Buck vs FTR is such a fascinating case of modern day character alignments. On the surface, Bucks are heel, FTR are face. But then you realize FTR are career heels, and Bucks are the faces in their redDragon feud when it concerns Hangman. And FTR are heels when it concerns MJF. Neither team has changed a bit but none of this is jarring or contradictory, its just natural progression
FTR right now are even more devastating in the ring than the Eliminators were in ECW in 96. That's... shit, son. Imho it don't get much better than that- Saturn and kronus OWNED that company, pretty much. And the Brisco Bros, Young Bucks and reDragon sure beat the hell out of Saturn and kronus' competition back then... Pit Bulls, Dudleys, Gangstas, Public Enemy? Jabronis in comparison. Golden age of tag wrestling kinda shit here bois
@@rowdyjohnnada952 nah, brah, far tf from it... that was my jam. It still is, to a degree... but it's hard to be nostalgic for that era when this one is all killer no filler, dig?
@@rowdyjohnnada952 It's absolutely going to seem like that's the case when you're processing AEW 2022 through dismissive reductionist filters like that, especially while you're still wearing your rose colored Attitude Era Nostalgia goggles. If you go back and watch some full episodes of 90s wrestling TV you'll QUICKLY discover 70% minimum of each episode is weapons grade cringeworthy dogshit. Also, you'll find that most of the tropes you're dismissing as chickenshit when used in AEW were used to great degree back when... but often in an (even more?) inferior manner. The "back in my day when men were men" crap is just nostalgiatard copium, bro. Don't let yourself get cuckolded by the passage of time.
@@thepolarphantasm2319 as far as in-ring action goes, I totally agree. But as far as seeking heat goes, nothing beats a good old fashioned Bubba Ray Dudley promo.
@@ShinSuperSaiyajin you ain't lyin' Jack... My very first ever wrestling show was an ECW house show in new Orleans east in '97 or so... my friends and I got kicked out for throwing shit at the Dudleys. Four minutes before we threw shit at the Dudleys, though, they'd kayfabe broken Beulah McGillicuddy's neck with 3D right in front of an injured Dreamer. Bonus: Five min after we got ejected, Rob Van Dam asked us if we had weed. We did not, because our dumb sixteen year old asses left the shit at home so we wouldn't get arrested by the arena's rent a cops for some reason 😆 To this very day, we're still beefing with ourselves about not getting to smoke with pre-TV title push RVD lol
Literally this. Amazing to see you here btw, my boy tranquilo blowing up. I'd love to see you address some AEW content on your own channel tho. (I'm subbed to both)
@@erichammer8434 Yuta is now elevating that title. So often these days, promoters put belts on workers intent on the reverse being true... but slapping a strap on every flavor of the month just gets you a bunch of belts so worthless you don't even book the champions on WrestleMania. ;)
@@thepolarphantasm2319 I got a feeling that's why Yuta was let in...now they have a "pure champion" in the ranks for ROH and AEW...and BCC and extend into both brands. (Edited cause I suck at spelling)
@@EllyJelly23. Me trying to remember who the fuck is the current IC champion and US champion atm..... oh wait both of them didn't have a title match at WM
@@themikays Apparently Omos vs Lashley was important enough to be on the WM card but not the IC and US champions. If we'd have gotten Ali vs Ricochet at WM, like Ricochet wanted, that would have been another great match.
@@TheSlammurai WWE dont care about putting great matches, its a show above everything else. I fast forward the vignettes, and videos and bs of night 1 and watched the 4h shiw in 90 minutes.
When Yuta got accepted, he wrote the group's initials on his chest, cementing his status as one with inner violence. And he will beat the next obstacle, which is a jealous Trent of Best Friends.
Wheeler Yuta vs Rocky Romero when, TK? Fuck it, let em have that match in NJPW. Yuta deserves the feeling of strolling back into STRONG wearing new gear, the ROH Pure title, a BCC sweatshirt and the maniac grin of a sadistic wrecking machine.
Yuta in the BCC is so amazing. Wasn't the biggest fan of him at first, but man, was I wrong. What makes AEW more interesting to me is more depth, more life. It's not popcorn, it's not for everyone, but hey, the impact AEW has means there are plenty of people who want more than popcorn wrestling. Both are perfectly legit and have their good sides.
The main strenght of AEW is also its biggest weakness. Its ProWrestling for hardcore fans, for people who dont accept mid matches, people who know the story of wrestlers well beyond what they did in AEW, people who watch weekly and get invested by the little details in long stories. If think a casual who watches from time to time while playing with the phone AEW is too much. If wrestling was cinema AEW would be The Godfather and WWE would be Fast and Furious 6.
As someone who's bee following Yuta progress since his debut. You can see one of AEWs true talents is turning the people who used to comment 'get this guy off our screen'... To 'omg he's a mega star!'. A direct quote from the same person. 😅 That they can do such a 180 on someone's opinion and people don't even realise they've been taken on that journey. Cheifs kiss! Just goes to show sometimes waiting for the process to play out is actually a thing. 😁
For me Yuta went from a glorified extra stand in for Trent Beretta while he was out due to injury to being a legit stand alone talent. The Bryan Danielson match, the ROH Pure match and this final one with Mox has absolutely cemented him as a made guy. There is going to be a huge match down the line with Yuta and Beretta and I can't wait to see it.
You could tell once Trent came back that Yuta was gonna be pushed out but I never saw anything like this, well done by the company and everyone involved with this
The Yuta thing with BCC worked so well. Like beating the gatekeepers of the group. He earned Regal’s respect by not backing down after getting slapped. He went toe to toe with Danielson to prove his technical skill And he fought Moxley to demonstrate his viciousness and brutality. It’s a simple story, but it does tell you everything you need to know about the group and how they work. You get the “invitation” but you still need to live up to their standards. Prove you have the courage, the skill and the spirit to get in
AEW had the best tag division in the world for the simple fact they have FTR. People are realizing how good they are and how easily they can be cheered
even before FTR they were pretty stacked: the Bucks, the Jurassic Express, the OG tag champws w/ SoCal Uncensored (even tho they've broken up by this point), the Lucha Brothers, young guys like Private Party and Top Flight, even the guys who are more liked for the comedy bits like the Dark Order. and they've since added the reunited Hardy Boyz.
I look at the Lucha Bros the way evidently a lot of people see FTW: as unquestionably the best tag team running. But I think there's a huge gap in most people lists of favorites and that's TH2. They have an absolutely uncanny ability to fight a seasoned, established main event tag team like the Lucha Bros, Bucks, or FTR, and it'll look amazing. But they can also go with a green tag team like Top Flight when they first arrived, and still make those kids look like stars. That's a real skill, and real heart, to put a younger talent over, especially when they're green and you're patching over their botches in real time. Not to mention, TH2 are so honed at their characters, they pull heel heat just coming out of the tunnel. Most teams have to do something nefarious during the match to get heat, Angelico in particular has the part of the sleazy heel established as he dances down to the ring, that's straight up uncanny.
I used to always treat so many tag team matches as an intermission, but it's different in AEW. The most compelling stories are there. It's been that way from the start.
It's kind of crazy how I literally groaned everytime I saw yuta when he started out as I found him incredibly blant. Then every week for this past few weeks, I just find myself more and more intrigued by him. I was literally in tears after the masterpiece that he and mox put out on the last rampage. Made me realize just how competent AEW is. Note: sorry for mistakes as English is not my first language.
I just want to say the backpool combat club is the greatest thing happening right now. To think a guy who was a quasi jobber like Wheeler Yuta is now a STAR thanks to a great storyline and great matches, it's incredible. Thank you AEW.
I highly recommend the Kenny Johnson docs on Wheeler Yuta and well all of them. They are superb. Yuta and Mix was great. It reminded me of The Kid Vs Razor Ramon or Jeff Hardy Vs Undertaker on a star making match level. Last night was just beautiful I ❤️ wrestling
@@tarikfretes7562 these comments are funny to me. This isn't just wrestling this is any fan of anything. Anytime something monumental or unique and diverse happens there's people that has to wait for days months and years until they finally say what everyone's been saying this entire time. Tony Khan's two companies just put up 3 moty matches in the same week. Random Wrestling Mark: Calm down. Get with the times old man this is like it or not the wrestling promotion both right now and for the future
@@rolandmcdonald9302 im a aew fan but wwe is a global company. they are the main player and will be in the during the at least 10 next years. even if the current product is 💩
Exactly, they have something for everyone, if you're into Lucha it's there. If you're into the WWE style, it's there. If you're into the Japanese style, it's there. If you're into the British style, it's there. If you're into the American indie style, it's there. There's literally something that at least one person is gonna enjoy. AEW has literally everyone in the palm of their hand.
@@SamuelDuplessis12 we should all make a monument to the Great Liberator Mister Tony Khan...gave us a choice and freed us from Vince and his circus my friend💪🤘
It's so refreshing to feel that I'm not wasting my time watching AEW. The match builds are compelling and mix of talent is off the charts. Feels like the Island of Misfit Toys, but with glorious violence. Keep up the great work, really enjoy your takes.
The good thing is that there's a place for both promotions. Just as there's a place for a super hero movie and a Tarantino film. We can have both and it's healthier for the industry to have both.
Great video! This is why I love AEW dude, great wrestling, simple yet compelling storylines and long-term booking. Yuta leaving the Best Friends is the best thing he’s ever going to do in his career.
i was there in boston on the 6th and that place was going wild non stop for 4 hours it was one of the best live events ive ever been to and would go back again in a heart beat. ive never seen a crowd pop so much for FTR and Yuta. i was in utter bliss
I was at Dynamite this week and it was pretty good. Unfortunately we left before the Moxley/Yuta Rampage main event and I had no idea it was going to be such a star-making match.
Loved the comparison of AEW with Goodfellas and Tony Khan as Scorseses; AEW made me remember why i loved wrestling in the first place, after a break of ~ 7 years; hope they gonna keep up in this direction in the futute! Btw you're doing an excelent job in this videos. Congrats!
@@danielcody874 yeah everybody kicks out of massively protected moves. Think that's the first, non-PPV where a Paradigm Shift was kicked out of. And nobody's kicked out of the one where it goes higher on the angle.
@@danielcody874 The Paradigm Shift and Death Rider Paradigm Shift have been majorly protected across multiple promotions. Major stars of various promotions and scenes have been finished by either iteration of it, but here they use it on a Friday Night TV spot to put over someone they'd had jobbing for them that they were ready to put over. Jon Moxley may be one of the most recognized faces currently in wrestling and he gives up both of his finishers to put over the kid which he _absolutely_ did not have to do but chose to do so because it really cemented the idea that Wheeler Yuta was tough as nails.
@@danielcody874 you clearly don't watch or understand wrestling. Yes, a lot of big impact moves get kicked out of (often to the detriment of the storytelling), but tell me how often the following moves have been kicked out of: Last Ride Tombstone Piledriver (when used by The Undertaker) Stone Cold Stunner Death Rider Paradigm Shift One Winged Angel Buckshot Lariat GTS GTH Meltzer Driver BTE Trigger BOOM (when the kneepad is down) Rainmaker Burning Hammer These are not just signature moves, these are proper match finishers. If somebody kicks out of these then it is a very special, purposeful moment.
I really love it when you use the danny elfman intro in your intros bro👍🏾. It just gives a homesome vibe your videos. Love the content i just subscribed. Keep it up bro💯
I’m an AEW guy and have seen every episode but honestly tranquilo is such a mark lol. The latest episode of Dynamite was almost unwatchable with the exception of the FTR match. As someone who desperately wants this company to succeed, I think that taking a step back as a content creator to objectively assess the product is important in defining its longevity. The Adam’s feud is a heatless, drawn out mess. Page as a champion brings nothing narratively. The best part of the show is usually Punk or MJF and even they feel a little lost in the shuffle.
FTR's slow Baby face turn is something that isn't talked about enough, this was handled in the most awesome way, and it wasn't sudden it was slow and calculated which is very unique, quite similar to Kenny Omega's slow heel turn when he started presenting himself as a big deal before a match symbolizing his inevitable heel turn which happened against Jon Moxley at Revolution....So FTR being presented as these hard working top class tag team good guys is really cool. am really digging it....Btw the video content is epic as always my guy, keep it up that Avatar and Goodfellas comparison was topnotch lol.
Love this series. Always interesting things to think about. Id love to see a video about Tonys booking style change from 2019 to 2020. Tony has talked interviews about how he decided to take control, Id love to see if you could break down the difference in 2019 booking vs 2020 moving forward to how things have tied together.
Hoping Ciampa gets endeavoured when Vince's renaming/demoting him to main roster doesn't perform "as well as we'd hoped". DIY would be a big deal here. Fenix returns soon, I hope... Lucha Bros in this mix ❤️❤️❤️
@@thepolarphantasm2319 I dont know about all that renaming and demoting stuff. Ciampa its pretty much a Triple H guy, I think he will be protected there. (But they made him dye his awesome grizzly beard, so who knows?)
Some think if a wrestler doesn't look like a future world champion, then he sucks, but a wrestler doesn't need to be a future world champion to be remembered, look at roddy piper, scott hall or owen hart, wheeler yuta may not look like a "world champion", but that doesn't mean he's not worth anything
Really big fan of Yuta, got only SLIGHTLY nervous when he got jobbed out to Mox in seconds....but I should have known better. I just feel so lucky that Tony Khan loves his wrestling how I love my wrestling. And there is nothing more satisfying and rewarding than watching one of your up and coming faves have their star defining moment happen in real time before your very eyes. Like....not to bring in WWE but they are always chasing "Wrestlemania moments".... FTR vs Young Bucks....Yuta vs Mox...AEW out here just making MOMENTS happen on weekly television. This is how it was always supposed to be.
I think unlike Cody tho I think Sammy can and will feed into being a heel. People just hated Cody because of his total refusal to be a heel even though everything from his entrance to his wrestling style spoke natural heel.
I'm so glad I'm not the only one who doesn't like the stuff with Sammy atm. I straight up switched off rampage during his segment and only went back once it was finished, it really made me cringe.
@@danieljackson2496 people hated Cody because they were too busy thinking they were smart fans to see what was unfolding in front of their eyes. There is a reason Cody's presentation was a natural heel: Cody was playing a heel, and had been for at least 6 months before his departure. The sanctimonious, narcissistic heel who thinks he's a face is one of the oldest tropes in wrestling. It's a shame the contract situation robbed us of the pay off of the actual, official heel turn that Cody had started in his promo before the Sammy ladder match; Cody turning heel on CM Punk would have been license to print money. Alas...
Match of his life.i thought he was good but he really showed something against mox..to be able to carry a match and work like he did shows that big things are ahead..wheeler yuta is amazing he took some great bumps and showed some character by using danielsons moves
AEW has matches you'll be talking about for weeks while WWE has matches with literally no sensible build or importance, even for the top-tier titles. It will last throughout the show and die once it gets off the air and when everyone at the arena makes it to their respective modes of transportation home or hotel rooms. WWE is scared of AEW's rise that they have to bring back Brock Lesnar and Bill Goldberg to save them. All 3 years of AEW's existence has proven this.
Last show I went to: ECW N2R 2000 Wednesday night I'm gonna be in the crowd as Dynamite pops its New Orleans show cherry. Ricky Starks finally gets to come home... he's been a Texan since Hurricane Katrina in '05. The wrestling gods have decided to bless our undersea kingdom that care forgot with Suzuki vs Joe... words cannot express the excitement, y'all. Thank you, Tony Khan. New Orleans exists, and that's pretty dangerous in and of itself... but this Wednesday night, you folks will get to see this city LIVE. Laissez les bon temps rouler, you magnificent bastards.
The match was a great start for Yuta, but the important thing comes next. Can he keep momentum, deliver good matches and hold character believably when on his own? Because when in the ring with Mox or Danielson, that is easy(er). The Mox match was a launch pad, but Yuta has to be able to stand alone to be a true star in the end. Otherwise he'll end up as just a part of a faction that is over. I'm really looking forward to see if he can do it. I'm rooting for him for sure, because he seems like a cool and talented guy. On a side not, I think he should really bulk up a little. He looks kinda lost amongst the rest of the BCC. And maybe change the gear to something less indy-looking. But that's just my opinion, of course.
I ordered my tickets for the Boston show in early March and man I got lucky with how stacked the show was. I was completely shocked by how good the Rampage main event was, I was a little bummed when I saw they shortened it a bit for the tv broadcast.
Watching the end of Wheeler yuta and moxley reignited my passion for wrestling even further. I genuinely teared up watching that shit, I haven't lived this vicariously through wrestling in decades. I CARE for these guys, and that's a credit like you said to the small things.
you can understand where Vince is coming from in his demented, twisted, sociopathic, paranoid (and possibly CTE affected) mind: every time he's invested millions (AND MILLIONS) of dollars and hours of TV time to create mega stars, they've all taken his money and fucked off to do their own thing. Immediate examples: Hogan took his mainstream recognition to WCW, and help revitalise the company to such an extent WWF was battered in the ratings for 83 weeks, losing money hand-over-fist in the process. The Rock's career didn't even last a decade before moving to Hollywood, and Vince doesn't get a dime from that unless Dwayne grants WWE half hour of his time here and there. Brock Lesnar had the entire WWE machine behind him and decided he just didn't want to bother after only 3 years. So honestly, if you've been burned time and again, why would you invest so much time in individuals? Surely it's a safer option to make WWE as a whole the attraction, not any one name inside it? Of course, this attitude has completely tanked the overall quality of the product, but that's a different conversation.
AEW’s ability to elevate young talent and show off good storytelling really stands out to me! Wheeler Yuta has been turned into a star with Moxley and Danielson and Young Bucks vs FTR II was an absolute masterpiece with the roles being reversed! Amazing stuff happening in AEW right now!
I like Wheeler Yuta a lot, and him being the Pure Champion, and now part of the Blackpool Combat Club, is fye. I just wish that he'd get different gear lol
I absolutely adore AEW, but I hope one day the camera angles would be improved. Kinda ruins the immersion of the storytelling when the cameras reveal them "faking" the moves(not sure how to phrase) and also waiting for next sequence. WWE does a great job keeping most of these actions out of the live tv audience's eye
Tony K is doing so well because 1. He's super intelligent 2. Deep pockets 3. Grew up a wrestling fan 4. (And most important) let's his wrestlers be themselves
That's why I stopped watching years ago after Punk left it just went back to the same old. I would watch every now and then and it would remind me of why I stopped. I haven't watched it since AEW started and I'm glad it doesn't insult my intelligence
@@philliparthur8672 I only watch the big pay per views like Mania and Summer Slam. And even then I need edibles or alcohol just to get through the show. 😂 But either way, WWE just isn't fun or enjoyable. I have a hard time getting my friend who is a hardcore wrestling fan who has been watching WWE/F for years to understand that I just don't enjoy WWE.
@@DeadmanInc336 I understand my sister is a big WWE fan and has been for a long time. I just got so jaded with the E that I just couldn't stomach it anymore but it doesn't bother me to listen to her talk about it because she does the same thing with me. I just said to her one day that its fine if she wants to tell me about it as long as I can do the same thing with AEW. Its what you prefer and I hope your friend respects that, have a good one.
Perfect way to compare the two. Perfect. I’d been going down the WWE is McDonald’s metaphor (big, successful, fun, but not to everyone’s taste) but yeah. Avatar v Goodfellas. That’s it. It’s why we shouldn’t even be comparing the two. And how we can deal with the legion of so-called fans who endlessly attack AEW. It’s just different. I like movies like Avatar. They are awesome. But they ain’t Goodfellas and I ADORE Goodfellas. AEW could never do a WM event. They really couldn’t. But WWE cannot do what AEW is doing, week in and week out. End of story.
This is the take we wrestling fans need to appreciate more of. It's completely acceptable to enjoy both. One excels where the other doesn't and vice versa, and that's fine. I wish more people saw it that way.
Great comparison, I like both movies but Goodfellas is one of my favorites. From now on when I make a comment about the E I'm going to call it "Avatar"
I always made that comparison between popcorn/WWE and AEW (or New Japan before) being arthouse. My problem was not giving attention to arhouse wrestling because I always thinked of the business as my popcorn, since I'm a cinephile already. But man, AEW made me feel as much pleasure and admiration by wrestling storytelling than I have with Antonioni, Kurosawa and Ford films. Khan is a generational storyteller too.
I also took narrative and film studies as my thesis research. I came from cinema study to performative art right now...and boy oh boy, Yuta - Mox ,atch last friday hit all the checkboxes to be a "perfect" story building in narrative sense.
I'm a big fan of both but I'm a wrestling fan 1st and if I had to choose it would be AEW! AEW is what really brought me back and because of great matches they produce I stayed. I liked Cody but they will do just fine without him
i wouldn’t necessarily say that? you’re comparing them to a stable with william regal, jon moxley and bryan danielson, most people would look low stock compared to them lmao. best friends is a pretty beloved faction, but blackpool combat club is such an incredible group of people, it blows everyone out of the water.
I will give credit where credit is due. Wrestlemania was for the most part fun. Well up until the main event of night 2...ugh. But Tony Khan gave us 3 match of the year contenders over an 8 day span. At ROH's first show under Tony Khan we got a dream match in FTR vs Brisco's. I could say dream tag team match but regardless of how many competitors it was a dream match. I had said its more than likely match of the year. But that wouldn't stop people in AEW from trying to top it. Fast forward to Wednesday and we got Young Bucks vs FTR II. And then 2 days later Jon Moxley vs Yuta Wheeler. Yuta Wheeler shows the basic fundamental difference between the fan bases. In WWE, if a young star loses against the top stars too many times despite showing improvement he is deemed a failure. In almost every other promotion the fans start to respect him. And know they are seeing a star of the future. I'm not gonna lie, I respected his talent but just didn't see what Tony Khan and company saw in him. Why was he aligned with Orange Cassidy? I saw it after his match with Bryan Danielson. And I dam sure saw it after his match with Jon Moxley.
Mox vs yuta was amazing. Always thought of him as sloppy, and in the match he still was.. quite a few face locks that wasn't touching face but sold, slow movement between grapples which left mox just waiting for yuta, and so on.. But mmmmmaaaaaaannnn what a fun match, yuta looked like a million bucks even through that loss. It will forever be in the list of matches he could look back on and say it was his best. Major props.
*3:04 small note: FTR were reigning and defending AAA Tag Team champions along with the ROH Tag Team Champions
Some of FTR’s biggest and best matches happened in Dallas. Revival vs American Alpha, FTR vs Briscoes. 6 years apart
Fuck the Revival!
You just made a DFW resident salty as hell I couldn’t be at either
Buck vs FTR is such a fascinating case of modern day character alignments. On the surface, Bucks are heel, FTR are face. But then you realize FTR are career heels, and Bucks are the faces in their redDragon feud when it concerns Hangman. And FTR are heels when it concerns MJF. Neither team has changed a bit but none of this is jarring or contradictory, its just natural progression
FTR right now are even more devastating in the ring than the Eliminators were in ECW in 96.
That's... shit, son. Imho it don't get much better than that- Saturn and kronus OWNED that company, pretty much.
And the Brisco Bros, Young Bucks and reDragon sure beat the hell out of Saturn and kronus' competition back then... Pit Bulls, Dudleys, Gangstas, Public Enemy? Jabronis in comparison.
Golden age of tag wrestling kinda shit here bois
@@rowdyjohnnada952 nah, brah, far tf from it... that was my jam. It still is, to a degree... but it's hard to be nostalgic for that era when this one is all killer no filler, dig?
@@rowdyjohnnada952 It's absolutely going to seem like that's the case when you're processing AEW 2022 through dismissive reductionist filters like that, especially while you're still wearing your rose colored Attitude Era Nostalgia goggles.
If you go back and watch some full episodes of 90s wrestling TV you'll QUICKLY discover 70% minimum of each episode is weapons grade cringeworthy dogshit.
Also, you'll find that most of the tropes you're dismissing as chickenshit when used in AEW were used to great degree back when... but often in an (even more?) inferior manner.
The "back in my day when men were men" crap is just nostalgiatard copium, bro. Don't let yourself get cuckolded by the passage of time.
@@thepolarphantasm2319 as far as in-ring action goes, I totally agree.
But as far as seeking heat goes, nothing beats a good old fashioned Bubba Ray Dudley promo.
@@ShinSuperSaiyajin you ain't lyin' Jack...
My very first ever wrestling show was an ECW house show in new Orleans east in '97 or so... my friends and I got kicked out for throwing shit at the Dudleys.
Four minutes before we threw shit at the Dudleys, though, they'd kayfabe broken Beulah McGillicuddy's neck with 3D right in front of an injured Dreamer.
Bonus: Five min after we got ejected, Rob Van Dam asked us if we had weed. We did not, because our dumb sixteen year old asses left the shit at home so we wouldn't get arrested by the arena's rent a cops for some reason 😆
To this very day, we're still beefing with ourselves about not getting to smoke with pre-TV title push RVD lol
It's honestly just good, competent storytelling. The reason it feels impossible is because we were lulled into accepting less.
Straight fax!!!💯💯💯
Literally this.
Amazing to see you here btw, my boy tranquilo blowing up. I'd love to see you address some AEW content on your own channel tho. (I'm subbed to both)
Very true
Holy shit Max! Great to see you here! I hope you’re well, I hope you’re happy.
Wait, is this the dude who made the "wrestling isn't wrestling" video ways back?
Welcome to the 'Club, bub :)
Holy shit.
Wheeler Yuta is now a star. IDK what his role will be or end up being, but I'm there to witness it. Kudos to Moxley's heelwork
Shit give Wheeler more than the ROH pure title!
@@erichammer8434 in time friend! We gotta let it breathe
What heelwork 🗿
@@erichammer8434 Yuta is now elevating that title.
So often these days, promoters put belts on workers intent on the reverse being true... but slapping a strap on every flavor of the month just gets you a bunch of belts so worthless you don't even book the champions on WrestleMania.
;)
@@thepolarphantasm2319 I got a feeling that's why Yuta was let in...now they have a "pure champion" in the ranks for ROH and AEW...and BCC and extend into both brands. (Edited cause I suck at spelling)
AEW gives me feelings I didn't think I had anymore. What a beautiful time to be a wrestling fan
Dude that’s the gayest thing I’ve ever read
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@@gloslimeyo yes daddy
@@Jaycee52548 👀
Cringe.. this is basically just a reboot of NXT 2016. All that is left is SHOTZI's Tank to be all elite now.
This is what AEW is doing.... "A great story wrestling doesn't always have to involve a world title."
tbf the other company didn’t have any good stories even with the title
@@EllyJelly23. Me trying to remember who the fuck is the current IC champion and US champion atm..... oh wait both of them didn't have a title match at WM
to the point that sometimes we forget about Hangman and Jurassic Express lol
@@themikays Apparently Omos vs Lashley was important enough to be on the WM card but not the IC and US champions. If we'd have gotten Ali vs Ricochet at WM, like Ricochet wanted, that would have been another great match.
@@TheSlammurai WWE dont care about putting great matches, its a show above everything else. I fast forward the vignettes, and videos and bs of night 1 and watched the 4h shiw in 90 minutes.
When Yuta got accepted, he wrote the group's initials on his chest, cementing his status as one with inner violence. And he will beat the next obstacle, which is a jealous Trent of Best Friends.
Absolutely metal, aye. Earned in blood, sweat and tears.
Wheeler Yuta vs Rocky Romero when, TK?
Fuck it, let em have that match in NJPW. Yuta deserves the feeling of strolling back into STRONG wearing new gear, the ROH Pure title, a BCC sweatshirt and the maniac grin of a sadistic wrecking machine.
@@thepolarphantasm2319 That sounds terrific.
@@HereticalKitsune Absolutely
then it's gonna be BCC vs Best Friends...or maybe Rocky Romero and the entire CHAOS
Yuta in the BCC is so amazing. Wasn't the biggest fan of him at first, but man, was I wrong.
What makes AEW more interesting to me is more depth, more life. It's not popcorn, it's not for everyone, but hey, the impact AEW has means there are plenty of people who want more than popcorn wrestling. Both are perfectly legit and have their good sides.
Nope
The main strenght of AEW is also its biggest weakness. Its ProWrestling for hardcore fans, for people who dont accept mid matches, people who know the story of wrestlers well beyond what they did in AEW, people who watch weekly and get invested by the little details in long stories.
If think a casual who watches from time to time while playing with the phone AEW is too much.
If wrestling was cinema AEW would be The Godfather and WWE would be Fast and Furious 6.
Ive always been a fan, but not like follow every match type you know what i mean? Even I didnt expect him to blow up this quickly.
As someone who's bee following Yuta progress since his debut. You can see one of AEWs true talents is turning the people who used to comment 'get this guy off our screen'... To 'omg he's a mega star!'. A direct quote from the same person. 😅 That they can do such a 180 on someone's opinion and people don't even realise they've been taken on that journey. Cheifs kiss! Just goes to show sometimes waiting for the process to play out is actually a thing. 😁
I hope he changes his gear to match the tougher style of BCC. Less colour. For some reason with him, I think his ring gear makes him look weaker.
For me Yuta went from a glorified extra stand in for Trent Beretta while he was out due to injury to being a legit stand alone talent. The Bryan Danielson match, the ROH Pure match and this final one with Mox has absolutely cemented him as a made guy. There is going to be a huge match down the line with Yuta and Beretta and I can't wait to see it.
You could tell once Trent came back that Yuta was gonna be pushed out but I never saw anything like this, well done by the company and everyone involved with this
The Yuta thing with BCC worked so well. Like beating the gatekeepers of the group.
He earned Regal’s respect by not backing down after getting slapped.
He went toe to toe with Danielson to prove his technical skill
And he fought Moxley to demonstrate his viciousness and brutality.
It’s a simple story, but it does tell you everything you need to know about the group and how they work. You get the “invitation” but you still need to live up to their standards. Prove you have the courage, the skill and the spirit to get in
AEW had the best tag division in the world for the simple fact they have FTR. People are realizing how good they are and how easily they can be cheered
even before FTR they were pretty stacked: the Bucks, the Jurassic Express, the OG tag champws w/ SoCal Uncensored (even tho they've broken up by this point), the Lucha Brothers, young guys like Private Party and Top Flight, even the guys who are more liked for the comedy bits like the Dark Order. and they've since added the reunited Hardy Boyz.
@@mayayamato7351 dont forget The Butcher and The Blade, who in my opinion are criminally underrated
@@mayayamato7351 and that’s not mentioning the Trios or potential trios in AEW… top to bottom I still believe AEW has THE best tag team division
I look at the Lucha Bros the way evidently a lot of people see FTW: as unquestionably the best tag team running.
But I think there's a huge gap in most people lists of favorites and that's TH2. They have an absolutely uncanny ability to fight a seasoned, established main event tag team like the Lucha Bros, Bucks, or FTR, and it'll look amazing. But they can also go with a green tag team like Top Flight when they first arrived, and still make those kids look like stars. That's a real skill, and real heart, to put a younger talent over, especially when they're green and you're patching over their botches in real time. Not to mention, TH2 are so honed at their characters, they pull heel heat just coming out of the tunnel. Most teams have to do something nefarious during the match to get heat, Angelico in particular has the part of the sleazy heel established as he dances down to the ring, that's straight up uncanny.
Hey quick question, does AEW offer more time away for fighters? So they can rest unlike WWE?
I legitimately didn't give a shit about tag team wrestling until AEW. Now it might be my favorite division. Its cinema
I used to always treat so many tag team matches as an intermission, but it's different in AEW. The most compelling stories are there. It's been that way from the start.
Tag team wrestling has been abused for a really long time. It's not your fault for not knowing what it could be.
Black and gold NXT put me onto tag team wrestling, but AEW has absolutely helped solidify the tag division as my favorite
I used to love WCW, but they were terrible with tag teams as well. It hasn't been since the NWA, that tag teams have been this important.
It's kind of crazy how I literally groaned everytime I saw yuta when he started out as I found him incredibly blant. Then every week for this past few weeks, I just find myself more and more intrigued by him. I was literally in tears after the masterpiece that he and mox put out on the last rampage. Made me realize just how competent AEW is.
Note: sorry for mistakes as English is not my first language.
I can't believe the first FTR vs Bucks was 18 months ago FTR still feel fresh to me
I just want to say the backpool combat club is the greatest thing happening right now.
To think a guy who was a quasi jobber like Wheeler Yuta is now a STAR thanks to a great storyline and great matches, it's incredible.
Thank you AEW.
I highly recommend the Kenny Johnson docs on Wheeler Yuta and well all of them. They are superb. Yuta and Mix was great. It reminded me of The Kid Vs Razor Ramon or Jeff Hardy Vs Undertaker on a star making match level. Last night was just beautiful I ❤️ wrestling
AEW can really help a wrestler find themselves
The only wrestling show i bother to watch. Even when I'm working. Wrestling community stand up. We're back.
This channel does AEW/wrestling as a whole a lot of credit. Very well put together
Cinema at its finest. AEW will go down as THE wrestling promotion
Calm down
@@tarikfretes7562 nah. Don't calm down
@@tarikfretes7562 these comments are funny to me. This isn't just wrestling this is any fan of anything. Anytime something monumental or unique and diverse happens there's people that has to wait for days months and years until they finally say what everyone's been saying this entire time. Tony Khan's two companies just put up 3 moty matches in the same week. Random Wrestling Mark: Calm down. Get with the times old man this is like it or not the wrestling promotion both right now and for the future
@@rolandmcdonald9302 im a aew fan but wwe is a global company. they are the main player and will be in the during the at least 10 next years. even if the current product is 💩
@@tarikfretes7562 ....and?
AEW is a Champions League of professional wrestling...since Tokyo to Stamford across Mexico City,AEW is the best major WRESTLING company on the planet
Exactly, they have something for everyone, if you're into Lucha it's there. If you're into the WWE style, it's there. If you're into the Japanese style, it's there. If you're into the British style, it's there. If you're into the American indie style, it's there.
There's literally something that at least one person is gonna enjoy.
AEW has literally everyone in the palm of their hand.
@@SamuelDuplessis12 and still couldn't get past their first shows rating lol
Damn my guy, the champions league? 🤩🥴
@@SamuelDuplessis12 we should all make a monument to the Great Liberator Mister Tony Khan...gave us a choice and freed us from Vince and his circus my friend💪🤘
It's basically WCW in the new era.
It's so refreshing to feel that I'm not wasting my time watching AEW. The match builds are compelling and mix of talent is off the charts. Feels like the Island of Misfit Toys, but with glorious violence.
Keep up the great work, really enjoy your takes.
The good thing is that there's a place for both promotions. Just as there's a place for a super hero movie and a Tarantino film. We can have both and it's healthier for the industry to have both.
Even thou I cant watch a full WWE show for over a decade I 100% agree with you.
Great video! This is why I love AEW dude, great wrestling, simple yet compelling storylines and long-term booking. Yuta leaving the Best Friends is the best thing he’s ever going to do in his career.
i was there in boston on the 6th and that place was going wild non stop for 4 hours it was one of the best live events ive ever been to and would go back again in a heart beat. ive never seen a crowd pop so much for FTR and Yuta. i was in utter bliss
I was at Dynamite this week and it was pretty good. Unfortunately we left before the Moxley/Yuta Rampage main event and I had no idea it was going to be such a star-making match.
Ooooh why would you leave early
The intro is incredible😂❤
first off, love your style of video making with this movie and you bring up some really great points about AEW.
Loved the comparison of AEW with Goodfellas and Tony Khan as Scorseses;
AEW made me remember why i loved wrestling in the first place, after a break of ~ 7 years; hope they gonna keep up in this direction in the futute!
Btw you're doing an excelent job in this videos. Congrats!
Outstanding video . You do such a great job . This was my favorite yet . Keep making great content
Wheeler Yuta kicked out of a Paradigm Shift, that was Jon putting him over in a very special way.
Not just a Paradigm Shift, but the Elevated "Death Rider" Variant as well.
That was wild
@@danielcody874 yeah everybody kicks out of massively protected moves.
Think that's the first, non-PPV where a Paradigm Shift was kicked out of. And nobody's kicked out of the one where it goes higher on the angle.
@@danielcody874 The Paradigm Shift and Death Rider Paradigm Shift have been majorly protected across multiple promotions. Major stars of various promotions and scenes have been finished by either iteration of it, but here they use it on a Friday Night TV spot to put over someone they'd had jobbing for them that they were ready to put over. Jon Moxley may be one of the most recognized faces currently in wrestling and he gives up both of his finishers to put over the kid which he _absolutely_ did not have to do but chose to do so because it really cemented the idea that Wheeler Yuta was tough as nails.
@@danielcody874 you clearly don't watch or understand wrestling. Yes, a lot of big impact moves get kicked out of (often to the detriment of the storytelling), but tell me how often the following moves have been kicked out of:
Last Ride
Tombstone Piledriver (when used by The Undertaker)
Stone Cold Stunner
Death Rider Paradigm Shift
One Winged Angel
Buckshot Lariat
GTS
GTH
Meltzer Driver
BTE Trigger
BOOM (when the kneepad is down)
Rainmaker
Burning Hammer
These are not just signature moves, these are proper match finishers. If somebody kicks out of these then it is a very special, purposeful moment.
Honestly, you could almost flip a coin to decide if FTR or Wheeler Yuta had a bigger week...
Ftr for me since at least they won
@@Hardi4407 Fair point
The other question is this:
When will Jericho’s Jericho Appreciation Society and the Blackpool Combat Club clash?
hopefully not for a long time, there's no payoff for anybody if it's done any time soon.
I really love it when you use the danny elfman intro in your intros bro👍🏾. It just gives a homesome vibe your videos. Love the content i just subscribed. Keep it up bro💯
I’m an AEW guy and have seen every episode but honestly tranquilo is such a mark lol. The latest episode of Dynamite was almost unwatchable with the exception of the FTR match.
As someone who desperately wants this company to succeed, I think that taking a step back as a content creator to objectively assess the product is important in defining its longevity. The Adam’s feud is a heatless, drawn out mess. Page as a champion brings nothing narratively. The best part of the show is usually Punk or MJF and even they feel a little lost in the shuffle.
Magical intro for a company on a magical run, love the spidey track in the open my man
Dude that line at the end of the video, solid this whole thing for me. Keep making killer videos.
As always, you and your videos are the highlight of my internet experience :) Keep being awesome TC!
FTR's slow Baby face turn is something that isn't talked about enough, this was handled in the most awesome way, and it wasn't sudden it was slow and calculated which is very unique, quite similar to Kenny Omega's slow heel turn when he started presenting himself as a big deal before a match symbolizing his inevitable heel turn which happened against Jon Moxley at Revolution....So FTR being presented as these hard working top class tag team good guys is really cool. am really digging it....Btw the video content is epic as always my guy, keep it up that Avatar and Goodfellas comparison was topnotch lol.
Love this series. Always interesting things to think about. Id love to see a video about Tonys booking style change from 2019 to 2020. Tony has talked interviews about how he decided to take control, Id love to see if you could break down the difference in 2019 booking vs 2020 moving forward to how things have tied together.
Man I wish I could see DIY on AEW, but I dont believe Ciampa is going to quit wwe anytime soon
Hoping Ciampa gets endeavoured when Vince's renaming/demoting him to main roster doesn't perform "as well as we'd hoped".
DIY would be a big deal here.
Fenix returns soon, I hope... Lucha Bros in this mix ❤️❤️❤️
@Ruth Sanusi he and Cesaro would be two great additions to the AEW or ROH rosters, thats for sure
@@thepolarphantasm2319 I dont know about all that renaming and demoting stuff. Ciampa its pretty much a Triple H guy, I think he will be protected there. (But they made him dye his awesome grizzly beard, so who knows?)
FTR VS DIY,VS ReDragon,VS The North,VS The American Wolves,VS MCMG.
Yeah,FTR can bring us 5 matches of the year *more.*
@@henriquehansen314 you mean the same with Finn, Keith, Karrion, etc?
Great work as always, Tranquilo. Yuta jumping the line ahead of Garcia and Moriarty is probably not something almost anybody could have predicted.
Some think if a wrestler doesn't look like a future world champion, then he sucks, but a wrestler doesn't need to be a future world champion to be remembered, look at roddy piper, scott hall or owen hart, wheeler yuta may not look like a "world champion", but that doesn't mean he's not worth anything
Good video my guy. Great perspective.
3:05 they retained both titles u fookin mark :P
Watching AEW weekly had been a treat. I fvxkin love this company.
Really big fan of Yuta, got only SLIGHTLY nervous when he got jobbed out to Mox in seconds....but I should have known better.
I just feel so lucky that Tony Khan loves his wrestling how I love my wrestling.
And there is nothing more satisfying and rewarding than watching one of your up and coming faves have their star defining moment happen in real time before your very eyes.
Like....not to bring in WWE but they are always chasing "Wrestlemania moments"....
FTR vs Young Bucks....Yuta vs Mox...AEW out here just making MOMENTS happen on weekly television.
This is how it was always supposed to be.
AEW is not perfect (just look at the Sammy segments), but what they do right, damn do they hit some homeruns!
I think unlike Cody tho I think Sammy can and will feed into being a heel. People just hated Cody because of his total refusal to be a heel even though everything from his entrance to his wrestling style spoke natural heel.
I'm so glad I'm not the only one who doesn't like the stuff with Sammy atm. I straight up switched off rampage during his segment and only went back once it was finished, it really made me cringe.
I mean, Scorpio and Page straight up look like faces
@@danieljackson2496 people hated Cody because they were too busy thinking they were smart fans to see what was unfolding in front of their eyes. There is a reason Cody's presentation was a natural heel: Cody was playing a heel, and had been for at least 6 months before his departure. The sanctimonious, narcissistic heel who thinks he's a face is one of the oldest tropes in wrestling.
It's a shame the contract situation robbed us of the pay off of the actual, official heel turn that Cody had started in his promo before the Sammy ladder match; Cody turning heel on CM Punk would have been license to print money.
Alas...
AEW brought it this past week
Match of his life.i thought he was good but he really showed something against mox..to be able to carry a match and work like he did shows that big things are ahead..wheeler yuta is amazing he took some great bumps and showed some character by using danielsons moves
AEW has matches you'll be talking about for weeks while WWE has matches with literally no sensible build or importance, even for the top-tier titles. It will last throughout the show and die once it gets off the air and when everyone at the arena makes it to their respective modes of transportation home or hotel rooms. WWE is scared of AEW's rise that they have to bring back Brock Lesnar and Bill Goldberg to save them. All 3 years of AEW's existence has proven this.
I really like the intro music you decided to go with. Shout out spidamane
the way AEW is going, we can expect 4 more stars next year...
That analogy at the end really hit. Great vid
Last show I went to: ECW N2R 2000
Wednesday night I'm gonna be in the crowd as Dynamite pops its New Orleans show cherry. Ricky Starks finally gets to come home... he's been a Texan since Hurricane Katrina in '05.
The wrestling gods have decided to bless our undersea kingdom that care forgot with Suzuki vs Joe... words cannot express the excitement, y'all.
Thank you, Tony Khan. New Orleans exists, and that's pretty dangerous in and of itself... but this Wednesday night, you folks will get to see this city LIVE.
Laissez les bon temps rouler, you magnificent bastards.
The match was a great start for Yuta, but the important thing comes next. Can he keep momentum, deliver good matches and hold character believably when on his own? Because when in the ring with Mox or Danielson, that is easy(er). The Mox match was a launch pad, but Yuta has to be able to stand alone to be a true star in the end. Otherwise he'll end up as just a part of a faction that is over. I'm really looking forward to see if he can do it. I'm rooting for him for sure, because he seems like a cool and talented guy.
On a side not, I think he should really bulk up a little. He looks kinda lost amongst the rest of the BCC. And maybe change the gear to something less indy-looking. But that's just my opinion, of course.
that is the entire point of both the storyline and the business decision...
I hope people start saying this and I genuinely hope you get the credit for it. Dope watch. As usual.
Excellent video once again. Love your insights.
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Another W!
Great video 👍
I wonder how many more match of the year and greatest shows of all time they will have this year?
Brilliant Analysis!
Keep up the great work. Looking forward to your future vids..
Wheeler Yuta Vs Jon Moxley was a textbook example of how you make someone a star. Yuta became one of my favorite wrestlers right now over night.
I ordered my tickets for the Boston show in early March and man I got lucky with how stacked the show was. I was completely shocked by how good the Rampage main event was, I was a little bummed when I saw they shortened it a bit for the tv broadcast.
Watching the end of Wheeler yuta and moxley reignited my passion for wrestling even further. I genuinely teared up watching that shit, I haven't lived this vicariously through wrestling in decades. I CARE for these guys, and that's a credit like you said to the small things.
We don't talk enough about Vince's fear of guys getting over on his platform and becoming legitamte stars. 😄
you can understand where Vince is coming from in his demented, twisted, sociopathic, paranoid (and possibly CTE affected) mind: every time he's invested millions (AND MILLIONS) of dollars and hours of TV time to create mega stars, they've all taken his money and fucked off to do their own thing.
Immediate examples:
Hogan took his mainstream recognition to WCW, and help revitalise the company to such an extent WWF was battered in the ratings for 83 weeks, losing money hand-over-fist in the process.
The Rock's career didn't even last a decade before moving to Hollywood, and Vince doesn't get a dime from that unless Dwayne grants WWE half hour of his time here and there.
Brock Lesnar had the entire WWE machine behind him and decided he just didn't want to bother after only 3 years.
So honestly, if you've been burned time and again, why would you invest so much time in individuals? Surely it's a safer option to make WWE as a whole the attraction, not any one name inside it?
Of course, this attitude has completely tanked the overall quality of the product, but that's a different conversation.
*I could watch Bucks VS FTR part 300 and still be surprised at what they pull off*
I love the intro song along with the images flashing by....almost like that of DC.
Loved the comparison at the end
AEW’s ability to elevate young talent and show off good storytelling really stands out to me! Wheeler Yuta has been turned into a star with Moxley and Danielson and Young Bucks vs FTR II was an absolute masterpiece with the roles being reversed! Amazing stuff happening in AEW right now!
The fact that AEW pulls 5 star matches out of their hat tells us they came to play
👀 been waiting for this one
Man great video, your a talent yourself Salute 👊
From Supercard of Honor to Battle of The Belts II has been the best stretch of wrestling I've seen in years.
Very poetic end to the video 'one is a popcorn flick and one is cinema'. Thank you for the vidoes.
I like Wheeler Yuta a lot, and him being the Pure Champion, and now part of the Blackpool Combat Club, is fye. I just wish that he'd get different gear lol
I absolutely adore AEW, but I hope one day the camera angles would be improved. Kinda ruins the immersion of the storytelling when the cameras reveal them "faking" the moves(not sure how to phrase) and also waiting for next sequence. WWE does a great job keeping most of these actions out of the live tv audience's eye
Independent studies have confirmed that I enjoy watching AEW
unless you release the details of this independent study, you're obviously just a bot
I loved rampage last night! I just think them editing out Sammy and Tay getting booed was stupid though.
Tony K is doing so well because
1. He's super intelligent
2. Deep pockets
3. Grew up a wrestling fan
4. (And most important) let's his wrestlers be themselves
True the only complaint I have about Tony khan. He’s sometimes a bit immature when he’s on Twitter but besides that he’s good in my Opinion.
I just enjoy AEW way, way, waaaaaaay more than WWE. I don't feel like my intelligence is being mocked with AEW the way WWE does.
That's why I stopped watching years ago after Punk left it just went back to the same old. I would watch every now and then and it would remind me of why I stopped. I haven't watched it since AEW started and I'm glad it doesn't insult my intelligence
@@philliparthur8672 I only watch the big pay per views like Mania and Summer Slam. And even then I need edibles or alcohol just to get through the show. 😂
But either way, WWE just isn't fun or enjoyable. I have a hard time getting my friend who is a hardcore wrestling fan who has been watching WWE/F for years to understand that I just don't enjoy WWE.
@@DeadmanInc336 I understand my sister is a big WWE fan and has been for a long time. I just got so jaded with the E that I just couldn't stomach it anymore but it doesn't bother me to listen to her talk about it because she does the same thing with me. I just said to her one day that its fine if she wants to tell me about it as long as I can do the same thing with AEW. Its what you prefer and I hope your friend respects that, have a good one.
Perfect way to compare the two. Perfect. I’d been going down the WWE is McDonald’s metaphor (big, successful, fun, but not to everyone’s taste) but yeah. Avatar v Goodfellas. That’s it.
It’s why we shouldn’t even be comparing the two. And how we can deal with the legion of so-called fans who endlessly attack AEW.
It’s just different. I like movies like Avatar. They are awesome. But they ain’t Goodfellas and I ADORE Goodfellas.
AEW could never do a WM event. They really couldn’t. But WWE cannot do what AEW is doing, week in and week out. End of story.
This is the take we wrestling fans need to appreciate more of. It's completely acceptable to enjoy both. One excels where the other doesn't and vice versa, and that's fine. I wish more people saw it that way.
I do think eventually, AEW will be doing stadiums but, the cards are gonna have to be BIG.
@@stevonwhite8933 I hope so, man. Their talent deserves a grand stage, too.
AEW makes young stars easily cuz Tony doesn't have Vince's myopic view of what a "superstar" should be. Love your work.
Great comparison, I like both movies but Goodfellas is one of my favorites. From now on when I make a comment about the E I'm going to call it "Avatar"
I was already somewhat a fan of Yuta before Rampage…. but goddamm, Im a whole damn air condintioner now. Kid is a BEAST!
Saying WWE is better because it's more popular is like saying that McDonalds makes the best food lmao
I was with you until the Avatar dig at the end! Dude, that movie’s great haha.
Awesome video man
Love your content
7:00 THANK YOU! Goodfellas is my favorite film of all time
*Tranquilo Club shows appreciation for Goodfellas*
Well hell, if I wasn't already a fan of your damn channel! 👏🏾👐🏽
I always made that comparison between popcorn/WWE and AEW (or New Japan before) being arthouse. My problem was not giving attention to arhouse wrestling because I always thinked of the business as my popcorn, since I'm a cinephile already. But man, AEW made me feel as much pleasure and admiration by wrestling storytelling than I have with Antonioni, Kurosawa and Ford films. Khan is a generational storyteller too.
I also took narrative and film studies as my thesis research. I came from cinema study to performative art right now...and boy oh boy, Yuta - Mox ,atch last friday hit all the checkboxes to be a "perfect" story building in narrative sense.
I'm a big fan of both but I'm a wrestling fan 1st and if I had to choose it would be AEW! AEW is what really brought me back and because of great matches they produce I stayed. I liked Cody but they will do just fine without him
These shows are showing why variety is healthy in wrestling
And yet people still aren't tuning in. They need to get on a streaming platform badly.
The fact that Yuta rose to prominence that fast after he left best friends goes to show you how low the Best Friends' stock is in aew
i wouldn’t necessarily say that? you’re comparing them to a stable with william regal, jon moxley and bryan danielson, most people would look low stock compared to them lmao. best friends is a pretty beloved faction, but blackpool combat club is such an incredible group of people, it blows everyone out of the water.
Loving the Scorsese-Khan analogy, and I hope it annoys the shit out of E drones that somehow know who the former is lol
I will give credit where credit is due. Wrestlemania was for the most part fun. Well up until the main event of night 2...ugh.
But Tony Khan gave us 3 match of the year contenders over an 8 day span.
At ROH's first show under Tony Khan we got a dream match in FTR vs Brisco's. I could say dream tag team match but regardless of how many competitors it was a dream match. I had said its more than likely match of the year. But that wouldn't stop people in AEW from trying to top it. Fast forward to Wednesday and we got Young Bucks vs FTR II. And then 2 days later Jon Moxley vs Yuta Wheeler.
Yuta Wheeler shows the basic fundamental difference between the fan bases. In WWE, if a young star loses against the top stars too many times despite showing improvement he is deemed a failure. In almost every other promotion the fans start to respect him. And know they are seeing a star of the future. I'm not gonna lie, I respected his talent but just didn't see what Tony Khan and company saw in him. Why was he aligned with Orange Cassidy? I saw it after his match with Bryan Danielson. And I dam sure saw it after his match with Jon Moxley.
Responsibility theme! Goosebumps!!
Mox vs yuta was amazing.
Always thought of him as sloppy, and in the match he still was.. quite a few face locks that wasn't touching face but sold, slow movement between grapples which left mox just waiting for yuta, and so on..
But mmmmmaaaaaaannnn what a fun match, yuta looked like a million bucks even through that loss. It will forever be in the list of matches he could look back on and say it was his best.
Major props.