AEW Rampage 10/15: Bryan Danielson vs Minoro Suzuki
 

Should have 2 threads imo..........

Oh wow. Major power move by Triple A (the “Tony Kahn” of TPWW) to split these Friday Night Threads up

Sry for the #tyranny @ Skeletor

Such abhorrent abuse of power :nono:

<3

Pumped.......

Themes sound louder tonight... Cool... Might have finally fixed the sound mix for themes after 2 yrs

Damn, Tay Conti vs Santana Garrett on mute.

Exacalibur and Taz far and away the best AEW announce team

Santana Garrett doesn't seem good based on these 3 mins so far... All her stuff seems slow and too premeditated

Always worried some1 is gonna "tear their ACL and/or MCL" when they do those jumping pump kicks into their opponent's face in the corner...

I went to Miami without Jorge Masvidals permission and came out just fine.

Interested in seeing Lee Moriarty for the first time... heard he's good

Masvidal has that superstar quality but as a guy who fights at 170 I dunno how it’ll translate to pro wrasslin

Ugh! I should probably watch Fish vs Moriarty. Can't deal with Happy Corbin.

Fish came across as decent considering his advance age.

Fish vs Moriarty was a real nice, physical match

Danielson vs Suzuki-San, let’s goooo

KAZE NI NAREEEEE

Damn @ reaction for Bryan Danielson.

Crowd finally coming to life after being real quiet so far

This should be sweet.......

Crowd is hot for Danielson.

There is nothing better in pro wrestling today than kick pad assassin Daniel Bryanson

Crowd chanting Si :lol:

Damn @ forearm strike + selling

That forearm was snug as FUCK! This rules.

just got home and turned on YT, about 86k live viewers

how long has Bryan/Suzuki been going on

About 10 minutes.

8 or 9 mins so far.

Thx @ Vito and Seph

They've picked up about 20k viewers since this segment began. Glad people are tuning in because this is the best Suzuki has looked in AEW by a mile.

Really hope this doesn't come down to a draw again for Danielsons sake. Let him avenge the beating he took in 2004. Maybe they can have a rubber match one day to settle the score.

yep i am ready for suzuki to enter the impact zone

danielson is wildly over

Really enjoying this

This is a by God slobberknocker

This is beautiful.

lmao @ Taz saying dumbass

Cool @ this match having a lot of time...

Fuck yeah! That was a fun match.

Fuck me, what a match.

Thats the Suzuki I came to see!

Really hope those 2 have a third bout. A lot. They work well together.

That was good

Becky Lynch vs Sasha Banks going head-to-head against CM Punk vs Matt Sydal

What's left in the last half hour of SmackDown that's gonna be going against Rampage?

Danielson Suzuki ruled so fucking hard

It’s funny to see Roman and Punk do their best in the worst worked shoot when the real best in the world is putting out 30 minute bangers on the youtubes

Becky v Sasha and Lesnar/Reigns contract signing to close the show.

Becky vs Sasha seems like something that would end in a non-finish since they have a triple threat in a few days

Damn, "pulling out the big guns"

Do they have more trons than normal tonight or I am kanefused

Punk shunning the long bois.

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Return of CM Trunks

this is much more meaningful than ratings.

Surely Evan Bourne and CM Punk have faced off before right?

Taz/Excalibur a good team together on commentary, prefer them to Jericho yelling and screaming on Rampage

Quick search says they fought on Raw in 2010 for an all-important spot on Raw’s Bragging Rights team.

Big fan of the above the ring camera shot, especially on submissions since it gives a different view of the holds

https://i.postimg.cc/qqkgLXJJ/FBy-UEf-IXEAMvj-Ya.jpg

mwahahaha

They literally timed Reigns' entrance with the finish of Punk's match.

That was a good one.

A thing I will say about the win/loss records and stat padding on Dark is that it does help stuff like this here, where Matt Sydal realistically hasn't beaten anyone bigger than Dante Martin in forever, but there's still a sense that he's not just some goober who doesn't matter.

who is junior dos santos rasslin

Ruby Soho vs Brock in the ratings

:lol: Taz can’t sing for shit

It turns out it did indeed have a decisive finish

Chipotle commercial where they use the word "guaced" constantly on AEW shows lately...

Andrade vs PAC part 2 next week :cool:

wish Mark Henry would attack Jake Hager and replace him in the match

still not sure Rampage is a 'necessary' show

Cool atmosphere 4 this show

Lambert rules, "heat machine"

Junior Dos Santos is 'ok' so far

Dos Santos could be good. Needs to tighten/clean up his punches and he’ll be fine.

Wish Dos Santos would powerbomb Hager thru the announce table

wonder why the crowd was chanting holy shit... idk what happened

Wish Junior Dos Santos would hit a Canadian Destroyer on Jake Hager

Did Sammy kill himself?

Gonna start watching this now.... not gonna watch the "Buy-In" kickoff show because having a pre-show for a regular weekly B-Show is dumb, and if it really mattered they would put it on the main show.

Oh, never mind it isn't up yet, this is last week's show.... not gonna watch it now

who is the guy in the white shirt

Paige VanZant is good @ being a heel... has a lot of "personality"

Dos Santos did a pretty solid job there.

Obviously Danielson/Suzuki was MOTN, just absurd stuff.

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I feel like, minus Danielson/Suzuki, this was a weird card for TK to hype to hell.

My guess for the ratings tonight:

Smackdown - 1.1 - 1.3 million
Rampage - 400k to 600k

Sounds about right probably... I would say 1 - 1.1 for SD

wish tony khan had someone who could 'reign in him'

if a cable show brings in half a network show that says a lot about the network show tbf

still half a mil isnt killing it by any stretch

i still think twitch is the future of wrestling...feel like thats a completely untapped outlet. tna flirted with it but long after they had any momentum

I tried to watch Danielson vs. Suzuki. I get what they were going for. They added color to the exchange. Suzuki popped me (and the obnoxious crowd) when he initially did something. I’ve forgotten what it was after just watching, but there was a great Suzuki moment where he stuck out his tongue. I was ready to go with it then. Before that, my analytic brain doesn’t “get” Suzuki in AEW. They kept hyping him as Danielson’s biggest challenge. The dude has fought Brock Lesnar. Now his biggest opponent is a dude who looks giddy to be there? I hate ragging on Suzuki, but he’s a fish out of water there. He has no menace. He got it back for a second when he liked something Danielson did, but then they did that forearm spot. Danielson just willingly put his head into it and went down like a sack of shit.

Wtf is this?

I appreciate Danielson’s creativity in coming up with “organic” ways to trade strikes and do the tropes. This just sucked though. Watch Brock and Danielson. Brock wants to get out from every kick so he takes each one on a different part of his body. He’s a big dude wriggling about in peril believably. This was just superficial gloss on top of a bad trope.

I had to turn it off. They’re both talented dudes, but this shit sucked. They’re just happy to do whatever they want and try to ply an asterisk onto what they’re automatically to do. Ugh. I saw through the chain wrestling before it because the masks were slipping. It’s by marks for marks. This is not wrestling. And the crowd trying to will it to be the opposite before they even do anything is just icing on the cake. This product sucks.

Ratings are going to bottom out. I got in touch with my “pleb brain” for this. It didn’t make any sense. You have to will this to be good. I guarantee this tanks. They’ve ruined Danielson. Pissed away Suzuki.

By the way, wish I had called this: Had a feeling TK would do another time limit draw. Don’t know the actual outcome (hope it wasn’t a draw actually), but as soon as I saw that counter go up, I assumed it would be a draw. Figured he would do that to keep the match for NJPW. If he didn’t, ha on him subverting, but god damn. Still a pile of shit.

I think you're on the money, re: twitch

I know when WWE had that brief show on FB it didn't get tons of views NOW but I feel like if they had a live show on FB over-time it would definitely get views if it was something like a RAW or SD