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AEW: Nobody can out-stupid our exploding barbed wire deathmatch!

WWE: Hold my beer.

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The WWE does a lot of great stuff that I wouldn't mind following, but good fucking god EVERYTHING involving Bray Wyatt seems to out-gimmick Broken Matt. I checked out on Bray Wyatt years ago, but when I hear him come up on Cornette's channel I often wonder if what I'm hearing can possible be real (like the cinematic swamp match where Braun Strowman was ambushed by... Braun Strowman?!).

I'm struck not just by the sheer insanity of learning that the WWE booked a match between RKO & Alexa Bliss, but all of the nonsense in that match (compounded with all of the nonsense before it). And it's kinda annoying because I like Alexa Bliss, I thought Randy was talented, and Bray... well, he's good on the mic, but he's always sucked in-ring. (And in general if you had told me just three years ago that I wouldn't want to see something Alexa Bliss, RKO, and Bray were involved in but I'd be interested in seeing Roman Reigns v Daniel Bryan, I would have thought you crazy.)

A lot of this comes back to the larger discussion of what's appropriate when it comes to wrestling gimmicks. The Undertaker very frequently pushed the envelope and was occasionally involved in some stupid shit, but he kinda made it work. Bray Wyatt has gone even further out there and he really hasn't made it work. Partly because he doesn't have Taker's natural intimidation factor, partly because he's a kinda lousy wrestler, and largely because the WWE's creative team forgot that they were writing a wrestling show instead of a movie.

Not that anything excuses an exploding barbed wire deathmatch. That's just seven flavors of stupid. However, it's ridiculous that the two largest promotions are focused on seeing who can make a worse product rather than who make a better one.

The Wave Master posted...

Still haven't watched The Snyder Cut. I should do that,

It's on my to-do list, but I still need to watch BvS and I think Wonder Woman (and also Aquaman?) first. That's kinda the thing I hate about superhero movies nowadays, everything feels like you've got to do some homework. At least DC has fewer films tied together (for their live-action universe, anyway)

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