I was out of the loop when it came to professional wrestling for many years. The WWE didn't interest me anymore after 2011, and it seems to just be getting worse by the year at this point. So naturally, I've always been looking out for another outlet. The problem happened to be that no where else really had a whole lot of talent that held my interest. You can find people here or there that impress you, but I was raised with the mega stars, and I needed to see them do amazing things in order to keep my interest. It simply wasn't there, so I just tuned out.

More recently though I turned AEW on just for the heck of it. I had heard of them a bit, but didn't know a lot of the names, so I gave it a pass. Then I felt really stupid. The first match I saw of AEW had Jurassic Express in it, and man they're amazing. I just love their theme song and Jungle Boy will certainly be going places. This led to me sticking around for awhile, and I'm glad I did...

Their recent PPV "All Out," far exceeded my expectations. Most Wrestlemanias haven't hit the level of quality that the event presented, and I don't want to spoil anything, but there's some big roster additions they announced that are absolutely shaking up the balance of power in the industry, not to mention CM Punk returned to Wrestling and had a stellar match with Darby Allin, who's looking like Sting's successor to me. I am beyond impressed, and really excited for the future of this promotion.

SonicOlmstead : Give All Out a shot and then decide.

http://watchwrestling.la/watch-aew-all-out-2021-9-5-21-ppv-live-online/

This was honestly the biggest factor to me tuning in to Dynamite this week.

SonicOlmstead : That's pretty much how I felt yeah. Now to clarify, John Moxley is Dean Ambrose and Miro is Rusev. So those first two matches were done by former big WWE names. Paul Wight is obviously the Big Show, but he's too messed up at this point to put on a good match honestly, I feel bad for the guy.

That tag match was great, and I gotta say, AEW has a far better tag division than I've ever seen in WWE. Jurassic Express is my favorite, and the smaller guy Jungle Boy is being groomed to be a world champion someday, they're super over with the fans, and I hope they face the Lucha Bros for the title someday.

Darby Allin is like the successor to Sting, he's actually really cool and good at wrestling for his age. I'm hoping he and Jungle Boy face off when they're both a bit more experienced, Punk is also looking quite great considering how long he's been retired.

Jericho is kind of impressive for his age, but the guy wrestled after testing positive for Covid, so people are pretty much asking the guy to retire at this point, he's in his twilight years where you'd think he'd be putting guys over more often anyway.

Christian however, was mistreated in the WWE in my opinion and ought to win a title in AEW, he's a bit younger than Jericho who previously held the AEW World title, so I feel justified in saying this. He also did a tremendous job against Kenny Omega.

We also have Cody Rhodes and Gold Dust in AEW too. Tony Khan has been snatching up old and new talent as Vince has put them to the wayside. I do believe this wrestling promotion will only get better, and the Khans have 9 billion dollars to back it up too. Plus they have a video game slated for next year made by Yukes. (Devs of Smackdown vs Raw and 2K up to 2K19.)

(Spoilers for this last Wednesday.) Oh also, to fill you in on what happened on their main show Wednesday so you can get a glimpse of what you'll be jumping into. Taz has his own stable and essentially goaded CM Punk into feuding with his guys, that's probably gonna be a thing soon. One of the huge stables called the Dark Order is breaking up and warring for a new leader. Ruby Soho is slowly positioning herself for a title shot. Gold Dust has been feuding with Malakai Black and I believe Cody is in on the feud. MJF declared himself the winner and took pot shots at the crowd. The biggest heel stable called the Elite spent an eon giving themselves a pat on the back and said that the Young Bucks had their titles stolen essentially. Moxley beat the second Japanese pro wrestler but it was a short match because some promos went on too long.

Rampage is on tonight on TNT 10PM EST. It's a one hour show which is mostly wrestling where as Dynamite on 8PM EST is usually about a third promo. There's also a special show on Saturday, and their YouTube channel uploads undercard shows twice a week where they develop talent.

Edit: Hey look at that, Darby and Jungle Boy fight in this dev preview. How telling.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GeN0rl824k&feature=youtu.be

geeogree : Even better is the Khan family seems pretty invested in AEW so it's much less likely to collapse and be bought out. Maybe Vince will finally get off his ass. I heard Smackdown did pretty well tonight, that's likely no accident.

geeogree : Well, we both know what happens when WWE wins, so I don't think either of us would hope it does. They also traditionally have treated their talent very badly, I've heard AEW is much better at that. I'm personally just waiting for some of AEW's home grown talent to become more experienced, Darby Allin is really interesting, and I can see him as the face of the company one day. In WWE I'm sure he'd be considered too small, which is very telling. Jeff Hardy might hop over too, he's essentially been relegated to a jobber by now.

geeogree : Oh for sure. I remember the Wrestlemania match between Triple H and Booker T. HHH had been reigning for a long time by that point and you'd figure, he'd lose it to somebody who was a several time champion in WCW, but Booker T lost, quite a bit easier than I'd expect actually. Then after that it was pretty much over for him as far as Wrestlemania was concerned.
Hogan is lucky he was so popular or he'd have been shafted too probably. The guy wasn't young and I'm sure Vince didn't appreciate him bolstering the enemy all those years.

geeogree : It's great that they let them do that considering the now stacked roster. There's no way they could fit everyone onto every card, and so a lot of wrestlers will be underutilized and it'd be a real shame if they couldn't work just because there's not a spot.