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Zeus 02/09/21 7:14:48 PM #157:	I_Abibde posted... Going to respectfully disagree on that, Zeus. AEW has been so much fun (IMO) to watch that it got both my wife and myself back into wrestling for good. That being said, no wrestling is botch-free, and AEW is no exception. I get the whole different strokes for different folks, but jfc at a lot of AEW's shit. Most of my exposure to AEW comes from hearing Cornette's trash-talk segments (so I'll admit a bit of a bias there), but every now and again I'll hear him describe something so outlandish that I think there's no way it can be true... and then the times when I've found the event it looks even worse than described! For instance, Cornette has been bitching about "Pockets" (aka Orange Cassidy) for months now and how the guy has been booked, so I figure I've finally got to check some of this shit out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01CjXQjBnaQ jfc... first off, that's got to be the least intimidating guy I've seen in professional wrestling (even Eric Bishoff looked tougher, and he wasn't a wrestler). The guy looks like they just grabbed a fan from the crowd. And then I see them selling to this guy and my immediate reaction is WTF. That whole thing looked goofy as hell, although I will admit that the hands-free tumble is a neat move (as an acrobatic thing). This is still supposed to be a wrestling promotion, right? What exactly is the appeal of AEW? Is it the comedy? The acrobatics? The spectacle? Do they have funny promos or something? Because it doesn't seem to have much in the way of wrestling. --- (\/)(\/)\|-\| There are precious few at ease / With moral ambiguities / So we act as though they don't exist. <cite>Zeus posted [p:950466052] in Geekacea: ... [t:79211564]...</cite> <quote>I_Abibde posted... </cite> <quote>Going to respectfully disagree on that, Zeus. AEW has been so much fun (IMO) to watch that it got both my wife and myself back into wrestling for good. That being said, no wrestling is botch-free, and AEW is no exception.</quote> I get the whole different strokes for different folks, but jfc at a lot of AEW's shit. Most of my exposure to AEW comes from hearing Cornette's trash-talk segments (so I'll admit a bit of a bias there), but every now and again I'll hear him describe something so outlandish that I think there's no way it can be true... and then the times when I've found the event it looks even worse than described! For instance, Cornette has been bitching about "Pockets" (aka Orange Cassidy) for months now and how the guy has been booked, so I figure I've finally got to check some of this shit out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01CjXQjBnaQ jfc... first off, that's got to be the least intimidating guy I've seen in professional wrestling (even Eric Bishoff looked tougher, and he wasn't a wrestler). The guy looks like they just grabbed a fan from the crowd. And then I see them selling to this guy and my immediate reaction is WTF. That whole thing looked goofy as hell, although I will admit that the hands-free tumble is a neat move (as an acrobatic thing). This is still supposed to be a wrestling promotion, right? What exactly is the appeal of AEW? Is it the comedy? The acrobatics? The spectacle? Do they have funny promos or something? Because it doesn't seem to have much in the way of wrestling. --- (\/)(\/)\|-\| There are precious few at ease / With moral ambiguities / So we act as though they don't exist. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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