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Welp. I now watch AEW the same way I do WWE, skip a lot of segments and mostly watch matches with people I really like and/or the big matches. The G1 might partly be to blame for this (though it does expose AEW as weak on quality-control in their prelim matches when I watch that vs this), but the wrong people are winning and losing a bit too much for my liking, and I'm reading a bit too much nepotism and schizophrenic promotion where a youtube video will promote one thing, then the presentation or match will undo it (Brandy in particular comes to mind here). (Still haven't seen Kenny vs CIMA and Bucks vs Rhodes and I assume those will both be really good, but the rest of the show has left a lot to be desired from what my hopes and dreams of what AEW could be).

Half the fun of AEW shows are actually watching the promo videos and shows, the other half is Jim Cornette's podcast reviewing the shows because even through his old-man viewpoint, a lot of what he says is pretty spot-on Edit: (Starts at about 00:35ish)

Good but not great show. I only watched the opening tag on the pre-show (as per the Meltzer recommendation and/or Jim Cornette reaction on twitter), never heard of Private Party but those guys are good shit Show Thoughts

All-Out it is then. Same scoring system?

RIP, whichever of them dies in the ring

Fyter Fest on Saturday @Blackjak @Nick @MT @Galeigh @Garlic Junior @Psycho666Soldier @Eizan @KR @all of Blackjak's nerdy supercard friends and/or ex-girlfriends that he secretly uses as alternate pick accounts Anyone want to start doing AEW picks? We don't really know what their show schedule would be like, but we could just have arbitrary cut-off points (like after 7 or 8 events or something) for the first "season" until they figure out their schedule, or keep Win/Loss records like they do (Correct/Incorrect) Could also do scoring via where you place (ex: If there's 8 people picking, #1 earns 8 points, #2 earns 7 etc). Or just do the same thing that was always done with WWE.

Road to Fyter Fest 2 I dig Darby Allin

Last-three matches and ending angle were great and it makes me excited for the future and wanting to watch the big matches at their next few shows. That fucking advil blade-job by Dustin, god damn. And it was so bizarre seeing Moxley in the ring with Kenny Omega at the same time. Like KO in the ring with Cena alternate-universe shit. Criticsm-after-the-fact time though: Awesome Kong being on the show was a fun surprise, but there's also like 3-4 reasons I didn't like how they did it (took away from Nyla Rose, Kong has a bad back and can barely move, changing matches randomly on the fly looks minor-league even when they do it in the WWE and it implied evil authority figures could be a thing in AEW) I think there was too much indie shit in-a-potential-bad-way on the show and I think the wrestling and match lengths in the non-main-event matches should have each been cut down by 4ish mins each. A lot of indie wrestlers know two speeds, fast-paced moves with no-selling and then suddenly over-dramatic selling because it's near the end of the match, which leads to their matches peaking too early and then they just keep going and going and going and "it should've ended already." It really stands out because I'm also watching the NJPW BOSJ right now, and they have 10 singles matches every night but they're all done with guys who know how to pace it so that they don't overstay their welcome. I'm mostly being nitpicky, but two things I absolutely hated: - That they mentioned that tag team matches will feature a 10-count for illegal wrestlers leaving the ring after tagging out and then the referees never bothered counting and the wrestlers ignored it anyways. - That the plan is to feature Japanese women in a similar fashion to the WCW Cruiserweights in the mid '90s before they got buried as a way of standing out from other companies, but then they throw six women into a tag match and maybe the hardcores in the building have heard of Aja Kong from reading Meltzer Star-Rating lists and everyone just kind of gets lost in the shuffle and no one gets over (I used to wonder if Cornette complaining about the multi-team Junior openers at Wrestle Kingdom was just him being too much of an old man, but I do get it now, it's hard to follow what's going on if you aren't familiar with the people involved and you kind of just forget about them afterwards.). Buuuut I also can't tell if this was a dry-run for the future product or just working to the audience they knew was at the show. Feel like it's the latter because they do work their audiences.

BOOK IT, TONY KHAN

"One day, they'll all come to my funeral just to make sure I stay dead."

Yeah, the last three matches were all good for different reasons, the ending was awesome. The matches before that were all too long.

Camera angles and stage set-up was super-duper WCW, felt like I was watching Nitro again

Yup

For the love of god, keep it 1 hour. Also if I'm Fox/WWE, I stay away from the same timeslot/competition as AEW. You don't want to be putting on a shitty WWE product like they do and then have people flip channels knowing something better might be on the other show.

Awww shiiii, the Turner TV deal is set to be announced next week

"I'm here to kill the Attitude Era." I have been waiting so long for someone to fucking say this

And AXS TV though it's not live (I think they're close now, though).

Their debut show is May 25th, this youtube channel has backstage build-up for it There's rumours they'll be getting a significant TV deal at some point but if they have one, they're not revealing it for now

Road To Double or Nothing Episode 8