AEW
Colette Arrand Jun 7, 2021. 5 minute read
What Kind of Cologne Does Sting Wear?
On Friday night’s edition of AEW Dynamite, Scorpio Sky and Ethan Page interrupted Sting and Darby Allin’s victory speech. Sting gets interrupted every time he speaks, so that’s nothing new, but what captured my attention was when Sky took the opportunity to tell Sting that he smelled nice at Double…
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Martin Douglas Jun 5, 2021. 11 minute read
Coffee Maker Drip: AEW Dynamite Recap and Review
Double or Nothing was kind of a trip, right? The Young Bucks got revenge for getting their sneakers took, everything felt right in the world when Sting hit the Scorpion Death Drop, Dr. Britt Baker assumed her rightful place at the top of the women’s division, Miro kicked off his…
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Martin Douglas May 31, 2021. 20 minute read
Always Bet on Red: AEW Double or Nothing 2021 Recap and Review
Out of AEW’s four annual pay-per-view events, there’s still a special air surrounding Double or Nothing. After all, it’s the company’s anniversary show; the event that sets the tone for the year. In 2020, the company weathered the hard pivot known as COVID to put on a very good show,…
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Colette Arrand May 30, 2021. 11 minute read
In Emulating the Four Horsemen, The Pinnacle Hasn’t Come Together Yet
Tonight, Chris Jericho’s Inner Circle and MJF’s Pinnacle meet in a Stadium Stampede match that will determine, among other things, whether or not the Inner Circle continues as a going concern in All Elite Wrestling. It is just the third time these two factions have met in the ring since…
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Martin Douglas May 27, 2021. 6 minute read
The Young Bucks’ Dior Air Jordan 1s: An Investigative Report
Michael Jordan did not want to take that flight to Beaverton. In 1984, Nike wasn’t the world-beating shoe dynasty they would become. They were still mired in their upstart years and known primarily for their innovations in the world of track and field and their affiliation with tennis firebrand John…
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Martin Douglas May 20, 2021. 11 minute read
An Ode to Newport 100s: AEW Dynamite Recap and Review
It’s weird how much of a mixed bag wrestling shows can be sometimes. On last week’s Dynamite, the wrestling was excellent. Jon Moxley had a great match with Yugi Nagata. The Young Bucks and SCU turned their tag team title match into a pathos-filled bloodbath. PAC and Orange Cassidy went…
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Colette Arrand May 19, 2021. 10 minute read
Cody Rhodes’ American Dream
I traveled to Jacksonville for AEW Dynamite last week for the sake of seeing Yuji Nagata wrestle in America for the first time since I was a child, when Nagata was a wrestler I liked because he did karate kicks in WCW/nWo Revenge and wrestled on B-shows like Saturday Night and…
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Martin Douglas May 14, 2021. 12 minute read
The Wedding Planner’s Retribution: AEW Dynamite Recap and Review
Of course, the big story coming out of last week’s Dynamite was Blood & Guts (and a 50-year-old man falling 10 feet into a crash pad), but a lot of moving parts for last night’s absolutely stacked episode were put into motion as well. A match to determine Kenny Omega’s…
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Martin Douglas May 6, 2021. 11 minute read
BLOOD & GUTS: AEW Dynamite Recap and Review
It has been nearly 14 months since the announcement of the first Blood & Guts match between the (then-fracturing) Elite and the (then-dominant) Inner Circle. If you’ve been following Dynamite through the year of pandemic wrestling, you’ve known for a while that match was wisely aborted for the health and…
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Martin Douglas Apr 29, 2021. 11 minute read
Rock the Mic: AEW Dynamite Recap and Review
As we inch closer and closer to next week’s Blood & Guts match—and, by proxy, next month’s Double or Nothing—developments have been cropping up in the world of AEW as these major events congeal. Take last week’s episode of Dynamite for instance: MJF proved that he actually could cut a…
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Martin Douglas Apr 22, 2021. 13 minute read
Back to Nordstrom Rack: AEW Dynamite Recap and Review
In a change of pace from contextualizing the previous week’s episode of Dynamite (like I’ve done for the past few weeks), let’s just quickly run down the highlights before discussing last night’s show: The Young Bucks traded in their colorful, fringe-covered boots for matching pairs of Dior Jordan 1s and…
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Martin Douglas Apr 15, 2021. 12 minute read
Just Singin’ Them Post-War Blues: AEW Dynamite Recap and Review
Chris Jericho might have bragged about running NXT off of Wednesday nights, but we know that was just posturing, as most of us know AEW was slotted midweek to begin with so they wouldn’t be perennially preempted by NBA games. But you know, “We Won the War” is good for…
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Martin Douglas Apr 8, 2021. 12 minute read
Call Me By Your Name: AEW Recap and Review
I don’t want to spend too much space on the page adding to the discourse of the mostly imaginary Wednesday Night War. Starting next week, AEW Dynamite will run on Wednesdays with no direct competition from NXT, which is less significant than a lot of people are making it out…
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Colette Arrand Apr 1, 2021. 1 minute read
AEW’s Mortal Kombat II Cabinet: A Review
In a real loss for me, a person who lives to see expensive stuff get wrecked for the sake of the great sport of professional wrestling, AEW’s Arcade Mayhem match from this week’s Dynamite featured more “wandering through the arcade cabinets looking for something to play” action than the CRT…
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Martin Douglas Mar 25, 2021. 10 minute read
On Hunger: AEW Dynamite Recap and Review
As we move further and further away from AEW Revolution, it becomes more and more apparent the intended explosion at its end was supposed to provide an exclamation point for an era of All Elite Wrestling. Seventeen days removed from the pay-per-view, its landscape has changed noticeably. Stalwart babyfaces turned…
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Kath Barbadoro Mar 21, 2021. 4 minute read
Orange Cassidy and Stokely Hathaway’s Grammys Street Fight Set the Bar for Cinematic Wrestling
The past year has been pretty dispiriting for pro wrestling fans. Promotions alternated between running shows in dystopian empty arenas and putting on the occasional superspreader event, while wrestlers, promoters, and audiences alike continuously revealed their cynicism and stupidity when it came to keeping each other safe. But there’s been…
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Martin Douglas Mar 18, 2021. 11 minute read
The St. Patty’s Day Massacre: AEW Recap and Review
It had finally come to this; the first women’s match to main event AEW Dynanite after nearly 18 months on television, built on the back of a classic, long-standing feud that could only be settled outside of AEW’s sanctioned guidelines. Before the opening of the so-called “forbidden door,” Billy Corgan’s…
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Colette Arrand Mar 16, 2021. 7 minute read
Is AEW Dark: Elevation Worth Watching?
I was suckered into watching two hours of AEW Dark: Elevation by the promise of its main event and the amount of advertising that went into its debut, but, being honest here, no, it’s not.. It’s just AEW Dark with a subtitle, an endless stream of competitive enhancement matches filmed…
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Martin Douglas Mar 11, 2021. 11 minute read
Suspicious Minds: AEW Recap and Review
It was the dud heard ‘round the world. I’m sure you’ve had your good share of reading about the final moments of AEW Revolution over the past four days. What was supposed to be a pivotal, emotional moment in the history of All Elite Wrestling has instead led me to…
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Martin Douglas Mar 8, 2021. 14 minute read
The Golden Donut: AEW Revolution Recap and Review
Remember last year? Remember packed, sold-out crowds? Remember when AEW Revolution was the most anticipated wrestling show of the year? I’m sure many of you know by now that, in addition to nearly sweeping the 2020 Wrestling Observer Awards, Revolution was voted Show of the Year and its tag title…
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