Paid Members Supremo Posted October 19, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted October 19, 2019 (edited) 12 hours ago, wordsfromlee said: Did anyone else get royally fucked off with the guy from LAX screaming "THE BEST! THE BEST! THE BEST! THE BEST!" constantly over Jericho's backstage promo like an awful Foo Fighters tribute band? It was definitely annoying and made it hard to hear what Jericho was saying, but again, it goes back to why I enjoy AEW so much - it’s such a contrast to WWE’s slick, polished, overproduced and over-rehearsed vision of what pro-wrestling is. I’ll take someone talking over a promo if it means everything feels rougher, more spontaneous and more organic. Scorpio Sky throwing his shoes around the arena and Chris Jericho messing around on a skateboard mid-match. You don’t realise how much these small, off-the-cuff moments matter until you’re starved of them for so long. Compare it to what we see on WWE (the smallest of Smackdown spoilers from last night below). Roman Reigns now literally has a cushion on the ground for him to punch during his entrance pose. As if it couldn’t get any more overproduced. He might as well be CGI at this point. Edited October 19, 2019 by Supremo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Egg Shen Posted October 19, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted October 19, 2019 21 minutes ago, Supremo said: You don’t realise how much these small, off-the-cuff moments matter until you’re starved of them for so long. Reveal hidden contents Roman Reigns now literally has a cushion on the ground for him to punch during his entrance pose. As if it couldn’t get any more overproduced. He might as well be CGI at this point. Agree with that 100% its insane to me that anyone in charge of running any of it can think otherwise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrtrickio Posted October 19, 2019 Share Posted October 19, 2019 12 hours ago, WyattSheepMask said: For anyone that’s interested, ShopAEW (which is run by Pro Wrestling Tees) has got 20% off everything using the code ‘Retail’ at checkout until Monday 5pm GMT. Shipping is $9 to the UK, which I didn’t think was too bad Plus a random free autographed 8x10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WyattSheepMask Posted October 19, 2019 Share Posted October 19, 2019 I don’t know if that’s AEW related or not, so didn’t mention it. It could just be from whatever PWT has excess stock of Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awards Moderator Onyx2 Posted October 19, 2019 Awards Moderator Share Posted October 19, 2019 2 hours ago, mrtrickio said: Plus a random free autographed 8x10 It's a Nigel Farage 8x10 but hey, free is free. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merzbow Posted October 19, 2019 Share Posted October 19, 2019 The guy tweeting at Corny is spot on here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KingofSports Posted October 19, 2019 Share Posted October 19, 2019 (edited) Hikaru Shida's last show in Japan. AEW could do to bring the other lass in as well (Syuri Kondo). Best unsigned Japanese female worker by some distance. She has been competing in UFC, but suffered 2 or 3 bad losses in her most recent fights. Edited October 20, 2019 by KingofSports Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kamaras-Tash Posted October 19, 2019 Share Posted October 19, 2019 There's been a couple of times Brit has froze in the past couple of weeks, 1st was on commentary then once against Riho in match when they blew a little spot she she stood there frozen. Funno where she's been before AEW but she seems like a novice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael_3165 Posted October 19, 2019 Share Posted October 19, 2019 They need to bin Riho. Her offence is shockingly flimsy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TildeGuy~! Posted October 19, 2019 Share Posted October 19, 2019 (edited) Here’s Riho from about 7 years ago facing off with Minoru Suzuki in a Battle Royal Edited October 19, 2019 by TildeGuy~! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merzbow Posted October 19, 2019 Share Posted October 19, 2019 (edited) Nah, Riho was laying some shit in against Britt by the end. More of that please. That needs to be a thing, grizzled vet Riho who may be small but will slap the taste outta your green gob. Edited October 19, 2019 by Merzbow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loki Posted October 19, 2019 Share Posted October 19, 2019 She could just kick her in the nuts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Arch Stanton Posted October 19, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted October 19, 2019 (edited) Riho is absolutely awful, I know 'business exposing' isn't exactly a valid criticism in this day and age, but that's what it is. Impossible to suspend your disbelief for her. A few people have mentioned it already, but AEW's women's division is a million miles away from WWE's or even NXT's right now, and it's going to take them a while to catch up. More Japanese girls won't be the answer either. I've enjoyed watching AEW each week, but I'm disappointed that they aren't the alternative that I thought they could be and hoped they would be. To me, this Dynamite show is no more a valid alternative to WWE than NXT already is and has been for the past five years or so. Too much about the style of the presentation is borrowed from WWE, it's just more of the same sort of thing. It will no doubt appeal to jaded WWE fans, in the short term, but there's nothing that will pull in the casual fans that WWE have been missing out on. Edited October 19, 2019 by Arch Stanton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KingofSports Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 Oddly enough, I quite enjoyed Riho this week & Marko Stunt. That said, it is ridiculous having a 98 pound champion...however gutsy she may be. The sort of thing they can perhaps get away with for a few weeks (or not, judging by Arch's comments). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members TheBurningRed Posted October 20, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted October 20, 2019 For future reference, if anyone on here doesn’t like Marko Stunt, please direct all complaints to Tommy Dreamer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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