Dynasty Thread 4/21/2024

Absolutely blown away by ospreay/Danielson. Expected the best and somehow it still surpassed what I expected.

That was just downright fecken good.

I'll start with The Acclaimed and Billy vs The Bang Bang Gang. Castor's rap was a letdown. The spot where whichever Ass Boy it was hugging Daddy Ass so he wouldn't beat him up was hilarious. How the feck did Jay White go from a main event feud with MJF and challenging for the World Title to the pre-show? A least got the pin. I really miss Juice Robinson.

Okada vs Pac was fantastic. A lot of AEW's booking is the equivalent to seeing guys wrestle a best of 7 series. It doesn't really need a story line because you know you're going to get 7 amazing matches. That's what this match felt like. I don't really need a "traditional" story here, just let the best of 7 tell the story. My overall issue is there's too much of that. I still want story lines as well. Not needed here though. This match was fantastic. I legit don't know how Pac didn't break his jaw on Okada's knees near the end.


House of Black vs Copeland, Kingston, Briscoe. I thought Mark Briscoe looked the best in this match. The crowd was into everything he was doing and he was making it look good. Brody King is a fecken beast. I don't know how someone like him didn't end up in WWE with Vince in charge. It was a good finish that will continue working towards Copeland and Malakai. My problem there is I want Black to win but I don't know if they're done with Copeland and the gold. That mist spot was perfect. Copeland sold it perfectly.


Julia vs Willow. I don't really like women's wrestling. Julia Hart is hot though and I feel like I have to like Willow. The woman is just POSITIVE ENERGY. She's really good at what she does. If Julia is hurt than that explains the short match. If they are pushing Mercedes vs Willow it looks like it's going to be a short title reign. That sucks. Still wondering why we haven't heard a thing from Britt Baker since forever ago?  


Roderick Strong vs Kyle O'Reilly. This was a good match but I really didn't give a shet about it. It was good to see Adam Cole up and on his feet. I hope he didn't re-injure himself walking to the back after. MJF's gotta be back soon and THIS is going to be his first feud. Yuck. The way Wardlow was acting has me thinking he's heading back to his "Diesel role" as MJF's bodyguard. He'll be a good guy this time though so I think he'll get a crowd reaction again like he did while he was hot before Tony put him on the back burner to cool off.


Hook - Jericho. Taz with the advice of the night when he said, "you don't want to sit under trees or you'll get shet on." I didn't mind this. I like a good old school hardcore match and this was that. I wish they had a better camera angle at the beginning to see how close Jericho's head was to the stairs on Hook's German Suplex because that looked like it could have been SERIOUSLY BAD. Some nice table spots in this one. I liked the suplex in the garbage can spot. I really thought THIS was somehow going to be the night we saw one last Tazplex but no. Maybe they'll drag this out until Wembley and have it then as Hook wins the belt back. Or Taz is more messed up than I'm aware and there is zero chance. BOO to that. Oh and Jericho's "Lion Tamer" at the end looked god awful. 


Toni Storm vs Thunder Rosa. This was a match. Excalibur kept saying at the end, "who can beat Toni Storm?" I was hoping for Britt Baker......................... But nothing.


Danielson vs Ospreay was fecken wild. Ho Lee Shet what a match. I don't know if these guys are done or not but I hope not. This (like Okada vs Pac) is something I'd like to see happen in a best of 7. 


Bucks vs FTR. I enjoyed Jack Perry's return. I thought it was predictable, but when something is good I don't mind if it's predictable. I don't see any way around Perry having a mic in his hand going forward and the crowd ISN'T chanting CM Punk. It's going to happen often. I wonder how they will counter that? The 450 splash through the table by Nick Jackson was as smooth as it gets. The piledriver on the other side of the ring on the ladder by Dax was quite the opposite. The Power and Glory off the ladders by FTR looked good. Cash launching through the ropes through the table looked sick. Matt Jackson going backwards through a table and smashing his head off the ring barrier looked even sicker. Pretty sure Matt Jackson broke character and started laughing when him and Dax(?) were on the ladder and the crowd started chanting, "please be careful." Very interested to see where they go with Perry from here. Who is going to join FTR in their fight?


Swerve vs Joe. I really like Swerve Strickland. Glad he won. I don't know what they do with Joe now but to me is AEW's poor mans Brock Lesnar. You have to take him seriously against anyone at any time. Joe could go away for 5 months come back in and win he World Title and my mindset would be, yeah I can see that. He won't have any problems staying hot no matter what Tony does with him. I know Swerve was "taking it in" but I really wish he didn't make Joe wait THAT LONG for the stomp at the end. Of all people, Samoa Joe, the guy who is famous for his "walk away" spot has to sit there and stare up waiting to be jumped on. I don't like it. 

An absolute banger of a PPV. 

Can't wait to not see Babyman Jack make all the obligatory references: being sour and a diva, jumping people backstage, threatening Tony, plenty of bitework and glass, etc. All he's got without the Dino. Becoming a heel probably the third biggest mistake TK has made.

Perry well on his way to becoming this generation's Jeff Jarrett. Smash 6,000 panes of glass and never draw a hugging dime. Can't sell bad motherlover if your weakness is a front face lock. Nepo baby sawft.

All I'm saying, an emergency trip to the toilet after a Taco Bell lunch has more substance than Jack Perry. Edgeboi cringefest.

I am being honest when I say the FTW title match blew my expectations out of the water lol I thought it was going to downright suck and they honestly pulled off a decent match with Jericho taking some wild bumps and Hook looking pretty good in a long match.

Fantastic PPV! I loved the tag team ladder match. Ospreay Vs Danielson was a masterpiece. Swerve had a great moment.

Undercard was solid with nothing too long or plotting. Good mix of talent and match types.

Really good event. The only thing that would've made it better to me is if Swerve called out Tony Khan and TK sold it like he was reluctant to come down to the ring, finally doing so to hug Swerve and have the locker room empty out to hold up their hands. And then afterwards all of the roster tweeted about "the Tony Khan era."

That's right. Unlike all the trolls that incessantly attack AEW, I didn't have anything negative to say about the event. Just one of the most negative aspects of it, being the man who's attitude cost the company a big draw and is now acting like a spoiled brat, and leaders who are trying to spin that into a moneymaking prospect. Which it ain't.

I'd 💯 buy a scapegoat shirt, but the ones he released on his own site that he bought the fan designs for look way better.

Why do you think Jericho has been given the FTW title?

It would be easier to "get" if you weren't only PARTIALLY correct. Acting as though winning is all that matters in sports makes me wonder if you're actually sports fan?

This happened last month in a game between the New York Rangers and The New Jersey Devils. A 21 year old rookie named Matt Rempe (6'7 245 pounds) elbows Devils' player Jonas Siegenthaler (6'2" 215 pounds) square in the face resulting in a concussion. New Jersey's tough guy Kurtis MacDermid (6'5" 235 pounds) comes over and wants to fight Matt Rempe. In the hockey world Matt Rempe (a tough guy) should be fighting Kurtis MacDermid after a hit like that. But he doesn't. He acts like a pr1ck while getting thrown out of the game and makes himself and The Rangers look bad.





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Kurtis MacDermid's shared his thoughts after the game on Rempe's behavior and suddenly the next meeting between the teams was sounding A LOT MORE INTERESTING.





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So what happened the next time these 2 teams played a week later? Do you think anyone was talking about who was going to win and who was going to lose? THE STORY WITHIN IN THE GAME was the cheap shot and how it would be dealt with. That's what social media was talking about. That's what the newspapers were talking about. That's what the fans were talking about. So what happened a week later when the teams met again? Two seconds into the game......................





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Nobody cared about the score the next day. Nobody was talking about the score the next day. That brawl is what everyone was talking about. Nobody is saying action packed wrestling matches or sporting events aren't exciting, but acting like the added intrigue of stories within the game or wrestling match don't add to the drama is absolutely downright foolish.