King Pitcos Posted March 19, 2020 Share Posted March 19, 2020 The bits I saw felt way more lively than Raw and SmackDown. I really hope WWE follows the example of having wrestlers in the seats. So many of the roster donât need a WrestleMania match, but imagine Big E sitting there reacting to everything! Without watching it all, I canât really judge how it felt overall, but it seemed like this was the best of the no-audience shows so far. Harperâs stuff was a letdown though, and Iâm a big fan of him. His robe design looks like Matt Hardyâs (possibly designed purely for the misdirection?), and his gear under that was just awful. The gimmick seems like a Wyatt Family knock-off, and he even threw in the âVince suxâ wank that reminds me of every time an ex-WWE wrestler would turn up in TNA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members TheBurningRed Posted March 19, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted March 19, 2020 Iâm sure Brodieâs gear was to make people think it was Matt Hardy at first. Similar to what he wears as Broken Matt. Iâm just glad we all get to see him wrestle again.  Sammy Guevara singing Judas was great. Such an annoying little prick. I think heâs much easier to hate than MJF. MJF seems like a try hard heel a lot of the time and wants to pop the crowd. Sammy is more subtle in being a dickhead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidB6937 Posted March 19, 2020 Share Posted March 19, 2020 1 hour ago, Hannibal Scorch said: The difference between Dynamite and WWW this week was night and day. Having the hard cam set up to face the entrance, framing it so you could just pretty much see the ring, having some noise from the âaudienceâ at ringside. Jericho on commentary. It just felt like Major league vs Minor league. Sure of course these shows are suffering without a crowd, but this was a much more entertaining 2 hours then any other wrestling this week Major league vs minor league? Nothing about WWE's production is minor league. Let's not exaggerate. It's obvious that AEW decided to push their storylines etc far more than anything WWE really did on their shows. More entertaining? Absolutely, but let's not go crazy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael_3165 Posted March 19, 2020 Share Posted March 19, 2020 1 hour ago, RedRooster said: What choice to they have, though? They've hired the guy and are presumably paying him...the other option would be having him sit around earning a wage for nothing, as they wait for a time that fans are able to watch matches again. Unfortunately, we just don't know when that will be, and it doesn't seem like it's happening any time soon. As far as the show goes, I really enjoyed it. The debuts didn't fall flat for me although Hardy showing up in front of fans in that manner would definitely have been a moment. The only complaint I have is more a concern...Jim Ross has underlying health issues, he was right beside the other announcers and was quite happily touching Tazz and acting normal. It seems a bit risky to let that happen, God knows how his body would react to covid-19. I'll end on a positive note though, and I don't think I need to expand upon two simple words. They speak for themselves: Sammy Guevara. Based on that body I wonder how it would react to JR's body! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Supremo Posted March 19, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted March 19, 2020 Forget JR, Jake the Snake was the one that shocked me. The shit heâs put his body through, the health problems heâs had, and they still fly him in? Insane. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MEGABUCKS Posted March 19, 2020 Share Posted March 19, 2020 Just watched some AEW clips from last night. The atmosphere was night and day compared to WWE's empty arena shows. WWE can learn from AEW with the presentation for these shows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UK Kat Von D Posted March 19, 2020 Share Posted March 19, 2020 About as good as an empty arena show can be really, great watch but it really is a shame the Hardy bit at the end didnât have the roof blowing off. Sammy singing Jerichos entrance was great and I loved that segment for Archer battering scrubs in a field. The makeshift crowd of wrestlers all interacting with each other was a great touch. AEW do such a good job at fleshing out the rosters character. They could have done without some of the old boys who are most at risk, but I know AEW arenât putting anyone under pressure to come in (Marko Stunt was missing and Jurassic Express didnât miss a beat at all.) I imagine Roberts and Ross would only stop going in if they were not allowed to Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedRooster Posted March 19, 2020 Share Posted March 19, 2020 8 minutes ago, UK Kat Von D said: About as good as an empty arena show can be really, great watch but it really is a shame the Hardy bit at the end didnât have the roof blowing off. I think I might be alone here, but I thought the lack of crowd noise made the end of the show really effective. That, the piano music, Jericho's stunned face and Hardy's manic behaviour made the situation feel quite tense and dramatic. It really worked for me and, in the moment, made the wrestlers feel like human beings rather than performers. A hot crowd clearly lifts a show, but AEW proved last night that a lack of one doesn't have to break it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merzbow Posted March 19, 2020 Share Posted March 19, 2020 Aside from Brodie looking like a bootleg Chris Hero that was an excellent show, is PAC stuck over here right now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidB6937 Posted March 19, 2020 Share Posted March 19, 2020 50 minutes ago, UK Kat Von D said: They could have done without some of the old boys who are most at risk, but I know AEW arenât putting anyone under pressure to come in (Marko Stunt was missing and Jurassic Express didnât miss a beat at all.) I imagine Roberts and Ross would only stop going in if they were not allowed to I can't imagine anyone's being pressured to wrestle in any of the companies at the moment. Although there's this weird thing on social media where some people have criticised Vince for doing shows yet commended AEW. I honestly don't get that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Hannibal Scorch Posted March 19, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted March 19, 2020 2 hours ago, DavidB6937 said: Major league vs minor league? Nothing about WWE's production is minor league. Let's not exaggerate. It's obvious that AEW decided to push their storylines etc far more than anything WWE really did on their shows. More entertaining? Absolutely, but let's not go crazy. You watched Raw and Smackdown and thought the presentation wasn't awful in comparison to dynamite? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brock Goldberg Posted March 19, 2020 Share Posted March 19, 2020 Only watched highlights so far but they seemed to make the most of a bad situation. They made the show much more fun and interesting than WWE, while progressing storylines for future episodes/events. Good decsion to say, next time on Dynamite and not, next week. Â Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Butternut Squash Posted March 19, 2020 Share Posted March 19, 2020 (edited) I really liked the opening promo from the Elite, set a nice tone for the show. Especially loved that it was Kenny Omega with the final rallying cry, best he's come across in AEW yet. Rolled my eyes a bit when I saw them going ahead with the matches like normal, although it was an admirable effort. Tazz, JR and Jericho being loose and entertaining on commentary really helped to carry the show and the guys at ringside did their best making noise. It's so much easier when you've got a bunch of well defined characters interacting and doing their thing to bring some life to it. MJF, Cabana and Sammy G were all gold. Still though, you can't help the flat feeling with a missing crowd. But fair play on them making something watchable out of the situation. (In contrast, I watched the first five minutes of Smackdown out of curiosity. Sasha Banks and Bayley doing the same, shitty, scripted entrance and promo routine like robots to a bunch of empty seats, like it was any other show, was so unbearably awful I was done.) My heart sank when Brodie Lee was revealed as the Exalted One. A massive waste of him and I fear the Dark Order will just drag him down. It's like he stepped into a time machine and he's back in Chikara. Jake Roberts and the Lance Archer video were incredible though. Hoping they come up with something mental for Blood and Guts and shoot it in the Hardy compound or something. Edited March 19, 2020 by Mr Butternut Squash Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyUK Posted March 19, 2020 Share Posted March 19, 2020 (edited) I thought it was a quality effort to be fair. Some moments that wouldâve been better in front of an audience obviously but they did plenty of cool stuff with that too that WWE hasnât done.  Very much forward to seeing what they do with Harper, Archer and Broken Matt. Edited March 19, 2020 by AndyUK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kamaras-Tash Posted March 19, 2020 Share Posted March 19, 2020 (edited) The Hardy reveal would have been awesome with a crowd but it would have robbed us of MJF, Spears etc at ringside and also the Sammy karaoke session so it's a fair trade for me Edited March 19, 2020 by Kamaras-Tash Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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