AEW Dynamite (Sept. 21st, 2022): The Most Important Night In The History Of All Elite Wrestling

Well, there’s a bit of ground to cover regarding this episode and I feel we need to establish the backstory before we get to the main show. Let’s take care of that after the break.

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TNA Turning Point 2004

The second ever monthly TNA PPV is known for two things; it’s the last TNA appearance of Macho Man Randy Savage, who would fuck off soon afterwards… and I really can’t blame him, really. And the other thing is for showing footage of that one time TNA wrestlers went over to visit some WWE guys who were shooting a commercial for an upcoming PPV at Universal Studios, which is where TNA was holding all their shows at that point.

Just to get it out of the way, they teased the airing of the footage by having a couple guys do bad impersonations of Vince McMahon and Triple H trying to stop TNA from airing said footage and being total fools of. This was making light of the fact that WWE actually did have a problem with TNA possibly showing this footage on their programming. And once they showed the footage, almost all the WWE guys’ faces were blurred out so you couldn’t tell them apart unless you paid attention to their tattoos. It all came across as really lame – about as lame as any time you saw AEW take a cheap shot at WWE these days.

Now that we got that out of the way, let’s check out the rest of this Turning Point PPV.

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TNA Victory Road 2004

We’re going to be sampling some TNA shows for the next few weeks and what better way to kick this run off than by going back to their very first monthly PPV?
TNA’s new Impact television show had just debuted on FOX Sports channel as a weekly late-night television show; not exactly prime time but a step in the right direction for the promotion. And with that in place, TNA stepped away from the weekly PPV experiment that had been a money loser for the most part to transition to the traditional monthly PPV formula, beginning with this Victory Road show.
I’m going into this blind, as I am largely unfamiliar with this period in TNA history. I’m assuming Jeff Jarrett is the champion here because he almost always was… anyway, I’ll try to keep an open mind and watch the show as it happens.

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Review #900 – Metroid Dread (Switch)

Yes, they made another one. Actual surprise is actual.

Also, I think I’m done with the Dailymotion embeds. The HD stuff looks like crap and I’m getting more videos taken down or blocked than the more popular streaming service that’s usually the more picky one. Fuck that noise.

WWE Clash At The Castle 2022

It was a big weekend of wrestling. One night featured the AEW All Out PPV, while the other night featured WWE’s Clash At The Castle show from Wales. Prevailing circumstances prevented me from catching the AEW show, but I was able to watch the WWE PPV and so I’d figure that I would share my thoughts here.
We’re about a month or so removed from HHH’s stint as the new head of WWE Creative and there has been some changes here and there. A bunch of guys who were released have been brought back, there’s more of a focus on wrestling, and people are even allowed to say wrestling and hospital. It’s not exactly a huge turnaround and it’s still going to be a while before we can properly gauge this a success, but it’s steps in the right direction.
So I’m going to give this relatively minor show that’s being treated like a big deal a fair shake. And if turns out good, who knows? I might start watching these WWE PPVs again when they happen. Otherwise, I’ll be more than content waiting until the new year to give this another shot.

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