Another so-so episode of Dynamite last night. Nothing really grabbed me on it. Next week I’ll try to lock in a little bit more, but I still haven’t really even found an act to latch onto. Even guys I like are involved in a lot of nonsense. And yeah, I know I’m being a downer right now. I’ll talk about it after the review.
Here is my commentary on the Voices of Wrestling Thursday Dynamite Review posted today, December 5, 2024. If you’re not aware, you can listen to this by checking out the VoW Patreon, which I’m going to trust you to be able to find. I’m not gonna shill every week but I figured I should at least point out exactly what I’m reacting to once. The host is the inimitable Joe Lanza; I’d have a specific nickname for him but they stopped doing that bit like a year ago.
Anyway, I have done a review of this event on my own where I give thoughts on suspension of belief, and I refer to some of these thoughts in the commentary so it’s worth checking out first.
Spoiler ahead for something that happened after the broadcast ended.
This episode of Dynamite is a great example of why I don’t like AEW. There was absolutely nothing wrong with the show and I still thought it was godawful. Now look, I admit that I’m in a bad mood for other reasons today, but usually, good wrestling can brighten my mood. I didn’t feel like we got a lot of it here, and it’s for one main reason: suspension of disbelief.
To be specific, I was not suspending my disbelief for any of this shit.
Why not? Well, let’s go through the show and I’ll point it out to you.
If you have to tell me about how you’re
above all this
are you crouching down to say that
or are you just fucking lying?
The only thing I’ve really committed to
Is showing less of myself
As a sort of companion piece to my article Is the AEW Continental Championship Really Necessary?, I’d like to just go through a few different types of rankings/orderings that I’ll be using as we go forward, both here and elsewhere. I’m unfortunately a sucker for these kinds of setting-the-table posts so you’ll have to get used to it. At the very least, it’ll prevent me from having to delve deep into this every time I want to reference these concepts.
Check this article out on Voices of Wrestling: Is the AEW Continental Championship Really Necessary?
We wrestling fans spend a lot of time yapping about titles. Don’t get me wrong: I love yapping. The number of titles in All Elite Wrestling is especially a big topic. Usually, it seems like people think AEW has too many titles. Now, I’m not sure that I agree entirely, but it’s definitely worth thinking about. So let’s pick one and see if we can justify its existence.
How about the AEW Continental Championship? After all, it’s Continental Classic season and this fairly new belt is up for grabs. Does the Continental title really deserve its spot?
This was a pretty good episode of the old coyote stick, largely helped (I think) by the Continental Classic.
Also, since I’m here, I suppose I’ll explain how I’m currently viewing the star ratings. This might change as I keep going, especially as I understand more about how other people are making their decisions; these types of things always have an influence. I’ll also give them a score range out of 100 as that might help clarify more; this isn’t a real point scale, it’s just to help visualize what I think of as the quality ranges.
Welcome to the Pro-Wres Lab! I always kinda struggle trying to lay out what I’d like to see in pro wrestling, so this is another attempt to do that. My strategy is to try and go slow, step by step, building out ideas that would make my ideal style come together. Hopefully as I keep writing, both with these articles and with other pieces on the blog (and elsewhere??), my perspective will start to come into focus. But I’m also not someone who likes to “start small”, so it’s not always easy for me to introduce a new idea.
All that’s to say that if this idea seems pretty big to be starting off with, I get it and I agree, but I’m doing it anyway.
If I had been Kierkegaard
And a woman had loved me
I would have loved her