Red Mosquito

Anders wrote:1. Worst segment yet between CM Punk and MJF (also it’s getting boring in general)

While I agree this has progressed too slowly, I thought the segment was very good.
2. Danielson vs Moriarty had decent wrestling, but could have told you every move before it started.

This was a fantastic match, I dunno what to tell ya
3. Poor segment between Mox and Danielson, felt fake.

Again, this was an excellent segment, the highlight of the show. I can’t wait to see where this goes
4. Usual Wardlow match. Yawn.

They are building him up for a feud with MJF, Wardlow having 20 minute matches right now makes no sense at all.

5. Cole vs Page with beatdown, at least something half new

I haven’t been wild about the use of Cole so far
6. Inner Circle match, this just didn’t work. Hager stayed down too long.

I didn’t think it was a great match, but it served its purpose of setting up Eddie Jericho pretty well.

7. Thunder Rosa match. Boring.

Disagree entirely, this was awesome. Didn’t like the post match as much though

8. Guevara vs Allin with intervention. Too predictable.
This was a good match, I guess it was predictable, but do you want them to drop the program Darby is in right now. Not having Andrade interfere here would have been non-sensical

numbers wrote:

Anders wrote:1. Worst segment yet between CM Punk and MJF (also it’s getting boring in general)

While I agree this has progressed too slowly, I thought the segment was very good.
2. Danielson vs Moriarty had decent wrestling, but could have told you every move before it started.

This was a fantastic match, I dunno what to tell ya
3. Poor segment between Mox and Danielson, felt fake.

Again, this was an excellent segment, the highlight of the show. I can’t wait to see where this goes
4. Usual Wardlow match. Yawn.

They are building him up for a feud with MJF, Wardlow having 20 minute matches right now makes no sense at all.

5. Cole vs Page with beatdown, at least something half new

I haven’t been wild about the use of Cole so far
6. Inner Circle match, this just didn’t work. Hager stayed down too long.

I didn’t think it was a great match, but it served its purpose of setting up Eddie Jericho pretty well.

7. Thunder Rosa match. Boring.

Disagree entirely, this was awesome. Didn’t like the post match as much though

8. Guevara vs Allin with intervention. Too predictable.
This was a good match, I guess it was predictable, but do you want them to drop the program Darby is in right now. Not having Andrade interfere here would have been non-sensical

JuanHamm wrote:I'll never understand the appeal of The Young Bucks.

JuanHamm wrote:I'll never understand the appeal of The Young Bucks.

numbers wrote:Personally, I think AEW peaked at some point in the last year, probably at All Out or Grand Slam. They seem to struggle every year between the Full Gear and Revolution PPVs keeping things going. I thought having that battle of the belts show in January would help that, but that show ended up not being what I expected. I do think this years winter doledrums have been better than the past two years, though. The low point of the company creatively was December 19- February 20 for me.

(I am not counting that period in the early days of the pandemic where they had to film a shit ton of matches in Georgia. That wasn’t good tv, but it was the best anyone could do at the time.)

numbers wrote:

JuanHamm wrote:I'll never understand the appeal of The Young Bucks.

I don’t think they are the end all be all best tag team like the Meltzer fangirls do, but they have impressed me since AEW started. They do a lot of subtle storytelling that I really like, but you don’t pick up on it if you aren’t watching them weekly.