AEW Dynamite (Feb. 9th, 2022): Jaded On Long And Bloody

Yeah, so that was a show, eh?

I'm going to be honest here; Keith Lee and Jay White debuting on AEW doesn't do much for me, as I've largely avoided NXT during Lee's time there (not his fault) and I'm not much of a New Japan guy. So calling these "huge signings" might seem so to TK or the hardcores, but I'm just shrugging my shoulders here and going "cool."

CM Punk and Jon Moxley teamed up to beat FTR in a pretty good tag match that was spurred from an opening promo between MJF and Punk, who challenged Wardlow because HE was the guy who beat him. Punk and Mox make a good pairing, but what about Bryan Danielson?

So I ask AEW a favor here; can we please stop having long Jade Cargill matches please? It's bad enough when she's working with competent talent, but with someone who is essentially a no-name? I was waiting for this thing to end because it was just so DULL. People make fun of Goldberg for having short matches, but you want to know what those short matches did? It made him into a BIG STAR. Someone like Jade should be having short Goldberg things with these geeks, not 20 minute exhibitions that looked worse than anything I cook up in whatever WWE video game I've got laying around.

I mean, SERENA DEEB beat a fucking geek in less than a minute. WHY THE FUCK CAN'T YOU DO THAT WITH JADE FUCKING CARGILL, TK?! SHE'S PERFECT FOR THAT SORT OF THING?!!

Goddamn, all caps in an AEW musings. We've finally hit that particular wall.

Yeah, so the main event... AEW World Champion Hangman Adam Page retaining the title over Lance Archer in a Texas Death Match that saw both guys bloodied up (with Hangman bleeding a fucking gusher). There was a bit of smarts here where some goof took out the top ropes, which neutralized Hangman's ability to do his Buckshot Lariat finisher (he flips over the top and clothesline a dude), but while the ref was hunch over, Hangman did his Buckshot on Archer through the table on the other side for the eventual win. This was a fun little brawl there, but I'm going to echo a few sentiments out there and say that I'm over everyone getting cut up for these things. You do something one time too many, it eventually starts to lose its appeal. Also, please cut back on no-DQs, street fights, and lights out for the foreseeable future. These are also somewhat lame unless you're going to do old-style WWF hardcore where you're fighting across the street at a local bar or something. Just saying.

That's all I've got.