AEW Dynamite (Dec. 27th, 2023): The Devil Is This Poop?

Tuned into AEW for the first time in what seems like months and what do I get for my efforts?

– The finals of the Continental Classic is going to be another match between Jon Moxley and Eddie Kingston at AEW’s New Year’s Eve Eve PPV this Saturday, which I’m sure will be a nice bloody affair and those guys will absolutely maim each other for the opportunity of carrying three shiny belts that mean absolutely fuck all. (Seriously, why do we need more belts?)

– With Swerve out of any title picture, we’ll finally getting that Swerve vs. Keith Lee match that every one of YOU (not me – I don’t care either way) have been clamoring for. Hey, no knock of Swerve; the guy’s got a great main event feature if anyone is willing to pull the trigger on him, but him and Keith Lee going at it seemingly years after their deal mattered means nothing at this point. But hey, a payoff long past its due date isn’t completely alien to AEW these days.

– This Devil storyline is still going on? Does anybody really give a shit at this point? There were a couple points beforehand where the devil should have been revealed and we’re STILL doing this shit?

– By the way, speaking of belts that don’t matter, your new ROH tag titles are the masked mystery men that nobody cares about.

I don’t want to rail on this show entirely; you had good matches in Mox/Swerve/White and Danielson/Kingston. Statlander/Blue was also pretty good even with the hokey finish and the fact that your TBS title program is the battle of the scary ladies (I’d do a Cornette Face, but that’d be feeding the Cult Of Corntards, so I’ll refrain), and Le Sex Gods reuniting so we’d have SOME title match for Starks and Big Bill is a nice, wholesome Boxing Day moment… but fuck me, this Devil shit needs to die in 2023. It’s already occupied a spot in the Losers Of 2023 listing and I’ve only watched ONE show involving this shit.

WWF Armageddon 2000

The final WWF PPV of the year 2000… and it’s headlined by a six-man Hell In A Cell match concocted by then-commissioner Mick Foley to bring pain to reigning and defending WWF Champion Kurt Angle, coupled with Vince’s efforts to prevent the match from happening… even though he’s the chairman and the owner, which means he could easily overrule Mick if he wanted to, but I guess that would make too much sense.

So this return to WWF 2000 hasn’t been fantastic. No Mercy had its moments and Survivor Series only had one. My hopes aren’t high for this one, but… okay, here we go.

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NEW State Of The Blog – December 2023

Yeah, so change of plans… and unfortunately, it’s not good news.

My computer is once again on the verge of crapping out and I’ve got to get it fixed. Unfortunately, that means a good chunk of plans for this month is going out the window. As such, there will be no further reviews this year. I’ll be making a formal video announcement during the weekend if possible.

Right now, I’m running off the mini PC thing I bought this summer, but it isn’t set up to do anything and obviously, is far more limited in what I can actually do with it. I am hoping on getting the Sunday Gimmick Tables up this month and with the downtime, I can get up to speed in all the text-based content for the blog due next year, so there’s a bit of a silver lining. It is extremely frustrating that these technical issues are getting in the way of moving things forward and possibly threatening some of those plans.

Maybe it’s a sign.

Anyway, right now, it’s a couple more PPV musings on the docket for sure; the Armageddon 2000 PPV and the No Way Out 2001 show. There will be a DTM-Cast or two along the way. We’ll see.

Sorry about all this, everyone. As soon as things get up to speed, I will let you know.

WWF No Mercy 2000

So after twenty weeks or so of an ill-conceived revisit to the early days of NWA-TNA, it’s time to go back to some quality wrestling… but not today’s wrestling. To be honest, I’ve been out of the loop as of late. I know that WWE had their Survivor Series PPV recently and that was a thing. I know Tony Khan has made more “important announcements” that aren’t all that important. Impact is going back to being TNA, which hopefully means going back to that period when the show was actually good and not… everything else.

So the last time we touched WWF in the year 2000, it was the Unforgiven PPV that saw Stone Cold Steve Austin return from his near-year long sabbatical of neck fusion surgery due to being run over by a car. The culprit turned out to be Rikishi. It went over like a fart in church.

Anyway, it’s No Mercy. They named a video game after this. Steve Austin makes his return to in ring action to get revenge on the guy who tried to run him over. Kurt Angle gets another shot at the WWF Championship. Other stuff happens, I guess. Hey, there’s some stuff to look forward to here, so I can’t be too unhappy.

Onwards, my friend. Y2K beckons.

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