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Well, my opinion of AEW Dark has officially tanked. I wound up watching the Feb 9 edition ("12 Huge Matches featuring The Natural Nightmares, Brian Cage, Pac, Joey Janela and more") and I had to fast-forward/skip through a lot of it.

Despite advertising 12 matches, the listed run-time was 97 minutes which immediately had me a little leery. But I figured I liked the last one, so what could wrong? The answer, apparently, was lots.

That 97 run-time included two commercials (same commercial, run twice) for the Inner Circle's beverage. It also included a rap segment I just skipped through. I watched a minute or two of a Sonny Kiss match, then skipped the rest. (Sonny's opponent was KC Navarro, who looks like a high schooler.) I then saw Marko Stunt wrestle and... wtf? I thought he was a little kid or something when he was coming out with Jungle Express. Then when I saw him in the ring, I was wondering if he was so small and kinda unusual-looking because of a disability, but I checked his wikipedia page and nope, nothing. He's just a super tiny wrestler who they have in with a 6 ft-tall guy and they have the 6 -ft guy selling to this 5-ft, 120 lb (that's his billed weight, although I expect he could be even lighter) wrestler who looks like he might be in high school. Wtf is this? Seriously?

Then the main event was Jelly Nutella vs who the fuck cares. I sat through maybe 2 minutes of that before stopping.

The other stuff on the card was a six-man tag (Dustin Rhodes, Comorota, and somebody against... whoever; Comorota showed off his power moves, but his opponents were literally walking right into them so it looked goofy), Brian Cage vs whoever (I thought Cage might have been Benoit's older son because I knew he was getting into wrestling, the look reminded me a little of Benoit, and he did that throat slit gesture but no, they're not related; I remember it being an okay match but it's a little hazy since I watched it last night), Tay Conti (who isn't great but is watchable in short matches), Pac (which was alright), and as soon as I saw Peter Avalon -- who I recognized as the short job guy -- I just skipped that fucking match. I also skipped the Dork Order match, although it was just one of them in there.

Oh, and I saw SCU wrestle somebody and Lee Johnson. That was surprising, since SCU is comprised of two reasonably big name TNA guys who look like jokes now. And Lee Johnson was tagging with some nobody, and their team lost which makes it even stupider. I 100% understand all of Cornette's complaints about AEW booking.

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