AEW All Elite Wrestling #8: Grabbing the Brass Ring of Honor

[Big Poppa Puck]

I enjoyed FTR/Briscoes more than FTR/Bucks but both were great.

 

[DaaaaB's]

LOL What? You would prefer the show to be 50% video packages and a camera cut every half second? I get the entrances and pageantry WWE does better but WWE has it's own issues. You're also comparing Wrestelmania to Wednesday night Dynamite.

Her posts are ridiculous. Most biased WWE fan ever yet she doesn't even know who Adam Cole is.

 

[BostonBob]

It was cool to see Christian, but I just couldn't take the guy he wrestled seriously. He looked like my ten year old nephew.

You mean you didn't recognize the guy that was a former NXT World Champion and held that belt for a still standing record of 403 days ??? Plus he was the head of the strongest faction in NXT for almost 4 years. Come on now - if you are going to troll us here we all expect better then this from you.

 

[Scandale du Jour]

The problem with the Young Bucks is not their big matches. They always deliver in those (vs Hangman/Kenny, vs FTR, vs the Lucha Bros, etc).

The problem is that their "regular" matches are spot fests that make no sense and that their character work just sucks. The way they have been used in the last 5 months is ideal. Minimal TV times and a few great matches. That's the recipe for me to enjoy them. They cannot be front and center, when they are, it just feels off. I am glad they seem to have realized it.

 

[Duddy]

The problem with the Young Bucks is not their big matches. They always deliver in those (vs Hangman/Kenny, vs FTR, vs the Lucha Bros, etc).

The problem is that their "regular" matches are spot fests that make no sense and that their character work just sucks. The way they have been used in the last 5 months is ideal. Minimal TV times and a few great matches. That's the recipe for me to enjoy them. They cannot be front and center, when they are, it just feels off. I am glad they seem to have realized it.

I mean you don't like the Bucks and thats cool, but a shit ton of people do. And they will be back to being in the main storyline when Kenny comes back and the elite vs undisputed story line kicks off.

 

[Scandale du Jour]

I mean you don't like the Bucks and thats cool, but a shit ton of people do. And they will be back to being in the main storyline when Kenny comes back and the elite vs undisputed story line kicks off.

Well, if they change their goofy tone, go for it.

There is a story to tell with Cole and Red Dragon and it could be a great one.

 

[Sheppy]

FTR getting that love makes me happy

 

[GKJ]

Rampage next week is listed for 7pm EDT.

 

[Apex Predator]

You mean you didn't recognize the guy that was a former NXT World Champion and held that belt for a still standing record of 403 days ??? Plus he was the head of the strongest faction in NXT for almost 4 years. Come on now - if you are going to troll us here we all expect better then this from you.

I would just ignore her. Her trolling was funny at first but now it’s sad that she still comes her doing this.

 

[Megahab]

I would just ignore her. Her trolling was funny at first but now it’s sad that she still comes her doing this.

He's a she???

 

[Apex Predator]

He's a she???

Yeah made some comment about her husband buying her tickets for the AEW show.

 

[GKJ]

REAL SHIT JOE VS. SUZUKI NEXT WEEK

 

[GKJ]

Wheeler Yuta has unlimited blood

 

[savebyrichter94]

Bloodbath

 

[GKJ]

Wheeler Yuta the most biggest star in the industry

 

[savebyrichter94]

That match was great, solid ending

 

[TD Charlie]

Haven’t seen the recording yet, but how soon after the main event did they go off air?

Yuta shook hands with Regal and they definitely gave him his shine. They’re fixing to turn that man into a f***ing stud with the blackpool trio. Unreal potential

And holy hell Joe v Suzuki let’s f***in gooooo

EDIT: just saw on IG they showed most of the post match stuff which is great. I love the initiation into the group that they’ve established here.

 

[GKJ]

Haven’t seen the recording yet, but how soon after the main event did they go off air?

Yuta shook hands with Regal and they definitely gave him his shine. They’re fixing to turn that man into a f***ing stud with the blackpool trio. Unreal potential

And holy hell Joe v Suzuki let’s f***in gooooo

It was a couple minutes.

 

[sabremike]

Yuta looked like he got gigged by the ghost of New Jack.

 

[BostonBob]

 

[CDJ]

Everything about that main event was awesome

 

[TD Charlie]

Everything about that main event was awesome

The very beginning was so f***ing perfect. Mox strutting his shit out by the corner and Yuta just launches out of nowhere onto him. They had the crowd hyped immediately. I don’t know who’s idea that was but it was so great

 

[ShelbyZ]

What the heck was that? Who booked that? Julia Hart ambushes Hikaru Shida in the middle of her ring entrance to the confusion of the rest of the varsity blonds who she then kicks from ringside before losing to Shida in a lopsided match when she really only had maybe two minutes of offense.

The angle that's been going on Dark/Elevation is that Julia has changed since she's had to don an eye patch due to Malakai spitting in her eye. And the change is mostly her resorting to out of character heelish tactics in her matches while Griff/Pillman look on perplexed, or just being completely disengaged when accompanying them to their matches. They just haven't done a great job of conveying that to the audience that only watches AEW on TV.

There's been some speculation that AEW is planning some evil Alexa/Fiend type program with Julia eventually joining House of Black, but again they curiously did little to build her evil trending character on her two most recent TV appearances:

-She spent the entirety of the Varsity Blondes vs. Moxley/Danielson match and the lengthy Mox/DB/Regal promo that followed sitting on the rings steps looking at the ground all sad, but the commentary team did little to nothing to acknowledge it was going on even when Regal paused and looked at her all perplexed for a second when he came down to the ring after the match.

-No mention in her match against Shida that she's basically been doing the same heelish stuff in her most recent non-TV matches

 

[Khelandros]

The angle that's been going on Dark/Elevation is that Julia has changed since she's had to don an eye patch due to Malakai spitting in her eye. And the change is mostly her resorting to out of character heelish tactics in her matches while Griff/Pillman look on perplexed, or just being completely disengaged when accompanying them to their matches. They just haven't done a great job of conveying that to the audience that only watches AEW on TV.

There's been some speculation that AEW is planning some evil Alexa/Fiend type program with Julia eventually joining House of Black, but again they curiously did little to build her evil trending character on her two most recent TV appearances:

-She spent the entirety of the Varsity Blondes vs. Moxley/Danielson match and the lengthy Mox/DB/Regal promo that followed sitting on the rings steps looking at the ground all sad, but the commentary team did little to nothing to acknowledge it was going on even when Regal paused and looked at her all perplexed for a second when he came down to the ring after the match.

-No mention in her match against Shida that she's basically been doing the same heelish stuff in her most recent non-TV matches

This is my gripe with how AEW tells their stories. You shouldn't expect the average fan to have to search for stuff to make sense of the things going on on TV. If it's a big enough angle that you are using it on TV, you should put all the pertinent stuff associated with it on TV. Not somebodies youtube channel, not some BTE episode, not on a program that is only seen by a 1/4 of the country on TV.

 

[CDJ]

Tbh I don’t watch dark or elevation most of the time and I knew what was going on with Julia Hart. I mean she’s still wearing an eyepatch, it was all pretty obvious to me what’s going on just by going off the tv appearances….