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Writer for Last Word on Pro Wrestling. Been making wrestlers cry since 2024. Tackling wrestling myths and narratives. Seeing things differently.
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Absolutely... until there's that one dude who takes it too far and it's all fun and games joking about cowboys vs assassins until the pistols and daggers come out and someone loses an eye.
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I'm greedy and happy ro do both. I don't think the two are mutually exclusive binaries, but I do agree some folks need to decide for their own happiness that if it ain't fun, somethings do to give
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Fantasty booking is fun. I overanalyse match outcomes because it's a fun creative enterprise thats only enhanced my fandom. Yet there's an issue where some folks attach themselves, their egos and identities, to their ideas needing to play out over something they never had control over at any stage
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Nigel's whole shtick with Tony feels so British in terms of how 'lads' at sports clubs treat their one mate who is seen as the odd one: with banter that oftwn crosses the line to bullying. Yet if anyone bothers them, they will be as protective as a father standing up for their child
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Agreed. While it might be there, I think my biggest concern of history is it might plateau. Then again, this is just wrestling and it's always peaking and dipping and cyclical. Just some cycles are more controllable and the levels manageable
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Would not be shocked by this and that would be awesome.
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You're right about telling the stories they want to tell. That's historic more than just this year. The issue the wider division and its characters spin their wheels or stagnant until needed to fill a slot. Top Flight and Private Party are the same as they ever were.
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Same time, it does expose how thin the aew tag division is and the lack of long term consideration and care. While it feels like there has been some investment in some places and teams, like the learning tree, aew's reaping the little it sowed
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Nope, on episode 11 and actually pieces are starting to fall in place(?) Perhaps...
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If Penelope Ford was a bat
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I'm watching it as one of my students wrote a convincing review. I'm in the same boat of I'm watching, like some bits but I don't agree that it was 'written by the gods on a parchment of diamonds woth a phoenix feather'
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I hope you find something that makes hell easier to exist in. Whether in people/community, a coping/distraction technique. Wasn't suggesting it would be solved, but channelled into something that gives momentary ease. If my clumsy offering of support is adverse, I hope today your issues ease.
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It's not a suprise our culture focuses on the individual, but the reality with history is those great figures are stood on more than the shoulders of giants. They were built, influenced and supported by entire villages of people who without their achievements and power would not exist
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When I'm struggling with weird feelings, writing or dictating them (or talking to myself) helps me dissect what I'm feeling, or what I want or need. Even if I can't find the right words or have the vocabulary, it can sometimes give me some translation. Sometimes over hours or days.
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Instead of claps, two cash registers ringing 💰💰
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Nice way of putting it. The issue has been these guys are so young jn their careers, the expectations they would collectively evolve together and in such a short time become main eventers was unrealistic. Give it 5 more years Perry might be main eventing too when like Toni Storm he finds his niche.
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Wheeler is so good and switching between being a puppy looking for the approval of the Death Riders and a yapping terrier whenever he's got to prove himself. Love it!
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The only risk is potential damage to that next crop if you rush too much, you expose and change the expectations and sour folks on them. AEW and the four pillars is a great example. Perry, Guevarra were not on the level of Allin and Allin wasn't on MJF's level when they pushed.
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Red herrings and misdirection are great. Just obviously spaced out as wrestling like film or writers can often just get stuck on repeat
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He will always be Dick (Hollerann) to me
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If you were looking for more about his past, what happened in WWE and Gowen's difficulties that he has overcome in between then and now I did a write up on him here. lastwordonsports.com/prowrestling...
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Is as fallible as not just WWE or WCW or TNA but any and pretty much all wrestling companies. That's Punk's significance is more as a symbol than a wrestler. One that AEW creatively and in its narrative is only just shaking off and a new reality of expectations is forming because of that exit
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Was in part defined by Punk's return and championing of AEW. To such a degree it made utopia for some so real. That it made for some the feeling so real that when things fell apart woth Brawl Out, it was paradise lost. Eden over. Bloom off the rose. Dream over. Reality set in that AEW 2/3
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Agree in terms of the product itself but the impact on perception is irreversible. Punk coming into AEW was a holy miracle moment that for better and worse was a watershed moment for AEW and wrestling. AEW did the unimaginable. It made the dream real. That feeling of anything is possible was 1/2