by the end of summer.

These AEW cuts are sad. It’s not that long ago that there was some pride about that company being the place that honoured contracts for the full term, even if the talent weren’t used to their full potential. But now it’s pretty obvious that heads are being cut to pay for certain other wrestlers’ contracts. Yeah, of course Slim J or Anthony Henry or Stu Grayson aren’t going to sell tickets like you know who, but they’re solid, charismatic hands that a promotion needs for a healthy talent-development-focused midcard. Otherwise, in the long run you just get WWE lite.

i am sad about the cuts, hope it’s the last we see of them. stu i get, he hasn’t been on any product since roh started up last year, and he’s left the company before. henry? the boys, who add so much to dalton castle’s whole thing? (i’m guessing we’re due for a major character shift from dalton in this next roh ppv). dasha????? huge bummer

regardless the mid card is still, currently, enormous

cutting talent before contracts are up is also extremely demoralizing, makes everyone feel expendable. wrestlers union now

(pipe dream, i know)

Yeah it sucks. It was inevitable and billionaires gonna billionaire, but it still sucks. Hopefully it doesn’t continue. Maybe it will signal a change to Tony’s hiring plans too.

Ok…

So…

They are going to air the ALL IN BACKSTAGE FOOTAGE?

This is going to be disappointing, right?

I shouldn’t get my hopes up, no, I shouldn’t.

Dumbest move ever. They should just let it lie and move on, for fuck’s sake.

In other news, Supercard of Honor was really good! Maybe Tony and co should put their energy into more of that sort of thing.

Yes but what if it’s incredibly funny

Like what if Punk made a complete tit out of himself

it sounds like it’s going to be hilarious

He already made a complete tit of himself from that interview last week (from the bits I’ve gleaned here and there), not to mention most of his actions the last couple of years, so I’m sick of the sight of him now.

Lmao what a fucking mess. What was the point in showing that

It wasn’t even funny. Punk choked Perry a bit. Nothing good comes of this. Online haters of AEW will never stfu about it. It doesn’t add to the Bucks-FTR. It doesn’t even give Drew McIntyre much to work with. Fucking stupid, a complete own goal.

it’s the perfect framing to reignite ftr. that was their best promo in what feels like decades

i think it really does add to the bucks-ftr!!!

and the bucks framing of it was in fact hilarious

Maybe but I’m starting to find these “but I’ll make AEW good again!!!” promos tiring. It was good already! Why does everyone have to ‘restore the feeling’; just do more of the good stuff!

i also think jack perry is returning imminently

“if you have a problem with jack perry, you’re the problem” - cm punk

Yeah this is got to be for a jungle boy return. Maybe he interferes in the tag match.

That kiss certainly did NOT MISS#AEWDynamite pic.twitter.com/EDMopibuJf

— AEW on TV (@AEWonTV) April 11, 2024

wrestling is about girls kissing on tv

Is Jericho's gimmick supposed to be "no-one cares about old Abe Simpson anymore?" It's... a strange one. He looks pathetic. It doesn't garner any sympathy and I don't want to see anyone with a sad pensioner gimmick get beat up either.

"Twinkblade" got a pop from me.

Great Dynamite so far.

I’m not going to be able to watch all of Dynasty this morning but I’ve woken up early enough to start it.

Pac-Okada is like the perfect step-by-step guide to show someone the format of pro-wrestling in 2024. For two wrestlers who don’t naturally fit into their roles (the bastard as a face; the shiny new signing as a heel) they really won the fans round and showed how to play their roles. Okada actually got me to shout booooooo at my laptop screen.

Not a perfect show but… nearly its highlights were as good as any wrestling I’ve ever seen. Somehow Bryan-Will was my third favourite match and it was a thing of beauty.

Swerve-Joe though. That’s exactly what I wanted. It was brutal and nasty and sweaty and I loved every second of it.

Ok maybe it wasn’t as good as BD-WO but I was marking out. Swerve’s house!