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23 minutes ago, Liam O'Rourke said:

Better late than never - SCG Radio returns this week to cover AEW Double or Nothing 2020! Join us for a show recorded the day after the event as we run through the PPV, talk all about the builds, the Stadium Stampede match, Matt Hardy in AEW, a spirited discussion on cinematic wrestling, AEW in its current form, the current state of the commentary team, the successes and failures of the past three months in AEW, and a look ahead at what might be to come. A very fun show this week as we get back on the saddle, check it out and let us know what you think!

https://squaredcirclegazette.podbean.com/mf/play/cpmbe2/SCGRadio159AEWDoubleorNothing2020.mp3

Thanks for posting Liam, enjoyed your takes on the show! Do you have any more AEW podcast stuff in the pipeline? 

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50 minutes ago, Otto Dem Wanz said:

Thanks for posting Liam, enjoyed your takes on the show! Do you have any more AEW podcast stuff in the pipeline? 

Nothing specific, but very much a general view to keep talking AEW since it very much the panel's main interest, so I can see it happening more regularly...

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6 minutes ago, Liam O'Rourke said:

Nothing specific, but very much a general view to keep talking AEW since it very much the panel's main interest, so I can see it happening more regularly...

The SCG view on the first year would be interesting.

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Well well well, Le Champion est un MAGAt. at least.

 

Looks like someone's true colours are starting to leak. 

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18 hours ago, IANdrewDiceClay said:

What the fuck is Tully Blanchard doing managing this loser? What a promo. Pissed on Jake and Arns chips with this. They looked absolutely knackered compared to TB. He should have been managing Brian Cage.

 

Fantastic stuff from Tully there. The only negative is that it indicates comedic, smug prick, dip shit loser is not the way they are intending to go with Spears, when it's far and away the only way that he is enjoyable. Bloody loved his match with Dustin. That was the perfect use of Spears. Let's hope Tully sacks him off when he can't get the job done and moves onto something more important.

I'm very late to the party on this, and haven't seen this week's Dynamite yet, but I loved Double or Nothing. Easily, and by a country mile, the best show we've gotten (and probably could get) in the current circumstances. 

The ladder match was pretty spectacular. Some sheer lunacy, but I enjoyed it. Ladder matches are way too frequent, and I'm not sure that I think Brian Cage is particularly that good (I've seen precious little of him though to be fair) but if the goal is to build him up to feed to Moxley then I'm good with that. 

Cody was the right winner of the new (god awful looking) title in his match against Archer. I thought they had a good match too, and I expect they'll probably meet again, at some point down the line. 

Brodie Lee turned the car back around a bit in his match with Moxley. He was flopping dreadfully up to this I think. The look, the Dark Order gimmick, the promo's of him as a rip off Vince, it wasn't working for me at all. He had a damn good brawl here with Moxley though and I thought both men came out of it looking fairly strong.

The Stadium Stampede though? Jesus Christ that's the most I've enjoyed watching wrestling in a long time. Found this brilliant from start to finish. There were so many moments that just hit the note right on the head with this, that I don't even have anything negative to say about it. Sammy Guevara? Superstar. Everything he did was gold. Jericho in the tent, getting hit in the bollocks with the ball and falling through the goal, being run over by the line machine. Hager and Hangman in the bar, Hardy with the chair of wheels, Page on the horse. Just ridiculous fun from start to finish. If I don't vote for this for match of the year at the end of 2020, then it'll have had to have been a damn good year. 

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I've only just got round to seeing the Stadium Stampede match and I hate to agree with Cornette but I fucking hated it. Sammy was entertaining in it but even then I far from enjoyed his involvement.  

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1 hour ago, ElCece said:

I've only just got round to seeing the Stadium Stampede match and I hate to agree with Cornette but I fucking hated it. Sammy was entertaining in it but even then I far from enjoyed his involvement.  

Why did you hate it?

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A ladder Royal Rumble is one of the stupidest, most Russo/TNA concepts ever. Is there any other match in wrestling with timed entrances where the match could be over before most of the competitors have come to the ring? It’s about on par with TNA’s ladder match for a shot at being fired.

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3 hours ago, King Pitcos said:

A ladder Royal Rumble is one of the stupidest, most Russo/TNA concepts ever. Is there any other match in wrestling with timed entrances where the match could be over before most of the competitors have come to the ring? It’s about on par with TNA’s ladder match for a shot at being fired.

I genuinely thought I'd missed something with that match. Listened to the SCG review of the show and thought they might bring it up but they didn't. I was half asleep watching it but I kept wondering if I'd missed the bit where they covered that. I guess "luck of the draw" and whatever but a ridiculous idea in a worked environment.

Everyone seems to have agreed that it was a crap match generally so maybe why no one's arsed about the mega flaw.

Not sure how anyone could not like Stadium Stampede though. That was ace.

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4 hours ago, King Pitcos said:

A ladder Royal Rumble is one of the stupidest, most Russo/TNA concepts ever. Is there any other match in wrestling with timed entrances where the match could be over before most of the competitors have come to the ring? It’s about on par with TNA’s ladder match for a shot at being fired.

I thought it was because it was a "casino" ladder match, ie it was the luck of the draw what number you got and if you got a high number then sucks to be you, but I might have made that up.

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2 hours ago, Linus said:

I thought it was because it was a "casino" ladder match, ie it was the luck of the draw what number you got and if you got a high number then sucks to be you, but I might have made that up.

Yeah - it's a risk/reward thing. If you draw a high number, then you're balancing the potential advantage of coming in after everyone's beaten to a pulp to give you an easy ride against the risk of the match already being over by the time you get in there.

It's not a gimmick I particularly like, but it has a clear logic behind it, it's not a Reverse Battle Royal. 

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I actually wouldn't mind it if it was something that had a bigger focus. If guys chose their entry in the run-up and had to weigh up whether they wanted in immediately or chance a late spot knowing there was a possibility the match could end before they get there, but if they make it in they have a better chance, there's a lot you could do for intrigue for a one-off match of that type. As it was, with no real focus on it, its just got a bit of a lazy feel of - "Rumble entry rules, presumably guys drew numbers, I suppose. Doesn't matter really."

Which is where the TNA stink comes from. Cribbing a wrestling cliche and not taking the time to emphasize it or make it your own because you think you don't need to.

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