Author: dtm666

I ramble about things.

AEW Dynamite (September 4th, 2024) – A Flaming Hot Sell For All Out

It took a burning house to produce some intrigue, but at long last, Hangman Page cut perhaps one of the best promos of his entire career to build to this cage match with Swerve at All Out. I mean, the whole thing with Swerve buying his “childhood home” and airing it on TV, only for Hangman to find out about it and burn it down was a bit hokey, but I’ll be damned. I’m almost convinced to buy this All Out PPV just to watch this match… almost.

That one angle alone was enough to produce one of the better Dynamite shows in a while. And you can tell that I enjoyed this Dynamite show moreso than the usual output because I’m using the generic Dynamite musings banner rather than anything with a bemused Shaq, anti-AEW bots, or Tony Khan in a neckbrace. Unfortunately, we’re still trying to get Jack Perry over as a top heel and I’m still not buying it, but Mariah May vs. Nyla Rose was a fun match with a slow start, Okada finally put his working boots on for a free TV match with Kyle Fletcher that was pretty great, and the trios match between the BCC and the Ospreay/O’Reilly/Orange express (for lack of a better term) was a fun party match. Even the Mercedes segment was somewhat tolerable, even if it was every boring Mercedes promo I’ve seen her cut in WWE for years. You’d think having an Emmy Award-winning writer to personally write all your verbiage would be more creative than that, but alas…

So… yeah. Not much to say about this one. This was a genuinely good episode of Dynamite. Probably the first one I’ve seen in a while. I’m almost tempted to buy this show now… almost.

Terry, You Fumb Duck…

I’d normally wouldn’t touch this with a ten-yard pole… I’d prefer a pitchfork of equal length. But I felt… “compelled” might not be the right word, but… nah, I just felt like it.

So resident humanitarian and sportsman of the year HULK HOGAN recently went on some podcast and made the ridiculous claim that people forgave Chris Benoit for the “crap he did,” so why not extend the same courtesy to ol’ Terry, who said some racist things here and there? People still love Chris Benoit, says Hogan. People still think highly of him, says the Orange Goblin. So if people forgave him and still love him, then maybe wrestling fans can forgive Hogan for the less than heinous in comparison things that he’s done, brother. That would work for him, DUDE!

Terry, you dumb fuck.

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TNA Against All Odds 2010

A TNA PPV Musings? From 2010, you say? The Hogan era?

Yeah, didn’t I hate that era?

Sure, because I mostly stuck with the television show… whenever I could be bothered to watch the television show, that is. And yes, the week-to-week television was largely atrocious. However, sometimes you buy one of their PPVs and you luck out on a good show… clearly back in the day, that didn’t happen. And when it comes to Against All Odds 2010 – the second PPV in the Hogan era – I’m not sure if I’d go that far, BUT this wasn’t too bad.

A large part of the show is built around a single-night eight man tournament to crown a new No. 1 contender for the World Title at the upcoming Lockdown PPV (not the next one, the next one is shit) as well as AJ Styles defending his TNA World title against Samoa Joe… with Eric Bischoff as the special referee… for some reason. Let’s see if he can call this down the middle and not suddenly complain about Dave Meltzer for half an hour like he does on his podcast… but I digress.

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